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Randi Tomchin - An Awakening Heart · Vox Novus with Victor Fuhrman

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Vox Novus, the new Voice, Vos Novus, the new dimension. Vox
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Novus thought and movement leaders who will share from their experience and offer tools to
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help us navigate our rapidly changing world. My name is Victor Ferman. Welcome
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to Vox Novus, the new voice. In our quest to find higher purpose
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and meaning in life, we often encounter both peaks and valleys. How may
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we embrace all of this and recognize the synchronicities and events leading to our ultimate
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awakening. My guest this week on Vox Novus, Randy Tompson, embarked on
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a lifelong quest down a road are removed from the path she thought she'd always
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follow, and experienced that awakening. Randy Tompson is the founder of Enrichmond,
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Inc. And the author of the Power of Inspiration. Her website is en
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Richmondinc dot com, and she joins me this week to share her number one
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Amazon bestselling latest book and Awakening Heart, a journey of self discovery. Please
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join me in welcoming to Vox Novis Randy Tompson. Welcome, Randy. Thank
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you so much Victor for having me. I'm very excited to be here.
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Randy. Please begin by sharing with our listeners. Your early path and how
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it shaped your life. Well, I was born in New York. I
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moved to Brooklyn for the first five years of my life, and then my
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parents bought a house in New Jersey on a farm land, which it isn't
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anymore, but it was a wonderful place to grow up. Nobody locked their
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doors, and it was, as I said, a wonderful place to grow
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up. But after school, I decided to come back to New York,
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get a job and start a career. You got a career in industry,
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in the business. Tell us about that. Well. When I came to
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New York, I first started working in law firms, so I've always been
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in the corporate world. Then I also worked for CPA firms. I worked
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for Pete Morward for a number of years, and then you know, went
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into a legal recruitment for many years, helping people get jobs in law firms.
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And I love that because I felt like I was making a difference.
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And I realized that, you know, even in my earlier part, before
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understanding what a spiritual journey was all about, I always felt the need to
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try to help help someone or make a difference. It wasn't always about the
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money. For me, it was more about trying to help that person move
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forward. And then when I left recruiting for a while, I worked for
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NBC and I I went in originally just to help the office manager do a
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million dollar construction project and help her run the legal department, but she unfortunately
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had to go in for surgery, so I ended up taking over that project,
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which was something very new for me, but it was exciting and the
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end result was wonderful to see. Like many of us, your understanding of
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the nature of spirit and spirituality expanded in the early nineteen eighties during what was
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known as the Harmonic Convergence. What took place back then? How did this
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expand your perspective? Well, at the time time, I had no idea
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what was going on, to be very honest with you, it wasn't until
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later that I started to research it. But for me, Shirley McClain played
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a big role in my wake up call. She the book Out on a
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Limb, and the TV series really changed my direction in life. On watching
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that and reading that made me think that there was something bigger than myself,
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and I was here for a reason, not just to make money, travel
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and do other things, even though those were fun things to do, and
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I still loved traveling and doing those things, but I started to have an
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inkling that there was something more. And then I started to research, and
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I came across the harmonic conversion, and I started to do meditation. Of
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course, I started to work with Kevin Ryerson, who was in the The
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Out on a Limb, which Earlie McClain. But for most people who knew
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me in those times, I was very black and white, Like talking to
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spirit was like weird to me, to be very honest, it was like
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what do you what do you mean? Like that didn't even wasn't part of
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my consciousness at the time. I even there was a joke. My friends
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always said that I decorated my apartment in gray, so that would be the
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gray part in my life because I was very black and white. So for
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me to take this path was very different. But that movie and that series
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changed me so. Prior that you really didn't have any sense, or any
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conscious sense anyway, of this spiritual connection, none at all. In fact,
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I remember seeing another channeler through a friend of mine and I thought,
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oh, I don't want to sit through this, So really none at all.
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I mean, that was my wake up call because I was feeling like
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unsatisfied with life, and I was making very good money. I was going
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to the theater weekly, I was really enjoying what New York had to offer,
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and I was traveling to beautiful places. So to me, I was
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like doing everything that I had set out to do, but I still wasn't.
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There was still something missing, and I couldn't figure out what that was
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until out on al the end came out and that's when my world changed.
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And as I shared before, like many of us, you were working in
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the corporate and business world while this spiritual expansion was taking place. How did
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these awakenings affect your approach toward the corporate world. Well, I think it
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basically allowed me to use some of what I was learning within that environment.
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So I began to understand that, you know, helping somebody find a new
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job was really could be my path. Maybe that was part of my pet.
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Maybe that's why I was here or being at NBC and being able to
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support other people within that environment, even if it was just to give them
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a quote that made their day a little better. That you could find ways
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to inspire others and help others where you might think it doesn't have to be
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earth shattering, is what I've learned. I mean, in the beginning,
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I thought, you know, I had to help everybody change their thought process.
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But then I realized that isn't my job. You know, it's interesting
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that you shared that I spent the forty four years in the business world in
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welding equipment and compressed gasses and engineering. I worked with construction companies in New
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York City and many of the welding fabric hitting businesses here in New York.
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And one of the things that sort of always traveled with me, even though
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I didn't have a conscious nature of it until, like I said, my
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awakening took place. I always try to bring something other than the business with
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me in my meetings and my gatherings and my associations with these people. Always
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expressed concern for them if they seem to be struggling, always would listen and
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give them unconditional listening, which was such a rare gift back in those days,
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and also a sense of humor and lightening up the situations when things were
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difficult or dark. Is that something that resonates with you, absolutely, absolutely,
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And I find that When you do that, people are you know,
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people who are afraid to talk about these topics open up and say, gee,
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I was thinking about what I'm really here to do or what my path
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is. And so they start to open up to you because they either sense
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it, they feel it, or you give them the opening to do so.
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In two thousand and nine, you founded Enrichment Inc. What was your
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founding mission and how has that evolved? I opened up Enrichment Inc. Inspired
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by spirit to do so because what I felt I wanted to do, to
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be honest, was to help others like yourself, like teachers of the path,
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to promote their work and help others in that way. So my goal
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originally was to be behind the scenes trying to help to promote on their teachings
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and there maybe their their classes or their I would love to travel or traveling
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with them, that kind of thing. And originally it was to open minds
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and awakening hearts, which is my tagline for Enrichment, Inc. But then
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I began to realize that the first heart I had to open was my own,
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the first one I had to awaken was my own, and that's the
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path that I was on, and that's one of the reasons why I called
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my book an Awakening Heart because I'm talking about my own awakening. And what
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were some of the services you provide through en Richmond Ink. Well, as
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I said, it's mostly for promotion. So for example, I would what
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I'm going to do is put this out on my website so that people would
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know where the link is to help other teachers like Kevin or Greg Braden or
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others, and they might have a trip that I can help them promote,
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or a book that I feel that could help others. So that's the type
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of work of why or what I opened in Richmond Ink for, and I've
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done some of that. Unfortunately, due to COVID, I wasn't able to
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you know, travel and do the things that I wanted to really do.
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But ultimately it was to promote other teachers work. Your first book, The
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Power of Inspiration, was published in twenty twenty two. What inspired this book
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and what do you offer your readers? The Power of Inspiration came about when
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in oh nine, when I started to build my social media network, I
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put out positive quotes every day. To be honest with you, Victor,
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I did it for myself because a positive quote every day helped me to change
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my mindset. Even to this day, sometimes I'll write note to self because
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I'm really posting it for myself, but I'm sharing it with my users.
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So I became known as a quote girl because everybody would come to my site
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to see what positive quote I would put out for the day. Now there's
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a lot of people doing that, so it's not anything that people haven't seen
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before. But I always still feel and I still use this book to open
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it at random to try to come up with a quote that might help me
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that day or might you know, take me out of a bad mood at
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some point. So that's the purpose of this book. And I love quotes.
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I still use them for myself, and I recently started against putting them
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out. I stopped for a while due to an accident that I recently had
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on but I started once again because truthfully, I needed it for myself and
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I felt my social media network was also asking for them again. And the
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way you have formatted The Power of Inspiration, you start with a quote and
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then give your readers an opportunity to journal their feelings about that quote. Why
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is it important for us to journal and document these things? I feel that
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you know, it's about going within. So if you understand why that quote
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might inspire you or why it maybe makes you cry or makes you laugh,
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understanding that could help you. So I feel that if you have, if
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you reflect on what it is, it could help you, not only now,
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but also if you go back, let's say three months from now,
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and think, Okay, this really inspired me, and then you read it
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a second time, you think, well, now it makes me feel you
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know, now I laugh at it or you know, so now I have
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a different feeling about it. So I just feel it also could show you
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your own growth as well when you do when you reflect on anything, whether
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that's daily reflection or quote or anything else, it could it could help you
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or teach you something about yourself. And in that teaching, we also affect
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healing, don't we I'm sorry I didn't hear the question. Yes, in
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that teaching we also affect healing. Correct, absolutely, well, it's all
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a lot of it is about healing, about understanding, you know, why
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things happen or which is part of my book in Awakening Heart. It is
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a lot about healing, about moving into joy on on a regular basis,
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and whatever can help us to get there and quotes do help me get there
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at times. And congratulations on your number one multi category Amazon bestseller and Awakening
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Heart, a Journey of self Discovery. What was your inspiration for an Awakening
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Heart? Well, thank you very much. It was very exciting to see
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that because some of the categories are very difficult, so I was very excited
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about that. What made me I had never ever dreamed of putting out such
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a personal book. As I said, my company was designed so that I
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could be behind the camera, not in front of it, so to speak.
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But ultimately, as I was getting closer to a lot of people on
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social media, I once shared a story which is in the book about my
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nana and people kept saying, well, you know, they had a lot
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of comments like you know, oh that was wonderful, or they would say,
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well, what would you do if this happened? And what would you
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do if this occurred in your life? So people started to ask me questions
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and then they started to say could you share another story? So the stories
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that I've written in the book, well, really I had never had the
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intentions of doing that, but when I found out that it helped healing and
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it helped people realize they weren't alone, and that my experience in life could
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inspire them to understand that things happen, and we need to understand what the
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lesson and the gift is and then we can heal it and move on.
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So I started to do that, and that's where the book came from.
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You know, you were talking about starting out talking about your grandmother and nana,
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and I had a nana like that too. Just tell us a little
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bit about what she taught you, what you learned from her. Well,
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my nana, which I found it very late in my teens, was my
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nana through marriage, but no one ever told me that, so of course
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my heart away there was never I had another grandmother that I never knew about.
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But when I found out that she was only my grandmother through marriage,
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but it didn't matter to my heart because she was my nanna. I thanked
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her for making the choice because she never treated me different than anybody else than
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my other cousins. I mean, she never even gave us an inkling that
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we were different, and I thanked her for being my nanna. She chose
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to be minana, So to me, that was even more of saying you
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chose you could have chosen not to be, but you chose to be,
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and that I was even more grateful for. Was she your first teacher of
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unconditional love? Yeah, I would say yes. And you know that was
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she was a very She didn't. She wasn't a lovey, dovey kind of
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person. She didn't. You know, she wasn't a huggy, lovey kind
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of person. But I was able to and I feel that I helped her
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to crack that a little bit as well. But I understood that. You
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know, what I think mostly is that she made the choice to be my
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nana and she didn't treat me any differently. And I realized that she really
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did love me, no matter if she said it or she didn't. She
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did love me, and she showed me that in a different way. And
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that's such a valuable and wonderful lesson, isn't it. Absolutely I consider myself
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blessed. Absolutely. My guest is Randy Thompson. She's the author of both
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the Power of Inspiration and her bestseller and Awakening Heart, A Journey of self
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Discovery. Randy, please share with our listeners with it and get your books
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and find out more about you and your amazing work. Oh great, thank
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you Victor. They can Both of my books are located on or can be
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per just on Amazon. They can also go to my website in Richmondinc.
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Dot com and Books for purchase. All the links are there. The Power
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of Inspiration is also on Barnes and Nobles dot com and Walmart and a couple
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of other outlets. But both books are available on Amazon. And I really
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A Journey of self discovery. Randy, you share before your first chapter a
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quote from Michael Meade, and to quote what awaits to awaken in each person
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is ancient and surprising, mythic and meaningful. Why do you think that so
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many, especially in the last twenty five years, seem to have either remained
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asleep or forgotten this important aspect of human incarnation. Well, I think that
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it is awakening now. I think there are many people. They might not
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ask those words, but I think that they know they're here for something.
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They're here for something greater than just working and you know, getting up and
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doing the mandane things. I think people are starting to understand that, and
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that's why you and I are doing this. I'm hoping that it will inspire
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somebody to think, Okay, what is my real purpose? I'm a powerful
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being and I'm here to do something and I want to do it, So
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I think people are starting to look at that. I don't think it's as
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foreign as it used to be. You share that five guides grace your path.
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Who are these guides and how do they manifest for you? I started
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a meditation practice, which is pretty normal when you go on a path,
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and during my minute Patian periods, I would see five entities, but I
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didn't know who they were, and I kept thinking, Okay, I must
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be going crazy. So but I didn't you know, they didn't have any
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contact with me in the beginning, but I kept seeing very distinct personalities.
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And when I first did my first vision quest with Kevin Ryerson, that is
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when I first understood that on tun Ray, whose Egyptian who has been with
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me and other lifetimes, who was a very powerful master, was one of
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those beings that was trying to get in touch with me. When I was
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on that trip, I on this woman that I became friends with. Mary
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introduced me to another channeler who only channel spirit guides, and as soon as
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I came back from that trip, I called this woman and made an appointment,
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and it was through that experience that I was introduced to four additional or
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actually three, I think on that call, I met with SilverStar, who
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was my master guide and who was my gatekeeper. I met with my Angel
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of love Dawn. I met Many Arrows, who was another guide that for
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some reason I was able to at one point be able to communicate directly with
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him. But as I say in the book, I couldn't hold my concentration
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with him long enough. I remember him trying to teach me about life and
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life lessons, but I couldn't hold my concentration long enough to really get true
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information at that point when I was doing that. So when I was able
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to get a channeler to help me or make the introduction to a few of
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those guides, then that's how it first came to pass. I realized through
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that experience that there were a few guides that I wasn't ready to meet yet,
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but I would eventually meet them on my path at a later date,
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which I did. And do each of us have these guides available to us?
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Absolutely, we all have spirit guides and they're all there waiting for us
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to just be open to invite them in. I would say to everyone I
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know their names because it was very important to me. My first experience with
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meeting them through this channeler. Her name is Assandra. I needed their names.
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I need to know why they were working with me. I interviewed them
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just like I interviewed people that I was placing in law firms. That was
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part of who I was. So I interviewed everybody I met, and my
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spirit guides were no different. So I went through this interviewing process with them,
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and they were kind enough to let me do what I needed to do
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because they knew that I needed this to move forward. But we all have
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spirit guides, Yours are different than mine. We all have contracts with guides
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that we make agreements with before we come to Earth, and they're there to
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help us. I'll just say to everyone on the call, just be open
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to allowing the guides to help you. You don't have to have their names.
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You just asked for the highest guides to work with you, and they
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would be more than happy. That's what they want to do. They want
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to help you move to a higher level of consciousness and they want to help
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the world to do the same. Absolutely, in my personal experience, I've
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been having what I referred to as the inner voice since childhood, and what
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I've come to learn is that the inner voice, the guide, is a
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soft, reassuring and helpful voice, rather than something shouting at you or demeaning
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you in any way. And a quick example in nineteen seventy five, I
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was in the Air Force. I was stationed in Korea, and one morning
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I heard the voice say, something's wrong with your mother. You must call
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her. And I had no indication that anything was wrong, and I called,
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and in those days we had extension telephones, and my sister and my
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mother picked up the phone simultaneously, and I said, Mom, what's wrong?
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And my sister said, oh my god, how did he find out?
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And it turned out she was scheduled for surgery the next day. And
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immediately, my guide, my voice, said, tell her she's going to
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be one hundred percent fine, She'll have a full, complete recovery, and
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she's going to be well from that point forward. And I said that to
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her. It was reassuring, and sure enough, that's exactly what happened.
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So listening to that inner voice, that wonderful voice, that loving voice,
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is so important. I agree, and I consider that your higher power that
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resides within each and every one of us. So yes, we have to
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listen to that voice, and that voice is different for all of us.
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You might send something, you might not hear physical words, but you could
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send something, which is ultimately what happened with me, Like I could feel
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like something was kicking my gut to tell me to do something, and did
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I listen at every point? No, But there was a lesson for me
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to learn in that as well. But yes, now I really really try
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to listen to that inner voice, because that will always guide you in the
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right direction. It will never try to hurt you, it will only try
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to help you in an awakening heart. You share the concepts of serendipity and
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synergy. I've experienced this in my life as what Carl Jung called synchronicity,
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meaning meaningful coincidences without causal connection. Please share with us some of these that
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you've experienced and how they enhanced your life and your path. Well. Serendipity
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to me is like things happen without you really trying. For example, I
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worked in New York, and in New York a lot of times the ladies
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room is shared by other offices, and I went in there one day and
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I'm just talking to this woman. I had no idea who she was or
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where she were. All I know is we had it started a conversation about
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sailing, and I found out that she had rented a sailboat in the in
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Greece and she had one spot left, and she asked me if I'd like
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to join her group. It was a seventy five foot sailboat. I didn't
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know anybody on the trip. I didn't even know who she was, to
32:22
be honest, and she hired a captain and in two seconds, I suggest
32:29
I'd like to join you. And just from having the courage to do that
32:37
allowed me to meet a whole bunch of other people. I was able to
32:43
go to Africa. Threw somebody on that boat who who worked for American Express
32:50
Travel, and I was able to go with her on a trip on that
32:54
cost very little. So because I was able to listen to my instincts and
33:01
say, you know what this. People think I'm weird, but I'm going
33:05
I mean, I walked into my office and said I'm leaving it two weeks
33:08
for Greece with this woman I just met in the ladies room. They all
33:13
thought I was crazy. My boss was like, you're out of your mind.
33:16
You don't even know her. And you're going to a different country.
33:21
You know, my boss ran into her office to see if she was,
33:24
you know, really legitimate. But I did end up going, and it
33:30
ended up to be an experience that I will never forget. It allowed me
33:35
to have an experience of meeting somebody from a past life that needed healing and
33:42
closure, which I would never have had if I didn't follow that instinct.
33:49
And you know, been in the right place at the right time, and
33:52
I know that, and I am going to Africa was a gift from God
33:57
as far as I'm concerned. So there have been experiences that I'm so blessed
34:02
to have had. Absolutely in terms of my experience with synchronicity, every time
34:09
a synchronicity has happened, I've had three choices. I could dismiss the experience
34:15
out of hand, saying it's meaningless to me. I could say, yes,
34:19
that's something that's interesting but not right now. Or I could say yes
34:22
and respond to it with the big why. And every time I had a
34:25
big why, another one happened and another one happened, and it's just blessed
34:30
my life in so many ways. I agree. You know, from that
34:35
one yes turned into as I said, amazing healing enclosure from somebody from another
34:40
life for me to go to Africa, which had been a dream of mine
34:45
to go on safari forever. I mean it's been on every vision board I
34:50
ever made. So you're right, I think one thing falls into place for
34:58
another, but you have to have the courage to jump when it's there.
35:04
And we'll talk about that. Why what would you share with our listeners who
35:08
find themselves stuck because of fear of change. Yes, and you know what
35:15
It's happened to me, and I'm sure it's happened to you. At times,
35:21
we all get fearful, but we need to and I speak for myself
35:29
as well that in those times I try to find ways to break it to
35:36
you know, whether I'm find a quote that takes some of the fear away,
35:42
or you know, on me opening up enrich and Ink and giving up
35:45
my job that was you know, I was making very good money and there
35:52
I was once again going to have to think about it. But I was
35:57
fearful of doing it. I did it anyway, and sometimes that even if
36:04
you're fearful, you need to trust. There's a large amount of trust on
36:09
this path and it's not always easy, but sometimes you know, if you
36:15
jump off the cliff, you're going to find yourself in a place that you
36:20
would never be if you didn't take that risk, Which also leads to the
36:25
challenge for many of the willingness to let go of those ideas and actions that
36:30
no longer service. How have you learned to let go of these in your
36:36
life and how would you encourage others to do so well? And I think
36:42
that also comes with people as we grow and evolve. Sometimes you know the
36:46
people that were with doesn't feel right, it doesn't feel nurturing, and sometimes
36:53
that can be very difficult to make those kind of choices. So I would
36:59
say to everybody on this wall that you need to listen to your own inner
37:02
guidance and honor the feelings you're getting. If you're getting the fact that you're
37:09
in a situation that's maybe toxic or making you miserably unhappy, but you think,
37:16
okay, well I have to pay my rent, or you know,
37:20
you need to think, okay, you could take little steps. You don't
37:25
have to take big steps all at once, but you need to make Sometimes
37:31
I find that sometimes as hard as it is to walk away, is you
37:37
just bless that other person, and you move on and try to you know
37:44
that it's better for both people involved. I had an experience, or several
37:50
experiences of people who would take advantage of my open nature and my willingness to
37:55
help virtually anyone and anyone at any time, and I came to the recognition
38:00
that some of that work was actually detrimental to me, not only in terms
38:06
of spiritually and mentally, but also physically. And it engendered with me the
38:12
courage to use the N word, to say no. And I wrote a
38:15
little poem about that. May share that with you. Yes please. It's
38:20
called the healing Power of No. A time comes for choosing rather than losing,
38:27
the essence that makes us so, And in the bestowing there's power in
38:31
knowing the freedom that comes with no. When said with compassion, not angry
38:37
in fashion, and letting the self love flow, there's a sense of renewing
38:44
and deep soul imbuing the awareness that comes with no. So with gentle voice
38:51
and the power of choice and the courage to make it so, I'm still
38:57
here, my friends. There's no means, and this end just the healing
39:01
that comes with no. Wow. I love that I would love to share
39:07
that. You should share that with the world. And I'm also putting it
39:10
together. You know, I had mentioned about writing a book. I'm gonna
39:13
put my poems into a book to it. I definitely will share that with
39:15
me definitely, because I think a lot of women and a lot of people
39:20
have a problem and I did. I was a people pleaser. Oh yeah,
39:25
you know. I want to try to help people, but saying no,
39:28
it's been difficult. So that is a beautiful poem. And I can't
39:32
wait for you to get it out to the world. Thank you so much,
39:36
Thank you for I would be happy to help you do that. Thank
39:38
you so much. Thank you. My guest is Randy Chomchen. We're talking
39:43
about her new book and Awakening Heart, a Journey of self Discovery. We'll
39:47
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is Randy Tompson. She's the author of the Amazon bestseller multi category book and
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Awakening Heart, A Journey of self discovery. Randy, your journey has taken
43:25
you to many places filled with special energy. We share a common love for
43:30
Sedona, Arizona. Please tell us about some of these adventures and what they
43:36
taught you. I would love to One of the things I've always loved doing
43:39
is traveling. I love to experience new places, on different people, and
43:46
I always loved doing it. And that was one of the things I wanted
43:51
in Richmond to do, to travel to different cultures and experience different things.
43:57
On Sedona, Arizona was my first on vision quest with Kevin Ryerson, and
44:02
it was a very small group of us, about seven people, and we
44:08
stayed in a beautiful hotel. I mean, I was worried because I was
44:12
like, I'm not sleeping outside. I don't want to not eat for a
44:15
week. Like that's just not my style. I'm like, I need luxury,
44:22
you know, like I need a beautiful hotel. And but I decided
44:27
I was going to go anyway, and I ended up we ended up staying
44:30
in a beautiful hotel. We ate in the best restaurants. We had so
44:35
much fun. We spend time learning and laughing and I'm still friends with a
44:39
lot of the people from that trip. And my room, I had a
44:45
private room, and my room actually could almost touch the Red Rocks. It
44:50
was just amazing, and we got to experience Sedona on this journey on that
45:00
was just it was just fun. It was a fun experience, and the
45:04
Red Rocks are beautiful, and the energy in I live in New York City,
45:09
and I think you're aware that sometimes the energy in New York could be
45:14
very heavy, But when you go outside of New York, the energy is
45:19
much different. And when you're in Sidona and there are vortexes there, the
45:23
energy is much lighter and it allows you to maybe meditate deeper and and have
45:32
different types of experiences. So it was a beautiful experience with ten beautiful souls
45:39
that I'm still close with today and I can't wait to go back. Randy,
45:46
my life had a dramatic change in my mid to late thirties as my
45:52
path reopened in an awakening heart. You call this the second act. How
45:58
may we recognize we are ready for this and embrace it? Well? I
46:04
think it happens differently for everyone, but I think every soul. I get
46:08
the feeling and talking to other people that people find that they feel something's missing
46:15
and they can't really put their put their hand on it or figure out exactly
46:21
what it is. But I think most people at a certain point in their
46:24
life realize, Okay, why am I here? What is my purpose?
46:29
Is it just to work every day? What am I really here for?
46:34
And I think that question comes to every person, maybe in a different way
46:38
than it came for me, But I think ultimately that question happens for every
46:45
soul at some point. And when we have that question, how should we
46:51
respond? Well? I think you need to go within, that's first thing,
46:57
and you need to find a way to either meditate or do yoga,
47:02
something that would allow you some inner time so that you can allow your higher
47:09
self to guide you to the next steps, so you'll be guided as long
47:15
as you're open to the possibility. And I would just say that you know,
47:21
do what feels right for you. So if it feels right for you
47:24
to learn a certain meditation, then go ahead and do that. If it
47:29
feels right that yoga makes your body feel better and you feel better, then
47:35
do that. So I would say to you that whatever you need, whatever
47:38
it feels right, allow yourself to be guided. Ask your guides for help,
47:45
tell them that you would like them to help you. They don't care
47:51
that you don't know their name. Just ask for the highest guide to work
47:55
with you, to show you the way, and they will show you as
48:00
long as you're open. Absolutely. In our expanding paths, we often have
48:07
challenges with family members and friends becoming uncomfortable and even distancing themselves from us.
48:14
What would you share with our listeners having that experience, Well, I would
48:19
say I understand completely because it's happened to me, and it's happened very recently.
48:25
But I would say to you that just because they are uncomfortable doesn't mean
48:30
that you have to be different to fit in. Be who you are.
48:37
Let your light shine, because your light shine might might make somebody feel uncomfortable,
48:44
But that's what you're here to do, and you will be guided to
48:47
the right tribe, to your tribe. It might take a while, but
48:54
I feel that don't shrink yourself to fit in that bright, shining light that
49:00
you are. And it hurts sometimes. It's hard, especially when it comes
49:06
with family, because you know, you feel like, how could that be?
49:09
You know, this person has known me my whole life. But people
49:15
get scared. They don't really want you to always change. They're used to
49:20
you being a certain way, and when you're different, they don't necessarily like
49:24
it. Two years ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Reverend Michael J.
49:30
S. Carter, who many know from his appearances on Ancient Aliens.
49:35
We discussed his book at the time, Initiation, that begins with a Hindu
49:38
parable about an assembly of the deities with Brahma. The deities are complaining that
49:44
the humans, who also had divine powers in those days, were abusing it,
49:49
and it was suggested by these deities that Brahma take these powers away from
49:52
humans and hide them on the highest mountains, the bottom of the sea,
49:57
were deep within the earth. Brahma answered each of these suggestions by saying that
50:02
humans would eventually conquer those places and find and reclaim their divinity. Then Brahma
50:08
came up with an answer. He said that this divinity should be hidden within
50:14
humans, as they would never think of searching for it within. Is that
50:19
the problem we have, that we're forgetting the divinity within? Yes, And
50:22
it's funny how I've never heard that story, but it's similar to the story
50:27
that I've written, basically saying you know, and I did it in my
50:31
own way, basically saying that you know, God had God is with us.
50:37
And I'm using the word God, but I'm not religious. It's not
50:42
a religious statement. You can call it higher power on whatever you want to
50:46
name it. But yes, we are very We would find it in the
50:52
ocean, we would find it in the sky, But will we ever look
50:57
within? You know, that's a place where most people have to be directed
51:00
to. So I had never heard his story, but I've written something very
51:07
similar to that, and I feel that if you spend the time to go
51:10
within, your life will change. Will there be challenges, absolutely, because
51:17
as I've found through my challenges, a lot of growth. Do we always
51:23
have to grow through challenges? I don't necessarily think we have to, but
51:29
right now I feel that our growth unfortunately comes through challenges, and in that
51:37
challenge comes a gift. Is it possible in this world of ours, where
51:43
there's so much divisiveness, for us to open our hearts and love unconditionally?
51:52
Is it possible? Yes? Is it always easy? The answer for me
51:55
would be no. But I do feel that as we all start to grow
52:01
and evolve, that love is the answer. Ultimately, love is what is
52:08
going to take us to much higher levels of consciousness. You know, talking
52:15
about that quotation from about Brahma, there's an ancient Sanskrit word which you're probably
52:21
familiar with, namaste. Yes, and namaste means the divine within me bows
52:28
and recognizes the divine within you. That we recognize each other as more than
52:32
these human forms, as these incarnate flesh forms, but as spirit, as
52:37
divine spirit? Is that something we should do? Bow to each other and
52:40
say namasta. I love it? You know, we do it in most
52:45
meditations, but I find it. I think it's wonderful to acknowledge on everyone's
52:58
on higher power within, knowing that we're in body form, but we really
53:04
are a powerful being. We're living in human form, but that's not really
53:08
who we are. Absolutely, we're spirit manifested in human form for a reason.
53:17
Absolutely with choices, what would you like your readers to take away from
53:23
an awakening heart a journey of self discovery? I would like them to be
53:30
inspired. I would like them to know that stuff happens and they're not alone.
53:38
But I'd also like to say to them that their story matters. They
53:45
matter. We're all in this together, and somewhere on this earth there's somebody
53:51
who needs to hear their story to inspire them. So I just want everyone
53:58
to know that they're important part of the puzzle, that without one piece of
54:05
the puzzle, it won't be whole. So we're all threads in a magnificent
54:10
tapestry, and each thread needs to shine brightly. So I just want them
54:17
to know how much they matter. And I also add to each of them,
54:22
non must stay, No must stay. Absolutely. You know, there's
54:28
an old song from the Moody Blues called the Eyes of a Child, and
54:30
it says, with the eyes of a child, you must come out and
54:34
see that you're world's spinning round and through life you will be a small part
54:38
of a whole of a love that exists with the eyes of a child.
54:43
You will see we have to remember to look with the eyes of children as
54:46
we did when we were young. Absolutely agree with you. That's beautiful.
54:52
My guest is Randy Thompson. We're talking about her latest book, An Awakening
54:58
Heart, a Journey of self discovery. Randy, one more time, please
55:01
share with our listeners and get your books. I find that more about you
55:05
and your amazing work. Thank you so much. All my books are located
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on Amazon. The Power of Inspiration is also on Barnes and Nobles and Walmart
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and other places. You can also find the link on my website for enrichment
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ink dot com. That's spelled e n r I c h M E n
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t I NC dot com. And I would ask everyone to please join me
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on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. I would love to have you a part
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of the family. Randy. Thank you so much for joining us and sharing
55:44
your experience and wonderful wisdom. Thank you, Victor for having me. It's
55:49
been such a pleasure. I look forward to working with you in the future.
55:54
And Namasta, namaste, and thank you for joining us us on vox
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Nobus. I'm Victor the Voice Firm have a wonderful week,