1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to woke F Daily 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: with me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Long 3 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: Island Bunker. You know, I often say to you that 4 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: you need to take a break so that you do 5 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: not have a breakdown. And with all of the compacted 6 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: crises that we are dealing with at this time and 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: making the march to midterms, there never seems like the 8 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: right time to take a break. But I say that 9 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: you have to make that time. And so for me, 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: dear friends here on woke a F, I am going 11 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: to be taking a much needed vacation so that I 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: can rest and recharge as we head into what I 13 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: believe is going to be one of the craziest falls 14 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: we've ever seen. I have left you with eight amazing 15 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: episodes that we have recorded back in twenty twenty one 16 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: with some of the most thoughtful, engaging and insightful commentary 17 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: that looks at our politics, our spiritual nature, our emotional 18 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: well being, and a look inside frankly with some of 19 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: the guests that we are bringing to all of you. 20 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 1: These conversations have been heard by our amazing Patreon supporters 21 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:37,559 Speaker 1: who get video episodes every single day. Because of their 22 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: belief and financial support of woke F throughout the years, 23 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: and so I'm really excited to bring all of you 24 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: across all the platforms that you listen to woke F 25 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: daily on these episodes and these interviews that I think 26 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: will be enticing to all of you. They hit on 27 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: all of the major topics that we consistently discuss here 28 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: on woke F, from racism to gender inequality, to police 29 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: misconduct to wealth inequality, which my God, and the need 30 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: and the need and the need upmost for spiritual connection 31 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: and wellness practices that allow us to successfully maneuver all 32 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: of the things that have been thrown at us over 33 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: the past couple of years. And so, friends, while I 34 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: will be out from the show, I will not be 35 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: out of sight for the next several days, and so 36 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 1: you can continue to follow me on Instagram and on 37 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,799 Speaker 1: Twitter at D two Cents, D E two c E 38 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: n TF. Of course, I will be dropping in with 39 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: my two cents and you can check me out on TikTok, 40 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: where I'm sure certain that I will drop a few 41 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: videos in the next couple of days, and there you 42 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: can find me at Danielle Moody Underscore I hope that 43 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: you all enjoy these next fantastic episodes that we have. 44 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: Do drop your thoughts in the comments section, do hit 45 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: me up in the socials. Just don't draw my attention 46 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: to anything that is terrible because I'm taking a break 47 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 1: from the news. But dear friends, I really do hope 48 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 1: that you enjoy these next eight episodes and I will 49 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:25,399 Speaker 1: see you with brand new episodes after Labor Day. Hey, 50 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: I'm David Plots of Slates Political Gabfest. As another election 51 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: season accelerates, it can be tricky to sort through all 52 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: the noise and the news. 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Each week, The Bituation 62 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: Room brings you progressive comedians, experts, and activists to break 63 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 1: down the issues in a way that won't just leave 64 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: you crying under a weighted blanket. Get the Bituation Room 65 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and streaming on YouTube and Twitch. Folks, 66 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: I am just always so tickled and honored when I 67 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: get to have my friend, my big sisth Rissy kat 68 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: okay day and join woke app daily. She is the cone, 69 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: co owner of Black Magic Sisters and the co founder 70 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 1: of strobe Apothecary. Rissy. Yes, my dear love, how are you? 71 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: How have you been? It has been sometime, We've been 72 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: living in a time and there has been a lot 73 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: going on. So how how are you doing? So I 74 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 1: am and so let me say preface this by saying, 75 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: and I think because of the nature of this conversation 76 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: and the way I'm showing up today, transparency is absolutely important. 77 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: A very dear friend, the sister friend of mine, died 78 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: earlier in January January fifth, to the exact Simon Briziando, 79 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: and I'm in a grief fog. I am fighting very 80 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: hard to be present because my life has got a 81 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: lot going on, and so I have to be um 82 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: and at the same time, Yeah, it's been rough. Um. 83 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: And the last time we physically saw each other, it 84 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: just hit me was Valentine's Day twenty ninety nineteen. Yeah, no, 85 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. It was twenty twenty. It was twenty twenty. Yep, 86 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: it'll be a year right this month that we saw 87 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: each other. We had the most amazing Valentine's Day. It 88 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: was like, so we did, we did? I said, well, 89 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: I'll tell everybody so so I so I know. Uh, 90 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: just just so folks are aware, m RISCy and I 91 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: have been friends for god, uh, well, well over a decade. Yeah, 92 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 1: it's definitely well over a decade. And when I was 93 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: living in UH in Washington, d c. Uh is where 94 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: we solidified our our relationship, our friendship, our sisterhood. Uh. 95 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: And then since leaving RICI had so come to New 96 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: York uh last year. And this is like right before 97 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: COVID hit. Who knew at that time that that was 98 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 1: going to be that we wouldn't see each other again 99 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: in the flesh for for quite some time. Um. And 100 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: so it's just an unexpected It was one of those 101 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: days that you know is unexpected. Everything gets like canceled 102 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: or thrown off and then you're like, wait, what's happened? 103 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: And then you realize that the universe has made space 104 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: for terally literally make time, check in coffee fee you 105 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: and it turned into a whole magical friend date. It 106 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: was fantastic. Yeah, it was a good time. It was fantastic. 107 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: We did tarot, we eat lake candles. We we did 108 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: we we did that. But we drank. We drank wine. 109 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: I had the best lam ever. I think Lamb Shank 110 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: get that little confidence too. I was like, oh my god, 111 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: I like that. I like the way I'm living right now. 112 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: It was fantastic, it was It was a fantastic day. 113 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: Just a sense to say, you need to make room 114 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,559 Speaker 1: for the unexpected, and sometimes your plans get thrown off kilter, 115 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: and that is actually for the best because it is 116 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: being thrown off one path and a line in a 117 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: new way. Um. I'm so sorry to hear about the 118 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: loss of your friend. And I know that so many 119 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: of us have been dealing with so many different forms 120 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: of grief and have experienced a lot of loss uh 121 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: in in the past year and in the past um 122 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: several months, And that is something that I think a 123 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: lot of us are sharing and so UM, I appreciate 124 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: you so much making the time, UM, and the and 125 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: the space and the space to join us, because I 126 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: think that what you are doing with Black Magic Sisters 127 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: and with Strobe is something that is so intensely needed 128 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: at this moment. So, I mean, I want to start 129 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: with just what have you noticed over the past year, 130 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: Receive as we are moving through this multiple pandemics, right, 131 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: we're moving through and kind of trying to figure out 132 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: how to manifest ourselves but in this new normal space, 133 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: and so what have you found in terms of the 134 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: way that people are trying to connect and trying to 135 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: ground with themselves. So the big thing is that a 136 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: lot of people haven't been doing it, don't know how 137 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: to do it because our life, you know, pre COVID 138 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: was go go go, go, go go go. And so 139 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: while yeah, I make tea blends and you know, I 140 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: like candles, and you know, I'm do full Moon and 141 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: New Moon rituals, that was there was there was a 142 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: part of my life that was that was a very 143 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: small group of people that UM kind of operated in 144 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: that space naturally. And when the pandemic hit and folks 145 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: were forced to sort of sit still, you start to 146 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: actually have you start asking questions like well, what the 147 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: hell am I doing here? And why is this happening? 148 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: And in order to address like, you know, a lot 149 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: I had a lot of friends that I you know, 150 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: had to talk off the tree, I call it to 151 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:44,079 Speaker 1: prefer a real tree where I'm literally at the basis 152 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: tree like all right, come on, you can come down now, 153 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 1: Like no, and it's like no, but you can really 154 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: come down. It's okay. Um. What happens is that when 155 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: you were forced to sit with yourself, you were forced 156 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,680 Speaker 1: to face things. And what you find is that a 157 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: lot of us, myself included, had not been doing our 158 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,959 Speaker 1: due diligence when it came to our self preservation. And 159 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: I don't I don't like the term self care because 160 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: it can, you know, for a lot of people, visions 161 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: of spa days and getting your nails done and backrubs 162 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: come in. And that's not really what self care is about. 163 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: It really is asking you to preserve the self. And 164 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: that looks like you know, meditation for others. That looks 165 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: like you know, turning off Twitter for some. And we 166 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 1: initially are so wedded to our technology because that's the 167 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: only way for us to stay in touch that I 168 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: think a lot of people just went into overdrive. And 169 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 1: then at some point when you realize this was not 170 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: going to end quietly and quickly, and as more things 171 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: started to get canceled, you start to see people really 172 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: start delving in too, like you have to find some balance, 173 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: you have to figure out how your life is going 174 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: to look because you can't go outside and you can't 175 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: you know, socialize, and people start finding ways to manage. 176 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: But they also start to realize that in the sense 177 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: of constant motion, that their lives, if they allow it, 178 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: are actually more enriched in the staying still and sort 179 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: of not having there because part of the going going 180 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: on is the expectation that somebody's looking for you, or 181 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: the idea that you that's a that's proof of your hustle, 182 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: or proof that you're making moves because you're going, going, going. 183 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: For some it's a way to fill the void. And 184 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: so when all of that goes away and you're kind 185 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: of forced to sit, you start to really think deep 186 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: and ask questions, and there's only so much netflix benching 187 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: that you can do. There's only so much, you know, 188 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: you know, pandemic eating that you can do before you're like, okay, well, 189 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: what exactly what does my life look like now? And 190 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: I think a lot of us are finding that previous, 191 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: pre pandemic, we were doing a ship job of taking 192 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: care of ourselves. And now that you have no choice 193 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: because it's just you and your kids, or you and 194 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 1: your family or whoever's in your household, if you want 195 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 1: to be here when it's all said and done, then 196 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: self care, self preservation becomes a natural part of this. 197 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: And folks are finding that they actually like it. Like 198 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,079 Speaker 1: a lot of folks that I'm talking to, they're not 199 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: trying to go back to whatever was normal before. They 200 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: really want They like getting up and working from you know, 201 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: working from a place that is not the office. They like, 202 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 1: you know, taking their time, you know, they like the 203 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: idea of setting boundaries because COVID has taught us a 204 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: set boundary. So I'm not taking meetings after six pm, 205 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: or I'm not you know, taking meetings at eight o'clock 206 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 1: of the morning, or whatever it is that you're doing. 207 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: And people are like, yo, this way of living is 208 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: not ideal because we didn't expect it, but it's teaching 209 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: us all some things and one of the big lessons 210 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: is that the life, the way we were living before 211 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: was just it was insane. It was absolutely insane, and 212 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: that was considered normal. You know, I think, you know, 213 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 1: I think about myself. I mean when you know you 214 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,199 Speaker 1: have always been a teacher and a guide for me, 215 00:12:56,520 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: like through various struggle points of my life. And one 216 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: of my things that I have noticed over the past year, 217 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: I mean what I was doing was just not sustainable, 218 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: right like that that that the pace of running, the 219 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: pace of the work, um, the consistency in always finding 220 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: a flaw and and never feeling like enough, so needing 221 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: to produce more because just you're I'm trying to fill 222 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: a hole that the work is not going to fill um. 223 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: And I think that for a lot of people like 224 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: myself who are incredibly ambitious, it was it's like, well, 225 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: what happens when all of those things are stripped away? Right, 226 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: like what are you? What are you left with? And 227 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: you know, pre pandemic, I was thirty pounds overweight, I 228 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: was not sleeping, I you know, was drinking like a fish, 229 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: um and doing a lot of things that were set 230 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,240 Speaker 1: up to make me feel better, but we're actually making 231 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,679 Speaker 1: me feel worse right, and it's just there's also the 232 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: assigning value to those behaviors as some form of success 233 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,959 Speaker 1: or some form of prosperity, an abundance. Because I can 234 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: drink and because I can eat, and because I can 235 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: be out in here, I'm actually doing things. But it's 236 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: really not. It's not sustaining, it's not fulfilling. We found 237 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: out because once those things get stripped away, you start 238 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: to find there are other things that are far more 239 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: important to you than whether or not you you got 240 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: this particular thing done. The other thing I'll say, as 241 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: you know, someone who has been part of your life, 242 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: I'm incredibly proud of you, the shift and energy, the 243 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: shift and focus like what gayf is. I love what 244 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: you do because we need that kind of righteous anger 245 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: and indignation and we need it in the way that 246 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: you do it because you know other places are trying 247 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: to be nice about it, and I love the way 248 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: you just shoot straight. But in order to sustain that 249 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: kind that give you know, I see that as part 250 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: of your soul contract and what you're supposed So you're 251 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: supposed to beat the drum and wake everybody up, and 252 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: that's what you're doing. But as we have become more 253 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: and more been forced more and more to sort of 254 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: slow down and sort of think. I feel like the 255 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: show has become even hotter, like the Blade is just 256 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: like you are out here like joking people, and then 257 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: I love to see it. But I also see someone 258 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: who has found her rhythm, someone who like you, got 259 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: the energy. You know, Yeah, you be like holler and 260 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: holler and holler and hollerand and like call God Dan, 261 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 1: you'll need to drink water, but be like did k 262 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: And now you're like juicy and holleran and it's a 263 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: whole different kind of holler. When you know, when you 264 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: have the energy for your righteous indignation, it just hits 265 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: a bit differently. And I see how much work you've 266 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: been doing, and I see, honestly how much you're enjoying this, 267 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: and so I'm proud of you as your basics a 268 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: fantastic job. And I think that your transparency in all 269 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: of this is really what we need. We need people 270 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: to be transparent that this is not easy and that 271 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: you know you've been doing you're producing this every day, 272 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: and I'm just like, yo, I'm proud of you, but 273 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: you don't look the worst for wear it does. It's 274 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: not it's like there's something about it now that's changed. 275 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: It's there's an exchange happening, and I'm just incredibly excited 276 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: to see what comes next, because like, if this is 277 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: where you are now, once we're able to kind of 278 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: be back out, yeah, I appreciate that so very much. 279 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, I finally it's like 280 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: all of the lessons, all of the advice, all of 281 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: the things that people have given to me, from you, 282 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: my mother, and my sister, you know, the yogis, the 283 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: people that are deeply grounded and meditative. I feel like 284 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: I have finally woken up and listened to that that like, 285 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: in order to do this work, you need to preserve energy, 286 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: you need to be in flow and aligned with what 287 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: the calling is. And I think that pre COVID, for me, 288 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: it was more so about like the drive and the push, 289 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: but I wasn't pulling anything back in and so that 290 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: left me depleted. And so I want to talk about 291 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,719 Speaker 1: Strobe the apothecary and like why now, like why in 292 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 1: this moment are you are you doing this work of 293 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: bringing that type of energies, healing crystals, tease, all of 294 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: these things to people. So Strobe is a five person collective. 295 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: All of us have a couple of things in common. 296 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: We all worked at the same earth Shop over time, 297 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: and in the middle of the pandemic, as the pandemic 298 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: was sort of getting up, I happen to stop by, 299 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: and you know, we had some conversations. I've always wanted 300 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: to have my own sort of apothecary space. Black Magic 301 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: Sisters is really about ritual tools. So it's me taking 302 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: the knowledge that I learned actually over time working at 303 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: the Earth Shop and just experimenting and trying to figure 304 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: out ways to make ritual easy and to make ritual 305 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: something that you can do intentionally every day. I believe 306 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: in ritual. I mean everything from the colors that I 307 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: wore today to the stuff I chose to bathe with 308 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: is all part of my daily understanding of how I 309 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 1: get ready for the world and so what wait but 310 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: for you, but tell us about ritual and why that's 311 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: why that's important for how we develop and show up 312 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: in the world. So for me, ritual is something you 313 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: do with intention. There are a lot of things we 314 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: do out of habit, and you know, the issue with 315 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:32,679 Speaker 1: habit is that there's no thought to it. It's just 316 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 1: something that you do, so it becomes easy over time 317 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 1: to not realize that you're doing it, or to not 318 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 1: realize that you might be harming people and doing it 319 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: because it's just like if you have people say, well, 320 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: that's just the way we've always done it. For me, 321 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 1: ritual is really about being intentional. And I think anything 322 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: can be ritualized if you take a minute to think 323 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: about what it is that you're doing. So, for example, transparency, 324 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: because it's going to be transparent. I sat with an 325 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: astrologer I'm yesterday to go through my chart because of 326 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: just everything that's happened. And planets don't lie where they 327 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 1: are and how they sit. They you know, they kind 328 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: of give you so truth and he kind of he 329 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: gave me some amazing insights. And you know, I know 330 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: that I'm in a grief spiral, but I also know 331 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,880 Speaker 1: that there's some things that I've been neglecting because I'm 332 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: in a grief spiral. So when I got up this morning, 333 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: I made and I was very intentional about you know what. 334 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: I looked at myself as I washed my face, I 335 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: thought about the oils that I was going to use Afterwards, 336 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: I decided that because I, you know, because of where 337 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: I am, there were certain herbs that I was going 338 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: to you know, pull together. Today I haven't I have 339 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: a personal apothecary at home. My kitchen in my living 340 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:48,400 Speaker 1: room looked crazy, and so that I needed to sustain myself. 341 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 1: And so when I think of ritual, I think of 342 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: this is self preservation at its sort of basic form. 343 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: It is literally, before I step out of my before 344 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: I get out of bed, what am I doing with 345 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: my day, and what are the things that I'm going 346 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: to use to align So even before I got in 347 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: the shower, I did this. You know, I'd been doing 348 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: this thing where I forgot what the poses where you 349 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: put your feet up against the wall and your legs 350 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: are straight up, and I've read up about that, and 351 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: I was like, okay. And at the same time, I 352 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: was listening to this really great podcast on Newer Diversity. 353 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 1: I'm not a meditator by nature. I'm just my mind 354 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: is all over the place and it's just too hard 355 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: for me to sit. But when I get in that position, 356 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: I'm make a decision on what I'm going to listen to. 357 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: So that for at least twenty minutes I'm in this pose, 358 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: and I took in that information. It was around this 359 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: one was around metabolism and insulin resistance. It's fascinating topic. 360 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: I felt it, you know, I just happened on it. 361 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 1: I was like, let me listen, and so listen to that, 362 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: and then it went about my day. And when you 363 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,160 Speaker 1: do this, what it does is it tells the universe 364 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways that you're ready to go 365 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: about your day. But you've also set this intention of 366 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: how you're going to receive in exchange. I think a 367 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,360 Speaker 1: lot of our way of being there's not enough exchanging. 368 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: There's a lot of putting out information, putting out energy, 369 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: but there's not a lot of getting it back. And 370 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: sometimes when you get it back, it's really just you know, 371 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: low level you know, low level demon energy that's not 372 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: really helpful to anybody. So when you get into a 373 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: space where ritual is sort of how you leave your day, 374 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 1: what ends up happening is you prepare yourself. And some 375 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: of us, let's be honest, we live in spaces. We 376 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: operate in spaces. Our soul contracts require us to be 377 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: to be in service. You are in service, and so 378 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: those of us who are born to be in service 379 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: and to lead as servant leaders. Oftentimes we don't have caretakers. 380 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: It's it's just it's this weird thing. But what happens 381 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,120 Speaker 1: is that you have been given certain amount of knowledge 382 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: and you are surrounded by people who can show you 383 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: how to care for yourself. And when you remove the 384 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 1: sort of the the sort of human aspect of oh, well, 385 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: what I want to want to take care of me? Yes, 386 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: we would all love that. But in order for you 387 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: to do your job, in order for you to do 388 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: what you came to do, you have to be fully charged. 389 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: That means that you have to be intentional about what 390 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,920 Speaker 1: you put in your body. You have to be intentional 391 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 1: about the colors that you might wear that day, or 392 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 1: intentional about you know, who you talk to that day, 393 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: just because if your goal is to get this information 394 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: out and you know that there's going to be very 395 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,119 Speaker 1: little reciprocity, then that means you charge up and you 396 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: go out into the world protected and you can sustain yourself. 397 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: So for me, anything can be a ritual making that 398 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: tea because the moment that I decided what I was 399 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 1: going to do, everything else stopped and I was very 400 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: present about how much tea for each of the thing 401 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: the herbs I was using was going to go in there. 402 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: I waited for the water to boil. It was this 403 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: really great thing. And what it did was I had 404 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: an appointment in the morning. It come to be down 405 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 1: so I could go to that appointment fully present. Things 406 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: for me that I like about ritual. When I'm intentional 407 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: in what I'm doing, it lets me be more present 408 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 1: in whatever I'm supposed to be, you know, focusing on 409 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: and so that is that is a way that I operate. 410 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,360 Speaker 1: And when I get off track, when I get when 411 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 1: I allow myself to get too busy, when I don't 412 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: do those rituals, when I'm just zipping in, zooming and zooming, 413 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: I see it. I see how more irritated, ridable I 414 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: can be. I can feel it, you know, in my 415 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: just my body feels funny. I may feel rush. I 416 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: forget things, I leave things on that should be off, 417 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,719 Speaker 1: you know, I forget to send this, or it just 418 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 1: becomes really really really um just disharmonious. So for me, 419 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 1: ritual is a way the center, and for me it's everything. 420 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: It's the bathing, it's the the you know, even the 421 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: oil pulling with the coconut oil. Well, I purposely walk 422 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: around swishing for like a minute or two, like that 423 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 1: is all part of it. And I have this thing 424 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: where I have an ancestral altar and I can't I 425 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: can't go talk to my people without brushing my teeth. 426 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 1: Like that's kind of a thing, like I just don't 427 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: for whatever reason. So I don't go upstairs to talk 428 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: to my people until I brush my teeth. And so 429 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: these things are very much part of how I am 430 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: able to manage and stay present. And then Strobe was 431 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 1: really something where like one of the things I loved 432 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: about working at the herb shop was being able to 433 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: be a messenger for people that came in. You're working 434 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: with herbs and herbs. For me, it's an intuitive practice. 435 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 1: I'm a root woman. I learned from other women. I 436 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 1: learned through experimentation. I learned by reading. And people would 437 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: come in and they would just you know, they would 438 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 1: have that energy about them, and I would and I 439 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,919 Speaker 1: would know that this person is coming. They don't know it, 440 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: but they're coming to see me. And I would be 441 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: able to sit and talk with them and we could 442 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: take our time, and you know, what's the issue, what's happening, 443 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: and whatever was coming up for me. I could communicate 444 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: with them and people would leave with things that we're 445 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: going to help them get back to themselves. And a 446 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: lot of what we do now in the Western world 447 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 1: outsources so much of our sense of being to other people. Yeah, 448 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: and there's not enough collaborate. So, yeah, I may be 449 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,959 Speaker 1: feeling something, but you, as my sister who knows me 450 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: at my best, you may be seeing something that I'm missing. 451 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: So it should be a collaborative effort as opposed to 452 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: me sitting here on a Google machine trying to find 453 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: out what my symptoms are. I should be able to 454 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: come and talk to you and say this is how 455 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: I'm feeling, and you can remind me, well, you know 456 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: when you were doing this, when you were on this, 457 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: you know particular practice you know, or have a drink 458 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 1: water today. You know. There's just ways that we need 459 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: to be more collaborative. And Strobe comes from that desire. 460 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: We all we all have different ways that we operate, 461 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: so like and strokes. Then the name comes from the 462 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: initial of each of our name, so Sean, Tiffany, ristic, 463 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: at Olivia and Bonnie and everyone has a different sort 464 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,679 Speaker 1: of art or practice, and so bring it all together 465 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: just made sense. I don't know that we thought we 466 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: would still be here. We just when we decided to 467 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 1: do it, I knew that I couldn't. I knew that 468 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: I couldn't do it by myself, like I don't have 469 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: the attention span. So I was like, you know, if 470 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: you guys are interested, I'd love to be part of something. 471 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: And that just kind of how it turned into this 472 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,880 Speaker 1: amazing thing that has blossomed in a very short period 473 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: of time. And so right now. Initially, you know, it 474 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: was crystal elixirs and we had custom t blends that 475 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: we had created, we all formulated, and now we have 476 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: moved into a straight autopathecary, so we're carrying loose herbs. 477 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: Now we have the ability to powder things, you know, 478 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: for formulations, are working with herbalists who are now using 479 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: us to formulate things, and it's coming. It's a beautiful 480 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: expression I think of all of our intentions, and the 481 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: beauty of the pandemic is that it is given those 482 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: like we all have different time constraints, so five people 483 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: it's so much better than one. The collaboration and how 484 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 1: people are allowed to sort of operate and collaborate works 485 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: really well. And so Strobe right now is on a mission. 486 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: And you know, if you go to the site, you'll 487 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: see we have all sorts of offerings and so if 488 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: you're looking for crystals, if you look at for crystal elixus, 489 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 1: which I didn't know about until I started working with these, 490 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 1: with this crew of amazing people, where you can take 491 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: the essence of a crystal and use it in sort 492 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 1: of a liquid form for internal use. Like I've learned 493 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: so much just hanging out with these folks, and the 494 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,439 Speaker 1: exchange of energy and the ability, like the way that 495 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,719 Speaker 1: we all support each other in the way you know 496 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: that people are able to say you go rest, will 497 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 1: take care of it and then you come back. That 498 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: that give and take on the back end is what 499 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: I think has made this a really it's such a 500 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: phenomenal experience to be having in the midst of all 501 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: of the other things. So it's been a bit of 502 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,959 Speaker 1: a joy, you know, a little light in and the 503 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: the end of the tunnel. And the goal is to 504 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 1: help as many people as possible and to make sure 505 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: that people learn how to trust their instincts because it's 506 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 1: the outsourcing for me. That has been that has been 507 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: the biggest concern that I've had, just watching people give 508 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,880 Speaker 1: in to sort of these outside these outside forces that say, 509 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,360 Speaker 1: this is what your problem is, this is the way 510 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: you had when you can only handle it this way, 511 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: So don't go look at anything else. Just you know, 512 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 1: take this medicine or just do this or do that, 513 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: or just the stress that we create when we forget 514 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,640 Speaker 1: that we are enough, you know, it's it's so um. 515 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,199 Speaker 1: I think that the beauty I call the now that 516 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: we're living in a beautiful disaster right like it's it's 517 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: it is beautifully tragic. There are ways in which you 518 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: can look at the collective experiences that we've been having 519 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:34,479 Speaker 1: and you can see obviously there is deep tragedy, but 520 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 1: there's also deep beauty in the ability to slow down, 521 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: to do a deep dive, to connect to a line 522 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: and figure out, you know, what what is happening with me? 523 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: Like what is coming up for me? How am I feeling. 524 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: I was able to do a crystal consultation with Bonnie 525 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: the Bee in Strobe, and I was so excited to 526 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: do this because as folk snow, you know, I have 527 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: been on a meditation journey for I think now I'm 528 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: close to one hundred and seventy days consecutively. I tell 529 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: thank you. I tell folks all the time that you know, 530 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: it took me years to get here. My mother and 531 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: my sister were just like, so you should start meditating, 532 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: like they're concerned, they're concerned about my level of rage. 533 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, now whatever. But over the 534 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: past several months, that's exactly what I've done. And then 535 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: I when I connected with Bonnie, it was like, how 536 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 1: do I enhance this experience? How do I connect? And 537 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: I feel like there is this pull back to an 538 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: ancestral place, right like all of the things that have 539 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: been wiped away that we were told were barbaric, or 540 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: we were told were voodoo, or we were told and 541 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: I mean specifically as black people I see at least 542 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: on my Instagram, And I don't know if you see 543 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: this recie with people like, you know, going into plant 544 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: care in the way that I am going into crystals, 545 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: going going back to what I can recall my grandparents doing, right, 546 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: And I didn't understand, like, you know, Grandpa's out in 547 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: the garden tending to the mints and you know, the 548 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 1: Scotch bonnets and the and the kohlilu and all of 549 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: these things and realizing that that was his ritual, right, 550 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: that was how he was reconnecting and realigning um and 551 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: my grandmother intending to her, intending to her plants, and 552 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 1: like what you gain from that? And I think that 553 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,479 Speaker 1: there's so much beauty that, to me is the beauty 554 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: of this moment is like is the pause and the 555 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: recognizing that there is so much that is out there 556 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: that isn't about consumption, right, And that's that's where I 557 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: think that we all got kind of um trapped in 558 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: was the consumption of it, all right. And the other 559 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: piece of this is like everything that you just said, 560 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: I echo it three thousand percent, but you have to 561 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: want to do it. Yeah, you know. I think that 562 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: you are going to find that there are some people 563 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: who are absolutely resistant to what the pandemic is trying 564 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: to teach us. This is a time to sit and 565 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: think and talk to your people. And when I say 566 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 1: your people, I mean your ancestors and how you connect 567 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: with them as a variety of ways. But I think 568 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: that the consumption pieces is a big part of what 569 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: we of what sort of technology has sort of kind 570 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: of pushed us into and also that balance. You know, 571 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: technology isn't a bad thing, it's just not used well. 572 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,320 Speaker 1: And so finding ways to take in what you need 573 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,239 Speaker 1: and then go sit out by the trees or go 574 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: for a walk or whatever, being able to do a 575 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: little bit of everything. I think the pandemic is trying 576 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 1: to teach us that. I do think that rest was 577 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: a big thing. I remember I was in Nigeria not 578 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 1: this path to Scember, December before, and I remember hearing 579 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: reports of you know this viru. I said, uhan da 580 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: da da da dad. And I remember specifically then saying 581 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 1: that it started in November, and there was this sense 582 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: that now it probably started in October. And then there 583 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: was this moment where I felt this message coming through 584 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: what you need to get ready, enjoy yourself now, but 585 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna need to rest. And so when everybody, you know, 586 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: when you know, LLC Twitter was telling everybody doing this pandemic, 587 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: you need to learn a new language, you need to 588 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: start a business, you need to do all these things, 589 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: I was sleeping, you know. And then the civil unrest 590 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: kicked off with the murder of George Floyd, and before 591 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: you knew it, we were you have the backdrop of 592 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: the pandemic. But then you have this massive push of 593 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: people saying these systems, we're not taking it anymore. And 594 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: so we if we do this pandemic the way I 595 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 1: think it's meant to be taken, for those of us 596 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: that that make it through, we are hopefully there's enough 597 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: of us that have changed, but we won't allow the 598 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: before to creep back in. To me, that's going to 599 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 1: be the challenge. It's once you get the rhythm of this, 600 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: and you your remote class learning and you've learned to 601 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: get up and take a bath regardless of whether or 602 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: not you're going out, and you've found a way to manage, 603 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: you know, your anxiety. The idea is you fight to 604 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: keep that because once this vaccine comes through the way 605 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 1: it's supposed to, and once we start to see these 606 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: numbers drop, there is going to be a desire I think, 607 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: to normal stems to come back. And if enough of 608 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: us have been through this and understand the importance of 609 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: our peace and how it's how we need it for 610 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: our self preservation, what I'm hoping we will find is 611 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: that enough of us will push back and say no, 612 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: we're not doing that. We were able to survive just 613 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 1: five without having to do two our commutes every day. 614 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: So how about we keep those things the way they are. 615 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: I'll come in maybe once a week, you know, where 616 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: we can start negotiating what our quality of life looks 617 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: like because our productivity has been affected, yes, because of 618 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: what we've had to go through, but we've also I 619 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: think now I've gotten to, like, you know, this is 620 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: my third semester now teaching in the midst of a pandemic. 621 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: So I've now figured out my highs and my lows, 622 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: and I've figured out how to you know, support my 623 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: students and you know, take care of myself and all 624 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: of these things. So if we if we if we 625 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 1: have to sustain a remote situation, great, If we have 626 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,840 Speaker 1: to go back to a hybrid, that's fine too. But 627 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 1: do we have to go back to these things where 628 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: you know, students are, you know, having to commute from 629 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:26,719 Speaker 1: two hours away to get to school on time, and 630 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: all of these things by public transportation. Maybe not. And 631 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,799 Speaker 1: if enough of us push back, because enough of us 632 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 1: want to preserve that that sense of peace, I think 633 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 1: we will see that this pandemic you know, will have 634 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 1: changed systems as well, which I think is the point 635 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: I think our ancestors were like you people, I don't 636 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: know what you all are doing? Why are you living 637 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 1: like this? This is crazy? And that this is an 638 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 1: opportunity for us to really do a read. This is 639 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 1: a control of delete. Yeah, yeah, I think that you 640 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:02,240 Speaker 1: are a thousand percent right. I You know, I found 641 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: myself earlier this week. Uh you know, I go through 642 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,040 Speaker 1: my times of spinning where I just start to spin 643 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,880 Speaker 1: the fuck out and and I and I had gotten 644 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: up in my head and all of a sudden, my 645 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: my calendar was out of control and I had all 646 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 1: of these meetings and I'm exhausted, and yesterday I was like, 647 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,800 Speaker 1: what the hell is happening here? Like why? Why is 648 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: the pace kicking up again? Like what are you know? 649 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,319 Speaker 1: And realizing that I needed to calm myself down that like, 650 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 1: I work for myself. I'm in control right like and 651 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,720 Speaker 1: so it's like you need to take a step back. 652 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: And my mother was just like, so, do not fall 653 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: back into your old patterns. Did you work out today? 654 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,400 Speaker 1: Did you meditate today? Did you do these things? Do 655 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,360 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying? And I recognize now because 656 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: I'm more in tune than i've ever been that When 657 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,880 Speaker 1: I fall out of step with one of my rituals, 658 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 1: with one of my things that I do to keep 659 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: my self level, I realize how quickly I will fall 660 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,440 Speaker 1: off the cliff. It's so easy to fall off the cliff. 661 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 1: Like that's the thing about ritual and it's about and 662 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 1: about you know, you know, sort of self preservation. It 663 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,399 Speaker 1: is amazing. It is much harder to get back off 664 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 1: the cliff than it is to get you know what 665 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,279 Speaker 1: I'm saying. When you fall off that cliff, if you 666 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: don't catch it and you and recalibrate immediately, it is 667 00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 1: so much harder to get back up there. Like for 668 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,360 Speaker 1: all of that momentum that you build the minute you 669 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,400 Speaker 1: fall off, it's such it's such a hard place to 670 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: get back from. So that's the part, you know, I remember. 671 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: I would have clients who would you know, I would 672 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,600 Speaker 1: work with them. We would put blends together, and I 673 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,879 Speaker 1: would say, if this works, don't let it run out, 674 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:52,960 Speaker 1: because once it runs out and you've gone two or 675 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,440 Speaker 1: three weeks without it, it's gonna We're gonna have to 676 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,520 Speaker 1: go through a whole process to get you back and sink. 677 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 1: And those that listened fared well. And that didn't you 678 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,799 Speaker 1: know here we are. So it is important that you 679 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,280 Speaker 1: recognize them as rituals and you recognize them as intentions, 680 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 1: and that you know you have people around you be like, hey, 681 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,920 Speaker 1: did you did you do? Did you drinkers movie? Today? 682 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,399 Speaker 1: You seem a little on edge because it's easy, right 683 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: all right, back off? Yeah, Accountability partners is also a 684 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,319 Speaker 1: big part of how we take care of each other. 685 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: Everybody can't maybe everyone can't take care of you, but 686 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 1: people can ask did you drink water? Did you eat today? 687 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 1: You know? Have you you know, have you gone outside? 688 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,279 Speaker 1: You know you taken a stop for a minute and 689 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,440 Speaker 1: done some deep breathing, And that is just as that 690 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,239 Speaker 1: is just as critical I think we we're not we 691 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,920 Speaker 1: can't do it by ourselves, like we definitely need our 692 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:44,319 Speaker 1: village to help us. I definitely realize, you know, more 693 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,759 Speaker 1: so than ever, how important community is, because we have 694 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 1: to restructure community now, right like in the ways in 695 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 1: which you know. I was actually having this conversation with 696 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:59,720 Speaker 1: my sister and we were talking about missing the casualness 697 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,360 Speaker 1: of interaction that would just happen day to day, whether 698 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,399 Speaker 1: it's on the subway, at the coffee shop, running into 699 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,919 Speaker 1: somebody at a restaurant or what have you. And so 700 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,680 Speaker 1: the intention of like what it means to create and 701 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,959 Speaker 1: sustain community, right and deepen those relationships with people, because 702 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:25,800 Speaker 1: I also think that the frivolousness, right is gone. Yeah, 703 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:29,719 Speaker 1: nobody has the time or the energy for bullshit, right, Like, 704 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,399 Speaker 1: so if I'm going, if I am spending time to 705 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: connect with you, it is because I genuinely want to know, 706 00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 1: how are you, how are you faring? You know these things, 707 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: And I think that it is important for us to 708 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,800 Speaker 1: realize that while the ways in which we have interacted 709 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 1: maybe on pause, we can consciously create community that fills 710 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:55,000 Speaker 1: us up. Right. That isn't about obligation, but is about intention. 711 00:38:55,440 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 1: But it also about transparency. I have learned to be 712 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 1: more transparent in this pandemic. I'm not usually wanted to 713 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000 Speaker 1: be like, oh so by the way, all of these 714 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,719 Speaker 1: things happened, You ask me how I'm doing, Like I'm okay, 715 00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,839 Speaker 1: you know, and that'll be it. And so transparency. It's 716 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 1: also I think a really big component of this, like 717 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 1: we there no one should be pretending that they're okay 718 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,400 Speaker 1: if they're not, and sort of giving people space to 719 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,120 Speaker 1: have those conversations like the like I've noticed even in 720 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,839 Speaker 1: the way that I communicate with my friends, there used 721 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 1: to be like I try to, I often try, and 722 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,920 Speaker 1: it's probably because you know, it's very Nigerian thing. You 723 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,239 Speaker 1: ask after everybody, how's everybody doing, how's the family? Dada 724 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,960 Speaker 1: da da? You do all these things, and you know 725 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,560 Speaker 1: you're taking longer, longer to get to what it is 726 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:45,640 Speaker 1: that you need. And so what I am appreciating right 727 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,680 Speaker 1: now is that folks are being very clear, like I'm 728 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,720 Speaker 1: having a hard day, I need to talk. We're starting 729 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,600 Speaker 1: to see more like this is what I need and 730 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,120 Speaker 1: if I can give it to you, great and if 731 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,479 Speaker 1: I can't, let me put you in touch with someone 732 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 1: that can. And so there is this this transparency that 733 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,960 Speaker 1: I don't think we had before. People would literally how 734 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: you do it, don't find out or not and on 735 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,799 Speaker 1: the inside be really really messed up. You wouldn't find 736 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,839 Speaker 1: out about it until you know, you happen to talk 737 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,240 Speaker 1: to somebody else, maybe who talk with them. So now 738 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,480 Speaker 1: I think we are realizing and because of the way 739 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,600 Speaker 1: COVID has been taken out, the gen xers, which I'm 740 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 1: a part of, like we like we don't really have 741 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,240 Speaker 1: the luxury to sit around here and pretend that everything's 742 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,600 Speaker 1: okay when it stopped. We really do need to let 743 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,520 Speaker 1: people know. And so I do think that that conscious 744 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 1: community building, it's very much a part of this. And 745 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,000 Speaker 1: what I'm hoping also is that there's a lot more grace. 746 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: Like I tell me, you know, grace is something that 747 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,960 Speaker 1: I am leading with. So I'm not here to test 748 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,919 Speaker 1: you to see whether or not you're telling me the truth. 749 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 1: If you tell me you have COVID, then I'm going 750 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,400 Speaker 1: to believe you, and whatever we can do will do. 751 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,920 Speaker 1: But grace and that balance of grace and accountability, you know, 752 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,960 Speaker 1: that that type rope walk that is all part of 753 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,640 Speaker 1: this now because we still have to continue as much 754 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: as as hard as it can be. Some we can't. 755 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,360 Speaker 1: We don't have the luxury of just giving in to 756 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,560 Speaker 1: the whole thing. So we do have to and that, 757 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,520 Speaker 1: to me is where the rituals come in. That's where 758 00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 1: the crystals and the elixers and the teas, all that 759 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,560 Speaker 1: comes in, because those things can help sustain us even 760 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,680 Speaker 1: when we don't necessarily feel like we can go on. Chirstycat, 761 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I could spend literally days talking to you. 762 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,920 Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like whenever whenever we do talk, 763 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,400 Speaker 1: for me, it feels like a mini retreat. I think 764 00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,520 Speaker 1: I need, like I need the grounding, the and the connection. 765 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,160 Speaker 1: And so before before I let you go, um, please 766 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,959 Speaker 1: tell people where they can find more information about Black 767 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,839 Speaker 1: black Magic Sisters and strobe, how they can connect, how 768 00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,239 Speaker 1: they can get consultation, all of those wonderful things so 769 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,200 Speaker 1: that they can truly find themselves aligned. Absolutely so with 770 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,719 Speaker 1: Black Magic Sisters, m we do ritual tools right now. 771 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,320 Speaker 1: Our biggest seller are these or expays that kind of 772 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,080 Speaker 1: helped shift the energy around you. You can go to 773 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,640 Speaker 1: b ok MGK Sisters dot com. 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So 803 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,800 Speaker 1: just wherever you find Stroke you'll find black Magic Sisters 804 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,000 Speaker 1: on the other way around. Ric kat Okay Day, I 805 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 1: love you so much and I and Hey appreciate you 806 00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:52,560 Speaker 1: joining woka a daily to give us. I just want 807 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,920 Speaker 1: to rank with you. I love it, I love it, 808 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,480 Speaker 1: I love it so thank you for having me. It's 809 00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,879 Speaker 1: been an honor to sit with you, and like I said, 810 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,200 Speaker 1: super Priet, you a little sense just I love what's 811 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:09,920 Speaker 1: happening and can't wait to see more. As always, dear friends, 812 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,040 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 813 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,480 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck. See after Labor Day.