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First Interview Reveals: Melissa’s Gifts, Ghosts & Mojo Bags · Eye Opener Society

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  Welcome to Without a Candle. We are your hosts. Hey guys, I'm Carla. And I'm Carly.
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  Let's just jump on in, shall we?
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  All right, guys. We are here with Melissa today.
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  I'm super excited. So Melissa is Gary's wife of Eye Opener Society.
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  And we are very blessed because she hasn't even interviewed on her own husband's podcast.
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  So we are her first interview. So thank you so much for... You'll be great with
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  us. I appreciate that. Thank you.
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  That made it one last minute. Well, we didn't have to twist your arm too hard. Yeah.
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  So... Yeah. So, do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself,
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  Melissa? Carrie's wife.
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  Carrie's wife. Yeah. No.
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  That's probably as good as the guess of my introduction at this point because
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  I have no idea. That's important.
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  Sometimes it takes some comfort and then some more self-discovery and just,
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  you know, some of that. A lot more self-discovery in the future.
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  True Carly taking care of business on the side there.
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  I'll just ignore this shit. I don't hear anything outside of us, right?
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  Um, but so we'll first start off by saying that you guys have been down here a couple of times. Yeah.
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  And we are thrilled that you guys just pack up basically on a freaking whim.
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  Um, and come see us the way you do. Like people just don't do that often.
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  Yeah. Right. You guys are awesome.
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  It's amazing. amazing and even though this chance this
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  like we didn't get a chance to hang out shit i honestly any of
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  them we don't get a lot of time because there's just just
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  stuff so much yeah just a willingness to like be here yeah that's such a blessing
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  so thank you and you jumping in and helping the way you do as well so like that
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  means a lot too because you just see like this needs to be done and I'm just going to,
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  you know, so thank you for that. It means a lot.
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  Um, I go ahead. When you first.
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  Made the decision to come down the first time what were some thoughts behind
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  it like before you even made it here yeah so basically he it was like if he wants to do something.
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  Gary for you know his passions or whatever and like or if i want to do something
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  for mine then we try to make it happen and he wanted to come down here and meet
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  you guys and do that first, you know,
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  podcast on the road. And I was like, okay, let's do it.
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  Let's jump in. Passenger princess.
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  Get my spot. Get my snacks. Get the road. Right. Cool. That's what I think.
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  I love going to new places. And he said it was a little town.
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  So I was like, oh, I love little towns. I wonder how many cute things they're going to have there.
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  That's awesome. That's cool. So what was that first weekend? Ride run. Yeah.
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  Yeah, you guys got to experience Rod Run as your first trip down.
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  It was a lot of fun. Yeah. A little hot.
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  Yeah. Yeah. We need to get you guys to come down to our festival, Witch's Day Out.
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  Yeah. And that's an experience. Yeah, we did miss that one.
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  But we did the... The Moon Market. Yeah, you just stepped out to the Moon Market.
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  That was amazing. Just because you guys wanted to come back.
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  And I appreciate that so much. Yeah, it was so fun.
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  Thank you. So when you came in the first time into Santana and then into the
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  shop and meeting us for the first time, what do you remember from that day? Yeah.
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  The first thing I remember was just coming into this town and you get this kind
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  of immediate feeling of calm.
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  There's just something about this place. It's cute. It's small. Everybody's friendly.
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  You just get this sense of okay. Let's just sit back and relax.
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  It's very different from where we live. Okay.
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  All the hustle and bustle.
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  Not so much It's like the energy. Okay. The energy here is so much more pleasant. Okay.
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  So Gary shared a little nugget earlier about, very briefly, of some of your practice. Right.
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  So some of your craft, right? Yeah. And we are aware that.
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  To ask in ways that you only need to share what you're comfortable sharing um
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  but what of that do you want to share and then i really get the sense like there is a really profound,
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  um moment um testimony story
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  if you will that um you you
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  want to share maybe for the first time publicly
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  um so that
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  was a couple questions publicly carly can probably can break that up for you
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  there's a story there oh start with what your practice is what do you do carly
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  yeah i get excited yeah i'm not really exactly sure what i can do what to even
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  call myself anything like that Since I was little,
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  I always just knew things, felt things, saw things.
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  It's a lot. It's a lot of things. And I was raised in an extremely Christian household.
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  So even saying anything or acknowledging anything that I felt or saw or what
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  have you, I'm having a lot.
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  Okay. I was in a lot of trouble a lot when they were even around to notice us let's put it that way,
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  um but yeah I got in a lot of trouble so
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  I just kept they told me it was evil and
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  so then I was scared because I'm like oh
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  my god like you know this is how
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  we're being raised you know I'm like i'm going to hell oh my god why why is
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  the devil telling me all this stuff like what is happening why do i you know
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  yeah these people and stuff like that and then i think i was.
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  Seven the first time when like they
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  acknowledged what I saw was real okay however
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  it was it was just brushed
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  off and it didn't happen okay basically yeah
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  and we had we lived right across the street from our
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  church in a townhouse and I kept telling
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  my mom I'm like if some guy keeps
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  coming in our house at night and he just work boots
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  blue jeans I still remember exactly what he looks like yeah
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  work boots blue jeans red um
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  flannel shirt dark hair and
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  like the 80s haircut you know like a feathered back
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  kind of guy hairdo yeah and every he just walks up the steps goes in my baby
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  sister's room looks at her in her crib then goes into my parents room and would
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  stand at the bottom of their bed and stare at them every night and i'm like
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  listen there's They're like, there's no guy.
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  And then so, of course, they bring me over to the pastor because I'm obviously
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  losing my shit. And he's like.
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  You know he's like oh my god yeah um well
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  the people that used to live in your house before you the
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  husband came home found his wife in bed with somebody else cheating went outside
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  and he killed himself right there with a gun in in the street so i'm like okay
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  so why am i in trouble like why am I in trouble because I saw that yeah so,
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  wow the pastor freaked out a little bit and then,
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  nothing and then it went back to if I said something or anything you were just
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  expected to like a dip yeah nothing happened so that was the first thing that
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  was like I actually was like listen so I knew that I really didn't see that
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  but again it was just like no
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  so how has that been in
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  your adult life going into your practice now um my friends like still always
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  knowing if we went out or something and so I'm like the one time we went out
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  and we're at the club you know because we're young and this guy's trying to
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  handle my friend and and he is.
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  I'm like just getting a really bad vibe. Yeah. Hitting on her, hitting on her.
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  And I just went off to him and just touched him. And I said,
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  you're full of shit. You work in construction.
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  And he freaked out. He's like, who are you? How do you know?
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  Okay. So they kind of got a little kick out of that. And sometimes they're like, bring guys around.
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  Okay. So you're the reader. Yeah.
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  Okay. So that was kind of like, you know, giggling all in fun.
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  And we just made, poked fun at it because again, I was like,
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  you know. You were not funny.
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  Yeah. Then I met Gary in 2009.
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  Okay. And he immediately just started telling me like, you know,
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  you have gifts, right? And I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever.
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  Yeah. Because I just, I just knew things and I just, I'm very blunt.
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  So sometimes I just blurt stuff out. Yeah.
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  Thawnt at mouth. and then um like just touching him he said he could feel my energy and i'm like oh,
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  well then we went to salem okay and there's this um coven's corner or something and um he got my.
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  But is she a medium or psychic or something like that?
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  And so I was like, I love it. I was like, what am I? Yeah.
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  She said, in my circle, you would be known as a hot priestess.
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  Okay. And I was like, okay.
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  And then I'm done. And she's like, I don't even know what that is.
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  What does that mean? I was like, what does that mean? He said,
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  I mean, you're really powerful and you can do a lot. and you just have to accept it yeah so probably,
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  we're still going and like still up to this date and that's been years since
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  2009 i still have no idea i just know that yeah i can help people i feel like
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  i was put here to help people and.
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  If I have a feeling, I'm just going to go with it. But I still have no idea
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  what I am, what I can really do.
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  I'll even go about doing it or anything like that.
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  So it's a lot because there's a lot of options that I can share with you.
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  But as you get home over the next couple of days, and I just tell Lynn,
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  don't be afraid to reach out and ask for like little homework
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  like audiobook because i do audiobooks or
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  book recommendations and you
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  know keep digging because when a lot of my gifts shifted and was when i was
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  made aware that one these practices have names right and um that other people.
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  Have these concepts and practices too
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  um not so much anymore that
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  i was crazy because i knew what i was experiencing right i
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  just didn't know there were things you know even now like i'm still
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  learning new modalities i'm like that's a thing
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  that's what i'm doing but i didn't know it was a thing yeah right
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  yeah that's how it is i'm just like i
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  have no idea and somebody please teach
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  me well sometimes dude the
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  learning comes when we stop trying to find
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  the labels right you know when we stop putting
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  the pressure on figuring out who we are and just accepting we are already we
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  are already that helps change the perspective on like well what what am i right
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  so definitely as you go down those rabbit holes,
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  if you want a label as you find them, then wonderful, but you are already, you know?
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  So don't think that you can't already be doing stuff, right?
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  And you already are doing things. Do you want to hear that? I mean,
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  I make Mojo bags for people. Apparently, they work really well.
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  So don't cut yourself short. You just ignore it, apparently.
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  You just credit yourself. So would you like to share that again? Sure. Yeah.
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  We were calling them hex bags. The first one I ever made was for my daughter.
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  And she was in the hospital, and she was very close to passing.
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  She got tiny little blood clots from taking birth control and they were all
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  in her lungs and so they had her in a medically induced coma and they're like
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  all right we're gonna have to run her fair facts in virginia um she's probably
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  gonna need a double transplant and i was like,
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  what do i do this is my baby yeah um and like i didn't really want to leave
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  the hospital but that and I was like,
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  you know, I should go to Gary and I'm like, what can we, what can I do?
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  Like, can we go somewhere and I can like.
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  Try to get some like crystals because he had been like showing
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  me crystals and like what they can you know they might help
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  and stuff like that yeah and so we went
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  all the way to bucks county it's like two three hour
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  drive there's this really cute place there um
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  so we go
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  and i like really even though it's google and all and
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  i like really got into it and i'm like
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  you know i want to make sure i get like the best ones like the ones that are
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  gonna work because i i can't do this without my babies you know like i was not
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  willing to give her up no so we we went to this place.
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  He's like spend however much you need because i'm a
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  little weirdo trying to pinch pennies too as we
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  are yeah so i you
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  know i picked i went through whatever um usually
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  for me if a stone is for me or for whatever purpose or intention um they immediately
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  get extremely hot in my hand which it's it's weird but that's what happens yeah
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  um so i went through got what i needed,
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  made the bag um i
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  believe i might have put a little bit of herbs in there i cannot remember which
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  ones just whatever just came over there yeah
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  and then i was like i need i need to i need
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  to say something while i give this to her so i
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  was like it needs to be in latin i have no
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  idea why so i looked up how to say heal in latin and so the nurses thought out
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  it's a little nuts but i just just kept putting it all over her and just saying
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  i think it was sona like s-o-n-o yeah and i just kept saying it and saying it and then.
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  I was not leaving. I kind of just stayed there.
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  And I would come home for a couple hours in the morning and take a shower.
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  And then I'd be back there. And so that day when I came home and showered,
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  and then by the time I came back, they were like, oh, she's improving. I was like, what?
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  That's amazing. Yeah. I was like, and I'm texting him. I'm like, holy shit.
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  The bag works. like I this is crazy like it worked so that was the first time and since then,
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  whenever anybody asks for bags I'm like well at least you know I can make these and,
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  it's going to help you so sometimes when they ask for these bags I'm like this
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  person does not, this is the last thing they need,
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  I don't really want to do this but because I know that if it's going to happen and I can't
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  be specific because i don't want that person to know you know that hesitated
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  that they didn't need it and the fact of the matter is it's going to happen but it's never going to.
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  Yes it's not going to be complete because they're not meant to have that,
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  and i just know that inside of me so it was very it's still very hard for me to know that
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  person has that and every time it's not going to work but yeah um and that's one of the things,
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  that kind of sucks on this work yeah um and that's a growth process for you
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  and if i'm allowed to speak openly of course um so,
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  At some point, you've got to honor yourself as well.
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  And it's tricky to know that we are of such practices and such wisdom and intuition.
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  To know when to use discernment anyway. Yeah.
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  And that sometimes no is the answer. Yeah.
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  And because we also don't want to offer false hope.
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  Right yeah right and um so
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  perhaps there's a new bag gifted um with the intention of resetting that um
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  that intention yeah and with maybe closure in that process does that make sense yes um and then And,
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  you know, in that there may need to be conversation.
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  It's like, hey, I need to honor myself and my own intuition and my own wisdoms.
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  And I've not done that. Yeah. Right. And there's power in that too. Right.
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  And once we're willing to step up to the plate in those tough situations,
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  growth just excels even more.
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  Yeah. You know, so imagine that that's your lesson that you need to learn before
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  you can be more lions, before you can proceed.
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  Because if you can't proceed now with discernment and honor what are you going
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  to do when there's more what are you going to do when the gifts are unlocked
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  you know does that make sense so don't cut yourself short,
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  by not honoring by not honoring your truth there's two things with that that
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  I want to highlight It's one,
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  we've had a lot of conversation the last couple of days with a lot of people
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  about valuing monetarily, but it's also valuing our time and our energy. Right.
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  And then the other thing is knowing that when people come to us for help and
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  they're not seeing what our help can do. Right.
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  It's not our place to still continue trying to help when they need to figure it out on their own.
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  They can listen and take all the mojo bags and hear what we have to say.
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  But until they're ready to be on that journey, it's not going to do anything.
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  And you knew that, right? Yeah. So, you know, it's all full circle.
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  Appreciate it. And I never, um, I don't, we had planned that I would make these
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  bags and maybe, um, sell them. Yeah.
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  And I haven't sold any. And I was like, it's, and I wasn't even like trying.
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  Yeah. And I was like, it's, and I finally told him like last month,
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  I was like, listen, I can't sell these bags.
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  I don't feel right selling these bags. I feel like if somebody...
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  I made one for somebody at his work, and she just sent money with him.
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  I'm like, you know, if that's what she wants to do, then that's what she wants to do.
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  But I don't feel right charging people for this, no matter if I'm spending the money. Yeah.
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  And so that's an amazing thing, too. That's an energy exchange as well.
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  So on that same note, however, part of your decision to not charge and not make
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  these ahead is that you are using intuition to take out the items, right?
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  I am. So how do you pre-plan for that, you know?
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  Because maybe that's the hang-up, right? Sometimes I have to,
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  like if I don't meet the person, I usually like to meet the person and then
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  they're not necessarily going to ask me.
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  I want to meet them and feel what I feel about them.
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  And then I'm going to try to figure out for myself what I need to put in that bag and what intention.
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  Maybe they don't know they need it, but I'm going to put in the bag whatever
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  when I feel them comes to mind that needs to be in the bag.
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  Okay. So can I blow your mind just a little bit more? Sure. What if you don't need the things?
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  What if it's purely attached to the intention, right?
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  What if it's purely attached to the intention and the process of claiming the.
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  Claiming the items individually and perhaps charging them of sorts with that intention, right?
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  But in church, right, and in prayer, the thing was often a simple cloth,
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  right, a prayer cloth, right, that was in the energy.
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  So in our practice now, sometimes we'll ask people to put some things on the
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  altar to be in the energy and to be attuned to what was happening, right?
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  But just imagine that you don't need a damn thing.
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  So visualization is what she's getting at.
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  Yeah, and that intention setting, that ritual behind just sitting with things,
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  right? And even maybe, yeah, visualization of you picking on things.
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  But I almost just saw, I'm not quite sure what I just saw, but it was a clause.
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  Do you currently do like any needlepoint work I don't do that but I do sometimes
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  I will decorate the bags okay,
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  this is almost just like a little a little symbol or something and the first one that,
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  And I'm guessing it was needlepoint of some sort, just a simple stitch,
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  just like a simple heart in the corner. I do.
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  After you had finished. I put an M and make it a heart on anything I do,
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  whether it's this kind of stuff or I like the craft.
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  That's what I mark everything with, M with a little heart. Gotcha.
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  And so maybe it's not even mojo bags moving forward, right?
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  Maybe it's just a cloth, a piece of muslin or something like that that you've
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  toned around with you through an hour or two or however long that person's on your heart.
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  Setting that intention for the greater good for them.
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  So that helps two things, right? finding um
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  we sell financially that doesn't cost and
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  then um sometimes those
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  more simple things are um more
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  accepted yeah right so if there's people in
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  your life that you cross pass with and you give
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  them this mojo bag they're gonna be like whoa what the fuck
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  is that right um and you
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  may not even want to use the word prayer call because it's about
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  knowing your audience right but maybe you do sometimes i don't i actually do
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  have other things that i just carry with me so if i meet somebody and i'm feeling
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  like they just need something i bought these little cards and they have little
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  messages on them and i just like i just hand them,
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  and they just have like little messages.
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  But that's all right just the thing and then talking a lot doesn't help either
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  yeah um if i feel like somebody needs something they get something i might even
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  go up to them and say hi can i help you and sometimes people are like what the
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  but i i've done it down here sometimes like oh like,
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  Can I give you a hug? And usually people are like a little shocked,
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  but then they're like, sure. Yeah.
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  And then I feel like I may have a smile and then I feel like.
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  You shared just enough. Yeah.
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  Right. They're happy now. They smile.
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  Is there any last little tiny tidbit you want to share?
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  Did you share the story that we were hoping you shared? Okay.
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  Okay. We did. I mean, you could ask questions too.
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  I'm good. I'm a production manager so if you get the story that's the good one,
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  well thank you so much thank you letting us get to know you a little bit deeper
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  as well not just for the podcast but just spend time with us dammit we barely got to talk,
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  thank you we'll come down here whenever you want,
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  good we already played the next one alright bye learn what I can yes right guys
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  so that wraps up another episode of without a candle with carly and carla we
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  appreciate you and we'll see you next time.