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🎙️ Episode 99: Red Heart Meditation, New Logo Reveal & Eye Opener Society’s Next Chapter | Mindfulness & Podcast Growth · Eye Opener Society

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  Hey everyone, welcome back to Eye Opener Society and this is episode 99.
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  I honestly am really proud of this achievement.
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  Even though it's not yet episode 100, which I still have to plan,
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  it may come a little bit later.
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  I may have to skip a week before I do it. I have some ideas,
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  but I definitely want to do something just a little bit different for episode 100.
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  But episode 99, this is the turning point here for Eye Opener Society because
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  there's so much going on.
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  And what I wanted to do for this episode is just to strip it down to simplicity.
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  I did not break out my, you know, better recording equipment.
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  I'm using my phone to record this episode.
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  It's just me sitting here late at night recording and talking about Eye Opener
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  Society along with some other things.
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  For one, I've refreshed a little bit with Eye Opener Society.
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  I redesigned the logo a little bit just to bring some new excitement to everything
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  because there's been things going on and the direction that I want to go from
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  here, I just wanted to change things up slightly.
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  As you know, we have three other podcasters, Elaine's Arcane Oracle.
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  We have Ann Lund's Haunted and Waiting, as well as Sunset Child's Out There podcast.
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  Since I've had those three podcasters join this platform here,
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  it's been really something that means a lot to me Because those three people
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  mean something to me For them to contribute their time Without any type of pay
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  or anything Just to give their podcast when they can,
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  It's so powerful to think that they're doing that Just because I gave them this
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  opportunity And they took it and they ran with it And they've done so well And
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  they keep getting better No matter how far we go,
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  they get better And I'm very, very thankful to them.
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  On top of that, I've developed Red Heart Meditation.
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  Now, Red Heart Meditation is available for sale.
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  It can be found at payhip.com backslash EyeOpener Society.
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  If you go to eyeopenersociety.podbean.com in our menu, you'll find a link.
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  Just look for Red Heart Meditation. There's a link and it's even in the little bio too. as well.
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  This is something that really means to me because again, this is getting back
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  to the basics, simplifying things. That's why I'm just recording on my phone with this.
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  I went back to the meditation where I all started.
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  It means so much to me. And this red heart meditation just came by chance because
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  I was doing a coaching session with someone.
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  And just on a whim, I had done this with them.
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  And it was really impactful to them.
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  Because of that, when I sat and I listened back, or at least I replayed in my
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  mind what I was doing for that guided meditation, I think I was really onto
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  something with it. and I sat, I modified it.
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  I've, you know, just tweeted as much as I could. I wrote out a two page script.
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  I got all the heavy duty recording equipment and I went into a meditative state
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  myself in order to record it.
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  Um, I was going to work off the script, but that wasn't happening.
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  My mind was just on autofocus. So I just sat back myself.
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  I relaxed and I just let the words flow naturally on there.
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  So once it was recorded, I got it all cleaned up and I put it out there.
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  It's available. It's only $7 folks.
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  Uh, and the reason I'm doing this, it's not to try and, you know,
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  get money from my audience.
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  Cause you know, we are always against that. That's why we don't have Patreon or anything.
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  The thing is in two, maybe three years, I want to start, uh,
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  online meditation as well as in person.
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  I want to, you know, work with groups of people.
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  And this is good practice for me to do it this way.
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  Any money I make from it, I want to put towards that future for Eye Opener Society
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  once I reach that new plateau.
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  I want to have some sort of studio,
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  whether it be online or in person and
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  I just would like to get some funds to start building
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  that dream for myself so you can
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  definitely help out and it's much appreciated but beyond
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  that I think this can benefit everyone this is a guided meditation that's going
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  to help you it really has an element built into it that can help you to trigger
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  meditation whenever you want and that's the thing that I find that is so unique with it.
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  So again, I thank you if you just go to payhip.com backslash eyeopener society
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  or look for the link on eyeopenersociety.podbean.com On top of that,
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  Hannah. I know that's on everybody's minds. And of course, she's always on my mind.
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  I know she's been on again, off again, has hosted a show.
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  She's still part of this show and she always will be.
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  The thing is Until she gets herself 100% I really Want to wait for that It's,
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  It's very difficult when you're dealing with Mental health issues.
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  To get on this show If you remember she'd
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  done Three back to back shows with me and they hit Hard and they
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  were fantastic but It was too much I
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  would like to get Her in here doing something a little bit more light Hearted to
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  try and keep her from you know saying too much about
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  herself that may help but she's doing
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  okay uh i just want her to do 100
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  and that's just me out of absolute concern for her uh you guys the audience
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  uh i can't speak enough about any of you it's like i said just hitting that
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  play button just hitting that download button.
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  It means much, much, much in this podcast community.
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  It's, you know, like I say, it's just a podcast, but this is my passion.
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  And the fact that you actually just sit and spend some time with me or me and
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  Hannah or whomever else is hosting the show, I appreciate it.
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  And I thank you and I thank you so much because it means the world and it really
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  does keep this podcast going.
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  And speaking of changes uh mind's eye
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  metaphysical uh jen everyone knows that
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  uh jen is a great friend she's my
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  spirit guide i think going back three years now when i first walked into that
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  shop and when i was going through a really bad time how she was able to bring
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  such positive energy and light to me that it completely changed my life in every
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  single way it's the reason i'm here, doing these shows,
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  doing the meditation. It's all because of her.
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  And it's kind of bittersweet.
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  Her shop is not closing, but she's moving.
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  And that's amazing. And I know there's so much stress. And I know that there's
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  a lot of questions as to what's going to happen.
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  And you know, there is always that fear.
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  But she is moving her shop. She's moving from her small in-home shop and she
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  has an actual store. It's bigger.
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  It's going to be able to provide her with a lot more opportunities to do so much more.
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  And honestly, I'm excited for her.
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  You as my audience, if you just visit her website, mindseimetaphysical.com,
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  That means so much. If you are in the Marietta area of Lancaster,
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  Pennsylvania, and you would like to stop by, I believe it's going to be 35,
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  I don't know if it's East or West, but it's 35 Market Street in Marietta.
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  And again, if you just go to mindsidemetaphysical.com, it'll have all the information there.
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  Visit the shop. Just show support. Come in. Wish her well.
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  Go on her website. Send a message. Wishing her well.
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  Because like I said as a small business when
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  you're taking a leap like this and you're
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  taking all of your risks and chances it really
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  means a lot from the community when they show support and that would mean so
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  much to me because Jen means a lot to me she's in this eye-opener society family
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  and I cannot stress enough how happy and excited I am for her and I know she's going to do well,
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  but I just want some people to reach out to her in the smallest,
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  kindest gestures possible.
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  That's going to mean a lot. So all of this encompasses into what's becoming before episode 100.
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  I've been struggling all the time with Facebook, as you know.
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  It's a dying social media platform.
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  It doesn't work for me as much, so I'm kind of backing away with it.
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  The good thing is Other podcasters are still on there There's still people I
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  connect with And I'm looking forward also In the very near future Taking my
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  show on the road Down to Kentucky And I want to visit.
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  Appalachian Rootworks It's another metaphysical shop
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  And they Have some amazing things too I'm still going to work with them I still
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  want to reach out to them before I head down there I want to make sure I pick
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  a day where they're available to do a podcast with me And I think that's going
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  to be really exciting Because I think the owners are,
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  They have it all figured out They really do They have so many things that I really feel.
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  Their energy and their heart is just poured into it And that's what I like And
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  that's why I want to support them So I
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  I've moved from Facebook to YouTube and to TikTok.
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  I did it. I never thought TikTok would be as good for me as I thought,
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  but it is a fantastic platform.
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  I have been using it and you can find me there. Everything's on their eye-opener society.
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  I mean, search eye-opener society on TikTok, search eye-opener society on YouTube,
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  but just giving one minute
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  or two minute inspirational messages on
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  both of those platforms it's been reaching a lot of people and that means something
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  to me too as well because again i'm only doing it just as inspiration and also
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  just to get your mind turning whether you believe it or not whether you think
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  they're conspiracy theories whatever.
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  It's to help you build your mind and that's what i'm doing on youtube and tiktok
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  and i'm going to be using both of those platforms to really help me get, you know,
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  Eye Opener Society's name out there a little bit more.
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  And hopefully Red Heart Meditation can develop a little bit more from that too as well.
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  With everybody's help, collectively, it should work. So I thank everybody again for that.
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  Also coming up is going to be a big move. I don't know how soon.
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  It may be longer than I think, but I'm hoping within a year,
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  things could start moving.
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  I'm going to move out of the current place and I'm going to be leaving my job
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  and I'm going to be going down to West Virginia.
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  I think I have something here mentally that's telling me I need to be there.
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  And again, it's a big move for my wife and I. It's going to be big changes,
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  but we're going to be homesteading.
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  I'm going to rely less and less on, you know, the daily conveniences everybody has.
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  I'm going to reset myself and look for the future of me, something better,
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  something, you know, away from all of this rat race, away from all of this nonsense
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  and all that that's coming up.
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  But eye opener society, I think will develop into something bigger once I'm
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  down there and Whatever that may be I'm not 100% sure yet But it's going to definitely be.
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  Big, big changes. And I would love for everyone in the audience to experience
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  it with me through videos, through podcast episodes and whatnot.
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  That's going to be very exciting.
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  The other thing that I know I'm going to have coming up is I'm going to be recording
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  an episode with Roundtable Mindset.
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  They asked me if I wanted to do a show with them on meditation.
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  And of course, I said, yes.
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  I've actually been wanting to get on their show for quite some time.
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  They have a pretty decent podcast. Actually, it's really good because some of
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  the topics they tackled, the topics
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  sometimes even would kind of spark something in me to talk about too.
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  And they do that on a regular basis with their show.
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  So Roundtable Mindset, check them out. I believe they're on Spotify.
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  I think they're on Podbean too as well I'm not 100% sure But just search Roundtable Mindset.
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  They are very good people too They're very respectful And they do They challenge
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  the status quo with some of their topics But I will be doing an episode And
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  if I'm not mistaken It's supposed to be airing sometime in September,
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  I'll definitely let you know as that time approaches If you want to hear me
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  on there That's great But listen to them now and give them, you know,
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  a little bit of shares and likes and follows too as well.
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  That's what's going on. This is episode 99 and episode 100.
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  Like I said, it's not going to be an epic grand scale thing.
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  I don't think so, but I have an idea what to do.
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  And I just want it to be something that's going to relive the earlier phone
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  going back two years ago, right up until current times.
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  And I have some ideas. Again, I really appreciate anybody who wants to tune in.
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  So again, thank you so much for listening.
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  Don't forget to check out Red Heart Meditation. Like I said, $7.
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  If you wish to download it, it's going to help me build my future in guided
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  meditation, meditation lessons, and so on and so forth with that.
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  But again, everybody Thank you This audience here for you guys It's always such
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  a pleasure And tune in for episode
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  100 I'll keep everybody posted When that's going to be up Thank you.