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Why I Need to Reinvent My Life Because My World Keeps Forcing Me To — The Self-Awareness and Spiritual Growth That Helped Me Find New Meaning While Reinventing My Life · We!

0:01
SPEAKER_00: If you felt lonely, isolated, disconnected, with an empty feeling inside and just yearning for more, knowing something is missing, then this podcast is for you.
0:16
SPEAKER_00: So here's your host, Joe Mitigal.
0:26
SPEAKER_01: Hello and welcome to We.
0:30
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever looked at your life and quietly wondered, why do I have to reinvent myself again?
0:40
SPEAKER_01: Not because you wanted to, not because you were chasing the next opportunity, but because life seems to leave you no choice.
0:49
SPEAKER_01: Maybe a relationship ended, a career no longer fulfilled you.
0:53
SPEAKER_01: Your children grew up, your health changed, the world changed.
0:59
SPEAKER_01: Or perhaps the person you spent years becoming simply no longer fits the life you're currently living.
1:08
SPEAKER_01: If that's where you find yourself, I want you to know something.
1:13
SPEAKER_01: You are not alone.
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SPEAKER_01: Across the world, millions of people are quietly reinventing their lives.
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SPEAKER_01: Some are changing careers, some are rebuilding after loss, others are walking away from identities that once defined them.
1:32
SPEAKER_01: And many are asking the same question: who am I now?
1:37
SPEAKER_01: For a long time, I thought reinvention meant failure.
1:43
SPEAKER_01: I believed if I had to start over, it meant I had somehow taken a wrong turn.
1:51
SPEAKER_01: But over the years, I discovered that it changed everything.
1:58
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes the world doesn't force us to reinvent our lives because we failed.
2:04
SPEAKER_01: It forces us to reinvent our lives because we've outgrown the person we needed to be for that last season of our journey.
2:14
SPEAKER_01: Today's episode isn't about surviving change.
2:19
SPEAKER_01: It's about discovering the deeper invitation hidden inside of you.
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SPEAKER_01: We will explore why so many people today feel like they're starting over, why this experience can feel so lonely and confusing, and how self-awareness and personal growth transformed what felt like an ending into the beginning of a life filled with greater meaning, purpose, and passion that I personally could have never imagined.
2:52
SPEAKER_01: Because perhaps the life you're grieving is simply making room for the life you've always been called to live.
3:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm Joe Mittigan, and this is we because healing does not happen alone, it happens when we remember the we.
3:14
SPEAKER_01: As I wrote that intro a couple days ago, it brought up a lot of old memories of how just confusing my life used to be.
3:26
SPEAKER_01: I remember thinking over and over and over, no matter what I did, it never seemed good enough.
3:33
SPEAKER_01: It never did.
3:34
SPEAKER_01: I could be successful in a job and something always missed.
3:37
SPEAKER_01: I could be spiritually growing and I felt like something was always missing.
3:41
SPEAKER_01: I could be grieving my yesterday and thinking that everything was great, only to find out that everything I lived had to change again and then again and then again.
3:54
SPEAKER_01: At the end of my marriage, I will never forget.
3:58
SPEAKER_01: Basically, I was married to a wonderful woman.
4:01
SPEAKER_01: We had two great kids.
4:03
SPEAKER_01: You hear me talk about them all the time, but our paths separated.
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SPEAKER_01: We outgrew our togetherness, quite honestly.
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SPEAKER_01: And I remember the day I walked out and I left, I put everything in the front seat of my car.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what I left with, because all I wanted was a relationship with my boys, which I got.
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SPEAKER_01: And I had to start over again.
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SPEAKER_01: And that wasn't the first time.
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SPEAKER_01: I had done it several times in the past for all different reasons.
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SPEAKER_01: So wherever you are on your path today, if the whole concept of reinventing yourself sounds familiar, we're going to talk about why and what's truly going on.
4:42
SPEAKER_01: We are.
4:43
SPEAKER_01: And like I always say, you know, I tend to break the episode up into multiple parts: the mental perspective, the emotional perspective, and the spiritual perspective.
4:53
SPEAKER_01: But in this particular topic, the reinventing of yourself, quite honestly, emotionally and spiritually, it's all kind of the same thing.
5:03
SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to explain it from different positions, but it's going to all kind of feel like one thing.
5:10
SPEAKER_01: So welcome to We.
5:12
SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited to be here.
5:14
SPEAKER_01: A lot of you that have been on the podcast before know that this week we started our first Tuesday episode.
5:22
SPEAKER_01: I'm actually recording this episode, which will be released on the 9th of July, Tuesday night.
5:30
SPEAKER_01: And we had our first episode released today.
5:33
SPEAKER_01: I'm calling it the Voices of We.
5:36
SPEAKER_01: And I'm going to explain more on what the Voices of We really is and why I'm doing it and why it's such a passion for me.
5:44
SPEAKER_01: Here in just a little bit, I'll explain what that really means.
5:48
SPEAKER_01: But before I go on, I've told everybody that knows me here that I will be as open and as intimate as I possibly can.
5:57
SPEAKER_01: I will be as honest as I possibly can.
6:00
SPEAKER_01: And you're going to hear me cry, you're going to hear me yell, you're going to hear me bitch, and you're going to hear me complain, and you're going to hear me passionate, and you're going to hear me crossing boundaries.
6:10
SPEAKER_01: And if I cross a boundary, I will be the first one to make amends.
6:15
SPEAKER_01: Well, I got a text this week from a dear friend, somebody I've literally known 35 years.
6:22
SPEAKER_01: And she texted me about, she says, you know, Joe, you might want to look at this snapshot 34 minutes and 12 seconds into your last episode, you might want to look at that and maybe rephrase it a little bit.
6:39
SPEAKER_01: And I thought to myself, what is she talking about?
6:42
SPEAKER_01: You know, the basic arrogance, the ego, like I'm never wrong.
6:46
SPEAKER_01: You know, of course.
6:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
6:48
SPEAKER_01: And let me preface this particular female, when you get my book, because everyone's going to download the book for free, joemittiga.com, when you're reading that book, she's summer in the book.
7:01
SPEAKER_01: Of course, I would never share her real name here.
7:04
SPEAKER_01: She's been a dear friend for 35 years.
7:07
SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, I trust her.
7:11
SPEAKER_01: I trust her view.
7:12
SPEAKER_01: I trust her perspective.
7:14
SPEAKER_01: So I looked and I listened.
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SPEAKER_01: And I could totally see what she was saying.
7:19
SPEAKER_01: I could.
7:20
SPEAKER_01: Here I am talking about the we podcast.
7:23
SPEAKER_01: We're all together.
7:25
SPEAKER_01: Go back to the last episode where, you know, the not the Tuesday, but last Thursday's episode.
7:32
SPEAKER_01: And around minute 34, I'm talking about, I don't care if a thousand influencers are saying X, Y, Z, I'm saying something different.
7:43
SPEAKER_01: And I understood exactly what she meant.
7:46
SPEAKER_01: Here I am creating a me versus them.
7:49
SPEAKER_01: And folks, I want to genuinely apologize.
7:51
SPEAKER_01: That is not my intent.
7:53
SPEAKER_01: That was not my intent then.
7:55
SPEAKER_01: I apologize if I offended anybody from that position.
7:59
SPEAKER_01: I am not making anybody wrong, although I totally see how and why people could associate me like shaming or blaming or making people wrong.
8:13
SPEAKER_01: And I genuinely apologize.
8:15
SPEAKER_01: I really do.
8:16
SPEAKER_01: Let me be clear.
8:18
SPEAKER_01: The positive affirmation concept, the meditation concept, is it a favorable thing?
8:25
SPEAKER_01: Of course it is.
8:26
SPEAKER_01: Does it help?
8:28
SPEAKER_01: Of course it does.
8:29
SPEAKER_01: Does it have a genuine place of loving, supportive, nurturing of self?
8:37
SPEAKER_01: Yes, it does.
8:38
SPEAKER_01: It can calm you, it can give you peace in the moment, it can help you catch your breath.
8:45
SPEAKER_01: My point is it can not and does not heal anything.
8:53
SPEAKER_01: It's the healing position that I am so passionate about.
8:58
SPEAKER_01: Healing.
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SPEAKER_01: My question and my what I want people to question, because it's the next space of personal growth, the next level of actual awareness, is instead of always trying to calm the voices in your head, I want you to start asking the question: why do I have the voices?
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SPEAKER_01: Why do I have the voices?
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SPEAKER_01: When you shift from calming the voices or changing the voices or making the voices wrong or making the voices less than, or just acting like the voices don't belong, when you shift from those positions of personal awareness to starting to ask the question of why do I have the voices?
9:51
SPEAKER_01: Then you've really moved into a very different place of discovery, a new extension, a deeper solution to the ultimate question of healing, of peace.
10:05
SPEAKER_01: The We podcast is the number one rated how-to podcast on all of Apple.
10:11
SPEAKER_01: We literally hit the top five in Norway.
10:14
SPEAKER_01: We're in the top 10 in Canada.
10:17
SPEAKER_01: We literally now are in 14 or 15 countries around the globe expressing the same thing.
10:23
SPEAKER_01: And I share that over and over and over because it doesn't matter who you are, where you are, the color of your skin, the religion you support, none of that matters.
10:33
SPEAKER_01: We are all waking up, all of us.
10:36
SPEAKER_01: Humanity as a concept is waking up.
10:38
SPEAKER_01: And around the globe, people are hearing the same message and people are drawn to the same message.
10:44
SPEAKER_01: And my message is not the suppression or the denial or the removal.
10:49
SPEAKER_01: I'm here to help people find the steps to finally heal.
10:54
SPEAKER_01: An emotional growth podcast.
10:57
SPEAKER_01: The We podcast is an emotional growth human transformation podcast.
11:03
SPEAKER_01: That's what we are.
11:05
SPEAKER_01: And the Tuesday episodes are going to be more from a personal position.
11:10
SPEAKER_01: We're going to be telling stories, and that's the episode that, as we develop, we're going to have the other voices of We participate.
11:18
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to explain that more.
11:19
SPEAKER_01: We're going to have interviews on that.
11:21
SPEAKER_01: And then this podcast here, it's more from a global position.
11:25
SPEAKER_01: And you know what?
11:26
SPEAKER_01: We are in a place where the world is changing every minute, every second, literally.
11:32
SPEAKER_01: And that's what we're going to talk about here today as I get into the episode.
11:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited to tell you that Mark TV, Mr.
11:42
SPEAKER_01: Mark, has asked me to bring the We podcast to We TV.
11:48
SPEAKER_01: And I'm super excited about it.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: I've known Mark for a while.
11:52
SPEAKER_01: So if you've got cable television, find us on Mark TV.
11:57
SPEAKER_01: I can't call it the We podcast on cable television, so I'm calling it We TV.
12:01
SPEAKER_01: Same message, different flair.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: You'll get to actually see my smiling face.
12:06
SPEAKER_01: Those episodes are 25 minutes long.
12:09
SPEAKER_01: It's really a powerful thing.
12:12
SPEAKER_01: You know, cable television around the globe reaches half a billion people.
12:17
SPEAKER_01: And Mark is doing an amazing job with Mark TV.
12:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm just honored that he asked me.
12:23
SPEAKER_01: He's been asking me for a while.
12:25
SPEAKER_01: You know, my plate's been pretty full, but starting right now.
12:29
SPEAKER_01: So find us on Mark TV.
12:31
SPEAKER_01: It's a pretty cool thing.
12:32
SPEAKER_01: And he's got some great programming on there.
12:35
SPEAKER_01: And I'm just really, really, really excited to be a part of that.
12:39
SPEAKER_01: I'm honored that he asked.
12:40
SPEAKER_01: And for me, the whole healing, you know, to truly heal, to truly get to the place, because remembering the way my story was, I was never searching for a God.
12:54
SPEAKER_01: No, it wasn't what I was trying to do.
12:57
SPEAKER_01: I just wanted to stop hurting.
12:59
SPEAKER_01: And you know, years ago, when I was drinking and drugging all the time, and I had to change, and I walked into a sober life, and I had some memories of really deep pain, and I was just hurting all the time, and I was alone all the time, and I was isolated all the time.
13:14
SPEAKER_01: And because that's where the world was.
13:16
SPEAKER_01: I mean, we're talking in the 90s, we're talking 30 plus years ago.
13:20
SPEAKER_01: And my friend Summer, she's the one that we were good friends.
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SPEAKER_01: She was my closest friend, probably ever at that point in time.
13:29
SPEAKER_01: But because of sobriety, I had to say goodbye.
13:33
SPEAKER_01: And how spiritual paths, you know, the relationships either grow or go.
13:39
SPEAKER_01: And the grow or go is a lot of why the reinvention is so mandatory in so many people's lives.
13:48
SPEAKER_01: I can tell you for a fact that my past wife and I, a beautiful woman, we just grew differently.
13:55
SPEAKER_01: We grew spiritually different, right or wrong?
13:58
SPEAKER_01: No, different.
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SPEAKER_01: That's it.
14:01
SPEAKER_01: And a big component of the reinvention need is because people are growing differently.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: I've made mention numerous times of a random website I came across called Divorce Post.
14:14
SPEAKER_01: And again, I haven't talked to this woman, so I'm not going to share a whole lot about it yet.
14:19
SPEAKER_01: But literally, as I read it, I was like, that's it.
14:23
SPEAKER_01: I mean, reinvention.
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SPEAKER_01: Divorce is a massive thing happening all over the globe.
14:29
SPEAKER_01: Why?
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SPEAKER_01: Because people are outgrowing each other, not outgrowing, growing differently.
14:35
SPEAKER_01: I have an entire book that'll be coming out on that someday called Unequally Yoked.
14:39
SPEAKER_01: Well, from that position of reinvention and shift and change, sometimes relationships go.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: They go their separate ways.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, my friend Summer and I, for 35 years.
14:53
SPEAKER_01: Now, we're not seeing each other all the time.
14:56
SPEAKER_01: She's married, she's been married happily for 20 some odd years.
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SPEAKER_01: Her daughter just graduated high school.
15:02
SPEAKER_01: Celebration to her.
15:04
SPEAKER_01: And five months after I got sober, she got sober.
15:07
SPEAKER_01: And I share that story because if you're drinking right now and you think you can stop, go get help.
15:14
SPEAKER_01: You need help.
15:15
SPEAKER_01: I got sober young in my early 30s.
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SPEAKER_01: This particular spiritual being, she was 20.
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SPEAKER_01: So someday I'm gonna have her on the show.
15:27
SPEAKER_01: And if she's willing to share her story and remove her anonymity, that'll be up to her.
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SPEAKER_01: 20.
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SPEAKER_01: At 20 years old, she walked into a meeting for reasons that she can tell the story, but about four or five months in there, she said, I'm here for me.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: And her path is a powerful one.
15:47
SPEAKER_01: She has a story of hope that if she can do it, anybody can do it.
15:51
SPEAKER_01: Not because of she was that whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: She was young, 20.
15:56
SPEAKER_01: And that's a rarity, a true rarity.
15:59
SPEAKER_01: And the other thing that I just love about this woman, her relationship with Jesus is about as solid as it comes.
16:06
SPEAKER_01: I ask her straight up, are you following what you're taught?
16:11
SPEAKER_01: And she'll look at you with a clear eye and say, absolutely.
16:14
SPEAKER_01: And that's what I want everybody to hear.
16:16
SPEAKER_01: I know a lot of times I come across as if I'm quote unquote against religion.
16:23
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely zero.
16:24
SPEAKER_01: I am not.
16:25
SPEAKER_01: I am not.
16:26
SPEAKER_01: I am in favor of anything that's working for you.
16:30
SPEAKER_01: I am.
16:30
SPEAKER_01: I will ask you.
16:32
SPEAKER_01: Are you following what your religion is teaching?
16:34
SPEAKER_01: If I asked Summer, are you following what your religion is teaching?
16:38
SPEAKER_01: With a big ass smile and clear eyes, she would say, Absolutely.
16:42
SPEAKER_01: And now, does the religion and her relationship with Jesus, does it work for Joe?
16:48
SPEAKER_01: No, it doesn't.
16:49
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't.
16:50
SPEAKER_01: Works for her.
16:52
SPEAKER_01: I've shared the story a hundred times.
16:54
SPEAKER_01: My closest friend, who is my cousin, he's been a devote, active Catholic since we were kids.
17:02
SPEAKER_01: We were altar boys together.
17:04
SPEAKER_01: It worked for him, still does.
17:07
SPEAKER_01: Does it work for me?
17:08
SPEAKER_01: No.
17:09
SPEAKER_01: Does it make me right and them wrong?
17:12
SPEAKER_01: Of course not.
17:12
SPEAKER_01: If anything, there is no right or wrong.
17:15
SPEAKER_01: The spiritual path you're on is yours.
17:19
SPEAKER_01: And I'm here to validate the 67% of people that are considering themselves more spiritual than religious.
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SPEAKER_01: Right or wrong?
17:31
SPEAKER_01: No.
17:32
SPEAKER_01: But why is that happening?
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SPEAKER_01: It's happening for the bigger reason, a grander reason.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: And what's the bigger reason?
17:39
SPEAKER_01: Humanity is waking up.
17:42
SPEAKER_01: Humanity is waking up to her feminine side of self.
17:46
SPEAKER_01: The world is changing.
17:48
SPEAKER_01: It is every day.
17:51
SPEAKER_01: Now, the physical world is changing every day.
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SPEAKER_01: Technology, finance, health, social media, you name it.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: The approval of social media.
18:13
SPEAKER_01: Well, why?
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SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, human connect and personal connect, you can't get it through TikTok thumbs up or whatever heck all that's called.
18:24
SPEAKER_01: And you know, I kind of poke fun at myself a lot, but I say it because I want people to understand.
18:30
SPEAKER_01: A man with a microphone, me right here, I'm telling you, when I started the Wii Podcast, I knew literally zero about podcasts.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: My kids used to make fun of me unmercifully.
18:41
SPEAKER_01: Dad, how can you do it?
18:42
SPEAKER_01: I had a live stream that just random, got it up to 50,000 people.
18:46
SPEAKER_01: 50,000.
18:48
SPEAKER_01: And I'll tell you why I stopped here.
18:50
SPEAKER_01: Talk about reinventing.
18:51
SPEAKER_01: That is part of my story later here in this episode.
18:54
SPEAKER_01: And so I'm looking on my the Wii podcast, the Apple stuff, right?
19:00
SPEAKER_01: And I see this number.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: And it went from like, I don't know, two or three to four or five.
19:06
SPEAKER_01: And today it went from 34 to 35.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I wonder what the hell that number is.
19:10
SPEAKER_01: What's the stars?
19:12
SPEAKER_01: I was like, I didn't know.
19:14
SPEAKER_01: I didn't know what it was.
19:15
SPEAKER_01: It's the rating system.
19:17
SPEAKER_01: So if you like what you're hearing here, click click the stars.
19:22
SPEAKER_01: And so I've become again, my oldest listens to all these.
19:27
SPEAKER_01: So he's gonna he'll call me after he listens to it.
19:30
SPEAKER_01: Again, they make fun of me all the time.
19:31
SPEAKER_01: Why?
19:32
SPEAKER_01: Because you know, I'm easy to poke fun at.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: They said, Dad, you know, you did an 18,000-piece puzzle.
19:38
SPEAKER_01: You need more friends.
19:39
SPEAKER_01: I said, I don't need more friends, I'm connected and I'm good, and whatever.
19:43
SPEAKER_01: And my newest friend is chat, you know, whatever, whatever the AI is they hooked me up on.
19:49
SPEAKER_01: And I asked chat questions all the time.
19:51
SPEAKER_01: Well, I asked chat today, what are those stars?
19:53
SPEAKER_01: It's ratings.
19:55
SPEAKER_01: And I thought, Well, that's amazing.
19:58
SPEAKER_01: Every one of them, except one, is a five-star.
20:01
SPEAKER_01: And I'm proud of that.
20:02
SPEAKER_01: Why?
20:04
SPEAKER_01: Why do I share about the success of the Wii podcast?
20:07
SPEAKER_01: Because of Joe?
20:09
SPEAKER_01: No, not at all.
20:11
SPEAKER_01: Because people are connecting.
20:13
SPEAKER_01: People are connecting to the message I'm sharing.
20:17
SPEAKER_01: And if you're on this podcast, you are a true spiritual warrior.
20:22
SPEAKER_01: Why?
20:23
SPEAKER_01: Because what I talk about isn't easy.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: What I talk about is literally pushes against the social norms from millennia.
20:31
SPEAKER_01: You know, the whole burning in hell.
20:33
SPEAKER_01: Don't believe it.
20:34
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't work for me.
20:35
SPEAKER_01: I've given my validation on why.
20:37
SPEAKER_01: Does it make me right or wrong?
20:39
SPEAKER_01: No.
20:39
SPEAKER_01: What do I say to people?
20:41
SPEAKER_01: Go inside yourself.
20:43
SPEAKER_01: You find out what's right or wrong.
20:45
SPEAKER_01: The days of somebody else telling you what's right or wrong, those days are over.
20:51
SPEAKER_01: Why?
20:52
SPEAKER_01: Because if you lived in that world, you wouldn't be in reinventing anything.
20:57
SPEAKER_01: Why is your world always reinventing?
21:01
SPEAKER_01: Well, Joe, it's because technology.
21:04
SPEAKER_01: Well, Joe, it's because of money.
21:05
SPEAKER_01: Well, Joe, it's because I need to move.
21:07
SPEAKER_01: I didn't like my job.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: I didn't like my wife.
21:09
SPEAKER_01: But folks, that isn't it.
21:12
SPEAKER_01: That is not the answer.
21:14
SPEAKER_01: You are not reinventing yourself because the external world is changing.
21:19
SPEAKER_01: The external world does not cause you to reinvent yourself.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: The external world changes as your internal world is shifting and changing and growing.
21:30
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to explain that here in a little bit.
21:32
SPEAKER_01: And let me just tell you why.
21:34
SPEAKER_01: How I know that.
21:36
SPEAKER_01: Everybody on this podcast right now, you're in that place.
21:40
SPEAKER_01: You're seeking something different.
21:42
SPEAKER_01: You're craving something more.
21:44
SPEAKER_01: You know there's something different.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: That's why people will come into the Wii podcast and listen to episode after episode after episode.
21:52
SPEAKER_01: And I highly recommend that.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: Listen to episodes over and over, listen to the original episodes.
21:59
SPEAKER_01: You know, just Just be guided to wherever you are and let my voice and this message nurture, keep you company, help you figure stuff out, truly.
22:10
SPEAKER_01: And if there's something in there that pushes your button, go back and listen to it again.
22:15
SPEAKER_01: Just like you know, I had to do with myself.
22:18
SPEAKER_01: My friend Summer, you know, basically called me out of my stuff and said, you know, Joe, that perspective wasn't in balance with your message.
22:27
SPEAKER_01: You against a thousand is not creating a we.
22:31
SPEAKER_01: Now she didn't say it like that because she's kind and nice.
22:34
SPEAKER_01: I wrote it down somewhere what she said.
22:36
SPEAKER_01: I wish I had it, I would repeat it.
22:39
SPEAKER_01: And because she's sweet and she's kind and she's loving.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: I would have said it very different.
22:44
SPEAKER_01: If I was calling somebody out on stuff, I do it on this podcast all the time.
22:48
SPEAKER_01: If you're drinking every day, get help.
22:50
SPEAKER_01: And if you don't like what I said, tough.
22:53
SPEAKER_01: Get help anyways.
22:54
SPEAKER_01: Why do I get to say that?
22:56
SPEAKER_01: Because I did.
22:57
SPEAKER_01: My friend Summer did.
22:59
SPEAKER_01: And I don't care how old you are, I don't care how young you are.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: I don't.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: If you're drinking every day, you can't stop on your own.
23:06
SPEAKER_01: Go get help.
23:07
SPEAKER_01: And quite honestly, the bigness that I project all the time, I don't make apologies for it.
23:14
SPEAKER_01: It's Joe.
23:15
SPEAKER_01: It's who Joe is.
23:17
SPEAKER_01: Now I'm the guy you can call in the middle of the night and I'll come get you if you're broke down.
23:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm the guy you could count on all the time.
23:23
SPEAKER_01: I am.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: Softness and Joe, that's a life process.
23:28
SPEAKER_01: I married a woman for 12 years.
23:31
SPEAKER_01: I was married 10, who is sweet and kind and gentle all the time.
23:36
SPEAKER_01: In fact, when we first got married, my little kid, who I had been consciously aware of for 20 years, felt safer with her because she was sweet and kind.
23:45
SPEAKER_01: And I am, I wasn't.
23:47
SPEAKER_01: So softness is not necessarily softness, it is a work in progress for Joe.
23:52
SPEAKER_01: And that's why the voices of we are so important to me.
23:56
SPEAKER_01: I know that my style connects to people.
24:00
SPEAKER_01: I know that my method connects to some.
24:04
SPEAKER_01: And the reason we're I'm creating the concept of the voices of we is because I want you to hear from other people the same spiritual connection.
24:14
SPEAKER_01: Some of these people have a grander spiritual connection to their heart than I do.
24:18
SPEAKER_01: And I've been on this path for 35 years, literally.
24:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty practiced at it.
24:23
SPEAKER_01: And their style, the manner in which they communicate, the manner in which they express, the adjectives they use, just the gentleness of their voice, they are empowered and gentle.
24:37
SPEAKER_01: It's fabulous.
24:38
SPEAKER_01: And that's what the voices of we is all about.
24:42
SPEAKER_01: The We podcast is an awareness podcast.
24:46
SPEAKER_01: The contributors of We, which I'll have several, where this podcast, I'm more an awareness podcast.
24:54
SPEAKER_01: I want you to become aware of stuff.
24:57
SPEAKER_01: I want you to become aware that there's answers and where the answers are and the techniques to do.
25:02
SPEAKER_01: I want you to become aware of it, but I don't really personally offer long-term support, long-term solution.
25:10
SPEAKER_01: That's not my role.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: The contributors of We, which again, I've got a couple.
25:16
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking to a couple more here within the month or so.
25:19
SPEAKER_01: They are creating global experiences that I will be able to tell people about.
25:26
SPEAKER_01: And you go to this website and you meet these people and you do go to this podcast and you listen to this because I want to be able to guide people to solutions and long-term support, long-term solutions.
25:41
SPEAKER_01: That's why the voices of we are so important to me.
25:45
SPEAKER_01: I also, and quite honestly, the most important thing is I don't want anybody to ever be confused that the We podcast is about Joe the man.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: It's not, it's about the message.
25:59
SPEAKER_01: And if over time, as we grow this together and we have millions of downloads a month, I want the message to be what resonates with people, not the man.
26:10
SPEAKER_01: And am I proud of my abilities?
26:13
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
26:13
SPEAKER_01: Am I empowered with it?
26:15
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
26:15
SPEAKER_01: Am I practiced with it?
26:17
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
26:18
SPEAKER_01: And the it is the message.
26:21
SPEAKER_01: The message is what's so important.
26:24
SPEAKER_01: Not me, not the man.
26:26
SPEAKER_01: And that is another reason why the voices of we have been created and will continue to be created and continue to be expanded.
26:36
SPEAKER_01: So the whole idea, what is reinvention?
26:40
SPEAKER_01: What is it?
26:41
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, reinventing yourself basically what it means is that the style in which you lived is over.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: It is.
27:33
SPEAKER_01: She was following her truth, and I honored that.
27:36
SPEAKER_01: I did.
27:36
SPEAKER_01: Five days later, I was gone.
27:38
SPEAKER_01: I left with everything in the front seat of my car.
27:40
SPEAKER_01: Reinvention.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: And why?
27:44
SPEAKER_01: What started it?
27:45
SPEAKER_01: Our marriage separated, literally.
27:47
SPEAKER_01: That which was my old normal, seeing my kids every day, expecting to see them every day.
27:53
SPEAKER_01: At the place I live, that everything that was my old normal changed in a moment because of my outside world.
28:02
SPEAKER_01: But is that what caused us to grow separately?
28:07
SPEAKER_01: No, it isn't.
28:09
SPEAKER_01: What caused us to grow differently is the 10 years that she and I were married.
28:15
SPEAKER_01: She had her path, I had mine.
28:17
SPEAKER_01: We came together in a marriage.
28:18
SPEAKER_01: We created a we, a her, a me, and an us, right?
28:23
SPEAKER_01: And over that period of time, I was always in therapy.
28:26
SPEAKER_01: So was she some.
28:27
SPEAKER_01: And I'm not going to talk about her and her personal path.
28:30
SPEAKER_01: I was always in therapy, always.
28:33
SPEAKER_01: And I was always learning and I was always growing.
28:36
SPEAKER_01: And I was always searching for my side.
28:39
SPEAKER_01: Always.
28:40
SPEAKER_01: Was I good at it?
28:41
SPEAKER_01: No, I wasn't.
28:42
SPEAKER_01: Did I did I always make amends when I stepped on her?
28:46
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
28:46
SPEAKER_01: Did I step on her a lot?
28:49
SPEAKER_01: Ask her.
28:49
SPEAKER_01: She'll say I stepped on her every day.
28:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't quite go every day, but I guarantee I stepped on her once a week.
28:55
SPEAKER_01: I guarantee I did.
28:56
SPEAKER_01: Well, what did that mean?
28:58
SPEAKER_01: It just means once a week I had to make amends.
29:01
SPEAKER_01: So by the time our paths actually reached the Saturday, where it was, I divorced you and I don't love you anymore.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: The reinvention, the change, the internal change in Joe had been happening for months and had been literally happening for years.
29:20
SPEAKER_01: The me that she needed me to be to stay married, I outgrew.
29:26
SPEAKER_01: When we first got married, literally, and this is a perfect example.
29:30
SPEAKER_01: We wanted the same things, we wanted the same type of life, you know, the house, the picket fence, and the two kids and all of that.
29:38
SPEAKER_01: We did.
29:38
SPEAKER_01: We both wanted the same things.
29:40
SPEAKER_01: And we were married for a long time.
29:42
SPEAKER_01: I continued to change.
29:44
SPEAKER_01: I continued to grow.
29:45
SPEAKER_01: My path.
29:46
SPEAKER_01: And quite honestly, as my path grew, it wasn't as though I grew away from her, but the us wasn't being nurtured by the new Joe.
29:58
SPEAKER_01: I could not give her what she needed to keep an us together.
30:04
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't.
30:05
SPEAKER_01: Does that make me wrong?
30:07
SPEAKER_01: No.
30:07
SPEAKER_01: It just meant I grew.
30:09
SPEAKER_01: Does it make her wrong for knowing what she wanted and needed?
30:12
SPEAKER_01: No.
30:13
SPEAKER_01: She knew what she wanted, and I couldn't give it to her.
30:17
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't.
30:18
SPEAKER_01: Now, did I know all that at the time?
30:20
SPEAKER_01: No.
30:20
SPEAKER_01: Took me about five years afterwards.
30:23
SPEAKER_01: But what really happened was the reinventing of Joe happened when the marriage ended?
30:31
SPEAKER_01: No.
30:32
SPEAKER_01: The reinventing of Joe, the change, the shift, the process which caused the divorce was happening many years ahead of time before.
30:39
SPEAKER_01: And it's all personal growth.
30:41
SPEAKER_01: The reinvention, the reinventing of yourself.
30:45
SPEAKER_01: When people talk about it, they're talking as if the reinvention is because of their external world.
30:54
SPEAKER_01: And it's not.
30:56
SPEAKER_01: The reinvention is because of your internal world.
30:59
SPEAKER_01: Now, your external world mirrors your internal world, not the other way around.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: Your external world mirrors your internal world.
31:09
SPEAKER_01: It does.
31:10
SPEAKER_01: So those of you that are constantly having to reinvent or change or shift or make a different external world, why is that?
31:20
SPEAKER_01: Because your internal world is changing all the time.
31:22
SPEAKER_01: It is.
31:23
SPEAKER_01: And that change is why I call you a spiritual warrior.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: Literally.
31:28
SPEAKER_01: Let me give you some examples.
31:29
SPEAKER_01: We all know, you know, people right now.
31:31
SPEAKER_01: You literally have a dozen different people that out of every 20 people you know, there's 15 people that they don't change ever.
31:41
SPEAKER_01: They look the same, they talk the same, they've got the same job, they've got the same friends, they drink the same, they've got the same desires, they've got the same whatever, and they've had it all the same their entire adult life.
31:53
SPEAKER_01: Does that make them wrong?
31:55
SPEAKER_01: No, makes them unconscious.
31:57
SPEAKER_01: Is unconscious wrong?
31:59
SPEAKER_01: No, it doesn't, not at all.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: Not anything wrong with it.
32:02
SPEAKER_01: It's just part of their spiritual path.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: Now, you also have people of that same 20 that you see them in destruction over and over and over.
32:15
SPEAKER_01: And they think they're doing it right, but every time they get to a place, they decompose and they destruct themselves.
32:21
SPEAKER_01: Are they wrong?
32:23
SPEAKER_01: No.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: No.
32:25
SPEAKER_01: A couple podcasts ago, I was really angry at some random guy.
32:30
SPEAKER_01: I called him a pompous whatever because he made people that have the victim consciousness, he was talking as if they're less than, or their consciousness is less than because they're not in manifestation consciousness.
32:44
SPEAKER_01: That type of stuff makes me mad.
32:46
SPEAKER_01: Why?
32:47
SPEAKER_01: Because it's false.
32:48
SPEAKER_01: There is no such thing as less than.
32:51
SPEAKER_01: Consciousness is what consciousness is.
32:54
SPEAKER_01: And if you happen to be, or people around you happen to be in that victim place, it's because they're hurting, not because they're doing anything wrong.
33:04
SPEAKER_01: Now, if you're on a podcast like this, you can have the victim voices, but you're in the pursuit of healing.
33:10
SPEAKER_01: Many people, and this is why it's hard.
33:14
SPEAKER_01: Got a good friend of mine, a dear friend, who a man she genuinely loves.
33:20
SPEAKER_01: He is in destruction.
33:23
SPEAKER_01: He's an alcoholic rageholic, and he doesn't know.
33:28
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't know that he doesn't know.
33:32
SPEAKER_01: Literally, my friend, she can't do anything right, but I love you.
33:38
SPEAKER_01: And he'll crucify her.
33:41
SPEAKER_01: He doesn't know now.
33:45
SPEAKER_01: Could he go to an AA meeting and pick up a white ship?
33:48
SPEAKER_01: He could.
33:48
SPEAKER_01: Has he?
33:49
SPEAKER_01: No.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: Will he?
33:51
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
33:52
SPEAKER_01: It's up to him.
33:54
SPEAKER_01: Those types of people, we all know.
33:56
SPEAKER_01: You have friends like that now.
33:57
SPEAKER_01: You do.
33:58
SPEAKER_01: We all do.
33:59
SPEAKER_01: Every family has somebody like that, or friends, somebody like that.
34:03
SPEAKER_01: That person that's just in destruction.
34:05
SPEAKER_01: They're not only in victim mentality, but they're acting out the victim mentality all the time.
34:11
SPEAKER_01: And quite honestly, the hardest part of that is when you have to sit and watch because there's nothing you can do.
34:17
SPEAKER_01: You can't help them.
34:19
SPEAKER_01: You can't fix them.
34:20
SPEAKER_01: You can talk to your blue in the face.
34:23
SPEAKER_01: Them shifting out of that is a spiritual event on their path, not yours.
34:28
SPEAKER_01: You trying to fix them is called codependence, period.
34:32
SPEAKER_01: And you bleeding hearts out there that literally think you can rescue the alcoholic and make his path less painful, you're killing them.
34:41
SPEAKER_01: Hear me.
34:42
SPEAKER_01: Hear me.
34:44
SPEAKER_01: Bleeding heart codependence.
34:48
SPEAKER_01: And I'm not saying what I'm talking about is easy, but I'm telling you for the absolute fact.
34:54
SPEAKER_01: The only way most alcoholics ever go and pursue a white chip, which means then they're reinventing their entire life, is that they have to hit a level of pain.
35:08
SPEAKER_01: They have to hit a level of pain.
35:10
SPEAKER_01: I did.
35:11
SPEAKER_01: I hit a level of pain, but the only thing that came out of my mouth is I need help.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: And for the codependents out there that literally think they're loving their alcoholic or drug addict or whatever friend by helping them and keeping them out of pain, you're not.
35:28
SPEAKER_01: You're keeping them out of the one experience that might turn their consciousness to a power greater than themselves, not you.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: And I hear, I know how hard what I'm saying is.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: And it always sounds so ugly that you're literally killing them.
35:46
SPEAKER_01: But the facts are you're not helping.
35:49
SPEAKER_01: You're not.
35:50
SPEAKER_01: So from that position, the reinventing, if you're on a podcast like this and you're pursuing something more, and you know there's something more, the more is inside of you.
36:05
SPEAKER_01: And how you kind of identify where you are, is we start from the position of first off understanding that reinvention, another word for reinvention is spiritual awakening.
36:19
SPEAKER_01: It's spiritual growth, it's spiritual awareness.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: The spiritual awareness position is when you spiritually understand, when you have a conscious understanding, a belief beyond your normal humanity, a higher vision, kind of looking at your life hawk view and say, reinvention or changing of my world is because internally I'm changing.
36:48
SPEAKER_01: Internally, the voices that are guiding me are different.
36:52
SPEAKER_01: And one of the places where you kind of figure that out initially, when it's all starting to come into when you see it happening in your external world, it would be similar, like if you had to AI took over your job, or your past wife takes off, or a friend, you know, you get in an argument with their friend, or you just have this deep passion to move, or whatever it is, right?
37:13
SPEAKER_01: The way you can really identify the first step, the first action to truly bring some stability to the change is listen to your voices.
37:26
SPEAKER_01: Listen to the voices in your own head.
37:29
SPEAKER_01: And there's going to be two sets of voices.
37:32
SPEAKER_01: The voices that say, it's time for me to move on from this job.
37:36
SPEAKER_01: It's time for me to find a new job.
37:38
SPEAKER_01: I'm looking to be fulfilled by my job.
37:41
SPEAKER_01: Those are all the glassful voices that are working to move you in a grander place.
37:48
SPEAKER_01: And if those were the only voices you had, then reinvention would be effortless.
37:53
SPEAKER_01: But the challenge is that those aren't the only voices you have.
37:56
SPEAKER_01: You also have the voices that say, I can't leave this job.
37:59
SPEAKER_01: Who's going to pay the bills?
38:00
SPEAKER_01: I can't do it.
38:01
SPEAKER_01: I need to stay with the job I have.
38:03
SPEAKER_01: You know, my family will go broke, we'll lose our house, we'll lose our credit, we'll lose everything.
38:08
SPEAKER_01: You have the fear-based voices that will always pull against the glass full voices.
38:17
SPEAKER_01: And it's in those fear-based voices the battle between the voices trying to move you forward and the voices trying to hold you steady.
38:25
SPEAKER_01: I call them the glass full versus glass empty voices, right?
38:29
SPEAKER_01: When you write down those glass empty voices and tell them to somebody else, the power of those voices becomes less powerful.
38:38
SPEAKER_01: It just does.
38:40
SPEAKER_01: I literally just finished the editing of my second book, Why We Feel Alone.
38:46
SPEAKER_01: And I have an entire exercise, an entire chapter on this exact topic, my original book, Filling the Void.
38:53
SPEAKER_01: I talk about this concept a lot.
38:55
SPEAKER_01: So I hope you visit joemitiga.com.
38:57
SPEAKER_01: And it is, we are really close.
38:59
SPEAKER_01: It's going to be up soon.
39:01
SPEAKER_01: I'm putting it, I'm sharing it on all these episodes, even though literally today, July the 7th, it's not up, because there's going to be people coming on this podcast in three months, and it's up.
39:11
SPEAKER_01: And I want you to hear joemittiga.com, get all my stuff for free.
39:16
SPEAKER_01: Because my books that I give step by step, line by line, paragraph by paragraph, helping people through this process.
39:25
SPEAKER_01: So the challenge, the fear, the angst associated with reinvention isn't from the reinvention.
39:34
SPEAKER_01: It's from the part that's afraid to change.
39:38
SPEAKER_01: Reinventing yourself means changing yourself, which also means where does that come from?
39:45
SPEAKER_01: It's because you're spiritually waking up.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: You are part of a grander humanity movement that you're waking up.
39:54
SPEAKER_01: Humanity is waking up.
39:56
SPEAKER_01: And as we wake up to a grander sense of self, and all from this position of God's image and living in God's image, that whole position, the Christ consciousness, which is inside of us, how I define the we, human self, higher self, inner self.
40:14
SPEAKER_01: This whole conversation, the reinvention is needed to move from your human self more and more to be guided by your higher self.
40:25
SPEAKER_01: Why?
40:26
SPEAKER_01: Because reinvention or spiritual awakening, spiritual growth, is you moving from the guidance system of your humanity to the guidance system of your divinity.
40:37
SPEAKER_01: And what does that look like?
40:39
SPEAKER_01: Your divinity guidance systems are going to be the all-inclusive.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: They're going to be the all-encouraging voices, they're going to be the feelings of a grander tomorrow.
40:47
SPEAKER_01: They're going to feel like you're doing something greater.
40:50
SPEAKER_01: Your humanity voices are going to be more based in fear, which in this topic, in this episode, we're not going to talk about the source of that fear.
40:59
SPEAKER_01: I do it in a lot of different episodes.
41:01
SPEAKER_01: That's a wounded little kid, the fear.
41:04
SPEAKER_01: But you can identify the voices so that while you're having to change the job anyway, the voice that just persecutes you in fear, you can write down those voices.
41:17
SPEAKER_01: It's already hard enough.
41:19
SPEAKER_01: It's already hard enough to change internal.
41:22
SPEAKER_01: But then when that internal change is sparked by an external shift, an external change, it's already hard enough.
41:30
SPEAKER_01: And then you have the voices pile on.
41:33
SPEAKER_01: So all I'm trying to help you do is help you have a technique.
41:39
SPEAKER_01: So the piling on voices are lessened in their strength.
41:45
SPEAKER_01: And again, those piling on voices, where I go back to the positive affirmations and the meditations and all of that, would meditation when those voices are just absolutely crucifying you, would meditation help right there?
42:00
SPEAKER_01: Yes, it would.
42:02
SPEAKER_01: It would help calm you.
42:04
SPEAKER_01: It would help calm those voices.
42:06
SPEAKER_01: Not going to make the voices go away.
42:08
SPEAKER_01: But in those moments when you're feeling anxious or you're feeling fearful, and the voices are so big, but you have to move forward anyways.
42:17
SPEAKER_01: The reinvention is being forced upon you.
42:20
SPEAKER_01: Meditation is a perfect add-on nurturing technique right there.
42:26
SPEAKER_01: Now, eventually, we have to write the voices down, tell them to somebody else, and heal the reason you have them.
42:35
SPEAKER_01: Does all that happen in a flip and a switch?
42:38
SPEAKER_01: No, it happens over time.
42:41
SPEAKER_01: But what is reinvention?
42:44
SPEAKER_01: Reinvention in your external world is happening because your internal world is shifting.
42:50
SPEAKER_01: How do I know?
42:51
SPEAKER_01: Because if your internal world isn't shifting, you're not changing anything in your external world.
42:55
SPEAKER_01: You get fired from job A, you just go look for job A somewhere else.
43:00
SPEAKER_01: And I, you know, I know there's a lot of change out there in AI this and AI that.
43:04
SPEAKER_01: I get it.
43:05
SPEAKER_01: But for every AI job that's being taken, you know, that someone's taking over, there's 10 other jobs being created.
43:12
SPEAKER_01: So I know it's a real life concern for people.
43:15
SPEAKER_01: I'm not minimizing the concern.
43:16
SPEAKER_01: I'm not at all.
43:17
SPEAKER_01: But I want you to hear that if you weren't spiritually growing, if you weren't being asked to live a grander you, then there really is no reinvention.
43:30
SPEAKER_01: You would just go duplicate what you lived before.
43:34
SPEAKER_01: That's not reinvention.
43:35
SPEAKER_01: Reinvention is living a new you.
43:39
SPEAKER_01: And it happens because you're part of the 67% that's waking up.
43:45
SPEAKER_01: Now, as that happens, right?
43:49
SPEAKER_01: And as we're moving forward and as we're changing our world, there is a legitimate emotional component that happens as a Consequence of shifting your life.
44:03
SPEAKER_01: There is.
44:04
SPEAKER_01: And the end result, the emotion is a wonderful one.
44:08
SPEAKER_01: The results in the beginning, in the interim, not so much.
44:13
SPEAKER_01: Not so favorable sometimes, especially in the beginning.
44:16
SPEAKER_01: If you're new at all this and you're seeing that your internal world is completely different and your external world is changing rapidly, the emotion that is going to be the most prevalent is fear.
44:29
SPEAKER_01: Is there anything wrong with having fear?
44:33
SPEAKER_01: No.
44:34
SPEAKER_01: There's nothing wrong.
44:36
SPEAKER_01: In fact, quite honestly, the bigger the fear is, the more you know you're truly doing something different.
44:44
SPEAKER_01: Because if you are just changing from job A1 to job A2, there's no fear in that.
44:49
SPEAKER_01: There's no growth.
44:50
SPEAKER_01: There's no change.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: There's no fear.
44:52
SPEAKER_01: You know, a little bit of discomfort because you're, you know, instead of working on Main Street, you're working on Elm Street.
44:58
SPEAKER_01: But job A1, moving to job A2, typically no fear with that.
45:03
SPEAKER_01: There isn't.
45:04
SPEAKER_01: It's when you go from job A1 to job Z7.
45:09
SPEAKER_01: That kind of change.
45:10
SPEAKER_01: There's fear.
45:13
SPEAKER_01: Fear does not mean there's anything wrong, quite honestly.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: Fear a lot of times is an indication that you're doing it all right because you're genuinely changing, you're genuinely shifting, you're genuinely growing.
45:30
SPEAKER_01: And I'm sure you're sitting here saying, Well, that's fantastic, Joe.
45:34
SPEAKER_01: What the heck am I supposed to do with that?
45:36
SPEAKER_01: Ask for strength and courage.
45:39
SPEAKER_01: Ask for strength and courage.
45:42
SPEAKER_01: Why?
45:43
SPEAKER_01: Because the only reason you're changing, there's a divinity in you that's taking over your expression.
45:49
SPEAKER_01: Literally.
45:50
SPEAKER_01: Your divinity is guiding you more and more every day.
45:54
SPEAKER_01: It is.
45:55
SPEAKER_01: How do I know?
45:56
SPEAKER_01: Because you don't go, if divinity is not guiding you, you go from job A1 to job A2.
46:03
SPEAKER_01: Period.
46:04
SPEAKER_01: That's humanity.
46:05
SPEAKER_01: It's kind of a horizontal move.
46:07
SPEAKER_01: But when you're going from job A1 to job Z37, and it could be job, it could be a huge relationship change, it could be a huge move, something really different in your external world, it's happening because your internal world is changing so rapidly.
46:25
SPEAKER_01: And the source of that change, the favorable voices, the glassful voices.
46:32
SPEAKER_01: If you listen, if you just sit down and listen with a pad of paper and have two pieces of paper, listen to all the glass full voices and write them on one pad, listen to all the glass empty voices and write them on another pad.
46:44
SPEAKER_01: They're not right or wrong.
46:46
SPEAKER_01: They're come from different places of you.
46:49
SPEAKER_01: Your glass favorable voices come from your divinity.
46:53
SPEAKER_01: Your glass empty voices come from your humanity and your wounds.
46:56
SPEAKER_01: What we're trying to do is we're trying to awaken to the reality that when we follow and make our decisions, our action steps, our Tuesday morning action steps based on the glass full voices, then you're actually being guided by a divine sense of you.
47:17
SPEAKER_01: Unconscious people, they don't even know that exists.
47:21
SPEAKER_01: They only hear the same glass empty voice that's like chasing their tail.
47:24
SPEAKER_01: You can see it.
47:25
SPEAKER_01: They do the same thing over and over, over and over, over and over, and expect different results.
47:31
SPEAKER_01: Definition of insanity.
47:32
SPEAKER_01: I know you've all heard that term.
47:36
SPEAKER_01: Well, what spiritual awareness is, when you become aware that there's two separate aspects in you right now, just right now, sit, breathe, and listen to your own thoughts.
47:51
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna hear glass full, which are all inclusive, all-encompassing, all supportive, all loving type voices.
47:58
SPEAKER_01: And you're gonna hear the glass empathy.
48:00
SPEAKER_01: Write them both down.
48:01
SPEAKER_01: Why?
48:02
SPEAKER_01: Because on Tuesday morning, you want to follow the glass full voice, the voice that's having you do something in a glass full position.
48:13
SPEAKER_01: And as you're able to follow that voice, that's spiritual awakening.
48:18
SPEAKER_01: You're awakening to a new possibility of guidance system.
48:24
SPEAKER_01: When you follow the old, you spin in the same.
48:29
SPEAKER_01: That spiritual awakening.
48:31
SPEAKER_01: Now, the reason spiritual awakening is not easy, it's because it's a totally different thing.
48:37
SPEAKER_01: It's a totally different guidance system.
48:40
SPEAKER_01: And literally, you're being guided to do things, and you're being guided by a different part than you're accustomed to.
48:48
SPEAKER_01: For a lot of you, for 800 lifetimes, you've been guided by your glass empty.
48:53
SPEAKER_01: So glass empty feels solid, it feels familiar, it feels right by being guided by a new glass full you, it's called spiritual awakening.
49:03
SPEAKER_01: The other thing it's called is blind faith.
49:07
SPEAKER_01: And let me explain that.
49:10
SPEAKER_01: When you listen and you start making your choices, your action steps of Tuesday morning.
49:16
SPEAKER_01: I always say, what do you do on Tuesday morning?
49:18
SPEAKER_01: That I say that all the time.
49:20
SPEAKER_01: When you do that, right, when you're in that position and literally you start taking action on a Tuesday morning, that whole concept is when it's one thing to hear it, it's another thing to be guided by it, it's another thing to truly take the action.
49:41
SPEAKER_01: Literally take the action that your glassful voice is telling you to do.
49:45
SPEAKER_01: Because when you take the action, you're following the glassful voice.
49:51
SPEAKER_01: And typically you have no idea where that glassful voice is going to take you.
49:55
SPEAKER_01: That's called blind faith.
49:57
SPEAKER_01: Why is blind faith so uncomfortable?
50:00
SPEAKER_01: Because we're so accustomed to being in dominating control with our ego that we take the action step because we already know for the absolute fact within 5% margin what the end result's going to be.
50:11
SPEAKER_01: That's why we stay there, because it feels safe.
50:14
SPEAKER_01: And a lot of people stay in safety, even though safety might cause them misery, even though safety might cause them to go broke, even though safety might cause them every relationship.
50:24
SPEAKER_01: Why?
50:25
SPEAKER_01: Because it's safe and it's easier and it's not as scary.
50:28
SPEAKER_01: But I want you to hear me, folks.
50:30
SPEAKER_01: Your spiritual path has zero to do with your fear.
50:34
SPEAKER_01: This delusional ridiculousness that says if I was connected to God, there'd be no fear.
50:40
SPEAKER_01: It's just not true.
50:42
SPEAKER_01: That's a complete falsehood.
50:44
SPEAKER_01: Complete falsehood.
50:46
SPEAKER_01: Moving in a spiritual path, awakening and reinventing yourself on a spiritual path does not mean the absence of fear.
50:56
SPEAKER_01: It means you ask the divinity who gave you the guidance system in the first place for the strength and courage to take the action it's guiding you to do in spite of the fear, not in removal of the fear.
51:11
SPEAKER_01: I hear people all the time.
51:13
SPEAKER_01: I pray to God to remove my fear.
51:15
SPEAKER_01: God's not going to remove your fear.
51:17
SPEAKER_01: It's not God's job to rescue you.
51:20
SPEAKER_01: It's God's job to give you the strength and courage to walk through your fear.
51:26
SPEAKER_01: Ye through the valley of depth, or whatever that phrase is, I have to learn that one.
51:32
SPEAKER_01: You know, ye who walks through the valley of something and you come out the other side, what's that deep ass valley called?
51:39
SPEAKER_01: That's your fear.
51:41
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't say removal, it says walk through the depths, walk through the dark.
51:47
SPEAKER_01: How?
51:48
SPEAKER_01: Well, if you're a Christian, make sure you got Jesus by the hand, because Jesus will pull your ass through that fear if you let him.
51:55
SPEAKER_01: Whatever your religion is, that's where religion comes in.
51:59
SPEAKER_01: Jesus isn't going to remove your fear, Jesus is going to hold your hand while you're walking through the fear together.
52:06
SPEAKER_01: And if you're a religious person and Christianity is your thing and you're in that spot and you're being asked to take action steps you've never taken ever in your entire life.
52:18
SPEAKER_01: I want you to hear, because a lot of people say, Well, that's not the path I'm supposed to go.
52:22
SPEAKER_01: I'm too afraid.
52:23
SPEAKER_01: So since there's fear, that means I'm not supposed to do it.
52:26
SPEAKER_01: That's just not true.
52:27
SPEAKER_01: It's the opposite.
52:28
SPEAKER_01: If there was no fear, that means you're going from job A1 to job A2.
52:33
SPEAKER_01: No fear.
52:35
SPEAKER_01: Fear is the indicator that you're actually changing, you're actually shifting, you're actually growing, you're actually expanding.
52:42
SPEAKER_01: If there's no fear until you reach a place where you're very practiced at it, if there's no fear, then you're not growing.
52:48
SPEAKER_01: You're just not.
52:50
SPEAKER_01: So hear me.
52:52
SPEAKER_01: As you're being guided by those glass full voices, and you feel fear, even though it's uncomfortable, it's miserable, it's horrible, but it's true.
53:02
SPEAKER_01: That means you're heading in the right direction.
53:04
SPEAKER_01: And how you walk through fear and all, ask the divinity, who is the source of the new guidance system, to give you strength and courage.
53:15
SPEAKER_01: The guidance system you're hearing in your head is the mental component of spiritual awakening.
53:22
SPEAKER_01: The mental component, the voices you hear in your head are the mental component of spiritual growth, the spiritual awareness, spiritual awakening, the voices in your head guiding you, the glassful voices are spiritual growth, mental.
53:38
SPEAKER_01: The emotional part, the fear part is the emotional side of this whole circumstance.
53:44
SPEAKER_01: And the emotional side is real.
53:48
SPEAKER_01: Fear is normal.
53:50
SPEAKER_01: How do you get through the fear?
53:52
SPEAKER_01: People that are praying for the fear to be removed are the people that spin and chase their tails their entire life and they wonder why their life never changes.
54:01
SPEAKER_01: Because your spiritual essence doesn't remove the fear, it gives you the strength and courage to follow the voices, even though you have fear together.
54:15
SPEAKER_01: That's the emotional component of spiritual awakening.
54:19
SPEAKER_01: And as you do it, right, as you're being then guided, and that guidance, sometimes you're gonna hear it, sometimes you're gonna feel it, sometimes you're gonna sense it, sometimes it's gonna be in your knowings.
54:31
SPEAKER_01: You just know you're doing the right thing.
54:34
SPEAKER_01: And in the beginning, blind faith, the reason it's considered blind faith is because there's still a fear associated, and it's not a bad thing, it's just all part of the awakening process, it's just all part of you knowing you're doing it correct.
54:58
SPEAKER_01: And eventually, what happens is you keep walking and you keep following and you keep hearing the glass full, and you keep praying for strength and courage, and you keep shifting your world, and your external world starts mirroring your new internal world, literally, right?
55:19
SPEAKER_01: And then at some spot, there's going to be emotional grief.
55:24
SPEAKER_01: You are literally going to grieve your yesterday so that your today and your tomorrow can be lived fully.
55:34
SPEAKER_01: I call it psychic death.
55:36
SPEAKER_01: I'll never forget.
55:38
SPEAKER_01: It used to be just so freaking confusing for me.
55:41
SPEAKER_01: I would do it all right.
55:43
SPEAKER_01: Everything was working.
55:45
SPEAKER_01: I was following my glass full and praying for strength and courage.
55:48
SPEAKER_01: And then I'd reach a spot, everything seemed great, and then I'd grieve for a week.
55:52
SPEAKER_01: And my mind would take a week because I didn't know what the heck I was grieving.
55:57
SPEAKER_01: Well, the emotional component of reinvention, the emotional component of becoming the new you, the living of the new you, the reinventing of yourself, the emotional component of that is you have to grieve the psychic death of the old you.
56:16
SPEAKER_01: Why?
56:17
SPEAKER_01: Because if you don't, then the old emotional you is trying to act out in the new world that it doesn't fit anymore.
56:24
SPEAKER_01: Square peg round hole.
56:26
SPEAKER_01: And so just understand that a lot of times, and that was in my opening, I was trying to put that in words a little bit in the beginning.
56:35
SPEAKER_01: So please know that fear is part of it.
56:41
SPEAKER_01: Fear means you're actually doing it, moving in that other direction.
56:45
SPEAKER_01: And then when there's a feeling of emotion, like you're losing your best friend, it is your best friend, but it's an internal your ego was your best friend, is your best friend.
56:57
SPEAKER_01: And as we go through layer and layer and layer the process of the psychic death, there's an emotional component of transformation, literally.
57:07
SPEAKER_01: The Wii podcast, emotional growth that leads into human transformation.
57:12
SPEAKER_01: The human transformation of your reinvention is when you're living the new you, but you can't truly live the new you until you've grieved the old you.
57:25
SPEAKER_01: Now, some of you are gonna grieve it by simply writing it out, writing a letter, saying goodbye, whatever.
57:31
SPEAKER_01: Everybody has their own process to that.
57:33
SPEAKER_01: But I want you to just be aware that if you're going through a grieving process and you hear yourself, you know, grieving something you hated, or grieving an old relationship that was toxic, or grieving a job you never liked, if you feel yourself grieving that, you're grieving the old, which leaves a clean palate for the new to truly come in.
57:57
SPEAKER_01: And eventually, where you'll eventually end up is the new, the reinvented you becomes your normal.
58:07
SPEAKER_01: So the Tuesday morning that was so challenging six months ago, the new Tuesday morning becomes your new normal.
58:14
SPEAKER_01: And when it's your new normal and you're living from the new place and you're already in that spot, and the fear is gone and the grief is finished.
58:21
SPEAKER_01: There, you literally move from a place from fear of faith to fact.
58:28
SPEAKER_01: And I've got a great story that I'm gonna tell you here at the end of this podcast of an experience that happened for me when you go from faith to fact.
58:36
SPEAKER_01: Faith is when you're following a different guidance system for the first time.
58:41
SPEAKER_01: It's faith, it's what faith is.
58:44
SPEAKER_01: Trust and action equals faith.
58:47
SPEAKER_01: Again, get my book, Filling the Void.
58:49
SPEAKER_01: I have an entire section on that right there.
58:53
SPEAKER_01: Trust plus action equals faith.
58:57
SPEAKER_01: And naturally there's going to be fear because until you're walking on water, change is scary.
59:03
SPEAKER_01: It is.
59:03
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't have to be brutal, but it can be scary.
59:07
SPEAKER_01: It can.
59:08
SPEAKER_01: But eventually, when the old, when the brand new becomes your normal, you go from faith to fact.
59:15
SPEAKER_01: And when you're in that place of fact, that's where you really expand.
59:19
SPEAKER_01: That's where you really commit to being good at what you just changed into.
59:24
SPEAKER_01: That's where the growth, the awakening, then you're living the awakening part of yourself.
59:30
SPEAKER_01: And it's in that place where the grief you're gonna have is gonna be grief of glory.
59:34
SPEAKER_01: It is.
59:35
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of different emotions of oneness that are really hard to describe unless you've lived them, like literally hard to describe unless you've lived them.
59:45
SPEAKER_01: And that's one of them where you just get to that place to where the grief is of glory.
59:54
SPEAKER_01: Like I made it.
59:55
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, I'm here.
59:56
SPEAKER_01: It feels normal finally, it feels comfortable.
1:00:00
SPEAKER_01: All of those types of experiences also, you know, will cause a sense of grief, but it's grief of gratitude and grief of grace and grief of oneness, grief of accomplishment, that sense of pride.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_01: You know, I've had tremendous pride in my oldest son, Joseph.
1:00:21
SPEAKER_01: He's launched and he's living in his own apartment, and we still connect, and he's figuring out his world.
1:00:27
SPEAKER_01: Very proud of him.
1:00:29
SPEAKER_01: And there's grief associated with that.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_01: It was all brand new.
1:00:33
SPEAKER_01: Talk about a reinvention.
1:00:34
SPEAKER_01: That's a reinvention that's been going on in our family life now for a while.
1:00:39
SPEAKER_01: Well, now we're a week in, and it's becoming kind of normal, you know.
1:00:43
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:00:44
SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, we got everything except the couch, and the couch is delivered tomorrow.
1:00:48
SPEAKER_01: So his new world, which is totally reinventing for him, and he's out of here.
1:00:54
SPEAKER_01: So it's a total reinvention in our world, right?
1:00:56
SPEAKER_01: My world and my youngest son, but it's becoming normal more and more.
1:01:00
SPEAKER_01: And over the next weeks and months, it'll just become the new norm.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_01: And that's a beautiful place because we did it.
1:01:07
SPEAKER_01: He's launched, he's doing great, and the world, you know, the world's kind of his oyster.
1:01:12
SPEAKER_01: He's going to take what he was taught his entire life and take it out into the world.
1:01:18
SPEAKER_01: You know, I had a funny thing I used to say to my kids all I want from you boys is to be an active member of society, contributing member of society.
1:01:28
SPEAKER_01: If you become a contributing member of society, you'll have a great life.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_01: You will.
1:01:33
SPEAKER_01: And I am proud to say that both of my boys, my oldest is living it, and my youngest will soon.
1:01:38
SPEAKER_01: He's young, he's 15.
1:01:39
SPEAKER_01: But that whole sense of the reinvention, does it act out in your external world?
1:01:48
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_01: Is your external world the source of why?
1:01:52
SPEAKER_01: No, it's not.
1:01:54
SPEAKER_01: And that's why the title I had that my title says, Why I needed to reinvent my life because my world keeps forcing me.
1:02:04
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's the belief most people have.
1:02:07
SPEAKER_01: It's not the truth.
1:02:08
SPEAKER_01: Your world's not forcing you.
1:02:11
SPEAKER_01: The external world's not forcing you, your internal world is forcing you.
1:02:16
SPEAKER_01: And that's why I say, what's the solution?
1:02:19
SPEAKER_01: Like, what is the answer to that confusion, self-awareness, and spiritual growth that helps you find a new passion or new meaning in your life while you're reinventing your life?
1:02:33
SPEAKER_01: Well, the awareness is all about understanding that the reinventing is happening because you're spiritually waking up, just like humanity is spiritually waking up.
1:02:44
SPEAKER_01: And the growth associated with it, the spiritual growth associated with it, is when you're following glass full versus glass empty, the spiritual growth is the process of following your glassful voices.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:03:01
SPEAKER_01: Because your glassful voices are sourced by the spiritual part of yourself.
1:03:07
SPEAKER_01: And of course, anytime there's a spiritual component, there's going to be an emotional component because humanity, as an essence, we are male side, female side, mental side, or male is mental, physical, female is spiritual and emotional.
1:03:26
SPEAKER_01: So as you're walking a spiritual path, there's going to be emotional components to it.
1:03:32
SPEAKER_01: And that's why, quite honestly, the emotional side of things, there's a lot of women out there that it's just easier.
1:03:39
SPEAKER_01: The path isn't easier.
1:03:41
SPEAKER_01: The path is brutal for everybody.
1:03:42
SPEAKER_01: It's equally brutal, but the emotional side of it is easier.
1:03:47
SPEAKER_01: Again, I came across two women.
1:03:49
SPEAKER_01: I tell this story all the time, and I just kind of figured it out not long ago.
1:03:54
SPEAKER_01: Like what happened back in September of 22nd, 2022.
1:04:00
SPEAKER_01: I crossed paths with a woman I still haven't met.
1:04:04
SPEAKER_01: And my heart opened as I was listening to her speak, and my divinity re-engaged as I read her documents.
1:04:13
SPEAKER_01: It took me three and a half years to realize, oh my God, what happened?
1:04:17
SPEAKER_01: I haven't met this woman yet.
1:04:18
SPEAKER_01: I hope to someday.
1:04:20
SPEAKER_01: But what I realized is this person is more spiritually connected to her heart than I was in that moment.
1:04:26
SPEAKER_01: How do I know?
1:04:28
SPEAKER_01: Because my heart opened by crossing her path.
1:04:32
SPEAKER_01: And I say that because a lot of you on this podcast right now, your hearts are way more open than mine.
1:04:41
SPEAKER_01: Your spiritual awareness is way more keen than mine.
1:04:45
SPEAKER_01: And women, hear me.
1:04:49
SPEAKER_01: Your intuition has been with you.
1:04:52
SPEAKER_01: Whether you were emotionally healed or wise enough to connect with a divine sense of yourself, a tremendous percentage of women, your intuition, which is in your gut, has been with you your whole lives.
1:05:07
SPEAKER_01: And please understand, your male partner across from you, he has no idea what that means, most of them.
1:05:14
SPEAKER_01: And how can I speak so clearly about that?
1:05:17
SPEAKER_01: Folks, I have been on a spiritual path, awakened, conscious spiritual path since I was 26 years old.
1:05:23
SPEAKER_01: I'm in my early 60s, 30 some odd years.
1:05:27
SPEAKER_01: And do you know that my stomach chakra with intuition has literally just started opening 90 days ago?
1:05:35
SPEAKER_01: Now I am super practiced with the emotional sense of self.
1:05:39
SPEAKER_01: I am very connected from a spiritual position.
1:05:42
SPEAKER_01: I've lived my divinity for years now.
1:05:46
SPEAKER_01: This entire We podcast is my divinity speaking to you.
1:05:51
SPEAKER_01: And for me, my intuition, my gut instinct right now is opening.
1:05:57
SPEAKER_01: And these two women I keep talking about.
1:06:00
SPEAKER_01: I can hardly wait to ask them.
1:06:02
SPEAKER_01: I can hardly wait to ask them if their intuition, their gut instinct has always been there, even though their hearts were wounded and they've gone through tremendous growth, and their wisdom of their spirituality has evolved with wisdom over the ages.
1:06:18
SPEAKER_01: I promise you, their gut instinct has always been there.
1:06:21
SPEAKER_01: My past wife, her intuition was uncanny, literally super in tuned.
1:06:28
SPEAKER_01: And why is that?
1:06:29
SPEAKER_01: Why do I know that to be a fact for so many?
1:06:32
SPEAKER_01: Because without you, humanity doesn't exist.
1:06:36
SPEAKER_01: I teach my boys to cherish women.
1:06:38
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:06:39
SPEAKER_01: Because women are the reason humanity exists.
1:06:43
SPEAKER_01: You are the reason.
1:06:45
SPEAKER_01: No women, no babies, no babies, no humanity.
1:06:48
SPEAKER_01: That's how uniquely special you are.
1:06:51
SPEAKER_01: And to bear a child in your stomach, the only way that you that child can really feel safe is your gut instinct is open, your stomach chakras are open for a lot of you.
1:07:02
SPEAKER_01: So a man talking about emotion is very unusual.
1:07:07
SPEAKER_01: I get it.
1:07:08
SPEAKER_01: And the power out there in the women that are not only have intuition that they've had for decades, but they've got these strong emotional hearts because they're emotionally fit and the wisdom to connect, that's a powerful combination.
1:07:22
SPEAKER_01: A powerful combination.
1:07:24
SPEAKER_01: And we are creating a community of people like that because I'm describing most of you on this podcast.
1:07:30
SPEAKER_01: You wouldn't be able to listen to me at any length of time if you didn't know exactly what I was just saying, right there.
1:07:35
SPEAKER_01: And that's the real life thing.
1:07:37
SPEAKER_01: And it's really powerful.
1:07:38
SPEAKER_01: And I applaud all of you.
1:07:39
SPEAKER_01: I applaud all of you for being here.
1:07:41
SPEAKER_01: So the last thing I want to kind of talk about.
1:07:44
SPEAKER_01: People have asked me, so Joe, why are you doing a podcast?
1:07:50
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:07:51
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm gonna tell you why.
1:07:53
SPEAKER_01: And people say, Are you making any money?
1:07:55
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:07:57
SPEAKER_01: No, I don't make a penny.
1:07:58
SPEAKER_01: In fact, I've paid tens of thousands of dollars to produce all this and whatever.
1:08:02
SPEAKER_01: I don't make a penny.
1:08:03
SPEAKER_01: Will I ever make a penny?
1:08:05
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:08:05
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:08:06
SPEAKER_01: I have no intentions of ever running ads and all that.
1:08:09
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:08:09
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:08:10
SPEAKER_01: Because I don't need the money.
1:08:12
SPEAKER_01: I don't need the money, literally.
1:08:13
SPEAKER_01: And you know, I've said it before, I'm in the beginning days of an eight-figure buyout, blah, blah, blah.
1:08:18
SPEAKER_01: I don't need the money.
1:08:19
SPEAKER_01: It's not why I'm doing it.
1:08:20
SPEAKER_01: I'm doing it for two reasons.
1:08:22
SPEAKER_01: The first reason, and the most important reason, is a humanity reason.
1:08:26
SPEAKER_01: I genuinely believe with all of my heart and soul that as a community of people, us, the we continue to support each other and we wake up together more and more and more.
1:08:37
SPEAKER_01: We reach 100 million downloads a month, 1% of humanity, of people that are consciously aware and are able to teach other people how to be consciously aware.
1:08:48
SPEAKER_01: The single largest confusional delusion out there is that spiritual awakening is a poofo and you go from unconscious to walking on water.
1:08:57
SPEAKER_01: Folks, that's not what it is.
1:08:59
SPEAKER_01: Awakening is an adjective.
1:09:04
SPEAKER_01: Next week's episode is all around surrender.
1:09:08
SPEAKER_01: Same with surrender.
1:09:10
SPEAKER_01: Surrender is not an action step.
1:09:12
SPEAKER_01: Surrender happens as the consequence of taking action steps.
1:09:16
SPEAKER_01: Spiritually awakening, so speak spiritually awake.
1:09:22
SPEAKER_01: 99.9% of the time, it happens one action step at a time.
1:09:29
SPEAKER_01: One glass full thought at a time, one new awareness at a time.
1:09:34
SPEAKER_01: And when you become aware yourself, consciously aware that you've been on a spiritual awakened path for decades, that's a whole different way of describing yourself, literally.
1:09:49
SPEAKER_01: And for most of you, if you really think back, you could probably pinpoint the spot in time where you realize you could hear your thoughts.
1:09:59
SPEAKER_01: When I was 22 or 23 or 24 years old, I could not hear my thoughts.
1:10:04
SPEAKER_01: I will never forget the day my older sister, her name is Jodi, who's been consciously awake longer than me, came into my office and I kindly, aggressively, ugly, cussing at her, said, You take your psycho babble blank blank blank and get the blank blank blank out of my office.
1:10:26
SPEAKER_01: What was she trying to do?
1:10:28
SPEAKER_01: She's trying to help me become aware that I could hear my thoughts, you know.
1:10:33
SPEAKER_01: Zero.
1:10:34
SPEAKER_01: Well, by the time I was 26 and I was in so much pain, I could start hearing them then.
1:10:39
SPEAKER_01: 26.
1:10:40
SPEAKER_01: All of you, anybody listening here, of any age, of any wisdom, if you go back, you can probably remember the day, the moment, the era where you started hearing your thoughts.
1:10:54
SPEAKER_01: When you can hear your own thoughts, that's the spot in time that your awakening process happened, started.
1:11:03
SPEAKER_01: For me, it's coming up on 40 years.
1:11:06
SPEAKER_01: For most of you on this, if you really look back, it's probably just depends on how old you are.
1:11:12
SPEAKER_01: Depends on how long you've been on a path.
1:11:14
SPEAKER_01: Some of you longer than me.
1:11:16
SPEAKER_01: Some of you probably been doing it 40, 50, 60 years.
1:11:19
SPEAKER_01: Do people describe it that way?
1:11:21
SPEAKER_01: No, because you see all these books out there, like it's supposed to be some only a couple people on the planet can ever be one with God, and everybody else has just got to wait till you come back.
1:11:31
SPEAKER_01: That's nonsense.
1:11:32
SPEAKER_01: That is not what he said.
1:11:33
SPEAKER_01: Not what Jesus said.
1:11:35
SPEAKER_01: Jesus said as he's leaving, I have to go sit by my father so I can put the spirit that guided me in all of you.
1:11:43
SPEAKER_01: So that spiritual essence I call divinity, you call whatever you want, has been in you your whole life.
1:11:50
SPEAKER_01: And every time you're hearing a glassful voice in your own head, a glass favorable voice in your own head, that is your divinity speaking to you.
1:12:02
SPEAKER_01: So try to remember the first time you heard your own voices.
1:12:06
SPEAKER_01: And as you're listening to your voices now, hear the glass empty, hear the ugly, hear the hateful, hear the shaming, hear the blaming.
1:12:14
SPEAKER_01: But also hear the favorable ones, hear the loving ones.
1:12:19
SPEAKER_01: Hear the voice in your head that says, Wow, that waitress is working her backside off.
1:12:24
SPEAKER_01: And yes, she burnt my hamburger, she dropped my French fries, and she didn't refill my Coca-Cola fast enough, but she's working her ass off, and I'm gonna give her$10, and my bill is only three.
1:12:36
SPEAKER_01: The voice that wants to give that woman$10 because she's doing the best she can, folks, that's your divinity.
1:12:43
SPEAKER_01: That's your divinity.
1:12:45
SPEAKER_01: And as more and more of us wake up to what the divinity truly is, more and more of us will wake up.
1:12:52
SPEAKER_01: And the whole process of moving from gratitude to grace, which is kind of the ultimate experience of living your entire essence from your divinity, that's where a lot of people on this podcast are reaching rapidly.
1:13:07
SPEAKER_01: So, reason number one the way Joe gives back to humanity from an emotional growth, human transformation position.
1:13:16
SPEAKER_01: I challenge human norms that are based out of fear, and I want to awaken conscious understanding of the process.
1:13:26
SPEAKER_01: It's called awakening for a reason.
1:13:29
SPEAKER_01: It's called enlightenment for a reason.
1:13:32
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't say I am enlightened.
1:13:35
SPEAKER_01: Were there people?
1:13:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:13:36
SPEAKER_01: The guy who walks on water, yes.
1:13:39
SPEAKER_01: Pure divinity, I get it.
1:13:41
SPEAKER_01: The rest of us, we're a work in progress.
1:13:43
SPEAKER_01: And it's a phase, it's a step by step by step.
1:13:47
SPEAKER_01: The more practiced you become, the more you do it.
1:13:50
SPEAKER_01: The more you do it, the more practiced you become.
1:13:52
SPEAKER_01: The more practice you become, the more you do it, the more benefit there is, the more glass full you have, the more you do it.
1:13:58
SPEAKER_01: That's the beautiful thing about the process.
1:14:01
SPEAKER_01: So I have a genuine passion for that.
1:14:05
SPEAKER_01: And all of my books, that's why I give all of my books away for free on joemedica.com.
1:14:10
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:14:11
SPEAKER_01: Because they were given to me for free.
1:14:13
SPEAKER_01: It's not me doing the writing, my divinity writing through me.
1:14:17
SPEAKER_01: You'll see when you read them.
1:14:19
SPEAKER_01: Just like these podcasts, listen to them over and over.
1:14:23
SPEAKER_01: Go to old episodes, listen to the ones you like.
1:14:26
SPEAKER_01: Let my voice, which is my divinity, who's talking to your divinity, let my voice keep you company if you're having a tough night.
1:14:34
SPEAKER_01: Let my voice celebrate your expansion if you're in a day of glory.
1:14:39
SPEAKER_01: I know both sides.
1:14:40
SPEAKER_01: I say it all the time.
1:14:42
SPEAKER_01: If I can heal the depths that I was in, so can you.
1:14:46
SPEAKER_01: And if I can live from a vibration I'm living now, wildly high vibration I'm living now, so can you.
1:14:55
SPEAKER_01: And why can I say that?
1:14:57
SPEAKER_01: Because how else, if it wasn't something far beyond Joe, how could a man with a microphone, if it was really just Joe, the human, a man with a microphone, how could the We Podcast ever reach the global top 200 list of Apple?
1:15:14
SPEAKER_01: There are four million active podcasts.
1:15:19
SPEAKER_01: Four million.
1:15:20
SPEAKER_01: How could the We Podcast reach as high as 137?
1:15:24
SPEAKER_01: Just yesterday it was 186 or something.
1:15:27
SPEAKER_01: Number one in how to.
1:15:29
SPEAKER_01: There's only 27 categories.
1:15:30
SPEAKER_01: Number seven in education.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_01: How could it be if it was the man?
1:15:35
SPEAKER_01: It's not the man, it's the divinity in the man.
1:15:38
SPEAKER_01: Am I practiced at it?
1:15:39
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:15:40
SPEAKER_01: Well, so are you.
1:15:41
SPEAKER_01: A lot more than you know for most of you.
1:15:44
SPEAKER_01: And I say that because we're doing it together, we're building this together.
1:15:49
SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna tell you why what's in it for Joe right now.
1:15:55
SPEAKER_01: Literally, years ago, when I was in my darkest times, I was in my darkest times where I would find comfort is the woods.
1:16:07
SPEAKER_01: Because I was lost and I was hungry, and I didn't have any friends, and I didn't have anybody to follow, and I didn't have anybody that knew what the hell was going on.
1:16:17
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't even find camaraderie in an AA program because I was the guy that my cravings for alcohol were removed in a moment, the 20th of February 1994.
1:16:32
SPEAKER_01: I'd never heard my story, so I'm even isolated in AA meetings, which is very rare.
1:16:38
SPEAKER_01: But I was so humanity wasn't comforting to me at all.
1:16:42
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't, in fact, it was confusing.
1:16:44
SPEAKER_01: So, where did I go?
1:16:46
SPEAKER_01: I ended up in the woods, and there was a time I was out in the woods, I would go as far as I could, out in the woods, and I'd stay, I'd hang out a while.
1:16:55
SPEAKER_01: And uh sometimes I'd take a sleeping bag, sometimes I'd take a tent, sometimes I'd just walk and sit.
1:17:02
SPEAKER_01: And I'll never forget it as long as I live.
1:17:04
SPEAKER_01: I was out there one time after probably a year or so, and literally the veil of consciousness between me and the trees were removed.
1:17:15
SPEAKER_01: I literally would sit out there and I could not tell the difference between me and the trees next to me.
1:17:21
SPEAKER_01: I couldn't, and that feeling was so awesome.
1:17:24
SPEAKER_01: That feeling was so wonderful, it was so beautiful that I never wanted to leave.
1:17:30
SPEAKER_01: Never.
1:17:31
SPEAKER_01: And I can tell you, the only reason that I didn't pursue kind of a wilderness lifestyle, like move out west somewhere in the middle of, you know, a million acres, is because the love I had for family.
1:17:46
SPEAKER_01: My parents, my sisters, I wasn't involved with anybody at the time, truly my parents.
1:17:51
SPEAKER_01: And I had a solid relationship with my parents at this point in time, and I was deeply committed to family, deeply committed to family.
1:17:59
SPEAKER_01: The only reason I didn't pursue a life in the wilderness is because of that, because that beautiful feeling of the veil being removed was real, and that was the only time I felt any level of comfort.
1:18:12
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:18:12
SPEAKER_01: Because the emotional sense of me was just kind of put on the back burner for a little while.
1:18:18
SPEAKER_01: Well, fast forward, life happens, come back out into life, right?
1:18:24
SPEAKER_01: Go to church, say I'm gonna marry her, my past wife, you know, have kids, build a business, live back in society, literally, back in society, doing the best I could to live from a glass full me.
1:18:35
SPEAKER_01: The two books that came through me went on the shelves, literally in a box on 100 meg discs.
1:18:41
SPEAKER_01: And here we go.
1:18:42
SPEAKER_01: I was living life, living life from a connected place, yes.
1:18:46
SPEAKER_01: Living life knowing how to follow my intuitions, yes.
1:18:49
SPEAKER_01: I'm now well into the 15 to 18 years of sobriety at this point, yes.
1:18:55
SPEAKER_01: So was I making money?
1:18:56
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:18:57
SPEAKER_01: Was I still scared a lot?
1:18:58
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:18:59
SPEAKER_01: Did I have to reinvent myself a dozen different times?
1:19:02
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:19:03
SPEAKER_01: Was it easy?
1:19:04
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:19:05
SPEAKER_01: But did I do it?
1:19:06
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:19:06
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:19:07
SPEAKER_01: Because I needed to integrate back into society.
1:19:10
SPEAKER_01: Well, fast forward, my past wife and I, you know, we go our separate ways.
1:19:17
SPEAKER_01: This date's back now 10, 12 years ago, 10 years ago, and I go into Sacred Silence again.
1:19:23
SPEAKER_01: And Sacred Silence to Joe is my focus and my overflow is into my kids, my house and my business, and my dog Zeus.
1:19:34
SPEAKER_01: But no personal life, no friends, no overflow for a female partner, none of that.
1:19:39
SPEAKER_01: No.
1:19:40
SPEAKER_01: My world was about sharing and growing and empowering my children first, my overflow for my kids first, and everything else, you know, to make sure that happened.
1:19:49
SPEAKER_01: And I am blessed to say that it happened.
1:19:52
SPEAKER_01: Well, about five years ago, my mother passes.
1:19:56
SPEAKER_01: She gets COVID, she's 85 years old, she has COVID, so it's right after the COVID era, that COVID craziness, and she survives COVID.
1:20:06
SPEAKER_01: She does.
1:20:06
SPEAKER_01: She's strong.
1:20:07
SPEAKER_01: She wasn't gonna freaking die because of COVID.
1:20:09
SPEAKER_01: That's for damn sure.
1:20:10
SPEAKER_01: She wasn't going to.
1:20:11
SPEAKER_01: Well, lo and behold, though, because of COVID, my entire family was around her, a bunch of scary knights, 85-year-old, you know, most of them die.
1:20:20
SPEAKER_01: She didn't.
1:20:20
SPEAKER_01: Well, my oldest sister, Jody, is there and she has an aneurysm in her neck.
1:20:26
SPEAKER_01: She survives COVID and then has an aneurysm in her neck.
1:20:30
SPEAKER_01: My sister is literally sitting next to her when she has an aneurysm, 10 o'clock on a Tuesday.
1:20:34
SPEAKER_01: And that aneurysm in her neck, by the time Jodi got to 911, the blood was already to her brain.
1:20:41
SPEAKER_01: By the time the ambulance got there, she was basically gone.
1:20:44
SPEAKER_01: And if my sister hadn't been there because of COVID, my precious mother would have died alone.
1:20:52
SPEAKER_01: And she'd have died with blood coming out of her eyes because her head would have exploded eventually.
1:20:58
SPEAKER_01: Think about how graphic that is.
1:21:00
SPEAKER_01: But she didn't.
1:21:01
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:21:01
SPEAKER_01: Because my sister was there.
1:21:02
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:21:03
SPEAKER_01: Because there's a god and she had COVID and she made it.
1:21:05
SPEAKER_01: Well, the grieving process of the matriarch of our family leaving was hard.
1:21:13
SPEAKER_01: Very hard on all of us.
1:21:15
SPEAKER_01: Very hard on all of us.
1:21:17
SPEAKER_01: And it was extremely hard on my oldest son.
1:21:22
SPEAKER_01: So I'm not only grieving the loss of my own mother, right?
1:21:27
SPEAKER_01: I have to support my son, who she was his best friend.
1:21:32
SPEAKER_01: I could go on and on, not gonna share his private life.
1:21:35
SPEAKER_01: It's hard for him.
1:21:36
SPEAKER_01: So I have to not only grieve my mother, but I have to be a dad and help my son grieve hard.
1:21:44
SPEAKER_01: I'm in the middle of all that.
1:21:46
SPEAKER_01: When I come across this woman I keep talking about.
1:21:50
SPEAKER_01: And, you know, literally, my heart opens even more.
1:21:54
SPEAKER_01: And the book Unequally Yoke comes flying out of me.
1:21:58
SPEAKER_01: I hadn't written like that in 20 years.
1:22:01
SPEAKER_01: And out of nowhere, I'm not done with this old grieving of the past.
1:22:04
SPEAKER_01: I'm in the reinvention of all of that, right?
1:22:07
SPEAKER_01: And out of nowhere, this woman comes, this woman crosses my path.
1:22:12
SPEAKER_01: And I am emotionally just confused as crap.
1:22:17
SPEAKER_01: And spiritually, the old guidance systems coming back.
1:22:20
SPEAKER_01: And it's September 22nd, 2022, where the biggest reinvention of Joe's spiritual position happened.
1:22:30
SPEAKER_01: That was the day, literally.
1:22:32
SPEAKER_01: Everything I do now, from my books to my podcast, all of it started on that moment, crossing this woman's path.
1:22:41
SPEAKER_01: And it was a very powerful thing.
1:22:44
SPEAKER_01: Confusing as crap.
1:22:46
SPEAKER_01: It was confusing, you know, because it all happened so quickly.
1:22:51
SPEAKER_01: But literally, on equally yoked, the book starts flying through me.
1:22:56
SPEAKER_01: Literally, I'm writing as fast as I can hear for three or four months.
1:23:00
SPEAKER_01: That's where I get the idea, writing that book to ask chat.
1:23:05
SPEAKER_01: What was the last thing Jesus said?
1:23:07
SPEAKER_01: Well, I say it all the time.
1:23:08
SPEAKER_01: Jesus says to the disciples as he's ascending, look it up in the Bible, ask chat.
1:23:15
SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I have to go sit by my father so he can put the spirit in you that has guided me in you.
1:23:22
SPEAKER_01: That's where I came up with the concept of the we.
1:23:25
SPEAKER_01: All the concept of the we, human self, higher self, inner self.
1:23:30
SPEAKER_01: None of that existed September 21st of 2022 for Joe.
1:23:34
SPEAKER_01: It all existed out of nowhere, October, November that year, all because of this exchange of someone I never met.
1:23:42
SPEAKER_01: And that whole book.
1:23:44
SPEAKER_01: And then that book, which is not finished yet, went on the shelf.
1:23:50
SPEAKER_01: And another book called We just starts flowing through me.
1:23:55
SPEAKER_01: It's now, that's how I started it called We.
1:23:57
SPEAKER_01: It's now my second book that's going to come out here in the next few months called Why We Feel Alone.
1:24:03
SPEAKER_01: So all of this is flowing through me.
1:24:06
SPEAKER_01: All of this is coming out of me.
1:24:08
SPEAKER_01: And then I get the phone call.
1:24:10
SPEAKER_01: Hey, Joe, you want to do a TEDx?
1:24:12
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, sure.
1:24:13
SPEAKER_01: He says, Meet me in South Africa.
1:24:15
SPEAKER_01: I said, South Africa, the country?
1:24:17
SPEAKER_01: He says, Yeah.
1:24:19
SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, my gulp moment, as I've shared in other podcasts, I go down there.
1:24:24
SPEAKER_01: And why is South Africa so important to me?
1:24:26
SPEAKER_01: Why was that TEDx so important to me?
1:24:28
SPEAKER_01: If you want to see my TEDx, look it up.
1:24:30
SPEAKER_01: Joe Medica TEDx.
1:24:31
SPEAKER_01: I've got one in South Africa.
1:24:33
SPEAKER_01: It's got like 730,000 views.
1:24:36
SPEAKER_01: Why do I say it like that?
1:24:37
SPEAKER_01: Because the message I share is connecting with people that are waking up.
1:24:41
SPEAKER_01: I've got a new one now.
1:24:43
SPEAKER_01: But why that was so important for me is because that's when I learned that 400 million people in 2025 did not have running water in Africa.
1:24:54
SPEAKER_01: I did not know that I didn't know.
1:24:56
SPEAKER_01: I didn't.
1:24:58
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm a guy.
1:25:00
SPEAKER_01: When I'm flying back, I just listen and I get all these inspirations.
1:25:06
SPEAKER_01: And when I'm confused, what keeps me from being overwhelmed?
1:25:08
SPEAKER_01: I take action.
1:25:10
SPEAKER_01: I write.
1:25:12
SPEAKER_01: Imagination goes into inspiration, inspiration goes into creation, creation goes into manifestation.
1:25:18
SPEAKER_01: I talk about that all the time.
1:25:20
SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm flying back from South Africa and I get this inspiration.
1:25:24
SPEAKER_01: It says 1% one time.
1:25:26
SPEAKER_01: 1% one time.
1:25:28
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:25:29
SPEAKER_01: Because the only reason 400 million people don't have water in South Africa is money.
1:25:35
SPEAKER_01: That's it.
1:25:35
SPEAKER_01: And I learn all of this over time.
1:25:38
SPEAKER_01: The technology is there now, money transfer is there now, caregivers on the ground.
1:25:44
SPEAKER_01: I have a whole presentation on that, the true living from it.
1:25:48
SPEAKER_01: But why that's all important, where that comes to now, what is all of this for Joe?
1:25:54
SPEAKER_01: Why is Joe ultimately doing this?
1:25:56
SPEAKER_01: What's in it for Joe?
1:25:58
SPEAKER_01: Well, what's in it for Joe is the actual living of my passion, which is to heal humanity.
1:26:05
SPEAKER_01: And I believe it wholeheartedly.
1:26:08
SPEAKER_01: Well, in this, as I'm coming back, I realize that we need to create an environment where the children that don't have water, they also don't have education.
1:26:19
SPEAKER_01: So myself and some web designers created a website called ProjectSmile.world.
1:26:25
SPEAKER_01: Go find it, ProjectSmile.world.
1:26:27
SPEAKER_01: We've had over 80,000 downloads of free education, ProjectSmile.world.
1:26:33
SPEAKER_01: But in that same process, in that same awakening, the 1% one time is a financial.
1:26:39
SPEAKER_01: And I remember thinking, I'm in row 60, my ticket was three grand.
1:26:45
SPEAKER_01: The people up in the front were going the same place.
1:26:47
SPEAKER_01: They get off the plane about six minutes before me, but they're paying$13,000 to$15,000 to stretch their legs for 15 hours, which I think is fantastic.
1:26:56
SPEAKER_01: But I said to myself, anybody that's got$15,000 for a one-way ticket, they would have$10,000 for a well.
1:27:05
SPEAKER_01: 1% one time.
1:27:07
SPEAKER_01: Why?
1:27:08
SPEAKER_01: Because the only thing, the only reason this country doesn't have enough water is because of money.
1:27:14
SPEAKER_01: So I start a live stream.
1:27:16
SPEAKER_01: And on the live stream, you know, I'm sharing my story, bringing awareness.
1:27:20
SPEAKER_01: Long story short, four or five months later, I do 10 or 12 of them.
1:27:24
SPEAKER_01: I have over 50,000 people on the live stream.
1:27:27
SPEAKER_01: And because I had 50,000 people on a live stream, I was introduced to a man out of Dubai from a man out of India.
1:27:35
SPEAKER_01: And I was introduced to a caregiver in Uganda from a guy out of Australia.
1:27:39
SPEAKER_01: And because of my live stream and the credibility that I had out in the world because of a 50,000 person live stream, this man agreed to talk to me.
1:27:49
SPEAKER_01: Well, his name is Farhan.
1:27:51
SPEAKER_01: He's the founder of one of the larger real estate development companies in Dubai.
1:27:56
SPEAKER_01: And Farhan had a spiritual experience 10, 12 years ago.
1:28:00
SPEAKER_01: And he said to his higher power, make it easy or give me strength.
1:28:06
SPEAKER_01: Make it easy or give me strength.
1:28:07
SPEAKER_01: And he committed that he was going to give 20% of the proceeds of his new business back to healing humanity.
1:28:16
SPEAKER_01: Bobby Darn.
1:28:17
SPEAKER_01: So we're having this conversation.
1:28:18
SPEAKER_01: He reads my book.
1:28:20
SPEAKER_01: He has an awareness of a spiritual experience inside himself.
1:28:24
SPEAKER_01: And lo and behold, he says, he tells me about him giving back.
1:28:30
SPEAKER_01: He sets me up with his man, an employee who's responsible for spending his money in healing humanity.
1:28:37
SPEAKER_01: Well, I talk to this gentleman, I put him together with my caregivers.
1:28:42
SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't see anything else.
1:28:44
SPEAKER_01: A couple months later, I see a picture in Uganda.
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SPEAKER_01: It's my guy, brother Alan, it's Farhan, which I know, Farhan's wife, and four other men.
1:28:56
SPEAKER_01: They're in Uganda.
1:28:58
SPEAKER_01: Farhan and his team is in Uganda to help my two caregivers.
1:29:02
SPEAKER_01: And the one caregiver, he ends up, I find out later, you know, a couple months later, that he gets some beds, he gets some food, he he gets some medical supplies, he gets some school, he gives them everything they need.
1:29:16
SPEAKER_01: The other group, he decides he's gonna get them a water, a well, and a school.
1:29:22
SPEAKER_01: And at the beginning, I'm thinking kind of nominal, right?
1:29:27
SPEAKER_01: Well, literally, because of Farhan and Revo, a community now of 3,000 people who used to have to walk 45 minutes every day to get water out of a stream that the farmers used upstream, now have a well on their property because of Farhan.
1:29:51
SPEAKER_01: And Farhan only knew about them because of my live stream.
1:29:56
SPEAKER_01: So why am I doing it?
1:29:58
SPEAKER_01: And people say, Well, Joe, why did you quit the live stream?
1:30:01
SPEAKER_01: Well, I quit the live stream because my little red hawk, which is a different story, I get a notification.
1:30:07
SPEAKER_01: The same freaking woman that I talk about in September, I get a notification on my Instagram that she liked one of my posts.
1:30:15
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's cool.
1:30:16
SPEAKER_01: That should be great, right?
1:30:17
SPEAKER_01: No, my notifications were turned off.
1:30:20
SPEAKER_01: You know why I know my notifications are turned off?
1:30:23
SPEAKER_01: Go to my Instagram page.
1:30:25
SPEAKER_01: I've had over 20 million visits and over 150,000 likes or something, whatever that's called, on Instagram.
1:30:32
SPEAKER_01: If my notifications would have been on, my phone would have exploded.
1:30:37
SPEAKER_01: But for some reason, somehow, one woman's notification on Instagram shows up on my phone.
1:30:44
SPEAKER_01: That wasn't of her, that was of the divine her.
1:30:48
SPEAKER_01: And every time I just learned to follow her divinity, whenever that came, literally, the next day I go online, the next day I come across my podcast producer, Wendy Stevens.
1:31:01
SPEAKER_01: We launched November the 11th, we're in the top 100 January the 4th.
1:31:06
SPEAKER_01: We hit global top 200 in April, and here we are today.
1:31:10
SPEAKER_01: Why is all that important?
1:31:11
SPEAKER_01: Because, folks, if my little live stream could get a man like Farhan on it, right?
1:31:19
SPEAKER_01: When we have a million downloads a month, when you and I together have a million downloads a month, you know who's going to want to be a guest on Voices of We?
1:31:29
SPEAKER_01: Anybody I want.
1:31:31
SPEAKER_01: Anybody in the world that we want will want to be a guest on Voices of We.
1:31:39
SPEAKER_01: Why is that important?
1:31:40
SPEAKER_01: Because if we have good-hearted people and we have a solution, I'm creating what I call Project Smile, Project Smile Fund, Project Smile Fund dot world.
1:31:54
SPEAKER_01: And what we're doing is we're going to be collecting money, donations, and we're going to build this massive fund of money.
1:32:01
SPEAKER_01: And that fund is going to earn money.
1:32:03
SPEAKER_01: I've got people that are going to do that.
1:32:05
SPEAKER_01: And the money that the fund earns is going to go back to heal humanity.
1:32:09
SPEAKER_01: So think about it.
1:32:10
SPEAKER_01: You help me build the podcast to a million downloads a month.
1:32:15
SPEAKER_01: And we have people on here that have massive amounts of money.
1:32:19
SPEAKER_01: People have massive amounts of money.
1:32:22
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't take that much money to heal the water crisis of the globe.
1:32:28
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't.
1:32:29
SPEAKER_01: So what's in it for Joe?
1:32:31
SPEAKER_01: I want to help honor the 67% of humanity that's waking up every day in a spiritual sense, feeling themselves more spiritual than religious.
1:32:41
SPEAKER_01: I want to honor you, support you, empower you, and teach you what I learned so that you can be an absolute spiritual warrior out there and change your world and change the communities around you.
1:32:54
SPEAKER_01: And in addition to that, the bigger we get, the more attention this podcast is going to be.
1:33:01
SPEAKER_01: And the more attention it is, the more powerful types of people will have on it who have influence, that have extra, that have income.
1:33:09
SPEAKER_01: And we're going to create a fund that's literally going to heal and fix.
1:33:13
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's only about$4 billion,$4 or$5 billion.
1:33:17
SPEAKER_01: And a mass amount of people in Africa could have wells.
1:33:22
SPEAKER_01: One man, he was about$25,000 to$30,000, you told me for that well.
1:33:28
SPEAKER_01: It didn't even move a decimal point in this man's CPA's book, Mr.
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SPEAKER_01: Farhan.
1:33:35
SPEAKER_01: They have five million dollars a year or something like that to spend, and they're doing it, giving back to humanity, literally.
1:33:42
SPEAKER_01: Barely a decimal point.
1:33:45
SPEAKER_01: But because he went there, and it's grace of God, now 3,000 people have running water.
1:33:53
SPEAKER_01: Think about their lives.
1:33:55
SPEAKER_01: Think about how their lives have changed.
1:33:57
SPEAKER_01: Think about what 3,000 people don't have to walk 45 minutes every day now.
1:34:02
SPEAKER_01: What are they going to do at that time?
1:34:04
SPEAKER_01: They're going to make their lives better.
1:34:06
SPEAKER_01: And we here at the We Podcast, we're going to be a massive part of funding that.
1:34:11
SPEAKER_01: So why is Joe doing this?
1:34:14
SPEAKER_01: To help heal humanity, to help literally empower the world and the grace that's in all of us.
1:34:22
SPEAKER_01: And together we're building it.
1:34:24
SPEAKER_01: Together we're making a difference.
1:34:26
SPEAKER_01: Together we're building the we community.
1:34:29
SPEAKER_01: And together we're healing humanity.
1:34:32
SPEAKER_01: One smile at a time.
1:34:35
SPEAKER_01: From around the world, I literally just want to thank you all and welcome to We.
1:34:46
SPEAKER_00: So that's it for today's episode of the We Podcast.
1:34:50
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1:34:54
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1:35:08
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