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#40 | La Brujita (Taylor Ojeda) · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_04: What's going on, y'all?
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SPEAKER_04: Corpus Christi Originals.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh coming to you live from the Burduce Streamlabs studio.
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SPEAKER_04: And we got here Taylor, the Labrujita from the Brujita Boutique.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: How are you doing?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm okay.
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SPEAKER_04: Welcome to the show.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for having me.
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SPEAKER_04: Also, glad you're here.
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SPEAKER_04: Alright, so what's going on?
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SPEAKER_04: So I guess I came across your page or through social media.
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SPEAKER_04: Like I never knew you existed until then.
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SPEAKER_04: So and I'm new to social media to begin with.
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SPEAKER_04: So um so who so what do you do?
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SPEAKER_04: Like who are you?
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SPEAKER_04: Or how how do you how would you start?
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SPEAKER_00: Um so my name is Taylor, but you can call me Brujita.
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SPEAKER_00: I really answer to both.
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SPEAKER_00: Um I am a card reader, um, but I do a lot of things.
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SPEAKER_00: I own Brujita Boutique here at Corpus Christi on Morgan Avenue, Morgan and Staples, and I sell uh metaphysical supplies.
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SPEAKER_00: So I make products, I make um manifestation candles and soaps and all kinds of things.
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SPEAKER_00: Um I do oral photography, like I said, I do card readings and I also do tea leaf readings, which are really fun.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, really I just let people know like you can check out my website, braheethaboutique.com.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and it just kind of explains a little bit of everything of what I do.
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SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_04: Wow.
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SPEAKER_04: So I gotta admit, when I first saw your your page, I was like, what is this?
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SPEAKER_04: Uh this just seems kind of weird, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_04: Like people people get taken aback when they first see it, especially me.
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SPEAKER_04: So how do you like how do you respond to that?
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SPEAKER_04: Or like what are your thoughts on that?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, I just agree.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, it's weird.
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SPEAKER_00: People are like, that's weird.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, it is, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: That that's kind of the point, though.
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SPEAKER_00: It's out of the norm.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, I guess in some ways I do use like the shock value as well.
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SPEAKER_00: Just kind of like, whoa, what's that?
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SPEAKER_00: And it makes people want to ask more questions.
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SPEAKER_04: Wow, okay.
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SPEAKER_04: So how did you how did you come on to this?
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SPEAKER_04: Like uh, how did why did you decide to do this?
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SPEAKER_04: Because you were you doing something before?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so I was actually working for a retirement firm.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm studying to be a financial advisor.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh wow, yeah, it's such a big switch.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, then I decided I hate that.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh it's really boring.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And I don't like it.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I went back to school.
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SPEAKER_00: I got a degree in biotechnology, which is so random.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, anywho, then uh the pandemic happened, and I was already doing this like as a side hustle.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but then I just did it full, I mean, what else was I gonna do?
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SPEAKER_00: I started doing it full-time and it took off.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, and it's been my main source of income since, which is a blessing.
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SPEAKER_00: A freaking blessing.
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SPEAKER_00: But I have been a practitioner since I was 14, so I've been a practitioner for 16 years now.
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SPEAKER_00: Woo-woo.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but I started my business in in um, I mean, officially 2019, but the end of 2019.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's cool.
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SPEAKER_04: Wow.
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SPEAKER_04: So you say you're a practitioner, so there's there's no like degrees for what you do, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So how I mean, yes and no.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: They do have like certifications, but they don't really mean anything.
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SPEAKER_00: Like you can pay for a class and be like certified.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm technically certified in Guru and Denis Mall.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, but like that doesn't mean anything.
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SPEAKER_00: What matters is like the experience and the level of care that you're able to provide, and that just comes from working in the community.
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SPEAKER_04: Wow, that's very interesting.
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SPEAKER_04: So you so you're caring for people, they is that how you would describe it?
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, so being a card reader, uh a lot of people come to find answers to questions, you know, um, does he does he like me back?
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SPEAKER_00: Is he depending on me or her?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, can I do a love spell?
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SPEAKER_00: And you know, sometimes the things that people come for is not the things that they need.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I my uh I guess a way of doing things is I give people what they need.
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SPEAKER_00: Now if they take it, that's just up to them.
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SPEAKER_00: But uh majority of what I have seen in this um field is giving people what they want.
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SPEAKER_00: And I guess that would be like my personal, and that's just a personal thing.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know like everybody out there, obviously.
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SPEAKER_04: Personal thing, like okay, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: I guess um a personal choice that I make to give people what they need as opposed to what they want.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay, okay, yeah, I gotcha.
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SPEAKER_04: And it's almost like it's counseling, like and yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: Um, and and it seems like you care for that person too, like because this is the actual root of the problem.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, exactly.
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SPEAKER_00: So my goal is to get to the root.
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SPEAKER_00: My my goal is always I can give you short-term results, but I want long-term results.
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SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people don't think that way because it's job security.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, if you keep some, it's like a car mechanic.
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SPEAKER_00: If you keep somebody coming back with a little problem here and there, you're always making money.
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SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
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SPEAKER_00: But that's just not that's how I try not to operate.
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SPEAKER_00: Like obviously I can't make everybody happy.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, I gotcha.
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SPEAKER_04: So you're so your client, you call them clients, right?
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SPEAKER_04: So when I when I heard you say that on the Team Triple Horn podcast, oh yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: Shout out.
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SPEAKER_00: They're so cool.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, shout-out.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh so you say clients, I was like, clients, that sounds like uh like like a like a business uh term, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_04: I guess that's something that you have to adopt as your business.
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SPEAKER_00: I I I call them clients um because I just feel weird saying customers, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Because I feel like that's more monetary based, yeah, as opposed to like people that I I get to know them.
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SPEAKER_00: I get to know them, their family, their lives.
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SPEAKER_00: Like we're we become very involved.
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SPEAKER_00: Not that I'm, you know, at their birthday parties or anything, but I mean I get to know them.
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SPEAKER_00: And so it to me it feels more like a client clientele.
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SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_04: So how how do they how do you get your clients uh well how do you get them?
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SPEAKER_04: Like how do they come to you or now they do, blessed.
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SPEAKER_00: Um excuse me.
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SPEAKER_00: My heart was so dry.
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SPEAKER_00: When I first started, um, I was only on social media and I only did pop-ups, but I was doing readings on Facebook Live and Instagram Live.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how I started gaining my clientele.
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SPEAKER_00: And I would do donation-based readings, um, and they were so fun, especially during the pandemic.
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SPEAKER_00: It was just like all of us in the live, like jamming the Spice Girls, like vibing.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's awesome.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's that's like a you create a business, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: You create like that business in that area.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's I that's that's fascinating to me how uh a business can form from something like that, and you never would have thought that that's where it would have formed.
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SPEAKER_00: I just decided my um, I talk about this a lot.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, somebody asked me a couple years ago, like, what's your business model?
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, have fun.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I think that's but honestly, that's all I've been doing, and so far it's been working.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, business model.
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SPEAKER_04: You ask everybody that has almost everybody that I talk to that has a business, they're like, I what is what I'm just figuring it out on the fly.
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SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_04: Is that how that's basically that's pretty common, especially in small business.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, as you get to more higher, like you know, complex businesses, you start to have a business model.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, honestly, most of the bigger businesses do.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just a we a way to what map out your year of like, okay, what are my goals this year?
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SPEAKER_00: How am I gonna achieve those goals?
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SPEAKER_00: I don't do that.
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SPEAKER_04: So you so you were with the retirement firm.
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SPEAKER_04: Like, are you planning for your retirement or how do you think of that of it?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm always planning for my retirement.
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SPEAKER_00: And actually, it's funny because I have referred people to my uh former employer for the retirement because a lot of people do stress about that, like yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, we live in such uncertain times, you know, we don't even know if we're gonna have social security by the time you know we get up to that age.
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SPEAKER_04: And a lot of people think about oh, when I retire, I get social security.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Because it's always been a fallback, and even at that, social security is like nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, some people get like$600 a month.
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SPEAKER_04: Can't live off that, put with what you're living on now, it's difficult to do.
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SPEAKER_04: Wow, okay, man.
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SPEAKER_04: So this is awesome.
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SPEAKER_04: I like this.
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SPEAKER_04: Um, so retirement, what do you see me say me look at my notes here?
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SPEAKER_04: Um, so do where the P like Um So when I think about what like Brujita and you call it magic?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: When I think about like magic and stuff like that, like I think about people wanting to do like a spell on somebody because they hate them or something or other.
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SPEAKER_04: Do you get stuff like that?
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SPEAKER_04: Of course, of course, that's a given, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I don't take everybody on as a spellwork client.
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SPEAKER_00: I do require a consultation.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I'm not one of those people that doesn't believe in like we don't do black magic.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't believe in that.
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SPEAKER_00: I definitely think that it has its time and its place, just like all things.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I believe that you can use white magic for evil and black magic for good.
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SPEAKER_04: Whoa, that's trippy.
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SPEAKER_04: So that is so trippy.
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SPEAKER_04: So and I was listening to, I think it was the Leading Ladies podcast shout out, or the Team Triple Horn podcast, where you were talking about like using different I guess avenues of magic.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh and that that's is that common?
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SPEAKER_04: Or uh how do you like like different paths?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yes.
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SPEAKER_04: I'm different new types, yeah, different type.
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SPEAKER_04: Like it makes me think of um like the movie Constantine, how he's like using uh Christianity and then he's using like whatever religion or whatever, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: So um I am a little bit eclectic.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, my main focus now is folk magic.
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SPEAKER_00: So definitely getting back to like my my own personal roots of like Mexican folk magic.
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SPEAKER_02: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but as far as I I believe that magic is layers and it works the best in layers.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, think about home security, right?
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SPEAKER_00: You don't just lock your front door and be like, okay, I'm good.
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SPEAKER_00: You're like, I lock my front door, I lock my windows, I lock my back door, I check this, you know what I mean.
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SPEAKER_00: You're doing all of these things to ensure that the end goal comes about, which is that your your home is safe.
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SPEAKER_00: That you're safe, and so vice versa, you know, whenever it comes to magic, if I want to pull in money, I'm not just like, hey, give me money.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, I'm going to work.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm doing you know what I'm doing all these things and I'm consistent, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And so um, that's just my my belief in magic that magic is all about layers.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, and and I like to layer things, which to some people is not, it's more work, but I find that it's more effective.
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SPEAKER_04: So wow, interesting stuff, cool.
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SPEAKER_04: So layers, yeah, yeah, definitely.
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SPEAKER_04: Uh so there's layers of magic.
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SPEAKER_04: So when people come into if I go into your shop, like and do I have a request, right?
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SPEAKER_04: Do people usually have requests?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: So do you do the do you do the card reading off the bat or okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Um depending on what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: So we do offer personalized shopping in the store.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you come in and you're like, hey, like I'm having a weird, like I'm having ghost issues, like there's stuff moving, I'm hearing voices.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, I'm getting together all these items and I'm giving you your options so that way you can pick and choose one, what's in your budget, because I'm realistic, like a girl loves a deal, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, but two, so that way, because I always encourage my clients to use their intuition in in a lot of different ways.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, so I'm like, what do you feel drawn to?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, what makes you feel good whenever you're touching it and you're looking at it?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, because some people do better with like water um magic.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's gonna be like taking a bath um or doing or doing a spiritual bath, um, using spiritual colognes, things like that.
11:22
SPEAKER_00: Um some people feel better with fire, so that's gonna be candles, um, burning smoke, incense, things like that.
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SPEAKER_00: So I I do that for for that reason.
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SPEAKER_04: Oh, and you mentioned um your Mexican root uh roots, or what I'm sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: Mexican folk magic.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, Mexican folk magic.
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SPEAKER_04: So you're looking to you're specializing in that or you're going to folk magic is such a beautiful thing.
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SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Folk magic is like a family dish, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Every every family has its little secret ingredient, its own little twist that makes it unique to that family.
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SPEAKER_00: And so that's what I've been focusing on.
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SPEAKER_00: And folk magic too, just like a dish, is uh made with things in the kitchen.
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SPEAKER_00: It's usually things that you have on hand.
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SPEAKER_00: So um with colonization and the conversion to Christianity, a lot of these practices that have that are very old, ancient, um had to be modified in order to be preserved, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So you're gonna see a lot of the saints are gonna cross over with a lot of the Aztec deities.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, you're gonna see a lot of the things that we do um just as like McDonald's, you know, um comes from that.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And so to us, it seems like nothing, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, for example, I don't know if you've ever done this, this was really common.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, where you put a garlic on the window if you're getting like Nvidia's or like oh, um, that's like a really common thing that I see, but that is like a real thing, like that's a magic thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Nice.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, putting aloe veta by the front, and whenever it gets dry, it's because you got Nvidia.
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SPEAKER_00: Like that's a thing.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: So so is there, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: I was gonna ask you about that too.
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SPEAKER_04: Like, is there some stuff that we do that like it kind of just came and it's not a part of that folk stuff?
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SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_04: Excuse me.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean I'm not really sure what you mean.
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SPEAKER_04: Like, uh, so I don't know a lot of that stuff.
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SPEAKER_04: Like, I I never really I just only heard people talk about like y'all were talking about the egg or something.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: I was like, what's that?
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SPEAKER_04: And I had heard it from people that I grew up with, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_04: Like, what's that?
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SPEAKER_04: I never heard of that.
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SPEAKER_04: Or um, but like, are there certain things that that people just maybe just made up instead of yeah, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's definitely a thing.
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SPEAKER_00: And in the within the community, I'm not saying within Mexican folk magic that a lot of people do, right?
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SPEAKER_00: But it is very much a thing where people just make stuff up and they're like, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's nothing wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't believe there's anything wrong with that, but if you're going to be part of like an organized religion, like you're gonna be a part of like Santaria, or you're gonna be a part of um um Palomayombe or all these different Latin um belief systems, you can't just make stuff up.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not a thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Like you can't do that.
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SPEAKER_00: Mexican folk magic is a little bit more leeway because, like I said, it's like a family dish.
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SPEAKER_00: So you can mix and match the little bit here and there for whatever works for you, but at the base of it, it's very much rooted in like Mexican uh tradition and and um ideologies.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: You were talking about uh some Jap Japanese folk stuff or something in one of the parts.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Reiki.
14:38
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you getting into that stuff, or yeah, I am actually.
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SPEAKER_00: Um now I don't the thing about that, so I don't really subscribe to Reiki, right?
14:52
SPEAKER_00: But where we are now as a society, like there's no way to avoid it.
14:58
SPEAKER_00: Like there's Reiki was brought here by a Japanese woman, but it has been um is this a clean podcast?
15:04
SPEAKER_00: No, you're talking about beautiful uh it has been bastardized by uh just Americans in general, and the culture of it has been lost.
15:13
SPEAKER_00: And so, you know, you can get certified from anybody, uh well not anybody, someone who's certified to teach, right?
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SPEAKER_00: But is it really what Reiki is supposed to be?
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SPEAKER_00: You know.
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SPEAKER_04: Do these do these uh like does it uh is magic like a is it like a spin-off?
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SPEAKER_04: Like not a spin-off, but does it like a spin-off or does it derive from like uh main religions?
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SPEAKER_00: Some do.
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SPEAKER_00: Some do.
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SPEAKER_00: Um so you have different types of magic or magical practices, I should say, and then you have pantheons.
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SPEAKER_00: Pantheons are like mythological um uh I guess groups, right?
15:55
SPEAKER_00: So you have like Egyptian magic, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Which is gonna be part of the Egyptian mythology and pantheon.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: You have Greek, right?
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SPEAKER_00: The Greek Roman gods and goddesses, you have Norse, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Um so that's what a pantheon is, right?
16:10
SPEAKER_00: So you have those things which are completely based off paganism, and that's where you know paganism is derived from it.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm thinking, I'm like, don't quote me if I say that wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't say that.
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SPEAKER_00: Um but then you also have, like I was mentioning earlier, you have organized religions.
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SPEAKER_00: So you have um, I shouldn't say organized, you have initiatory paths, which is like santaria, palomayombe.
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SPEAKER_04: Um what what is that?
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SPEAKER_04: That uh is those like what is it?
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SPEAKER_00: So palomayombe is like um it's Brazilian magic.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, and it it requires an initiation.
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SPEAKER_00: Um Santaria is really it's actually pretty common here.
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SPEAKER_00: Um it is also an organized religion, and I I want to say it derives from the Yoruba tradition.
16:52
SPEAKER_00: I could be wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: Um and so that's uh those are like um specific, they have specific roles and initiatory processes and spirits that they work with in very specific ways.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they do uh incorporate uh Christianity, but again, that's because of colonization.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you're gonna see some deities or spirits, right, that have been correlated with certain saints, like Santamuetta is a really good one.
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SPEAKER_00: Um although she is different from the Aztec deity, um Mektaka Siwa, she they're very similar in that she evolved from that original death goddess, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Even though, like I said, now they're two very different entities, they're not the same, but she did evolve from that, and that's where the incorporations and the colonization from Christianity come in.
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SPEAKER_04: Wow, so so it is kind of uh it's fuzzy, yeah.
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SPEAKER_04: It's it's fuzzy, but I I I I figure like it religion, you like good, bad, you know what I mean, that type of mix or whatever.
17:58
SPEAKER_04: It's it's I mean, I don't know.
18:00
SPEAKER_04: I'm just I'm just kind of guessing.
18:02
SPEAKER_00: There's no wrong, there's no wrong question.
18:04
SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
18:04
SPEAKER_04: Just okay, cool, appreciate that.
18:07
SPEAKER_04: Uh so uh you mentioned too, like when you were like 14 or something or 12, you're you had you were already.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, when I was 14.
18:15
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
18:15
SPEAKER_00: I was already in this, yeah.
18:16
SPEAKER_04: You were already in it.
18:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
18:18
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
18:18
SPEAKER_00: Um it's funny because I actually went to a really good friend of mine's um sleepover, and we watched The Craft, which is like the best witch movie ever.
18:29
SPEAKER_01: Right.
18:29
SPEAKER_00: Um, all the girls know.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: And it's funny because like we went to church together, her family was hella Christian.
18:36
SPEAKER_00: Okay, like very Christian.
18:38
SPEAKER_00: And for us to watch The Craft there was just like so random, like what?
18:42
SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, we were so into it, and that was the first time that I really saw like witchcraft as like something you could physically do, right?
18:51
SPEAKER_00: Because I've always been like a weird flower child.
18:54
SPEAKER_00: Like talk to the trees and like the wind and the ocean.
18:59
SPEAKER_00: Always been a hippie.
19:00
SPEAKER_00: Um but that was the first time I saw magic like in a tangible way, and it just oh, my parents hated it.
19:09
SPEAKER_04: So the stuff that they do in that movie is it like it's very, very similar.
19:13
SPEAKER_00: Really?
19:14
SPEAKER_00: Like probably the most accurate movie I've seen out there.
19:17
SPEAKER_00: I'm sure there's many more like documentaries, but for a theatrical film, like a I should say uh a Hollywood film, yeah, it's really accurate.
19:25
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, yeah, it's a crazy movie.
19:27
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I remember seeing that movie.
19:28
SPEAKER_04: Um it makes me think about uh well, the main the main witch girl, like she was like scary looking, yeah, and then like there's a part where the whales are like uh yeah, where they beach themselves.
19:39
SPEAKER_00: That was so crazy.
19:40
SPEAKER_04: Oh my gosh.
19:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, she went to a psychosis after that for sure.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: Okay, she went a little crazy, yeah.
19:45
SPEAKER_04: So it so that it can do that to you.
19:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, oh yeah, I see it happen all the time.
19:51
SPEAKER_04: Oh you see it happen with other practitioners, okay, okay.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: A lot of so I've been doing this for a long time.
19:56
SPEAKER_00: It has taken me a very long time to even get to divination, um for a lot of reasons, you know, raised with the ideology of like divin, like don't look at the card, you're gonna go to hell, like you know, that kind of stuff.
20:10
SPEAKER_00: Um but whenever you don't do the process of learning yourself and learning your reality and learning how to control your reality, and then you jump into specifically, at least from what I've seen, card reading.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: When you read cards, you are not here, like and it's actually been shown in like I forgot what kind of scans they are, but your brain switches to like a different, it's almost like a trance state.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: Right.
20:39
SPEAKER_00: So essentially your spirit is hovering between here and the other world, right?
20:46
SPEAKER_00: It's like imagine that you're like peeking your head above water, and if you do that so many times, but you don't I should say you're sticking your head in water, right?
20:54
SPEAKER_00: And you do that so many times and you don't breathe, right?
20:57
SPEAKER_00: Or you don't know how to breathe or how to swim, you can go crazy.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I've you know heard some crazy like um this one person was telling me that an uh an angel would like to play pranks on them, and I'm like, angels don't do that.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: Oh angels don't play pranks.
21:17
SPEAKER_00: They might have a sense of humor, but yeah, they don't play pranks.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: That's that's something else, girl.
21:23
SPEAKER_04: Wow, so you said divination.
21:24
SPEAKER_04: You uh you reach a certain point of divination?
21:27
SPEAKER_04: What what is that?
21:28
SPEAKER_00: Um so divination is going to be like um uh future telling or um like I said, card reading.
21:34
SPEAKER_04: Prophecy.
21:35
SPEAKER_00: Prophecy?
21:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I've been really into like that word lately.
21:38
SPEAKER_04: Really?
21:38
SPEAKER_00: Prophecy, yeah.
21:39
SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
21:39
SPEAKER_02: What?
21:40
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
21:41
SPEAKER_00: It just popped in my head one day, and then I've just been reading about it actually in the Bible um when this book was.
21:46
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you posted a I did, right?
21:48
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
21:48
SPEAKER_04: What's going on there?
21:49
SPEAKER_04: That was trivial.
21:50
SPEAKER_04: I was like, What?
21:51
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
21:52
SPEAKER_00: No, um I I don't subscribe to Christian ideology, but I do like to read the Bible, and I always have, ever since I was a kid.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: your parents grew okay so you kind of you kind of know that type stuff so did your parents freak out when you started doing all this uh my parents I love my parents and they are so supportive now but when I was a kid they would find I used to go to this uh witch shop in Sunrise Mall and I would go in there and I would like save up all my money and I'd buy like a book and I'd like hide it you know and like take it home and like read it.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: I'd hide it and my parents would find it and they would flip their shit they were so committed to stamping it out of me like genuinely.
22:37
SPEAKER_00: And I understand that they did it because they care right they were afraid for me um but all they did was make it worse in the sense of like I have always been able to see and hear ghosts.
22:53
SPEAKER_00: I didn't know that's what I was doing.
22:57
SPEAKER_00: Which is even scarier because your parents are like you're making it up and I'm like am I crazy?
23:02
SPEAKER_00: Like what's going on?
23:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah um so I was already open in that sense if I had been able to I think dive into it a lot sooner I think I would have resolved a lot of the issues that I was having like I would have chronic nightmares um you know I had a lot of spiritual encounters that were not good.
23:28
SPEAKER_00: Oh wow yeah I was celebrating my first spell was a necromancy spell yeah it was real brave not a good idea enough for that you know but yeah so um I feel like if I had known if I had been able to tap into it more I think I would have been able to avoid some of those pitfalls that I faced and it I struggled with for a long time.
23:49
SPEAKER_04: Wow what religion were they?
23:51
SPEAKER_00: Were they uh my my dad was raised Catholic he's not very Catholic now but he definitely has those Catholic ideologies and my mom is Christian but like more non-denominational my mom's more into this stuff because my grandma was into it more into the Yeah like just like burning the candles you know if you want to say if you need something saying a prayer um you know evil eye the Olympias with the eggs and stuff like that.
24:17
SPEAKER_00: Okay okay I gotcha gotcha you said you said like spirits like is that physical like you see spirits or not anymore um yeah that was really scary okay yeah as a kid you're seeing so in the spirit world there are things that are human and there are things that are not human right and some of them are a mishmash of spirits and they don't look very good.
24:43
SPEAKER_00: Oh wow they're very scary and I'm seeing these things as a child not understanding what they are yeah and honestly I thought I made it up until like a couple years ago I read a book and I was like oh my god this is a thing it's a thing it's a thing I'm scared I'm a scary guy I'm a big scary guy to be honest you know what me too I I I mean I I don't I don't have a choice um but if I don't have to be around ghosts I don't want to it's not your choice it's not my choice you don't choose to do that I don't I know people are always shocked when I say that but I really don't it just happens and you know what I gotta deal with it yeah for sure that's awesome so you you started a podcast that's I saw I just found it today I didn't know you had it yes it's it's a small little thing it's just really just like for fun for me to get to talk to people yeah yeah savior I really don't talk to a lot of people so this is I'm so sorry if you it's a treat yeah yeah the editing is terrible right on right on uh so uh so you mentioned uh let's see the C so you have no I don't want to go there so how do how do most people like approach you're scared um I I know that this I feel like I try to be approachable um even though you know how should I say usually people come to me when they have a problem right and I always say if I don't see my clients for a long time it's because they're doing okay yeah when I see you girl what's going on um but usually it's referrals so usually it's referrals um sometimes people will find me on Google that's like a really big one um a lot of times though they will just find me when they need me is there is there some yeah somebody else asked you this too there is there some similarities between the clients that you have yeah that one took me a long time to figure out an answer.
26:47
SPEAKER_00: Um I somebody asked me that because of marketing they were like what's the common theme for your client and I'm like I don't know because like I said in the other podcast I have clients that have like money money and then I have some clients that are literally homeless.
27:00
SPEAKER_00: Oh wow and uh because where we're at I mean it's a good area um but we do have a lot of people that walk by that are you know are not doing so well and the one thing that they have in common is like they're all seeking some kind of fulfillment and usually people find that in religion but now what I'm seeing is like people are trying to go to religion and they're just met with judgment oh yeah and harshness and you know me personally I'm nobody to judge nobody I can't judge nobody for nothing.
27:32
SPEAKER_00: Um and I know that's not everybody in every religion but I feel like that's the draw you know when you see someone who is enjoying their life you wonder what are they doing that I'm not interesting.
27:46
SPEAKER_04: So you say that like I and I like that you mentioned that they they go to the church and they're met with judgment like I felt that too because I I used to go to church a lot uh I read the Bible I just the uh church and that whole culture is just in for me because of I think it's a mask I think because of that it's a mask what do you mean it's a it's a mask that people put on to be perceived as good.
28:15
SPEAKER_00: Right?
28:16
SPEAKER_00: Oh I'm a Christian I would never they're the ones that stab you in the back first what the hell yes they're the ones that mess you over first and the hardest yeah yeah exactly yeah and and again not everybody I have met some genuine amazing people who subscribe to Christianity and I love them for that I don't care what you believe in just like don't be an asshole.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah don't and don't force it on me like and you know I don't even care people come people try to preach to me all the time oh yeah this one I remember I went to a salsa fest a couple years ago and this older gentleman he was like have you ever read some scripture or whatever and then I was like well have you ever read this scripture where like you don't cast a stone when there's a freaking stick in your own eye yeah yeah worry about yourself yeah you I saw a post on your TikTok where this lady was criticizing you about your marriage and her marriage is a certain way and you're like don't worry about my house yeah don't worry about it worry about yourself that's I'm really big on that worry about you okay like I don't care what you do just like don't bother me yeah how do you feel about that lady that couldn't pronounce your name so she kept calling you burrito my gosh that is a a really common thing I always get brujerita or I get burrito and I'm like you're just thinking of any word in Spanish with a B with no with any any word because margarita okay and then burrito like that like you're not even trying and then I will try to um like correct them nicely I'm not mean about it I'm just like oh it's actually brujita and they're like yeah burrito burrito that's what I said yeah I'm like you're not even trying yeah so the uh so uh how do you feel about Bill Miller's having the croc a croc charm dude okay so I actually just a shameless plug I actually make my own croc charms um because I love crocs I don't care what anybody says I will die on that hill and I used to be a croc hater yeah oh man but you know got all these back problems the comfortable crocs crocs are real one um they give me all the support I need yeah um so I started making my own croc charms because I went to Bill Miller's with my sister and my sister was like oh my gosh they have their own crock charms and I'm like why the fuck don't I have crock charms?
30:41
SPEAKER_00: Like if Bill Miller's has crop charms why don't I have crock charms and why am I not wearing my own crop charms like what the heck so yeah no I make crop charms and they're really cute.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: I have one that is like uh it's a picture of me that has been made into like a little doll and uh it's cute.
30:57
SPEAKER_00: I mean it doesn't look like me but I know it's me.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: And then I have another one that says brujito which is really cute because men need something too um and I have just uh like crystals crystal crock charms those are my favorite nice so so you make your own stuff I like that I make a lot of my own stuff almost everything that I can um I do I make my own candles my own basalts my own soaps my own sprays my own stickers my own shirts my own crock charms um I also make all my own packaging yeah uh make all my own labels that's cool it is time consuming but I have a system down now to where it's like pretty solid.
31:34
SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
31:35
SPEAKER_04: So how's that side of that side of your business working for you?
31:39
SPEAKER_04: Like uh I guess the selling merch and stuff like that.
31:42
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah no um people were like asking me for it they were like do you have merch and I'm like I can I think my favorite thing that I've made I made a shirt and it says um um Brehitha cult member so I made a joke I was like oh yeah one of my goals this year is to start a cult and someone was like will there be shirts and so I made a a little just like a little mock-up or whatever and I'm like yeah they're gonna look like this and they're like where do I buy I made a link and I posted it and it was just like whatever and people bought people were buying it like oh shit I can actually make these now that's cool it was fun so yeah and I have a jacket that says Bruhita colo leaf oh nice nice is it spray painted like you like to do no it's vinyl I'm very professional I do love a spray paint design yeah I'm a sucker for that yeah that yeah I heard that that's awesome um how do you feel about people ripping off your ideas when it comes to like make maybe doing another show or stuff like that because I heard I think that everybody should try something and figure out what works for them.
32:48
SPEAKER_00: I think that it is important to build on other people's ideas and everything has its own twist so it's been interesting.
33:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah uh for sure but everything in this nothing is new nothing under the sun is new everything is a recycled idea how do you find yourself dealing with those type of feast those those type of people um I don't you don't I don't I just mind my business I worry about me yeah you got to man you can't get engulfed in it I don't yeah I have enough stuff going on I don't gotta worry about everybody else oh yeah yeah you got your own business you do you I'm gonna do something different now yeah I'm gonna do something real different um but yeah how does your your so you have three little monsters how do they feel about you uh what you do or do do you do they know or how does that happen?
33:46
SPEAKER_00: So recently they've become really interested they're seeing me at my altar and they're like what is she doing um explaining to my kids that there are spirits that love them and that care about them and keep them safe and look out for them and that it's important that we give them energy to do that you know at the altar.
34:07
SPEAKER_00: The importance of being respectful at the altar um the other day I was doing something at the altar and my son was like you know I already told him when I'm there like you gotta wait you know unless unless you're dying you gotta wait okay um and so my son was like running towards me and I just put my hand up I was like uh uh uh remember we gotta wait and like he just like slipped or whatever because he was wearing socks and I was like see that's what happened you know it was it wasn't anything to do with that but uh you know um it was just funny but my oldest son you know his his dad has his own opinions about what I do I I'm sure uh so I've heard and um I uh so he worries about me you know he's like do you believe in heaven like do you believe in hell and having to explain that to you know my now nine year old is like it's a lot but but um he's very interested in like what I'm doing and so like I explained to him what we put on the altar why we put it up there what prayers we do um I showed him so energy manipulation is like a really common thing where you can like you practice manipulating the smoke with just your energy or the flame so you can make it grow or get smaller.
35:33
SPEAKER_04: No wow and so I was showing him and he was like oh my god you're like for real a witch like I'm like yeah for real dude like so you have so the all you have an altar and you're you say an altar and you're saying prayers like what what what is that like do you so when I think of prayers I'm thinking you're praying to God or you're praying to your God or whatever.
35:53
SPEAKER_00: I'm praying to them for them for their spiritual elevation.
35:58
SPEAKER_00: When people die their personalities don't change right like they're still buffels if they were buffels in real life and if they were kind in real life they're still kind you know if they were mean they're still mean um but whenever you pray for them for their elevation you like let's say you have a really racist uncle that died and is just like hanging around and you can pray for that particular soul to reach a level of enlightenment where they become more accepting and in doing that you actually help your own bloodline all of that work for that all that elevation for the spirit that is no longer here it trickles down energetically you know like um this is actually science okay I know I'm a biotechnologist um no but your your trauma alters your DNA and it's passed down through generations right and so you're still carrying and working through the trauma that your grandmother went through that your grandfather went through you know that your parents went through and so in offering elevation to those spirits you're in turn elevating yourself right you're changing your own DNA you're healing yourself in a semblance of a way subconsciously and consciously um but yeah it is so important I feel like especially in um Mexican folk magic um ancestral veneration is very very very important oh wow I mean we have los you know I said that's so weird so do you celebrate that yeah oh yeah but I I say like my altar is like a Dia dos Muertos but like all year round and Dia de los Muertos altar or of is like like extra we're like we're we're going extra I gotcha celebrate it oh not celebrate but do it every year all year round that's cool uh oh yeah yeah yeah so you got so I I didn't know that you had you put on your own show every year that's cool yeah that's amazing um the first creep show I did um the Corpus creep show it was uh circus sideshow themed or like freak show themed and uh I was going through like a really hard time at that time wow and so I wanted to run away and join the circus and I said fuck it bring a circus to me we'll make it happen.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah and I had so much fun doing it like it was so fun to just be so creative and do something that I've always wanted to see in Corpus like growing up I I never saw anything like cool yeah you know like different you know it was always just like you know music you know or like the same old music to put on the show like on your own like actually put it together that's it is so fun.
38:44
SPEAKER_00: Now at the time you know it was a little stressful.
38:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah but this year is gonna be my fourth year I'm so so so excited.
38:52
SPEAKER_00: So the fun part of seeing it actually happen or um the fun part for me is all of the stuff before like I get to come up with the concept I get to pick like you know um how I want the uh promo video to go I get to pick how the photography goes nice you know I get to put I get to design the flyer like all that stuff is so fun for me cool yeah and then you know coming up like I've done this new thing where I do like Pinterest boards on like sometimes people don't know how to dress for the event so I'm like here's like a look book like if you don't know what to wear like kind of try to do this.
39:24
SPEAKER_04: Cool.
39:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah it's it's fun.
39:26
SPEAKER_04: So is is there more people every year or oh yeah yeah that's good.
39:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah it's uh it's definitely it's so much fun like you know I don't always get a lot out of it like as far as like monetary wise or um even like marketing like I don't really you know yeah not too much but I don't really care.
39:44
SPEAKER_00: I I'm now at the point to where I can hire people for the day of and I can enjoy my own party which is awesome.
39:50
SPEAKER_04: So so are you mid-viral at that point?
39:53
SPEAKER_00: Mid-viral because you you had a oh my gosh yes oh I remember that yeah oh my gosh yeah I don't know if I could handle being I and I said that I don't know if I could ever handle being viral like whenever you're on social media your your goal right typically is like I want to go viral that way I can have a ton of orders and like be like you know making money but now I'm kind of like oh that's a lot of that's a lot of things to deal with it's a lot of like opinions and I don't really know if I want to deal with that.
40:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah oh and then the hate oh my gosh you get haters yeah I mean that's when they say you've made it right but I'm like I like not make it like I don't want to deal with that I want to do yeah like half viral mid viral sauce so you went to Ray High School you're a Texan period come on were you in the technique sports or anything like that um I was in diving I was on the diving team diving yeah I I actually joined because I didn't know how to swim.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: Oh and you dove into it the first day in the netatorium the coach was like okay swim across and if you can make it across you're on the team and I was the last one shoot but I got there didn't quit.
41:04
SPEAKER_00: Oh nice I learned how to swim.
41:06
SPEAKER_00: Yeah I got over my fear of heights I definitely believe in immersion therapy.
41:13
SPEAKER_00: Immersion therapy what is that uh it's whenever you're confronted with the things that you're afraid of and you just gotta like push past oh like be courageous or whatever yeah it's just like um like let's say you have a phobia of like water well then they like slowly immerse you in the water to like get used to it and it's not so scary.
41:29
SPEAKER_00: Instead of just yeah or you know just letting you be afraid of water your whole life.
41:34
SPEAKER_00: Yeah it's awesome uh it's pretty courageous it's two are you still 2000s music lately um I have been super okay so I rediscovered Kill Switch Engage oh yeah and I've just been on a freaking binge like I've just been listening to Kill Switch Engage I've been listening to Chevelle I've been listening to uh Perfect Circle like just in that whole like realm of music and I'm just like dude this is such a vibe.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah I listen I listen to Spotify and they they suggest songs and the ones that I find liking are like 2005 yeah 2004 and they're heavy stuff yeah yeah the heavy park yeah leaky park it's not heavy but I love yeah it's all good and then you so you're into synth music too I was saying that I was like what one of the which one was it uh not that not Daft Punk but that other one sleep uh I think it's sleep something or other anyway that's pretty cool that you're into that type of stuff yeah I'm super into synth music yeah what's your favorite band uh band um I would say my favorite artist is Sidewalks and Skeletons oh interesting title it's it's like witch house so it's very like ethereal and dark and they use like interesting sounds like um there's this one song that I love oh my god it's like I've been trying so my videographer her name is Josie and she um we come up with the videos together it's a very much like a fun process for us but I've been trying to get her to use this one song for like ever and it never works out and I'm like oh anyhow but it has like this really interesting like uh creepy organ playing in the background it's it's so good nice so you like like uh it uh really uh not scary sounds but just like earthy it's just um probably something you would hear in a horror movie but like in the background yeah yeah that's what I was thinking okay that's what so do you teach do you teach people like the the stuff that you learn or not really I so to be a teacher in this community requires a certain level of age and years that you've been practicing okay right and also who taught you so I am what they call spirit led which means that nobody really taught me per se um it's just things that I've known like I don't know how to explain it it just hits my head hits my brain I do it and then you know later I find out oh this is why you do that this is it It has a purpose.
44:01
SPEAKER_00: You're not just making stuff up, which is so validating.
44:04
SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, so I don't necessarily have like a teacher, and so I don't feel qualified to teach magic, right?
44:14
SPEAKER_00: Um you know, I can put things together and give you directions, but as far as sitting there and like teaching, I don't feel like I'm qualified enough to do that.
44:25
SPEAKER_00: So what I teach instead is energy work.
44:30
SPEAKER_00: So like my last course or little workshop that I did was about uh activating your dark feminine, right?
44:41
SPEAKER_00: Which is learning how to be uh the opposite of what society says a woman should be, which is selfish, and having hard boundaries, yeah, and not overgiving, you know?
44:54
SPEAKER_00: And uh it was it was so good.
44:56
unknown: Oh my god, so good.
44:57
SPEAKER_04: Is it funny you mentioned that about the the woman?
45:00
SPEAKER_04: Are your clients mostly women or men, or is it both from both sides of the spectrum?
45:07
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's funny, I actually get more men coming in for love spells than women.
45:10
SPEAKER_00: No way, I swear to you, these men are like, I need her to be obsessed with me.
45:15
SPEAKER_00: That's funny.
45:16
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, no, you don't.
45:18
SPEAKER_00: You're just working your trauma out through your relationship.
45:24
SPEAKER_04: You think maybe you should get the certified counselor on the side of your name or something?
45:29
SPEAKER_00: It's in it's in the back of my brain.
45:30
SPEAKER_00: That was actually my original um really college uh uh majors um counseling psychology.
45:37
SPEAKER_04: Wow, and so how did you why did you choose uh bio med?
45:40
SPEAKER_00: Because I um looked up the top five um industries that are going to take off in the next 10 years that have nine to five hours.
45:50
SPEAKER_04: Oh, wow.
45:51
SPEAKER_00: Which is laboratory work.
45:52
SPEAKER_04: Nice, yeah, yeah, definitely.
45:55
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, when I was looking through the newspaper for jobs, driver, driver, driver, driver.
45:59
SPEAKER_04: That's why I started driving.
46:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, you gotta go where the money is.
46:02
SPEAKER_04: Go where the money is.
46:03
SPEAKER_00: And I was pretty good at it.
46:04
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like yeah, I was like really good at it.
46:08
SPEAKER_00: So it just bums me out here that like there's not really jobs for it here.
46:13
SPEAKER_00: Like you could work in the refineries, but like the jobs there are so limited that it's like people you have to wait till somebody retires.
46:22
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, it's like that.
46:23
SPEAKER_04: I think in a lot of industries down here.
46:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
46:26
SPEAKER_04: So in the refineries, you would be doing like the sample.
46:30
SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay, like a lab.
46:31
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like it would be laboratory.
46:32
SPEAKER_00: So biotechnology is, I mean, I tech technically genetic engineering, but it's um really more so about like working with um like how should I say microorganisms.
46:46
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
46:47
SPEAKER_00: So, like, for example, if you're looking for a contaminant in the water, like in the water um supply or something like that, that's alive, right?
46:54
SPEAKER_00: Right, you would be having to isolate that and then culture it and figure out what it is, which is what, which is what I would do.
47:01
SPEAKER_04: So, like a live something living inside the bio.
47:05
SPEAKER_00: But technically, I could do any kind of lab work, like I could work in a hospital if I wanted to.
47:09
SPEAKER_00: Um I mean if I got the job, you know.
47:11
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so it's so like you said, it's hard to get that that type of yeah.
47:16
SPEAKER_00: It it I and I know people say this a lot, but it it is very true.
47:19
SPEAKER_00: You it's who you know, you know.
47:22
SPEAKER_00: Um because I have tried to get into these industries, and it's just like what do they say?
47:28
SPEAKER_00: Like, no, um sometimes I get a call back, first interview, and then it's like, okay, we we hired internally, or oh, we went with another choice, and I'm like, cool.
47:38
SPEAKER_00: Um, and it's usually someone, usually someone um who has more experience, but it's also like, well, how am I supposed to get experience?
47:47
SPEAKER_00: I mean, technically I have experience, but it's just it's just silly.
47:51
SPEAKER_00: Um besides, I'm doing this anyways, it's way more fun.
47:54
SPEAKER_04: That's what's up, yeah.
47:55
SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
47:57
SPEAKER_04: So, man, so you're located on Morgan next to the coffee mug.
48:00
SPEAKER_04: What's the address?
48:01
SPEAKER_04: I'm sorry.
48:02
SPEAKER_00: 1124 Morgan Avenue.
48:03
SPEAKER_04: 1124?
48:04
SPEAKER_04: 1124.
48:05
SPEAKER_04: We're actually neighbors.
48:05
SPEAKER_00: I live down the street, but yeah, say Liz.
48:07
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
48:08
SPEAKER_04: I pass by, I'm like, there's your shop right there, and then the coffee mug is right down the street from there.
48:13
SPEAKER_04: I actually interviewed one of the homeless guy that's there, Ryan.
48:16
SPEAKER_04: Okay, yeah, I interviewed him like for episode 29 or something like that.
48:20
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I've been wanting to do more stuff like that, but that's cool.
48:24
SPEAKER_04: So you're located on Morgan, you have your podcast, Untold Magic.
48:28
SPEAKER_04: Are you gonna continue doing that?
48:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, it's I'm actually in the process of doing season three.
48:32
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
48:33
SPEAKER_00: I'm just setting up all the interviews, and I gotta like edit them.
48:36
SPEAKER_04: How do you so what so how do you how come you pick seasons?
48:39
SPEAKER_04: Like I don't do seasons.
48:41
SPEAKER_04: I I don't know, I guess I don't understand them.
48:43
SPEAKER_00: What so I do seasons because I'm doing a million other things and I don't like being inconsistent.
48:49
SPEAKER_00: So I pre-record them, I edit them, I get them all squared up to go, and then they auto-post in sections, but because that's not consistent, it's not something I can do consistently.
48:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I decided to do seasons.
49:00
SPEAKER_00: So it's like five or six episodes a season, and I have like a hiatus where I'm able to like find people, interview them, edit, do all that, whatever, come up with the the graphics or whatever, set it up, and then I drop them all within like a month or two.
49:13
SPEAKER_04: And so you feel like do you feel like they have to be like on a certain day every week?
49:17
SPEAKER_00: I do.
49:17
SPEAKER_00: That's just me.
49:18
SPEAKER_00: I know that some people don't feel that way.
49:20
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I like consistency.
49:22
SPEAKER_00: Like, I like to think of my podcast as like a TV show.
49:24
SPEAKER_00: Right.
49:25
SPEAKER_00: Like you want it, you want your podcast, and I do it actually.
49:27
SPEAKER_00: I drop them every Sunday morning because I'm like, I'm gonna take you to church today.
49:30
SPEAKER_04: Church today.
49:32
SPEAKER_00: Here's your daily church, your daily, your weekly church, yeah, yeah, yeah.
49:37
SPEAKER_04: Sunday, right?
49:38
SPEAKER_04: When everybody's uh at church to the people, yeah, yeah.
49:40
SPEAKER_00: But no, but most of my clients probably wouldn't be at church.
49:43
SPEAKER_04: So that's cool.
49:46
SPEAKER_04: So so you do it in seasons, you're coming on season three.
49:49
SPEAKER_04: That's nice, awesome, and you edit them yourself.
49:51
SPEAKER_04: So is it a video?
49:52
SPEAKER_00: It's just audio, it's just audio because I don't want to have to get dressed for every single podcast I do.
49:58
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to be worried about my angles every time because I'd be looking at them like all crazy and whatnot.
50:04
SPEAKER_00: So, and I think my guests appreciate it too sometimes because you know, a lot of them are also fellow business owners.
50:10
SPEAKER_00: And so whenever you're just like busy all the time, it's nice to just show up and just be a slob and like nobody's gonna know.
50:15
SPEAKER_04: Right.
50:15
SPEAKER_04: It'll be all good.
50:16
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, but it is also nice to like dress up and do a podcast.
50:20
SPEAKER_04: So oh yeah, yeah, for sure.
50:21
SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
50:21
SPEAKER_04: So you got your podcast, and then your your next show is in October.
50:25
SPEAKER_04: When do you start promoting for that one?
50:26
SPEAKER_00: I promote two months beforehand.
50:28
SPEAKER_00: Um, but I'm working on it all year.
50:30
SPEAKER_00: Like right now, I'm already like out coming up with concepts, like yeah, and so every so every concept is gonna be different every year.
50:38
SPEAKER_00: Every year, okay, and I always try, I mean, it doesn't always happen, but I try to book different people.
50:44
SPEAKER_00: I try not to, I mean, I don't mind doing like one one year, two years, but then I try to switch it up because nobody wants to come to the same event every year with the same people.
50:53
SPEAKER_04: I gotcha, yeah.
50:54
SPEAKER_04: I gotcha, that's cool.
50:55
SPEAKER_04: So you got that show coming in October, and you two months before we find you at Morgan.
51:01
SPEAKER_04: What else?
51:01
SPEAKER_04: Is there anything you want to share?
51:02
SPEAKER_04: We're coming up on like 10 minutes left, and we're it sounds like we're winding down.
51:07
SPEAKER_04: So and then it's difficult to find you because your tag name, which is uh Chulita Brujita.
51:14
SPEAKER_04: What is it?
51:14
SPEAKER_00: It's uh the dot brujita.
51:16
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
51:19
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
51:19
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, it's Chulita Brujita 13.
51:21
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, then there's a lot of brujitas when I was searching for you.
51:24
SPEAKER_04: I was like, uh what's going on?
51:25
SPEAKER_04: So you need to.
51:26
SPEAKER_00: So if if you want to find me, like the best way is probably to go to my Instagram and then like click on the link there because it's it's a landing page and it should have a link to everything.
51:38
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if my TikTok's on there though.
51:40
SPEAKER_04: No, that's where I found the podcast, actually.
51:42
SPEAKER_04: I didn't know you had one.
51:43
SPEAKER_04: I was like, oh cool, just got one.
51:45
SPEAKER_04: Um, so yeah, that's awesome.
51:47
SPEAKER_04: Uh so do you still do virtual uh turret readings?
51:52
SPEAKER_00: I do.
51:53
SPEAKER_00: Um, one of my friends called it Telotero, and I just have been obsessed with my first thing.
51:57
SPEAKER_00: Right, isn't that cool?
51:58
SPEAKER_00: I was like, you're so smart.
51:59
SPEAKER_00: Um I know, I was like, why didn't I think of that?
52:03
SPEAKER_00: You're amazing.
52:04
SPEAKER_00: Um shout out McNag my micro farm.
52:08
SPEAKER_00: Um micro farm?
52:10
SPEAKER_00: Yeah fungi, like um um so they grow like microgreens.
52:13
SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay, okay.
52:14
SPEAKER_04: I'm thinking mushrooms.
52:16
SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know.
52:17
SPEAKER_04: Well, there's another guy like in town.
52:19
SPEAKER_00: He does mushrooms.
52:20
SPEAKER_04: Well, he he I I thought they were like trippy mushrooms, but they're actual like you can actually cook them and use them and all kinds of stuff.
52:28
SPEAKER_04: I never knew about that stuff.
52:29
SPEAKER_04: So he does microgreens.
52:31
SPEAKER_04: Oh sorry, shout out to that guy.
52:32
SPEAKER_04: Sorry.
52:32
SPEAKER_00: You're right.
52:33
SPEAKER_00: Um, so yes, I do do them over the phone.
52:35
SPEAKER_00: I actually have a lot of clients that aren't in town.
52:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, and so that's generally how we have our sessions.
52:40
SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't I will never DM you for a message.
52:44
SPEAKER_00: If you get a message, it's not from me.
52:46
SPEAKER_00: Um and if I do offer you a reading, it's gonna be free.
52:49
SPEAKER_00: And that's why I don't offer readings.
52:50
SPEAKER_04: Well, and you said too, like, what is it, real witches or whatever, they don't offer yeah, that that's like a that's like a uh hallmark of and that's the thing too.
52:59
SPEAKER_00: Traditional marketing doesn't apply to me for that reason.
53:02
SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
53:02
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're not supposed to go seek, they're supposed to seek you.
53:05
SPEAKER_04: Wow, so you gotta come up with ways to market yourself without being pushy.
53:09
SPEAKER_04: Without being pushy.
53:10
SPEAKER_04: It is so fun.
53:11
SPEAKER_04: Pushy sucks anyway.
53:12
SPEAKER_00: It is so I just marketing for me is so to be creative, yeah.
53:17
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
53:17
SPEAKER_00: It's fun to be creative and think of like new ways to like get around things.
53:22
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
53:23
SPEAKER_00: It's just so fun for me.
53:24
SPEAKER_00: I love it.
53:25
SPEAKER_04: That's cool, yeah.
53:25
SPEAKER_04: And it shows that you're always learning about it too.
53:28
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think this is like the perfect industry for me because I get bored of stuff very easily.
53:32
SPEAKER_00: I do like mentally, I just get bored.
53:34
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, this is over, I'm done with it.
53:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, so to have something that I'm constantly like having to think of something new and be on my toes and be creative is just like the dream.
53:43
SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
53:43
SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
53:44
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
53:45
SPEAKER_04: Well, what were we talking about?
53:46
SPEAKER_04: I lost train of thought there.
53:47
SPEAKER_04: Uh so yeah, I think that's it.
53:49
SPEAKER_04: Um, is there anything else you want to share?
53:51
SPEAKER_00: Um, no, but if you're interested in any of the things we talked about, like I said, I do card readings, I do aura photography, I do tea leaf readings, I also do cleansings by appointment.
53:59
SPEAKER_00: I do spell work, but again, we have to talk about that first.
54:02
SPEAKER_00: Um, you can check out my website, bruhitaboutique.com.
54:06
SPEAKER_00: Uh, sign up for my email list, um, ask me any questions, book the things, tell your friends, all the things.
54:13
SPEAKER_04: So this is the part where I do the uh traditional say that we're gonna leave, but actually ask you more questions yet.
54:20
SPEAKER_04: The Mexican kabaki.
54:23
SPEAKER_04: So what's an aura?
54:25
SPEAKER_04: An aura photo, yeah.
54:26
SPEAKER_00: So it's literal, literally a photo that I take of you and it shows like a picture of your energy.
54:33
SPEAKER_00: And really what you're paying for is me to interpret it.
54:36
SPEAKER_00: So based on the quadrant that it's in or the the placement of it, if it's in front of you, behind you, how dark it is, the shade of it, all these different things.
54:46
SPEAKER_00: I read it for you or interpret it for you, and it talks about like the things that are going on with you that are affecting your energy.
54:55
SPEAKER_00: So it can even be like you're not saying the things that you want in life, you're not telling people what you want, and it's like messing up all your other stuff, miss messing up your energy, or like you have a negative outlook, like it's showing up here, like you need to work on that.
55:09
SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
55:10
SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
55:10
SPEAKER_04: Never heard about that.
55:11
SPEAKER_04: So she's got that going on.
55:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we could come by.
55:13
SPEAKER_00: I'll give you one.
55:14
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's just a hook it, it should hook you up with Ella.
55:16
SPEAKER_04: That's awesome.
55:16
SPEAKER_04: All right, cool.
55:17
SPEAKER_04: If nothing else, thanks for coming on the show.
55:18
SPEAKER_04: How did you feel when when I invited you on the show?
55:21
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I was like, oh, I I mean, cool.
55:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm always down.
55:24
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm always down for a collab, I'm always down for a podcast, I'm always down to just like vibe.
55:30
SPEAKER_04: That's cool.
55:30
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so somebody nominated you too uh on our yeah, they uh because I because I put a post, hey, I open up the podcast again, and who would you like to see on there?
55:38
SPEAKER_00: And then it oh my gosh, I'm gonna cry.
55:40
SPEAKER_00: Stop it.
55:41
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no, they nominated you on.
55:42
SPEAKER_04: I was like, all right, let's it's invite.
55:44
SPEAKER_04: So I've tried, I'm almost, I think there's maybe two people on the post that I haven't invited yet, which I'm gonna invite them.
55:49
SPEAKER_04: And I tried to do, I was trying, I want to do all of them that were on that post.
55:53
SPEAKER_04: So you were one of them.
55:54
SPEAKER_00: Well, thank you.
55:55
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, awesome.
55:56
SPEAKER_04: All right, well, nothing else.
55:57
SPEAKER_04: We'll say goodbye.
55:58
SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much for being on the show.
55:59
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me.
56:00
SPEAKER_04: Stay tuned, you guys, for the next podcast episode.
56:02
SPEAKER_04: We got the Corpus Christi Originals podcast tomorrow.
56:05
SPEAKER_04: We got the right recycled corn podcast for episode 41 at 6 p.m.
56:09
SPEAKER_04: with uh Alex and Scoob Steve and all his other things that you call him for the next uh for tomorrow.
56:16
SPEAKER_04: And if you want to catch us, the replay on YouTube, Facebook, and you can listen on Spotify, Apple, wherever you listen to your podcast.
56:22
SPEAKER_04: Thanks a lot.