1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:12,239 Speaker 1: Mm from grandmothers who whispered in their baby girl in 2 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: two fathers on dimly lit street corners, instructing young soldiers 3 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: to always keep their eyes open. You be queen, you 4 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: were fired. You will pass through centuries on the hands 5 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: of your daughters. They called you wisdom. Proverbs on the 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: backs of diamond eyed school children who growing into hymnals 7 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: recited by amethyst holding urban philosophers who recited neighborhood commandments 8 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: out of the windows of restored ALCHEMYO cheriots to keep 9 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: the warmth of their blood. Be wise, be smart, being black, 10 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: Opal Brown courts, bloodstone and prayer. Be every form of 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: jim se King told, scribe, scribe, told son, son, told wife, 12 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: wife told her daughter, and daughter told the as this is. 13 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: And the ancestors told me that you would come to 14 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: give wisdom thousands. They said you would come Dropping Dropping gem. Hey, 15 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: welcome back another episode of the Dropping Gyms podcast per usual. 16 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: I am your host, Stevie Brown. Every time I hear 17 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: the intro to the show, it fills me with joy. 18 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: So just because I want to do a quick shout 19 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: out to my friend Namdi okafor who wrote and performed 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: that beautiful poem for me for this show and it 21 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: just means the world. I love it. Every time I 22 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: hear it makes me smile, and I you know, a 23 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: couple of times I get people commenting on it, UM 24 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: that kind of noticed some of the some of the 25 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 1: influence in it and some of the words, and I 26 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: always really appreciate getting that feedback because it makes me smile. 27 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: All right, everybody, So we're here another episode of the 28 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: Dropping Gyms podcast. Today we're going to be revisiting one 29 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: of the classic episodes of this show, The Pressures of 30 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: Finding Your Purpose. I did an episode on purpose last 31 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: year and it became a runaway hit of the show. 32 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: That episode, along with conversations about God and grief, UM, 33 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: got so many plays and so much feedback, and everyone 34 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: has been consistently asking me for a part two to 35 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: that episode, and so today that's what we're going to 36 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: dive into. You know, when I first recorded that episode, 37 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: the Pressure of Finding Your Purpose, it was last year, 38 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: pre pandemic, and I felt really connected to everything that 39 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 1: I shared. But now that I am a new version 40 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: of me, as are we all, now that I have 41 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 1: shed the girl that the woman that voiced that podcast 42 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: and shared her thoughts now that she's been shed and 43 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: there's a new, expended, glorious woman in her space in 44 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: her place, I wanted to update some thoughts in some 45 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: ways that I've been exploring purpose and the way it 46 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: shows up in my life in our new normal. So 47 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,679 Speaker 1: I'm excited to dive into this conversation to day, and 48 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: if you haven't yet, I do highly recommend that before 49 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: we get into this episode, you do take a moment 50 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: to listen to the episode from last year that's titled 51 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: The Pressure of Finding Your Purpose, because I think it's 52 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: going to really help with some of what we're talking about. 53 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: In that episode, we really unpacked, like what are the 54 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: definitions of purpose? And I'm talking the micro and the 55 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 1: macro levels, right, like what how is web start define 56 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: and purpose? How's our church defined and purpose? How's our 57 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: soul defined and purpose? Because what I came defined when 58 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: we explored it in that episode was really how so 59 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: many of us are walking around in judgment of ourselves 60 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: and our lives because we don't understand the true meaning 61 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: of that word. And so whatever projection we've put onto 62 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: that word, whatever projections we've been putting onto ourselves usually 63 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: manifests as even more experiences of lack or confusion or 64 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: frustration as we attempt to do what is very literally, 65 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: in my belief, um, the entire point of being here. 66 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,359 Speaker 1: You know, uh, I always I love to share this, 67 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: but it's so funny to me sometimes just a little 68 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: giggle when I hear people talking about purpose with such 69 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: nonchalance or with um with such a projected urgency. You know, this, 70 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: this idea that in one weekend of vision boarding you'll 71 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: find your purpose, or this idea that with one book 72 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: you'll find your purpose, and then your purpose will be 73 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 1: your job. And now you've made it, and now you 74 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 1: get to tell everybody about your purpose. And that's not 75 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: how it works, and that's not how it feels, and 76 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: it's not designed to be that way. You know, your 77 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: purpose is something to be savored. Your purpose is a 78 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: constant surrender and a constant evolution in the big and 79 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: the small and the unseen and the scene ways. You know, 80 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: when we tap into our purpose, the way that I 81 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: believe is that we are tapped into our godliness. We 82 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: are tapped into our soul's mission of why we came here, 83 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: why we exist here, what we are to be, what 84 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: we are to do, and so as we talk about 85 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: purpose today, and I'm gonna lead you on a meditation 86 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: in a few moments around purpose. But as we get 87 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: ready to kind of lock into this conversation about purpose, 88 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:44,919 Speaker 1: I do want to really encourage everyone to leave the 89 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 1: judgments for yourself at the door. Don't come into this 90 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: safe container judging yourself. It's not allowed. What we do 91 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: on this show, any of the topics that we explore, 92 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: any of the deepenings that we come into, it is 93 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: all about a gentleness with self, a forgiveness of self, 94 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: a compassion of self. So wherever you find yourself on 95 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: this quote unquote purpose journey, whether you believe to be 96 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: in yours or you feel like it's beyond your grasp, 97 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: just know you are enough right now. Your life matters, 98 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 1: has value, is cherish, is important, and God commanded you 99 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: to be here. And so regardless of any skill sets 100 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: you have or don't, regardless of how life has shaped 101 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: up thus far, we're not going to argue with God 102 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: today about who you're called to be. We're gonna surrender 103 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: and we're gonna open and we're gonna see what's available 104 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: to us. So that is the plan for my thoughts 105 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: on purpose. Uh, And as we get started, let's go 106 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: ahead and dig into real briefly some of the previous 107 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: definitions used for purpose. And again I really expand on 108 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: this on that previous episode that I did, so just 109 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: you know, go back and do the things. However, however, 110 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: podcasts work do that. So let's think about some of 111 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: the definitions of purpose. You know, purpose is what I believe, 112 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: the reason for which something is done or created, having 113 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: one's intention or objective. And the funny thing about that 114 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: is that is actually like the Webster's Dictionary definition. Right, 115 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: let's save for that that line for a second. The 116 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: reason for which something is done or created the purpose 117 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: of it. Now, let's apply that to our lives and 118 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: the way we experience God and the way we experience ourselves. 119 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: So purpose, the reason for which something is done or created, 120 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: very literally the root of our existence. And I just 121 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: want to drill that home because I really want to 122 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: disconnect this idea that purpose has to show up as 123 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: a job title. I think it's very dangerous to do that, 124 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: and it's very minimizing to do that. Like, our life 125 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: is so much bigger than who we work for and 126 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: what we happen to be doing at this moment in time, 127 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: um and what our title is, you know, And so 128 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: when we think about purpose as it relates to our career, 129 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: sometimes yes, the two intersect, you know. In this moment, 130 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: I believe that my purpose is beautifully aligned with what 131 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: I happened to do for work. However, if that was 132 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: not the case, I still have purpose. And I've known 133 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: of my purpose even before I had the opportunities that 134 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: I have in this moment. And it's really staying connected 135 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: to the faith in your purpose and the understanding that 136 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: Divine has put on your heart that you know, even 137 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,439 Speaker 1: if it's not quantifiable, and even if the rest of 138 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: the world has not yet taken notice. And so it's 139 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: so important to sit in that. I recently did alive 140 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: um with the Tone It Up Community with Karina Don. 141 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: She invited me onto her platform and she and I 142 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: had a really beautiful opportunity to become familiar with each 143 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: other working together on a Chopra virtual retreat that we 144 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: did with Deepak Chopra last year that I hosted. And 145 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: she has created just something phenomen and all just an incredible, 146 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: incredible business with her purpose with the Tone It Up Community. 147 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: So shout out to everybody to join me there. But 148 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 1: you know something, one of the things that came up 149 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: when we were doing that live is someone shared you know, well, 150 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: I believe my purpose is my singing, is being a singer, right, 151 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: And what I thought was really beautiful about that was, 152 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: you know, she very clearly identified one of I'm sure 153 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: the gifts that God gave her, which is her voice, 154 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: which is a beautiful voice, and ability to have something 155 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: that brings people joy come out of your own body, 156 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,040 Speaker 1: um or that makes people stop and awe, come out 157 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: of your own body. But what is important to me 158 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: is that when we're defining what purposes for ourselves, it 159 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: really isn't in the quantifiable pieces. So being a singer 160 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,440 Speaker 1: is not her purpose. So that is a job, right 161 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: Like being a singer is typically the offshoot of being 162 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: able to sing. It's something that you do and can 163 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: potentially do well and for money, but that's not required. 164 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 1: And so if you sing but you are not a 165 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: known singer, you might feel like you are falling short 166 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: of your purpose. But that's not true at all, because 167 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: the mechanism of purpose is the gift. It is not 168 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: you having to come up with all the ways that 169 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 1: the gift is received. The way the gift is received 170 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: is in God's hands. How you maneuver once you've identified 171 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,719 Speaker 1: the gift is the responsibility of your purpose on your shoulders. 172 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: And so when I was kind of speaking to that 173 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: question on the live, it really brought forward for me 174 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: that you know, she can sing her gift is to 175 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: be an instrument of God. Her gift, her purpose is 176 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: to be an instrument of God. However that manifests, and 177 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: so that particular gift, gift is one aspect of her purpose. 178 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: But she doesn't even have to make a living doing 179 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: that to be in her purpose, right, And I think 180 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 1: that's where it's really important that we start dissecting what 181 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: is our connectedness to society when we view ourselves and 182 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 1: our purpose and capitalism and consumerism, and what is actually 183 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: our connectedness to source, to the creator and the way 184 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 1: we are looking to co create a life of purpose 185 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: and impact. So that's just something I want you to 186 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: keep kind of in your mind's eye as we continue 187 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,679 Speaker 1: this conversation and as you explore your purpose in your 188 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: life off of this show. But when we really think 189 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: about the way purpose shows up for us, it's in 190 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: all of the ways we are able to serve, and 191 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: that doesn't have to mean that you're receiving money for 192 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: it or you're receiving the job title for it. Um. 193 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: Something that was brought up in that life that I 194 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: did too, was was around you know, UM, really wanting 195 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 1: purpose to be associated with career and wanting to have 196 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: a life where what you did for a living was 197 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: connected to your purpose and all that is absolutely possible. 198 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: I mean, once listen at the end of the day, 199 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: when you fly and find the flow of what your 200 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,560 Speaker 1: gifts are from God and what your purposes, everything aligns 201 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: around it because that's why you're here. But it's important 202 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: to chase the gift and not chase the job. All 203 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: of that will come. You know, when when Source created 204 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: us and brought us to Earth, there was no societal 205 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: system in place yet, right, depending on what your belief 206 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: system is, and you know when you think time began, 207 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: even still, there was no societal system that was there 208 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: when man first entered earth, you know. And so the 209 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: idea that something we created like work, like jobs, like society, time, money, 210 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: all these things. To think that that had any real 211 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:02,839 Speaker 1: connectedness to God, it I think really undercuts the grandness 212 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: of God. Those are things that we put in place 213 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: to understand our experiences, to control our experiences, to create 214 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: systems that quantify our experiences, and structure, you know, to 215 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: support it. But God didn't put you on earth saying 216 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: you shall be a lawyer, you my child, shall be 217 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: a doctor, you shall be whatever right, You shall be 218 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: someone's wife, you shall be someone's this. That's not really 219 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 1: how it works. You know. We created those words, we 220 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: created those positions, We created those categories and things, and 221 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: then the expectation is that something we created God would 222 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: perfectly formulate and assimilate us in those packages. And it's 223 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 1: the reversal of that, you know. It's really our gifts 224 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: or how we best communicate with Him, Him, Her Father, Mother, God, 225 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: for the highest good of ourselves and all concerned. That's 226 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,960 Speaker 1: how I live it, That's how I understand it. So 227 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: I want to talk about ways to really begin to 228 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: notice where your purpose is and I'm gonna I'm gonna 229 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: tackle it from my new experiences in this pandemic. But again, 230 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: if you kind of want to get the full breakdown, 231 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 1: go back to that first episode. The pressure of finding 232 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: your purpose. But when I think about purpose in this moment, 233 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 1: in time, you know, something that I think has been 234 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,600 Speaker 1: a tremendous gift of the pandemic for those that really 235 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: took this as an opportunity to self investigate and open 236 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,400 Speaker 1: wounds and clear out traumas and dissolve, you know, any 237 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: against nous of ourselves that we may be holding. This 238 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: moment in time has really allowed us to see how 239 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: worthy we are without all the trappings of everything else. 240 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: You know, many people have used this moment to meet 241 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: themselves more deeply, to heal aspects of themselves that have 242 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: been hidden, to really be with themselves and really all 243 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: the grief that comes with that, and all the messiness 244 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: that comes with that, and all the joy that comes 245 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: with that, and all the love that comes with God. 246 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: You know. But in that something has become really brilliantly clear, 247 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: I think for so many of us, and that our 248 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: worth is not going to be tied to society. My 249 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: worth is not tied to what someone's perception of me is. 250 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: My worth is not tied to who's cutting me a 251 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: check or what my job title is. My worth is 252 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: my worth because God commanded me to be here, and 253 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: I'm showing up for myself, period. And I don't have 254 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: any rigidity about how that has to look for me 255 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,640 Speaker 1: to feel good about me, or for me to feel 256 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: good about my life, or for me to share my 257 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 1: purpose and share my gifts with other people and share 258 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: my light with other people. So as we investigate purpose, 259 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: and you know, those tips are kind of in that 260 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: other episode, but as we investigate purpose, I think a 261 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: real deepening of your understanding now outside of you know, 262 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: some of the tips that I've given over time is 263 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: like sitting in meditation and really exploring that inner child you, 264 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: you know, exploring what are the pieces of you that 265 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: meets you light up that had nothing to do with 266 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: job title or money. What were those things that made 267 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: you feel really yummy about yourself are really seen or 268 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 1: ways that you knew you were making a difference to 269 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: somebody else just naturally and effortlessly. You know, as we 270 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: explore purpose, it's so important to explore what where is 271 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: there ease? What are the qualities about yourself? What are 272 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: the ways you show up in the world that have 273 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: ease to them. Typically, the area of your life that 274 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: has the greatest impact with the greatest ease is the 275 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: thing you need to be paying the most attention to, 276 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: but sometimes it doesn't seem so great or so grand. 277 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: But again, it's about the gift. It's about the characteristic, 278 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: it's about the essence of you and the energy. Once 279 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: you identify that, you can quantify it till you're blue 280 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: in the face. You can you can funnel it into 281 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 1: a host of different careers. And you know, an example 282 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: for me to use with myself is that I think 283 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: I came to this earth after many, many lifetimes of 284 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: being here in other places, with a certain psychological skill set, 285 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: a certain ability to express myself that, even at a 286 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: young age, felt really fine tuned without requiring a lot 287 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: of me. Being able to talk, being able to show 288 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: up and speak and share ideas or hold space for 289 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: other people is my default setting. And so any work 290 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: that I do in the world, even though I've had 291 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: to work really hard at it and really practice and 292 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: really bring on more skill sets, But everything that I 293 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: do in the world, it's the offshoot of that. It's 294 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: the offshoot of those abilities, of that way of being. 295 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: You know, I believe that the way that I love 296 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: myself and I'm able to love other people is a 297 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: big part of my purpose. It's something that has always 298 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,399 Speaker 1: been a part of me, even in times of my 299 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: life that were really challenging, and even in times of 300 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 1: my life as a kid where people made me feel 301 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to say made me feel um, but 302 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: where I misunderstood the wounds of other people and internalized 303 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: it as things that were not special about me, Like 304 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: my exuberance. I'm a very enthusiastic, bubbly person. I love 305 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: to smile, and it's my choice to smile. You know, 306 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 1: It's not it's not because I'm always happy, and it's 307 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: not because you know, I don't see things that are happening. 308 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 1: It's just I enjoy it. I enjoy feeling good, and 309 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,320 Speaker 1: whatever I need to do to do that from the 310 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: inside out is a non negotiable and it's my top priority. 311 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: But when I was a kid, a lot of comments 312 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: I be is like, ah, you always smiling? What you 313 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: always so happy about? You know? And I took that 314 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: to mean that something was wrong with the way that 315 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 1: I was being and actuality. I was as being a 316 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: mirror for the wounds of adults and the wounds of 317 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: people that were feeling hurt and disconnected from themselves, and 318 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: so there was a projection on me for that and 319 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: now that I know that, I don't have to take 320 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: that on. So it's very similar when we start exploring 321 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 1: our gifts, people don't have to get it. There's something 322 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 1: I saw on Instagram that was like, if people don't 323 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: understand you're calling, that's fine because it wasn't a conference call, 324 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: you know. So it's the stronger you get in your 325 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: sense of self and the more disciplines you get in 326 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 1: the cultivation of your spiritual confidence, you will manifest so 327 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: much effortless ease around how you're able to show up 328 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 1: with your gifts in the world and the kind of 329 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: opportunities and people that you're able to magnetize to yourself. 330 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: You know, two years ago I said I want my 331 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: life to be effortless, ease and joy, you know, And 332 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: that came with a lot of excavation, that came with 333 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,719 Speaker 1: um a lot of dark knights of the soul before 334 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: the ease showed up. But I had to clear the path. 335 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,199 Speaker 1: And so that's really the same for us when it 336 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: comes even to this idea of purpose work or to 337 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: this idea of world impact. You know, where do you 338 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: need to clear the path and where do you need 339 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: to lean into the ease? To the simplicity, to the 340 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: effortlessness of your essence, of you being you. Purpose is 341 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: not hard. We can build skills around it. But the 342 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: core of your purpose is your innate, authentic self, at rest, 343 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: at ease, and everything else is how you choose to 344 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: build upon it and show up in the world. So 345 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: we think about cultivating our purpose. Yes, look for your gifts, 346 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: what has ease? Ask around people you trust and know, 347 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: how do they see you, how do they experience you? 348 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:00,159 Speaker 1: How do they experience the strongest, most vibrant part of 349 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,719 Speaker 1: who you are? And then another side of that is 350 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: what wounds are blocking your purpose? You know, very often 351 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 1: times we're not able to connect to the depth of 352 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: our purpose because all of our woundings is in the way, 353 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: all of the things that have not yet been looked 354 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: at or been processed that keeps you from your purpose. 355 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: I guarantee you you're not going to be able to 356 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: show up in the world is your authentic self. And 357 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: that gift of your purpose without exploring your shadows, without 358 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 1: exploring your wounds, without being honest with yourself, and without 359 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: beginning those beautiful surrenders, you know, without excavating and having 360 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: that self inquiry because so much of our purpose is 361 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: also around how we can move through difficulties. For some 362 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 1: of us, our purpose is found in the grace we 363 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: manifest in tragedy, or the ways that we stopped betraying 364 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: ourselves are the ways that we show up for ourselves 365 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: fully with enthusiasm. You know, I feel really, really strongly 366 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: that so much of a deepening of my own purpose, 367 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: and this is the part that gets really exciting for 368 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: me and for all of us. Like I've known that 369 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: a lot of my purpose has always been rooted around 370 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: my voice, UM, my storytelling, my communication. Always been a 371 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 1: big communicator since I was a kid, went to college college, 372 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 1: you know, participated in debate. Um, I was a broadcast 373 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: journalism student. I started my career in radio, worked in 374 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: radio for over a decade, so I was always utilizing 375 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: my gifts. But the deepening of my purpose came my 376 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: ability to really effortlessly use my gifts into service to 377 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 1: the collective and service to my highest good and the 378 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: highest good of others came when I started exploring all 379 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: the things I didn't accept about myself, all the things 380 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: I didn't like about myself, all the areas where I 381 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: was so profoundly disappointed by people or deeply betrayed by people, 382 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: are broken. When I started really getting into those crevices, 383 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: whoop the level of freedom that that brought, the level 384 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: of clarity that that brought, and the depth of understanding 385 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: of how I was meant to be used as a tool. 386 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: You know, purpose is not about self grandizing. Purpose is 387 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: not about how other people perceive you and what you're doing. 388 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:46,719 Speaker 1: Purpose is not about you having these celebrations of yourself, 389 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: but always celebrate yourself. Always celebrate yourself. But purpose is 390 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: not rooted into how quote unquote societally successful you are, 391 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: how much money you make. Purpose is did in the 392 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 1: impact of your gifts and your authenticity being generously and 393 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 1: effortlessly and fully given away for the highest good of all. 394 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: So with that as a part of it, again, you 395 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: can connect your purpose to all of the things. I 396 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: said this in this last episode, in that last episode, 397 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: and it remains true today. You know, when you've activated 398 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,719 Speaker 1: your purpose, whatever you do can have purpose in it. 399 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: If you find yourself in a season where you're on sabbatical, 400 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: maybe you're not working, maybe you're taking care of home, 401 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: your purpose can and will still still show up in 402 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 1: those areas because it's not necessary for you to make 403 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: money to be in purpose. But I will say, when 404 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: you've tapped into your purpose, you tend to magnetize things 405 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,880 Speaker 1: to you effortlessly. Because a major shift in your being happens, 406 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: a major shift in your consciousness happens. There is this ascension, 407 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 1: in this elevated nous about why you're here and what 408 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: you're here to do. And the byproduct of that is 409 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: just being a master manifesto and alcomizing and really calling 410 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 1: things to you and not having to chase the things. 411 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: My season of chasing is complete, that karma is complete, 412 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 1: that circle has been finished. I don't chase anything. I 413 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 1: show up, I work hard. I'm the fullest version of myself, transparently, authentically. 414 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,360 Speaker 1: I study, I train, I build my skills, and then 415 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: I magnetize to me. And so that's the space you 416 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 1: want to fill when you're in purpose. Other people don't 417 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: have to know what my purpose is. No one has 418 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: to think I'm air quotes successful by any means. That 419 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But I have to feel good about me. 420 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to be in a life where I don't. 421 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: That to me would be the most awful way of 422 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: being feeling good about myself, not feeling good about my life. 423 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: And we'll have those phases, we all dip in and 424 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: out of that, and there's no shame in that. But 425 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: when you're willing to investigate yourself, the times that that 426 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: happen and the bounce back from it so much faster, 427 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 1: less and less are you experiencing that is your barrier. 428 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: And it's more about how can I shine even more 429 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: of me out into the world, and whatever is meant 430 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: to happen from that will So investigating your wounds, getting 431 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 1: clear where am I being blocked? Where am I blocking myself? 432 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: Where am I sabotaging myself? Around purpose? You know, if 433 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: you're scared to be you, you're not necessarily going to 434 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: be gifted the fullness of your purpose. You have to 435 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: be prepared to wield it. Again, it's not a job title. 436 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: It's not something that you know someone else is going 437 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: to validate you for, someone else is going to pick 438 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: you for. You have already been chosen and yours are 439 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: already inside of you. You're waiting for them, You're waiting 440 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,239 Speaker 1: to see if they come, and they're there. Now you 441 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: just have to press activate. You just have to press 442 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: goal on them. But they are available to you, they 443 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: are ready. So let's get clear on it. You know, 444 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: let's get clear. Let's get clear any areas where wounds 445 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: are blocking our purpose, any areas where we need to 446 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: be deprogrammed and really think about life again. You know, 447 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: back to the earlier example in this episode that I 448 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: talked about, like, start investigating your belief system, start investigating 449 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: your value system. What do you place value on, what 450 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: do you perceive yourself to be lacking, and then reverse 451 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: all of those thoughts and statements about you. You lack nothing, 452 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: You have everything, but you have to move the wounds 453 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: and you have to stand in your power, and then 454 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 1: you have to be willing to show up with all 455 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 1: of your gifts with no expectation. Purpose is not a 456 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: feather in our cap. If you're looking to find purpose 457 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: because you think it will give you confidence and self love, 458 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,879 Speaker 1: it's the other way around, or it's both at the 459 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 1: same time. But don't look at purpose to be that 460 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 1: feather in your cap that validates you and then gives 461 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 1: worth to you or gives perceived worth about you through 462 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: other people's eyes. Purpose isn't about boasting. Purpose is about 463 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: humbly gratefully surrendering and sharing all of you and having 464 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: no fear around how it's received. And then we have 465 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 1: to really sit inside of ourselves and appreciate purpose in 466 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 1: all the ways that it presents itself and all the 467 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: levels of being that we're at. You know, when we 468 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: tap into our purpose, it's letting it flow, letting it evolve. 469 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: If you told me ten years ago, fifteen years ago 470 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: that the way my purpose would manifest, that i'd be, 471 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: you know, leading daily meditations on a global app, that 472 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 1: that's how I'd be sharing myself with the world, or 473 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: on this podcast or all of the things, writing a 474 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: book on crystals and now writing my second book, you know, 475 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: I there's no way I could have believed it because 476 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: I didn't even know there was a wellness industry. Definitely 477 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: what it was wasn't then what it is now. Um, 478 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: but I wouldn't have even been able to see that. 479 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have even known I could trust it, you know, 480 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: And that's that's sometimes the hard part about surrender and 481 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: getting started. As humans, our brains are wired to measure 482 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: things around predictive behavior. Can I predict and perceive an outcome? 483 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: And then I will find safety in it, then I 484 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: can do it well. When it comes to us transforming ourselves, 485 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: that's not possible because how can you predict what you've 486 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: never been? How can you predict what you've never known? 487 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: And so that's where that beautiful surrender comes in. That's 488 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:19,560 Speaker 1: where that real opportunity to feel full with your own 489 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: validation and with divine sources validation, that's where that really 490 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: comes in. So then when your purpose, when the fullness 491 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: of it is unlocked or more is revealed to you, 492 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: you're given more responsibility for the way that you're going 493 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: to show up, You're given larger platforms, you're given a 494 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:43,239 Speaker 1: greater level of this worldly three D earthly success, you know. 495 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: But it's really important to get clear on what your 496 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: value is and how you feel about you first, because 497 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: the work will always get done. The work will always 498 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: get done, and not on your timeline. So if there's 499 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 1: any part of this self investigation or this work that 500 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: you're avoiding, that's okay, go at your own pace, that 501 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: is okay, But just no, it's got to come to 502 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: the surface. And so if you know what's there and 503 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: you're avoiding it, you then allow the universe to surprise you. 504 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,200 Speaker 1: With your timeline of healing, and so that can show 505 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: up in a multitude of ways that don't always feel 506 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 1: good or that sometimes can derail your highest vision and 507 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: what you believe your path to be. So let's create 508 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: our own timelines for our success and our healing, you know, 509 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: and really really freely and with joyful discipline and enthusiasm, like, 510 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: let's dive into those darker places and let's just see 511 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: what we find. Let's see what comes out. Hold that thought. 512 00:31:52,440 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: We are coming right back. I had a really cool 513 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: full circle moment this week, and I'm going to share 514 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: this before we get into the meditation. It was really 515 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: a cool experience and for me, I I just it 516 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: just really tickled me, Like I just sat in so 517 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: much gratitude and smiles for the way that purpose has 518 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: shown up in my life once I really surrendered to it. 519 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: So I many of you know, I've talked about this 520 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: all the time. I used to work in radio and 521 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: I had the really great pleasure of working for a 522 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: wonderful company called iHeart Radio, which now full Circle. Uh 523 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: my podcast is hosted on iHeart UM. And so I 524 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 1: left terrestrial radio four years ago. Uh yeah, really to 525 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 1: this month about four years ago and I was working 526 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: at a station and I just you know, my time 527 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,959 Speaker 1: had come, and I just said, there is some other 528 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: way I'm supposed to be using myself. I don't really 529 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 1: know how. I don't know what that means, but one 530 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: thing about me, when God tells me go, I go. 531 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: And so it was just very clear that I needed 532 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 1: to create some spaciousness so that whatever this next stage 533 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 1: and step was for me, I had the space to 534 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 1: receive it, even without knowing what it was. And so 535 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,280 Speaker 1: I left my career in radio and I signed off 536 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: with my listeners and I said, you know, I'll return 537 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: to radio when and if I get the opportunity to 538 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: talk about the things that are important to me. And 539 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 1: you know, for the last ten years, I've been just 540 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 1: really entrenched in in self study and certification programs and 541 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 1: really working my process and getting highly trained around trauma 542 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: and meditation and well being and all the mechanisms of 543 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 1: healing and different healing modalities, and so I needed all 544 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 1: this time, and so I have this beautiful opportunity, uh 545 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: in the last week to be a part of something 546 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: really incredible that I heard was doing called Living Black, 547 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 1: where they were exploring um the cultural significance and cultural 548 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 1: impact of blackness on the world and on trends and 549 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,320 Speaker 1: on music and on all the things. And it was 550 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: a really really special and important programming. And so actually 551 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: was my old boss that called me up, and one 552 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 1: of my old bosses, my big, big boss, not my 553 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,800 Speaker 1: day to day boss, but my o g exact boss, 554 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,319 Speaker 1: and he gave me a call and he asked me 555 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 1: to be a part of it with one of my 556 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 1: best friends, which is Charlemagne, Charlemagne the God, Leonard Um 557 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: my family. And so we did this really beautiful segment 558 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: within that Living Black Peace and I heard it on 559 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: the radio while I was in my car. I was 560 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: in Venice speech with a girlfriend, and I turned on 561 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: the radio and I heard my voice leading meditation on 562 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,319 Speaker 1: the hip hop station where I'm at, and it was 563 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: just one of the most gorgeous full circle moments. You know, 564 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: the last time I was on the radio, I was 565 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: probably throwing to a song and you know, talking about 566 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: whatever the latest was. And this time I got to 567 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: hear my tool and my gift and my voice but 568 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,280 Speaker 1: used towards something that I was really really really passionate about, 569 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,120 Speaker 1: which is healing and meditation. And so to be able 570 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: to do it in that way, to be able to 571 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: do that with the company that I worked with, and 572 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,440 Speaker 1: to be able to do that with one of my 573 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: closest friends, it was just such a gift, like such 574 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: a joy, and I felt so grateful for it. So 575 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 1: that for me was really um God's beautiful confirmation of 576 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,840 Speaker 1: you are in your purpose, girl, You are in your purpose. 577 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 1: So if you want to see that moment, to have 578 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: it on my Instagram page, on my um I G 579 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: t V. So I love that. Right before we get 580 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,200 Speaker 1: out of here, I want to lead everyone on a 581 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 1: little meditation. And this is a meditation that I first 582 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 1: learned maybe ten years ago, eight or ten years ago, 583 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 1: and it was really powerful for me because it it 584 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: showed me the space within myself that there is always worth, 585 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: regardless of the roles that I play in other people's 586 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: lives and regardless of who I am to people or 587 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 1: what I get paid to do. And so I want 588 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,920 Speaker 1: to lean into that right now in this moment. So 589 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 1: take a second wherever you are listening to this podcast, 590 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: um not while you're driving the police, and find somewhere 591 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 1: comfortable to sit. I want you to maybe get a blanket. 592 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: If that feels good, get a notebook. If that feels good, 593 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,440 Speaker 1: something might can come up. You want to write it 594 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 1: down and go get comfortable. I'll wait just a second. 595 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: And if that comfort feels like you sitting in a chair, 596 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: you're sitting on the ground with your legs crossed, you 597 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:52,360 Speaker 1: laying down. All of the above are enough for this moment. 598 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,799 Speaker 1: All right, Now that you're nice and humpy, I want 599 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 1: to invite you to go ahead and gently close your eyes, 600 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 1: and then go ahead and just just kind of notice 601 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 1: your body. So do you need to crack your neck, 602 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:32,919 Speaker 1: release your tongue from the roof of your mouth, let 603 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:47,719 Speaker 1: your shoulders drop, hands on tops of thighs or to 604 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: your side with the palms up in a state of receiving, 605 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 1: kind of wiggle your hips a little bit. Just loosen 606 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: and just do a gentle scan through your body. So 607 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:13,200 Speaker 1: continue down your legs and your knees, go to the 608 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:22,960 Speaker 1: tips of your toes and anywhere on your body that 609 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:30,799 Speaker 1: needs it. Just send up some love, some nourishment. Let 610 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: it melt a little bit. Just let it melt. Mm hmm. Okay, 611 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,799 Speaker 1: now I still gently close. We're gonna take in three 612 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: breaths together. So the way that we're going to do 613 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: this is I when we get started, we're gonna do 614 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 1: an inhale through our noses and really powerfully imagine our 615 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,719 Speaker 1: beautiful lungs filling like balloons with that nerves, wishing air 616 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: and creating some space, really expanding our hearts in our chests. 617 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,800 Speaker 1: And then we're gonna hold that breath at the top. 618 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 1: We'll hold it inside for about somewhere in between five 619 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,839 Speaker 1: and ten seconds, just holding it in, and then we'll 620 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: release through our mouths with the size. It'll sound kind 621 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:33,200 Speaker 1: of like this, and really imagine all the air leaving 622 00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:37,320 Speaker 1: your body, really pushing it out, and anything that doesn't 623 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,880 Speaker 1: serve you any blockages to your own love, to your 624 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,919 Speaker 1: own healing, we're gonna push right out. Let's go ahead 625 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:44,960 Speaker 1: and get started. We're gonna do this three times together 626 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 1: when you are ready, taking nice, big, big, big inhale 627 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:59,680 Speaker 1: in through your nose and then hold it at the top, 628 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:20,960 Speaker 1: oh and release. We're gonna do that two more times. 629 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,120 Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take a big and heal through 630 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 1: our noses. And now we'll go ahead and do that 631 00:40:47,200 --> 00:41:00,279 Speaker 1: one more time together. In heal through your nose. Yeah, 632 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 1: I still gently closed body is still really relaxed and comfortable. 633 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:17,440 Speaker 1: And go ahead and return to whatever breathing style feels 634 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 1: really natural, really nourishing for you. Maybe that's gentle in 635 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,240 Speaker 1: and out through your nose, whatever feels good. Just returned 636 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:31,160 Speaker 1: to that breath. And now we're going to go on 637 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 1: a little journey together. And this is really going to 638 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,520 Speaker 1: be rooted around the roles that we play. So typically 639 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:55,759 Speaker 1: when someone may ask who are you, and when you 640 00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,960 Speaker 1: may ask to yourself who am I? That usually gets 641 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,120 Speaker 1: filled with your name, with the roles that you play 642 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: for other people, and with your job title. So if 643 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,279 Speaker 1: I were to ask myself that question, you know who 644 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 1: am I? By that standard, I would say my name 645 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:23,160 Speaker 1: is Debbie Brown. I'm a mom, I am a well 646 00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,560 Speaker 1: being educator. So I want you to come up with 647 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,440 Speaker 1: how you fill those categories. Who are you? I just 648 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:35,920 Speaker 1: think it silently to yourself. I still closed, body is 649 00:42:35,960 --> 00:43:03,120 Speaker 1: still calm and relaxed. Who are you? Yeah, now that 650 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:07,640 Speaker 1: you've got it, I want you to go ahead, when 651 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:11,320 Speaker 1: I asked that prompt, to repeat those things to yourself. 652 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,600 Speaker 1: Your name, the role that you play in your household 653 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,279 Speaker 1: or your familial life, and maybe your job title. Or 654 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:25,160 Speaker 1: the skill set you identify with most. So ask yourself 655 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:35,320 Speaker 1: that question, now, who am I? Who am I? Who 656 00:43:35,800 --> 00:44:16,640 Speaker 1: am I? M hm m. And now I want you 657 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 1: to imagine you don't have that job title. You know, 658 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:28,800 Speaker 1: life happens um for whatever reasons, you are disconnected from 659 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:33,120 Speaker 1: that place of employment, from that work, from whatever that 660 00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,360 Speaker 1: title is, and whatever status that gave you or didn't, 661 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,839 Speaker 1: you are disconnected from it. So now when we ask 662 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:46,120 Speaker 1: ourselves that powerful question silently, we'll just be responding to 663 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,680 Speaker 1: ourselves with our name and the role that we play 664 00:44:49,680 --> 00:45:51,600 Speaker 1: in our family. Who am I? Who am I? Okay, 665 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:59,000 Speaker 1: now let's imagine that we are not currently playing that 666 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:05,120 Speaker 1: role in our family for whatever reason. No need to overthink. 667 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,759 Speaker 1: Maybe the children have left the nest, or maybe you're 668 00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:14,280 Speaker 1: not a caregiver to that parent. Maybe that relationship ended 669 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:19,600 Speaker 1: or changed, and so you're not carrying that rule of 670 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,960 Speaker 1: the way you show up for others either. Now you're 671 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:27,040 Speaker 1: just left with your name, says we ask ourselves that 672 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,960 Speaker 1: question silently again, go ahead and answer with your name, 673 00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:43,719 Speaker 1: no role, no job title. Who am I? Who am I? 674 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:16,200 Speaker 1: And now let's imagine that we have no name, write 675 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,840 Speaker 1: our name? Really, the thing we had no choice in 676 00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,879 Speaker 1: we came to Earth before our personalities were even known. 677 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,760 Speaker 1: It was handed to us. So imagine we no longer 678 00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:31,600 Speaker 1: have even whatever perception comes along with our name. When 679 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:37,439 Speaker 1: we say it, you know, no correct or in correct pronunciations, 680 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:42,120 Speaker 1: no connectedness to whatever story was behind it when your 681 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:48,399 Speaker 1: parents came up with it, no connectedness to the way 682 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:53,080 Speaker 1: someone said it or didn't, or any nicknames that were derived. 683 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,719 Speaker 1: So now let's experience that question that we silently ask 684 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:05,960 Speaker 1: our selves without the job, without the role, and without 685 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,400 Speaker 1: the name, and let's not try to fill it with 686 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,080 Speaker 1: an answer. Let's see what comes up. Who am I? 687 00:48:17,600 --> 00:49:22,279 Speaker 1: Who am I? Who am I? M hm h M. 688 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:35,960 Speaker 1: And Alice introduced a couple more questions, and we are 689 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:39,520 Speaker 1: not looking to fill these questions and these prompts with 690 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:43,880 Speaker 1: any answers. We're asking them and we will allow the 691 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:48,880 Speaker 1: space for us to be informed and hold space for 692 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:57,920 Speaker 1: what those answers are. What do I really want? What 693 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:35,320 Speaker 1: do I really want? What is my heart's deepest desire? 694 00:51:08,200 --> 00:52:03,960 Speaker 1: What is my purpose? What is my dorma? How can 695 00:52:04,000 --> 00:53:21,239 Speaker 1: I serve? How can I serve? Yeah, and now let's 696 00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:33,400 Speaker 1: gently come back into our bodies and whenever it feels comfortable, 697 00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:41,520 Speaker 1: go ahead and gently let your eyes flutter open. Mm hmm, 698 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:48,480 Speaker 1: how did that feel? The thing I love so much 699 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:53,759 Speaker 1: about that meditation is it's such a gorgeous reminder that 700 00:53:53,880 --> 00:54:03,719 Speaker 1: we exist and are worthy, regardless of our job, of 701 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,040 Speaker 1: the way we show for other people, regardless of our 702 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:11,920 Speaker 1: own identity and ego, We're still here. We still exist, 703 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:16,360 Speaker 1: we are still taking up space and have worth. And 704 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,600 Speaker 1: you know what you glimpse in that space of not 705 00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,520 Speaker 1: really being able to come up with the answer. You know, 706 00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,360 Speaker 1: when we strip ourselves away of all the quantifiables that 707 00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,560 Speaker 1: we think make us us, you're able to experience that 708 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:33,680 Speaker 1: peace we look for in meditation, that gap, the space 709 00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:38,640 Speaker 1: of pure potentiality between one thought and the next, where 710 00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:43,799 Speaker 1: anything is possible and anything could be made manifest, and 711 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,720 Speaker 1: that is available to us all the time. So please 712 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,080 Speaker 1: feel free to listen back to that meditation, to just 713 00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,839 Speaker 1: play that part, maybe before you go to bed, see 714 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,799 Speaker 1: what comes up in your dreams, maybe as a way 715 00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:02,160 Speaker 1: to start your day and create the spaciousness, allow the 716 00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,400 Speaker 1: space for the answers to come in. You don't have 717 00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:10,840 Speaker 1: to control all the outcomes. You are not an expert 718 00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:14,920 Speaker 1: on life. You're not even an expert yet on yourself. 719 00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,000 Speaker 1: None of us are. We are in pursuit of mastery 720 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:24,040 Speaker 1: that we have to leave room for the Universe's voice. 721 00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:28,160 Speaker 1: We have to leave room for God's voice. So create 722 00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:32,480 Speaker 1: that space. And also, if you would like more meditations 723 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:37,840 Speaker 1: from me, I do voice daily meditation on the Chopra 724 00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,360 Speaker 1: Well Being app. So if you have your iOS store 725 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,160 Speaker 1: that h O p R a chp app app daily 726 00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:48,000 Speaker 1: meditations on There about so many different kinds of things. 727 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,880 Speaker 1: So I hope you enjoyed that These are just some 728 00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,760 Speaker 1: of my most recent thoughts on purpose. I will continue 729 00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,960 Speaker 1: to explore and expand this conversation as my own journey 730 00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:04,440 Speaker 1: ex bands and changes form. But I'm really grateful for 731 00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,439 Speaker 1: you being here on the show. I have some really 732 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,080 Speaker 1: fun stuff I'm rolling out. I gotta do a big 733 00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,040 Speaker 1: shout out my girl love E. Her book, The Fear 734 00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:17,360 Speaker 1: Fighter Manual is officially out and in stores today. I 735 00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:20,359 Speaker 1: had an advance rate of it. It's remarkable. I mean, 736 00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:23,279 Speaker 1: she just has such a gift in such a way 737 00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,560 Speaker 1: with words, and so I highly recommend that you check 738 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:29,319 Speaker 1: out that book and allow yourself to be changed by it. 739 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,200 Speaker 1: Uh and also just support that amazing amazing work from 740 00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:37,400 Speaker 1: a wonderful person and I will catch you guys next episode. 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