1 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:34,160 Speaker 1: Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it 2 00:00:36,720 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: now release slowly again, deep in helle hold release, repeating 3 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I 4 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: am deeply, deeply well. I I am deeply well. I 5 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: am deeply wow. I'm Debbie Brown and this is the 6 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 1: Deeply Well Podcast. Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place 7 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: to land, a podcast for those that are curious and 8 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: creative and ready to expand in higher consciousness and self care. 9 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: I'm Debbie Brown. This is where we heal, this is 10 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: where we become. Welcome back to the show. So as 11 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: I have just set everything up actually in my office 12 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: to record this episode, I'm getting ready to head out 13 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: to the Black Effect Podcast Festival, and I'm so looking 14 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: forward to it. It's going down in Atlanta, of course, 15 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: the twenty seventh of April, and I think depending on 16 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: when you hear this episode, there are still some tickets left. 17 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: It looks amazing. It's happening at Pullman Yards and I 18 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: had a chance to spend a lot of time in 19 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: Pullman Yards. Actually a couple of years ago. I was 20 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: teaching wellness to Ote, which is this incredible organization for 21 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: star basketball players before they joined the league, and we 22 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: did some really cool stuff in Atlanta a few years ago. 23 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:45,679 Speaker 1: So I'm excited to get back out there. Anytime I 24 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: get to Atlanta, I get to head out there, it 25 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: is such a treat and some of my besties are 26 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: out there, so I'm gonna have a great time. And 27 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: I will be at the podcast Festival and I will 28 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: be doing a live podcast recording of Deeply Well, and 29 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: I'm really excited to share my two special guests with 30 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: you and really take a bite out of this conversation 31 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: that we'll be having there. So if you listen to 32 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: the show, if you are going to be there in Atlanta, 33 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: and shout out. We just gave out some tickets actually 34 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: on the Instagram, So if you're going to be in Atlanta, 35 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: please if you see me, stop me. I would love 36 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: to just spend time with everyone that connects to the 37 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,239 Speaker 1: show and talk and catch up and you know, hear 38 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,679 Speaker 1: what you're resonating with and hear how your work has 39 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: been going. You know, my show is a companion for 40 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: the work you are doing on yourself and your own 41 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: spirit and your own soul. So and that is such 42 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: a privilege for me. So I would love to hear 43 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: from you a person if you head to the podcast festival. 44 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: Black Effect Network is just wow. My brother Charlemagne, to 45 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: say he blows me away would be such an understatement. 46 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: He has been such a dear, close friend of mine 47 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: for almost twenty years, which was insane to say. And 48 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: he just is always not just growing the empire, which 49 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: I think is so obvious and so special and so powerful, 50 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: but I've never met someone in this industry that goes 51 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: out of their way to recognize, to help, to uplift, 52 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: to expand all the people around him every single chance 53 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: he gets. And I've had the chance to be able 54 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: to witness him consistently for twenty years, and at every 55 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: juncture of the journey, even the juncture of him that was, 56 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: you know, saying things that were a bit more wild, 57 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: at every juncture of the way, when it came to 58 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: his heart, when it came to the way that he 59 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: shows up for people, when it came to his vision 60 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: and his commitment to people to doing good, it just 61 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: it's never waver It's who he's always been and it's 62 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: what he does so well. So it's just so special 63 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: to be a part of this network and to see 64 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: it grow and to head to the second annual Podcast Festival. 65 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: It's massive, It's massive. Nobody does podcasting like Charlemagne and 66 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: the Black Effect Network, so such a privilege to be here. 67 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: Is so happy to be here and again cannot wait 68 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: to head to Atlanta. All Right, this episode, I want 69 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: to check in about Joy in real time, and also 70 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: at the end of the episode, I'm going to have 71 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: a chance to answer some of the questions that came 72 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: through on my Instagram from just a few weeks ago. 73 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: First thing I want to call out before I dive 74 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: into the joy of the moment is I want to 75 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: shout out some of the recent episodes we've done, because 76 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: I've had a chance to get quite a bit of 77 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: feedback coming through and gotten some emails and gotten some 78 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: dms and some comments, and it is it's I am 79 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 1: just loving the way that some of these conversations are 80 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: resonating with those who have shared their hearts and their 81 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: reflections on it. We've had a chance to go really 82 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: deep in the last few months. We had some amazing 83 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: episodes like Shaka singor that episode Oh my God, just 84 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 1: so so powerful, and I'm I'm just so in awe 85 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 1: of his pathway to enlightenment and his pathway to healing 86 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: and the way he moves through the world. Now, so 87 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: if you haven't caught up on that episode, highly recommend it. 88 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: Shaka singor also Minage Diis. Oh wow, that episode. I mean, 89 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 1: especially for those that are in the wellness industry, wellness 90 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: industry adjacent, or are finding their way to the wellness 91 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: industry as a business. I just felt like that episode 92 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: took it to places I have been wanting to go 93 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: with someone else. So I'm so glad we just got 94 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 1: to kind of dive into that. And you know, everyone 95 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: is different, and we all have different philosophies, we surely 96 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: all have different motivations. But I'm just a believer it's 97 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: okay to be counterculture, you know. It's I remember I 98 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: have this professor in college. I was taking I believe 99 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: it was pas African American Cinema and he pulled up 100 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies ever, which is Malcolm X 101 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 1: Spike Lee Denzel, and I remember I can't remember what 102 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: it was, but he had some kind of criticism for it, 103 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: and I was just so offended. And he said to me, 104 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: you know, Debbie, a sign of really valuing something is 105 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: the ability to criticize it everything. There should be space 106 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: to criticize absolutely everything, and you know that's part of 107 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: what creation is. That's part of loving something. You know, 108 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: it's holding a mirror to it. So I love how 109 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: that episode went down. If you haven't checked it out yet, 110 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: please do. And I also check out my dear friend 111 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: Minage on the open app leading meditation and if you're 112 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: in person, heading to Venice to pop into a class. Also, 113 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: the episode that we did a few weeks ago was 114 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: Saudi Simone, whose new book is out Spiritually Wee an 115 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: incredible teacher of spiritual work and an incredible master of 116 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: somatics saw and I went so deep about grief and 117 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: some of the things that I was reading back just 118 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: I'm just so grateful that episode on grief found whoever 119 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: it did in whatever line timing that it did. Grief 120 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: is hard. Grief is hard, and it's a guaranteed experience 121 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: that everyone will face, and some face much more often 122 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,959 Speaker 1: than others. And finding ways to be with that feeling, 123 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: to be with that sensation, and finding ways to transmute 124 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: that experience in your body and in the world, it's 125 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: just some of the most honorable dignified, graceful work you 126 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: will ever do. I've said something pretty consistently to people 127 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: in my life over the years, which is, you know, 128 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: I'm really the kind of person who I say this 129 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: really gratefully. When things happen, I'll just take off running 130 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,959 Speaker 1: to the darkness. I'll run straight into whatever it is 131 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: that's present. And I'm grateful for that ability and what 132 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: has been very often painful practice and being able to 133 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: kind of work that muscle, because by running to your 134 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: own darkness you have the opportunity to free yourself so quickly, 135 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 1: and the courage that you build in yourself for having 136 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: done it, you'll wear like a cloak for their of 137 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: your life. So I don't know who that message is for, 138 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: but whoever resonates, So check out that episode Saudi Simone. 139 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: And then most recently, we have my girlfriend Denise Hamilton On, 140 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: author of the new book Indivisible and an absolutely brilliant, brilliant, 141 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: brilliant woman, so honored to call her friend, and her 142 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: work is just special and it's different, and she has 143 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: her fingers on the pulse in a way that is 144 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: so evolutionary for so many industries. So I highly recommend 145 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: everybody go and check that episode out, all right, I 146 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: want to. I want to check in something that I 147 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: am definitely committing to doing a lot more as we 148 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: get ready to kind of sunset this season and gear 149 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,000 Speaker 1: up for next season, and really as I'm in the 150 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: throes of completing my second book, which I cannot wait 151 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: to get into your hands, And if you want to 152 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: sign up for the newsletter so that you can get 153 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: all the information on some of the activations I'll be 154 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: doing with the book and the pre orders when that 155 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: gets going, you can have to my website, Debbie Brown 156 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: dot com and if you just click in the top 157 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: tab ord says book, you can sign up right there, 158 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: And so we have some information going out. They're really 159 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: excited to share that work with everyone. And something I've 160 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: just committed to is now that I feel a little 161 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: more rooted in my creations and creativities, and I think 162 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: I've really found the right flow for my work and 163 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: my teaching and my business, and now that I officially 164 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: have a little boy who's graduating from kindergarten, oh my god, 165 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: turning six, I'm really committed to sharing more depth of 166 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: my processes and the ways that I kind of moved 167 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: through the world on a daily basis. I know that's 168 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: the piece, especially on the journey, that's just so important 169 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: to find because we don't want to walk around these 170 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: like gaping wounds that are constantly oozing and also healing, 171 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: you know, we don't want to be always tending to 172 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:15,559 Speaker 1: the wounds. It's we got to get out there and 173 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 1: we got to practice, and very often we've got to 174 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: practice our joy, and we got to practice our new 175 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: ways of communicating, our new styles of holding energy, our 176 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: new ability to stretch, our capacity for discomfort in the moment, 177 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: and a lot of that is found in the small, tiny, tenny, tenny, 178 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 1: daily rituals of our lives. It's found in the small moments. 179 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: It's found in the small breath that goes into our crevices. 180 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: And so it is really important sometimes to talk about 181 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: the subtle nuance of the day and how one navigates it. 182 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: So I'm committed to doing more of that. And what 183 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: I wanted to share is some joy in real time. 184 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: So if you have been connecting with the pod in 185 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: some of my work since maybe twenty nineteen, I something 186 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: I started doing and went so hard with and taught 187 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: a bunch about in the pandemic is this concept that 188 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: evolved in my life of what I call tiny joy 189 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: for those that are on the tiktoks and all the 190 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: things you might have heard, another term that pretty much 191 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: encapsulates very very similar ways and technique of a glimmer, 192 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: which is the opposite of a trigger. I love how 193 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: that was shared, the way that I experience it, and 194 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: the way that I grew it in my body. I 195 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: referred to it as tiny joy, where I was finding 196 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: moments throughout the day and my life that were more 197 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: ordinary and small to find ways to connect to and 198 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: really savor and find joy in. And it's really radically 199 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: changed my life. It's changed everything about my life, changed 200 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: the way I relate to myself, to other people, to purpose, 201 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: to validation. When you can find ways to fuel yourself 202 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: even in the most minute moments, like in the most 203 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: micro microways, you really become such a force within yourself. 204 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: You become this really kind of beautifully polished I don't 205 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: know where I'm going to go with this. I'm trying 206 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: to think you become this creature that's entirely different, and 207 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: you really connect to this ability to transmute grief and 208 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: pain in bigger ways and in faster ways, and you 209 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 1: find this ability within yourself to really cultivate a deep, 210 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: deep sense of authenticity, a deep, deep compassion for yourself, 211 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: for the world around you, and also to really amplify 212 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 1: the access you have to pleasure in your life. And 213 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: something I share here quite often is, you know life 214 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: is going to be hard. It is. Life is going 215 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: to be challenging. It is. Life is going to twist 216 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: the plot over and over and over again in so 217 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: many different ways. And you know, not to say that 218 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 1: some of those ways aren't also for your highest good, 219 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: but it's a lot. Being alive is a lot, and 220 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: depending on your lived experience, and then also caring forward 221 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: to all the things that unfold in this place we live, 222 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: this earth, it's just guaranteed that we're always going to 223 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: be feeling the full spectrum of human emotion while we're here, 224 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: and so connecting to joy, but most especially connecting to 225 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: it in the subtle ways and the ordinary ways, in 226 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: the easy, free ways, not just these grandiose, grand ways, 227 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: these declarative ways, you can really become not just unstoppable, 228 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: but absolutely delighted by your life. So in the pandemic, 229 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: I used to One of the things I used to 230 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: do is just go look at flowers. I started growing 231 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: my garden in the pandemic, and it's very modest and 232 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: now it's glorious. But I would go stare at flowers 233 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: and make myself smile. I would stare at the sun. 234 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: I would feel the warmth of the sun on my cheek. 235 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: I would close my eyes in the sun and I 236 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: would notice the glow of orange behind my eyelids, and 237 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: all of it became so big for me and so magnificent. 238 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: It allowed me to find joy and stability in all 239 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: the moments, in all the moments, in every moment, and 240 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: it really just enhanced the feeling of romance in every 241 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: sector of my life. The connection to beauty, the gratitude 242 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 1: for God, gratitude for nature, the gratitude for the divine 243 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: design and all of the universe and inside of me. 244 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: So ways that I have really been expanding in that is, 245 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: you know, first, now that we're out of the pandemic, 246 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:53,400 Speaker 1: I can be back in these streets, I can be outside. 247 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: And so this year, a commitment I made to myself, 248 00:17:57,520 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: because I've been kind of going like crazy for the 249 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: last few years, was to really find more time to 250 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,879 Speaker 1: socialize and more time to do fun things and really 251 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: make it a priority. I can get so wrapped up 252 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: in my work, in my purpose work, and just so 253 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: completely wrapped up in my delicious, yummy child that I'm 254 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: just happy to be in those parts of my life. 255 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: But then I got to look up and say, no, 256 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: I want to see my people. I want to have 257 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:35,400 Speaker 1: some more new experiences. So that was my commitment since January. 258 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: So I want to share some of the things that 259 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: I've done and some of the beauty in it. And 260 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 1: if you have any of these stories of your own 261 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: in the last couple of months, I would love to 262 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: hear them shared. And hopefully if you hadn't had haven't 263 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 1: had a chance to do this, then maybe something will 264 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 1: pop out to you. Okay. So one of the first 265 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 1: things that I did in the recent past was I 266 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: had this credible opportunity to work with this organization called 267 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: Leading Women Defined for the second time. And Leading Women 268 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: Defined is this foundation that was founded by the great 269 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: Deborah Lee, who used to run all of b ET 270 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: of course, and just revolutionized the way our culture moves 271 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 1: in the world and revolutionized oh my gosh, so so 272 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: many things within music, within TV, within Black culture, within 273 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: world culture, within you know, so many ways that we 274 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: have been able to show up in the world, and 275 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: this event is pristine. It is just one of the 276 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: most special things I've ever been to, and I think 277 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: in this kind of culture, especially over the last decade 278 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: of you know, women's brunches and you know sometimes what 279 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: can very much feel like formative sisterhood community. I came 280 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: here to this incredible event which went over the course 281 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 1: of about four days and was filled with really fascinating 282 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: lectures and talks and music and activities and insanely delicious 283 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: food and so much special stuff. I witnessed something there 284 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: that was so deeply authentic that it just struck me 285 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: in the core of my heart. The way these amazing 286 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: women from all over the world, who were all leaders 287 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: of various industries, the way they really love each other 288 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: and really show up for each other. It just took 289 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: my breath away, and it really kind of not just 290 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: was it inspiring, but it just gave me deep hope 291 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 1: for what long tenured friendships can be and how you 292 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: can navigate and be at the top of your game 293 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: but still be a soul led leader and have compassion 294 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:08,800 Speaker 1: in your heart and real genuine sisterhood that walks with 295 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: you through time. Really special and shout out to my 296 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: dear friend talitha walk in so I had the chance 297 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: to catch up with their deeply. Well, that was one 298 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 1: thing that I loved and was really inspired by another thing, 299 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: and I shared this on an episode. A couple of 300 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: months ago, I had gone up with one of my 301 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: best friends to San Francisco for like a quick day 302 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: and a half trip, and I had the chance to 303 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: see Andre three Thousand's New Blue Sun Live. I went 304 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: to two shows actually of it in San fran Well, 305 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: I had a chance to go to the one of 306 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: the final nights of the La show, which was at 307 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: this incredible exhibit called Luna Luna. I'm sure some of 308 00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: you have heard of this, but it was you know, 309 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: there was all of this carnival, all of these carnival 310 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: rides and carnival equipment back in the eighties that someone 311 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: had gathered the artistic greats of the time, so Basquiat, 312 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: Keith Haring. I'm sorry I'm forgetting some of the names 313 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 1: right now, but a lot of people, and I believe 314 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: Andy Warhol too, and they all designed a different piece 315 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: of the carnival, and apparently at some point it never 316 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: really got shown or used, and it ended up in 317 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 1: some kind of a container storage facility for over thirty 318 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: years and it's in like perfect pristine condition. And apparently 319 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: Drake and some other people found it the sword is 320 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 1: getting out of control and set up this kind of 321 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: tour that it's going to be doing. But they started 322 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: in La with this incredible art installation in downtown La, 323 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: this huge warehouse, rooms and rooms and all of this 324 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: carnival equipment that was blessed with art by some of 325 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: the greats, and it was so fresh and untouched and 326 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: so it add an energy to it. It was special. 327 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,439 Speaker 1: It was so activating to my inner child, and it 328 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 1: was so it was God the joy, I mean walking 329 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 1: through that place. And not only was it like the 330 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: fun of this kind of carnival spirit, but you also 331 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: feel the energy of some greats in their creation and 332 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: their artistry. And then you have the Goat. You have 333 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: Andre three thousand and this just monumental body of work 334 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: that he's created with New Blue Sun, and he's performing 335 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 1: it intuitively in front of this room and with a 336 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: live band and shoutout Carlos Nino. It was mind blowing. 337 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: It was a mindbnder. It was a mindbnder. So I 338 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 1: did that, and I did that with a group of friends, 339 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: and Yeah, that fed my inner child so beautifully. Another 340 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: thing that I did that really inspired me in the 341 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 1: last maybe two months was the amazing, amazingly brilliant, beautiful 342 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: anointed Rachel Cargel had an event in la and it 343 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: was for her foundation, the Loveland Foundation. It was such 344 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 1: a beautiful luncheon and I got to learn so much 345 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 1: about this work that she has been building in the 346 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: world for mental health, and it was so inspiring and 347 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: so impressive, and the things that the access to free 348 00:24:54,680 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 1: therapy and not just like a session, but it's a 349 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: real change that she's giving people a community that needs 350 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: it and deserves it, and they don't have to quantify 351 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: their pain, right, you don't have to write in with 352 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: these tragic stories. You just apply and in that process, 353 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: you're not just given one free therapy session with a therapist. 354 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: Because something Rachel shared at this luncheon and her team, 355 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: who's magnificent, they shared that someone would need twelve consecutive 356 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 1: therapy sessions to really be able to have the shifts 357 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,919 Speaker 1: and especially the shifts in their choice making and the 358 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: way they relate to the things that they've experienced. To 359 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: really see that change and to have, you know, a 360 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: sizable amount of relief from suffering. She's supplying people with 361 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: twelve free therapy sessions, and she's created this community of therapists, 362 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: and she is also getting therapy for the therapists and 363 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 1: the psychologists that are doing the work. And it's just 364 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: like it's done with such an incredible amount of integrity 365 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: and I'm just blown away. So if you feel led, 366 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: if you feel called, please take a moment to look 367 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 1: up Rachel Cargo's Loveland Foundation and if you feel so led, 368 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: and if therapy has meant something to you or another 369 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,239 Speaker 1: service and mental health and you're able, consider paying it 370 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: forward and helping someone else have the opportunity to have 371 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: meaningful change in their life. It's really special what she's doing. 372 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 1: I also, I'm now looking at I'm like, oh, she 373 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: get a lot of joy. So one of my best 374 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,400 Speaker 1: friends had a big birthday and had a trip plan 375 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: to go to Vegas and she invited me and got 376 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: me a ticket to the Mariah Carey opening night at 377 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: Park MGM. So Park MGM in Las Vegas. That's the 378 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: same place that ushered it his residency where Lady Gaga 379 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: has done her residency, Madonna as well, and now the 380 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 1: Great Mariah Carey is doing a multiple part residency there. 381 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: I believe it's going in the spring and then she's 382 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: going to stop and restart it in the summer. But 383 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 1: it was the entire emancipation of Mimi album, Oh my God. 384 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: And it was the tour itself is called the Celebration 385 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 1: of Mimi, and she spent the first hour going over 386 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: like all the classics, and then the second hour and 387 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 1: a half. It was the entire emancipation of Mimi album, 388 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: which for me came out when I was in I 389 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: think I was a freshman in college, and the way 390 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: I used to play that album in my green Forest 391 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 1: Green mazdas six two six, Oh my God. I was 392 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: really When it comes to Mariah, something that was really 393 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: striking to me is I think so many of us. 394 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, she is a living legend. I mean, 395 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 1: let's just hold that for a second. She's a living 396 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: legend with a once in a lifetime voice. I feel 397 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: like she's been so much a part of my life 398 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 1: and even so much a part of pop culture that 399 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: the legendary nature of her songwriting and her singing and 400 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,919 Speaker 1: her presence kind of gets overshadowed. Like it's almost like 401 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: you take this miraculous thing as something that you know, 402 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: you're just used to having in your life, and so 403 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: being able to go to that show. And we started 404 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: off by having dinner at this amazing restaurant in Vegas 405 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: called Best Friends, which is Chef roy Choi's latest restaurant, 406 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,800 Speaker 1: and it's in the park MGM. They also have it Italy. 407 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: It was I had a time listen, listen, I hate Feticini, 408 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: Like on my way to the plane. It was great. 409 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: But we have this great dinner at this at his 410 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: restaurant that styled as a bodega and it plays nothing 411 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: but early aughts music. And then we went to the 412 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: Mariah Carey show and I was just brought to tears 413 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: so many times by the healing power of her voice 414 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: and just how rare and exquisite her gifts and talents 415 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 1: are and how much of a master she is. And 416 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: obviously that goes without saying, right, but I'm just in 417 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: awe of it, Like just the mastery of her understanding 418 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: of music, her creation. You know, Mariah Carey writes all 419 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: her songs and at minimum co writes them. She produces 420 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:57,239 Speaker 1: the majority of her records, especially the majority of her 421 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: Number ones, which she has an entire album dedicated to. 422 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: So it's just I think sometimes when you're so great 423 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: and when you look so shiny, people don't see how 424 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: much work you put into what you do because you're 425 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 1: just seen as a natural or seen as having it easily. 426 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: But she is magnificent. She is just magnificent. She is 427 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: her work ethic is out of this world. And the 428 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: ways that she hears music and writes to it and 429 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: produces it, and like, make no mistake, she created like 430 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 1: an entire culture of music just because of her remixes 431 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 1: in the nineties, Like she was really the first to 432 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: successfully merge like real singing and hip hop. You know, 433 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 1: she was creating all these different categories. Like first she 434 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: was like American contemporary music, then are and be she's 435 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,959 Speaker 1: classically trained. Like it's just it's too much epic, epic life. 436 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: And when I think about someone like Mariah, you know, 437 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: she had her memoir come out a few years ago, 438 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: and it's so heavy. She's gone through so much, and 439 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 1: again it's almost like she has this cloak of invisibility 440 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: because she's so talented and beautiful that it's just like, yeah, you'll, 441 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 1: you know, you'll get past that. But she's been through 442 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: some incredibly traumatic experiences. In no way can I diagnose her, 443 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 1: but some of the things that I read it would 444 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: just lead you to to assume that the person who 445 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: had been through all of those things probably has CPTSD 446 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: and PTSD and so to still create it such a 447 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: magnificent level while also having had some of the deep 448 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: rooted core that she had in her childhood. I just 449 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: have immense respect for her and gratitude for her transmuting 450 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: that pain into beauty. Go see that show if you 451 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: get a chance. Ugh ah me and me, I love 452 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: you all right. Another thing that the final thing I 453 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: think I'll share, well, I might have one more final 454 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: and a half is I announced this on social media. 455 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: And for those that in the past few years have 456 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 1: seen the Women who Heal retreat happen at the Omega 457 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: Institute for Holistic Studies in ryan Beck, New York. The 458 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: amazing Queen of Flu and I my dear sister, have 459 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: had this retreat going for a couple of years there. 460 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 1: It's been really special, that place that I love so much, 461 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: that it's been such an honor to bring so many 462 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,959 Speaker 1: women to I was asked to join the board of directors, 463 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 1: and I'm so proud to share that I going the 464 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,640 Speaker 1: board of the Omega Institute and that I'm so excited 465 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 1: about what we're building right now. I'm working on some 466 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four a little bit, but mostly twenty 467 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: twenty five, and I'm just so excited to share more 468 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: of that with you. And if you get a chance 469 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: and you're just in a place of seeking or in 470 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: a place of looking to do your refinements at your pace, 471 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: you have a certain amount of self knowledge and self awareness. 472 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 1: Omega is just really really potent with wisdom and healing, 473 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: and it's a special place to visit. It sits on 474 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty acres in upstate New York. They 475 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: teach hundreds of courses there every year when they're in season, 476 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: and it's a place that you can go for incredibly 477 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:58,320 Speaker 1: equitable pricing and stay for a weekend retreat which is 478 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: like three days, or a week retreat which there five. 479 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 1: There's three meals there. You have a comfortable bed, a 480 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: cabin and the grounds, and you can go there to learn, 481 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 1: to grow, to heal, to release, to study, to be 482 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 1: in spiritual study, which is just such a yummy, yummy, 483 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: yummy flow to be in. So I'm really proud of 484 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 1: that and really excited to continue to share all the 485 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: evolution of that and some of the great works that 486 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: we're going to be continuing to pour out into the world. 487 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: My final joy, and this is really a tiny, big 488 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:38,319 Speaker 1: joy for me, is my son is graduating kindergarten and 489 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: he had his spring break. This year in kindergarten has 490 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,320 Speaker 1: been really special. I'm so proud of him. God with 491 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:50,240 Speaker 1: a kid, God, what a kid. I am so lucky 492 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,279 Speaker 1: and so blessed to be his mother. It's unreal. Sometimes 493 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: the kindergarten, for lot of reasons, was kind of challenging. 494 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,399 Speaker 1: There were just a lot of in this moment, I'll 495 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,200 Speaker 1: say things that happened, and I hope I get a 496 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 1: chance to talk to them a bit more. But there 497 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: was a lot that happened that changed the flow. And 498 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: you know, I think as a parent, when you're getting 499 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,239 Speaker 1: ready to get your kid more into the world and 500 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,360 Speaker 1: into school, you know, you just want it all to 501 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: be right, You want it all to go smoothly, You 502 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: want it all to be safe and special. And you 503 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: know in life, life is crazy. So many of us 504 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 1: had our babies in the pandemic or you know, those 505 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,400 Speaker 1: those early years were all the effects of all the things. AnyWho, 506 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,880 Speaker 1: I've been gearing up to have him in his step 507 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: up ceremony which is coming, and thinking about summer, and 508 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 1: I've really just been relishing the time I have with 509 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 1: him as he's rounding the base from five to turning six, 510 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: and just like the sweetness of it, with the full 511 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 1: understanding of how fast it's all going in real time 512 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: and how different he is every day. So something I 513 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,799 Speaker 1: was noticing. He had his spring break recently, and so 514 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 1: I did a staycation for it, and I just we 515 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,920 Speaker 1: went to I live in the LA area, and we 516 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,520 Speaker 1: went to every museum in LA So every day we 517 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 1: went to a different museum, and we went to the 518 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,359 Speaker 1: La Zoo. It was every day I'd find like an 519 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: attraction and a lot of ways in attraction from my 520 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,359 Speaker 1: own childhood, which was kind of cool to see things 521 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,319 Speaker 1: through his eyes. And then a few of the new 522 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,799 Speaker 1: museums that have opened in La and it was just 523 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:45,720 Speaker 1: special riding through the city with my boy and seeing art. 524 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,360 Speaker 1: And one of the places that we went is the 525 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,080 Speaker 1: Broad Museum, which is in downtown LA and they have 526 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,759 Speaker 1: this amazing Kusama exhibit, and my son and I are 527 00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: both obsessed with Yayoi Kusama. It was special. And as 528 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 1: we left, it was just such a shiny day. He 529 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,320 Speaker 1: was so happy, and I looked down at his face 530 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,399 Speaker 1: and our faces were like really close together, like our 531 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,200 Speaker 1: noses almost touching, and I just started to see all 532 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: these little emerging freckles on that face, like the little 533 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 1: cheeks and the little bridge of his nose had all 534 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: these little, teeny tiny, little sweet bronze freckles, and it 535 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:33,319 Speaker 1: was just yummy. It was just special to see and 536 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 1: getting a peek at you know, who he's becoming and 537 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: who he's becoming physically, and what will he look like 538 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,920 Speaker 1: and who will he be? And I'm just a mama 539 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,759 Speaker 1: safer in all the moments as we slowly make our 540 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 1: way to summer. All right, those are my joys in 541 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:55,200 Speaker 1: real time and some of my tiny joys. And I 542 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 1: hope you'll check out some of those recent episodes. And 543 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 1: actually that final thing answered one of the questions that 544 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 1: I was gonna read at the end of the episode. 545 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,120 Speaker 1: So I got a question from on Instagram from at 546 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:14,120 Speaker 1: MJ Campbell, and her question or statement is would love 547 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 1: to hear more about your current journey with motherhood. So 548 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:20,239 Speaker 1: that was part of my answer, and I'll also just 549 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,959 Speaker 1: say my journey in motherhood right now is really being 550 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 1: still and present enough to let his inner guidance guide us. 551 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: So I've really been in practice with not trying to 552 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,960 Speaker 1: fill all the space with talking and with doing and 553 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 1: with asking questions and you know, all the things that 554 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,080 Speaker 1: I come up with in parent mode or you know, 555 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 1: the things that I think are important for childhood, and 556 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 1: I'm really trying to sink us back into a more natural, 557 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:55,080 Speaker 1: slower pace of life that isn't so charged and stimulated. 558 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,239 Speaker 1: Something I've already shared is that, for one, like, we 559 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,960 Speaker 1: don't have any TVs in the bedrooms and we don't 560 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,799 Speaker 1: really watch TV in my house. And I also got 561 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: a landline phone so that I don't have to be 562 00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,279 Speaker 1: present with my cell phone, so we will just hear 563 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 1: a random ring. And then I put some clocks up 564 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:14,919 Speaker 1: in the house, so I also don't have to be 565 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,040 Speaker 1: present with my phone and so just slowing time down 566 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:23,560 Speaker 1: a little bit has been really special and just being 567 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:28,440 Speaker 1: really connected to each other, whether that's through cuddling or 568 00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:34,240 Speaker 1: eye contact or just you know, kind of being present, 569 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,120 Speaker 1: you know, in the same space doing things. I've just 570 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 1: tried to be really really grounded and rooted and create 571 00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: more space for his spontaneity to come forward and his 572 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,879 Speaker 1: you know, his internal compass, his creativity, his thoughts, the 573 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,799 Speaker 1: you know, the things that come to him naturally. And 574 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:56,359 Speaker 1: it's just been teaching me so much about the way 575 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,160 Speaker 1: that he thinks and the way that he sees the world. 576 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,000 Speaker 1: And it's been really cool, and it's just made me 577 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,840 Speaker 1: really proud. It's been so special to kind of sink 578 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,360 Speaker 1: into a little more slowness and a little more boredom 579 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,799 Speaker 1: with him. Our new favorite thing to do before it's 580 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,320 Speaker 1: like lights out. His bedtime is about seven seven thirty. 581 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,080 Speaker 1: He got to get all the hours of sleep, baby, 582 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,719 Speaker 1: We got to nourish that brain, give that body the 583 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,080 Speaker 1: rest it deserves. But it's still pretty light out, and 584 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:30,120 Speaker 1: so like we'll just go sit right before bed outside 585 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: on the patio and sit in the quiet and listen 586 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: to wind chimes and listen to the sounds of birds 587 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,560 Speaker 1: kind of ending their day, and we've both just fallen 588 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 1: in love with that moment. So it's been really sweet. 589 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,000 Speaker 1: He's always like, mom, come on, let's go sit. Let's 590 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,279 Speaker 1: go sit in our spot's time. Then we just like 591 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: close our eyes and listen to the sounds and let 592 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,279 Speaker 1: ourselves get grounded and let that nervous system get regulated 593 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,200 Speaker 1: and then climb into that bed. So that is my 594 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,120 Speaker 1: journey in this moment. There's also you know, challenging days, 595 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,279 Speaker 1: because that's what all of this is. But it's been 596 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,880 Speaker 1: really inventive. I feel it's been very creative lately with 597 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,960 Speaker 1: my little ones, so very grateful for that. All Right, 598 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,280 Speaker 1: I am headed out to Atlanta to the Black Effect 599 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:24,880 Speaker 1: Podcast Festival. 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