WEBVTT - Read Your Own Future With Tarot 0:00:05.921 --> 0:00:07.281 Apogee Production. 0:00:10.961 --> 0:00:13.921 I'm Mickie Fisher and welcome to the Village Crazy Lady. 0:00:14.321 --> 0:00:17.401 People are talking to me and they are not physically 0:00:17.481 --> 0:00:20.721 in this room, so just strap in for that. 0:00:20.961 --> 0:00:23.121 Can't call me crazy, so I said it first. 0:00:23.321 --> 0:00:26.121 Whoever's trying to come through, whatever messages need to come through, like, 0:00:26.241 --> 0:00:26.761 just bring it on. 0:00:26.841 --> 0:00:27.361 Let's do it. 0:00:28.201 --> 0:00:36.001 Crazy Crazy Crazy The Village Crazy Lay Podcast. Hello, gorgeous legends, 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.441 and welcome to another episode of the Village Crazy Lady. 0:00:39.921 --> 0:00:41.921 I am so excited about this guest. 0:00:42.281 --> 0:00:46.840 Bridget Essalmont, is an intuitive entrepreneur, a best selling author, 0:00:47.001 --> 0:00:51.921 and founder of Bitty Tarot. I have had your tarot 0:00:52.001 --> 0:00:56.161 cards for years, and I've known about you and what you. 0:00:56.001 --> 0:00:59.441 Do for years. How did you get into taro? 0:01:00.481 --> 0:01:03.681 Yeah, so it goes all the way back to the 0:01:03.801 --> 0:01:07.321 late nineteen ninety and this is when I just finished 0:01:07.401 --> 0:01:10.360 high school and I was going on an exchange to 0:01:10.441 --> 0:01:14.080 Germany with my best friend and we thought, oh, why 0:01:14.121 --> 0:01:16.241 don't we go and get a tower reading before we 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.761 go to Germany. And so we found this little place 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.961 in the Rocks in Sydney and we're walking up these 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.601 creaky wooden stairs and starting to feel all very mysterious 0:01:26.761 --> 0:01:30.000 and a little bit spooky. And I walk into this 0:01:30.241 --> 0:01:32.881 dark room. This woman's like sitting there in the corner 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.041 with her cards laid out in front of her, and 0:01:35.081 --> 0:01:37.041 I was like, oh my gosh, what am I getting 0:01:37.041 --> 0:01:40.360 myself into? But I sat down with her and asked her, like, 0:01:40.401 --> 0:01:42.800 what's going to happen when I go to Germany? And 0:01:42.881 --> 0:01:45.881 she starts pulling the cards and then she pulls the Emperor. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.801 She goes, ooh, you're going to fall in love, like 0:01:48.841 --> 0:01:51.081 there's his boyfriend. He's waiting for you. It's going to 0:01:51.121 --> 0:01:54.721 be amazing. And so, you know, I'm seventeen years old, 0:01:54.721 --> 0:01:59.401 I'm like, oh, that sounds fantastic. Probably tell us to everyone, 0:01:59.481 --> 0:02:02.081 but hey, I'll buy into it. And then yeah, of 0:02:02.121 --> 0:02:05.361 course I go to Germany. I fall in love a 0:02:05.401 --> 0:02:10.361 few times and it was great done. And so then 0:02:10.561 --> 0:02:14.361 like that, I came back to Australia and I thought, wow, 0:02:14.401 --> 0:02:16.761 this is pretty cool. I'd love to learn how to 0:02:16.841 --> 0:02:18.921 do this and I could show off to my friends 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.481 this like cool trick. But here's the thing. I've got 0:02:22.481 --> 0:02:24.641 my tarot cards. My mum gifted them to me. I 0:02:24.721 --> 0:02:27.481 started learning them, and then the more that I learned 0:02:27.481 --> 0:02:29.681 about the Taro, the more I realized that they were 0:02:29.721 --> 0:02:35.881 actually a really profound tool for transformation and for accessing intuition. 0:02:36.481 --> 0:02:39.401 It was so different to what I've seen like on movies, 0:02:39.441 --> 0:02:43.281 which was all about like fortune telling and mystery and 0:02:43.721 --> 0:02:48.081 you know, bad things happening. It was completely different to that. 0:02:48.161 --> 0:02:51.481 It was actually this really beautiful experience that I was 0:02:51.481 --> 0:02:54.120 having with the cards, and it was opening up all 0:02:54.161 --> 0:02:57.120 of these parts of myself that had been there for 0:02:57.161 --> 0:03:01.160 so long, like the spiritual aspects, the connection to the divine, 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.921 connection to self and intuition, and it was all just 0:03:05.161 --> 0:03:07.281 like opening up as it's laid out there on the 0:03:07.321 --> 0:03:08.361 table in front of me. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.641 In what way can you explain? Because that's so interesting 0:03:12.721 --> 0:03:14.961 to me. I mean, I don't think I've ever really 0:03:15.721 --> 0:03:19.240 thought about it like that, Like, in what way did 0:03:19.281 --> 0:03:21.201 it sort of like reveal this part of you? 0:03:22.561 --> 0:03:25.361 Yeah. So, Like one of the things that I thought 0:03:25.481 --> 0:03:28.081 before I started reading Taro was I had to be 0:03:28.201 --> 0:03:30.400 psychic in order to read Taro. I needed to be 0:03:30.441 --> 0:03:32.881 able to see like speak to dead people. I had 0:03:32.921 --> 0:03:37.321 to see the future like perfectly. And I really thought 0:03:37.361 --> 0:03:40.321 that I needed to have these specific skills and gifts 0:03:40.441 --> 0:03:43.081 in order to be able to read Taro. And so 0:03:43.201 --> 0:03:46.201 when I started reading Taro, I did everything I could 0:03:46.281 --> 0:03:51.001 to like master it, master my psychic abilities. But over 0:03:51.081 --> 0:03:55.321 time I started to realize this actually isn't about like wrote, 0:03:55.361 --> 0:03:57.881 learning the cards. It's not like what I was doing 0:03:57.921 --> 0:04:00.561 at school and university and trying to read all of 0:04:00.601 --> 0:04:03.001 the books. This was actually something that needed to be 0:04:03.121 --> 0:04:06.521 felt and experienced. So then the more that I let 0:04:06.561 --> 0:04:10.721 my intuition come into play, the more I could see 0:04:11.521 --> 0:04:14.881 what was unfolding in the cards. So it actually turned 0:04:14.881 --> 0:04:18.441 out that instead of having to be psychic and gifted 0:04:18.481 --> 0:04:21.721 and so on to read Taro, the Taro itself was 0:04:21.761 --> 0:04:25.320 the thing that was helping me become more intuitive. Because 0:04:25.521 --> 0:04:29.041 if you think about Taro cards, it's seventy eight cards. 0:04:29.481 --> 0:04:32.321 Every card has this picture on it, It has this 0:04:32.601 --> 0:04:39.200 rich symbolism, you know, different stories, mythology, even connections to 0:04:39.641 --> 0:04:44.801 religion and other spiritual kind of philosophies. And when we're 0:04:44.841 --> 0:04:49.001 reading these cards, it's almost giving us direct access to 0:04:49.201 --> 0:04:54.241 this collective wisdom that's been created over time, but also 0:04:54.361 --> 0:04:58.760 to this individual wisdom that's our intuition and what's within ourselves. 0:04:59.241 --> 0:05:02.761 And so when we access Taro, were actually accessing these 0:05:02.801 --> 0:05:07.081 different parts of and wisdom, that collective wisdom and our 0:05:07.201 --> 0:05:10.681 inner wisdom, and that to me is just amazing and 0:05:10.761 --> 0:05:11.721 so powerful. 0:05:12.561 --> 0:05:16.121 I love that cards are probably I guess when people 0:05:16.121 --> 0:05:20.280 think about spirituality right and like you know, delving into 0:05:20.281 --> 0:05:22.880 their own spirituality. I know, for me, cards was like 0:05:22.961 --> 0:05:25.561 one of the first places I went because it's a tool, 0:05:26.041 --> 0:05:30.721 it's a really helpful, very fun as well, like it 0:05:30.761 --> 0:05:34.121 doesn't feel scary. There's nothing really about although unless like 0:05:34.241 --> 0:05:35.921 if you're doing Taro for the first time and you 0:05:35.961 --> 0:05:38.521 see like the death card or the tower or something 0:05:38.561 --> 0:05:40.520 come out and you're like, oh my fucking god, am 0:05:40.561 --> 0:05:44.921 I about to die? But outside of that, it's just 0:05:45.001 --> 0:05:47.521 like it's a fun almost like party game me kind 0:05:47.521 --> 0:05:51.801 of feeling. But I can understand like that the sort 0:05:51.841 --> 0:05:56.681 of how it helps you do a lot of healing 0:05:56.761 --> 0:05:59.361 and a lot of sort of like revealing of yourself 0:05:59.401 --> 0:06:01.281 because I look back to sort of when I first 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.241 started using them, and even when I use them now, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.281 like a lot of my intention when I'm sort of 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.201 pulling a card, I'm like, what do I What am 0:06:09.201 --> 0:06:09.761 I needing? 0:06:09.841 --> 0:06:11.801 What am I not seeing right now? What am I? 0:06:12.121 --> 0:06:14.400 And it really is that like oh, okay, this is 0:06:14.401 --> 0:06:16.760 what I need to be working on in my life. Well, like, 0:06:17.281 --> 0:06:19.321 this is where I sort of like need to be 0:06:19.521 --> 0:06:22.521 my attention needs to go. Well, I never even realized 0:06:22.521 --> 0:06:25.081 that I was doing that. It really does like access 0:06:25.161 --> 0:06:28.320 this very like intuitive subconscious part of you. 0:06:29.681 --> 0:06:32.081 Yeah. Yeah, And that's that's what I love about it 0:06:32.121 --> 0:06:35.481 because you know, even when we do like personal growth 0:06:35.521 --> 0:06:38.880 and development, if we only do that from a place 0:06:38.921 --> 0:06:42.281 of thinking it and what's in our conscious mind, we're 0:06:42.281 --> 0:06:45.201 really only tapping into part of it. We're not tapping 0:06:45.201 --> 0:06:48.520 into this full spectrum. But what Taro helps us to 0:06:48.601 --> 0:06:53.121 do is to access more of our subconscious and what's 0:06:53.201 --> 0:06:58.161 really happening, you know, underneath the surface. And when we 0:06:58.281 --> 0:07:02.080 access more of that subconscious part, then we start to 0:07:02.121 --> 0:07:06.561 reveal so much more than if it's inner conscious mind 0:07:06.601 --> 0:07:09.561 and all of that happens because again, Taro cards are 0:07:09.561 --> 0:07:13.721 so visual, they're so symbolic, so it helps to bypass 0:07:13.801 --> 0:07:16.961 the conscious mind and it helps us drop into subconscious 0:07:17.281 --> 0:07:20.521 where really like that is where the bulk of you know, 0:07:20.561 --> 0:07:23.041 who we are actually lies. There's only a tiny little 0:07:23.041 --> 0:07:25.201 fraction that's up there in our conscious minds. 0:07:26.561 --> 0:07:27.841 Yes, I love that. 0:07:28.241 --> 0:07:31.081 Before we move on to like the manifestation of it all. 0:07:31.761 --> 0:07:34.721 Let's talk I would love to chat about Like for 0:07:34.801 --> 0:07:37.041 people who are listening and they're like, I really want 0:07:37.041 --> 0:07:41.321 to use taro, how would you recommend people even get 0:07:41.361 --> 0:07:44.241 into it or start using it or you know, because 0:07:44.241 --> 0:07:46.641 I think for a lot of people, it feels a 0:07:46.681 --> 0:07:51.121 bit like you'd need, you know, to go and read 0:07:51.161 --> 0:07:53.561 like fifteen books or do a course or something on 0:07:53.681 --> 0:07:54.521 how to use them. 0:07:55.561 --> 0:07:58.241 Yeah, and I totally get it. That's kind of why 0:07:58.281 --> 0:08:01.081 I haven't. I have like about three books on astrology. 0:08:01.441 --> 0:08:03.241 Every time I go to read them, I'm like, oh, 0:08:03.281 --> 0:08:05.961 it's too much. I don't remember all this. 0:08:08.121 --> 0:08:09.881 I feel like that too about astrology. 0:08:10.801 --> 0:08:13.561 Well, and you know, I had that feeling about taro 0:08:13.681 --> 0:08:16.361 when I first started, because I was like, holy moly, 0:08:16.521 --> 0:08:19.401 how on earth do you remember seventy eight tarot cards 0:08:19.401 --> 0:08:21.561 and what they mean? Like if you pick up any book, 0:08:21.601 --> 0:08:24.761 there's like literally pages and pages on every card, and 0:08:24.761 --> 0:08:27.361 then you think, oh, gosh, I've got to like memorize 0:08:27.361 --> 0:08:30.720 all this stuff. But again, what I learned over time 0:08:31.481 --> 0:08:34.521 was that that's actually really only one way of going 0:08:34.561 --> 0:08:38.921 about learning taro. The other way is to experience taro 0:08:39.401 --> 0:08:43.001 through more of like by accessing like your intuition. So 0:08:43.241 --> 0:08:46.281 if you're just getting started, the easiest way to start 0:08:47.001 --> 0:08:49.721 is get a Taro deck and then just pull a 0:08:49.761 --> 0:08:52.401 card a day. And so at the beginning of your day, 0:08:52.521 --> 0:08:55.921 just simply ask, like, what is the energy I need 0:08:55.961 --> 0:08:58.441 to connect with today. It's not predicting what's going to 0:08:58.521 --> 0:09:00.401 happen for you in the day. It's more like what 0:09:00.441 --> 0:09:02.401 do I need to be aware of or what am 0:09:02.441 --> 0:09:04.961 I calling in? And then actually, let me just grab 0:09:05.841 --> 0:09:11.321 trusty little cards. So let's just say we're chuining into 0:09:11.321 --> 0:09:13.401 our energy for today and we're doing the daily oh 0:09:13.601 --> 0:09:15.321 card pool and that one just, oh, this is not 0:09:15.361 --> 0:09:21.601 a nice one. Okay, Well, so let's just say this 0:09:21.641 --> 0:09:24.761 one comes out and so it's the three of Swords 0:09:24.841 --> 0:09:27.441 and the picture on this is this heart. It's pierced 0:09:27.481 --> 0:09:30.721 with three swords. It's pretty traumatic. There's rain clouds in 0:09:30.761 --> 0:09:34.201 the background. And you know, you don't even need to 0:09:34.241 --> 0:09:36.641 know what the traditional meaning is of this card just 0:09:36.641 --> 0:09:39.081 by looking at the imagery. You know, what would you see, 0:09:39.081 --> 0:09:41.681 Mickey in this card? What would you say might be happening? 0:09:41.881 --> 0:09:44.401 It feels like heartbreak, like. 0:09:46.201 --> 0:09:50.201 Yes, some sort of like heart hurt essentially is what 0:09:50.281 --> 0:09:52.241 I normally see with that card? 0:09:53.761 --> 0:09:58.441 Yeah, yes, and you know, maybe even I'm kind of 0:09:58.441 --> 0:10:02.121 getting the feeling of like being let down or yeah, 0:10:02.281 --> 0:10:05.681 feeling hurt portrayed. Maybe now you you might start your 0:10:05.721 --> 0:10:09.161 day with this card and then you go, oh, what 0:10:09.321 --> 0:10:12.561 am I to have a breakup? Or is something terrible 0:10:12.681 --> 0:10:15.521 going to happen today? It's not necessarily that, it's more 0:10:15.641 --> 0:10:18.561 like using it as an opportunity to reflect on where 0:10:18.601 --> 0:10:21.561 in my life is this energy showing up? And you 0:10:21.641 --> 0:10:26.001 might go, well, where am I feeling left down? Hurt, betrayed, disappointed? 0:10:26.081 --> 0:10:30.441 Where am I feeling brief sorrow, loss? And because often 0:10:30.481 --> 0:10:33.281 you know, even these negative like so called negative feelings, 0:10:34.201 --> 0:10:36.521 they can still be present, but we kind of stash 0:10:36.601 --> 0:10:39.361 them down, right, So I bet you can even think 0:10:39.401 --> 0:10:41.801 of where you've been let down and maybe you're carrying 0:10:41.801 --> 0:10:44.041 some of the energy today. I know I can when 0:10:44.041 --> 0:10:46.401 I bring my awareness to it, I'm like, oh, yeah, 0:10:46.401 --> 0:10:49.921 I'm feeling a bit let down in particular areas. And 0:10:50.001 --> 0:10:52.841 so then it's my opportunity to go, huh, well, how 0:10:52.921 --> 0:10:55.681 might that be impacting me today? And is there anything 0:10:55.681 --> 0:10:58.641 that I can do to shift that energy? And so 0:10:58.681 --> 0:11:01.561 we're really taking what might be stored in the subconscious, 0:11:01.921 --> 0:11:04.761 bring it into that conscious awareness where we can take action, 0:11:05.161 --> 0:11:07.081 we can do something with it, and then we can 0:11:07.121 --> 0:11:10.201 move on with the date. So again, if you're a beginner, 0:11:10.281 --> 0:11:12.561 you're brand new to it, easy peasy, because you can 0:11:12.641 --> 0:11:15.001 just look at the picture, you can trust what you're feeling, 0:11:15.081 --> 0:11:17.761 trust to intuition. Of course, you can always go into 0:11:18.121 --> 0:11:21.081 awesome websites like videtaro dot com to get your Taro 0:11:21.161 --> 0:11:26.041 card meanings. And yeah, it's just a really simple and 0:11:26.121 --> 0:11:30.121 easy way to start to learn the cards, but then 0:11:30.161 --> 0:11:33.481 also to start to create time for yourself to listen 0:11:33.881 --> 0:11:37.841 inwardly and listen to intuition, because that's ultimately what Taro 0:11:37.961 --> 0:11:40.961 is doing. It's helping you to have this space to 0:11:41.281 --> 0:11:43.921 listen within. Because we're so busy, right, we'll, you know, 0:11:44.161 --> 0:11:45.641 oh I've got to spare a minute or jump on 0:11:45.681 --> 0:11:48.401 my phone, I'll have a look at whatever. But if 0:11:48.441 --> 0:11:51.121 we've got Taro, it's more like, ah, okay, I can 0:11:51.161 --> 0:11:53.801 just pull a card. I can tune into what I'm feeling. 0:11:55.281 --> 0:11:57.281 Yes, so true, And it's not like you're having to, 0:11:57.881 --> 0:12:00.561 you know, put aside like twenty minutes to do a 0:12:00.641 --> 0:12:03.841 deep meditation. So you can like you know, scour the 0:12:04.001 --> 0:12:08.561 inner like parts of your mind and you know, try 0:12:08.641 --> 0:12:11.961 and connect with some fucking galactic creature from some sort 0:12:11.961 --> 0:12:13.001 of planet or something like that. 0:12:13.041 --> 0:12:16.241 It's literally just like okay, pull our card. And what 0:12:16.281 --> 0:12:18.281 I love about that that practice. 0:12:17.841 --> 0:12:20.561 As well, and the concept of just like pulling a 0:12:20.601 --> 0:12:24.401 card today is that it also, as you said, it's 0:12:24.401 --> 0:12:26.801 sort of taking something from the subconscious and putting it 0:12:26.841 --> 0:12:29.641 into the conscious. But then you're getting to like have 0:12:29.761 --> 0:12:32.481 control over something as well, which I think is like 0:12:32.641 --> 0:12:35.041 so powerful. And what I love about, you know, just 0:12:35.601 --> 0:12:37.521 spirituality in general. 0:12:37.841 --> 0:12:40.041 Is like it really is this sort of like. 0:12:41.841 --> 0:12:47.001 This empowerment, this regaining control over yourself and your own 0:12:47.041 --> 0:12:49.721 life as opposed to things happening to you. You're able 0:12:49.761 --> 0:12:51.841 to be sort of more aware of what's going on 0:12:51.921 --> 0:12:55.721 and then make a real decision about what you're going 0:12:55.801 --> 0:12:56.521 to do about it. 0:12:57.721 --> 0:13:00.121 Yeah, that's it. And you know what this is again, 0:13:00.201 --> 0:13:04.921 one of the other big misconceptions about taru is that 0:13:06.521 --> 0:13:08.441 you know, Taro is going to tell you what's going 0:13:08.521 --> 0:13:12.081 to happen to you, or it's going to make something happen. 0:13:12.721 --> 0:13:16.481 And you know, yes, you can use Taro in that way. 0:13:16.521 --> 0:13:18.641 You can use it to predict the future. When we 0:13:18.681 --> 0:13:23.241 predict future, we're assuming that it's happening to us and 0:13:23.361 --> 0:13:25.441 it's all set in stone. There's nothing we can do. 0:13:25.601 --> 0:13:27.401 And you know, if it's a good outcome, awesome. But 0:13:27.441 --> 0:13:29.681 if it's a bad outcome, like you know that three 0:13:29.681 --> 0:13:33.601 of swords, like, oh yes, you're going to experience heartbreak 0:13:33.641 --> 0:13:37.561 and grief and disappointment, then that feels like shit. 0:13:37.521 --> 0:13:38.001 Doesn't it? 0:13:38.121 --> 0:13:41.281 Right? So I like to kind of flip the table 0:13:41.401 --> 0:13:44.401 on that and really look at, like, how can we 0:13:44.481 --> 0:13:47.281 use taro as a way to empower ourselves to look 0:13:47.321 --> 0:13:51.401 at what's happening currently and then how can I navigate 0:13:51.561 --> 0:13:54.881 the current situation to create the outcomes I want and 0:13:54.921 --> 0:13:58.161 I desire? And so that's what gives us that control, 0:13:58.281 --> 0:14:00.441 Like you're saying, it helps us to take back our 0:14:00.521 --> 0:14:04.801 power and use it in a much more empowering way. 0:14:06.521 --> 0:14:08.401 Yes, I could not agree more. 0:14:09.001 --> 0:14:11.681 Let's move into the manifestation of things, because how did 0:14:11.721 --> 0:14:15.761 you go from like playing with taro, loving it, getting 0:14:15.841 --> 0:14:22.321 super into it to building like a seven bigger empire 0:14:23.041 --> 0:14:24.441 built on Taro? 0:14:25.161 --> 0:14:26.121 What was that journey? 0:14:26.401 --> 0:14:29.281 You know, when I first started learning taro, within a 0:14:29.281 --> 0:14:31.161 couple of years I was like, oh, this is kind 0:14:31.161 --> 0:14:32.841 of cool. I would love to be able to share 0:14:32.881 --> 0:14:35.601 it with people in some way. And this, again was 0:14:35.721 --> 0:14:39.001 late nineteen nineties. I'm definitely showing my age, but it 0:14:39.081 --> 0:14:42.481 was also like the birth of the Internet around then, 0:14:42.521 --> 0:14:44.321 and I thought, oh, why don't I just start a 0:14:44.321 --> 0:14:48.561 web page? And so I learned how to code HTML 0:14:48.641 --> 0:14:50.681 and i'd started building a little website. 0:14:50.761 --> 0:14:51.801 You did it yourself? 0:14:52.281 --> 0:14:54.201 Yeah, because I had to learn all of the code 0:14:54.241 --> 0:14:58.481 all by myself. It looks like a disaster, but the 0:14:58.481 --> 0:15:00.801 important thing is I just got started, right, and that's 0:15:00.841 --> 0:15:03.681 the thing with all of business. So yeah, I put 0:15:03.761 --> 0:15:07.201 up this website, and really, any time I was learning something, 0:15:07.241 --> 0:15:09.841 I'd just added in and maybe someone else out there 0:15:09.841 --> 0:15:12.721 in the world might enjoy it. And over time it 0:15:12.801 --> 0:15:15.241 started to grow. I started to have people join my 0:15:15.361 --> 0:15:19.521 email list, I had people booking readings with me, and 0:15:19.601 --> 0:15:24.401 then it started my website started to rank on Google, 0:15:24.681 --> 0:15:27.521 and that's when the traffic really began to grow. And 0:15:27.601 --> 0:15:33.321 so fast forward to twenty twelve, and I realized that 0:15:33.401 --> 0:15:35.801 my business was growing enough that I could actually leave 0:15:35.921 --> 0:15:38.681 my corporate job. So I've been working in corporate for 0:15:38.721 --> 0:15:42.881 about fifteen years, and yeah, I decided like it was 0:15:42.961 --> 0:15:46.481 time to leave the corporate world. So twenty twelve is 0:15:46.481 --> 0:15:49.241 when all of that happened, and then that's really when 0:15:49.281 --> 0:15:52.601 the business started to build. I employed my first team member. 0:15:52.961 --> 0:15:54.921 We now have a team of fifteen people who are 0:15:54.961 --> 0:15:59.281 located all around the world. And by twenty fourteen, I 0:15:59.361 --> 0:16:03.481 was creating like online courses for Taro and purely because 0:16:03.841 --> 0:16:05.961 I was like, Oh, I'm learning all this great stuff. 0:16:05.961 --> 0:16:07.881 I really want to be able to share it with people. 0:16:08.441 --> 0:16:11.321 Even though I don't consider myself a master or a 0:16:11.361 --> 0:16:14.241 guru or an expert, I know that I've got something 0:16:14.241 --> 0:16:17.401 that will offer like value to people and I might 0:16:17.441 --> 0:16:19.761 be a few years ahead of the people that I'm 0:16:19.801 --> 0:16:22.441 here to serve. And that felt great to me. And 0:16:22.481 --> 0:16:25.401 so yeah, the courses that started doing, the courses, the 0:16:25.441 --> 0:16:28.481 master classes, all of the things, and over time that 0:16:28.561 --> 0:16:31.561 really began to grow and grow. And so now we've 0:16:31.561 --> 0:16:35.761 had over sixteen thousand students take our programs. We have 0:16:36.041 --> 0:16:40.001 like I don't know, nearly twelve million people visit Bitty 0:16:40.081 --> 0:16:44.961 Taro every year and we're just serving people in a 0:16:45.001 --> 0:16:49.161 really beautiful and authentic way in helping them create their 0:16:49.201 --> 0:16:52.321 own transformation. With the two cards all the way from 0:16:52.321 --> 0:16:54.601 like when you just get started to when you want 0:16:54.641 --> 0:16:57.521 to create a business or expands like a coaching business 0:16:57.561 --> 0:16:59.921 and you want to add in taaro, Like, yeah, we're 0:16:59.961 --> 0:17:03.081 here for all of that. Like overall, it's just been 0:17:03.241 --> 0:17:07.241 about following those intuitive breadcrumbs and following where my energy 0:17:07.321 --> 0:17:11.561 is and what feels great and you know, what feels alive, 0:17:11.801 --> 0:17:14.321 and then doing more of that. I also have, like 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.721 I'm super passionate about business as I am about spirituality, 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.880 and you know, there's not kind of a rare blend 0:17:22.001 --> 0:17:26.680 to find them both, but that's definitely like my magic source. 0:17:26.761 --> 0:17:28.680 And now yeah, I'm really happy to be able to 0:17:28.681 --> 0:17:32.041 help others to kind of find that integration too between 0:17:32.041 --> 0:17:33.120 those two worlds. 0:17:33.561 --> 0:17:37.720 Okay, the statters amazing. That is incredible, And like what 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.720 I love is just like when you're talking, you just 0:17:42.241 --> 0:17:45.400 exude this like you're so excited about what you do, 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.720 like you really fucking just love it, which is nothing 0:17:48.761 --> 0:17:51.880 I love more than a passionate person who just loves 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.721 what they do and feel so like just like lit 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.240 up by helping other people, which I think is the 0:17:58.241 --> 0:18:01.801 most beautiful thing. So then how did we how did 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:06.041 you really like sort of figure out what the method was, 0:18:06.961 --> 0:18:10.481 especially the intuitive manifesting of it all. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:11.400 You know, when you're. 0:18:11.241 --> 0:18:16.880 Sitting down, like teaching other people how to manifest intuitively, 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:18.640 like how do you teach that? 0:18:18.761 --> 0:18:20.241 What sort of like the method? 0:18:20.281 --> 0:18:23.521 What do you think was the thing that made you 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.441 go everything else? 0:18:25.481 --> 0:18:26.160 I was trying? 0:18:26.241 --> 0:18:28.521 This is what I was sort of missing amongst the 0:18:28.561 --> 0:18:31.761 manifest because we hear people talk about manifestation all the time, 0:18:32.281 --> 0:18:35.281 you know so, and sometimes like I know, for me, 0:18:35.360 --> 0:18:39.840 I've done the written the lists, I've like imagined sitting 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.721 in the car, the car that I want, and all 0:18:42.761 --> 0:18:45.001 of that kind of thing, and like getting in deep 0:18:45.041 --> 0:18:48.400 and figuring out what it is that all of that crap, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.521 And I still feel like, even for me personally, there's 0:18:52.561 --> 0:18:55.401 an element where I feel like I'm just stopping myself 0:18:55.441 --> 0:18:57.880 with so much, which is why I'm so interested to 0:18:57.921 --> 0:19:03.120 hear about like the intuitive manifesting and like you've created 0:19:03.120 --> 0:19:06.321 a business based off I guess for someone like me 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.561 who's in a similar industry. And I think often when 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.880 you are working in like a spiritual space or a 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.321 space where you're helping others, there's almost just like this 0:19:17.441 --> 0:19:21.721 degree of wanting to help. More Over, wanting to sort 0:19:21.761 --> 0:19:26.761 of like that balance of accepting money and you know, success, 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.120 Like how do you sort of navigate all of that? 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.801 Yeah? Awesome. I think there's two really juicy topics in there, 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.561 and I'd love to give both some energy. And one is, 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.160 you know, how do you kind of operate as a 0:19:39.201 --> 0:19:43.200 spiritual entrepreneur? And will jump into that, but first I 0:19:43.201 --> 0:19:45.640 want to just, yeah, connect with the whole idea of 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:50.160 intuitive manifesting and like what is different about that? So 0:19:51.041 --> 0:19:54.321 when I started my business, you know, I'd come out 0:19:54.360 --> 0:19:58.200 of fifteen years in corporate I had Also I'm a 0:19:58.241 --> 0:20:03.241 master's degree in HR, so I've studied at university too long, 0:20:03.481 --> 0:20:07.200 too long to have nightmares to I finished my degree 0:20:07.241 --> 0:20:14.521 and I had to go back that after no. Yeah, 0:20:14.561 --> 0:20:17.840 but so you know, I've been academically trained, and I 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.321 think what happens out of that is that you, like 0:20:21.681 --> 0:20:24.121 I was trained to see things in such a linear way. 0:20:24.321 --> 0:20:26.160 If you want something, you set a goal, you do 0:20:26.201 --> 0:20:28.761 your smart goals, You make a plan, you follow that 0:20:28.801 --> 0:20:31.361 plan until you've hit your goal. And I think that 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.801 to some extent that is successful and it has worked 0:20:34.801 --> 0:20:37.041 for me. But I got to a point where I 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:40.801 was like there's only so much that this linear approach 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.681 can do. And what I started to see, particularly as 0:20:45.681 --> 0:20:48.721 I was reading more and more with the Tarot cards, 0:20:49.360 --> 0:20:53.001 is that our intuition actually has a huge role in 0:20:53.360 --> 0:20:56.441 how we manifest things, and our energy and our connection 0:20:56.561 --> 0:21:00.561 to things really influences how we manifest and how we 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.720 create our goals. So when it comes to things like 0:21:03.801 --> 0:21:07.920 intuitive manifested, for me, it's really about taking those fundamental 0:21:07.961 --> 0:21:11.880 principles of manifesting, which is stuff like you know, having 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.521 a clear vision of what you want, then becoming like 0:21:15.561 --> 0:21:19.281 an energetic match to that, taking aligned action, and then 0:21:19.321 --> 0:21:23.321 amplifying success through you know, celebrating success in someone. But 0:21:23.561 --> 0:21:26.561 there's this missing layer that we often forget, and that 0:21:26.721 --> 0:21:30.640 is this intuition layer that creates more of this alignment 0:21:30.801 --> 0:21:34.641 to what our true goals and our desires are. So 0:21:35.001 --> 0:21:37.241 even if you jump back into that first space of 0:21:37.321 --> 0:21:40.400 like clarifying what it is that you want, the layer 0:21:40.441 --> 0:21:44.480 that I'm adding is like, set your goals, but set 0:21:44.561 --> 0:21:47.201 the goals that are in alignment with your highest potential. 0:21:47.721 --> 0:21:50.360 How this works is you can use your trusty Tarot 0:21:50.441 --> 0:21:53.161 cards and you go, Okay, if I think my goal, 0:21:53.241 --> 0:21:55.601 let's say, for my business. I think my goal is 0:21:55.761 --> 0:22:00.921 to hit half a million dollars in revenue this year. 0:22:01.041 --> 0:22:03.241