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S2 Ep7 - Wellness, Holistic Healing & the Port Douglas Wellness Festival with Mechel Pearson · The Booth Juice Creative Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: All the juice straight from the baker booth.
• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the booth juice.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another episode of The Booth Juice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I am joined by a very special guest who is bringing a whole lot of relaxation, connection, and wellness to our little tropical paradise.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is a very talented massage therapist specializing in the Hawaiian practice of lomi lomi massage.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she is also the lady behind Port Douglas' first wellness festival coming to you 30th of October, 2026.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: So please give a warm welcome to my beautiful friend, Michelle Pearson.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining me, Michelle.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: It is so wonderful to have you on.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: What most people probably don't know is that Michelle actually lives next door to my parents.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I have had the lovely pleasure of not only being your friend, but also having one of your amazing massages.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you for all of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to dive into a little bit more about you before we get into the Wellness Festival too much.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: So for those who don't know you, could you give us a bit about you and where you grew up, how you ended up in Port Douglas, all of that?
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_02: It's um I grew up in Cannes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um always visited this area, of course, and from about my early 20s decided this would be where I would come to.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: Took me a little longer at 50.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_02: I moved here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I had a blessed childhood.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um not only where it was because of nature and the paradise we have in North Queensland.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I grew up on a mother ship out on a reef in the middle of the ocean.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, I didn't know this.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the fish were my friends, and all the crew on the boat were my family.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: Amazing.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it was like I was on this little island of work hard, um, be together, enjoy life, have fun, and just I learn a lot.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_02: I learn a lot because my grandmother was a chef, so I wanted to help my grandmother in any way possible.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: So we would like um stand together, and she taught me how to cook, um, how to pay attention to detail, all those prawns and getting out all those veins.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_02: Um fantastic.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: And then I learned a lot of resourceful skills by you know, tourists would come through the day and tie up with us, um, and we'd do the whole tourist thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: So respecting of people, understanding they're on holidays, they're here to experience our little piece of paradise that we love.
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  SPEAKER_02: Safety, taking them diving, watching them in the water, jumping in many times to you know pull someone out.
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  SPEAKER_02: I might have been only 10.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wow, but I could pull in like a big human.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's amazing, and protect myself as I did it so they didn't take me down.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_02: So, yeah, I grew up Wow, what a unique childhood.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's yeah, beautiful.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like that would have been just set so many values for you growing up.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: It did.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So then to what age did you kind of live on the on the boats?
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_02: From on and off until I was 16, yeah, from about eight.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and at different times I wasn't there all the time.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I would do things like I was meant to be at school, and I would jump on my bike in the middle of Cairns, ride down to the waterfront, wait for the timing of the boat to be leaving, and then they couldn't turn it back because there's tourists on board, jump like a circus act onto the side of the bow of the boat, run down the corridor, go into the the cool room, sit in there, have a few mint slices, and then at 10 o'clock you'd hear the bell ring in the open they'd they'd be offering the first alcohol, and I would hand it out to my nan and she'd go, Oh, your mother's gonna kill me in here again.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, that is so good.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: I've heard lots of stories about sneaking out but not sneaking onto a boat.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, awesome.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: So then growing up, did you have any sort of indication that you would end up in the wellness industry?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know, like, well, let's just say reef oil and me played a big part in me becoming in the wellness industry.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_02: So anyone that was wanting reef oil on, I was the girl.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: I love the smell, I love just putting it on, and even like you know, like hairy men's backs, I'd be doing Picasso as I was putting it.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_02: More tactile and I there were signs.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: There were signs.
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  SPEAKER_00: My god, amazing.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: So you got to 16.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: So did you finish school?
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  SPEAKER_02: I did finish school.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, 16 um happened and the pilot strike hit Cannes.
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  SPEAKER_02: So my whole world turned upside down because all the boats were finished.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um my uncle, who my great uncle, who owned all the fleet of boats, um, Great Barrier Reef Cruise Centre, sold up five game fishing boats, motherships, quick cats.
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  SPEAKER_02: In fact, Wallace's then started Quicksilver out of his boats.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was the beginning of the of the Port Douglas area of Quicksilver.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So he he worked with Bernie as a skipper.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um he went over to Bali and just started doing you know tourism over in Bali.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_02: He was he was an amazing entrepreneur, and my family then went back to the their sort of base um industry, which was hotels and restaurants.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, okay.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: So you went back to land.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_02: So I went back to land, kicking and screaming.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I bet, I bet.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it was my last year at high school.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_02: I finished high school quite young, everyone else was 17, I was 16.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, so it was good to be back there because it was like a different version of my life where I actually did need to actually socially integrate.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Beyond tourists and fish.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, fair.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um met amazing people at school that are still in my life now.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's so beautiful.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: So then did you stay in Cairns after you left school?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_02: I've Cairns has always been home and I always knew the mountains would pull me back and the sea and the rainforest.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_02: But I've lived everywhere from London to Sydney to Melbourne.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've just gone and come back, gone and come back.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: Um but I've been back in Cairns where the longest stint was 15 years and then moved up here the last five.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the time of so you've left school, you've lived in all these different countries, you know, like w on average, how long are you staying in a country for?
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_02: Two years in England and then moving across everywhere because I have family in France.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I got to live over there and handy.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_02: Do you speak French?
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_02: I thought I did, but my aunties and cousins said don't try.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_02: Let's just do sign language or we will speak English.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: Perfect.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they didn't like my French.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: So when you were in these countries, were you, you know, to make a living?
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Were you did you go into massage at that age, sort of thing, or was it?
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_02: No, um, rewind back to 16 and I was in Cannes and my sea life legs had sort of finished, and I said to my mum, I really want to do massage.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_02: So she said, Well, there's no school, like we I don't know how to do this.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_02: And then word got around town, yeah, as it sort of does in the old days when it's a little town.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I was approached by this lady, Rita, who was a gypsy, and she said, I will teach you the massage.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_02: And my mum went to meet her and saw her massage set up and said, Yeah, okay.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_02: So I met Rita, and that was that was the shift for me.
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  SPEAKER_02: She wasn't about she taught me a lot.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_02: I've had a lot of good mentors over the years, really lucky.
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  SPEAKER_02: So she taught me it wasn't just about the physical touch, that's a part of it.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_02: But she taught me about the energy, she taught me about history, she taught me about human connection, she taught me about the feeling and the honouring and the humble part of being in the space with someone who is allowing you to take them on a healing journey, whatever depth and whatever level that might be for that person in that moment.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's so beautiful how it's yeah, everything is so connected.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because I mean it is, yeah.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_02: You can't just yeah.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_02: This beautiful Romanian gypsy just popped up.
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  unknown: Wow.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: So, how long did you spend with Rita, you know, learning a couple of years, yeah.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um, probably, you know, after school and weekends, but she didn't actually let me physically touch someone, probably for about I don't know, three months.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, it was all about just the feeling.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's like what is it?
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: The um yeah, wax on wax on, wax.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, amazing.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, and the the massage part of it, she said that's easy.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she said you can learn a routine or you can then um you know do different processes that will let you just go through the body, but it's all about the feeling and the honouring and and that connection.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_02: So once she knew I sort of understood that and could feel, like she would say, Okay, well, you know, what are you feeling now?
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_02: And I'd describe it to her, and it'd be like she'd say, Oh, that's the meridians, or I'd say, Oh, this is what I'm feeling now.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_02: She goes, Oh, that's the blood flow.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_02: So it was like deep inside the body, it was like this is Aladdin's cave.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, to me, it was just like, oh my gosh, this is the human body and the connections, and then our energy bodies that we're with every day, we just like just use it, yeah, and then all of a sudden I was like, Wow, so much goes on inside that you sort of understand, but you're too busy to actually spend time to feel definitely, yeah.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_02: And then in that time, wherever you are with whichever massage practitioner or healer, you actually allow yourself that time with yourself so you can get into a deep understanding and knowing of oh, why am I actually here?
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, am I being truthful to myself?
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_02: Am I honoring myself?
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_02: Where what's missing?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and question.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, not to, you know, there's this time in this period of epoch that we're all in at the moment where there's so much um not honouring self, but then bashing yourself up for not doing everything that you because you're not honoring yourself.
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  SPEAKER_02: So some of the most simplest things that can actually shift and transform how we are being with our body, we overlook.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Because sometimes we look for a big thing to change it, sometimes we look for something that has to be really complicated to change it.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but you know, just stopping and being aware is a really big thing in your life, but then with that awareness, what do you do with that?
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_02: So, okay, I'm aware, but now where do I take that?
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: And what beliefs are actually, you know, entwined into that, and it's all about self-reflection and honoring yourself to spend the time to do that, and that's where you know, when you have massages, or you know, it doesn't even have to cost you anything.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_02: Sit at the beach and look at the horizon, breathe in nature in your own front yard and just stop for a minute and go, Oh, I was really hard on myself this morning.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_02: Why is that?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: Why do I do that?
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: And rather than be on the cog of going around in the whys and the and you know how it's all manifested, it's now like, let's transform that.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, let's actually what it what how it how would I like to be in that situation?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: And so that way you are able to think, you're able to use your spirit, self, and your heart to honor yourself and go, how else could I do this?
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: And then you use your will with your determination and your um your desire for it to be different, to then go, I'm gonna, I'm gonna have a crack at doing it this way.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but then when you don't do it that way, you don't bash yourself up, you just go, I'm I'm starting on this path.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and you treat yourself like you want your grandmother or your mother to treat you.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that you're holding your hand and you've you're unlearning to relearn to then hold and move forward with the new way.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: That is so beautiful.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's simple, but it is you have to honour yourself to give yourself the time.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely, yeah, which is just a a huge step in it in itself, isn't it?
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like just getting to that point of going, okay, I just need to stop and acknowledge what's going on, yeah.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and breathe.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and you can put it away while you're at work, you can put it on the shelf, literally just go, I'm gonna revisit that because I need to be what I'm doing, being at work or with my family, or in whatever situation I'm in.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but then what we forget to do is take it off the shelf, yeah, and then the shelf gets pretty crowded before you know it.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: So much shelf fills at the moment.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: You need space invaders to come and go exactly, absolutely.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: So is like all of this, is this part of what Lomi Lomi is, or is that a separate kind of um any modality can hold what the intention of the practitioner is is doing.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_02: So, I mean, a part of my whole journey from 16 to 56 next month.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, happy birthday.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_02: Is you you are constantly evolving and learning.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, when I got to probably my 30s, um different studies that I tagged onto everything I knew, um, remedial massage, I thought, oh, I know everything now.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-oh, I can I can do this and this and this trigger point or release that, and then you have clients come and they go, No, it's still not actually happening.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_02: And you think, oh, okay, I've got to learn something else, another modality, another this, another that.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_02: But the psychology of healing and the spiritual counseling is where the the combination of whatever modality, whether it's lo me, lo me or massage or Reiki, whatever it might be, that that coming together and having a bond with who you're working with is where the shifts can happen.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_02: Because we're not just our physical bodies, our physical bodies and our um in anthrosophical studies, our astral body is our feeling body, and that is our pain body, and it wants to teach us something.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_02: So if we're not listening to learn, all the pains get worse.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so once we see the pain and the manifestation in our body um as a learning curve or something that we can get wisdom from, yeah, then the healing can really sink in and you can change and you can you can release and let go and be be freer in your physicality.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_02: So Loomi Loomi, I fell in love with because I had studied so many different modalities over a period of so many years.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_02: And my my teacher, Faye Rosie, I understudied as a shaman for seven years, learning the ways of nature and shamanism.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_02: And she passed away.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_02: And her daughter was a bit lost, and she rang me, and I hadn't really spent any time with her.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and in honoring Faye, I wanted to do something with her, and she said, There's this loamy loamy course I'd really like to do.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_02: Would you come?
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: And I thought, Oh, maybe, yeah, I will.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: I wanted to bond with her, which is why I got into it.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I went down and I met the teacher, um Dawn.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: She's just an incredible, compassionate, dedicated, loamy loamy lineage holder of 150 years, not changed.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_02: And I started to listen to all this and watch the routines, and I'm like, wow, this is actually powerful.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_02: Because in my mind, and again, you have to check yourself constantly because this works for you then, but maybe not now.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_02: So you, you know, I'm like, ah, monkey do, I'm not into routine.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_02: I like to feel and listen to the body and then decide where to go.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, okay, I'm gonna give this a crack because what I was watching was all the things I'd learnt in Reiki, uh, craniosacral, remedial massage, big tie stretches, um on and on, actually, um, acupuncture points, um, trigger point therapy was all in this routine.
• 17:41
  unknown: Wow.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, the cultural background and honoring the history of these Hawaiian people knowing and coming from the epoch of you know, of um indigenous and their connection to self and what they needed.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, this is shining through.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: So once you learn level one, then you go, oh, I've got to go learn level two, then you've got to go back and learn level three, and I'm up the precipice of level four because it's in Hawaii, but there's been government things going on that they can't go back to Hawaii, so they've just found a new spot to do it in um Tonga.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, level four will be on my radar, so it brings it all together and in you know in with the cultural epoch of it too.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: So that's why I fell in love with Lomi Loamy, and it takes a good 90 minutes, two hours, and it lets the person completely reset the nervous system, the musculature, the skeletal, you work on bones, you work on everything.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the emotional body, it's all encompassing.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because my question was going to be what what makes it different to you know remedial massage?
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, it's a much more deeper experience, isn't it?
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, it uses techniques the same as you learn in remedial massage, you know, the trigger points, the stretching, the you know, even some of the um craniosacral osteopathic-based MET muscle energy technique stuff, and the more you know at level four, which my my trainer Donna said I can use level four, which she's we it's over you know 10 years that I've been doing this.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she said you haven't done it, but you are doing it anyway.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Because as you go through the routine, the only time you can stop and change it.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I shouldn't say change it, the only time you can stop and pause it is when you can bring your own other modalities in that you intuitively know to do, then you go back into the routine.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_02: And that's where sometimes two hours is needed if you need to break away.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm so fascinated by all of it.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I just love that you've had so many years of so many, you know, so much knowledge and so much culture, and yeah, it's so connected.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I just I find it so fascinating.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to personally learn more about all this stuff because it's just yeah, it I mean obviously feeds into your daily life because yeah, everything is so connected.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_02: It does, and and that the messages in your daily life will be there, but like your loved ones passed over, the higher beings, they want to communicate with you.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: It's whether you're stopping to look in a cloud, in a picture.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: My message from when I was very young has always been a white feather.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: So the birds will drop.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: I can be in an elevator, and there'll be a white feather when I've said, Am I on the right path?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm questioning myself, which is a good thing to do.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_02: I think in society we start to think we have to know.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the whole thing is that we're in different cycles, and um, anthroposophical medicine, there's the Steiner's um models of all different ones, and mine is Thursday this week, where it's 18.9 months and so many days that all the planets are in the exact same alignment as when I was born.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_02: So every 18.9 something days will be Thursday this year.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_02: So you're coming like everything in life, you're coming, you're going, you're learning, you're coming into it, you're you're feeling great, and then you're coming into a new thing, and you think, shit, am I sinking here?
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: No, it's just changing, and it's you're reborn into now with all that.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: What will you let go of and what will you bring in?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so all yeah, I know all these things we have to stop thinking that we can't not to feel the bad stuff.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's embracing the bad stuff, it's embracing someone that you don't get along with and going, you really like what is going on here?
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_02: And then you go, What have I got to learn here?
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_02: You know, like I love my mum dearly, but we all my life have been at loggerheads with each other.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: She has brought me up.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: To be a strong, independent woman with my own thoughts.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_02: They're opposite to hers, though.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_02: So in our family, we have very heated, loud debates.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_02: And then it's finished, and we all sit down for dinner and agree to disagree.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_02: Because the thing about what I see in this time that we're in, there's a lot of things that want to divide us.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_02: And a part of the wellness festival for me is not having the division.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's going, oh, wellness is just for yoga and green juices and Reiki and crystals.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_02: It's not.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_02: Wellness is what fills your bucket.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_02: It wellness is if I look at the horizon and see a sunrise, or if I see a rainbow in the mountains after the rain has come, that is wellness.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's anything that comes into you that raises your vibration, and when you need it, you can dig into it's there to support you.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_02: It nourishes you.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's so refreshing because we are so bombarded with social media and trends and you know, everything is around, you know, active wear and matcha and whatever's trending at the moment.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: So it's so beautiful to hear a more realistic definition of wellness and what that should be encompassing, not just like what's aesthetic or what's trending or what's you know, whatever.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_02: And and that's just it, you know, those things have their place because we live in a marketing world.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but we have to see where is our place within that.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I like that fabric, I like that brand, I like what they stand for.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna have it, not I I have to have it or I won't fit in.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's all about the choice and where you're coming from and just checking yourself.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and if you are coming from that, you go, oh, well, why am I like that?
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_02: Why am I thinking like that?
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: And then start digging and filling up your bucket that you don't feel like you know you you need to do that, but you know, get help, ask, ask for guidance, yeah, and you know, rem remember that you're here for a purpose, for a reason, for your gifts, and to share them, and and to actually feel confident that that that's okay to do that.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_02: And whether someone wants to pull you down or whether someone wants to lift you up, yeah, just there's gonna be those people.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_02: What are you gonna do with it?
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, exactly.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_02: What are you gonna do with it?
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_02: Come back into yourself.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: There's some beautiful one of the uh wellness festival things, and Andrea Monkhouse and Michelle Losa are very much into anthroposophical, so they'll have that at a stall, and Andrea will have a talk on anthroposophy.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_02: But um, there's a movement in anthroposophyll, anthrosophical medicine, and it's called Eurythmi.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_02: And everyone knows Eurythmy through Annie Lennox, right?
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_02: Euryth me.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_02: Beautiful, beautiful movement and song and vows and things that strengthen us.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: And there's um a movement called the I Am, and you literally practice it so easy.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_02: Heavens and earth, I am in the middle of the earth and the heavens, and you come back into yourself and center yourself, and I do that every day.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_02: And in doing that, then if I feel a bit woo in the day, yeah, no one needs to know.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_02: I just well people will not know when I do this, I'm bringing back in that connection, the reality of here, who I am, and you know what?
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_02: It affects your blood, right?
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_02: It affects the blood in you because your blood in you is your I am.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: And as soon as you do that, it's like a reset.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: So when you feel anxious, there's kinesiology points you can do.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you're in a meeting, you do this, yeah, and they think you're thinking, but you like resetting because you don't want to say something you're want that that you shouldn't say.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_02: There's different little things that you can learn, and the wellness festival, there's a whole heap of people in this region, yeah, um, that are very that they're very gifted and they've got things to share.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and the the idea is come along, just just check it out.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, if you poo-poo it, why do you poo-poo it?
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but what is set up around wellness that you don't want to buy into?
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_02: Or you you know, you go, yeah, I'd like to try that, but I I don't want to walk into a class and be alone to to look like I can't do something.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it can be a confidence thing.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_02: So you're gonna be 20 minutes, festivity, no one's looking, and try qigong.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_02: Try you know, dancing and salsa and move.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: So the Port Douglas Wellness Festival is October 30th and 31st, which is next weekend, is it?
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: The weekend after.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: Weekend after next, yes.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: Still got a week or so.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so can you just explain for those who have just heard about it now, what are they going to expect?
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: What's happening is it, you know, daytime, night time?
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: Where what are we expecting?
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so the concept is just bring everyone together and have a good time on the Friday night.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_02: It's all about a twilight market with wellness sort of you know, things for sale and products, um, some healthy eating food vendors in a nice vibe, and you know, adding to that vibe of some beautiful local musicians, um, Sea Circus doing some poison, stilt walking, just to bring that festivity vibe.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_02: Because, you know, let's face it, like we it's a if it's not a feast for the eyes and it's not entertaining, we just sort of go, you know, right?
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_02: So we put a lot of effort into wanting to create something that is a festival, um, honouring wellness, honouring bringing people together and going, you know what, just come along and see what it's about and try something.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_02: So then up at Sugar Wharf, um, you will then be presented with an evening full of different practitioners, little tasters.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_02: We've called them taste, taster modalities.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_02: So a little bit of uh, we didn't know what other word to use really, but they're they're like, you know, come and try Zumba, come and try salsa, come and try vinyasa yoga, come and then try qigung.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: Um so you know, there's some things that will be familiar and unfamiliar, and then there's then we go into the like, you know, just calm, see what meditation is like.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_02: Some people are scared of meditation, but we've got Nolene doing this beautiful um meditation, nidra, then Leslie doing this guided meditation to center yourself, and then that sends us into the end of the evening where Renee Cashman, sound angel, is just gonna just have all her music, all her beautiful singing bowls, crystal bowls, and the gong, so we can just be feeling the vibration of music, which is very, very powerful in itself.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and then Margit will finish the night with a gratitude circle that we're just really just be you know mindful of just what we have, just being alive.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: So that's on the Friday the 30th at the Sugar Walk.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: So and so what time does that kick off?
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_02: So we start at four o'clock in the afternoon, yeah, and then we've got until nine o'clock that night.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful, yeah.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: So that last gratitude circle will be around nine o'clock.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_02: Around nine, yeah.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: So that whole event is free entry, is that right?
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so anyone can attend.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_02: Come along, bring your nan, bring your children, bring your partner, bring your best friends, bring just yourself.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, awesome.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's free, you know.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_02: Just come and experience and see what this region's health practitioners have to offer.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_02: There's also obviously, you know, on that night, it's just a little.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, if I'm interested, I'd really like to try something else.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um, because we can't showcase everyone.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_02: We haven't got enough time.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_02: So then the next day on the Saturday, 9 till 4, is at the Port Douglas Community Hall.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, awesome.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_02: And then you will actually get to sort of, you know, not just taste but get your teeth into it.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_02: Do a whole class.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_02: Have a look at the program.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_02: We've got them online on our Facebook.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I'll put that in the show notes too.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: So for anyone listening, yeah, just head to the show notes.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, otherwise there's flyers around front and back that give you the you know, physical, this is what's happening Friday, Saturday.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, yeah, so the Saturday you'll actually be able to engage in whole classes, and that that covers everything.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we've got talks on um anything from the secret um the secret society of sweaty women, all about menopause and you know, um real.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_02: To um a Graham's doing a talk on setting down the stone, a military navy guy who has found spirituality and what that looked like for him and a bit about men's mental health.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so some serious things, um, but also then, yeah, breath work and um yoga and medical qigong, which then works on the meridians and the energy in the body directed to the organs rather than just qigong and tai chi.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, yoga.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_02: We've got a whole movement meadow.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_02: So let me let me say Saturday looks like this.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_02: You enter, you come in, you've got Nourish Lane where the food will be.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_02: You've got market lane where some people selling some goods and art therapy, anthroposophical, um, women's weaving, um, sitting down and just talking and weaving will be.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_02: Over here is the healing hub, so there'll be um more centered on some meditation, some massage, some actual you know, that engagement over on that side.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_02: Then we move to the veranda where there's some people that are actually going to be doing one-on-one practitioner things.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_02: There's a lady um who does mineral testing.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_02: So if you're unwell or you just can't quite get what's going on, you go and you get mineral tested from her, and she will say, Okay, she sends it to Switzerland, like that, because magic happens in our world like that, and comes back and gives you a report to say, Look, you know, you know, so that's the real deal.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, that so some of the you it's free entry, some of those practitioners are obviously charging for their services, and then all the classes inside now going on to um two stages, ocean stage and rainforest stage, different modalities with yoga, breath work, um, qigong, um QA area where people on a panel are going to just be asked some questions about how they do life, what's their resilience, how what where where do they go when they're feeling stressed, those type of things.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um, we are still looking for an elder.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_02: We've got from nine years old, and we want an elder across to actually have a nice perspective on the questions from different wisdoms and age groups.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_02: So if anyone out there wants to contact me.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, Saturday looks like that.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_02: Then come out of the hall and you're on movement meadow.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_02: Movement Meadow on the back deck, we're gonna have nine tool twelve, um Brock and Katie.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_02: They are just got kids' activities going galore.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um, they've they've manifested so many prizes that the kids can win at the end for different challenges to incorporate fitness into their life and fun.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_02: And um Petra with um kids' yoga and Montessori Craft, um Mayra with chair Pilates, Salsa on the back deck.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_02: There's so much.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: But there is something for everyone.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's an archery club coming to show, you know, what they do at the archery club.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_02: There's community clubs coming along, U3A, um, the Pink Care Um Neighborhood Centre.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: They've got a whole heap of stuff organized for kids with science experiments and bubbles and show bags and wow.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_02: The community has really rallied.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, my eyes are lining up and all the kids' stuff.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh my god, have fun.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm 25.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_02: The art therapy tent um is going to be there, and you literally just go in and spend some time with yourself.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_02: The idea is write yourself a love letter for the days that you need to hear from yourself.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_02: Write a commitment to yourself after experiencing the day.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_02: You know what?
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna start a daily practice, or I'm gonna find where Tai Chi is Tai Chi is um being given, or I'm gonna book a massage and make it a regular part of my work, my thing.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_02: Tracy is is a photographer, and she's gonna take people on walks around the park with their cameras just to go, okay, you know, rule of thirds and take this and this is a better lighting, so that you know there's interests um that fill your bucket, not just so when people think wellness festival, please know that there are so many more things than just what your brain goes to, you know, it's not just yoga and it's not just meditation, it's all of these wonderful things that you've just mentioned.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure that there's something for every single one of you listening if you want to come along.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, I think it's important to support these sort of things.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, A, you've probably put a mountain of effort in.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's probably a bit um ironic.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: You're probably planning a wellness festival, you're probably not overly uh relaxed, but we appreciate it.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um do you hope that this ends up being like a yearly sort of thing?
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_02: I've got a long-term focus for this that this will actually be a tourism pool as well for the locals, losing our industry with sugar.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, there's places around the world that you think of when you think of health and wanting to get better, not just wellness in day-to-day life.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, that people go to for those reasons.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_02: And this this region not only has good practitioners, but then will draw more for different events.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_02: But it in itself, yeah, the the nurturing of this land actually heals and being able to use this place.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_02: So long term, yeah.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_02: I think um I I believe in five years this will be an international event, pulling people from all over the world with their interests, being able to run workshops in what their passion is, um, and it will be like over a month.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like fills my heart, like my belly butterflies.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yes, that's so cool.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_02: Especially kids, you know.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_02: I've I really I've worked in childcare for 20 years, um, and I learned a lot from children that no child is the same.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, I studied teaching, and it's like I got in there and went and they taught me intuition, they taught me to actually look at the child, what do they need?
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_02: And I think that needs to go through our life as well, like right through.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_02: And the wisdom of the elders, when you talk to the elders, they say, just be yourself, enjoy life.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, because they've got to the point where they go, Oh god, I spent too much time just just in a battlefield, yeah, rather than this is you know, this can be in the words of Belinda Carlisle, heaven on earth if you want it to be.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, yeah.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_02: But you have to then look at your demons, look at your shadows, work with them, yeah, accept them, yeah, transform them, and find something that does that.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that um in a world of AI and social media, it's becoming increasingly difficult for these kids growing up.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's so much more pressure.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: They've it's almost like an extension of their life is on a digital platform, yeah.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and to combat that with wellness festivals and you know, these are all the options that you can, you know, you can access to make yourself feel better and other people feel better and more human and you know, bring people back, you know, to that connection of yeah, yeah.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_02: And for kids out there listening, it doesn't have to be complicated.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because they're sold on this idea of you know the marketing of a particular thing or or what they need to do to feel something.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it starts with them and just engaging with another human being and being not too scared to do it because yeah, it it you you you don't necessarily get what you want back, but when you look at this, you have choice.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so being vulnerable to just remember your humanity, and in their case, unfortunately, some of them don't have life skills to rely back on with that, so you know they're sort of they're I think they're holding themselves in a space um to protect themselves, but it looks like they're disengaged.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_02: But I think all they want to do is engage, yeah, but they don't know how.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, or this might be their first step.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: So if you've got a kid in your life that you think you know might benefit, please come along.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_00: I've noticed on all of your signage that you've got a like a pretty cool tagline.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: Can you tell me more about that?
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so it's come discover and see what speaks to you.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_02: So we often will bring our judgments, we'll often bring our fears, we'll often bring our preconceived thoughts to things, and they're the things that uh we can again move through or we can sit with.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_02: So just I just put out to the community, you know, challenge yourself, come along, have a look.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_02: If it's not for you, I want the feedback.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, because in my head, this is the first one.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_02: We've done an incredible job at the first one.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_02: We've had a great working team of eight dedicated, passionate um practitioners in the local area.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but there will be things we've missed, and there's things that we can't include in this schedule because it's just not big enough.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's funded.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_02: We're really lucky that it is funded by um Douglasshire Council has been great support.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, there's been people in there move mountains for different things that I've needed done.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and I've been guided by the event management there with how the legalities and how things have to be done.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um and the working team themselves have had grassroots connections to Port Douglas that I have not got, um, only being here for five years.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_02: So that's been amazing.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_02: And the funding through the federal government has allowed this to be a free event for this community to come along.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and you know, there could be something in there that just one tiny conversation, even with someone you meet up with, it might not even be seemingly that big, or you know, you might not actually even join into a class, but just you know, it might just change the whole trajectory.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, just yeah.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_02: So I just say come along, yeah, bring everyone, and um, there will be amazing prizes actually.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, fantastic.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_02: We've got a lineup of incredible prizes that will be door prizes to keep you all there.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we'll we'll um be drawing those at one o'clock and four o'clock.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_02: The kids' prizes from nine till twelve for that, our activities will be drawn at twelve.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um and then um so are they just like raffle based?
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like can you buy a ticket into that?
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_02: Or is that to do with no?
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_02: Just you arrive, make sure you go so there'll be an information tent.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, go up there, grab your lucky door ticket, put it in the whatever container it will be.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_02: Have we got there yet?
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_02: Put it into there, one o'clock will draw, and four o'clock we'll do some doors.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_00: You don't even have to spend any money to be involved in the wow.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: No, we just want people just to really just just yeah, just come along.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah absolutely.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm personally super excited.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like already considering hmm, what hours do I have to work?
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_00: Could I maybe close the shop early?
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll be there at some point.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, just so so excited for you.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's just I am in awe of all of the hard work and the creativity of planning something like this and how to make it interesting.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_00: And on behalf of everyone, we appreciate your hard work and your team's hard work.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you for bringing something new to the community as well.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: We yeah, we really appreciate it.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, it should be good.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining me again, Michelle.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I feel like I've just been so engrossed in all of your wisdom and amazing knowledge.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: So, thank you again for joining me.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but what I love to do at the end of every episode is two things.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: I would love for you to leave us with a piece of advice.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that might be something that someone's told you, something you live by, just a piece of advice that you'd like to leave us with.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: And number two, what has brought you the most joy this week?
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_02: So a lot comes into my mind, but the one thing that just really resonates is words from my grandmother, which is there is goodness in everyone, and remember to not overlook it, including yourself.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so you know, be kind to people.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, no one knows, and we've heard this tagline, so sometimes it feels a little empty, but it is so true.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_02: No one knows anyone else's story.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_02: You didn't know my story until there's time, there's this time made, yeah, and then you go to another level with someone.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_02: So there's goodness in everyone, there's goodness in yourself, and acknowledge that and really just hold that, yeah, hold that in your daily practice.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um, keep things simple and joy.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, on the way here, there was an incredible rainbow.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I saw one too! Yeah, I don't try to no, I was thinking about taking a photo, and then I thought, no, I can't take a photo while I'm driving.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um I did the same thing, oh my god, so responsible of us.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, sometimes it's more powerful just stopping and just going, Yes, there's the sign.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_02: And and travelling through um Peru and that area, I did a lot of um massage things with bamboo and all sorts of things, and the in um Cusco, there's flags, rainbow flags everywhere, and the rainbow is the most revered beyond gold.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_02: They do like their gold.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, most revered thing because gold was how they traded and how they lived, but the rainbow is their connection to the other worlds.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I love that.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and that was on the way here.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's so beautiful.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_00: What a like it's it's gonna be a good day, I think.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: I can just feel it already.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's so beautiful.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much, honestly.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: I I would love to have you on again because I feel like you have a mountain of stories that we've probably missed, but unfortunately we have to do have to go and you know start our days in.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, absolutely.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but thank you again, and thank you guys for listening.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you would like to come to the Wellness Festival, I'm going to leave the links below.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but please go and check out.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_00: Is it Facebook page that you guys can?
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it's just called Port Douglas Wellness Festival.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_00: Perfect, amazing.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and if you have any questions, send us a DM and I will pass you on to Michelle or I'll you know get some answers for you.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yes, it's the 30th and the 31st of October 2026 in Port Douglas.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yay, we hope to see you all there.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_00: First generation.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: Fantastic.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be able to listen to this in five years and go, oh, maybe you know, international.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_00: Fantastic.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, guys, have a beautiful day.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_00: We will be in your ears very soon.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's all the juice from the booth today.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening.
• 46:27
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• 46:38
  SPEAKER_00: We'll catch you back in the booth next week.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_00: Season two is proudly supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund.