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Building a community through healing and meditation · Eye Opener Society

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Welcome to Without a Candle. We are your hosts. Hey guys, I'm Carla. And I'm Carly.
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Let's just jump on in, shall we? Good morning.
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Exciting. So round two with Gary. Take two.
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I'm super excited. I have no idea what we talked about the last time.
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So this is going to be fun to like just chat about all the things again and it'll be like new.
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So why don't you introduce yourself and kind of tell us who you are?
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Absolutely. My name is Gary and I run Eye Opener Society.
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This is just a show that I started four years ago and I have four years of story
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to tell you and I'll try and condense it down into one little thing.
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It started as Third Eye Meditation. That was the original show that I did.
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And that's happened because Well it started in 2022,
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And just before then I was doing well You know Typical guy from the Bronx, New York You know Solid,
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strong and whatever Never had any problems But I always practiced meditation
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But it wasn't on a spiritual level It was meditation just to calm down Because
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a lot of jobs I had Was high stress and all Yeah I had done it over 20 something years.
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And at one point during 2022, I ran into some issues, mental health,
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because we had a breakdown, my wife and I.
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I was having problems with my current job then that were very serious.
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And it was hitting at me. There was just one day, couldn't take it anymore.
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And I went home, and my wife was just inconsolably crying.
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And I've never heard a cry like that to the point where we couldn't calm her down.
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And then with every energy that I had in me, it brought up all the,
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you know, horror. Yeah, it was horror.
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And for me to experience that for the first time, it was difficult.
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I said, oh, you know, it's great to meditate. I didn't even want to meditate
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because I was afraid if I go into that meditative state,
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all of this negative energy was just going to manifest with
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me the whole time yeah i was scared and
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i just didn't want to do it so a little bit of
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a backstory um my wife she always
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makes what i call her little hex bags you know she does that for you know people
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that she's close with or they come to her and a friend of ours came you know
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to her saying hey listen i want to get pregnant and you know can you make your
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bag so we were looking for a shop a metaphysical shop in the area that was open at that time.
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So we found this little shop that the girl Jen was working from home.
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And it's Minds Eye Metaphysical.
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We went in there, and we were graced with this amazing presence. It was amazing.
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So we developed a little bit of friendship there at that time.
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But what I did see in that shop was her little flyers for all the Reiki sessions
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and all that she does and her services that she offered.
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So I always put it on the back burner because I didn't know exactly what Reiki was.
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I heard it. I knew it existed. I had no idea really what it entailed or anything.
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So i'm going through this really bad time and
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i couldn't meditate i couldn't do anything this is
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2022 um so after the
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whole 2020 thing i couldn't believe how hard it
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was to find counseling therapy and it was like oh sorry we're booked for like
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the next 20 years you know sorry for your loss so i had to sit with this for
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a little while i finally found someone who was open and I started going for
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the counseling and amazingly enough, what I found out with that very first day,
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he sat me down and he's like, what I want you to do is, I forgot exactly what
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he was like, I want you to take a deep breath. I said, are you talking about meditation?
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I was like, so it hit me. So I was like, wow, so we are starting to come full
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circle with this holistic healing.
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I said, that's wonderful. I said, but I've been meditating. You don't have to
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tell me about that. I'm here for a reason.
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But it started to help. But at that same time, things were falling apart.
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And I couldn't seem to get myself out of it. And I recalled the little flyers for the Reiki.
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And I said, what is it going to hurt for me to go there? Yeah,
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and give it a shot and see what's next.
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So she had the trauma healing one. I said, we might as well go full on that.
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Rip the bandaid off. Right. So I said, let's do it. So I laid on that table.
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I had my eyes closed the whole time. I was relaxed.
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Jen did whatever Jen did. And as soon as the session was over,
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I am, I'm a living testament to the fact that I got, I just sat up and I was like, this is amazing.
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Why am I even worrying about any of these troubles? They're so small.
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And I said, you know what? I always wanted to start my own business.
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As soon as I walked out that door, I started planning. I got home.
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I started third eye meditation, which was a meditation counseling.
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And although it didn't really take off the way I wanted it to,
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the surprising little nugget with that i started
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doing a little podcast as a way
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to um promote my business without
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spending money i said this is great started on youtube and all well the podcast
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started to take all it launched and i was like i said look at all these views
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so i just started going into it and we were talking about all sorts of things
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uh mental health because uh my stepdaughter hannah I mean, she was very open with it.
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She had a very traumatic childhood, and she still suffers today from a lot of
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anxiety, depression, you know, whatever else, name it.
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But she was able to freely talk about it, which helps. And I realized that the
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more you talk and you release that energy, it helps.
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So we talked a lot about that, and then we started going down a few rabbit holes
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because I'm a huge conspiracy theorist person.
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I love that. I love going down those rabbit holes. So it was a mishmash of a
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lot of stuff With the original Eye-opener society And then after a while we had another.
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Traumatic thing We had part divorce And we had to leave that house Immediately
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which was so saddening Because we had a built-in studio So the whole eye-opener
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society Had a studio Yeah.
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And we were so comfortable with that, but with all of the, and I call it drama now, but it's worse.
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We had to leave. We had to find a place. You know, my wife and I went and found,
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the first thing we found was a smaller apartment and no big deal.
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But because of Hannah's divorce, she couldn't talk openly on the air.
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That's not a good thing legally.
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So she stepped away. She was going through all of her traumas at the time.
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So i went back and started doing solo
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episodes again and then um once
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we moved right there around the christmas time uh my
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wife was in a car accident nothing spectacular but
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it was during a tremendous snowstorm i couldn't get to the
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hospital and i started breaking down again and
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i just don't know why uh and i
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started doing the wrong things again oh
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she's in an accident she's okay but now i'm thinking financial
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loss we just lost a card i just spent money and now we
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got to go out and get another and i started allowing these things
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and i think just because at that time where
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we were sitting new change new roof over i
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had new way of going about life it started to manifest again and i said well
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it's not going to take me over that much this time i said i know what to do
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now yeah so i started going back to my show and i started talking about it i
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went back for another therapy session,
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at least now in my current job they offer it, so it's a little bit freely accessible
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now for me, which I was like, oh, thank you so much for that.
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I went through that therapy session.
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And I started to get better. And that's when I started realizing,
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you know, the meditation, the spirituality, the metaphysics,
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this is not some phony mumbo jumbo.
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This is actual healing and it works and people need to accept it.
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And I'm not saying dump all of your medications and stop seeing your doctor.
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I mean, I'm not a doctor myself, but this is something that should be incorporated or at least tried.
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Yeah so the show started
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going on um i found a co-host
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jennifer miller she was a guest on the show way back
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when she worked at that time it was
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just a great connection yeah she helped me through that uh period and then she
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got to leave so i went back to solo again and then i don't know i was introduced
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to tiktok and i caught it right at the tail end when it was still good you know
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yeah And I just started watching this girl,
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Lizzie, and I'm watching her stuff.
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And I'm like, this girl's got something to say. And it kept popping up on my
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feed. I started listening.
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I started going into her Instagram. I said, I got to have her on the show.
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And I just thought maybe as a guest, but I said, she has more to say than just a guest.
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So I said, I'm just going to wing it. And I shot a text and I was like,
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hey, do you want to call her stuff?
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I can't ask her to make a podcast. That's awesome. Yeah. She got back to me
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so excited because she always wanted to do her own show. Yeah.
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And it worked. And we became like integrated instantly.
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She was able to see the eye opener society vision.
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She was able to give me feedback, give a little bit of what she would like and
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a little bit of, you know, I gave her what I would like. Yeah.
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And she's still on the show to this day. She's an amazing person.
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Energy.by.lizzie. L-I-Z-Z-I-E.
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And that's her TikTok handle. If anybody wants to follow her,
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she's amazing because she works with all this architecture of energy.
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And she gets downloads crazy. And
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you can tell by energy. And she tries to figure it out and interpret it.
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If anybody was to work with her, it's chaotic, but it works.
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I worked with her in two sessions.
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Very chaotic, but it breaks down. So we have this new vision of eye-opener society, all right?
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And it's spectacular because in energy work, we spoke about this.
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Words, they mean something, right?
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Every time you say something, it comes back at you.
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So I said, what's next for eye-opener society? Where are we going with this?
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I said, you know what? I don't like the word podcast anymore.
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It's So yesterday I said I want something more So I said you know what I'm just
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going to drop the word podcast And just I'm The High Opener Society show it's
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a show And since I've done that,
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Metaphysically It changes Yeah it starts to Numbers start to rise up a little
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bit more Because it's something new I mean I didn't make any changes,
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But I feel that the show is now going to go other places because I see a bigger vision.
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So I want you to use both to interview me. And then I want you to use before
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the end to ask me what direction I'm going.
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Because I got something I would like to share with you on your show.
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Okay. I'm excited. And I share a little bit of what I just mentioned to Carly
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like last week about our bigger picture.
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I don't want to say a whole lot But do you remember now? No,
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Like what if this was done in front of Oh yes I'll put it that way right Yeah,
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I feel like that kind of You know And that sparked something You got excited
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about that Yes it did Okay Yeah But I want to hear again,
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um how you guys connected
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okay and that just that organic
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conversation and yeah i'm
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just excited to if you'll rehash that for me so it started with you and i sitting
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at the kitchen table that no longer exists in here and um we were chatting about
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something like we do and you looked at me and go man that would have been good
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as like a podcast we should have recorded that or something,
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and somebody else walked in and said yeah a
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podcast would be great i think it might have been jamesa maybe maybe
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and i looked at you and i was like
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fuck no like we're not adding another thing right and then i gave it a week
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and i started thinking about it and i do my thing and i go research and i get
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on facebook i join all the groups because why not right join all the groups
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and i start going through all like the posts and the comments just to kind of
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see if My questions can be answered, right?
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And I wasn't quite getting them. So I made a post in this group.
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I don't even remember. It's called like podcasters on Facebook or something.
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Yeah. And I made a post with me like, hey, I'm new. Where do I start?
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Like give me all the tips and tricks, right?
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Well, there's a couple comments. Gary was one of them. And something about him
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and the energy off of that comment, he was the only one I commented back to.
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And I was like, yeah, I'll email you. He dropped his email.
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He's like email me you know ask all the questions I'm
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happy to help and I think it was a couple days later
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I finally did and I emailed him and I
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was like hey you know thank you so much like this is what I'm looking
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for this is like I know nothing you know and he sent back like a story of like
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all the information and I'm like that this is fantastic and it just went from
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there like we just back and forth every couple days you know because work and
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all this stuff and um it got down to, um.
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He's like i would love to have you guys on my show and
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i'm like wonderful and i don't know i think it
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was your idea like you wanted to come down and visit like here's
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here's our date and i told carla i'm like hey there's
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this guy he's gonna come down and she's like cool let's
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do it and it went from there and that first
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time you came down you helped us with the crap soundboard that i got off fucking
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amazon i was a piece of shit i was like i don't even know why i got that um
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growing pains yeah for sure that didn't last long literally it didn't like maybe
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two episodes not even not even because we use that to record yours and here we are yeah.
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Yeah so um that's my take
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and my view on it you have anything you want to add or yeah
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i think you pretty much
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hate it i as soon as i hear somebody say hey i'm starting a
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podcast you know can you help yeah i'm always
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so scared i'm like please let me be the first one to reach the inbox because
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the worst thing I think with anybody
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starting out with podcasting is the scammers that
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come on there because even to today I
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have to block messages you know from my Facebook or anything because it's just
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overwhelming people oh I'll help you with this and you know and they're all
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from other countries and you know yeah I said please don't let it happen to
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these people I said let me get in there and just say this is the way it is yeah
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this is how you do it and I think though,
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There was more of a crazy connection that I felt for everything.
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I said, and the fact that not only is it a podcast, I said, they have this metaphysical
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shop and they have all of these services. And I love metaphysical shops.
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And I was like, this is amazing.
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I said, how great would it be for me to go down and do my first road trip and
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actually take my show on the road?
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And ever since then, like I said, the both of you became instant family.
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I can't even say friends.
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It's just you guys are family. And now I just want to expand everything with
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you guys and integrate and everything else.
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Daydream together is always a bigger dream. Yeah. And more people can see that
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vision. Yeah, for sure. And feed that vision. Yeah.
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When we were going into season two and we knew we wanted to interview our community, right?
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We had just started interviewing people on random days, you know,
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trying to work them in the schedule. And it started getting really chaotic.
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And Carla was like, Carly, we really need to do like one or two days with just
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a massive amount of people.
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And so we planned it, right? We had all the things.
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And two weeks ago, I looked at Carla. I was like, is this going to be crazy?
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Do you think Carrie will come down?
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And she's like, we can just ask.
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Well, because you just had new awareness. Yeah. And it's a more difficulty. Yeah. Right?
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Yeah. And I was going to get within an hour. You figured it out.
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You fixed it. Yeah, thank you for that question.
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But that had me in my head for like a week because I'm like,
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how am I going to figure out the sound, try to make sure that that's all good
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with back-to-back ones? And I'm like, we need Gary.
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We need Gary, help me! Going back to like the family thing, like we knew that
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even if you couldn't be here, we would have done a Zoom and you would have been
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like, this is what you need to do, right?
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Like we knew we couldn't have counted on you. And that is...
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Like amazing because we don't have that very
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often right so like having that type of support is
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invaluable so thank you first and foremost
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and even the way you guys show up right yeah you guys
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show up like when carly has family come in they understand that
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we we still have other things to do when my mom visits she knows
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that we still have things to do and i love
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that you guys um still show up
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and i appreciate that i appreciate that we have things going on yeah Even Melissa
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Give me the list I'll check everybody Right Like she's helped We have Nick out
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there Like it's Just a fellowship Yeah It's fantastic We love that so much Yeah So what have you.
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Learned The last Day Or so Well I've learned that It's great to get away And
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come help people out It's great to get away from work And take an extra day Yeah,
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But again You guys did need something.
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You needed help. As small as it was, it doesn't matter. I said,
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I'm going to make an eight-hour drive because I love going down there for first of all.
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But beyond that, it's like this is kind of what I like doing as well. But I learned that.
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It's just like an eye-opener society, and that's the word, society.
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We are all bonded together.
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And I've learned that immensely through the past few years.
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But to come and help out and sit here and see, because just so the audience
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knows, I was kind of behind the scenes doing the background,
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the actual recordings of the shows for production, basically.
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So I've seen it from a different angle.
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And the guests that you've had in here, some of them really sat as I'm sitting.
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I said, wow, I'm here immersed live in this, and I'm feeling the energy from
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these guests, and it's very emotional, it's very touching, it's very uplifting,
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and that too, that expands that community.
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Learning about new people, seeing new people, and being able to help friends,
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or family, I call you guys family now.
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But that's what I've learned. I've learned how much it is to actually step up
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and help and actually be there and be involved in it.
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You know, that's amazing. That's the purpose of the support.
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We love that so much. So going back to your story and your spirituality,
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how has getting into the metaphysics and getting a spiritual practice daily
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helped you through those mental challenges? How has that helped you?
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It's it's pretty amazing because.
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I've always had different views. I was raised Catholic, so, you know,
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obviously there's a story there.
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It seems like everybody raised Catholic winds up on this side of the fence.
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No offense to anybody who is Catholic, but what we have to understand,
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there's dogmas with all religions.
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Once we erase those dogmas and we really kind of break it down,
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it's all metaphysical in some way, shape, or form. And so I was always learning
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little tidbits, but nothing more than when I went through all this emotion.
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What helped me is to really open my eyes and say, wow, metaphysics,
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just from what I hear, there's so many aspects to it.
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And even all the conspiracy theories and the rabbit holes I go down to,
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I said, there's a correlation between all of this, you know.
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So once I started to figure it out in my own head, my basic modality is meditation.
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Obviously, that's where I fall back on all the time. That's what I use.
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Spiritually, it instantly grounds me. At this point in my life,
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I don't have to sit, find that quiet spot and do my meditation.
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I could remain all day in a meditative state.
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It's just a different frequency of the mind.
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And what that does, though, it's constantly telling you all that negative shit
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that's around you is not allowed in.
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Yeah. You can push it away. Yeah.
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That's the main thing that I learned. And beyond that, then I started finding
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all these other modalities. And I started getting into the oracle cards.
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And I started to get into just intuition from working with other psychics.
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And I said, this, again, is a society. And there's people out there,
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no matter what you do, whether it's a Reiki session, whether it is a,
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you know, give me any other modality. Yeah.
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Helps and it i think it helps more than modern medicine does i love that so
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as of recently we now share a study this so um has a bit a couple weeks ago when i i sent you um.
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I sent you some information on one thing and that did sit with you but being
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is just not quite right so you found I have something,
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but through that you found the university,
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that I am Sedona so how has that shifted over the last month I'm not going to
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chew too much on that simply because it mixes in with the direction you know,
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I'm going to be surprised.
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So we'll still learn. So we'll still learn. But yeah, it was interesting because
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I've always been, I hate the word certification and being certified.
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I mean, if you have, well, we all have natural gifts.
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It's just, we don't know how to sometimes bring them forward.
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People don't understand. We've been kind of deprogrammed from this.
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So let's just say you are a psychic, right?
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You have this ability, you can see, you know, into the future, whatever. may be.
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Why do you need a certification on the wall for that? That's always been my problem with that.
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But at the same time, this entire field is all about learning.
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There's a bunch of stuff I have no idea about. And I'm learning your Akashic records and all of that.
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That's amazing stuff. I said, I would love to learn this. So I said,
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let me start small before I start jumping ahead.
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And just when I was on your website, Appalachian Rootworks, Rooted and Roons,
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check them out. Thank you.
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Um, but I seen that, you know, some of your certifications came from this University
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of Sedona. So I said, I looked it up real quick.
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I said, it's affordable, which is always a big thing. I know everybody's got
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that problem financially.
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I said, let me start a base, you know, let me start getting some sort of knowledge
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and, uh, having that certificate.
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Cause I think it does help somewhat. Yeah.
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You know, a lot of people want to see that, that you are trained,
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you know, but here's the thing, cause I could get that certification and then
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I could go and teach you how I meditate not how instructors taught me how to
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meditate you know there's always,
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Because I think it becomes a business, you know, just buy that certification
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and whatnot because I could do the same thing.
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But it's good. It's a very good class. It's really giving me that foundation
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that you need to start understanding the metaphysical side of it from the view
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of a classroom rather than from just saying, hey, you just need a certification.
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It's giving you an actual structured form where I could go online.
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And it's all online. So it's at my pace. Yeah.
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And it's fantastic. It's been working. It really has.
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They have some amazing YouTube documentaries as well. So that's one of my favorite things.
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So now I am still working through that program.
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And I'll probably be a student of that program for the rest of my life.
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Right. Now, that's kind of tricky, right? I love it.
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And I still go watch, you know, all those videos and stuff repeatedly.
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But I'm not sure I'll ever be finished with it you know.
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But Carly and I also have kind of been back and forth with the certification
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thing too and it's taken a while for me to wrap my head around that some people
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just need to see that it's kind of like with our modalities does that make sense?
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Matt for example is a medium who uses tarot to help share his story but he doesn't need tarot.
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The client on the other side of the table needs him to use tarot.
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So I kind of see the certifications like that too. Um,
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But, you know, there's things that I do that I don't have a certificate for.
26:15
And when I share that kind of perspective is if I had to choose someone with
26:22
a certification or if I had to choose someone with six years experience,
26:26
give me the experience. Yeah. Right. You're sure.
26:30
I do like some of these classes because what I'm finding is that even though
26:36
I know it, sometimes it's tricky to articulate it. and it's tricky to share
26:42
and tricky to teach, right?
26:43
So I really appreciate being able to hear all the different variations of verbiage
26:49
and explanation. Explanation is Reiki.
26:52
I think Carly was shocked this year when I took another Reiki class.
26:55
She's like, you still, you know, you're like, what? Yeah.
26:58
But it's kind of cool. So, but I can't lie, you know, since you keep secrets really well, damn it.
27:08
But um i kind of
27:10
can't think about think of anything else because i
27:14
just want to know what you're up to no do you
27:17
have any other questions or do you have anything else you want to share i want
27:21
to dig in um i want to know more about your meditations are you still offering
27:26
that are you still um is that still part of the show is it separate like yeah
27:32
very good question because I still offer it,
27:35
and it's non-monetary.
27:37
I'm still dealing with that because I actually did an episode,
27:41
a solo episode, because I've seen a Facebook post and I read comments.
27:45
Never do that. Negative energy.
27:48
However, it did make me realize there's something going on where I feel it should be a show.
27:54
Should spirit workers, light workers, whomever it may be, anybody in the metaphysical,
27:59
should they charge for their work?
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And I was like, well, why shouldn't they?
28:03
And I heard all the arguments. Well, if you're a true healer,
28:06
you want to do it? Jesus never did.
28:08
Jesus didn't have car insurance. Jesus didn't have a roof over his head where he needed it.
28:13
There's a whole world now where, unfortunately, this day and age,
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we're in a 3D world. And unfortunately, money makes it go.
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Most of these holistic healers Most of these people All have shops like you
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guys You gotta pay rent, you gotta pay the electric You can't do everything For free,
28:32
And then I say most of the light workers Most of the spiritual healers If you follow them on any.
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Social media They do a lot of sessions For free,
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well they'll sit there But now if you want
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to say Wow I'm really touched by that and I want something more personal well
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pay for it yeah that's in time it's just an exchange
28:53
of energy many of them if you talk to them say
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i really can't afford it can work something out oh yeah use the barter system
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right the time it's it's nothing wrong with it so going back to your question
29:04
i am working with and i work with energy right now because a lot of times if
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i go out there and i say come to me for meditation you know where i like to do something more,
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specific to the individual where i can say you
29:19
know give me your insight what it is you're trying to achieve
29:22
and make it much more personal rather than just a random guided
29:25
meditation yeah reach out to me at
29:27
eos meditation at gmail.com and i will work with you uh right now i have a few
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clients and they came to me just by chance actually so i work both a frequency
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yeah and and i found that so much better than trying to do it business-wise. Yes.
29:47
Down the line, I would love to get that out there. I would love to start doing
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meditation classes and teaching people different ways to meditate,
29:55
teaching the way I meditate, because that's the thing.
29:58
You could come up with something yourself and teach it.
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Meditation is not as hard as you think. There's a lot of myths about it.
30:06
So yeah, if I work with anybody, it's going to be more spiritually connected
30:10
right now. But if you want to reach out to me, email me and we can do something.
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Absolutely. That's awesome.
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Do you have one to add to that? I'm just excited for that because that also
30:23
allows organic growth of word of mouth and refills. Yeah.
30:29
And that is long-term the best kind of growth.
30:36
Oh, 100%. I feel like that is what kind of.
30:41
Makes the long-term clients not the one-time
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sessions you know what i mean right like when you really
30:47
have that testimony from you know auntie and she's like you need to go to this
30:52
and she full-on like this has helped me all the things and now she's sending
30:57
her friends and she's sending her her family to you and they're gonna take her
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testimony into account being like Because it's exhausting for a long time.
31:06
We spent so much energy trying to convince others that they needed us. Yeah, right.
31:13
And that doesn't always work because they may not know that they need something. Yeah.
31:19
Does that make sense? It does. Yeah. So I'm sure you have seen the structure
31:23
of how we make our Facebook posts.
31:25
It's just day-to-day posts now, like trying to just show people the everyday
31:30
stuff, not trying to sell them something.
31:32
Yeah we'll mention like hey we've got this new thing
31:35
or hey you know we have a service day but we do
31:38
have to you know remind people of those things sometimes but
31:41
it's not a hard stuff almost go up
31:45
before they're published right um because
31:48
we we are working on a wait list often you know
31:51
um and the other commitment so i have a there's
31:54
a question after this but one of our commitments to ourselves
31:57
in 2026 was allowing ourselves
32:01
more time and honoring our
32:04
value right because in years past we would fill the schedule so full for everyone
32:11
else but we didn't put ourselves on the schedule right so that shifted and so
32:16
how in the last you know uh with new awareness, how are you finding.
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And being reminded of your value?
32:27
I, just through my show alone, a lot of it,
32:31
Everything is energy. And just like I said, even with the meditation,
32:36
clients, getting people in, you're working with people. You're working with those energies.
32:41
You have to understand. And I am a living witness because my wife,
32:46
Melissa, who's here, she has these amazing gifts.
32:51
And she's so powerful.
32:54
But she's trying to understand them. And if she tries to work,
32:57
it depletes her entire system.
33:00
That's where valuing yourself comes in. You have to, in this type of field,
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understand you are the healer.
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You're the most important person. But if you're healing through any modality, that is important.
33:15
You're expending so much energy that you do need that time to step back and
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say, I need time for me so I can heal me before I can heal others.
33:27
That's what I've learned. I've learned through my job, my regular nine to five,
33:31
where I'm working all the time. I need time for myself.
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Because if I'm doing that all the time, I can't explore all these other fun
33:38
things that I really want to do.
33:39
So I'm learning that. And that's what I've learned about valuing myself.
33:43
And we've been more forward, right?
33:45
Like when someone comes in for a Reiki session or an attunement or,
33:50
you know, a reading with Carly, there's more sacrifice that we choose to do
33:56
before the client even wants it.
33:59
So if we have an energy work day, most of the time we're fasting, right? Right.
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And if we're not on full fast, then we're definitely fasting from low vibration
34:08
consumptions, right? Right.
34:10
So physically, that's different kinds of food. So meat free. Right.
34:16
And then, you know, energetically, I'm not listening. I don't listen to the
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radio or watch TV much anyway.
34:22
But I'm definitely, you know, listening to those audio books or my mantra music,
34:28
you know, that kind of stuff.
34:30
And so there's more sacrifice before people show up. Going out to dinner.
34:36
So that's family time sacrifice that we do for our clients as well.
34:42
So it's not just a day of services. And you have the same concepts, right?
34:46
So to get into that mindset, to be prepared, to offer a practice.
34:55
There are sacrifices yeah absolutely they're wrong
34:58
and that's it's great that you bring that up because a
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lot of people don't realize that if you go into a practitioner say oh let's just
35:04
use reiki i'm gonna go in that and that practitioner has just been sucking up
35:09
all the low vibrations and all day long saying well i'm just gonna do the session
35:12
eight yeah that's being placed back now on the client and people don't realize
35:16
that and even a client of mine like a guy in touch with me at night oh please
35:21
i need a oracle reading i need enough,
35:24
and I sat I was like I was not in any space to pull those cards out and I just
35:29
had to say I'll get you first thing in the morning it'll be a lot different I could do,
35:33
for me it's great when they understand that
35:36
because I don't want to just pull a card with some
35:39
weak reading or something that's probably not going to be
35:42
related because my energies are now going into that
35:45
card so you're absolutely right there is a lot of sacrifice that's
35:48
got to go on for even the smallest things and so there's uh
35:51
and then aftercare right yeah so um energetic
35:54
hygiene yeah is a thing yeah right so
35:57
doing our clearings for ourselves doing our meditations for ourselves um uh
36:03
yeah yes there's aftercare as well yeah uh so when you get an hour session or
36:08
an hour meditation you don't just get an hour oh you don't get a day before
36:13
you usually get a day after of what we.
36:18
Have to offer. Yeah. And for me, if I do stuff at home, I do extra because I have a child in my home.
36:27
You know, I have a very small house. I don't have a dedicated space that I can
36:31
go in where he's not, you know, so I take extra precautions on top of that.
36:36
And thankfully, I do have a couple clients that do readings with me from a Facebook
36:42
group that are just regulars now.
36:44
And they understand like if they message me at any
36:47
point in the day they know I'm they're not getting a
36:50
reading from me right away most of the time it's going to be the next day when
36:53
I have time to prepare so um something I would suggest for you going forward
36:57
with your practice is just because you work from home um or remotely wherever
37:02
you decide because I know you want to travel office hours are important and
37:07
setting those boundaries right setting those boundaries and
37:09
those office hours um and if that's just saturday
37:12
evening from six until you know
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nine then you're either on
37:18
my appointment list or you're on the wait list like you
37:21
do not get full access
37:24
to me 24 7 no
37:28
and if it's emergency maybe there's an
37:30
exception but it comes with an emergency cost right if
37:33
you call emergency hg repair what happens right
37:37
you need to be a little boy the cry wolf actually yeah
37:39
so and that also helps the
37:43
client um understand not just
37:46
the value um but they
37:50
may boundaries and that they may need um to also learn to write self-regulate
37:56
right right so with meditation that is another good point like yes if you need
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me i am here during my business hours or at an emergency cost.
38:09
But so we don't have this again. Let me teach you a self-regulation session first.
38:16
And that might even be a go-to for your clients before they become a bigger
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part of your energy work clientele.
38:26
So moving forward, Carly and I had talked about with our long-term ranking clients,
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I may request that they have a clearing first.
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Because if we are spending our, even if it's just an hour a week,
38:43
which is pretty typical, a weekly session,
38:46
if we're spending an hour a week and we're not making amazing progress,
38:51
or we're not having amazing results, then there's probably a reason why.
38:55
Right so let's clear some of the stagnant energy let's clear some of the attachments
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and let's work on the essence of you right um,
39:09
Yeah, because, you know, it's just, it's a lot more than that.
39:13
It is. It's a lot more than that. It is.
39:15
I mean, even meditation is supposed to calm everything. Like,
39:18
my problem with it, I could go into a deep meditative state.
39:22
People don't realize, at some point, I've got to go back to the 3D world.
39:25
And I take so much energy, and you're getting forward to making that transformation.
39:30
There's ways around it. Like, I like to stay in my 3D, you know,
39:33
in my meditative state in the 3D world.
39:36
But sometimes that's not very realistic. I do that with the Akashic Records
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sometimes and depending on the workload of the mundane life that,
39:46
being in my records bogs me down by the end of the day I'm like I should have
39:51
only done like an hour you know half day,
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fuck you know.
39:59
But sometimes it's just nice because to me being in my records is kind of being
40:05
in a meditative state as well it's a very soft.
40:08
It's very loving. It's very just,
40:11
I don't, it's not really you work, but it does give me an uplifted feeling, right? Right.
40:17
So, yeah, I totally get wanting to be in that all the time.
40:21
So, I just heard you transcendental. Let me, am I saying that right?
40:28
We'll come back to that. Transcendent? No.
40:32
Transdental? It sounded different in my head. Okay. Well, we'll circle back.
40:36
Transdental meditation. Yeah.
40:37
That's more of the Hollywood. That's more of the expensive meditation. where
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it's mantra based um i don't teach it i don't know much of it yeah uh i have
40:46
my own ways of doing things everybody's going to develop their own way of doing
40:50
a meditative state that state of like blissness yeah yeah right yeah yeah you
40:56
could get that any form of meditations yeah,
40:59
man so do you want to share a little bit about your conspiracy theories like what's your favorite,
41:05
my biggest like when it comes to going down rabbit holes
41:08
i've always been fascinated with outer space and
41:12
so obviously all the aliens and ufos and
41:15
stuff from an early age i always looked up in the skies oh what is that oh i
41:18
saw something that just didn't fit right so but it was normal childhood curiosity
41:25
basically until i witnessed my first actual ufo encounter um in upstate new york and.
41:34
And to see this thing, to witness it, and when you take everybody else's stories
41:40
and you start piecing it together, and there was a dog that was involved,
41:44
and the dog's barking like crazy up at the sky.
41:47
And to witness this huge craft that is obviously not made with human.
41:54
You know, within our terrestrial, you know, earth, and the way it moves and
41:59
other people seeing it with you.
42:01
I became so fascinated and
42:05
i fell down so many rabbit holes and now here we
42:08
are in 2026 and there's uh congressional
42:11
hearings from whistleblowers saying we have
42:14
alien bodies we have alien craft we reverse
42:18
engineered a lot of this stuff so now when you're looking up you're.
42:21
Probably seeing something that it was made by us but it
42:24
was reverse engineered so yeah that's one of my
42:26
biggest uh conspiracies and at
42:29
this point conspiracy theory is just a word it's i don't
42:32
like it but i like to use it because i throw it back at every time
42:35
i like the word concept like it's a concept right
42:38
yeah i don't have concepts in reality so um
42:42
andy palmer and john l webster um
42:46
of the um spirit yes
42:49
spirit release academy and their founder um terrence
42:52
palmer thank you carly sometimes i
42:55
get so excited i lose all things i'm just like how can i share this
42:58
um they talk about um dark
43:02
energy attachments that have never been human
43:05
right so what does that mean though you know what i mean right and this group
43:12
has thousands of documented um Cases That they pulled from And it's just Adding to that Yeah.
43:25
It's cases done by a certified protocol, okay, with an 80% success rate.
43:34
Yes, and I've actually seen that YouTube video. And that was good.
43:37
Like, when we're looking at it, when you're actually taking statistics and tying
43:42
it all into, like, medical field almost.
43:44
Yeah, it makes the reality of paranormal, whatever you want to call it, more of a reality.
43:50
Yeah. And it's just the way we live.
43:53
Yeah. You know, we are living in a 3D, but there's a whole bunch of other stuff
43:57
going on around us from all different dimensions.
44:01
You know, science can prove some things, but can't prove others.
44:05
But my experience with a UFO, even if nobody believed me, I know that was a personal experience.
44:12
I felt everything there. People that see ghosts, they know what they witnessed.
44:18
Everybody has a story. Yeah. Speaking of stories, before we go any further.
44:22
I did not throw in because i wanted to when
44:24
it comes to eye-opener society and the word society meant
44:28
a lot to me uh so people know i'm
44:31
not the only show on my show that i do want to give them a lot of credit because
44:36
they really work hard and just the paranormal sparked it um i started with ann
44:42
lund who does haunted and waiting and she's a childhood friend uh back in high
44:47
school she lived in a haunted house,
44:49
and I was there. I experienced it. I'm glad you do.
44:53
I just came to her with the idea of saying, you need to do something.
44:55
But you can check her out at hauntedandwaiting.blog because she's an inspiring writer.
45:00
She does her own paranormal hunts, especially in the outdoors.
45:04
She goes to all these abandoned places.
45:06
She's full of fantastic true stories.
45:10
And I'm sure the blog goes on. She should. And you could probably have her on
45:14
the show, too. I highly recommend her. She's really...
45:18
And her storytelling is fantastic. And, you know, just the way she, her words flow.
45:23
So, Hilton and Waiting is one podcast that's on Eye Opener Society.
45:29
And I have Elaine R. King.
45:32
She's been with me since Spudder Eye Meditation. She's always been quietly in the background.
45:36
And I always had a link to her because, and she just, she does tarot readings and astrology.
45:41
Her astrology readings are so fascinating. Yeah.
45:45
My childhood friend Ashley She's big in astrology And every time her new episode
45:51
comes I always send it to Ashley I'm like listen And then we go back and forth
45:55
for like hours About how like accurate it is And our lives are It's funny That's
45:59
great Because she I feel she is extremely accurate So where is she located?
46:04
She is in Indiana She can be found She does all of her work Where in Indiana?
46:10
Oh, I forgot the town. We're like how far away?
46:13
Do you want to take a ride now? Maybe. Yeah. I will get the actual location.
46:20
But visit our website, elainesarcanetarot.com.
46:24
Yeah, look it up. Because she just works so often. You can even text her.
46:28
And I think for her accuracy, she really does not charge what she should be
46:34
charging. She's undervaluing.
46:37
Yes, she is completely undervaluing herself. So I've had that conversation with
46:41
her, but this is how her energy works. And she's amazing.
46:44
So Elaine's Arcane Oracle is the other one.
46:48
And since Anne Lund wanted in waiting, she got me back in touch with another
46:54
old friend, Sunset Child.
46:57
Sunset Child opened up so many doorways for me when I had a quick phone interview with her.
47:02
I was like, okay, just stop talking. Stop, stop, stop, stop recording.
47:06
I said, this is where we could get the show on the air. she lives
47:09
spiritually in a fifth dimension six seven
47:12
day why limit yourself to dimension absolutely yeah
47:15
so everything she hears sees feels
47:19
her theory she develops sometimes you gotta listen to the show twice because
47:24
she's just talking and you're not understanding yeah but after a couple days
47:29
it starts to come together somehow like wait a minute i just experienced something
47:33
in life and I could apply to what sunset child had said.
47:37
So sunset child's out there podcast, another amazing. Okay. And then, um.
47:43
More recent, I fell into another TikTok host, Hannah Rose.
47:47
She does sound therapy where sound bowls and all the sound healing.
47:52
And she was just doing it on TikTok. And I said, wow, you got something too.
47:57
She's co-hosted a few of our shows, but she does the sound within.
48:01
And she does her own podcast where she just has her thoughts,
48:04
her feelings, very soft-spoken, very relaxing.
48:07
And now she's starting to do her sound bowl. But like full 30 minutes of her
48:11
just working the sound bowls, which is amazing because I'm still in tune with sound.
48:17
So those that sound within, Haunted and Waiting, Elaine's Arcane Oracle.
48:23
Don't forget to check them all out because they're amazing. And Sunset Child's Out There podcast.
48:28
So the tag team meditation and sound baths. Because currently,
48:32
before my meditation, they offer a little bit of a journey for closure.
48:38
And then we do the sound bath. And then I do not play. Not play. Fucking shit.
48:44
See, we don't filter. I do an audio of another meditation just to wrap up. Right.
48:52
So I'm like, yeah, maybe sometime we can tag team some of that. I'd love to.
48:56
I think they're all open to coming on and cross-referencing and cross-podcasts.
49:02
I think that would be fantastic.
49:03
I just envisioned, like, a whole, like,
49:09
everybody in the society coming here for some type of retreat.
49:15
It's like, I don't know. That would be a workshop.
49:19
That's a workshop. That would be so cool.
49:23
Could you imagine how... Anyway, before we wrap up, share our surprise.
49:29
I got a surprise for everybody.
49:31
Yeah, exactly. That wasn't a surprise? No. No, that wasn't a surprise.
49:35
What's your surprise? Well, with all of the learning, that I've been doing.
49:40
There's a reason, too. I went to University of Sedona, and I'm getting the accreditation.
49:46
Between Lizzie and I, we've been talking about it. We're sharing ideas.
49:50
So just what I have now is still basic. And remember, words mean something.
49:54
Way back in third-eye meditation, third-eye meditation, I had this joke,
49:59
and that's why it never worked out that I was going to be a church.
50:03
So because I fiddled around with it, I'm not going to do it.
50:07
I'm doing it. I am opening a church.
50:11
And it's going to be a spiritual, no dogmas, non-denominational. Anybody can attend.
50:19
How it starts, whether we're going to start online and then go for a physical
50:22
location, yet to be seen.
50:25
I mean, this is all thoughts. So, again, this is podcast time.
50:28
My announcement now, I may have already started the church. We don't know.
50:33
But that's what I'm doing. It's something I've been so passionate about because,
50:37
again, all this talk about healing people and bringing folk.
50:40
The only way really to do it is sometimes not everybody's going to hear your show.
50:44
Not everybody's going to have access to it. But when you have a church and you
50:46
bring that community together and you can start doing your teachings and I can
50:50
have different practitioners in there teaching their ways together.
50:54
I'm ready for it. And that's what we're doing. And of course,
50:57
you guys can be involved in any way, shape, or form. Yeah.
51:01
And if you need, I'm sure you've got resources already for like, I'm an accountant.
51:06
That can kind of help you along with the nonprofit. Build a block.
51:11
Yeah, the nonprofit 501.
51:12
Yeah, that's going to be somebody else's thing. That's in place.
51:15
I'm basically ready to fly out. We love that so much.
51:19
So 2021, everybody's like, you just need to have a nonprofit.
51:24
And not having a nonprofit this year has hindered us.
51:28
There were some opportunities that we could have had if we were a nonprofit.
51:33
There's some organizations out there that only work with nonprofits.
51:39
And that's really limited us to what we have access to.
51:44
Because accessibility is a huge thing with us, right? So when it comes to planning
51:49
retreats and destinations like that, it doesn't need to cost something.
51:56
Right. But it's not supposed to be only accessible to the most fortunate.
52:03
Yeah. Right, exactly. And so that's a passion.
52:06
And I am so happy that someone else, because that's part of what we share too,
52:12
is that as a community, we want these things.
52:16
But we don't always have to be the one to do
52:18
those things and that's an amazing gift yeah just to
52:22
know um that's that's one last
52:25
thing we don't have to do we should be a part of
52:27
it in the community and it's
52:30
going to be such a valuable resource for the people all right guys so i guess
52:36
next time we'll see you we see you all right um and bye y'all yeah right guys
52:41
so that wraps up another the episode of without a candle with carly and carla
52:45
we appreciate you and we'll see you next time.