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Plant Seeds of Intention with The Breakfast Club · Deeply Well with Devi Brown

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Speaker 1: dropping ja morning. Everybody is dj envy angela ye shallow
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Speaker 1: mane the guy we all the breakfast club. You got
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Speaker 1: a special guest on the line, introduced her right, Debbie Brown,
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Speaker 1: Chief Impact Officer at Choprah Global, Passionate advocate for women
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Speaker 1: of color and wellness, Master well being educator Mariah Carry
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Speaker 1: in the faith asked person. It was good, but it
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Speaker 1: was going took a left. Debbie Brown morning, Good morning family.
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Speaker 1: You guys are congratulations first and foremost on being legends
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Speaker 1: and making history with the Radio Hall of Fame. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you, and congratulations see you for all of the
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Speaker 1: important work that you've been doing. Thank you, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: How you hold it up during the pandemic. How was
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Speaker 1: that for you? You know what I gotta say, wildly
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Speaker 1: challenging off top, but it's been probably one of the
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Speaker 1: best years of my life. You know, I really deepened
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Speaker 1: my spiritual journey. I was already on this path and
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Speaker 1: I was, you know, kind of diligently doing the work,
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Speaker 1: and then this gave me opportunity to kind of deepen
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Speaker 1: some of that healing, to understand ways in which to
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Speaker 1: help other people heal. And you know, this time it
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's been challenging for quite a lot
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Speaker 1: of people because so many are meeting themselves for the
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Speaker 1: first time, you know, spending that much time with themselves
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Speaker 1: and being in their thoughts. But if you let it,
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Speaker 1: it can be so beautiful. You get to the root
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Speaker 1: of anything that was holding you back. You have the
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Speaker 1: chance to cultivate a really deep, beautiful internal relationship with self.
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Speaker 1: There's just a there's a lot of opportunity to it. Well,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about your journey and how this became your calling. Yes, Well,
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Speaker 1: y'all know, I started a radio born and raised in
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Speaker 1: l A. You know. I the thing that led me
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Speaker 1: to radio was I was so deeply curious about storytelling,
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Speaker 1: curious about myself, curious about the world. Like radio is
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Speaker 1: one of the most sacred, in my opinion, art forms,
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Speaker 1: like you get to share space in someone's mind. And
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Speaker 1: I loved it for so long. But then when I
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Speaker 1: started my journey, I just found that I was really
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Speaker 1: called to study metaphysics, I was really called to study trauma.
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Speaker 1: And I kind of just found myself not easily being
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Speaker 1: able to stay up on current events or you know,
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Speaker 1: really wanting to just talk about some other things. And
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Speaker 1: so I pivoted and I went into the self care, wellness,
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Speaker 1: mindfulness world, which I did it kind of before the
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Speaker 1: big bang hit on social media of wellness, and so
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Speaker 1: it was very uncharted territory. I didn't know if I
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Speaker 1: made the right choice for a long time, but I
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Speaker 1: stuck with it and I felt, you know, I just
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Speaker 1: feel like my calling is to help people heal. You know,
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Speaker 1: we we throw these terms around there. We say, you know,
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Speaker 1: mental health, we say mindfulness, we say wellness, we say healing.
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Speaker 1: What what is all of that to you? In particular mindfulness?
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Speaker 1: What is that to you? So mindfulness is it's really
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Speaker 1: rooted in a slowing down um kind of you know,
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Speaker 1: the very simplified term would be to be mindful, to
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Speaker 1: have things kind of top of mind, to have a
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Speaker 1: seed of intention that's been planted, and that's the way
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Speaker 1: you're navigating your spiritual values in the world. But what
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Speaker 1: I think it is more clearly, and I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of the conversation around healing, it's like mental health here,
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Speaker 1: mindfulness wellness here, and it's like you have to have
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Speaker 1: both and they have to be integrated for you to
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Speaker 1: really live the fullest life possible. You have to do
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Speaker 1: some of that deeper trauma healing, which mental health is
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Speaker 1: so great for. Talk therapy, so matic therapy is so
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Speaker 1: beautiful for but you also need that piece that makes
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Speaker 1: it real for you and not just stuck in your brain,
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Speaker 1: not just intellectualizing it. It has to come down to
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Speaker 1: your heart so that you can actually embody and live it.
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Speaker 1: So why did they go hand in hand? Why do
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Speaker 1: you mental health and mindfulness go hand in hand? You think, well,
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Speaker 1: you have to have integration, so you have to have
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Speaker 1: the mind, body soul connection to have the full experience
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Speaker 1: of being a whole human being. And a lot of
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Speaker 1: times when we just focus on the mental health point,
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Speaker 1: which is just incredibly important, but when we just focus
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Speaker 1: on that, you're missing so many other opportunities to love yourself,
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Speaker 1: to get to know yourself. You know, part of part
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Speaker 1: of the reason we're so disconnected from ourselves is because
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Speaker 1: we feel foreign in our own bodies, especially if you're
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Speaker 1: a person of color. You know, you were trained through
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Speaker 1: systemic racism, through years of ancestral trauma, to not really
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Speaker 1: feel safe in your own body. And so self care
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Speaker 1: is really such a radical form of revolution for us
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Speaker 1: as people of color, to really be able to sit
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Speaker 1: inside yourself and enjoy where you're spending that time, to
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Speaker 1: be able to even touch yourself, to love your body,
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Speaker 1: you know, to feel yourself. It's so so important, and
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Speaker 1: I think so many people don't realize how rare that is,
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Speaker 1: especially depending on your circumstance. You know, even to hold
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Speaker 1: eye contact with another person and so sacred and intimate,
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Speaker 1: and so many people have a real, a real challenge
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Speaker 1: being able to do that because of how they experienced themselves.
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Speaker 1: What was the turning point for you that that got you,
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Speaker 1: that that got you really into it? Was it something
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Speaker 1: that you've seen, Was it some trauma that happened to you,
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Speaker 1: Was it a friends trauma? Like? What got you so
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Speaker 1: into it? You know, I think we all walk around
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Speaker 1: with so much storage trauma, and sometimes it's trauma that
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Speaker 1: really was passed down to us genetically through our d
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Speaker 1: n A, through our ancestral trauma that we have, and
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Speaker 1: you know, we when you have different experiences like maybe
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Speaker 1: you're a little more angry, or maybe you know your
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Speaker 1: depression prone, our anxiety, A lot of it is things
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Speaker 1: that are so outside of your control. And so I
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Speaker 1: started noticing that, you know, in my own healing. I'm
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Speaker 1: an only child raised by a single parent. It was
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Speaker 1: a very emotionally isolating experience. Sometimes, you know, which any
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Speaker 1: only child's listening. I know that you can only people
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Speaker 1: think we're spoiled, but in fact we're just introspective. But
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Speaker 1: you know, it's um when I started really investigating myself
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Speaker 1: looking back at my history, looking back at my experiences,
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Speaker 1: and seeing what I thought they meant about me. So
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Speaker 1: much of the things that happened to us when we're children,
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Speaker 1: even if they're not major, you know, perceived major traumas,
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Speaker 1: they plant these seeds of how we grow to feel
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Speaker 1: about ourselves and how we grow to see the world.
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Speaker 1: And so when I started really investigating, like why do
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Speaker 1: I think this way, why do I feel that way?
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Speaker 1: Why do I experience like a charge in my chest
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Speaker 1: or an anxiety? When this happens and you slowly start
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Speaker 1: peeling back the layers, and before you know it, it's
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Speaker 1: like this memory as a three year old of misinterpreting
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Speaker 1: something that happened, that planted a seed that you built
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Speaker 1: upon and built upon and built upon, and before you
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Speaker 1: knew it, you know, you were in a space where
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Speaker 1: maybe you didn't really care about yourself, or you didn't
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Speaker 1: think you were worth it or worthy. And I think
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Speaker 1: that this idea of worthiness so many people grow up.
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Speaker 1: Really all the human experiences is remember bring your wholeless.
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Speaker 1: Everyone has seeds of feeling like they're unworthy at one
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Speaker 1: time another, and many for their entire lives. And you
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Speaker 1: don't quite know why, and so doing a lot of
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Speaker 1: that self investigation, doing different things that allow you to
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Speaker 1: feel connected to the inside of yourself, to feel connected
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Speaker 1: to your journey. It helps you start really releasing that
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Speaker 1: narrative so that you can live the fullest life possible.
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Speaker 1: Do you think the circumstances of this past year make
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Speaker 1: it easier or more difficult to to go on a
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Speaker 1: spiritual journey. I think a little bit of both. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's always that kind of yin and yang, that that polarity.
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Speaker 1: I think for a lot of people that were already awakened,
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Speaker 1: you were tested more deeply. It was really like, can
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Speaker 1: you put this work to the test in this moment?
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Speaker 1: And that's what I really had to do. I've been
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Speaker 1: doing this work, I've been meditating many many years, and
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Speaker 1: then being in this scobal pandemic, I'm like, Okay, it's
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Speaker 1: time to step up my self care routine. I gotta
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Speaker 1: supercharge it. The things that I was doing to show
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Speaker 1: up for myself in this moment, it's not an enough.
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Speaker 1: So how else can I best love myself and love
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Speaker 1: this moment? How can I lean into uncertainty? I think
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Speaker 1: some people were thrust into like a radical shift. Maybe
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Speaker 1: people who didn't even feel that they believed in this
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You just are brought to your knees
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Speaker 1: and you're forced to surrender um. And I think for
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Speaker 1: other people, because that's just the way the human brain works,
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Speaker 1: it further solidified to them whatever narrative they created about
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Speaker 1: the world being unsafe. You know, it's been so dope
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Speaker 1: for people who want to guests started on a spiritual
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Speaker 1: journey but don't know where to begin. What would you
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Speaker 1: tell them would be one of the first steps, Oh man,
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the first steps is just really
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Speaker 1: setting the intention to become more and to be better.
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Speaker 1: There's so much power in planning the seat of intention um.
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Speaker 1: And you can do that with affirmations, you know, depending
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Speaker 1: especially on your cultural belief system, there is so much um.
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Speaker 1: So many family systems that really restrict your ability to
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Speaker 1: connect to yourself, and so many belief systems that tell
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Speaker 1: you you have to have a middleman to get to
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Speaker 1: the divine, to get to God. But God resides in
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Speaker 1: all of us, like our ability to grow and transcend
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Speaker 1: is always there. And trusting that we have a right
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Speaker 1: to access that goodness and that deeper connection on our
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Speaker 1: own is so important. But I would say, really just
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Speaker 1: saying out loud. You know, one of my first when
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Speaker 1: I first started this path, it came as me on
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Speaker 1: my knees bawling and saying, God, I surrender, use me,
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Speaker 1: you know. And I think in the mindfulness world, whatever
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Speaker 1: you like to call your higher power, if you believe
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Speaker 1: in one, it's really just saying I'm ready to become more.
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Speaker 1: Show me how or something I love saying to myself,
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Speaker 1: Um is God, please show me the deeper truth of
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Speaker 1: who I am. And then I disconnect from whatever that
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Speaker 1: answer is, and I let the answers just slowly show up,
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Speaker 1: and the right teachers, or the right readings or the
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Speaker 1: right conversations just begin to populate your life in a
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Speaker 1: really delicious way. Can negative energy attract positive energy? Death? No? Impossible? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's impossible, you know it's um. The energetic exchange is
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Speaker 1: such a deeply powerful and sacred experience. And when you're
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Speaker 1: rooted in negativity, we're each the we're each the co
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Speaker 1: creators of our life. So we're in co creation with
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Speaker 1: divine power or whatever you like to call that higher
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Speaker 1: power to really manifest the life of your highest vision.
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Speaker 1: When we hold onto those seeds of negativity, or we
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Speaker 1: consider ourselves to be stuck or unworthy of more, which
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Speaker 1: typically if you're negative, it's because you've given up a
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Speaker 1: belief that you can have more or that you deserve more.
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Speaker 1: And when you give into that mindframe, it doesn't allow
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Speaker 1: any cracks in your wounds for the light to get through.
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Speaker 1: So it's really hard from that space to be able
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Speaker 1: to attract positivity, which is not to say you won't
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Speaker 1: encounter some, but you just may not be able to
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Speaker 1: recognize it when it shows up. Wow, I want to
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Speaker 1: know about You're doing a podcast. You have a podcast
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Speaker 1: that's on UM. Your partner up with Charlemagne. Now let's
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Speaker 1: talk about this podcast. How do you give out gems
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Speaker 1: in this podcast? Drop? Yeah, you know, I'm really connected
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Speaker 1: to jesty mystifying the journey UM. I talked about thinking
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Speaker 1: like my own musings, observations I'm having about the world,
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Speaker 1: observations I'm having about myself as I do the work.
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Speaker 1: I have guests on you know, I had Charlemagne on
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Speaker 1: the show talking about really unpacking his journey. I would
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Speaker 1: love to have you, Envy, I would love to have
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Speaker 1: you angelus. A note to self tells done on him
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Speaker 1: real quick, stay there, good, tell them where we tape
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Speaker 1: that at. Oh well, we were just on a little
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Speaker 1: vacation in Mexico. But that's neither at your house, all right,
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Speaker 1: at your cribbing cobb. All right, you're trying to get
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Speaker 1: me robbed at this. I don't know what you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: Uh no. But so in this season, so it's really
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Speaker 1: talking to people about their journeys because so many people
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Speaker 1: think they can't approach this work because they don't have
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Speaker 1: this ideal thing happening or they haven't reached this level
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Speaker 1: of success. So oh, of course it's easy for you.
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Speaker 1: And it's really about getting into like the cellular level
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Speaker 1: of like how did that switch start happening? How did
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Speaker 1: you start allowing yourself to see the world differently and
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Speaker 1: to shift? And in this season, I'm really excited because
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Speaker 1: we're deep diving into a lot of metaphysics. I have
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Speaker 1: incredible guests coming on the show, people doing deep work
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Speaker 1: and decolonizing the mental health field, joy and pleasure work,
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Speaker 1: really bringing pleasure to the forefront as a way to
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Speaker 1: help women heal um using orgasms to manifest. We talked
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Speaker 1: about that on the show this yeah, yeah, we were
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Speaker 1: getting there. You know, there there's a lot of facets
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Speaker 1: to this wellness. It's not just meditation. There's so many
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Speaker 1: healing modalities and so many tools to be on this journey.
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Speaker 1: And so this season I'm really trying to unpack it.
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Speaker 1: So for people that are like, oh, I can't meditate,
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Speaker 1: there's no way, or oh that looks weird, this looks weird,
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Speaker 1: I'm really looking to present so many different entry points
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Speaker 1: for this path. How did you break through with Charlemagne?
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Speaker 1: I mean, because you know we talked. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: mean with being honest. You know Charlemagne a long time
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Speaker 1: and you know how he was, you know, hurt people,
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Speaker 1: hurt people who He used to make me fun of
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Speaker 1: people all the time. Um, it didn't matter if you
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Speaker 1: were tall, short, black, white, if if you're down syndrome,
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Speaker 1: Charlemagne would make that is not trying to kid in
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Speaker 1: your school you made fun of and you said, the
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Speaker 1: kid yoked you up. He didn't have down syndrome. He
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Speaker 1: was like autistic, okay, autistic. But you know, how how
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Speaker 1: did you, you know, get Charlemagne? How did you get
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Speaker 1: Charlemagne out of that? You know, how did you get
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Speaker 1: him out of that way he's changed a little bit
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Speaker 1: where you know, I'm seeing him, you know, walking outside
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Speaker 1: with his bad toes, you know, hugging days and things
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Speaker 1: like that, Like how did you get up to that part? Well,
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Speaker 1: Charlemagne has divine light on him, so I think that
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Speaker 1: has always been in his cards since he was born,
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Speaker 1: to live this really beautifully big life. I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's like Charlemagne gets all the credit for that. He's
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Speaker 1: done the work. You know, he's deep dived into himself.
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Speaker 1: And I think that it's so hard to look at
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Speaker 1: yourself for real. You know, we get so caught in
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Speaker 1: this idea of shame, or this idea of what we
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Speaker 1: don't deserve, or this idea that past decisions that we've
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Speaker 1: made have to define what the rest of our life
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Speaker 1: is going to look like, especially with council culture. And
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Speaker 1: I think it's so important that you know, we allow
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Speaker 1: people the room to stretch and to grow, Like as
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Speaker 1: a society, we can only expand as the highest level
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Speaker 1: of consciousness that we possess. So so many of the
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Speaker 1: ways that we maybe showed up a little differently was
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Speaker 1: also you know kind of um, it was kind of
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Speaker 1: in the midst of what our collective consciousness allowed at
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Speaker 1: that time. But you know, shock Eavy. You know, Charlemagne
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Speaker 1: has always been woke, even when he was in the
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Speaker 1: midst of his craziness, he has had that he's super woke. Now. Now,
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Speaker 1: when I see Charlemagne hugging a tree and holding a
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Speaker 1: tree and walking around in the grass, was ugly told
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Speaker 1: did not have a pedicule number two that was called grounding, sir, okay,
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Speaker 1: I was centering myself, all right, the hug insues too,
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Speaker 1: So why is that important to tell them what grounding
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Speaker 1: is important? We have to get anchored, you know. So
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Speaker 1: we could let me try to say this in a
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Speaker 1: way that that's going to really make it across, because
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Speaker 1: we could dive into like all the different energetic bodies
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Speaker 1: that we possess. We have our kind of what's called
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Speaker 1: a food sheath, which is our physical body that houses
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Speaker 1: our soul, the skin, you know, bones and all that,
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Speaker 1: and then you have your energetic bodies and there's so
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Speaker 1: many different layers of energy that surrounds you. Um. But
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Speaker 1: I think when we get into when we're on Earth
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Speaker 1: and we're experiencing this human experience as as spiritual beings,
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Speaker 1: we have to ground. We have to remember to get
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Speaker 1: centered in a great mechanism. To do that is connecting
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Speaker 1: with nature and really being able to behold the functions
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Speaker 1: of the world and behold God's beauty and God's grace.
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Speaker 1: And it's so important to do breathwork. It's so weren't
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Speaker 1: to plant your feet in soil, to plant your feet
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Speaker 1: in the ground, to get restored, to experience sunshine on
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Speaker 1: your skin and really hold space, uh, to be mindful
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Speaker 1: in those moments, and to experience all the little joys
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Speaker 1: that come with it. You know that Devi is so important,
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Speaker 1: you know she She's one of the most important people
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Speaker 1: in my life. But the reason I feel you're so
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Speaker 1: important to the coaches because you are hip hop. You
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Speaker 1: know I'm saying, watching you grow from Tupac the DPAC
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Speaker 1: has been one of the the greatest joys in my life.
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Speaker 1: And I want to ask you, like, what what did
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Speaker 1: Tupac do to open up your third eye? Because because
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Speaker 1: since I've known you, you've been a Tupac Hey, yeah,
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Speaker 1: super obsessed. Uh. You know, the thing that I thought
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Speaker 1: that I always connected to so deeply with Tupac was
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Speaker 1: how multifaceted he was and how awake. He was at
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Speaker 1: such a young age. You know, we forget and obviously
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Speaker 1: are there problematic lyrics? Was there some problematic behavior, But
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Speaker 1: most of what we saw of Pak was him twenty
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Speaker 1: four and under and the fact that he was able
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Speaker 1: to showcase the array of human emotions and human experiences.
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Speaker 1: I always connected to, you know, I've always, always, since
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Speaker 1: I was a little girl, been fascinated by transformation, really
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Speaker 1: been deeply introspective and wanted to know what are what
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Speaker 1: are all the feelings one can feel? What are all
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Speaker 1: the experiences one can connect to? And I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: Pak said it so well. He he had figures, these
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Speaker 1: really archetypal figures like him, like Oprah. You know, they
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Speaker 1: sparked the They sparked that thing in your brain that
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Speaker 1: lets you know you can have more, you can think more,
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Speaker 1: you can be more. And when you see pac and
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Speaker 1: you know, songs like keep your head up, Brenda's got
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Speaker 1: a baby, um baby, don't cry, you know, unconditional love,
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Speaker 1: so many tears. There was so much depth to him,
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Speaker 1: and that's something that I didn't really hear in that
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Speaker 1: way growing up, and so I was just I was
18:51
Speaker 1: floored when when I was a little girl in pac
18:53
Speaker 1: was on the scene, you know, the things that he
18:54
Speaker 1: were saying. It just started expanding my mind and it
18:57
Speaker 1: planted the seeds to really seek out more for me.
19:00
Speaker 1: But that's why the journey has been so amazing for
19:01
Speaker 1: me to watch, because I think I mentioned like oh
19:04
Speaker 1: six oh seven, and it was it was park and
19:06
Speaker 1: it was all West because but you was always conscious.
19:08
Speaker 1: So just to watch that consciousness, just to continue to grow,
19:11
Speaker 1: to grow, to grow to now where you you know
19:14
Speaker 1: you you you work for deep Parc, the chief impact
19:16
Speaker 1: Officer at Chopra Global. You're building with Deepark Chopra on
19:21
Speaker 1: a regular basis. Like that's just been very very interesting
19:25
Speaker 1: for me to watch. Yeah, and you know, for for
19:28
Speaker 1: us all, I think because we all know dev on
19:31
Speaker 1: our you know, on a different type of level for
19:33
Speaker 1: different purposes. But I've always trusted you, So I trust
19:38
Speaker 1: in this. Oh, Angela, thank you. And me and Angela
19:42
Speaker 1: used to be in the streets. I don't want to
19:46
Speaker 1: bring it up up, you know, but yeah, Earl trips
19:49
Speaker 1: to Miami and the streets in l A and New York. Yes, club, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I gotta run all forgot about it to leave her
20:03
Speaker 1: car in the parking lot. I have no idea what
20:06
Speaker 1: you're saying. Let's talk about meditate, guys. Let's before that,
20:11
Speaker 1: I want to talk about your book real quick. I
20:13
Speaker 1: want to talk about Crystal Bliss. There you go, because
20:17
Speaker 1: you know Crystal Bliss. I wanted what did it benefits
20:19
Speaker 1: of gyms and crystals? Dev sends me, Jim, She sends
20:21
Speaker 1: me crystals. I buried something that tree you saw me hugging,
20:24
Speaker 1: I buried I buried something at the root of that.
20:26
Speaker 1: What did it benefits the gym's and crystals? Yeah, crystals
20:29
Speaker 1: are such a beautiful accompaniment. And you know, I think
20:31
Speaker 1: there's there's so much education around mindfulness that has to
20:34
Speaker 1: happen for the bipop community because it's so much of
20:37
Speaker 1: it is misunderstood or people were giving given false narratives
20:41
Speaker 1: through different systems of belief of what to stay away from.
20:45
Speaker 1: But people don't really even know, you know, what these
20:47
Speaker 1: things are, what they do. And I think crystals are
20:50
Speaker 1: such a beautiful accompaniment to whatever work that you're doing.
20:53
Speaker 1: They harness so much beautiful energetic power um And it's
20:57
Speaker 1: believed that you know, crystals different crystals. There's hundreds, you know,
21:01
Speaker 1: sometimes into the thousands. Even though those aren't readily available,
21:04
Speaker 1: but there's so many to choose from, and they all
21:07
Speaker 1: emanate energy, you know, energy, the fact that we possess it,
21:11
Speaker 1: the fact that we're made of it, the fact that
21:14
Speaker 1: you know we're able to radiate it. Everything that exists
21:17
Speaker 1: holds that. And you know the thing with crystals, as
21:19
Speaker 1: their ancients, they're as old as the earth is, so
21:22
Speaker 1: they harness um, in my belief, so much beautiful divine
21:27
Speaker 1: energetic power. And they're great accompaniment to the work and
21:30
Speaker 1: so great starter crystals for people, um that are looking
21:33
Speaker 1: to kind of start on the crystal journey. Got it
21:35
Speaker 1: in my book, but I would say, grab some amethysts,
21:38
Speaker 1: grab some clear courts, grab some sutrine. Those are great
21:42
Speaker 1: stones to start with to really start inviting in some
21:45
Speaker 1: new energies before we get into the meditation. Do you
21:47
Speaker 1: get upset when you see people who seem to be like,
21:51
Speaker 1: you know, using it's like performative wellness. You know, there's
21:55
Speaker 1: they're selling crystals, they're they're practices, they're they're teaching mindfulness
21:59
Speaker 1: and like, but they really haven't done the work. Yeah,
22:03
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I wanted to say, I get
22:04
Speaker 1: upset about it. I think it's dangerous for the people
22:07
Speaker 1: that are perhaps spending money or buying into things with
22:10
Speaker 1: someone who just isn't ready to teach. Yet. I think
22:13
Speaker 1: we all possess the ability to be teachers and guides
22:16
Speaker 1: for other people based on the work that we do.
22:18
Speaker 1: But this is the era of the expert, right, Like
22:21
Speaker 1: this is the era where everybody is marketing themselves and
22:24
Speaker 1: selling themselves, and so I just think it's important that
22:27
Speaker 1: if you do feel called to be in this field,
22:29
Speaker 1: you do the work. You know. It's not like I
22:31
Speaker 1: didn't just wake up and say, you know what, forget ready,
22:34
Speaker 1: forget this, I'm gonna start teaching and I'm gonna just
22:37
Speaker 1: start talking, you know. I really I've been researching. I've
22:40
Speaker 1: been doing certification programs all over the world for the
22:43
Speaker 1: last eight years. Like I am deeply processed, and I
22:46
Speaker 1: just think that's important. And but I think this field,
22:49
Speaker 1: along with any other fields, you have your tears, right,
22:52
Speaker 1: you have like your real, deep, authentic people with excellence.
22:55
Speaker 1: You have people that are maybe okay, you have mediocre.
22:59
Speaker 1: Then you have people that are scamming, you know, But
23:01
Speaker 1: that's the case with every single industry and anything that
23:04
Speaker 1: people do. So It's just important to vet the people
23:07
Speaker 1: that you want to learn from and really make sure
23:10
Speaker 1: that they're walking what they talk, really make sure that
23:12
Speaker 1: they have the right tools, because when you do this
23:15
Speaker 1: trauma work, it's so sacred. You don't want to open
23:18
Speaker 1: people up to this raw space and then not have
23:21
Speaker 1: the tools to help them navigate through it. And you know,
23:25
Speaker 1: Dev is really done to work. And you know what,
23:26
Speaker 1: I mentioned things like you know your house right, I
23:32
Speaker 1: do that for a reason because I literally have slept
23:35
Speaker 1: on Dev's couch. You know what I'm saying. Dev is
23:37
Speaker 1: literally slept on my couch, like literally in real life,
23:41
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So to see us go
23:43
Speaker 1: from that to where we are now, that should be celebrated.
23:47
Speaker 1: And we and we both did it by pursuing our passions.
23:50
Speaker 1: I remember when you told me like, I'm I'm not
23:52
Speaker 1: doing radio no more. I want to go help people.
23:54
Speaker 1: I want to go help people heal. And that could
23:56
Speaker 1: have been a tough decision, but that clearly what your
23:59
Speaker 1: life's work. Yeah, And you know, and I say it
24:02
Speaker 1: this to say like we're all helping people heal. It's
24:04
Speaker 1: just I knew I was called to do it in
24:06
Speaker 1: a new way. But you guys help people heal on
24:08
Speaker 1: the radio every single day in major ways. I see
24:11
Speaker 1: a'all comments like you are literally changing lives. But and
24:17
Speaker 1: I will say, when I was in Houston, I remember
24:18
Speaker 1: you were like, come over the house, and then you
24:20
Speaker 1: wanted us to like play this game. It wasn't really
24:22
Speaker 1: a game, but we went over to your house and
24:26
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, now I want you to write
24:27
Speaker 1: down like you were doing that early on. So the
24:30
Speaker 1: progression and dedication to the work is amazing. Thank you, Angela. Yes,
24:36
Speaker 1: Angela came over and we played this game called the Wish,
24:39
Speaker 1: which is all about manifestation, and we had crystals as
24:42
Speaker 1: our little board pieces. I was like, okay, now write down,
24:46
Speaker 1: write down your dreams, and then we're gonna You know,
24:49
Speaker 1: I trust you because if it would have anybody, I
24:52
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm out of being like, all right, are
24:54
Speaker 1: we gonna do a shot after each one? The do
25:00
Speaker 1: some meditation death what were doing? Okay? All right, everybody
25:05
Speaker 1: go ahead and gently close your eyes, get as comfortable
25:10
Speaker 1: as you possibly can, whatever that means for you, and
25:13
Speaker 1: just take a moment to experience yourself inside of your body.
25:16
Speaker 1: So crack your neck if you need to kind of
25:20
Speaker 1: shift your shoulders. Just notice where you may be holding
25:23
Speaker 1: any tension, any stiffness, and just set an intention to
25:28
Speaker 1: soften and to really relax. And now let's focus on
25:32
Speaker 1: our breathing. Go ahead and take a few deep breaths
25:35
Speaker 1: in through your nose, hold it at the top, and
25:42
Speaker 1: then exhale through your nose. And let's do that another time.
25:48
Speaker 1: Inhale through your nose, big deep inhale, and now go
25:56
Speaker 1: ahead and exhale, and now you can return to just
26:00
Speaker 1: a beautiful natural breath, just gently letting the air come
26:05
Speaker 1: in and out, really nourishing your body, breathing in so
26:10
Speaker 1: much vital energy and love, and then exhaling any energy
26:15
Speaker 1: that store that doesn't serve you. And as we sit
26:19
Speaker 1: in this space, just focused on that breath, feeling really
26:22
Speaker 1: grateful for this moment. Let's plant the seed for a
26:26
Speaker 1: few thoughts for the day. You can go ahead and
26:30
Speaker 1: repeat these silently to yourself with your eyes closed. I
26:38
Speaker 1: am enough, I am enough, I am safe, I am safe,
27:03
Speaker 1: I am worthy, I am worthy, And just sitting in
27:17
Speaker 1: that awareness right now, basking in your own love, knowing
27:21
Speaker 1: that you are so deeply equipped for this moment, that
27:26
Speaker 1: all the tools you've ever needed or searched for already
27:30
Speaker 1: exists inside of you and are ready to meet you
27:34
Speaker 1: as soon as you are. And now let's take a
27:40
Speaker 1: moment and bring our hands in prayer position to heart center,
27:45
Speaker 1: just really feeling that connection inside of ourselves, feeling grateful
27:50
Speaker 1: for our lives, however they may look in this moment,
27:54
Speaker 1: feeling grateful for our bodies. And let's hold on to
28:02
Speaker 1: the beautiful thought of namas day. The light in me
28:07
Speaker 1: recognizes and honors the light in you, and we can
28:12
Speaker 1: bring our fingertips to our forehead center and just take
28:15
Speaker 1: a gentle bow of gratitude for one another. And whenever
28:22
Speaker 1: it feels comfortable, you can gently float your eyes open.
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