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84: Come Alive: Our Invitation to Stop Waiting and Start Doing · The Everyday Awesome Project

• 0:27
  Samantha Pruitt: hey, superstars, paula here and sam pruitt, what's up?
• 0:31
  Polly Mertens: beautiful humans.
• 0:31
  Polly Mertens: I think we're gonna be up on the screen a little bit more than we usually do, because we're having a good old time today.
• 0:37
  Polly Mertens: What the fuck now are they up?
• 0:39
  Samantha Pruitt: to wtf.
• 0:41
  Samantha Pruitt: What's up now?
• 0:42
  Samantha Pruitt: Hello, oh my God, this is so good, dude, because how long we've been working together on this particular everyday, awesome project.
• 0:52
  Polly Mertens: Coming up on two years Coming up on two years?
• 0:55
  Samantha Pruitt: No way, okay.
• 0:56
  Samantha Pruitt: The fact that we had, even back in the origins of the podcast we knew we would become a place for humans to have programming opportunities, live experiences, community, all that stuff, and the fact that it's now happening and I want to give tribute to you because you're the one making it happen.
• 1:18
  Samantha Pruitt: I'm over here distracted with 20,000 other things, and you're like I'm freaking doing it.
• 1:23
  Samantha Pruitt: We're going.
• 1:24
  Samantha Pruitt: I'm like okay, go 1,000 other things.
• 1:28
  Samantha Pruitt: And you're like we're going I'm like okay, go building a thousand percent build build.
• 1:30
  Polly Mertens: Well, you're always the voice of us.
• 1:31
  Polly Mertens: Like you're the one that's like, oh, I'm going to go tell 10,000 people, like you're able to get the, you know.
• 1:35
  Polly Mertens: And I'm like, all right, I'm going to put everything in place and, like you, drop them in and we're going to have fun and we're going to play with them and we're going to, we're going to transform some lives as we go, so it works it works, so this episode literally is the formal invitation.
• 1:49
  Polly Mertens: Oh yeah, lots of them, lots of them.
• 1:51
  Polly Mertens: We got some teasers, we got things coming.
• 1:53
  Polly Mertens: We got things on the books, we got things coming y'all.
• 1:55
  Samantha Pruitt: So yeah, yeah so yeah, I mean, there's no, there's no avoiding us.
• 2:07
  Samantha Pruitt: Now I mean, listen, if you're not in love with us yet, you will be by the time of this episode launches and or, you know, in future experiences together, like we're ready to play live with humans, and that's basically.
• 2:15
  Samantha Pruitt: We've been doing that on a small scale for a long time and we've both been doing that separate for one another and for a very, very long time.
• 2:23
  Samantha Pruitt: But this is next freaking level.
• 2:26
  Samantha Pruitt: So you're going to start us off by talking about the Come Alive program.
• 2:30
  Polly Mertens: Yeah, what's coming, you guys?
• 2:31
  Polly Mertens: So the short term is we're we're we're recording this in late July, so this will go live, I believe, beginning of August of 2025.
• 2:40
  Polly Mertens: So whenever you're listening to this, so you might hear some things that are historical and some things you know we're going to project that are going to continue on and be more evergreen.
• 2:49
  Polly Mertens: So the come alive, the program that I've created is I'm just like it's an incubator, it's like people who want to come in.
• 2:57
  Polly Mertens: So it's an eight week online zoom group of changemakers who are people, who it's all about people who are like something has been preventing me mostly me, right, like the person has been preventing themselves from getting up to something, changing something, reaching their potential.
• 3:16
  Polly Mertens: You know, accomplishing something, getting something off the ground, leaning into something right, some growth opportunity, and by the end of eight weeks, it's like action, action, action, right, knocking down beliefs.
• 3:26
  Polly Mertens: You know, get that out of the way, get a roadmap, get a vision.
• 3:28
  Polly Mertens: Let's go and be surrounded in community.
• 3:31
  Polly Mertens: Because the inspiration for the Come Alive program was like the times in my life, over and over again, where I have made big leaps, I've put myself at risk, if you will.
• 3:42
  Polly Mertens: I've put a lot on the line or whatever, or I've had growth that, like I turn back and I go, that fundamentally changed the course of my life.
• 3:50
  Polly Mertens: I was surrounded in a group right you know me as somebody who's 30 years, 20 years, whatever it has been women's circles, spiritual circles, you're a groupie, you're a groupie.
• 4:01
  Polly Mertens: I'm a group, I'm a group leader, I'm a group builder, you know, facilitator, whatever, like we both love.
• 4:07
  Polly Mertens: You know you're great with your race teams and the groups that you've created and getting kids motivated.
• 4:12
  Polly Mertens: You know, and running and things like that.
• 4:14
  Polly Mertens: Communities you're building run right now with REI, with the hiking groups.
• 4:18
  Polly Mertens: So this eight week come alive is like get in, get with other powerful people who will hold space for you and will just like cause.
• 4:27
  Polly Mertens: You will be like your biggest cheerleaders, your biggest like pushing you to like do the thing that you've been putting off, and not like a hard ass way, like you know this is a grind, but like a joyful come alive way.
• 4:39
  Polly Mertens: It's like you're going to be inspiring and be inspired by the people in the group.
• 4:44
  Polly Mertens: So I don't know, I just want to.
• 4:46
  Polly Mertens: I have so much I want to say about it.
• 4:48
  Polly Mertens: Anything that you want to add or any questions or Well, all of that is true.
• 4:53
  Samantha Pruitt: And then there'll be an actual strategy and action plan that you will prepare with support of course, and then start executing.
• 5:01
  Samantha Pruitt: So, to be clear, in that eight period of time, it's not like we're just going to sit around and talk about Kumbaya, all these wonderful things, and love on each other G S, d, shit done, okay, and with a capital A, yes.
• 5:15
  Samantha Pruitt: And so by the time you leave the program, you've actually launched your whatever the thing is fill in the blank for you.
• 5:23
  Samantha Pruitt: You're whatever the thing is fill in the blank for you.
• 5:29
  Samantha Pruitt: So that's a very short runway to get a lot of things done.
• 5:30
  Samantha Pruitt: Uh, you're the queen of efficiency and getting stuff done, so I have total belief that that's going to happen.
• 5:33
  Samantha Pruitt: But for the individual, it's a very small commitment out of the window of your life.
• 5:38
  Samantha Pruitt: Eight weeks to be like I think I'll be this person now Bye.
• 5:44
  Samantha Pruitt: Eight weeks to be like I think I'll be this person now Bye, bye.
• 5:47
  Samantha Pruitt: I'm going to buy it.
• 5:48
  Samantha Pruitt: You know, I mean that's huge, it's huge and that's not a gift you're giving to the world.
• 5:50
  Polly Mertens: Well, and it's not to say that these things won't you know.
• 5:52
  Polly Mertens: So, like one of the gals that is in the program that that's launching, like her goal is to, so she's got a quote job that our project she's already signed on for for like the next six months, right, okay, this will get her, like in action with people, with resource.
• 6:06
  Polly Mertens: She's like, wow, you know, this is perfect timing, because the month of august I like have a gap between my next project, so, like I can get all this created.
• 6:14
  Polly Mertens: Get you know, I would just be sitting around and kind of doing it on my own and what if thing?
• 6:19
  Polly Mertens: Right, wasting time, yeah, yeah.
• 6:21
  Polly Mertens: And she's like, it's perfect, get this.
• 6:23
  Polly Mertens: And then so I complete that project and I'm implementing steps.
• 6:26
  Polly Mertens: You know, maybe it's so.
• 6:28
  Polly Mertens: For her personally, it's going from having a job doing project based work there she's traveling to creating her own business, Right, and so there's a runway for that.
• 6:36
  Polly Mertens: It's not like, oh, it's the business in two weeks or something like that, but whatever that looks like.
• 6:42
  Polly Mertens: And the other gal, she has an established business, but she's got this.
• 6:48
  Polly Mertens: I'm just talking about a couple people that have already told me what they're up to and what they want to get up to in this group and it's like you know, business has been down.
• 6:54
  Polly Mertens: This is what I've been doing.
• 6:55
  Polly Mertens: I need to make some shifts in my business to, you know, regrow it and, you know, kind of relaunch herself, right.
• 7:00
  Polly Mertens: So she's kind of dad died, you know putting some things off, sort of you know people around her not flourishing.
• 7:07
  Polly Mertens: If you will, I was like you need to get your ass around people who are flourishing and are up to stuff, right.
• 7:12
  Polly Mertens: So stop floundering and start flourishing.
• 7:14
  Polly Mertens: So yeah, so that's what I'll say about Come Alive.
• 7:17
  Polly Mertens: We'll put a link in the show notes to this so that if it's in the time period before August and you want to join, us would love to and I could see.
• 7:25
  Polly Mertens: So I suspect that this group is going to like so light people up that people are gonna be like what did you do?
• 7:33
  Polly Mertens: I want to, I want to get into that.
• 7:34
  Polly Mertens: So I'm pretty sure there's going to be one on just after it in the fall of 2025.
• 7:38
  Polly Mertens: So stay tuned.
• 7:40
  Polly Mertens: So more come alive as like a launching pad, a get you know, get, get, get the, the juice started, get that momentum going Right.
• 7:49
  Samantha Pruitt: Exactly In any area of your life.
• 7:51
  Samantha Pruitt: You spoke about a couple of business examples, but it could also be in health, it could also be in relationship, it could also be in finance, it could also be in okay, fill in the blank for your life.
• 8:00
  Samantha Pruitt: Um, besides that about the alive alliance, yeah, coming soon to a theater near you.
• 8:07
  Polly Mertens: Well, and this was when we were on our little snippet of the pct, the pacific crest trail, back in big bear earlier this year.
• 8:14
  Polly Mertens: It was like sharing a vision I had for, like you know, so alliance came from.
• 8:20
  Polly Mertens: You know there, so alliance came from, you know there's so many.
• 8:25
  Polly Mertens: There's such an undercurrent of like competition and like you got to just like work hard against people and stuff like that.
• 8:32
  Polly Mertens: I'm like man.
• 8:33
  Polly Mertens: We could all do so much better if we collaborated instead of competed.
• 8:37
  Polly Mertens: Right.
• 8:38
  Polly Mertens: And so I looked up words that were like what do people do when they come together to make things better?
• 8:43
  Polly Mertens: Right, and it's like alliances.
• 8:46
  Polly Mertens: Alliances are formed so that everybody does better.
• 8:50
  Polly Mertens: Right, we all working towards a.
• 8:52
  Polly Mertens: We may not be doing the same thing in that alliance, but we're all working towards a commonality where all the boats rise together, right.
• 8:59
  Polly Mertens: So aliveness is just one of my favorite words.
• 9:02
  Polly Mertens: Man, I just I'm seeing how, when people are lit up in their life with whatever personally lights them up, you can stay in the business or the job or the life that you have, but enlivening it like coming alive inside of it, that's that unmet potential.
• 9:17
  Polly Mertens: It's like when we're, when our potential is like trapped inside of us and we're not fulfilling upon it, we just get stifled and dissatisfied and you know, kind of wither right.
• 9:26
  Polly Mertens: So the alive alliance is bringing together healers, coaches, transformational experts, resources, all these things as a collaborative energy to serve people who want to come alive and want to stay alive, for gosh sakes right community.
• 9:42
  Samantha Pruitt: So it'll be a community that they join if they so choose.
• 9:46
  Samantha Pruitt: Where shit's going down, lady, is going down.
• 9:51
  Samantha Pruitt: So irrelevant of where they come into the program and community, they will drop into education and resources and coaching based on whatever is maybe currently on fire for them, and then they can move into other arenas of their life and chip away at a gradual transformation of everything or really double down on one area let's say it's health and fitness and wellness and they would spend a lot of time with me, or maybe they would be really spending a lot of time with finance or with business development or whatever, depending on what they're up to in their life.
• 10:24
  Samantha Pruitt: All of those resources are under one umbrella, all of us hanging out together.
• 10:31
  Samantha Pruitt: And another reason I'm so excited about being part of that as one of the coaches is I get to play with 18 players every day.
• 10:39
  Samantha Pruitt: Get out of here.
• 10:41
  Samantha Pruitt: I mean seriously, my life won't be getting any better at that point, like that is just what it's about for somebody like me.
• 10:48
  Samantha Pruitt: One of the coaches is I want to be in those spaces, yes, I want to help the people and grow the community, but I want to be with 18 players, and I know, I know you incredibly well, but I know what we will build in terms of that alliance of coaching and educators.
• 11:03
  Samantha Pruitt: It's going to be incredible.
• 11:06
  Samantha Pruitt: Totally totally and just big hearted.
• 11:09
  Polly Mertens: You know, like all love, baby love and people who are like I want you to be your best.
• 11:14
  Polly Mertens: I see you at your best.
• 11:16
  Polly Mertens: What can I do to support you at your best?
• 11:17
  Polly Mertens: And then the coaches you know we're just on fire with each other.
• 11:21
  Polly Mertens: Also, you know, or the collaborators, whatever it attracts, it's like this nucleus, you know.
• 11:24
  Polly Mertens: Or the collaborators, whatever it attracts.
• 11:24
  Polly Mertens: It's like this nucleus, you know.
• 11:27
  Polly Mertens: I kind of figure it like there's a lot of people that they pay a lot with their time.
• 11:33
  Polly Mertens: They don't pay money for watching television.
• 11:35
  Polly Mertens: You know it's like they plug into these networks and these media outlets or whatever and they get fed all this like life, sucking information life, you know, and it's like this is gonna be something you plug into and anytime you go to it you get fed.
• 11:48
  Polly Mertens: You know it's like you're fed your resource.
• 11:50
  Polly Mertens: You come out like right and it's like who doesn't want to be in that network and be feeding it and and supporting it and sharing in it, right?
• 12:01
  Samantha Pruitt: it's a container.
• 12:01
  Polly Mertens: It's a container, yeah, so that's so stay tuned, for that is that.
• 12:04
  Polly Mertens: That gets off the ground and we with everyday awesome, our own media channel is growing.
• 12:09
  Polly Mertens: So you know, we've been like we're almost two years in.
• 12:12
  Polly Mertens: We definitely had our podcasts on audio channels, and now we're getting our videos, like this one, on YouTube.
• 12:18
  Samantha Pruitt: So so excited.
• 12:19
  Samantha Pruitt: Follow us on YouTube.
• 12:21
  Samantha Pruitt: You'll actually see what we look like and hair and makeup still hasn't shown up, I mean, I don't know when they're coming to.
• 12:30
  Samantha Pruitt: You'll see us real live, messy, imperfect.
• 12:35
  Samantha Pruitt: You'll see us real live, messy, imperfect, fucking beautiful.
• 12:41
  Samantha Pruitt: Just raw humans, dude.
• 12:41
  Samantha Pruitt: This is who we are.
• 12:42
  Samantha Pruitt: This is who we want our audience to be.
• 12:43
  Samantha Pruitt: We are not judgmental people.
• 12:44
  Samantha Pruitt: We want all people to be part of this with us and we're going to put out to the world, like we already have been, but much more live, real content of us doing things, working with, with people, being out in this space and sharing some of the little love nuggets you know, Sam jams and polyisms and all the fun things just to keep people kind of ignited and fired up and connected to us.
• 13:10
  Polly Mertens: Totally, Totally.
• 13:11
  Polly Mertens: There's enough, you know, nonsense or fake news or fake whatever, and it's like this will be your home for like real stuff and real nuggets of like what's worked for us or people that we interview.
• 13:22
  Polly Mertens: It's like, yeah, that's.
• 13:23
  Polly Mertens: You know, that's truth, brother, Like I hear you you know, so, so more.
• 13:28
  Polly Mertens: We're growing on that channel.
• 13:29
  Polly Mertens: And then the end of the year we are it's you, yes, something that I've done and you've done, I know of the year we are it's you, yes, something that I've done and you've done, I know.
• 13:37
  Polly Mertens: So in december of 2025, we're going to do a month long don't know exactly how many sessions, but it'll probably be four sessions.
• 13:43
  Polly Mertens: We'll see completing and creating your year.
• 13:47
  Polly Mertens: So create 2025 powerfully.
• 13:49
  Polly Mertens: Put that baby to bed, take all the lessons, all the yummy stuff out of it great and launch and create and create 2026 and new, right, wonderful process, great.
• 13:58
  Polly Mertens: You know, it's amazing how the mind works with, like, the end of the week or the beginning of a month, right, like we, oh yeah, I'll get motivated to start that on the first.
• 14:05
  Polly Mertens: You know it's like there's a big thing in our just circadian about the end of the year.
• 14:09
  Polly Mertens: So let's complete powerfully and we'll walk you through processes that you've done.
• 14:13
  Polly Mertens: I've done journaling.
• 14:13
  Polly Mertens: We'll walk you through processes that you've done.
• 14:15
  Polly Mertens: I've done journaling.
• 14:15
  Polly Mertens: You know, meditations, all that good stuff in community with other human beings getting up to stuff and be able to share that and, like, powerfully, create 2026 anew.
• 14:24
  Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, don't drag the old crap along with you.
• 14:27
  Samantha Pruitt: Only take what's serving you moving forward, and there's processes for that.
• 14:31
  Polly Mertens: Oh yeah, you have to be very intentional about that baggage, yeah.
• 14:37
  Polly Mertens: I had a call the other day.
• 14:38
  Polly Mertens: I was like reaching out to somebody that I hadn't talked to in a long time and just like in a little, you know, I was like, oh, how are you doing Whatever?
• 14:44
  Polly Mertens: And it was just all this share of all the stuff that she's been carrying for years and got some PTSD about this and still wearing the COVID mask, and I was like, whoa, okay, you know, like just kind of carrying that around with her, you know, and I'm like stop it, stop it, you don't need that.
• 15:03
  Samantha Pruitt: Right Now.
• 15:04
  Samantha Pruitt: We'll help them put it all down.
• 15:06
  Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, okay, lighten the load.
• 15:09
  Samantha Pruitt: I'm crazy excited about the last thing we have to share, crazy excited about the last thing we have to share.
• 15:17
  Samantha Pruitt: So it's transformation travel edition.
• 15:24
  Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, so you're a wanderlust.
• 15:25
  Samantha Pruitt: Gypsy, literally.
• 15:25
  Samantha Pruitt: I love to travel.
• 15:26
  Samantha Pruitt: Also, we understand the power of leaving your home and everyday environment in order to really transformate from the inside out, and so we will be hosting a travel edition in 2026, maybe a couple yeah, yeah, we're taught, we're in talks with a company that helps, you know, people like us, bring groups together and like organizes it for us.
• 15:50
  Polly Mertens: Because part of it is like, you know, we're not a mega, mega monopoly here with all kinds of support or whatever.
• 15:56
  Polly Mertens: We do have a team, but it's like we've got this company that's like, hey, we'll do all that, you know all that the logistics for you.
• 16:02
  Polly Mertens: We're like you're hired, okay, let's go, let's go we just want to create the fun, the experiences put people through.
• 16:09
  Polly Mertens: You know challenges, opportunities, experiences that get them inside themselves.
• 16:14
  Polly Mertens: You know learning, growing right, and I'm kind of thinking part scavenger hunt, part inner scavenger hunt, part outer scavenger hunt.
• 16:21
  Samantha Pruitt: There will be some nature involved.
• 16:23
  Samantha Pruitt: We'll be naturing, yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 16:27
  Samantha Pruitt: And growing, growing, so good, so good.
• 16:31
  Polly Mertens: So how do people decide, like, what to do what you know, like they?
• 16:35
  Samantha Pruitt: don't have to decide right now, but what they need to decide right now is they sure the hell better follow us or else they're not going to find out about any of this?
• 16:42
  Samantha Pruitt: So that's the basic is, however you're pursuing yourself your life online.
• 16:48
  Samantha Pruitt: These days, people be following us and we'll put a link in this episode on YouTube and as well as on our social media, when we drop this.
• 16:57
  Samantha Pruitt: Links to all the things and, of course, we'd like to send you an email, because then it'll have the actual invitation to all the events that are going to be going on, and then you can see, you know what's the timeframe, what's the cost associated, what's all involved, and it'll be a menu.
• 17:13
  Samantha Pruitt: Basically, we're going to send you a menu, an appetizer menu for your life.
• 17:17
  Samantha Pruitt: Oh, this is your life.
• 17:19
  Polly Mertens: Pick an appetizer that best with your taste buds, and so you can sign up now just receive those updates as they come out everydayawesomeprojectcom.
• 17:29
  Polly Mertens: So that's just our home for all ways.
• 17:32
  Polly Mertens: You can stay in touch with us, get our updates on social.
• 17:35
  Polly Mertens: Of course, you can follow and friend us there and subscribe here on YouTube, but it's going to be so fun.
• 17:41
  Samantha Pruitt: And the other thing that we're both big fans of doing is somebody can just DM us and have a conversation so they can message us and we'll communicate with them, or we literally will take a phone call and do a little inquiry and unpacking.
• 17:54
  Samantha Pruitt: I mean a brief one, but just to see if, hey, do we, does this resonate with you or not?
• 17:58
  Samantha Pruitt: Is this really based on what you're telling us the right fit, or what of these programs would be the best fit?
• 18:05
  Polly Mertens: Call us up.
• 18:05
  Samantha Pruitt: We're real people.
• 18:06
  Samantha Pruitt: We like to talk to real people.
• 18:08
  Polly Mertens: And you know I have a calendar on my website now for you know, if you want to schedule a discovery session, like let's talk.
• 18:19
  Polly Mertens: Like oh man, I've heard you guys talk about this and I've been wanting to do this in my life and it's like okay, okay, here's what, here's what we, we have for you.
• 18:22
  Polly Mertens: You know so, and we don't bite.
• 18:23
  Polly Mertens: I mean, for God's sake, we're just here to serve people and support them, and sometimes we didn't know, but we might give you a little swift kick sometimes, because that's what you need.
• 18:34
  Samantha Pruitt: But so that's what we're up to.
• 18:37
  Samantha Pruitt: But let's talk about the why.
• 18:39
  Samantha Pruitt: Ok, not only why are we called to do this work?
• 18:43
  Samantha Pruitt: Because we don't know how not to be the people that we are Like you're telling me about.
• 18:49
  Samantha Pruitt: Oh, it's Leo season, no wonder you're all cray cray right now and I just got off this big backpacking solo trip, you know.
• 18:54
  Samantha Pruitt: So I'm coming with a certain energy to the space.
• 18:57
  Samantha Pruitt: But we are literally called to do this work Because my personal reasons are I had my own mental and physical health breakdown at age 30.
• 19:08
  Samantha Pruitt: And I rebuilt my life from scratch.
• 19:11
  Samantha Pruitt: At that point, I mean everything, job, all the things, all the things were broken.
• 19:17
  Samantha Pruitt: At that point, I mean everything, job, all the things, all the things were broken.
• 19:19
  Samantha Pruitt: And during the last 25 years I've learned some things and I committed, even way back then, when I made my initial transformation, to give this service in some way shape or form to humanity, basically anybody that would talk to me or look me in the eyeballs.
• 19:34
  Samantha Pruitt: Could I have some kind of positive impact on them?
• 19:37
  Samantha Pruitt: Could I help them to understand what their own worth and potential are?
• 19:42
  Samantha Pruitt: Could I in some way facilitate a conversation or a connection or some kind of support system to help them see what's possible for them, because I had suffered for so long and you have a not too uncommon story as well and that suffering is real, like we, so identify with that as part of the life journey, and we're here to help people in whatever capacity we can to not suffer and to make changes in their own life, with their own physical health, their emotional health, their financial health, their business health, their relationship health, and so that's why I can't not do this.
• 20:23
  Samantha Pruitt: What about you?
• 20:24
  Polly Mertens: And I think something to keep in mind is like we're still growing, you know, we're still discovering and learning.
• 20:31
  Polly Mertens: I am not here to say, oh, I got it all figured out.
• 20:35
  Polly Mertens: I know all the answers here.
• 20:36
  Polly Mertens: Let me be your guru or something.
• 20:38
  Polly Mertens: It's like.
• 20:39
  Polly Mertens: No, like you know, do have we been through some tunnels and do we?
• 20:42
  Polly Mertens: Are we out in the light and, you know, have been able to look back and go?
• 20:46
  Polly Mertens: You know, can I lean back and help one through?
• 20:48
  Polly Mertens: Can I help someone else through?
• 20:50
  Polly Mertens: Absolutely Right, and we still have our own tunnels that we're growing through.
• 20:54
  Polly Mertens: So this is not the Polly and Sam or end, all be all, but there's some things that we do now and we would love to share that and teach that.
• 21:02
  Polly Mertens: And I just find that and you know, here's my woo, woo.
• 21:05
  Polly Mertens: You know you love this when I have been discovering through the study of something, a body of work that's around human design and gene keys, g-e-n-e gene keys.
• 21:16
  Polly Mertens: That work is a little bit along the lines like of astrology and there's some I Ching in it.
• 21:21
  Polly Mertens: You know things like that.
• 21:22
  Polly Mertens: And this work says that we have like a unique DNA.
• 21:27
  Polly Mertens: That is like you have a fingerprint, I have a fingerprint and we have a fingerprint of DNA and inside of that DNA, are these elements right?
• 21:36
  Polly Mertens: A shallow shadow element, like when we're in our shadow self or our not self, what we tend to do so like.
• 21:41
  Polly Mertens: One of them, for me, is compromise right.
• 21:45
  Polly Mertens: So when I'm compromising my life, when I'm taking work that I don't wanna do, when I'm in a relationship that's not fulfilling, when I'm not feeding my body good food, right, like I feel the shadow side, the darkness, the heaviness.
• 21:57
  Polly Mertens: And when I'm in competence, which is I know what's right for me, I share my gifts with the world.
• 22:03
  Polly Mertens: I'm a yes for the person that I want to be with, right.
• 22:06
  Polly Mertens: When I'm leaning into the competence of like I know right, and trusting that I'm lighter, I'm more in action adventure, you know, and so I've got different ones than we do, and it's like some of mine are leading me do work like this, because I'm just called to share these gifts.
• 22:22
  Polly Mertens: It's like I've accumulated all this stuff.
• 22:24
  Polly Mertens: One of my, my, my gene keys is like sharing my competence, sharing my mastery.
• 22:29
  Polly Mertens: You know, I think a lot of years why I did all the coaching and I just said this the other day one of my keys is around being the confidant, right?
• 22:38
  Polly Mertens: Someone that people can like.
• 22:39
  Polly Mertens: I'm the secrets holder of people's lives, right.
• 22:41
  Polly Mertens: I was telling them.
• 22:42
  Polly Mertens: I was like I don't know why that is.
• 22:44
  Polly Mertens: I don't know why people come to me and they tell me their secrets, whether it's in coaching or just like friendships and stuff.
• 22:49
  Polly Mertens: But they often do, you know, and I don't share it, you know.
• 22:52
  Polly Mertens: But I'm just sort of like this resource house for that right, and that's just how I'm built.
• 22:58
  Polly Mertens: And you the diplomat, right, it's like how you're built.
• 23:01
  Polly Mertens: You're built to help people you know, work well together and whatnot, and so these a lot of work through really, really messy things.
• 23:10
  Samantha Pruitt: I'm an expert in that.
• 23:11
  Samantha Pruitt: I don't know messy things find me, so it's interesting how we attract and people who are having my messy scenarios are really uncomfortable.
• 23:22
  Polly Mertens: Well, untangling you're good at, like the untangling and helping people see the path out and like get where they want to go instead of just, you know, rotating on an endless you know inaction dial.
• 23:35
  Samantha Pruitt: Right, yeah, and it comes from a place of helping people.
• 23:38
  Samantha Pruitt: I had to do this myself and I this is one of the things I feel so strongly about in terms of gifting to others is really really understanding your worth your worth in the world, to yourself, to the world, and just the sense of belonging that comes with that really really deep inner knowing.
• 24:01
  Samantha Pruitt: And that requires work.
• 24:05
  Samantha Pruitt: I mean, we were born with it and then it got taken from us, stripped away, beat out of us, pummeled out of us, convinced out of us, all of those things.
• 24:14
  Samantha Pruitt: And so unpacking that is just something I want everybody to do, because we're on one life cycle that we know of.
• 24:23
  Samantha Pruitt: Hopefully there's more, but there's no guarantees.
• 24:27
  Polly Mertens: One body, one brain, one life cycle, and so really feeling your sense of true worth and belonging in the world, within yourself and within the world, is the most empowering thing that we can give to any other human, and I am going to do that all damn day thing that we can give to any other human, and I am going to do that all damn day, for sure, for sure, so good.
• 24:51
  Polly Mertens: So we hope that what the fuck we're doing now has inspired some really yummy juice inside of you, like if you're fearing, feeling a stirring, like we are like, oh my God, it's like Christmas is coming, like oh my God, what are they going to do next?
• 25:01
  Samantha Pruitt: I can't to do that and I want to be a part of this and that's why we're calling it.
• 25:05
  Samantha Pruitt: That is because people say that to us all the time.
• 25:06
  Polly Mertens: What the hell are you doing now?
• 25:07
  Polly Mertens: What are you?
• 25:07
  Samantha Pruitt: guys doing now?
• 25:08
  Samantha Pruitt: What is it?
• 25:18
  Polly Mertens: Where are you now?
• 25:18
  Polly Mertens: What are you doing?
• 25:19
  Polly Mertens: And we're like, okay, well, that's what we a lot.
• 25:21
  Polly Mertens: You know, I was telling somebody.
• 25:22
  Polly Mertens: I was like, oh yeah, we're going to start.
• 25:24
  Polly Mertens: Whenever she's like where are you going to be, I'm like, yeah, where am I going to be?
• 25:26
  Polly Mertens: I'm not sure by then.
• 25:27
  Polly Mertens: You know, I'll let you know, like in two weeks.
• 25:29
  Polly Mertens: Like I think I'm going to be in Canada here soon.
• 25:31
  Polly Mertens: You know, that's calling me.
• 25:43
  Samantha Pruitt: You're we just don't know people, but it's going to be fun.
• 25:44
  Samantha Pruitt: So we want you along for the ride.
• 25:44
  Samantha Pruitt: So, totally, totally.
• 25:45
  Samantha Pruitt: And so if somebody is listening to this and this is sparking a fire, maybe a little spark, a smoldering, smoky spark inside their spirit, inside their soul, there's something there to not ignore.
• 26:02
  Samantha Pruitt: Don't pour water on it.
• 26:03
  Samantha Pruitt: Don't pour water on it.
• 26:05
  Samantha Pruitt: It's there for a reason, okay.
• 26:08
  Polly Mertens: Yeah, I think too many people.
• 26:09
  Polly Mertens: One of the things that I have learned from many years of not starting and not doing things and watching life just slip on by years of you know, there it goes up, you know, or like having an idea, and then like, oh, somebody else comes out with it.
• 26:22
  Polly Mertens: I was like damn.
• 26:23
  Polly Mertens: I had that.
• 26:24
  Polly Mertens: You know, whatever it's like, if you have it like lean into it, like take an action, get like, oh, I should, just I'm going to message them some message, some way of connecting with us, or do something in your life.
• 26:36
  Polly Mertens: If this is, if you're called to talk to us, connect with us, great.
• 26:40
  Polly Mertens: Or if it's like, oh, I need to call that person, or whatever, do not wait, don't like, don't even wait another five minutes, like after this, do it.
• 26:49
  Samantha Pruitt: So exactly, exactly, and what we kind of outlined at the beginning in terms of the variety of things we're going to be up to.
• 26:55
  Samantha Pruitt: One of the reasons that there's such a variety a, we like a lot of action and adventure and fun things to get up to, and we're creative humans.
• 27:04
  Samantha Pruitt: But for the listener, for the participant, for the human on the other end of this voice, everything there is affordable, so there's a variety of opportunities.
• 27:17
  Samantha Pruitt: Right, we wanted to.
• 27:18
  Samantha Pruitt: Really this was very important to us when we decided to start creating programs.
• 27:21
  Samantha Pruitt: Is you know?
• 27:22
  Samantha Pruitt: We want all comers.
• 27:25
  Polly Mertens: Tears, yeah, tears of experience like what you're up to.
• 27:28
  Samantha Pruitt: Yeah Well, depending on where you're up to, depending on what your budget is, depending on what your timeline is, depending on what phase of life you're in, depending on 50,000 things that are called you, there's going to be something for everybody.
• 27:39
  Samantha Pruitt: We don't want to feel like people maybe are overwhelmed by something that feels too big, whether a time commitment or financially or whatever.
• 27:51
  Samantha Pruitt: Maybe that's just not a phase of life that they're at right now, but they want to get started, they want to start moving in the direction of their dreams.
• 27:59
  Samantha Pruitt: So maybe they can't drive 100 miles an hour right now, but they can start taking steps in that direction.
• 28:05
  Samantha Pruitt: And so we are open to all of that, not having an expectation that don't come unless you're an advanced student of personal growth.
• 28:13
  Samantha Pruitt: That's not for you know anybody Just come willing to learn, come willing to grow If you're a human and frankly, we would take animals if we can get the animals to sign no, I want to.
• 28:25
  Polly Mertens: I want to caveat that no, we don't want people who don't want to act oh, that's true, like, like you have to have a propensity for like I want to do, because if you, we're not going to hang out with people that are just like talking, yeah, like more of the same, we're not into more of the same anything, anything like we embrace change, we embrace growth, we embrace transformation wholeheartedly.
• 28:47
  Polly Mertens: If you just want to stay the same, if you just want your life, you know, it's like I got a nice comfortable life, have a nice comfortable life, great, share it with us.
• 28:54
  Polly Mertens: No judgment, totally, that's what we want people to have is a life that they enjoy and are thriving in it.
• 29:01
  Polly Mertens: But if you're not experiencing that and you want to get up to something and you're like I'm afraid, afraid of whatever, right that's okay.
• 29:11
  Polly Mertens: Like we've done things, afraid too, right.
• 29:14
  Polly Mertens: But just be like okay, I'm gonna do this afraid, and we, we got you, we got you right, because we're doing things afraid too.
• 29:20
  Polly Mertens: That's true.
• 29:22
  Samantha Pruitt: That's true.
• 29:23
  Samantha Pruitt: Thanks for clarifying.
• 29:23
  Samantha Pruitt: Yeah, this isn't the comfort zone, but we will be there by your side for all the fun things that are called growth Comfort with discomfort.
• 29:32
  Polly Mertens: That's one of your things.
• 29:33
  Polly Mertens: It's like get comfortable being uncomfortable.
• 29:35
  Polly Mertens: Yeah, all right Any one thing that we want to leave.
• 29:45
  Samantha Pruitt: I would say, take some small action some action to stay in touch with us subscribe, connect or stay in touch.
• 29:49
  Samantha Pruitt: Connect or stay in touch.
• 29:50
  Samantha Pruitt: Connect right now.
• 29:51
  Samantha Pruitt: We're cool, we're open to that.
• 29:53
  Samantha Pruitt: Let's chat or at least follow along and stay in touch so you can see what the opportunities are when the menu gets published.
• 30:01
  Polly Mertens: Yeah, and if it's?
• 30:02
  Samantha Pruitt: because I know, because I know you're hungry.
• 30:07
  Polly Mertens: Yeah, we got, we got.
• 30:08
  Polly Mertens: We got something to eat over here.
• 30:09
  Polly Mertens: We got something to eat for you, we got some good nutrition.
• 30:11
  Polly Mertens: Get you up, get you up, get your energy going.
• 30:13
  Polly Mertens: So, all right, lady, all right.
• 30:16
  Polly Mertens: What do you have to say?
• 30:18
  Samantha Pruitt: Looks like we're doing this.
• 30:19
  Samantha Pruitt: Yes, we are, it's there we're putting it out to the world, that means it's actually happening.
• 30:24
  Polly Mertens: It is.
• 30:24
  Polly Mertens: We've already spoken it, it's done.
• 30:26
  Polly Mertens: It's done.
• 30:26
  Polly Mertens: I dig it.
• 30:27
  Polly Mertens: So, as we close, what do we want to tell our beautiful humans Remember?
• 30:35
  Polly Mertens: What do they want to remember?
• 30:36
  Samantha Pruitt: How your life feels is more important than how it looks.
• 30:42
  Polly Mertens: Easy to speak, not always easy to live and remember.
• 30:44
  Polly Mertens: Every day is your opportunity to find your awesome.