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- 0:18it's Elaine Williams here, and I'm really happy that you are here and tuning in.
- 0:23This is a really cool.
- 0:25Conversation.
- 0:26I had with doctor, Jen Casper, who is a metaphysical coach guide.
- 0:33She does many things, and this is her story.
- 0:37Of the self-love and the healing.
- 0:39That she had to do.
- 0:41In order to attract healthy love and the love of her life.
- 0:45And she rambles a little bit, and then I give her some very cool.
- 0:50Coaching after.
- 0:52If you've ever worried, if your story was a little rambly or how to tighten something.
- 0:57up, but still keep the power of it.
- 1:00This is a great episode.
- 1:03It's one of my favorite things is to help tighten.
- 1:05Stories up.
- 1:06Please enjoy.
- 1:08And if you love this, please.
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- 1:14My mission.
- 1:14One is to help heal the world with love and laughter.
- 1:16After one story.
- 1:17story.
- 1:18one episode.
- 1:20One talk at a time.
- 1:22And you're part of that.
- 1:23I'm so happy.
- 1:24happy.
- 1:24that.
- 1:24We're connected.
- 1:25Please.
- 1:25Please.
- 1:25enjoy and.
- 1:27I hope to see you on the stage.
- 1:28And screen soon.
- 1:31Hi everybody.
- 1:32I am so excited and delighted with my guest today.
- 1:37Welcome to the Captivate the Mic podcast, Elaine Williams.
- 1:40We help you get better with your public speaking, your podcast guesting, and being confident on camera and all the things.
- 1:47And my guest today is Dr.
- 1:49Jen Casper.
- 1:51Dr.
- 1:51Jen, thank you so much for being here.
- 1:55Thank you for having me.
- 1:56I appreciate this opportunity.
- 1:58Yeah.
- 1:59I'm so delighted.
- 2:00And thank you, Dr.
- 2:01Jin, we were just having a conversation before we started the recording and I was telling her like all the things that are going on.
- 2:10And so Dr.
- 2:11Jin do you want to just say a little bit to the listeners about some of the work that you do?
- 2:15Sure.
- 2:16Sure.
- 2:17I am a doctor of soulful transformations.
- 2:22I help people transform their beliefs, their mindsets, their life.
- 2:29I am so grateful to be here.
- 2:31It's really exciting.
- 2:33Oh, thank you.
- 2:34It's, I don't know about you.
- 2:36I love transformation.
- 2:37I love coaching.
- 2:39I love personal development and I'm very clear.
- 2:43I had not done the landmark forum in November of 97 and had a huge spiritual awakening and was able to start to forgive.
- 2:51I knew I needed to intellectually, but I did not know how I could, I was, and so I had this huge awakening and then I was like, Oh my God, I want more of this.
- 3:00And I'm so grateful.
- 3:03And at the same time, I've also had my heart broken by coaches mentors who didn't keep their word.
- 3:11The personal development field, like any industry has good and bad people, has good people that have lost their way and, so this is, just, I feel like you and I.
- 3:24We are both so committed to making a difference with our stories and the work that we do.
- 3:31And sometimes the work that we do is to help people have the courage to come back and do more work.
- 3:37I haven't really talked about this, but clearly this is just bubbling up for me as I have had my heart broken by people who I thought really cared about me and my business who lied or who took my money and ran.
- 3:54And then I've come back and said, okay, what's the lesson here?
- 3:57Because the common denominator is me, right?
- 4:00If this keeps happening, okay, what am I supposed to learn here?
- 4:03Oh, practice more discernment.
- 4:05Maybe do more research.
- 4:07Maybe yes.
- 4:07I want to sign up, but maybe wait for a week.
- 4:10There's, We can always do something to change the pattern that we're in if we remember that we have choice.
- 4:20And sometimes, it's so hard because we don't remember we have choice.
- 4:24Or maybe I'm the only one, but anyway I love that you do this work.
- 4:29I think so many times we feel stuck and it's really the patterns and the habits.
- 4:35And the triggers and how do you break those sometimes, and all that being said, Dr.
- 4:41Jin, I would love if you could share, how you came to the work, how you created.
- 4:47This amazing partner.
- 4:49So many women I know have done so much work and done all the things and they're still yearning for a true partner.
- 4:58Tell us the story.
- 4:59In 2010, I had met my second husband and I learned many lessons within meeting him.
- 5:18Opening my business was one of them.
- 5:20But.
- 5:21I met, married, and divorced him in less than two years.
- 5:25Shortly after I, I left him, I had a dream.
- 5:30I had a dream about a man.
- 5:32And I'm walking along the street, and I pass him.
- 5:37And when I pass him, I feel all this love.
- 5:40I'm talking like heaven.
- 5:41I'm talking like So much love that like the tears, it's very emotional.
- 5:46And beside me is my guardian angel.
- 5:48And I said, who was that?
- 5:51My guardian angel says, he's someone you're going to meet.
- 5:54I said, soon.
- 5:55And my guardian angel said, very soon.
- 5:58And I said, that's great.
- 5:59What do I got to do?
- 6:00And my guardian angel said, just.
- 6:02Soon.
- 6:03You'll meet him in the perfect timing.
- 6:05When I woke up from that dream, I decided it was my mission to go find this man.
- 6:13I interviewed men for years.
- 6:16I interviewed some of the Not so good.
- 6:20I've interviewed some that were potential, but none of them actually fit the bill.
- 6:26So I met a man and we'll call him Texan and I was with Texan for seven years and I thought I had met the man that was in my dreams.
- 6:38I mean I had spent I spent weeks, months, Eileen, tracing this man's face with my fingertips in a meditation that I created.
- 6:48And I'd sit on the man's lap and I would trace his face with my fingers as if I was a blind person so that I knew when I met him, I would recognize him.
- 6:57So I had the Texan for seven years.
- 7:00And one night within that seven years, I heard the clock ticking.
- 7:06And in my previous relationships, that let me know that the relationship was about to end.
- 7:10I didn't know when, but I would be able to feel that the relationship had ended.
- 7:15I closed 2019 by letting go of the Texan.
- 7:19January 1st, I sat God down and I said, God, I'm ready.
- 7:24I want to meet the man I dreamt of.
- 7:26I want to feel that love that I know exists.
- 7:32Now, God said to me, Jen, are you sure?
- 7:37Now this should be you.
- 7:38A red flag to anybody.
- 7:40Okay, because if God says, are you sure that you wanted to go on this journey?
- 7:44Okay, and God is trying to grab your attention.
- 7:49One would take a pause, but no, I signed up for the full tour.
- 7:53Okay.
- 7:54I said, yes, of course I am 100 percent ready.
- 7:57That's it.
- 7:57Okay.
- 7:58Within a matter of less than three weeks, I met a man that we're going to call Beetlejuice.
- 8:02He was a narcissist.
- 8:05And I didn't know it at the time.
- 8:06I just thought he was, like, I had never been treated so well.
- 8:10And when I say the man knew that I liked Snappilies teas.
- 8:12Okay, and in the first couple dates that we had, he'd bring this Snapple iced tea that he had purchased at a convenience store for me.
- 8:20And in my belief system, this was, I had never had to buy anything from him.
- 8:26It's an iced tea.
- 8:27Okay, 1.
- 8:2850 at your local convenience store, okay, and I am ecstatic because a man thought to remember the kind of iced tea I liked and brought that on our dates.
- 8:38My vision of myself and what I was worthy of was so minimal that a 1.
- 8:4450 Snapple iced tea lit me up.
- 8:48It's the thought too.
- 8:49It's the thought and the gesture and the time, but I get it.
- 8:53Yes.
- 8:54So it's bigger than a crumb.
- 8:56It's bigger than a crumb, but it's not like the Taj Mahal.
- 9:00So in a very short period of time of less than a month, I ended up moving in with a man.
- 9:03We were both, I was living with my sister and he was living with his dad.
- 9:09And so I thought it'd be a great idea.
- 9:10We'll get a place together because I thought I was in a relationship with Beetlejuice.
- 9:16I was.
- 9:18Everything but.
- 9:19I was his mom, I was his secretary, I was his travel agent, I was his caretaker, I was his housekeeper, I paid his bills, I did everything but I was not considered his girlfriend in his mind.
- 9:34So for 15 months it was the longest 15 months of my life.
- 9:38The lessons that I learned he broke me in places I didn't realize existed.
- 9:44Can I ask you how long it took, like within days you were like, Oh, or was it weeks or months?
- 9:54It was from the moment I met him to the moment I realized that I had made a mistake.
- 9:58It was six weeks.
- 10:00Okay.
- 10:01The day that we had signed our year lease was the day that everything fell apart.
- 10:08And I had gone to my mom's.
- 10:09Okay.
- 10:10And we hadn't moved stuff in the house yet, but I had signed the lease.
- 10:13I was committed.
- 10:14And I said, I think I made the biggest mistake of my life.
- 10:17She said that I'd be that bad.
- 10:20I said no, I really think this one's going to hurt this one.
- 10:23Over the course of those 15 months, my first husband and I are very close.
- 10:27We have three kids together.
- 10:29And he had helped me out and he took me aside and he said, Jen, do you know what you're doing?
- 10:35He says, cause I'm actually really concerned for you.
- 10:37I'm scared for you.
- 10:39And I said, I appreciate your concern for me.
- 10:41I promise you the kids are well and fine.
- 10:44I'm going to learn this lesson so well that I never ever have to do it again.
- 10:48And he patted me on the knee and he said, Jen, I just want you to remember that death is permanent.
- 10:55And he says, just to, so you know I'm really afraid for you.
- 11:00And I said I got this.
- 11:02My, my parents and my sister actually separated from me because they couldn't help me.
- 11:06Where I was something that I had to do, and I had to get myself out of it.
- 11:11I put myself there.
- 11:12It was a really bad morning.
- 11:16It was in July.
- 11:17And I took my shower to get ready for my day.
- 11:19And as the water started to come out of the shower spigot, I I called on God and I started to cry crocodile tears.
- 11:28The nasty crying where it's the nose is a mess.
- 11:31And I said how do I stop this?
- 11:34How do, how, what lesson am I supposed to learn right now that I can get out of this situation?
- 11:43And God said, love yourself.
- 11:47I said, tears are gone.
- 11:52And I said, you mean to tell me the only thing I need to do is love myself.
- 11:57And this all changes.
- 11:58God said, yeah, you love yourself more than anybody else can.
- 12:03And he will go away.
- 12:05I showered.
- 12:06I got dressed.
- 12:09I had spark in my life that I haven't had in my life in Decades.
- 12:14And I decided to learn how to love myself.
- 12:18So this became a full time job, this isn't just read a book, and then just go on with life.
- 12:22No.
- 12:23This was a full time job.
- 12:24I asked myself, what do you like?
- 12:26What do you like to eat?
- 12:27What do you like to do?
- 12:29What haven't you done?
- 12:30What is on your bucket list?
- 12:31I sat with a shadow book journal and I looked at life a whole new way.
- 12:37Now, I still had the narcissist.
- 12:40Beetlejuice was still living with me.
- 12:41He was living in a separate room.
- 12:43And he still was trying to do his antics.
- 12:45And the more that I loved myself, the less power he had over me.
- 12:50The more that I loved myself, the more my business grew.
- 12:54The more that I loved myself, The happier I was, and it didn't matter the people that were around me that were unhappy and miserable because I was loving myself.
- 13:07It took me about six weeks, it was August 10th of 2021.
- 13:14I was at my computer and God whispered in my ear for me to check Facebook.
- 13:21Okay, so I go over and I check Facebook and then God says, I want you to look at your friend request.
- 13:28Now I'm confused because there's no, there's usually an icon or there's a number or something with you if you have friend requests and I didn't have any.
- 13:34So then God said, look at your friend's suggestion.
- 13:36In my friend's suggestions was a man named Josh.
- 13:41And so I said, okay, so now what?
- 13:43God says, befriend him.
- 13:46So I did.
- 13:47And I closed it out and I went back to doing what I was doing.
- 13:50And within eight minutes.
- 13:53My friend request was accepted.
- 13:55The moment that friend request was accepted, that love drunk that they tell you about, where your head is like all foggy and just you're like wobbly, like the energy within me shifted and I literally just felt a wrinkle in time.
- 14:12There's something happening that I really need to pay attention to.
- 14:16And we started talking back and forth for a little bit.
- 14:19And I really liked this guy.
- 14:20So it took us a little bit about three or four days, and I met him.
- 14:24And when he got in my car, my first thought was, so this here, This is what you look like.
- 14:31And so we dated for a very short period of time and we got engaged.
- 14:36My relationship with Josh is very amazing, but the reason why it's so amazing is because I worked on myself and I loved myself and I created boundaries and I learned about myself.
- 14:48Because I manifested the life lessons of the husbands that I had, it prepared me for having this.
- 14:58Amazing relationship with my husband.
- 15:02I love myself more than enough and because I love myself more than enough, I can love him and I can feel the love that he has for me because he loves himself The transformation part of it is the fact that I had to learn who I was in order to be able to show up into the relationship.
- 15:24To be in the place that I am with him.
- 15:27And how long have you guys been together?
- 15:30We met in 2021.
- 15:32We just celebrated our two year anniversary in August.
- 15:34Cool.
- 15:36Awesome, and he's supportive and wonderful and all of it all of the things all the things The dream that I had, he's even more amazing than the man that I dreamt.
- 15:52He is truly a mirror image of who I am.
- 15:56Everyone that I had met before, all the men that I had interviewed before meeting him, were a mirror image of what I lacked within myself.
- 16:04They couldn't commit to me because I didn't commit to me.
- 16:07I didn't even know who I was.
- 16:09I had a name, okay, someone gave me that name, and I fulfilled everybody else's promises because I was in people pleasing mode, and since then I've gone into people pleasing recovery, and I have learned how to listen to myself closer, and when there's red flags, pay attention to those red flags.
- 16:29But the transformation part is actually about really doing the inner work and listening to self and recognizing that you're constantly changing.
- 16:36You're constantly shifting out of who you were and into who you are to become.
- 16:45I love it.
- 16:47I love it.
- 16:48Yay.
- 16:49Dr.
- 16:49Jen.
- 16:52Awesome.
- 16:52Thank you so much for that story.
- 16:54Is it okay if I give you a little feedback, please?
- 16:58Okay.
- 16:59And for everybody listening, like you want to have versions of your story, right?
- 17:04Because sometimes you're on a podcast and you need to have a five minute version.
- 17:08And sometimes if you're leading your own workshop, you have more wiggle room.
- 17:13And but, and I think of stories is I'm on the train, I'm with you, we're on the train.
- 17:18And then if some detail, sometimes I'm like wait, I'm off the train.
- 17:22I, this detail, wait, what?
- 17:24It's like when you're telling a joke, you want, you need the audience to be on the train with you so that they can do the punch.
- 17:31And so when you said I had this image of me sitting on the guy's lap, tracing his face.
- 17:37I don't know, for me, that was like, okay, it just was a little woo.
- 17:42So maybe.
- 17:43Either cut that or set it up differently.
- 17:48Just suggestions, right?
- 17:49And then when you said I met the guy, met, married and divorced the guy in two years, so that was not the narcissist no.
- 17:58Okay.
- 17:59So when we're telling a story, every little thing is that an important piece of information?
- 18:08What's the point of that?
- 18:09Is that you got the lesson quicker?
- 18:12So you met, married, divorced the guy two years, so that's 24 months, right?
- 18:17And then the narcissist guy was 15 months.
- 18:19So maybe if you have time for a longer story, you keep that in the two year guy and then the Beetlejuice guy.
- 18:29However, if you have shortened time, like my mind is going which guy was this?
- 18:35It's Beetlejuice, the two year guy or is Beetlejuice the, so just so I would take the two year guy out unless it's really important to the, that the pattern you were still learning this, you were learning the lessons and you were getting them quicker.
- 18:50I think that's what you were trying to say.
- 18:52And then you're with the Beetlejuice guy.
- 18:54So did you start connecting with Josh while you're still with the Beetlejuice guy?
- 18:58I wasn't clear on that transition.
- 19:00Sometimes we give details that we don't necessarily need to give.
- 19:05Because we want people on the train, with us, the whole time rooting.
- 19:11If you were going to do a shorter version of that story, like I was married, blah, blah, blah, and I still kept, picking not the right guy.
- 19:19And then, every woman I know has dated a narcissist, thank God we're talking about it more.
- 19:28Anyway, the whole key is you've had all these lessons and the biggest lesson was if you want to attract the life of your dreams, you got to love yourself first.
- 19:39And how exactly, when you hear the, the sign like love yourself.
- 19:43Okay, great.
- 19:43What the heck does that exactly mean?
- 19:45it's a process, right?
- 19:48And for a lot of us, it's a very challenging process.
- 19:52Especially if we focus on other people and their whole lives and recovering people, pleaser.
- 19:56And then the other thing is Do you have a guardian angel and God, is it two different voices?
- 20:02Could it be the same voice just for the sake of the story?
- 20:06Just like something to think about, right?
- 20:08Because my brain goes, oh, guardian angel.
- 20:12Oh God.
- 20:13Okay.
- 20:15How many voices are there?
- 20:16And maybe there's some clarity, or for the sake of artistic license, for the sake of this story, maybe we make them one entity.
- 20:26Does that make sense?
- 20:28Yes.
- 20:28And that's okay, it's obviously any story we tell, we need to be emotionally connected to it, it needs to be ours to tell, and there's poetic license.
- 20:38Artistic license for the sake of this story, right?
- 20:41Because the sake of the story is not yay, I have a perfect life.
- 20:45It's no, let me tell you my journey.
- 20:47I kept picking the wrong men.
- 20:50there was the ex-husband and then there was the seven year, there was the Texas guy, and then there was the two year guy.
- 20:58And so, maybe we tighten up the Texans part of it, but we we can make it shorter, right?
- 21:04You've got the less than seven years, then it was two years, it was 15 months.
- 21:09That's really the heart of it.
- 21:11We're talking about the pattern, right?
- 21:14Yes.
- 21:15So I feel like that is some ways you could tweak and tighten it up.
- 21:20And then, cause when you're telling a story, especially interview style podcast, it's almost better if you can tell this powerful story and then have people go, I want to ask questions.
- 21:32Or that's so inspiring.
- 21:34What else did you learn?
- 21:37Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 21:38So does that make sense, Jen?
- 21:40It makes perfect sense.
- 21:41Thank you for all of your tips.
- 21:43I like it.
- 21:44Yeah.
- 21:44I think of storytelling.
- 21:45It's like we have this beautiful pot of stew, vegetable base, chicken base, however you like your stew.
- 21:53And then we add a bunch of stuff.
- 21:55And it's simmering and we stir it and then we put it on the back burner and then we go do things and we come back and we check on it.
- 22:02Oh, it needs a little bit more salt.
- 22:04Oh wait, let's put some basil.
- 22:06Let's put some, and ideally the story comes out slightly different every time cause it's coming from your heart.
- 22:12There's nothing I hate more.
- 22:14And then seeing a polished, canned.
- 22:17Story that's been over rehearsed.
- 22:20You can see some of the Ted talks.
- 22:22You're like, Oh gosh, this was so over rehearsed, right?
- 22:27A lot of them aren't, but there's a few.
- 22:29So I would rather you speak from your heart like you did and have it be a little bit messy or stumbling, but coming from your heart than quaffed thing that doesn't land because memory is information plus emotion.
- 22:47That equals long term memory and I'll give you an example.
- 22:51I had lunch with this woman probably a year ago and we met through a mutual friend.
- 22:57We were just getting to know each other and she shared this story how they were in Thailand.
- 23:03They had two kids.
- 23:04They wanted to adopt this other kid, but Thailand has all these weird rules.
- 23:10Anyway, they're literally Leaving to get on the plane and there's crazy traffic and her husband jumps on one of those like motorcycle courier guys It's like I'm gonna go get the paper So to go get the paper and like he did it He made it back in time to get on the plane so they could take the guy she told me that story a year ago, but I remember it and I just saw her last week.
- 23:34I said, I think about your husband jumping on the back of that motorbike because you had to get the paper from the embassy in order to bring the boy that you were adopting to America.
- 23:45And it stayed with me because it's moving and it's, so we remember things that move us.
- 23:54And so ideally every story we tell.
- 23:58Is educational, inspiring, motivating, transformational, all of the above, hopefully, but at least a couple of those.
- 24:07Right.
- 24:08Yeah I just, I love stories.
- 24:09That's how we learn, it's how we were telling stories in the cave before there was written word.
- 24:16It is one of the most human things we can do, and we're recording this in November.
- 24:24Last week was the election and.
- 24:27Half of the country is happy and half of the country is sad and we're all still processing, we're all unclenching.
- 24:37And one of the things I'm reminded of for the millionth time is the power of story.
- 24:45And, the Democratics went hard for TV ads and the Republicans.
- 24:53Shows to go totally different platforms, podcasts.
- 24:59So a TV ad saw a few million and the Joe Rogan podcast, 45 million views.
- 25:08I'm not trying to be political.
- 25:09I'm just trying to talk about the power of platforms, the power of storytelling and it's an exciting and overwhelming, time.
- 25:20And story will always be here.
- 25:22Anyway, but thank you so much.
- 25:24That inspires me so many women that I know, I didn't realize Dr.
- 25:30Jen.
- 25:31I picked narcissist for years.
- 25:34And I think the thing that saved me was I was so busy doing my own thing.
- 25:43I didn't totally surrender all of my life until I met the Australian and I was in this huge transition.
- 25:56I'm quitting my corporate training job and going full time as a coach.
- 26:01And so he caught me at a time when I had, I was more available than I ever had been.
- 26:08And I chose to continue being available because I was so swept away by this man.
- 26:16And then six months in, my friends started getting worried and all of a sudden he started getting really critical.
- 26:21He had been so adoring, he had love bombed me.
- 26:24I didn't know what any of that was.
- 26:27I am very auditory.
- 26:29And so talking on the phone every night for hours, it became like a drug for me.
- 26:37And having somebody adore me and tell me I could do it when I was so terrified to quit my corporate gig, I needed that, he fulfilled this need.
- 26:47And then he tried to break up with me over a text and I said, I don't accept this, but I was devastated, Jen, and I think it has actually taken me years to get over this one.
- 27:02Still learning, still processing, still learning how to love myself, right?
- 27:08It's a journey.
- 27:09You don't just go, okay, God said, love yourself Elaine.
- 27:13All good.
- 27:14All right.
- 27:14Like it's unraveling patterns, right?
- 27:17It's undoing patterns.
- 27:19It's lifting off the layers.
- 27:21It's looking at the things we've inherited that aren't ours.
- 27:24It's looking at the things in society that we're like, Oh, that's not mine.
- 27:29Okay.
- 27:30Oh, I was born into that.
- 27:32You know what?
- 27:32You can have it.
- 27:33Take it back.
- 27:34Thank you.
- 27:34You know what?
- 27:35You can take this back too.
- 27:37Oh, I need to be a size four to be lovable.
- 27:39Yeah.
- 27:40I I've given up on that one There's so much.
- 27:44Thank you so much, Dr.
- 27:45Jen.
- 27:46Tell us if people want to know more about you and your work, how can they find you?
- 27:53You can find me at JenCasper.
- 27:55com.
- 27:56I do workshops, I do retreats, I do classes that are online.
- 28:01You can come and hang out with me.
- 28:04We can do private one on one sessions in order to give you the transformation that you're looking for.
- 28:09And it's J E N C A S P E R.
- 28:14com for anyone who's driving and can't write it down.
- 28:17Jen Casper, like Casper, the ghost.
- 28:19So thank you so much for coming and sharing your story and being courageous enough to receive coaching like, whoa.
- 28:29And for anybody listening, please share this podcast rate, review, subscribe.
- 28:36Love it.
- 28:37It's going to be on my YouTube captivate the crowd.
- 28:40It's going to be on Apple, Spotify, all the things.
- 28:42Please share it, rate, review, subscribe, because that's how we grow.
- 28:46My mission is to help heal the world.
- 28:49One story, one video, one podcast, one joke at a time.
- 28:54And I need a whole crew of people to help me do it.
- 28:57Please help spread the word.
- 28:58Thank you so much.
- 28:59Dr.
- 28:59Jen.
- 29:00And we'll see everybody Soon, I hope to see you on the screen or the stage very soon.
- 29:07Bye everybody.