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The Pressure of Finding Your Purpose Pt. 2 · Deeply Well with Devi Brown

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Speaker 1: welcome back another episode of the Dropping Gyms podcast per usual.
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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, So we're here another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Dropping Gyms podcast. Today we're going to be revisiting one
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Speaker 1: of the classic episodes of this show, The Pressures of
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Speaker 1: Finding Your Purpose. I did an episode on purpose last
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Speaker 1: year and it became a runaway hit of the show.
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Speaker 1: That episode, along with conversations about God and grief, UM,
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Speaker 1: got so many plays and so much feedback, and everyone
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Speaker 1: has been consistently asking me for a part two to
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Speaker 1: that episode, and so today that's what we're going to
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Speaker 1: dive into. You know, when I first recorded that episode,
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Speaker 1: the Pressure of Finding Your Purpose, it was last year,
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Speaker 1: pre pandemic, and I felt really connected to everything that
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Speaker 1: I shared. But now that I am a new version
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Speaker 1: of me, as are we all, now that I have
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Speaker 1: shed the girl that the woman that voiced that podcast
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Speaker 1: and shared her thoughts now that she's been shed and
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Speaker 1: there's a new, expended, glorious woman in her space in
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Speaker 1: her place, I wanted to update some thoughts in some
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Speaker 1: ways that I've been exploring purpose and the way it
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Speaker 1: shows up in my life in our new normal. So
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to dive into this conversation to day, and
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Speaker 1: if you haven't yet, I do highly recommend that before
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Speaker 1: we get into this episode, you do take a moment
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Speaker 1: to listen to the episode from last year that's titled
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Speaker 1: The Pressure of Finding Your Purpose, because I think it's
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Speaker 1: going to really help with some of what we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: In that episode, we really unpacked, like what are the
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Speaker 1: definitions of purpose? And I'm talking the micro and the
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Speaker 1: macro levels, right, like what how is web start define
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Speaker 1: and purpose? How's our church defined and purpose? How's our
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Speaker 1: soul defined and purpose? Because what I came defined when
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Speaker 1: we explored it in that episode was really how so
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Speaker 1: many of us are walking around in judgment of ourselves
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Speaker 1: and our lives because we don't understand the true meaning
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Speaker 1: of that word. And so whatever projection we've put onto
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Speaker 1: that word, whatever projections we've been putting onto ourselves usually
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Speaker 1: manifests as even more experiences of lack or confusion or
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Speaker 1: frustration as we attempt to do what is very literally,
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Speaker 1: in my belief, um, the entire point of being here.
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Speaker 1: You know, uh, I always I love to share this,
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Speaker 1: but it's so funny to me sometimes just a little
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Speaker 1: giggle when I hear people talking about purpose with such
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Speaker 1: nonchalance or with um with such a projected urgency. You know, this,
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Speaker 1: this idea that in one weekend of vision boarding you'll
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Speaker 1: find your purpose, or this idea that with one book
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Speaker 1: you'll find your purpose, and then your purpose will be
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Speaker 1: your job. And now you've made it, and now you
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Speaker 1: get to tell everybody about your purpose. And that's not
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Speaker 1: how it works, and that's not how it feels, and
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Speaker 1: it's not designed to be that way. You know, your
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Speaker 1: purpose is something to be savored. Your purpose is a
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Speaker 1: constant surrender and a constant evolution in the big and
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Speaker 1: the small and the unseen and the scene ways. You know,
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Speaker 1: when we tap into our purpose, the way that I
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Speaker 1: believe is that we are tapped into our godliness. We
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Speaker 1: are tapped into our soul's mission of why we came here,
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Speaker 1: why we exist here, what we are to be, what
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Speaker 1: we are to do, and so as we talk about
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Speaker 1: purpose today, and I'm gonna lead you on a meditation
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Speaker 1: in a few moments around purpose. But as we get
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Speaker 1: ready to kind of lock into this conversation about purpose,
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Speaker 1: I do want to really encourage everyone to leave the
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Speaker 1: judgments for yourself at the door. Don't come into this
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Speaker 1: safe container judging yourself. It's not allowed. What we do
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Speaker 1: on this show, any of the topics that we explore,
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Speaker 1: any of the deepenings that we come into, it is
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Speaker 1: all about a gentleness with self, a forgiveness of self,
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Speaker 1: a compassion of self. So wherever you find yourself on
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Speaker 1: this quote unquote purpose journey, whether you believe to be
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Speaker 1: in yours or you feel like it's beyond your grasp,
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Speaker 1: just know you are enough right now. Your life matters,
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Speaker 1: has value, is cherish, is important, and God commanded you
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Speaker 1: to be here. And so regardless of any skill sets
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Speaker 1: you have or don't, regardless of how life has shaped
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Speaker 1: up thus far, we're not going to argue with God
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Speaker 1: today about who you're called to be. We're gonna surrender
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna open and we're gonna see what's available
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Speaker 1: to us. So that is the plan for my thoughts
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Speaker 1: on purpose. Uh, And as we get started, let's go
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Speaker 1: ahead and dig into real briefly some of the previous
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Speaker 1: definitions used for purpose. And again I really expand on
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Speaker 1: this on that previous episode that I did, so just
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Speaker 1: you know, go back and do the things. However, however,
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Speaker 1: podcasts work do that. So let's think about some of
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Speaker 1: the definitions of purpose. You know, purpose is what I believe,
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Speaker 1: the reason for which something is done or created, having
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Speaker 1: one's intention or objective. And the funny thing about that
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Speaker 1: is that is actually like the Webster's Dictionary definition. Right,
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Speaker 1: let's save for that that line for a second. The
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Speaker 1: reason for which something is done or created the purpose
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Speaker 1: of it. Now, let's apply that to our lives and
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Speaker 1: the way we experience God and the way we experience ourselves.
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Speaker 1: So purpose, the reason for which something is done or created,
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Speaker 1: very literally the root of our existence. And I just
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Speaker 1: want to drill that home because I really want to
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Speaker 1: disconnect this idea that purpose has to show up as
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Speaker 1: a job title. I think it's very dangerous to do that,
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Speaker 1: and it's very minimizing to do that. Like, our life
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Speaker 1: is so much bigger than who we work for and
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Speaker 1: what we happen to be doing at this moment in time,
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Speaker 1: um and what our title is, you know, And so
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Speaker 1: when we think about purpose as it relates to our career,
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Speaker 1: sometimes yes, the two intersect, you know. In this moment,
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Speaker 1: I believe that my purpose is beautifully aligned with what
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Speaker 1: I happened to do for work. However, if that was
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Speaker 1: not the case, I still have purpose. And I've known
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Speaker 1: of my purpose even before I had the opportunities that
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Speaker 1: I have in this moment. And it's really staying connected
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Speaker 1: to the faith in your purpose and the understanding that
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Speaker 1: Divine has put on your heart that you know, even
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Speaker 1: if it's not quantifiable, and even if the rest of
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Speaker 1: the world has not yet taken notice. And so it's
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Speaker 1: so important to sit in that. I recently did alive
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Speaker 1: um with the Tone It Up Community with Karina Don.
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Speaker 1: She invited me onto her platform and she and I
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Speaker 1: had a really beautiful opportunity to become familiar with each
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Speaker 1: other working together on a Chopra virtual retreat that we
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Speaker 1: did with Deepak Chopra last year that I hosted. And
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Speaker 1: she has created just something phenomen and all just an incredible,
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Speaker 1: incredible business with her purpose with the Tone It Up Community.
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Speaker 1: So shout out to everybody to join me there. But
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Speaker 1: you know something, one of the things that came up
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Speaker 1: when we were doing that live is someone shared you know, well,
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Speaker 1: I believe my purpose is my singing, is being a singer, right,
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Speaker 1: And what I thought was really beautiful about that was,
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Speaker 1: you know, she very clearly identified one of I'm sure
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Speaker 1: the gifts that God gave her, which is her voice,
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Speaker 1: which is a beautiful voice, and ability to have something
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Speaker 1: that brings people joy come out of your own body,
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Speaker 1: um or that makes people stop and awe, come out
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Speaker 1: of your own body. But what is important to me
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Speaker 1: is that when we're defining what purposes for ourselves, it
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Speaker 1: really isn't in the quantifiable pieces. So being a singer
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Speaker 1: is not her purpose. So that is a job, right
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Speaker 1: Like being a singer is typically the offshoot of being
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Speaker 1: able to sing. It's something that you do and can
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Speaker 1: potentially do well and for money, but that's not required.
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Speaker 1: And so if you sing but you are not a
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Speaker 1: known singer, you might feel like you are falling short
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Speaker 1: of your purpose. But that's not true at all, because
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Speaker 1: the mechanism of purpose is the gift. It is not
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Speaker 1: you having to come up with all the ways that
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Speaker 1: the gift is received. The way the gift is received
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Speaker 1: is in God's hands. How you maneuver once you've identified
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Speaker 1: the gift is the responsibility of your purpose on your shoulders.
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Speaker 1: And so when I was kind of speaking to that
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Speaker 1: question on the live, it really brought forward for me
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Speaker 1: that you know, she can sing her gift is to
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Speaker 1: be an instrument of God. Her gift, her purpose is
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Speaker 1: to be an instrument of God. However that manifests, and
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Speaker 1: so that particular gift, gift is one aspect of her purpose.
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Speaker 1: But she doesn't even have to make a living doing
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Speaker 1: that to be in her purpose, right, And I think
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Speaker 1: that's where it's really important that we start dissecting what
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Speaker 1: is our connectedness to society when we view ourselves and
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Speaker 1: our purpose and capitalism and consumerism, and what is actually
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Speaker 1: our connectedness to source, to the creator and the way
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Speaker 1: we are looking to co create a life of purpose
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Speaker 1: and impact. So that's just something I want you to
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Speaker 1: keep kind of in your mind's eye as we continue
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Speaker 1: this conversation and as you explore your purpose in your
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Speaker 1: life off of this show. But when we really think
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Speaker 1: about the way purpose shows up for us, it's in
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Speaker 1: all of the ways we are able to serve, and
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Speaker 1: that doesn't have to mean that you're receiving money for
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Speaker 1: it or you're receiving the job title for it. Um.
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Speaker 1: Something that was brought up in that life that I
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Speaker 1: did too, was was around you know, UM, really wanting
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Speaker 1: purpose to be associated with career and wanting to have
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Speaker 1: a life where what you did for a living was
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Speaker 1: connected to your purpose and all that is absolutely possible.
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Speaker 1: I mean, once listen at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: when you fly and find the flow of what your
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Speaker 1: gifts are from God and what your purposes, everything aligns
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Speaker 1: around it because that's why you're here. But it's important
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Speaker 1: to chase the gift and not chase the job. All
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Speaker 1: of that will come. You know, when when Source created
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Speaker 1: us and brought us to Earth, there was no societal
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Speaker 1: system in place yet, right, depending on what your belief
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Speaker 1: system is, and you know when you think time began,
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Speaker 1: even still, there was no societal system that was there
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Speaker 1: when man first entered earth, you know. And so the
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Speaker 1: idea that something we created like work, like jobs, like society, time, money,
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Speaker 1: all these things. To think that that had any real
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Speaker 1: connectedness to God, it I think really undercuts the grandness
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Speaker 1: of God. Those are things that we put in place
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Speaker 1: to understand our experiences, to control our experiences, to create
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Speaker 1: systems that quantify our experiences, and structure, you know, to
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Speaker 1: support it. But God didn't put you on earth saying
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Speaker 1: you shall be a lawyer, you my child, shall be
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Speaker 1: a doctor, you shall be whatever right, You shall be
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Speaker 1: someone's wife, you shall be someone's this. That's not really
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Speaker 1: how it works. You know. We created those words, we
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Speaker 1: created those positions, We created those categories and things, and
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Speaker 1: then the expectation is that something we created God would
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Speaker 1: perfectly formulate and assimilate us in those packages. And it's
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Speaker 1: the reversal of that, you know. It's really our gifts
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Speaker 1: or how we best communicate with Him, Him, Her Father, Mother, God,
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Speaker 1: for the highest good of ourselves and all concerned. That's
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Speaker 1: how I live it, That's how I understand it. So
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about ways to really begin to
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Speaker 1: notice where your purpose is and I'm gonna I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: tackle it from my new experiences in this pandemic. But again,
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Speaker 1: if you kind of want to get the full breakdown,
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Speaker 1: go back to that first episode. The pressure of finding
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Speaker 1: your purpose. But when I think about purpose in this moment,
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Speaker 1: in time, you know, something that I think has been
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Speaker 1: a tremendous gift of the pandemic for those that really
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Speaker 1: took this as an opportunity to self investigate and open
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Speaker 1: wounds and clear out traumas and dissolve, you know, any
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Speaker 1: against nous of ourselves that we may be holding. This
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Speaker 1: moment in time has really allowed us to see how
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Speaker 1: worthy we are without all the trappings of everything else.
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Speaker 1: You know, many people have used this moment to meet
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Speaker 1: themselves more deeply, to heal aspects of themselves that have
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Speaker 1: been hidden, to really be with themselves and really all
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Speaker 1: the grief that comes with that, and all the messiness
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Speaker 1: that comes with that, and all the joy that comes
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Speaker 1: with that, and all the love that comes with God.
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Speaker 1: You know. But in that something has become really brilliantly clear,
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Speaker 1: I think for so many of us, and that our
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Speaker 1: worth is not going to be tied to society. My
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Speaker 1: worth is not tied to what someone's perception of me is.
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Speaker 1: My worth is not tied to who's cutting me a
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Speaker 1: check or what my job title is. My worth is
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Speaker 1: my worth because God commanded me to be here, and
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Speaker 1: I'm showing up for myself, period. And I don't have
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Speaker 1: any rigidity about how that has to look for me
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Speaker 1: to feel good about me, or for me to feel
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Speaker 1: good about my life, or for me to share my
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Speaker 1: purpose and share my gifts with other people and share
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Speaker 1: my light with other people. So as we investigate purpose,
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Speaker 1: and you know, those tips are kind of in that
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Speaker 1: other episode, but as we investigate purpose, I think a
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Speaker 1: real deepening of your understanding now outside of you know,
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Speaker 1: some of the tips that I've given over time is
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Speaker 1: like sitting in meditation and really exploring that inner child you,
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Speaker 1: you know, exploring what are the pieces of you that
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Speaker 1: meets you light up that had nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: job title or money. What were those things that made
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Speaker 1: you feel really yummy about yourself are really seen or
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Speaker 1: ways that you knew you were making a difference to
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Speaker 1: somebody else just naturally and effortlessly. You know, as we
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Speaker 1: explore purpose, it's so important to explore what where is
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Speaker 1: there ease? What are the qualities about yourself? What are
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Speaker 1: the ways you show up in the world that have
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Speaker 1: ease to them. Typically, the area of your life that
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Speaker 1: has the greatest impact with the greatest ease is the
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Speaker 1: thing you need to be paying the most attention to,
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Speaker 1: but sometimes it doesn't seem so great or so grand.
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Speaker 1: But again, it's about the gift. It's about the characteristic,
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Speaker 1: it's about the essence of you and the energy. Once
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Speaker 1: you identify that, you can quantify it till you're blue
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Speaker 1: in the face. You can you can funnel it into
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Speaker 1: a host of different careers. And you know, an example
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Speaker 1: for me to use with myself is that I think
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Speaker 1: I came to this earth after many, many lifetimes of
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Speaker 1: being here in other places, with a certain psychological skill set,
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Speaker 1: a certain ability to express myself that, even at a
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Speaker 1: young age, felt really fine tuned without requiring a lot
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Speaker 1: of me. Being able to talk, being able to show
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Speaker 1: up and speak and share ideas or hold space for
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Speaker 1: other people is my default setting. And so any work
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Speaker 1: that I do in the world, even though I've had
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Speaker 1: to work really hard at it and really practice and
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Speaker 1: really bring on more skill sets, But everything that I
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Speaker 1: do in the world, it's the offshoot of that. It's
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Speaker 1: the offshoot of those abilities, of that way of being.
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Speaker 1: You know, I believe that the way that I love
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Speaker 1: myself and I'm able to love other people is a
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Speaker 1: big part of my purpose. It's something that has always
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Speaker 1: been a part of me, even in times of my
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Speaker 1: life that were really challenging, and even in times of
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Speaker 1: my life as a kid where people made me feel
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say made me feel um, but
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Speaker 1: where I misunderstood the wounds of other people and internalized
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Speaker 1: it as things that were not special about me, Like
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Speaker 1: my exuberance. I'm a very enthusiastic, bubbly person. I love
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Speaker 1: to smile, and it's my choice to smile. You know,
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Speaker 1: It's not it's not because I'm always happy, and it's
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Speaker 1: not because you know, I don't see things that are happening.
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Speaker 1: It's just I enjoy it. I enjoy feeling good, and
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Speaker 1: whatever I need to do to do that from the
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Speaker 1: inside out is a non negotiable and it's my top priority.
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Speaker 1: But when I was a kid, a lot of comments
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Speaker 1: I be is like, ah, you always smiling? What you
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Speaker 1: always so happy about? You know? And I took that
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Speaker 1: to mean that something was wrong with the way that
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Speaker 1: I was being and actuality. I was as being a
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Speaker 1: mirror for the wounds of adults and the wounds of
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Speaker 1: people that were feeling hurt and disconnected from themselves, and
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Speaker 1: so there was a projection on me for that and
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Speaker 1: now that I know that, I don't have to take
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Speaker 1: that on. So it's very similar when we start exploring
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Speaker 1: our gifts, people don't have to get it. There's something
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Speaker 1: I saw on Instagram that was like, if people don't
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Speaker 1: understand you're calling, that's fine because it wasn't a conference call,
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Speaker 1: you know. So it's the stronger you get in your
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Speaker 1: sense of self and the more disciplines you get in
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Speaker 1: the cultivation of your spiritual confidence, you will manifest so
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Speaker 1: much effortless ease around how you're able to show up
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Speaker 1: with your gifts in the world and the kind of
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Speaker 1: opportunities and people that you're able to magnetize to yourself.
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Speaker 1: You know, two years ago I said I want my
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Speaker 1: life to be effortless, ease and joy, you know, And
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Speaker 1: that came with a lot of excavation, that came with
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Speaker 1: um a lot of dark knights of the soul before
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Speaker 1: the ease showed up. But I had to clear the path.
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Speaker 1: And so that's really the same for us when it
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Speaker 1: comes even to this idea of purpose work or to
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Speaker 1: this idea of world impact. You know, where do you
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Speaker 1: need to clear the path and where do you need
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Speaker 1: to lean into the ease? To the simplicity, to the
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Speaker 1: effortlessness of your essence, of you being you. Purpose is
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Speaker 1: not hard. We can build skills around it. But the
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Speaker 1: core of your purpose is your innate, authentic self, at rest,
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Speaker 1: at ease, and everything else is how you choose to
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Speaker 1: build upon it and show up in the world. So
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Speaker 1: we think about cultivating our purpose. Yes, look for your gifts,
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Speaker 1: what has ease? Ask around people you trust and know,
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Speaker 1: how do they see you, how do they experience you?
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Speaker 1: How do they experience the strongest, most vibrant part of
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Speaker 1: who you are? And then another side of that is
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Speaker 1: what wounds are blocking your purpose? You know, very often
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Speaker 1: times we're not able to connect to the depth of
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Speaker 1: our purpose because all of our woundings is in the way,
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Speaker 1: all of the things that have not yet been looked
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Speaker 1: at or been processed that keeps you from your purpose.
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Speaker 1: I guarantee you you're not going to be able to
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Speaker 1: show up in the world is your authentic self. And
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Speaker 1: that gift of your purpose without exploring your shadows, without
21:34
Speaker 1: exploring your wounds, without being honest with yourself, and without
21:39
Speaker 1: beginning those beautiful surrenders, you know, without excavating and having
21:47
Speaker 1: that self inquiry because so much of our purpose is
21:51
Speaker 1: also around how we can move through difficulties. For some
21:57
Speaker 1: of us, our purpose is found in the grace we
22:01
Speaker 1: manifest in tragedy, or the ways that we stopped betraying
22:07
Speaker 1: ourselves are the ways that we show up for ourselves
22:10
Speaker 1: fully with enthusiasm. You know, I feel really, really strongly
22:17
Speaker 1: that so much of a deepening of my own purpose,
22:22
Speaker 1: and this is the part that gets really exciting for
22:25
Speaker 1: me and for all of us. Like I've known that
22:28
Speaker 1: a lot of my purpose has always been rooted around
22:31
Speaker 1: my voice, UM, my storytelling, my communication. Always been a
22:37
Speaker 1: big communicator since I was a kid, went to college college,
22:41
Speaker 1: you know, participated in debate. Um, I was a broadcast
22:45
Speaker 1: journalism student. I started my career in radio, worked in
22:49
Speaker 1: radio for over a decade, so I was always utilizing
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Speaker 1: my gifts. But the deepening of my purpose came my
22:56
Speaker 1: ability to really effortlessly use my gifts into service to
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Speaker 1: the collective and service to my highest good and the
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Speaker 1: highest good of others came when I started exploring all
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Speaker 1: the things I didn't accept about myself, all the things
23:09
Speaker 1: I didn't like about myself, all the areas where I
23:13
Speaker 1: was so profoundly disappointed by people or deeply betrayed by people,
23:17
Speaker 1: are broken. When I started really getting into those crevices,
23:22
Speaker 1: whoop the level of freedom that that brought, the level
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Speaker 1: of clarity that that brought, and the depth of understanding
23:30
Speaker 1: of how I was meant to be used as a tool.
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Speaker 1: You know, purpose is not about self grandizing. Purpose is
23:37
Speaker 1: not about how other people perceive you and what you're doing.
23:41
Speaker 1: Purpose is not about you having these celebrations of yourself,
23:46
Speaker 1: but always celebrate yourself. Always celebrate yourself. But purpose is
23:50
Speaker 1: not rooted into how quote unquote societally successful you are,
23:55
Speaker 1: how much money you make. Purpose is did in the
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Speaker 1: impact of your gifts and your authenticity being generously and
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Speaker 1: effortlessly and fully given away for the highest good of all.
24:12
Speaker 1: So with that as a part of it, again, you
24:15
Speaker 1: can connect your purpose to all of the things. I
24:22
Speaker 1: said this in this last episode, in that last episode,
24:24
Speaker 1: and it remains true today. You know, when you've activated
24:28
Speaker 1: your purpose, whatever you do can have purpose in it.
24:31
Speaker 1: If you find yourself in a season where you're on sabbatical,
24:34
Speaker 1: maybe you're not working, maybe you're taking care of home,
24:37
Speaker 1: your purpose can and will still still show up in
24:41
Speaker 1: those areas because it's not necessary for you to make
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Speaker 1: money to be in purpose. But I will say, when
24:47
Speaker 1: you've tapped into your purpose, you tend to magnetize things
24:52
Speaker 1: to you effortlessly. Because a major shift in your being happens,
24:55
Speaker 1: a major shift in your consciousness happens. There is this ascension,
24:59
Speaker 1: in this elevated nous about why you're here and what
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Speaker 1: you're here to do. And the byproduct of that is
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Speaker 1: just being a master manifesto and alcomizing and really calling
25:13
Speaker 1: things to you and not having to chase the things.
25:16
Speaker 1: My season of chasing is complete, that karma is complete,
25:21
Speaker 1: that circle has been finished. I don't chase anything. I
25:25
Speaker 1: show up, I work hard. I'm the fullest version of myself, transparently, authentically.
25:32
Speaker 1: I study, I train, I build my skills, and then
25:36
Speaker 1: I magnetize to me. And so that's the space you
25:40
Speaker 1: want to fill when you're in purpose. Other people don't
25:42
Speaker 1: have to know what my purpose is. No one has
25:45
Speaker 1: to think I'm air quotes successful by any means. That
25:49
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But I have to feel good about me.
25:53
Speaker 1: I don't want to be in a life where I don't.
25:56
Speaker 1: That to me would be the most awful way of
25:59
Speaker 1: being feeling good about myself, not feeling good about my life.
26:04
Speaker 1: And we'll have those phases, we all dip in and
26:06
Speaker 1: out of that, and there's no shame in that. But
26:09
Speaker 1: when you're willing to investigate yourself, the times that that
26:12
Speaker 1: happen and the bounce back from it so much faster,
26:17
Speaker 1: less and less are you experiencing that is your barrier.
26:20
Speaker 1: And it's more about how can I shine even more
26:23
Speaker 1: of me out into the world, and whatever is meant
26:26
Speaker 1: to happen from that will So investigating your wounds, getting
26:31
Speaker 1: clear where am I being blocked? Where am I blocking myself?
26:34
Speaker 1: Where am I sabotaging myself? Around purpose? You know, if
26:38
Speaker 1: you're scared to be you, you're not necessarily going to
26:42
Speaker 1: be gifted the fullness of your purpose. You have to
26:45
Speaker 1: be prepared to wield it. Again, it's not a job title.
26:49
Speaker 1: It's not something that you know someone else is going
26:52
Speaker 1: to validate you for, someone else is going to pick
26:55
Speaker 1: you for. You have already been chosen and yours are
27:00
Speaker 1: already inside of you. You're waiting for them, You're waiting
27:04
Speaker 1: to see if they come, and they're there. Now you
27:08
Speaker 1: just have to press activate. You just have to press
27:11
Speaker 1: goal on them. But they are available to you, they
27:14
Speaker 1: are ready. So let's get clear on it. You know,
27:18
Speaker 1: let's get clear. Let's get clear any areas where wounds
27:22
Speaker 1: are blocking our purpose, any areas where we need to
27:24
Speaker 1: be deprogrammed and really think about life again. You know,
27:28
Speaker 1: back to the earlier example in this episode that I
27:30
Speaker 1: talked about, like, start investigating your belief system, start investigating
27:36
Speaker 1: your value system. What do you place value on, what
27:40
Speaker 1: do you perceive yourself to be lacking, and then reverse
27:44
Speaker 1: all of those thoughts and statements about you. You lack nothing,
27:49
Speaker 1: You have everything, but you have to move the wounds
27:54
Speaker 1: and you have to stand in your power, and then
27:57
Speaker 1: you have to be willing to show up with all
28:00
Speaker 1: of your gifts with no expectation. Purpose is not a
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Speaker 1: feather in our cap. If you're looking to find purpose
28:12
Speaker 1: because you think it will give you confidence and self love,
28:16
Speaker 1: it's the other way around, or it's both at the
28:18
Speaker 1: same time. But don't look at purpose to be that
28:22
Speaker 1: feather in your cap that validates you and then gives
28:25
Speaker 1: worth to you or gives perceived worth about you through
28:30
Speaker 1: other people's eyes. Purpose isn't about boasting. Purpose is about
28:38
Speaker 1: humbly gratefully surrendering and sharing all of you and having
28:44
Speaker 1: no fear around how it's received. And then we have
28:50
Speaker 1: to really sit inside of ourselves and appreciate purpose in
28:56
Speaker 1: all the ways that it presents itself and all the
28:58
Speaker 1: levels of being that we're at. You know, when we
29:02
Speaker 1: tap into our purpose, it's letting it flow, letting it evolve.
29:06
Speaker 1: If you told me ten years ago, fifteen years ago
29:10
Speaker 1: that the way my purpose would manifest, that i'd be,
29:13
Speaker 1: you know, leading daily meditations on a global app, that
29:16
Speaker 1: that's how I'd be sharing myself with the world, or
29:20
Speaker 1: on this podcast or all of the things, writing a
29:24
Speaker 1: book on crystals and now writing my second book, you know,
29:27
Speaker 1: I there's no way I could have believed it because
29:31
Speaker 1: I didn't even know there was a wellness industry. Definitely
29:36
Speaker 1: what it was wasn't then what it is now. Um,
29:39
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't have even been able to see that.
29:41
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have even known I could trust it, you know,
29:43
Speaker 1: And that's that's sometimes the hard part about surrender and
29:46
Speaker 1: getting started. As humans, our brains are wired to measure
29:51
Speaker 1: things around predictive behavior. Can I predict and perceive an outcome?
29:58
Speaker 1: And then I will find safety in it, then I
30:00
Speaker 1: can do it well. When it comes to us transforming ourselves,
30:04
Speaker 1: that's not possible because how can you predict what you've
30:07
Speaker 1: never been? How can you predict what you've never known?
30:12
Speaker 1: And so that's where that beautiful surrender comes in. That's
30:14
Speaker 1: where that real opportunity to feel full with your own
30:19
Speaker 1: validation and with divine sources validation, that's where that really
30:24
Speaker 1: comes in. So then when your purpose, when the fullness
30:27
Speaker 1: of it is unlocked or more is revealed to you,
30:31
Speaker 1: you're given more responsibility for the way that you're going
30:34
Speaker 1: to show up, You're given larger platforms, you're given a
30:36
Speaker 1: greater level of this worldly three D earthly success, you know.
30:43
Speaker 1: But it's really important to get clear on what your
30:46
Speaker 1: value is and how you feel about you first, because
30:50
Speaker 1: the work will always get done. The work will always
30:55
Speaker 1: get done, and not on your timeline. So if there's
30:59
Speaker 1: any part of this self investigation or this work that
31:03
Speaker 1: you're avoiding, that's okay, go at your own pace, that
31:07
Speaker 1: is okay, But just no, it's got to come to
31:11
Speaker 1: the surface. And so if you know what's there and
31:14
Speaker 1: you're avoiding it, you then allow the universe to surprise you.
31:18
Speaker 1: With your timeline of healing, and so that can show
31:21
Speaker 1: up in a multitude of ways that don't always feel
31:24
Speaker 1: good or that sometimes can derail your highest vision and
31:30
Speaker 1: what you believe your path to be. So let's create
31:34
Speaker 1: our own timelines for our success and our healing, you know,
31:38
Speaker 1: and really really freely and with joyful discipline and enthusiasm, like,
31:43
Speaker 1: let's dive into those darker places and let's just see
31:46
Speaker 1: what we find. Let's see what comes out. Hold that thought.
31:52
Speaker 1: We are coming right back. I had a really cool
32:08
Speaker 1: full circle moment this week, and I'm going to share
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Speaker 1: this before we get into the meditation. It was really
32:14
Speaker 1: a cool experience and for me, I I just it
32:17
Speaker 1: just really tickled me, Like I just sat in so
32:20
Speaker 1: much gratitude and smiles for the way that purpose has
32:26
Speaker 1: shown up in my life once I really surrendered to it.
32:30
Speaker 1: So I many of you know, I've talked about this
32:32
Speaker 1: all the time. I used to work in radio and
32:35
Speaker 1: I had the really great pleasure of working for a
32:36
Speaker 1: wonderful company called iHeart Radio, which now full Circle. Uh
32:42
Speaker 1: my podcast is hosted on iHeart UM. And so I
32:45
Speaker 1: left terrestrial radio four years ago. Uh yeah, really to
32:49
Speaker 1: this month about four years ago and I was working
32:51
Speaker 1: at a station and I just you know, my time
32:56
Speaker 1: had come, and I just said, there is some other
32:58
Speaker 1: way I'm supposed to be using myself. I don't really
33:00
Speaker 1: know how. I don't know what that means, but one
33:04
Speaker 1: thing about me, when God tells me go, I go.
33:07
Speaker 1: And so it was just very clear that I needed
33:09
Speaker 1: to create some spaciousness so that whatever this next stage
33:14
Speaker 1: and step was for me, I had the space to
33:17
Speaker 1: receive it, even without knowing what it was. And so
33:21
Speaker 1: I left my career in radio and I signed off
33:24
Speaker 1: with my listeners and I said, you know, I'll return
33:27
Speaker 1: to radio when and if I get the opportunity to
33:32
Speaker 1: talk about the things that are important to me. And
33:35
Speaker 1: you know, for the last ten years, I've been just
33:37
Speaker 1: really entrenched in in self study and certification programs and
33:41
Speaker 1: really working my process and getting highly trained around trauma
33:45
Speaker 1: and meditation and well being and all the mechanisms of
33:49
Speaker 1: healing and different healing modalities, and so I needed all
33:53
Speaker 1: this time, and so I have this beautiful opportunity, uh
33:58
Speaker 1: in the last week to be a part of something
34:01
Speaker 1: really incredible that I heard was doing called Living Black,
34:04
Speaker 1: where they were exploring um the cultural significance and cultural
34:08
Speaker 1: impact of blackness on the world and on trends and
34:12
Speaker 1: on music and on all the things. And it was
34:15
Speaker 1: a really really special and important programming. And so actually
34:20
Speaker 1: was my old boss that called me up, and one
34:23
Speaker 1: of my old bosses, my big, big boss, not my
34:25
Speaker 1: day to day boss, but my o g exact boss,
34:28
Speaker 1: and he gave me a call and he asked me
34:30
Speaker 1: to be a part of it with one of my
34:31
Speaker 1: best friends, which is Charlemagne, Charlemagne the God, Leonard Um
34:36
Speaker 1: my family. And so we did this really beautiful segment
34:41
Speaker 1: within that Living Black Peace and I heard it on
34:46
Speaker 1: the radio while I was in my car. I was
34:47
Speaker 1: in Venice speech with a girlfriend, and I turned on
34:49
Speaker 1: the radio and I heard my voice leading meditation on
34:53
Speaker 1: the hip hop station where I'm at, and it was
34:56
Speaker 1: just one of the most gorgeous full circle moments. You know,
34:59
Speaker 1: the last time I was on the radio, I was
35:00
Speaker 1: probably throwing to a song and you know, talking about
35:04
Speaker 1: whatever the latest was. And this time I got to
35:07
Speaker 1: hear my tool and my gift and my voice but
35:11
Speaker 1: used towards something that I was really really really passionate about,
35:14
Speaker 1: which is healing and meditation. And so to be able
35:17
Speaker 1: to do it in that way, to be able to
35:19
Speaker 1: do that with the company that I worked with, and
35:22
Speaker 1: to be able to do that with one of my
35:23
Speaker 1: closest friends, it was just such a gift, like such
35:26
Speaker 1: a joy, and I felt so grateful for it. So
35:29
Speaker 1: that for me was really um God's beautiful confirmation of
35:33
Speaker 1: you are in your purpose, girl, You are in your purpose.
35:37
Speaker 1: So if you want to see that moment, to have
35:39
Speaker 1: it on my Instagram page, on my um I G
35:41
Speaker 1: t V. So I love that. Right before we get
35:44
Speaker 1: out of here, I want to lead everyone on a
35:46
Speaker 1: little meditation. And this is a meditation that I first
35:50
Speaker 1: learned maybe ten years ago, eight or ten years ago,
35:54
Speaker 1: and it was really powerful for me because it it
35:58
Speaker 1: showed me the space within myself that there is always worth,
36:04
Speaker 1: regardless of the roles that I play in other people's
36:06
Speaker 1: lives and regardless of who I am to people or
36:11
Speaker 1: what I get paid to do. And so I want
36:14
Speaker 1: to lean into that right now in this moment. So
36:18
Speaker 1: take a second wherever you are listening to this podcast,
36:20
Speaker 1: um not while you're driving the police, and find somewhere
36:24
Speaker 1: comfortable to sit. I want you to maybe get a blanket.
36:29
Speaker 1: If that feels good, get a notebook. If that feels good,
36:31
Speaker 1: something might can come up. You want to write it
36:33
Speaker 1: down and go get comfortable. I'll wait just a second.
36:41
Speaker 1: And if that comfort feels like you sitting in a chair,
36:44
Speaker 1: you're sitting on the ground with your legs crossed, you
36:47
Speaker 1: laying down. All of the above are enough for this moment.
36:58
Speaker 1: All right, Now that you're nice and humpy, I want
37:01
Speaker 1: to invite you to go ahead and gently close your eyes,
37:08
Speaker 1: and then go ahead and just just kind of notice
37:12
Speaker 1: your body. So do you need to crack your neck,
37:22
Speaker 1: release your tongue from the roof of your mouth, let
37:32
Speaker 1: your shoulders drop, hands on tops of thighs or to
37:47
Speaker 1: your side with the palms up in a state of receiving,
37:55
Speaker 1: kind of wiggle your hips a little bit. Just loosen
38:01
Speaker 1: and just do a gentle scan through your body. So
38:03
Speaker 1: continue down your legs and your knees, go to the
38:13
Speaker 1: tips of your toes and anywhere on your body that
38:23
Speaker 1: needs it. Just send up some love, some nourishment. Let
38:30
Speaker 1: it melt a little bit. Just let it melt. Mm hmm. Okay,
38:40
Speaker 1: now I still gently close. We're gonna take in three
38:44
Speaker 1: breaths together. So the way that we're going to do
38:47
Speaker 1: this is I when we get started, we're gonna do
38:50
Speaker 1: an inhale through our noses and really powerfully imagine our
38:56
Speaker 1: beautiful lungs filling like balloons with that nerves, wishing air
39:00
Speaker 1: and creating some space, really expanding our hearts in our chests.
39:09
Speaker 1: And then we're gonna hold that breath at the top.
39:14
Speaker 1: We'll hold it inside for about somewhere in between five
39:18
Speaker 1: and ten seconds, just holding it in, and then we'll
39:21
Speaker 1: release through our mouths with the size. It'll sound kind
39:25
Speaker 1: of like this, and really imagine all the air leaving
39:33
Speaker 1: your body, really pushing it out, and anything that doesn't
39:37
Speaker 1: serve you any blockages to your own love, to your
39:39
Speaker 1: own healing, we're gonna push right out. Let's go ahead
39:42
Speaker 1: and get started. We're gonna do this three times together
39:45
Speaker 1: when you are ready, taking nice, big, big, big inhale
39:50
Speaker 1: in through your nose and then hold it at the top,
40:00
Speaker 1: oh and release. We're gonna do that two more times.
40:21
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take a big and heal through
40:23
Speaker 1: our noses. And now we'll go ahead and do that
40:47
Speaker 1: one more time together. In heal through your nose. Yeah,
41:08
Speaker 1: I still gently closed body is still really relaxed and comfortable.
41:12
Speaker 1: And go ahead and return to whatever breathing style feels
41:17
Speaker 1: really natural, really nourishing for you. Maybe that's gentle in
41:22
Speaker 1: and out through your nose, whatever feels good. Just returned
41:26
Speaker 1: to that breath. And now we're going to go on
41:31
Speaker 1: a little journey together. And this is really going to
41:34
Speaker 1: be rooted around the roles that we play. So typically
41:38
Speaker 1: when someone may ask who are you, and when you
41:55
Speaker 1: may ask to yourself who am I? That usually gets
42:01
Speaker 1: filled with your name, with the roles that you play
42:06
Speaker 1: for other people, and with your job title. So if
42:10
Speaker 1: I were to ask myself that question, you know who
42:13
Speaker 1: am I? By that standard, I would say my name
42:17
Speaker 1: is Debbie Brown. I'm a mom, I am a well
42:23
Speaker 1: being educator. So I want you to come up with
42:27
Speaker 1: how you fill those categories. Who are you? I just
42:31
Speaker 1: think it silently to yourself. I still closed, body is
42:35
Speaker 1: still calm and relaxed. Who are you? Yeah, now that
43:03
Speaker 1: you've got it, I want you to go ahead, when
43:07
Speaker 1: I asked that prompt, to repeat those things to yourself.
43:11
Speaker 1: Your name, the role that you play in your household
43:15
Speaker 1: or your familial life, and maybe your job title. Or
43:19
Speaker 1: the skill set you identify with most. So ask yourself
43:25
Speaker 1: that question, now, who am I? Who am I? Who
43:35
Speaker 1: am I? M hm m. And now I want you
44:16
Speaker 1: to imagine you don't have that job title. You know,
44:22
Speaker 1: life happens um for whatever reasons, you are disconnected from
44:28
Speaker 1: that place of employment, from that work, from whatever that
44:33
Speaker 1: title is, and whatever status that gave you or didn't,
44:36
Speaker 1: you are disconnected from it. So now when we ask
44:40
Speaker 1: ourselves that powerful question silently, we'll just be responding to
44:46
Speaker 1: ourselves with our name and the role that we play
44:49
Speaker 1: in our family. Who am I? Who am I? Okay,
45:54
Speaker 1: now let's imagine that we are not currently playing that
45:59
Speaker 1: role in our family for whatever reason. No need to overthink.
46:06
Speaker 1: Maybe the children have left the nest, or maybe you're
46:09
Speaker 1: not a caregiver to that parent. Maybe that relationship ended
46:14
Speaker 1: or changed, and so you're not carrying that rule of
46:19
Speaker 1: the way you show up for others either. Now you're
46:23
Speaker 1: just left with your name, says we ask ourselves that
46:27
Speaker 1: question silently again, go ahead and answer with your name,
46:31
Speaker 1: no role, no job title. Who am I? Who am I?
47:08
Speaker 1: And now let's imagine that we have no name, write
47:16
Speaker 1: our name? Really, the thing we had no choice in
47:19
Speaker 1: we came to Earth before our personalities were even known.
47:22
Speaker 1: It was handed to us. So imagine we no longer
47:27
Speaker 1: have even whatever perception comes along with our name. When
47:31
Speaker 1: we say it, you know, no correct or in correct pronunciations,
47:38
Speaker 1: no connectedness to whatever story was behind it when your
47:42
Speaker 1: parents came up with it, no connectedness to the way
47:48
Speaker 1: someone said it or didn't, or any nicknames that were derived.
47:56
Speaker 1: So now let's experience that question that we silently ask
47:59
Speaker 1: our selves without the job, without the role, and without
48:06
Speaker 1: the name, and let's not try to fill it with
48:09
Speaker 1: an answer. Let's see what comes up. Who am I?
48:17
Speaker 1: Who am I? Who am I? M hm h M.
49:29
Speaker 1: And Alice introduced a couple more questions, and we are
49:36
Speaker 1: not looking to fill these questions and these prompts with
49:39
Speaker 1: any answers. We're asking them and we will allow the
49:44
Speaker 1: space for us to be informed and hold space for
49:48
Speaker 1: what those answers are. What do I really want? What
49:59
Speaker 1: do I really want? What is my heart's deepest desire?
51:08
Speaker 1: What is my purpose? What is my dorma? How can
52:04
Speaker 1: I serve? How can I serve? Yeah, and now let's
53:21
Speaker 1: gently come back into our bodies and whenever it feels comfortable,
53:33
Speaker 1: go ahead and gently let your eyes flutter open. Mm hmm,
53:42
Speaker 1: how did that feel? The thing I love so much
53:48
Speaker 1: about that meditation is it's such a gorgeous reminder that
53:53
Speaker 1: we exist and are worthy, regardless of our job, of
54:03
Speaker 1: the way we show for other people, regardless of our
54:07
Speaker 1: own identity and ego, We're still here. We still exist,
54:12
Speaker 1: we are still taking up space and have worth. And
54:16
Speaker 1: you know what you glimpse in that space of not
54:18
Speaker 1: really being able to come up with the answer. You know,
54:21
Speaker 1: when we strip ourselves away of all the quantifiables that
54:24
Speaker 1: we think make us us, you're able to experience that
54:29
Speaker 1: peace we look for in meditation, that gap, the space
54:33
Speaker 1: of pure potentiality between one thought and the next, where
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Speaker 1: anything is possible and anything could be made manifest, and
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Speaker 1: that is available to us all the time. So please
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Speaker 1: feel free to listen back to that meditation, to just
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Speaker 1: play that part, maybe before you go to bed, see
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Speaker 1: what comes up in your dreams, maybe as a way
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Speaker 1: to start your day and create the spaciousness, allow the
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Speaker 1: space for the answers to come in. You don't have
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Speaker 1: to control all the outcomes. You are not an expert
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Speaker 1: on life. You're not even an expert yet on yourself.
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Speaker 1: None of us are. We are in pursuit of mastery
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Speaker 1: that we have to leave room for the Universe's voice.
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Speaker 1: We have to leave room for God's voice. So create
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Speaker 1: that space. And also, if you would like more meditations
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Speaker 1: from me, I do voice daily meditation on the Chopra
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Speaker 1: meditations on There about so many different kinds of things.
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Speaker 1: So I hope you enjoyed that These are just some
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