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Jennifer with Coffee - Episode 30 - Activate Your Life with Spiritual Healer, Ruthie Odom · Jennifer with Coffee

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Jennifer with Coffee, a mindset podcast for people who are looking for real change.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Jennifer Lauer, writer, yogi, and fitness fanatic.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lately, I've been having lots of coffee meetups, long,
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  SPEAKER_01: honest conversations that delve into mindset,
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  SPEAKER_01: identity, choices, and habits that shape our lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: I kept thinking how I wanted to share these conversations.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here we are.
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  SPEAKER_01: Each episode moves in three beats.
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  SPEAKER_01: An inspirational story,
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  SPEAKER_01: an interview with thinkers,
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  SPEAKER_01: builders, athletes, and artists, people who want to share their own transformations.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we'll end with a brief meditation to practice calming the nervous system.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you're ever curious, you can find them on my website jenniferleelauer.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today's inspo is...
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  SPEAKER_01: is about noticing the little things and I know I talk about this
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  SPEAKER_01: a lot often times I will see something it lights up my day in such a big way even
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  SPEAKER_01: though it's a really tiny thing today I'm just gonna talk about what could seem like
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  SPEAKER_01: a really silly thing I was driving home after dropping off my son somewhere and
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  SPEAKER_01: And was behind this truck and it was kind of an old truck.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was just packed to the brim with flowers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they were just these bright orange beautiful flowers.
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  SPEAKER_01: The truck kind of had that heavy look like it was putting pressure on the tires, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was stopped behind it at a light, both taking a left hand turn.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just got to drive behind this gigantic truck with a bed full of flowers for like two miles.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was making me smile so much.
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  SPEAKER_01: I felt like I was getting flowers from the universe.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to kind of offer that out when you notice something sweet
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  SPEAKER_01: or notice something that makes you smile.
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  SPEAKER_01: You should share it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Getting this little bit of joy from seeing these flowers,
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  SPEAKER_01: I was able to go about my day in a more happier way and hopefully spread
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  SPEAKER_01: to other people in my day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether or not the person driving the truck
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  SPEAKER_01: felt driving around Los Angeles with
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  SPEAKER_01: a bed full of flowers,
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope it affected many people and I was counted among them
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  SPEAKER_01: because it certainly made me smile.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what's something that you see today
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  SPEAKER_01: Today's guest is Ruthie Odom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ruthie is an LA-based spiritual guide,
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  SPEAKER_01: teacher,
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  SPEAKER_01: professional healer,
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  SPEAKER_01: and documentary filmmaker who believes that a life filled with joy,
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  SPEAKER_01: purpose, and possibility is available to everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: For over a decade,
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  SPEAKER_01: Ruthie has devoted her life to exploring the mysteries of healing,
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  SPEAKER_01: human potential,
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  SPEAKER_01: and the ancient wisdom traditions that have been passed down through generations.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trained and certified through the Modern Mystery School,
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  SPEAKER_01: an international organization preserving spiritual teachings,
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  SPEAKER_01: initiatory lineage of King Solomon,
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  SPEAKER_01: she is passionate about bringing these powerful teachings into the modern world.
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  SPEAKER_01: She is also the creator and director of Life Living in Full Empowerment,
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  SPEAKER_01: a documentary series offering an inside look Please enjoy this interview
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  SPEAKER_01: with Ruthie Odom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hello, Ruthie.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm so glad to have you here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's go ahead and jump right in and tell us a little bit about yourself
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  SPEAKER_01: and what brought you to the work you do now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, my name is Ruthie Odom and I am a full-time spiritual guide based out of Los Angeles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gosh, what brought me into the work that I do now is a very long story.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been interested in spirituality ever since I was a kid,
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  SPEAKER_00: but when I was a kid, I didn't call it that.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, I was definitely a very sensitive child.
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  SPEAKER_00: I grew up in Savannah, Georgia, which is totally haunted if you've ever been there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was a ghost tour guide in high school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I kind of was like exposed to kind of these sort
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  SPEAKER_00: of like interesting abnormal ways of thinking very young.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I was a kid, I was like super sensitive to just different energies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was really sensitive to people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I always felt like even when I was really young, I was really good at reading people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yet when you're very little, it kind of freaks people out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like what's this five-year-old or six-year-old or 10-year-old?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like how do they kind of like have my number?
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  SPEAKER_00: I've always had a really beautiful fascination with people,
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  SPEAKER_00: like even since I was like a little kid.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was always fascinated in things that you couldn't see, but were definitely there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like there's an energy,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's something happening, there's something unspoken, there's something going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, when you're a kid, nobody talks to you about that, but you're, you're aware.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as I grew up, like I actually was raised Greek Orthodox.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you've ever been to the Orthodox Church, it's got tons of cool rituals.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's all this amazing iconography.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't really understand much unless you speak Greek because it's like a very, very classic.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot like Catholicism, but there are some differences.
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  SPEAKER_00: My father was raised Southern Baptist, and so I had this Southern Baptist exposure as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was always really fascinating because they're both Christian,
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  SPEAKER_00: but they are expressing it And expressing their connection to God
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  SPEAKER_00: in entirely different ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not only that,
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  SPEAKER_00: but my father was from the South,
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  SPEAKER_00: my mother was from New York,
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  SPEAKER_00: so I always kind of had these polar experiences of life,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I was always studying them, like,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was always witnessing,
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  SPEAKER_00: observing,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like, okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: how does like a Greek New York immigrant family,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: react to the holidays and life, then this like very old Southern Baptist family.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so then when I was like in middle school,
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  SPEAKER_00: I started getting into things like tarot and crystals and exploring more of
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  SPEAKER_00: the new age things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was exposed to like the 12 step program from an early age and I actually read
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  SPEAKER_00: the full blue book.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if you're not an addict, it's a really awesome transformational experience to go through.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went to high school.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went to college.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had my foray with psychedelics and I went to meditation retreats and I studied yoga.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I ended up going to college for acting and theater.
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  SPEAKER_00: I loved it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Loved my college experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt like I wanted to be an actress because I loved performing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I loved channeling a different energy than my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I loved understanding people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the through line for me my whole life was like, I want to know people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm fascinated with people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm curious about people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so eventually in theater school,
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  SPEAKER_00: they start talking to you about the business of acting
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  SPEAKER_00: and giving your headshots out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just was completely uninterested.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like,
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to go back to like the whole breath and the movement and the yoga
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  SPEAKER_00: and what's happening between these two actors that nobody can see.
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  SPEAKER_00: I self produced a lot of stuff in college and I kept seeking while I was in college
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  SPEAKER_00: and I was just trying to find answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eventually I hit a dead end and I kind of felt like I was in a sort of dark night of the soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cause it was like, you can try so many avenues, but it's like nothing's fitting together.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, well,
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  SPEAKER_00: religion says this and the new age says this,
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  SPEAKER_00: but in yoga they're saying this, but there's not this cohesive thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because you can't see it, how do you really know it's working or know it's real?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I kind of like hit a lot of dead ends.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really did.
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  SPEAKER_00: I explored things to their extreme and then realized
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  SPEAKER_00: that like my life wasn't changing and like my personality wasn't changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I still had a lot of like anxieties or inner tumult that I wasn't able
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  SPEAKER_00: to actually like heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was really frustrating because I'm studying spirituality
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  SPEAKER_00: and all these different facets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing's actually working.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just becoming a sort of mental game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Through a lot of different synchronicities,
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  SPEAKER_00: I ended up at this healing festival in Boston that was living up in Boston at
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  SPEAKER_00: the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: My spiritual guide, his name is Jordan, and I went up and I just felt really like drawn to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt really called to this booth and he offered me a life activation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I received it right there in the middle of a festival.
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  SPEAKER_00: People walking around.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got this like one-on-one energy healing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had no idea what it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it totally changed my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I had a very profound experience during the life activation session.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt all of this anxiety left my body.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt this entirely new...
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  SPEAKER_00: Experience I'd never touched before.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just like something I really wanted, but I didn't even know I had wanted it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So kind of in retrospect,
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  SPEAKER_00: I can look back and be like, oh wow, that really unlocked something for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: After my life activation, I had like one of the best summers of my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got sober.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like kind of regrounded.
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  SPEAKER_00: I made a bunch of new friends,
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  SPEAKER_00: decided that maybe I was going to go to law school and like try something else
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  SPEAKER_00: and do all these different paths.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my life had gotten so good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I literally had to ask like what happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I retraced my steps back to the life activation.
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  SPEAKER_00: So then I was just totally fascinated and I started studying with
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  SPEAKER_00: the Modern Mystery School because I really liked the healings and I really liked
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  SPEAKER_00: the classes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was just like, okay, this stuff is working.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started healing my mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started healing my heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: I started healing things that everybody thought would be impossible to heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was actually making massive progress,
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  SPEAKER_00: not only in my life, but in the lives of like the people I was close to.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: eventually by the time I went to law school,
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually had started training to do life activation for other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was doing life activations for like my colleagues and doing life activations
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  SPEAKER_00: for other law students.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just noticed that people were really healing and they were really changing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like I was really affecting their life with my healing practice,
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  SPEAKER_00: something that I was just doing on the side while I was also studying to be a lawyer
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  SPEAKER_00: because I wanted to go to law school because, again, I'm fascinated with people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love public speaking and these kind of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love research, but I genuinely really wanted to help people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like ever since I was a kid, I just wanted to help people and like love people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really hate things that are inefficient.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when I was in law school,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was like,
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  SPEAKER_00: oh gosh, this is extremely inefficient if you want to be the quote unquote good guy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like if you want to make a bunch of money and work in corporate, like great, more power to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, like I was working with CASA, like court appointed special advocate.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was interested in family law.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was kind of looking at civil stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was just like, gosh,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you really want to like help people,
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  SPEAKER_00: you have to go through this like system that just takes everything out of you
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  SPEAKER_00: to maybe get like a modicum of help for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's like, okay,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can really help a family, but it's going to take two, five, however many years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was just like,
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if I'm interested in that because at
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  SPEAKER_00: the same time I was helping people heal
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  SPEAKER_00: through these healing sessions I was starting to get trained in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was just seeing massive results, like in a very short amount of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that just fascinated me more.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I ended up leaving law school and just going full time Into the spiritual work.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the time, a lot of people thought I was crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went through a lot of difficulties.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I just knew in my heart that it was the right thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was 10 years ago that I made that choice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I am now a full-time spiritual guide here in LA from that decision.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, firstly,
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  SPEAKER_01: because it came up a few times about
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  SPEAKER_01: the life activation being this big pivotal moment in your life and
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  SPEAKER_01: then you reflecting that back to others and giving those people the same result
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  SPEAKER_01: that you had.
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  SPEAKER_01: What exactly was that first life activation like?
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  SPEAKER_01: So you say you're at a festival,
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  SPEAKER_01: a healing festival outside of a tent and you're What does this look like?
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  SPEAKER_01: Give us the details on the ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you in a meditation stance?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you sitting in chairs?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you standing?
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  SPEAKER_01: Give us the details.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's kind of hilarious because I really love professionalism.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you ever get a life activation with me, it's like we're having a consult.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're talking about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm having you sign a waiver and you come to my office and it's like you're doing
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  SPEAKER_00: the session in a very Professional space.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the fact that I got my life activation literally like outside in Jamaica Plain
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  SPEAKER_00: in Boston, if you're from Boston, you kind of see it now.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was May, you know, like kids are running around.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was like outside of the orange line over off the Stony Brook stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's like we're going really deep into the details.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you're from Boston, you might get a kick out of it, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the sun shining through the trees.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I lived in Jamaica Plain in college and I loved it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it was like, it felt like this cool, like hippie station.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I kind of got to be away a little bit from my campus and kind of be in a very quiet.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wait, and you are also an Emerson College person, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think I read.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's where I went.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I went to Emerson.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did you go for?
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  SPEAKER_01: Theater.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's really funny that a lot of your story is very aligned with my own.
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  SPEAKER_01: But continue on.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just wanted to shout out Emerson in this conversation as a fellow Emersonian.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're in Jamaica Plain.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're at the tent.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Emerson is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love Emerson College.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had the best time at Emerson.
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  SPEAKER_00: Emerson opened my mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Emerson had some of the best people in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody's going to hold your hand at that college.
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  SPEAKER_00: But like if you want to make a film and get access to amazing equipment,
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  SPEAKER_00: or if you want to do theater and get access to all this amazing theaters
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  SPEAKER_00: and black boxes and really cool teachers that are like going to give you their time
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  SPEAKER_00: and their wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're a go-getter,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're going to have the best time at Emerson because you're just going
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  SPEAKER_00: to make stuff happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was kind of like what I like to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I had the greatest experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Completely insane.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I was, yeah,
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  SPEAKER_00: I had the beginning of my junior year or something like that,
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  SPEAKER_00: or I had just ended my sophomore year.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was contemplating going to California to see a friend that day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I missed the flight.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went back and my roommate at the time was like,
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  SPEAKER_00: oh, there's this festival happening down the street.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'd probably love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was very much a surprise, me even going to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I went and it was kind of like what you expect,
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  SPEAKER_00: like people playing in the grass and there's tents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like imagine like farmer's market on grass with some healing stuff,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, people doing yoga and like there was like a little live band.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's community, like, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like kind of small town-y community vibe, but in the middle of a big city.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had this corner called Healer's Hollow and I don't know what it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just like, my gut was just like, go there.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt this really strong feeling in my body.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I went over there and there I saw,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: the tent that had Jordan and his colleague at the time
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  SPEAKER_00: and they were doing like free Reiki.
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew what Reiki was and I was like really into Reiki.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually had a Reiki healer back then and she was awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: For those who don't know what Reiki is, could you just give a quick description?
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  SPEAKER_00: Reiki is,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's known for like a hands-on energy healing that can help with healing the mind,
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  SPEAKER_00: the heart, physical body.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, It originates from Japan,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's actually a lot older,
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  SPEAKER_00: but a lot of people know it through Makao Usui,
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  SPEAKER_00: who kind of distributed it to the masses, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of different styles of Reiki and systems of Reiki,
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  SPEAKER_00: but a very,
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  SPEAKER_00: very simplified way of Putting it is kind of like you're tapping into source energy
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: and flowing it to the client so that they could have, you know, miraculous healing.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: That was the first sort of energy healing I'd ever been exposed to.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: I think when people kind of get into energy healing, it's the first thing they hear about.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: Promise you there's a lot more.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot more out there.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot more energy healing.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot more traditions,
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: but Reiki is really, really popular and, you know, for good reason.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so I went and I was like, I gotta do this.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: I just gotta get this Reiki.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: I felt this something about it.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: The practitioner that he was working with actually started working on me.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: And as she started working, I immediately started getting this like crazy headache.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, whoa, like I,
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: there was like a,
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_00: and I felt energy flowing through my body and I started getting a headache
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: and it kind of like spooked me.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, Hey, I'm getting a headache.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like what's going on?
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: And she said,
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Without me knowing at the time,
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: but she actually started the life activation protocol.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: She did the first step of it.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know what it was.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Literally, I was just sitting in a chair receiving this healing.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, hey, I have a headache.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: I just sort of whispered.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: And she started the life activation protocol.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: And all of a sudden, my headache went away.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like, dramatically.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: It was just gone.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, whoa.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it was just a very physiological experience.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't like somebody was talking to me.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: It was all me in communication with my body.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: And my headache immediately went away.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just like, what did you do?
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I was very, like, struck.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: And she was just like, oh, I actually started the life activation protocol.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know,
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't done it for anybody today,
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: but I'm wondering, would you like to receive this?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, yeah.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I was like, sure thing, I'm sold.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, she's like, well, it costs this much.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: And at the time, I think, you know, she charged me like 50 bucks or something.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: I paid her and I was all grumpy about it.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I was in my head.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, my inner voices were just like being like, what are you doing?
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Get out of here.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know, immediately.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: When the negative self-talk rises up in any situation,
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: back then I used to think, oh, negative talk's coming.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: Run away.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: Now, after years of doing this, oh, negative self-talk's coming.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: You should keep going because there's probably something there.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I kept going in that moment.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: And she, I was just sitting.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: She started doing the activation on me.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: The activation is actually,
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: life activation is actually done with a magic wand,
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: which is one of the reasons it's so cool and fascinating.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's an ancient Egyptian healing.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: It dates back 6,000 years old.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's actually hieroglyphs that you can see people doing this on one another in ancient Egypt.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: And you need basically this tool to be able to do it.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: Not need, but it makes it easier to do.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: The life activation traditionally starts with a full aura balancing.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're standing and you're getting all of these different,
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: you know, energy bodies taken care of and balanced.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: And then you sit and you receive the activation.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: You're just really sitting and relaxed and they're doing all the work and your eyes are closed.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: So at the time I couldn't see anything.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: And then at the very end there's actually a reading.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: So when she started working on me,
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: she was just doing the activation portion,
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: which is where you're sitting and she's working with the wand.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I couldn't see any of this at the time.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: I was just like sitting there with my eyes closed.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I just remember feeling like the entire world The band wasn't playing.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: The kids weren't laughing.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: My mind went totally quiet.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: Every negative thought just slowly went away.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I felt this incredible sense of peace.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I had Ever experienced in that way.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: And as she was working, I felt like my body almost started to vibrate, like with energy.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like completely transported into myself.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like I felt like I went so deep within that I got to touch a very sacred
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: and holy part of myself that I just couldn't get to.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: And it was like all inside that I felt my heart in a way
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: that I had just been craving and everything was quiet and everything was good.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: And it was just this complete sense that everything was going to be okay.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I started getting all these like interesting visions while I was in the session
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: of like my family and visions of my life and just these different clarities.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: And then by the end of it,
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: honestly, it was so overwhelming that I genuinely started like weeping.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like I had,
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: and she was just doing the session and this was all what was happening during
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: that time within.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I just started crying because it felt so beautiful and I just kind of knew
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: that my life had changed.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: And when I opened my eyes, The whole world looked high definition.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I completely had forgotten that I was like under a tent in a chair at a festival.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: I almost was startled by it.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Trying to get up out of the chair and you're like, Whoa, what did you just do?
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: And having no idea what happened.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: But I remember like getting up and like looking at,
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: you know, my, my guy,
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Jordan, he wasn't at the time, but I was just like trying to talk to him about it.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: And he was trying to tell me, it's like, Oh yeah, like it does this.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I couldn't hear a thing.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: Cause I was almost just like so absorbed in the energy.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: And kind of like freaked out in a way.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, whoa.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: And so I kind of like ran off.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I gotta leave.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta get out of here.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: I just gotta go.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I did the same thing that I do with all my friends.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, you know, I think we were like drinking and smoking.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: I remember like at the very end of that day, I got my life activation.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: And then we did all that with my buddies.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I looked at like the table of like alcohol bottles.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: You imagine it in college,
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: it's gross and dirty, but like somehow a point of pride to see them all there.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I just had this thought.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, you know, I think I'm really hurting myself.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I got sober that day.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I didn't drink or drug since my life activation.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: And then I just started really having,
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: I just like,
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: when I said I had the best summer of my life,
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: it was like,
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: I had been studying so many spiritual concepts that just weren't like anchoring
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: in my body.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: It was like, you learn this thing, but it's like floating out there for some reason.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: After I had a life activation that summer,
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: I was just having aha moment after aha moment and having like all these crazy,
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Enlightenment experiences.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: For the next six months, it was like, oh, I started understanding forgiveness.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I went on all these adventures.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: I ended up going on a journey to Greece and was in Greece for a month,
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: meeting all these amazing people and having all these synchronicities
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: and beautiful experiences.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I became a better person.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: And just something clicked in my life that nothing else had touched prior.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that was a really moving description of the experience.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's interesting that you said you were kind of seeking
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: and searching all these different modalities.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: You were led to something spiritual,
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: but you couldn't really find the place and that that kind of opened the door
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: for you.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like that's kind of how life works.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: You have to open your mind to it and then the answer comes when you least expect it,
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: but also right when you needed for it to come, it has that magical timing to it.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: You had this experience then wanting to share it.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: You said like in law school, you were doing live activations for your colleagues and friends.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: Could you tell us an example of someone having a breakthrough or changing from it?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: at this point I've done hundreds of life activations and that's also why I have
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: so much confidence in it, you know, because I don't believe in the life activation.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: I have enough data to To know the life activation,
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: which I think is really important when you're walking a spiritual path.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: You shouldn't be asked to believe in something, you should be asked to really come to know it.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because then when you know it, you own it.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: And that's a lot of what I teach.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: Know thyself, know who you are.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: Knowledge needs to come from you've tested something, you've seen the results.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: And therefore, you have a body of knowledge to pull from to validate the experience.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: I have countless stories.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: Give us a
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: good one.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Give us a juicy one that stands out, maybe.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe someone who was really skeptical.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: I always loved that.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: Someone who wasn't maybe completely open and then things were shown.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Gosh, a lot of people.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: Because a lot of people don't know what a life activation is.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: So they're all skeptical.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: But it's good.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: The more skeptical, the better.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: I have had people...
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: I had one girl who she was going to have to move back to her country.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: She was trying to go to medical school.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: She was going to have to move back home.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: She was in the United States.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: She was really despondent because she wasn't getting into any medical school of her choice.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: I said, hey, let me come down and do this life activation for you.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: It'll be my gift.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: A week after that, she got into her top choice medical school.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: I did a life activation on actual college professors.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Three of them ended up getting better opportunities at other colleges.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Right after.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: Some of them,
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: I had one who in her reading,
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was explaining that there was something like in her reading,
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: I won't go deep into it because this is her experience.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: But I was just in the life activation, you get a reading and the reading has visuals.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's very like archetypical.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's not like you're going to buy a brand new car and run off to Bali.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's nothing like that.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: But there's a lot of images in it and archetypes.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: And it kind of just hits you at a very core level because it's about you.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so I was expressing these images.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the images that I actually saw,
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: which I think should be comfortable with me saying this, is I saw a child.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: And we really hadn't talked about it much,
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: but she told me after the life activation that she had been trying to have a baby
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: and was about to give up.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: But because she got the activation and because I saw that, she decided not to.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: And a few years later, she called me.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: She ended up getting a job as, she's like the head of the theater department.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: She's like her dream job now in a totally different state.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: Which was actually akin to one of the images that she received,
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: like where it is, was actually lined up with the imagery.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: And she was pregnant.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: And to this, you know, she now has a little baby.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, it was, it was, that was a really moving story.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: Because sometimes the thing about the life activation is it starts when you leave
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: the session, right?
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like, think of the life activation is a, it's an on switch.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: And we're literally activating.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: And the life activation is like the first session that starts opening the door,
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: but you're like kind of scrapped, you can't quite get to it.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_00: And then it pulls this like light,
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: this energy, this essence, this divine essence of you forward into your life, right?
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: So it's an ancient Egyptian healing.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: And like, if you think about ancient Egypt, right?
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's lofty and you're like, how do you know this?
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, try the life activation, you tell me.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: But think about ancient Egypt.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's like...
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_00: Pyramids and temples and it's beautiful.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: And like, they're putting like lapis as eyeliner.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like what a cool life, you know what I mean?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: Ancient Egypt,
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: at least when it's at the height of its dynasty,
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: is just how do you imbue the divine and the gods into everything?
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's a really cool concept.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: So this life activation was like,
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: how do you evoke the divine from materia into physicality, into the light of day?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like life activation brings out this latent energy inside of you.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: So that you can actually utilize it and access it and apply it towards what's important to you.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I've seen people get better jobs.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen people like get married, shift relationships, move.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen people have just like, they just feel better.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: And they didn't even know they felt bad,
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: but it's like they messaged me and they're like,
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: I've really felt So much better since then.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: There's something inside of you and there's something inside of everyone
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: that wants more and knows there's more.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: Some people, maybe they don't really access it.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they're cool with their life.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's great.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: But for a lot of us,
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: it's like, I know there's more to this world and I just don't know how to get there.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what surprises people about me because I'm like, I'm a spiritual guide.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: Really logical.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I really like studying the results of life.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, did this work?
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, because I'm not a guru.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's really like, hey, here's some tools.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: We have really great tools.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: Let's apply them and let's see what happens.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then you'll make progress.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: We'll go back to the drawing board.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let's apply these tools.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: You'll make progress because you're in the driver's seat of your life.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: I know it was a long-winded wave.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's great.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's great.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: You know,
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm curious as a healer,
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: as someone responsible for kind of these big deal things for other people, right?
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: You're holding a lot of people's dreams and fears exponentially.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: Expectations and emotions and being a sensitive person.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_01: How do you deal with the heaviness or the load of taking
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: on other people's experiences, even if you are ushering them, guiding them?
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: How do you take care of your own health, your own spiritual cleanliness?
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: I get asked this question a lot.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love me some spiritual hygiene, you know, because we don't always take care of it.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody loves to take a shower.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: But they don't know how to shower their spiritual body.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: So that's where we can come in.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: I actually don't get drained in the way that you're talking about.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: I don't.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not because I'm awesome and you're not,
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: or anything like that, or like, it's really nothing like that.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's because of the power of initiation.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: In the Mystery School traditions, there's always been ancient initiation practices.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_00: So the Empower the Self class that I teach, you actually receive an initiation.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: When I first heard that word,
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: I was just like,
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: you're gonna put a lamb on the table and like, you know, do some sort of sacrifice.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: And it's nothing like that.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: You could call it like energy healing.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: It looks like a knighting with a sword.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: And it's been done for thousands of years.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: And it shifts your energy body to be able to hold more energy.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people, they're utilizing their energy that they have.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like whatever the amount of energy you have in your structure,
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: in your aura, how much you slept, whatever it is.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like you're working under your own authority.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: And as a practitioner of the lineage of King Solomon
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: and having received several initiations,
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: every time you receive an initiation, it actually strengthens your energy body.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: So that you can flow more energy to the client,
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_00: and you can also pull from the energy of the lineage that you were initiated into,
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  SPEAKER_00: in my case, the lineage of King Solomon.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: So you learn these rituals and these techniques to not pull from your energy,
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  SPEAKER_00: but to pull from energy that is outside of you.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: And for a lot of people that might sound very woo-woo, that's what magic is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Magic rests outside of your logic.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: And everybody has different logic.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: And you can be like, well, that's not logical.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, your logic might be different from your logic.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: You're just going to try to use your logic to prove your point.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: So the reality of magic or miracles or having a magical experience is
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  SPEAKER_00: that it rests outside of the bubble of everything you think you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yes, I had this life activation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was done with a magic wand and it changed my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was magic.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I love about what I do is that people don't have to believe what I say.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a priest.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a guru.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not working as a faith-based system.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: I have to make you aware that this stuff exists.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, did you know that you can receive this initiation?
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  SPEAKER_00: It will change your life.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: You will have all this energy to flow into your life,
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  SPEAKER_00: to cleanse your life, to have better access.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do everything you wanted to have better access to the energy you can't see
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: and know how to flow into your life to make your dreams happen.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: There, I said it.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: I've done my job.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: You can do whatever you want.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: So yes, people get drained because we don't have rituals.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: Rituals have been very much lost in modern society.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: Initiation has been lost in modern society.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're making a physical act and saying,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm committing to doing better and doing good in my life.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the rituals that we're familiar with in modern times are like weddings
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: and funerals, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: But anybody who's been married knows that when they stood on that altar
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  SPEAKER_00: and they made a vow before everybody, that they felt different afterwards.
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  SPEAKER_00: That something shifted because you did a ritual.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: And so really I never get drained because I have these rituals to bring energy
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: that is outside of the bubble of my authority to facilitate it to the client.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_00: So then there's no finite amount of energy.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: There's an infinite amount of energy.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_01: If somebody is listening to this right now and they're thinking, oh,
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: I might be interested in speaking with a healer or trying out a live activation,
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: what would be a helpful first step if they wanted to work with someone?
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: If you wanted to make a change in your life today and you weren't going
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: to do anything,
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: you were going to look at a website,
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: you were going to go anywhere,
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: but you wanted to make a change right now,
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: today, wake up, With more gratitude in your life and more kindness.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: When you make one complaint,
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: say five things you're grateful for, ten things you're grateful for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even if you don't believe it,
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: even if you don't feel, well, I don't feel grateful, Ruthie, so why would I do it?
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: Do it anyway.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: Because when you do it, it's going to remind you of the things you need to be grateful for.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: Because when you're grateful for things,
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: you're acknowledging everything in your life that's going to get you to
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: where you want to go.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: Because it is the now and It is your reality that is the building blocks
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: to building your version of heaven on earth.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: So start with gratitude.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: If you wanted to come to one of my classes, like you're like, okay, Ruthie's really interesting.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: I want to meet her in person.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: I want to talk in person.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: I teach twice a week at Unplugged in Santa Monica, 8 p.m. on Thursday and Sundays.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: Come to class.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to have you there.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: You can always follow me on Instagram.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: You can always follow my website, you know, ruthiodom.com.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the Ruthie Odom.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: Send me a message.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm always happy to send you resources based on what you're wanting.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: I even offer complimentary Zoom calls and Zoom consultations to kind of just talk
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: about what it is you're interested in.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the best first step.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, hey, let's have a Zoom call.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let's meet.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: Even if you're not in my area,
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_00: I have colleagues all around the world that I could introduce you to
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: that can give you a life activation because I'm not the only person
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: that does life activations.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: There's probably a practitioner in your area that does it.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's the same healing process.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: So that is a great first step.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, follow me, shoot me an email.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: You can always have a Zoom consultation.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: If you check out my website, I have tons of resources on there.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: In fact,
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: I've made a whole documentary series about student stories,
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: student experiences, as well as the teachings and the activations.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: And that whole series is on my website.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: So you can always watch it and just, you know, get all the information that you need.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, so if anyone wants to work with Ruthie, please reach out.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_01: I will have everything in the show notes as to where you can get in contact with her.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for being here, Ruthie.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's been really enlightening and interesting.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: I could talk for hours, and I just really appreciate the opportunity to be with you.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know, this is awesome, this podcast.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just really grateful to have met you.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: What an amazing platform.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank you.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: And we end each episode with this very important question.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: Ruthie, how do you take your coffee?
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a flat white girly.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, very cool European.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oftentimes it looks like a cappuccino here in the United States, but love me a cappuccino.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: Finally, to end each episode, we take three intentional breaths together.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_01: Today's three breaths will be surrender breaths.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: Surrendering to the moment, which is all that there is.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: Surrendering your mind Your body, your heart,
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_01: allowing everything to let go and just breathe.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: Let's inhale.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hold the breath at the top.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: And exhale.
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  SPEAKER_01: Slow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Another inhale.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hold it at the top.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: And exhale, allowing all of the thoughts, all of the breath out.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: And our final inhale.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: Hold it at the top.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: And a nice slow exhale.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: May you take this surrender into the rest of your day.
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• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for listening to Jennifer with Coffee.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: Follow us on Instagram at jenniferwithcoffee and on Substack.
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