Real-Life Witch Tahverlee Anglen on Energy, Hexing and Staying Human in a Digital World

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Powerfully,

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welcome to Fargo Talk.

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Thanks for having me here.

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I'm so excited.

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Long time coming.

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I know.

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We've been talking about it for a while.

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Yeah.

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And I get to be with you in Vegas,

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which is awesome.

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Well,

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you're fun.

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You're just a good person.

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There are a lot of similarities to you and my wife.

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You're just positive in your energy.

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It just exudes goodness.

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You know,

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I think.

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Greatness is a term overly used.

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You're like,

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oh,

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this person's great.

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I'd rather be consistently good than periodically great.

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Interesting.

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I want to be consistently positive.

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You are that.

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Well,

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thank you.

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For sure you are that.

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You're sweet.

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And thank you.

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Thanks for having me.

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This is fun.

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It'll be something that

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I've never even spoken.

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And we've been friends for a while and we work together.

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And so

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I've learned a lot about.

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you know,

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your spirituality,

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which is unbelievable.

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And I've never met someone more intuitive.

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Thank you.

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Who can like,

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not especially read yourself,

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but read other people.

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And so,

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yeah.

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That's exciting.

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And plus we talk a lot about our time together has been a lot about my side of business,

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not necessarily what I do in the business,

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but about the business,

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right?

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And so I think this conversation is more about who you are and not Toverly Inc.,

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but just Toverly and who you are and,

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you know,

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what you do because you have a massive audience online and there's folks that are out there and it's getting to be kind of a competitive area,

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right?

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Yeah.

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That there's other people now that are either just being more consistent with their content or their messaging or whatever that.

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So they're out there too.

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That's fine.

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Imitations is a sincerest form of flattery.

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You say that until you look at the hundred fake accounts in my name on TikTok.

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A hundred.

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I literally got a DM today from a friend of mine whose show I've been on a few times.

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And not only are there these fake accounts in my name now,

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they're selling full courses in my name as well.

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Courses.

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Not just like readings.

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And I just reported it all this morning.

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I'm like,

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wow.

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I mean,

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that takes some big balls.

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They're going to get.

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tracked down and that's fraud.

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Like that's serious fraud.

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That's fraud.

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Yeah.

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But besides that,

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yes,

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people are going to do what they're going to do.

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I just learned recently as,

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and it's only my fault up until,

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uh,

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two months ago,

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I never had Fargo talks trademarked.

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Well,

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that's an interesting story.

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Cause you know,

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it's very difficult for me to trademark my name,

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which is what I should do because none of my businesses yet until we,

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if we're going to talk about the books,

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I have

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necessarily under my name.

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If your name is not included in your business,

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what are you trademarking?

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You can trademark the name of your business.

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You can trademark the name of all the different things that you do,

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your podcasts,

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but without it being specifically your name,

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you can't just trademark your name.

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And I have a unique name.

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So I wanted to trademark it and I couldn't.

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I tried.

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I'm still working on it.

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That is something that,

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yeah,

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needs to get done.

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Because then whenever someone does something,

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anywhere especially online you just send them your trademark info and that's gone i know i'm working on it that was a good reminder i've got you i've got you okay um so where are we going to start we're going to start with the origin of magic uh you help others remember who

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they came here to be but when was the first time you felt real magic or a spiritual presence and thought this is real such a good question

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And I have to separate it into a few facets,

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as I do,

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as you know,

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I do.

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The first part is defining magic,

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right?

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Because there are many different definitions of magic.

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And so for this,

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for our conversation today,

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I'm going to define magic as intentionally creating or doing something to influence change.

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so we got that.

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But we'll just assume that there are different ways to describe it.

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And that's very simple,

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you know,

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compared to a lot of practices.

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That's a very...

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simple rendition,

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but I think it's enough for us for today.

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And we need to separate when I first experienced magic from,

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you know,

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the spiritual path,

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from the awakening of knowing that there's more to life than,

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you know,

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what we see in the 3D,

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what we strive for.

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they go hand in hand,

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but the magic came like practicing magic or witchcraft came after.

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I really developed a lot of inner knowing.

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around the spiritual plane.

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It isn't really talked about.

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I certainly wasn't raised,

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and I don't mean spiritual plane as in religion.

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I mean the unseen realms.

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things that live in the space between where you and I are sitting right here.

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It's not empty.

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It's full of energy.

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It's full of thoughts.

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It's full of my heartbeat connecting to your heartbeat,

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all this energy.

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I explored that first.

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I knew that was real before I really went down the path of understanding,

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I'll say rituals,

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magic,

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spellcasting.

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or anything that I started intentionally doing to influence through the unseen realm.

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So I had to put all those caveats in.

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So when you ask,

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when did I first experience that?

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it was a series of hard things that we all go through in life that led me to ask this question,

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is this all there is?

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Is this all there is?

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Are we working to buy more things?

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Are we striving to have the perfect relationship.

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raise the perfect children and have the right house.

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And then that crashed down and then it crashed down in different ways as life does and things change.

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And I just had this inkling and it stayed with me for a long time before I even said it aloud.

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This idea of,

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is this all there is?

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And then the moment that I actually said it out loud came following a surgical complication that I had having a tumor removed from my breast where I ended up with a full system.

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infection that went into my lymph system.

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And when I went in for this emergency surgery,

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I can't say that I had a near-death experience or anything like that.

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I can say that when I went to sleep for that second surgery,

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I saw the other side.

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And it wasn't scary.

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There was no,

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like my life didn't flash before my eyes.

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It was none of that.

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I just knew that,

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okay,

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maybe I was on the edge there a little.

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And when I came out of it,

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I said that question aloud.

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Is this all there is?

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Like when I,

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if I can see that in a dream state,

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you know,

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led by,

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you know,

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medication to put me to sleep.

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If I can see that,

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well,

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then what is there?

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And then I just started down the rabbit hole of researching energy,

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researching life,

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death,

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rituals,

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meditation,

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all the things.

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And as I did that,

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I feel like when you start playing in energy,

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energy starts playing with you.

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So I started playing with energy and,

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the universe,

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God,

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God has started giving me these little

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breadcrumbs to lead me to the next thing to explore.

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And then one day I met someone who was,

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you know,

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actually a practicing witch that led me into all the education that I then began,

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which was about 10 years ago.

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So yeah.

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Do you think that energy has a,

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we have a reciprocal relationship with energy?

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With all energy sources,

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yes.

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Talk to me about that.

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I'd love to hear more about that.

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Well,

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let's do it.

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Let's do some energy connection.

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How about that?

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All right.

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So I'm going to,

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you can keep your eyes open for this.

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Normally I have people close their eyes,

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but I want you to just close your eyes for a moment.

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And I want you to do a three breath cycle with me.

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We're going to do nine count in and nine count out.

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Here we go.

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Breathe in.

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Keep going.

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Keep going.

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And now start a slow release.

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Breathe in one more time,

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nice and slow.

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Fill your belly,

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keep going,

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keep going,

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keep going.

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Slow release.

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we're going to do it one more time.

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Breathe in nice and slow.

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And slowly as you let it go,

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let your breathing return to normal.

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And now I want you to turn your intention into your heart.

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Give it all of your attention and see if you can feel your heart beating inside your chest.

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That beautiful organ keeping you alive without you even asking.

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See if you can feel your heartbeat.

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Good.

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Now open your eyes.

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So what I did there is the moment you,

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I felt.

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when you could connect your heartbeat from here,

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I put mine in sync with yours.

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I changed my heartbeat after I could feel yours and I felt us going like this.

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And I'm sure you felt it.

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It was wild.

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Yeah.

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That was wild.

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Yeah.

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So yeah,

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energy.

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And that to me is,

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that's magic,

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right?

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I mean,

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there's a thousand definitions of magic,

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but that's like a beautiful.

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Yeah.

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And that's why I do what I do,

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because if we can pay attention to that energy and do that with nature,

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do that with the things that are real,

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like the people that we love and our children and our passion,

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then we're creating change that.

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You can't track,

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that you can't put into a data set that is going to give you an output from an AI tool that says,

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oh,

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that change happened.

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You can't do that.

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But what you can do is you can feel it.

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And once you feel it and you know it to be true,

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nobody can take that back out of you.

293
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It is incredible because when we've talked about this,

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we live in such an electronically dominated society now.

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And to close your eyes and do three nine count breaths.

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And then be mindful enough to identify and be in tune with your own heartbeat and feel your own heartbeat.

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Listen to that.

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No AI tool can replicate that.

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No.

300
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Right?

301
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And how long do you think that took?

302
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30 seconds.

303
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Right.

304
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And how many people do you think go about their whole life without ever paying attention to the fact that there's this thing inside of them that's beating and moving and breathing this whole organism that…

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is alive,

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that's creating everything we're experiencing in our life,

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right?

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It's our house that's holding our soul and your soul is connected to your heart.

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And if we think about how simple something like that is and how important it is.

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It's something that we move so fast.

311
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And actually,

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if you think about it and if you reflect,

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the more you slow down,

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you'll get more done.

315
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Isn't there the saying,

316
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I think you know that I used to teach Krav Maga.

317
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I was a student and then an instructor in Krav Maga.

318
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There's something we used to say all the time that slow is steady,

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steady is smooth,

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and smooth becomes fast.

321
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That's how you get through things.

322
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But slow living is,

323
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boy,

324
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that's an act of rebellion.

325
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Amen.

326
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And that's a part of,

327
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I'm writing another book,

328
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which as you know,

329
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I have a new book in the works,

330
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which we won't talk about because it's not coming out until 2027.

331
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But I'm writing this idea of how to hold rebellion.

332
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When we're all still in the system,

333
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like we're in the system,

334
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I'm in the machine,

335
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you're in the machine.

336
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We are living in this digital world.

337
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But how do we be sovereign?

338
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How do we stay human in this digital world?

339
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Well,

340
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it's things like that.

341
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And it's things like it's counterintuitive.

342
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But like the business guy in me is like,

343
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you need an app where it's AI-towerly.

344
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And it's like you talking to whoever,

345
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mentioning them by name and saying,

346
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okay,

347
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now it's time to be mindful and how to become,

348
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I want you to be your own sovereign being with me right now for the next 30 seconds.

349
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And for people,

350
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for you to be that person for them every day,

351
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every day.

352
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Okay.

353
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So this is so fascinating that you say that.

354
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So there is a new app that has just been released by a spiritual leader named Deepak Chopra,

355
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which you've probably heard of.

356
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So they have...

357
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taken 90 pieces of his content and everything that he's written and built it into this AI tool and created just that.

358
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So for 30 cents a minute or 30 cents every five minutes,

359
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you can log in and hear

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Deepak Chopra give you that.

361
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Now,

362
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it is getting terrible,

363
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terrible reviews from the spiritual community because,

364
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and I mean,

365
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I don't disagree with the concept because what you just said,

366
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I feel like that too,

367
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right?

368
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How do we...

369
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How do we reach more people?

370
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And I'm not the only person doing this work.

371
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There's lots of us.

372
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But of course,

373
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YouTube and my own,

374
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you know,

375
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the things that I do,

376
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I try to put out as much as I can.

377
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But we need a lot of people doing this for us to see real change.

378
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But there's not a lot of support for him doing this app.

379
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And I think part of it is because a few people have gone in and tested it and asked really hard questions that people might start leaning on if they have an app like that.

380
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that unless you have a

381
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beating heart and you can feel what they're saying,

382
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you can't support.

383
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So as much as I agree with you that there should be an app where I'm talking to people,

384
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it's called YouTube and it's my name.

385
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But yeah,

386
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we need more people doing this.

387
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That is the biggest challenge I think in your field is authenticity.

388
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And when do you cross that line?

389
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where it's not authentic anymore.

390
00:14:21.945 --> 00:14:22.304
You know,

391
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because everyone now is trying to do things bigger,

392
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stronger,

393
00:14:27.089 --> 00:14:27.573
faster,

394
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scale it,

395
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you know,

396
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10x this,

397
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10x that,

398
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where

399
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I don't see how you can really do that with what you are and who you are.

400
00:14:41.097 --> 00:14:41.644
Maybe I'm wrong.

401
00:14:42.300 --> 00:14:42.831
We try.

402
00:14:43.081 --> 00:14:44.222
I'm still running a business.

403
00:14:44.534 --> 00:14:45.706
I feel like I'm of service.

404
00:14:45.972 --> 00:14:46.092
But

405
00:14:46.854 --> 00:14:49.583
I also have a business attached to part of that service,

406
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not all of it.

407
00:14:51.552 --> 00:14:52.251
I think that...

408
00:14:54.069 --> 00:15:03.200
Working in a capitalistic society and still trying to stay authentic in the spiritual or witchcraft space is hard.

409
00:15:03.895 --> 00:15:05.622
But you see me doing it on social media.

410
00:15:06.380 --> 00:15:08.325
I just say a lot of things that are controversial.

411
00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:15.872
Because maybe you're scrolling through looking for kittens and then you're going to come across one of my posts that says,

412
00:15:16.637 --> 00:15:17.106
don't do this,

413
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just hex them instead.

414
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But,

415
00:15:18.747 --> 00:15:18.997
you know,

416
00:15:19.075 --> 00:15:21.809
I'm really just knowing and I do know that.

417
00:15:22.509 --> 00:15:29.395
What I'm putting out is really giving people a slice of something being possible with my goal of being of service to them in a greater way.

418
00:15:29.434 --> 00:15:36.504
So I'm aware that small pieces of clips or even a 10-minute video is only hopefully going to open the door.

419
00:15:36.520 --> 00:15:38.403
I know it's not the depth that people need.

420
00:15:38.449 --> 00:15:44.403
So I continue to try to provide ways in which people can go bigger into their own path.

421
00:15:44.465 --> 00:15:45.668
But I don't think that there's a

422
00:15:46.293 --> 00:15:50.731
I don't have a desire to take it in the way that we might for normal businesses.

423
00:15:50.793 --> 00:15:51.465
Right.

424
00:15:52.073 --> 00:15:54.475
What is the strongest way somebody can...

425
00:15:54.476 --> 00:15:55.176
Normal businesses,

426
00:15:55.215 --> 00:15:55.596
sorry.

427
00:15:55.617 --> 00:15:55.736
Yeah,

428
00:15:56.078 --> 00:15:56.578
you're fine.

429
00:15:58.238 --> 00:16:06.129
What is the most impactful way someone can take themselves in their own direction and make themselves better?

430
00:16:08.051 --> 00:16:08.176
Well,

431
00:16:08.177 --> 00:16:11.457
the most important thing to do is to start by connecting to your body.

432
00:16:12.817 --> 00:16:18.113
We have these amazing machines that we are housed in that...

433
00:16:18.192 --> 00:16:21.363
And I'm going to talk specifically on the female side on the...

434
00:16:21.537 --> 00:16:29.344
the woman's side that we have been conditioned to become so estranged from for a multitude of reasons.

435
00:16:29.567 --> 00:16:30.567
We've been controlled,

436
00:16:30.966 --> 00:16:32.731
we've been conditioned,

437
00:16:33.091 --> 00:16:34.630
we've been persecuted,

438
00:16:34.708 --> 00:16:41.653
and it's created a lot of comfort in being disconnected from our bodies.

439
00:16:41.762 --> 00:16:43.419
And that's the first wisdom center.

440
00:16:44.106 --> 00:16:45.247
And it's the same for men,

441
00:16:45.466 --> 00:16:49.559
although their experience and connected with their body is going to be different than it is for women,

442
00:16:49.622 --> 00:16:51.044
but the practices are the same.

443
00:16:51.509 --> 00:16:52.589
So to get started,

444
00:16:52.709 --> 00:16:56.972
things like putting your digital devices aside,

445
00:16:57.370 --> 00:16:59.507
sitting in either meditation or sitting in nature,

446
00:16:59.608 --> 00:17:03.874
spending time in stillness and in quiet without any external input,

447
00:17:04.694 --> 00:17:05.991
and then connecting to your body,

448
00:17:06.108 --> 00:17:09.898
it will start to allow you to hear what's happening on the inside of your soul.

449
00:17:10.460 --> 00:17:11.648
And it's not easy.

450
00:17:11.726 --> 00:17:13.898
There isn't a 10-minute fix for it.

451
00:17:14.507 --> 00:17:19.054
There isn't a recipe that you can follow because everyone is different.

452
00:17:19.477 --> 00:17:23.958
Starting with your body and starting with presence to what you feel,

453
00:17:24.259 --> 00:17:24.516
know,

454
00:17:24.919 --> 00:17:25.157
see,

455
00:17:25.356 --> 00:17:28.641
and hear from inside of you is the place to start.

456
00:17:29.102 --> 00:17:30.016
And that takes practice.

457
00:17:31.438 --> 00:17:32.423
And again,

458
00:17:32.540 --> 00:17:36.462
it's something that we just have to do over and over and over again.

459
00:17:36.727 --> 00:17:41.915
It's way better in that place anyway because in your body is where you're feeling.

460
00:17:42.399 --> 00:17:42.555
Now,

461
00:17:42.946 --> 00:17:43.274
of course,

462
00:17:43.305 --> 00:17:46.821
you're going to feel the parts of your body that you've discarded or been cast aside.

463
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or if you're a woman.

464
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There's a high chance that your body has been abused in some way in some shape of your life.

465
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I mean,

466
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this is,

467
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we know the percentage of women that have experienced some type of sexual trauma and their body is high.

468
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So when we start connecting to our body,

469
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yes,

470
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the shadows are going to come out.

471
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The shadows are part of who we are.

472
00:18:04.478 --> 00:18:04.681
And,

473
00:18:04.822 --> 00:18:05.056
you know,

474
00:18:05.275 --> 00:18:05.650
of course,

475
00:18:05.651 --> 00:18:08.087
there's lots of methods to deal with that.

476
00:18:08.181 --> 00:18:09.712
But once you start connecting to it,

477
00:18:10.103 --> 00:18:13.337
you're going to feel the painful things and the good things and it all lives inside of you.

478
00:18:13.806 --> 00:18:16.837
We forget that the things that make us really happy,

479
00:18:17.431 --> 00:18:17.712
aren't they?

480
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They're not a feeling outside of us.

481
00:18:19.303 --> 00:18:21.224
It might be something outside of us that made us happy,

482
00:18:21.324 --> 00:18:24.408
like a beautiful leaf falling from a tree on a fall day.

483
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You might look at it and say,

484
00:18:25.447 --> 00:18:25.568
oh,

485
00:18:25.607 --> 00:18:26.587
I bless that leaf.

486
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That leaf was,

487
00:18:28.072 --> 00:18:28.869
that was everything.

488
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But the leaf was just being the leaf.

489
00:18:31.072 --> 00:18:32.814
The feeling is inside of us.

490
00:18:34.283 --> 00:18:35.501
That's where all the good stuff is.

491
00:18:36.439 --> 00:18:38.595
I remember you had a post about,

492
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and again,

493
00:18:39.423 --> 00:18:39.580
it's,

494
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I could be wrong,

495
00:18:40.581 --> 00:18:42.126
but like hugging a tree.

496
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Talk to me about that.

497
00:18:44.861 --> 00:18:46.314
I thought that was wonderful because,

498
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I mean.

499
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From our generation,

500
00:18:48.683 --> 00:18:50.544
you're like tree huggers with a Sierra Club.

501
00:18:50.545 --> 00:18:51.464
What are you doing?

502
00:18:51.644 --> 00:18:53.788
You're like chaining yourself to a sequoia.

503
00:18:54.589 --> 00:18:55.550
They won't take it down.

504
00:18:55.706 --> 00:18:56.753
Here come the bulldozers.

505
00:18:57.253 --> 00:18:58.214
That's what I thought of.

506
00:18:58.269 --> 00:19:01.675
But then when you said it was completely different,

507
00:19:02.534 --> 00:19:04.479
and I would love you to share your thoughts on that.

508
00:19:05.276 --> 00:19:08.167
So the first book in these series of books that I'm writing,

509
00:19:08.168 --> 00:19:09.042
I'm writing four books,

510
00:19:09.120 --> 00:19:14.995
and they're based upon each cardinal direction because each cardinal direction holds an element.

511
00:19:15.537 --> 00:19:19.639
And each cardinal directions element has different types of magic that you can connect to.

512
00:19:20.260 --> 00:19:24.569
And what I teach is that we all move through all the directions in this spiral path.

513
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We go from the north,

514
00:19:27.428 --> 00:19:28.389
which is the earth,

515
00:19:28.451 --> 00:19:30.694
and winter and slow periods to the east,

516
00:19:30.748 --> 00:19:32.350
which is our beliefs,

517
00:19:32.819 --> 00:19:34.162
how we feel about ourselves.

518
00:19:34.256 --> 00:19:35.600
It's everything related to air.

519
00:19:36.022 --> 00:19:37.022
We go to the south,

520
00:19:37.037 --> 00:19:37.756
which is fire,

521
00:19:37.803 --> 00:19:38.600
and it's our passion,

522
00:19:38.647 --> 00:19:40.569
and it's the ripeness of summer.

523
00:19:40.570 --> 00:19:41.615
And then we move to the west,

524
00:19:41.662 --> 00:19:42.225
where it's water,

525
00:19:42.350 --> 00:19:42.881
and it's fall.

526
00:19:43.433 --> 00:19:46.385
where things change and decay comes and we start the cycle again.

527
00:19:47.610 --> 00:19:49.677
So if we were to put a tree in...

528
00:19:50.591 --> 00:19:54.315
amongst that great spiral path of life in the way that I teach it,

529
00:19:54.754 --> 00:19:56.055
the tree sits to the north,

530
00:19:56.618 --> 00:19:56.817
right?

531
00:19:56.879 --> 00:19:59.403
The tree is connected to the element of earth.

532
00:19:59.879 --> 00:20:06.629
The roots of the tree go down deep into the center of the earth and the branches of the tree continue to grow towards the sun.

533
00:20:06.692 --> 00:20:09.411
Like this is a physical fact of a tree,

534
00:20:10.536 --> 00:20:11.114
but so do we,

535
00:20:12.020 --> 00:20:12.192
right?

536
00:20:12.707 --> 00:20:13.254
Our roots,

537
00:20:13.317 --> 00:20:14.254
when we're more rooted,

538
00:20:14.614 --> 00:20:15.911
more connected to our bodies,

539
00:20:16.364 --> 00:20:19.020
more aligned with who we are and not what's going on around us.

540
00:20:19.315 --> 00:20:20.637
then the higher we can grow.

541
00:20:20.697 --> 00:20:23.439
And we grow branches when we expand,

542
00:20:23.498 --> 00:20:25.119
when we try new things,

543
00:20:25.162 --> 00:20:26.443
when we experience more pleasure.

544
00:20:26.463 --> 00:20:30.127
All of those are like little berries on our own branches.

545
00:20:30.728 --> 00:20:32.244
So when you connect to a tree,

546
00:20:32.267 --> 00:20:36.713
you are connecting to a part of yourself in the way that nature is us,

547
00:20:36.760 --> 00:20:36.947
right?

548
00:20:36.948 --> 00:20:38.510
We have all these same things.

549
00:20:38.511 --> 00:20:39.353
A tree goes to sleep,

550
00:20:39.572 --> 00:20:40.900
a tree sheds its leaves,

551
00:20:41.338 --> 00:20:43.056
its roots connect to other roots,

552
00:20:43.166 --> 00:20:44.713
just like we connect to other humans.

553
00:20:45.135 --> 00:20:46.369
So when you're connecting to a tree,

554
00:20:46.385 --> 00:20:47.525
it's a real living thing.

555
00:20:48.115 --> 00:20:51.418
that's going through the same cycle of the directions like we are.

556
00:20:51.419 --> 00:20:52.258
So when you hug a tree,

557
00:20:52.758 --> 00:20:56.125
it's like giving a part of yourself to another thing.

558
00:20:56.586 --> 00:20:57.204
And that thing,

559
00:20:57.586 --> 00:21:00.290
all that it asks for in return is your attention,

560
00:21:00.907 --> 00:21:01.211
right?

561
00:21:01.212 --> 00:21:10.743
A tree will take all your energy and just disperse it in its roots and you just say thank you or maybe give it a little drink of your water and you will feel an immediate change in your body.

562
00:21:11.461 --> 00:21:13.836
And it might be hard for people to understand that if they've never done it.

563
00:21:14.305 --> 00:21:16.649
But I will say that like you and I just experienced,

564
00:21:16.727 --> 00:21:17.383
once you feel it,

565
00:21:17.811 --> 00:21:18.692
You can't unfeel it.

566
00:21:19.313 --> 00:21:19.872
And it's free.

567
00:21:20.114 --> 00:21:21.314
It doesn't cost anything to do that.

568
00:21:21.534 --> 00:21:22.435
And it's free.

569
00:21:22.876 --> 00:21:23.196
I know.

570
00:21:23.298 --> 00:21:23.939
And people are like,

571
00:21:24.056 --> 00:21:24.259
oh,

572
00:21:24.318 --> 00:21:26.837
that crazy hippie chick says go hug a tree.

573
00:21:27.439 --> 00:21:27.681
You know,

574
00:21:27.884 --> 00:21:29.064
grow branches like the tree.

575
00:21:29.126 --> 00:21:29.384
Well,

576
00:21:30.267 --> 00:21:30.462
really,

577
00:21:30.540 --> 00:21:32.587
there is a lot of studies that are happening now.

578
00:21:32.626 --> 00:21:33.204
Isn't this so funny?

579
00:21:33.243 --> 00:21:35.970
We must have just been talking so explosively.

580
00:21:36.048 --> 00:21:37.611
My ponytail just burst in my hair.

581
00:21:37.767 --> 00:21:38.251
Look at that.

582
00:21:39.595 --> 00:21:40.095
I love it.

583
00:21:40.096 --> 00:21:41.407
I love it.

584
00:21:41.408 --> 00:21:42.501
My branches got big.

585
00:21:44.595 --> 00:21:45.436
The tree itself,

586
00:21:45.516 --> 00:21:47.518
if you study a lot of what's happening in science,

587
00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:51.762
they will tell you that a tree has the ability to change energy.

588
00:21:51.844 --> 00:21:53.043
So if we just go back to energy,

589
00:21:53.402 --> 00:21:56.949
a tree is a natural alchemizer of energy and different trees have different energy.

590
00:21:57.387 --> 00:21:58.746
So whenever you're near that tree,

591
00:21:58.747 --> 00:22:01.285
you're basically just combining energy like we just did.

592
00:22:01.691 --> 00:22:02.551
Simpler way to say it.

593
00:22:03.598 --> 00:22:05.098
Now that I just burst my ponytail.

594
00:22:07.473 --> 00:22:08.082
And for the record,

595
00:22:08.113 --> 00:22:08.395
Brandy,

596
00:22:08.426 --> 00:22:10.082
I had nothing to do with the bursting of my ponytails.

597
00:22:10.441 --> 00:22:10.941
Just saying.

598
00:22:13.207 --> 00:22:16.170
You're on a mission to redefine the modern mystic.

599
00:22:17.153 --> 00:22:21.953
Why do you feel the world needs witches and spiritual leaders now more than ever?

600
00:22:23.016 --> 00:22:26.157
And what do you fear would happen if we ignore that call?

601
00:22:26.219 --> 00:22:28.500
That's a good question.

602
00:22:30.422 --> 00:22:37.203
We need to retain our humanity as we grow as an evolutionary part of where we're at.

603
00:22:37.891 --> 00:22:41.235
And I'm going to again kind of separate the men and the women here.

604
00:22:41.703 --> 00:22:45.227
And not because it's different for either because it's easier for me to categorize what I'm going to say.

605
00:22:46.350 --> 00:22:58.358
We need more women in touch with their bodies and in touch with the cycles and to be the healers and the creators that they are because women have something super special that we bring to the world.

606
00:22:58.983 --> 00:23:00.358
And it's called humans.

607
00:23:01.045 --> 00:23:02.764
Like without women,

608
00:23:03.311 --> 00:23:04.733
there wouldn't be other humans.

609
00:23:04.764 --> 00:23:04.983
You know,

610
00:23:04.984 --> 00:23:07.045
maybe one day there's going to be lab-based humans,

611
00:23:07.061 --> 00:23:11.170
but those aren't the kind of humans that I think any of us really want to see growing on this planet.

612
00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:13.460
The healers,

613
00:23:13.820 --> 00:23:14.401
the witches,

614
00:23:14.761 --> 00:23:20.306
and the women are in touch with their bodies and they are in service to others and not all.

615
00:23:20.408 --> 00:23:25.033
And I'm brushing big categories because it's easier for the conversation,

616
00:23:25.048 --> 00:23:28.822
but I recognize not all witches would identify themselves as a healer.

617
00:23:28.962 --> 00:23:32.040
Not all witches would identify themselves as a psychic.

618
00:23:32.540 --> 00:23:35.806
But I do think that in a lot of ways it goes hand in hand.

619
00:23:36.244 --> 00:23:37.837
We see a lot of people that are,

620
00:23:38.197 --> 00:23:38.447
you know,

621
00:23:38.665 --> 00:23:39.369
identify.

622
00:23:40.251 --> 00:23:47.718
as a witch or a healer are really just utilizing their own innate natural abilities to be empathic,

623
00:23:48.120 --> 00:23:48.698
to feel,

624
00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:49.401
to know,

625
00:23:49.878 --> 00:23:51.081
to bring wisdom forward.

626
00:23:51.104 --> 00:23:52.604
And we need more of that.

627
00:23:52.682 --> 00:23:53.448
And it has been,

628
00:23:53.807 --> 00:23:57.636
it has been conditioned out of women for so long that for even us,

629
00:23:57.823 --> 00:23:59.417
for us to be talking about this now,

630
00:23:59.448 --> 00:24:00.026
for some people,

631
00:24:00.057 --> 00:24:02.448
they're going to not understand what that means.

632
00:24:02.917 --> 00:24:04.792
And that is because it has been taken,

633
00:24:04.917 --> 00:24:05.073
right?

634
00:24:05.089 --> 00:24:06.792
It's been taken to fit into the system,

635
00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:07.854
to fit into a box,

636
00:24:08.542 --> 00:24:09.557
to be a certain way.

637
00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:11.260
Part of that's religion because,

638
00:24:11.261 --> 00:24:11.441
you know,

639
00:24:11.442 --> 00:24:11.721
of course,

640
00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:13.422
we just wiped all the women out of the story.

641
00:24:13.543 --> 00:24:16.164
But part of that's to fit in the box.

642
00:24:16.266 --> 00:24:20.367
But the other piece of that is that healers and witches,

643
00:24:20.930 --> 00:24:21.727
men or women,

644
00:24:22.211 --> 00:24:25.391
that are sovereign in their bodies aren't controllable.

645
00:24:27.414 --> 00:24:27.961
They cannot be,

646
00:24:28.320 --> 00:24:28.555
you know,

647
00:24:28.820 --> 00:24:30.617
led to believe things that aren't true.

648
00:24:31.727 --> 00:24:32.399
They are sovereign.

649
00:24:33.327 --> 00:24:37.254
So when we talk about how important it is to have more awake,

650
00:24:37.453 --> 00:24:38.578
let's just even use that word,

651
00:24:38.637 --> 00:24:40.399
more spiritually awake humans,

652
00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:44.504
it is more sovereign humans that don't want to be,

653
00:24:45.067 --> 00:24:45.309
you know,

654
00:24:45.310 --> 00:24:48.012
the sheep being led to slaughter by our government,

655
00:24:48.074 --> 00:24:48.973
by empire,

656
00:24:49.012 --> 00:24:49.895
whatever you want to call it.

657
00:24:50.737 --> 00:24:51.538
Systems of control.

658
00:24:54.540 --> 00:24:55.263
That just exploded.

659
00:24:56.103 --> 00:24:56.704
Because it's true.

660
00:24:57.103 --> 00:24:57.685
It is,

661
00:24:59.505 --> 00:25:08.239
you see it now with people online and they have just completely are devoid of their own personal sovereignty.

662
00:25:08.958 --> 00:25:09.349
Gone.

663
00:25:10.208 --> 00:25:14.974
And just malicious comments or lack of wanting to grow.

664
00:25:16.646 --> 00:25:20.286
The outright terrifying decline in.

665
00:25:20.897 --> 00:25:24.657
birth rates.

666
00:25:26.379 --> 00:25:34.082
What is the correlation between the decline in birth rates and the lack of a woman's sovereignty?

667
00:25:36.317 --> 00:25:36.442
Yeah,

668
00:25:36.481 --> 00:25:36.778
I mean,

669
00:25:37.395 --> 00:25:38.661
there's so much to that.

670
00:25:39.864 --> 00:25:41.989
Even putting the witchcraft side aside,

671
00:25:42.004 --> 00:25:48.082
we could talk about that because still we live in a time where racism and sexism still exists.

672
00:25:48.145 --> 00:25:48.301
Like,

673
00:25:48.661 --> 00:25:49.020
I don't know.

674
00:25:49.067 --> 00:25:49.801
I don't know what.

675
00:25:50.237 --> 00:25:51.458
Rock people think they're living under,

676
00:25:51.498 --> 00:25:53.261
but these issues have not been solved.

677
00:25:53.581 --> 00:25:53.820
You know,

678
00:25:54.202 --> 00:25:55.300
it's my lifetime.

679
00:25:55.382 --> 00:26:00.323
I was alive the day that the federal law changed that allowed a woman to get a mortgage without a man.

680
00:26:00.347 --> 00:26:02.425
It was 1979.

681
00:26:02.426 --> 00:26:02.550
Like,

682
00:26:02.566 --> 00:26:03.230
I was alive.

683
00:26:03.870 --> 00:26:06.941
So those issues that we were facing then,

684
00:26:07.378 --> 00:26:07.612
I mean,

685
00:26:07.628 --> 00:26:08.941
they're almost on the table again.

686
00:26:08.956 --> 00:26:12.097
There's a whole bunch of really young influencers.

687
00:26:12.098 --> 00:26:13.378
And this isn't about politics,

688
00:26:13.379 --> 00:26:13.597
you know,

689
00:26:13.659 --> 00:26:15.409
but whatever side they lean on,

690
00:26:15.862 --> 00:26:16.441
they feel.

691
00:26:16.581 --> 00:26:19.472
And there's a lot of very public voices coming out saying,

692
00:26:19.833 --> 00:26:20.814
Women shouldn't vote again.

693
00:26:20.995 --> 00:26:22.635
Like we should take women like back,

694
00:26:23.016 --> 00:26:24.616
put women back into that place.

695
00:26:26.120 --> 00:26:26.479
Wow.

696
00:26:27.342 --> 00:26:28.139
Right.

697
00:26:29.202 --> 00:26:31.303
There's almost a reversal kind of happening.

698
00:26:31.327 --> 00:26:37.389
I think of some of the stance that women have had to at least have a seat at the table.

699
00:26:37.467 --> 00:26:41.436
It's not to say that we women and I don't mean to generalize and speak for everyone,

700
00:26:41.437 --> 00:26:44.811
but I will generalize that there is still a lot of sexism that exists.

701
00:26:45.925 --> 00:26:47.968
we haven't yet got fully comfortable taking that seat.

702
00:26:48.247 --> 00:26:48.988
It might have been there.

703
00:26:49.288 --> 00:26:51.390
And now I think that seat is disappearing again.

704
00:26:51.391 --> 00:26:53.452
I think it's like slowly being taken out from under us.

705
00:26:54.030 --> 00:26:55.812
The birth rate issue is,

706
00:26:57.296 --> 00:26:58.859
I also think that that could be medically,

707
00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:02.124
that could be part of the fallout from what happened during the pandemic.

708
00:27:02.546 --> 00:27:03.968
I think our bodies are changing.

709
00:27:03.999 --> 00:27:06.843
I think our food sources aren't what they used to be.

710
00:27:06.952 --> 00:27:11.843
I think that we are trying to mass produce and mass control so much of what's happening,

711
00:27:11.905 --> 00:27:13.687
especially in the US where you and I.

712
00:27:14.121 --> 00:27:15.523
reside and are at the moment.

713
00:27:16.042 --> 00:27:22.107
I think that there are so many different systems at play trying to keep us a certain way that what we think we're controlling,

714
00:27:22.646 --> 00:27:23.247
we might not be.

715
00:27:24.529 --> 00:27:28.755
I think that given the explosion of AI,

716
00:27:29.755 --> 00:27:31.724
given the explosion of social media,

717
00:27:31.865 --> 00:27:36.365
that things are now being discovered that we never even knew about.

718
00:27:37.661 --> 00:27:38.052
Truth.

719
00:27:38.318 --> 00:27:38.505
Yeah.

720
00:27:39.208 --> 00:27:41.568
And like with large corporations controlling like...

721
00:27:41.941 --> 00:27:42.781
Here in Las Vegas,

722
00:27:42.821 --> 00:27:46.981
I forget now the percentage of homes owned by private equity firms like BlackRock.

723
00:27:47.040 --> 00:27:49.321
Like it's crazy.

724
00:27:49.704 --> 00:27:51.505
And it's across every industry,

725
00:27:51.700 --> 00:27:52.185
every niche,

726
00:27:52.239 --> 00:27:54.427
even in the spirituality communities that's happening.

727
00:27:54.825 --> 00:27:55.583
Like there's a break.

728
00:27:55.724 --> 00:27:56.841
Everything is breaking down.

729
00:27:57.247 --> 00:27:57.364
And,

730
00:27:57.365 --> 00:27:57.567
you know,

731
00:27:57.708 --> 00:27:59.872
this year is a nine year,

732
00:27:59.919 --> 00:28:01.528
which is an end of a cycle year.

733
00:28:01.591 --> 00:28:06.263
So if you were to talk to a lot of astrologers or people that study numerology,

734
00:28:06.325 --> 00:28:09.372
they would tell you that this is the year that everything is going to crack.

735
00:28:09.889 --> 00:28:11.071
Because there's something new coming.

736
00:28:11.110 --> 00:28:14.094
Like we're starting a whole new cycle and we know AI is a part of that.

737
00:28:14.473 --> 00:28:17.254
But I also think a big piece of that is this truth.

738
00:28:17.317 --> 00:28:19.262
Like the illusions are dropping.

739
00:28:19.715 --> 00:28:21.223
And while the illusions are dropping,

740
00:28:21.543 --> 00:28:22.824
not everybody's waking up to it.

741
00:28:23.465 --> 00:28:26.606
That's kind of I think the challenge that we face as humans is.

742
00:28:27.231 --> 00:28:30.403
And who are we to say the right way to wake up to a truth?

743
00:28:30.543 --> 00:28:33.418
That's the scariest part,

744
00:28:33.793 --> 00:28:34.293
my friend,

745
00:28:34.496 --> 00:28:36.731
is how do you wake up?

746
00:28:37.281 --> 00:28:38.002
More importantly,

747
00:28:38.222 --> 00:28:39.703
how do you wake others up?

748
00:28:39.884 --> 00:28:46.670
And I think that's your role on this planet is waking others up to identify,

749
00:28:47.248 --> 00:28:47.693
grow,

750
00:28:47.888 --> 00:28:50.295
and maintain their personal sovereignty.

751
00:28:50.373 --> 00:28:50.857
Sovereignty.

752
00:28:51.552 --> 00:28:51.795
Right?

753
00:28:52.716 --> 00:28:53.763
I was initiated.

754
00:28:53.764 --> 00:28:55.779
I've been initiated in a couple of different traditions.

755
00:28:55.857 --> 00:28:59.045
And one of the first traditions that I initiated in as a high priestess,

756
00:28:59.623 --> 00:29:03.560
that was actually a part of my initiatory code.

757
00:29:04.061 --> 00:29:06.063
was to be a warrior for sovereignty.

758
00:29:06.183 --> 00:29:10.085
So it is a part of the values and how I live my craft.

759
00:29:10.147 --> 00:29:11.991
It's how I run my business.

760
00:29:12.069 --> 00:29:12.210
And

761
00:29:13.593 --> 00:29:19.296
I do other type of business work in the social impact field because I'm passionate about supporting community.

762
00:29:20.093 --> 00:29:27.468
And I think that that word sovereignty is something that I want every human that I can touch to experience.

763
00:29:29.671 --> 00:29:29.968
To me,

764
00:29:30.093 --> 00:29:30.671
it is,

765
00:29:30.905 --> 00:29:31.327
again,

766
00:29:31.343 --> 00:29:32.827
go back the onion,

767
00:29:33.124 --> 00:29:33.311
right?

768
00:29:34.226 --> 00:29:35.707
and slow down.

769
00:29:37.048 --> 00:29:37.791
Stop with...

770
00:29:40.052 --> 00:29:40.630
Take it out.

771
00:29:40.974 --> 00:29:42.091
Stop with this all the time.

772
00:29:42.716 --> 00:29:42.998
You know,

773
00:29:43.795 --> 00:29:50.505
get rid of it for a little bit of time every day and just be in tune with who you are.

774
00:29:51.953 --> 00:29:52.073
Um,

775
00:29:52.695 --> 00:29:56.159
I think that you have to do that and then it's letting others know.

776
00:29:57.224 --> 00:29:58.505
And staying connected to your body.

777
00:29:58.905 --> 00:30:00.026
And staying connected to your body,

778
00:30:00.167 --> 00:30:02.689
which is the biggest challenge,

779
00:30:03.392 --> 00:30:04.271
especially as we get older.

780
00:30:05.130 --> 00:30:07.153
And you wake up and there's a different ache or pain.

781
00:30:10.239 --> 00:30:14.247
It's the longest running joke I have with Brandy is I get up in the morning and I have to sit.

782
00:30:14.341 --> 00:30:14.935
When I get up,

783
00:30:15.138 --> 00:30:17.419
I'll sit up and I have to sit for a few seconds.

784
00:30:17.919 --> 00:30:19.513
Let the blood get ready because if not,

785
00:30:19.528 --> 00:30:21.231
I get lightheaded if I stand up too quick.

786
00:30:21.825 --> 00:30:22.122
And so

787
00:30:23.388 --> 00:30:25.138
99.9% of the time,

788
00:30:25.356 --> 00:30:25.778
she says,

789
00:30:26.075 --> 00:30:26.575
are you okay?

790
00:30:27.132 --> 00:30:27.412
And I go,

791
00:30:27.753 --> 00:30:28.213
fuck no,

792
00:30:28.434 --> 00:30:29.635
I'm 56 years old.

793
00:30:30.174 --> 00:30:30.676
You kidding me?

794
00:30:30.737 --> 00:30:31.436
I'm not okay.

795
00:30:31.877 --> 00:30:32.377
Are you nuts?

796
00:30:32.819 --> 00:30:33.658
I say it's a joke,

797
00:30:33.717 --> 00:30:34.158
but really,

798
00:30:34.959 --> 00:30:36.162
there's some truth to that.

799
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:39.967
That as we get older and being Gen Xers,

800
00:30:40.084 --> 00:30:41.764
it was grin and bear it.

801
00:30:42.748 --> 00:30:43.069
You know,

802
00:30:43.311 --> 00:30:44.264
no one's going to help you.

803
00:30:44.592 --> 00:30:45.764
You got to do it yourself.

804
00:30:46.608 --> 00:30:46.904
You know,

805
00:30:47.014 --> 00:30:48.529
it doesn't matter who you piss off.

806
00:30:48.779 --> 00:30:50.014
Just do it and get it done.

807
00:30:50.529 --> 00:30:50.717
And,

808
00:30:50.951 --> 00:30:51.201
you know,

809
00:30:51.202 --> 00:30:52.358
rub dirt on it and take a lap.

810
00:30:52.764 --> 00:30:53.561
And you'll be fine.

811
00:30:54.186 --> 00:30:54.483
You know,

812
00:30:54.654 --> 00:30:54.998
and no.

813
00:30:56.024 --> 00:30:57.445
That's not looking back now.

814
00:30:57.526 --> 00:30:57.826
It's like,

815
00:30:58.086 --> 00:30:58.746
oh.

816
00:30:59.486 --> 00:31:02.112
So you know what we could add into that list of what you just said?

817
00:31:02.311 --> 00:31:08.994
One little powerful thing that is an interesting topic for people to explore is contemplate your death more often.

818
00:31:09.760 --> 00:31:20.987
I teach a ritual at the end of a whole bunch of classes in mystery school that is to write your own obituary and have a little death ceremony for all the parts of you that you've left behind from birth till now.

819
00:31:21.487 --> 00:31:24.127
And you fill a little box with items and.

820
00:31:24.336 --> 00:31:31.224
letters to yourself and the old parts of you that knows you just fucked shit up and all the things like forgive yourself,

821
00:31:31.321 --> 00:31:32.044
release the shame,

822
00:31:32.103 --> 00:31:32.700
release the guilt,

823
00:31:32.724 --> 00:31:33.388
do that process,

824
00:31:33.443 --> 00:31:33.982
put it in a box,

825
00:31:34.646 --> 00:31:38.466
have a full party,

826
00:31:38.989 --> 00:31:39.669
bury the box,

827
00:31:40.091 --> 00:31:43.732
and then write your own obituary for the rest of this time you have left in life.

828
00:31:44.138 --> 00:31:46.200
And most people get super uncomfortable with that.

829
00:31:46.622 --> 00:31:48.544
And I think it's because of the part of the world we live in,

830
00:31:48.560 --> 00:31:49.794
we don't talk about death enough.

831
00:31:50.341 --> 00:31:51.966
And we know that our,

832
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:54.520
My belief system is we live again.

833
00:31:54.840 --> 00:31:55.900
We've lived in the past.

834
00:31:56.281 --> 00:31:58.000
We might incarnate to another body.

835
00:31:58.141 --> 00:32:00.320
We definitely have incarnated before.

836
00:32:00.820 --> 00:32:04.680
I don't think I've really met any new souls in my practice,

837
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:05.742
brand new souls,

838
00:32:05.781 --> 00:32:06.883
maybe newish souls,

839
00:32:06.922 --> 00:32:07.883
but not new souls.

840
00:32:08.578 --> 00:32:09.937
So if we're going to incarnate again,

841
00:32:10.766 --> 00:32:17.812
there's a type of karma that gets often associated with the things we didn't do in this lifetime carry forward into the next lifetime.

842
00:32:17.813 --> 00:32:19.062
And I don't mean karma isn't bad.

843
00:32:19.141 --> 00:32:19.484
I mean,

844
00:32:19.562 --> 00:32:19.812
just...

845
00:32:20.444 --> 00:32:22.904
lessons that you or things you haven't experienced yet.

846
00:32:23.605 --> 00:32:25.443
But if we spend more time thinking about death,

847
00:32:26.064 --> 00:32:26.705
how would we live?

848
00:32:29.228 --> 00:32:31.486
I love to give homework to a lot of my students.

849
00:32:31.525 --> 00:32:34.306
And oftentimes that homework is,

850
00:32:34.330 --> 00:32:34.525
okay,

851
00:32:34.908 --> 00:32:35.846
if you had two years left,

852
00:32:36.713 --> 00:32:37.150
what would you do?

853
00:32:38.994 --> 00:32:39.572
How would you live?

854
00:32:40.353 --> 00:32:42.322
And sometimes for some people that brings up fear.

855
00:32:42.385 --> 00:32:43.369
So we have to like unwind.

856
00:32:43.650 --> 00:32:43.853
Okay.

857
00:32:43.916 --> 00:32:45.088
So what if you knew it was 10 years?

858
00:32:45.135 --> 00:32:46.666
What if you knew your expiry date?

859
00:32:47.494 --> 00:32:48.150
We all have one.

860
00:32:48.744 --> 00:32:49.369
It's going to happen.

861
00:32:50.212 --> 00:32:50.512
And yes,

862
00:32:50.552 --> 00:32:51.634
our souls might live on,

863
00:32:51.694 --> 00:32:52.595
but listen,

864
00:32:53.054 --> 00:32:55.499
you got to be in a body to have orgasms and eat chocolate,

865
00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:56.597
like enjoy those things.

866
00:32:56.937 --> 00:32:59.359
So I want to be in a body as long as I can.

867
00:33:00.945 --> 00:33:02.202
But if we're disconnected from it,

868
00:33:02.546 --> 00:33:05.968
we lose the ability to maximize how healthy it can be,

869
00:33:06.663 --> 00:33:07.835
how long it can live.

870
00:33:08.835 --> 00:33:12.038
I think everyone should spend a day with a hospice nurse.

871
00:33:13.007 --> 00:33:13.538
Love it.

872
00:33:14.195 --> 00:33:18.257
Everybody should spend a stay with a hospice nurse and see what they go through,

873
00:33:18.898 --> 00:33:19.585
where they are.

874
00:33:19.768 --> 00:33:23.352
caring for and tending to people that have days,

875
00:33:23.471 --> 00:33:23.774
months,

876
00:33:24.051 --> 00:33:31.602
weeks to live and dementia and where the brain is just gone and the body's okay.

877
00:33:32.938 --> 00:33:38.532
And it would give everybody much more of a perspective on how,

878
00:33:39.141 --> 00:33:42.454
what finite terms we are here on this planet.

879
00:33:42.485 --> 00:33:48.375
And I think it would help really set the standard for who we are to give more urgency on

880
00:33:49.248 --> 00:33:49.708
achieving,

881
00:33:50.068 --> 00:33:50.308
you know,

882
00:33:50.329 --> 00:33:51.768
a greater sense of sovereignty.

883
00:33:52.870 --> 00:33:53.788
When you know that we have,

884
00:33:53.967 --> 00:33:54.190
you know,

885
00:33:54.409 --> 00:33:55.428
the date that we're going to,

886
00:33:55.870 --> 00:33:56.768
we're all going to be born,

887
00:33:56.769 --> 00:33:57.249
we're all going to go.

888
00:33:57.250 --> 00:33:58.249
That's it.

889
00:33:58.592 --> 00:33:58.788
You know,

890
00:33:58.789 --> 00:33:59.413
100 years from now,

891
00:33:59.428 --> 00:34:00.288
we're ashes and dust.

892
00:34:00.749 --> 00:34:04.592
So what type of mark can we leave on this planet while we're here?

893
00:34:05.592 --> 00:34:05.874
Through,

894
00:34:06.171 --> 00:34:06.405
you know,

895
00:34:06.499 --> 00:34:07.327
first and foremost,

896
00:34:07.328 --> 00:34:08.014
the ones we love.

897
00:34:09.108 --> 00:34:13.592
But then also the other ones around us that we maybe didn't ever thought we had an impact on,

898
00:34:13.593 --> 00:34:16.014
but we did through doing something like this.

899
00:34:16.499 --> 00:34:16.608
Yeah.

900
00:34:16.889 --> 00:34:17.608
And they listen in.

901
00:34:17.702 --> 00:34:18.327
And that's where...

902
00:34:19.428 --> 00:34:19.988
I love,

903
00:34:20.148 --> 00:34:20.468
love,

904
00:34:20.609 --> 00:34:32.551
love what you do because you are an analog soul in a digital world right now.

905
00:34:33.293 --> 00:34:38.051
And you're doing extremely well in getting your message out to where,

906
00:34:38.129 --> 00:34:39.207
and I want to get into,

907
00:34:39.348 --> 00:34:40.332
because we're good on time,

908
00:34:41.067 --> 00:34:42.785
in a little bit with your books,

909
00:34:43.457 --> 00:34:46.535
because that is to talk about a legacy.

910
00:34:48.196 --> 00:34:49.799
The thing I can't stand is,

911
00:34:50.841 --> 00:34:51.802
and I have friends that have done it,

912
00:34:52.663 --> 00:34:53.464
no shade on them,

913
00:34:53.706 --> 00:34:55.089
but it's something I would never do,

914
00:34:55.909 --> 00:34:57.936
is you leave your name on a building.

915
00:34:58.541 --> 00:34:59.002
Here's the

916
00:34:59.602 --> 00:35:01.063
Jeff and Brandy Fargo,

917
00:35:02.305 --> 00:35:02.567
you know,

918
00:35:02.746 --> 00:35:04.106
ER at,

919
00:35:04.188 --> 00:35:04.426
you know,

920
00:35:04.606 --> 00:35:06.672
Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas.

921
00:35:07.227 --> 00:35:08.274
Fuck that.

922
00:35:08.789 --> 00:35:09.149
That is,

923
00:35:09.235 --> 00:35:11.617
you're giving money because you're a high net worth individual.

924
00:35:11.696 --> 00:35:13.938
It's a tax deduction and it's an ego play.

925
00:35:14.492 --> 00:35:15.914
And it lasts longer than a billboard.

926
00:35:16.477 --> 00:35:17.414
Your name's going to be there.

927
00:35:18.305 --> 00:35:25.805
How about writing a book and leaving that for generations to read and become better?

928
00:35:26.734 --> 00:35:27.234
And I don't know if

929
00:35:27.934 --> 00:35:28.936
I'm sure you've thought about it,

930
00:35:28.937 --> 00:35:34.760
but something I want to talk about with you before we get into the actual books themselves and starting with the first book.

931
00:35:34.799 --> 00:35:43.284
But it's have you even thought about the impact that let's say the first book will have on on the world?

932
00:35:43.768 --> 00:35:45.331
You know what I have thoughts of?

933
00:35:45.487 --> 00:35:48.315
Maybe not on the world because that feels like a lot to like process.

934
00:35:48.737 --> 00:35:52.596
You know what I do have thoughts of is let me ask you a question.

935
00:35:53.456 --> 00:35:55.846
How much would you love to be able to?

936
00:35:56.265 --> 00:36:00.545
pick up a book and read something that your great-grandmother wrote about her life.

937
00:36:01.525 --> 00:36:02.525
How much would that change you?

938
00:36:02.545 --> 00:36:03.826
How much would that change your children?

939
00:36:05.104 --> 00:36:06.088
That's what I think about.

940
00:36:06.447 --> 00:36:08.088
That I'm going to have grandkids.

941
00:36:08.346 --> 00:36:11.947
I'm going to be gone one day and I have a couple of grandkids alive right now.

942
00:36:11.986 --> 00:36:12.455
And I think,

943
00:36:12.986 --> 00:36:13.549
wow,

944
00:36:13.908 --> 00:36:14.549
whenever I go,

945
00:36:15.174 --> 00:36:22.205
they're going to have these things that I wrote in my voice about my life and about my practices that they can always have.

946
00:36:22.611 --> 00:36:24.299
And that just...

947
00:36:25.021 --> 00:36:26.403
There's something special about that.

948
00:36:26.743 --> 00:36:27.484
The rest of the world,

949
00:36:27.564 --> 00:36:27.784
yes,

950
00:36:27.865 --> 00:36:28.345
great too.

951
00:36:28.525 --> 00:36:28.685
But,

952
00:36:29.124 --> 00:36:29.366
you know,

953
00:36:29.484 --> 00:36:32.531
my own children and grandchildren,

954
00:36:32.788 --> 00:36:36.132
I'm going to be an awesome ancestor from the sky,

955
00:36:36.195 --> 00:36:36.851
from the underworld,

956
00:36:36.874 --> 00:36:38.374
wherever I decide to visit from.

957
00:36:39.195 --> 00:36:39.773
Depends on the day.

958
00:36:41.781 --> 00:36:42.140
Depends on,

959
00:36:42.156 --> 00:36:43.046
maybe I'll come through a tree.

960
00:36:43.156 --> 00:36:43.406
You know,

961
00:36:43.515 --> 00:36:45.187
sometimes I'll probably come through a hard lesson.

962
00:36:45.296 --> 00:36:46.327
But yeah,

963
00:36:47.281 --> 00:36:47.796
that really,

964
00:36:48.499 --> 00:36:49.562
it hits me some,

965
00:36:49.702 --> 00:36:51.874
it hits someplace in my heart that maybe,

966
00:36:52.890 --> 00:36:53.593
maybe I've...

967
00:36:54.269 --> 00:37:00.197
gained enough wisdom in this lifetime to leave something that will one day make,

968
00:37:00.294 --> 00:37:00.536
you know,

969
00:37:00.556 --> 00:37:03.318
my lineage of children feel better about themselves.

970
00:37:03.341 --> 00:37:04.099
And that feels,

971
00:37:06.122 --> 00:37:08.060
I don't know that there's any other feeling quite like it.

972
00:37:10.029 --> 00:37:14.232
The idea of legacy is a very powerful,

973
00:37:14.544 --> 00:37:17.435
powerful feeling and a very powerful thing.

974
00:37:18.029 --> 00:37:18.279
To me,

975
00:37:18.294 --> 00:37:22.904
it's the greatest thing that we can give our children and grandchildren.

976
00:37:23.725 --> 00:37:26.145
It's something that we've bestowed upon them,

977
00:37:26.667 --> 00:37:27.286
a thought,

978
00:37:27.926 --> 00:37:29.708
their personal morals or ethics,

979
00:37:30.305 --> 00:37:35.051
a habit that we've given them that they take on for the rest of their lives.

980
00:37:35.528 --> 00:37:38.208
And then they pass that on to their loved ones.

981
00:37:39.028 --> 00:37:40.536
Or maybe we just give them courage.

982
00:37:44.051 --> 00:37:47.208
Do you have anybody in your family that's published multiple books?

983
00:37:47.458 --> 00:37:47.567
No.

984
00:37:47.893 --> 00:37:50.136
I don't have anybody in my family that's published books before.

985
00:37:50.275 --> 00:37:53.660
And so whether or not they like what I wrote about or agree with it,

986
00:37:54.140 --> 00:37:54.558
if anything,

987
00:37:54.559 --> 00:38:01.086
I hope it gave them courage to try and do something that's different because they'll know that I talk about it in my books.

988
00:38:01.125 --> 00:38:03.468
I don't know anybody that's doing anything that I've done,

989
00:38:03.531 --> 00:38:04.726
not in my family,

990
00:38:04.851 --> 00:38:06.023
not in my extended family.

991
00:38:06.117 --> 00:38:08.726
And that is an interesting place to be.

992
00:38:08.929 --> 00:38:10.476
So I hope that just gives them courage.

993
00:38:11.539 --> 00:38:14.914
Is courage something that you think you've already passed on to your loved ones?

994
00:38:15.023 --> 00:38:15.258
Yes.

995
00:38:16.205 --> 00:38:16.846
My children,

996
00:38:17.286 --> 00:38:20.891
maybe they swing to the side of stubbornness alongside their mom.

997
00:38:20.910 --> 00:38:22.371
I don't know where they get any of that from,

998
00:38:22.430 --> 00:38:24.114
but they definitely,

999
00:38:24.317 --> 00:38:24.512
yeah,

1000
00:38:25.137 --> 00:38:26.059
I definitely have.

1001
00:38:27.215 --> 00:38:27.934
What is something,

1002
00:38:27.935 --> 00:38:29.262
and then I want to get into the books.

1003
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:34.215
What is the one thing beyond stubbornness that you think you've already passed on to your kids?

1004
00:38:35.903 --> 00:38:37.871
That you see and you just swell up with pride?

1005
00:38:40.246 --> 00:38:41.684
They really care about people.

1006
00:38:44.701 --> 00:38:49.265
They're both hard workers as humans because I have a strong personality.

1007
00:38:49.304 --> 00:38:51.750
I have a strong work ethic.

1008
00:38:52.046 --> 00:38:53.687
I'm not afraid of hard work.

1009
00:38:55.250 --> 00:38:58.211
But if you combine that with kindness towards others,

1010
00:38:58.851 --> 00:39:01.664
it opens up a lot of ways of living.

1011
00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:02.461
Yeah,

1012
00:39:02.554 --> 00:39:03.226
they're both super.

1013
00:39:03.836 --> 00:39:06.117
Both of my children are super kind humans.

1014
00:39:06.586 --> 00:39:08.226
Isn't that wonderful?

1015
00:39:08.227 --> 00:39:08.367
Yeah.

1016
00:39:08.539 --> 00:39:08.929
So am I.

1017
00:39:08.930 --> 00:39:09.445
They drive me.

1018
00:39:09.641 --> 00:39:34.753
bonkers don't mind and they drive you nuts and that's okay and they're wonderful and yes but to see yes your kids be kind my my stepdaughter my daughter my son are all kind kind people and we sit back and just go oh yeah that to me that's that's if there's ever a gold ribbon that we want pinned to our corpse when we die it's the one that says we have kind children it's wonderful how,

1019
00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:35.409
again,

1020
00:39:35.441 --> 00:39:38.675
we live in the iPhone society now.

1021
00:39:39.145 --> 00:39:43.374
But both I've seen my stepdaughter and my daughter do this for their friends,

1022
00:39:43.393 --> 00:39:49.706
like the gifts that they'll put together or little just things to do for like their other friends birthdays.

1023
00:39:50.589 --> 00:39:50.925
I never,

1024
00:39:51.268 --> 00:39:52.206
when I was younger,

1025
00:39:52.487 --> 00:39:53.346
fucking do that shit.

1026
00:39:54.128 --> 00:39:54.432
You know,

1027
00:39:54.510 --> 00:39:54.995
and it's like,

1028
00:39:55.190 --> 00:39:55.346
my

1029
00:39:55.737 --> 00:39:56.581
God, child.

1030
00:39:56.815 --> 00:39:57.003
Yeah.

1031
00:39:57.779 --> 00:39:59.781
Empathy.

1032
00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:03.525
That's something I see resurging now in the

1033
00:40:04.025 --> 00:40:08.709
16, 17-year-old kid age range or Gen X or Gen Z,

1034
00:40:09.029 --> 00:40:09.834
whatever Y that is.

1035
00:40:09.873 --> 00:40:10.349
But it's like,

1036
00:40:11.115 --> 00:40:11.771
they give a shit.

1037
00:40:12.310 --> 00:40:14.638
I think that they were born at a different time too.

1038
00:40:16.935 --> 00:40:21.920
What's the generational cutoff to where children weren't raised without social media?

1039
00:40:22.357 --> 00:40:22.779
It's us.

1040
00:40:23.263 --> 00:40:23.463
Right.

1041
00:40:23.503 --> 00:40:27.767
We're the last generation that lived without anything first and then,

1042
00:40:27.889 --> 00:40:28.127
you know,

1043
00:40:28.166 --> 00:40:30.490
got used to the Internet and got used to social media.

1044
00:40:31.150 --> 00:40:32.775
They don't they don't know any different.

1045
00:40:33.314 --> 00:40:33.549
Plus,

1046
00:40:33.596 --> 00:40:34.932
they lived through the pandemic.

1047
00:40:35.291 --> 00:40:39.939
They lived through being told a whole bunch of lies from a whole bunch of people and they've seen a lot of things crash down.

1048
00:40:39.955 --> 00:40:45.752
So I think that maybe they have a stronger appreciation for connection at a younger age than we did.

1049
00:40:46.689 --> 00:40:46.892
Maybe.

1050
00:40:47.580 --> 00:40:50.752
I think it's a there's a very insightful opinion.

1051
00:40:50.830 --> 00:40:52.799
I agree because

1052
00:40:53.715 --> 00:40:54.116
We got,

1053
00:40:55.938 --> 00:40:56.759
what we went through,

1054
00:40:57.520 --> 00:40:58.141
no internet.

1055
00:40:58.782 --> 00:40:59.501
I tell my kids,

1056
00:40:59.502 --> 00:41:02.923
I remember the first microwave we had was like as big as a table almost.

1057
00:41:03.243 --> 00:41:04.243
Or a VCR.

1058
00:41:04.244 --> 00:41:05.524
Do you remember the first VCR?

1059
00:41:05.868 --> 00:41:07.227
My dad hedged his bet.

1060
00:41:07.251 --> 00:41:09.087
He had a VCR and a Betamax.

1061
00:41:09.532 --> 00:41:09.813
Wow.

1062
00:41:09.814 --> 00:41:10.516
He had both.

1063
00:41:10.673 --> 00:41:10.844
Wow.

1064
00:41:11.251 --> 00:41:11.376
Yeah,

1065
00:41:11.391 --> 00:41:12.829
my first porn ever was on beta.

1066
00:41:12.891 --> 00:41:13.657
Those young girls.

1067
00:41:13.658 --> 00:41:14.751
It was called Ron Jeremy.

1068
00:41:14.782 --> 00:41:15.391
Yeah,

1069
00:41:15.392 --> 00:41:15.969
it was hilarious.

1070
00:41:15.970 --> 00:41:16.735
That's hilarious.

1071
00:41:16.860 --> 00:41:18.016
That's my first time I wasn't gay.

1072
00:41:18.376 --> 00:41:18.844
I saw that.

1073
00:41:18.876 --> 00:41:20.907
That's so funny.

1074
00:41:20.969 --> 00:41:21.141
Okay.

1075
00:41:21.563 --> 00:41:22.048
Interesting.

1076
00:41:22.635 --> 00:41:22.755
Oh,

1077
00:41:22.756 --> 00:41:23.035
here we go.

1078
00:41:24.416 --> 00:41:24.738
But it's,

1079
00:41:25.859 --> 00:41:31.886
and to see like the fall of the Soviet Republic under Reagan,

1080
00:41:33.003 --> 00:41:33.285
you know,

1081
00:41:33.886 --> 00:41:34.464
with all that,

1082
00:41:34.550 --> 00:41:36.269
when Gorbachev and Mr.

1083
00:41:36.308 --> 00:41:37.753
Gorbachev tear down this wall,

1084
00:41:37.792 --> 00:41:39.035
the Berlin Wall coming down.

1085
00:41:39.036 --> 00:41:41.050
Do you remember the Berlin Wall coming down?

1086
00:41:41.113 --> 00:41:41.753
Like what a,

1087
00:41:42.597 --> 00:41:42.831
I mean,

1088
00:41:42.847 --> 00:41:45.660
I don't think that our kids have lived through it that way.

1089
00:41:45.816 --> 00:41:47.456
They've lived through different things,

1090
00:41:47.566 --> 00:41:47.800
right?

1091
00:41:47.847 --> 00:41:48.878
Which is what we're talking about.

1092
00:41:48.879 --> 00:41:49.441
But I think,

1093
00:41:50.285 --> 00:41:50.488
yeah.

1094
00:41:50.771 --> 00:41:53.953
I think that they need that connection more than we,

1095
00:41:54.094 --> 00:41:56.715
because we had that connection in person all the time.

1096
00:41:56.738 --> 00:41:57.297
I mean,

1097
00:41:57.336 --> 00:41:57.977
I don't know about you,

1098
00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:00.098
but I was like sent outside as a kid.

1099
00:42:00.099 --> 00:42:00.520
And it's like,

1100
00:42:00.521 --> 00:42:01.723
be back before bed.

1101
00:42:01.902 --> 00:42:03.285
Be back at nine o'clock at night.

1102
00:42:03.363 --> 00:42:03.645
See ya.

1103
00:42:03.902 --> 00:42:04.480
Every summer.

1104
00:42:04.645 --> 00:42:05.168
There was no.

1105
00:42:05.645 --> 00:42:06.324
In Canandaigua,

1106
00:42:06.348 --> 00:42:06.723
New York,

1107
00:42:06.824 --> 00:42:07.387
every summer,

1108
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:11.527
lived on a 17 mile long lake in a little townhouse complex.

1109
00:42:11.715 --> 00:42:11.887
Yeah.

1110
00:42:11.996 --> 00:42:12.215
It was,

1111
00:42:12.293 --> 00:42:15.074
you were on your bike all over town.

1112
00:42:15.075 --> 00:42:16.590
So we didn't lack connection.

1113
00:42:16.793 --> 00:42:17.184
Correct.

1114
00:42:17.554 --> 00:42:17.735
Right.

1115
00:42:17.815 --> 00:42:25.356
And that's what I think we're talking about the kindness in our children is I think that that's created from the inner knowing that they know that they need that.

1116
00:42:25.415 --> 00:42:26.895
And it's and I,

1117
00:42:26.958 --> 00:42:27.317
of course,

1118
00:42:27.356 --> 00:42:28.395
this is on all kids,

1119
00:42:28.419 --> 00:42:30.255
but I do think that that I think that's real.

1120
00:42:30.278 --> 00:42:31.114
I think that's a real thing.

1121
00:42:31.778 --> 00:42:34.638
It's something that where we live,

1122
00:42:34.825 --> 00:42:36.419
it's a it's a decent little neighborhood.

1123
00:42:36.653 --> 00:42:43.559
And my son's almost 10 and he's become friends with these kids that are out and they'll they'll play football on the street.

1124
00:42:43.560 --> 00:42:44.434
They play soccer.

1125
00:42:44.747 --> 00:42:45.622
They ride their bikes.

1126
00:42:46.027 --> 00:42:46.968
And I will make him,

1127
00:42:46.969 --> 00:42:49.329
because sometimes he'll just sit on the couch and watch YouTube videos.

1128
00:42:49.330 --> 00:42:49.610
And I'm like,

1129
00:42:49.611 --> 00:42:49.710
no,

1130
00:42:49.711 --> 00:42:49.809
no,

1131
00:42:49.831 --> 00:42:49.950
honey.

1132
00:42:50.469 --> 00:42:51.372
You're going to go outside.

1133
00:42:51.571 --> 00:42:52.512
Your friends are out there.

1134
00:42:52.575 --> 00:42:53.454
Even a couple of weeks ago,

1135
00:42:53.536 --> 00:42:54.356
he wasn't at the house,

1136
00:42:54.357 --> 00:42:55.598
but they came and knocked on the door and said,

1137
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:56.176
is Jack here?

1138
00:42:56.177 --> 00:42:56.934
Can he come out and play?

1139
00:42:57.716 --> 00:42:58.598
I love that.

1140
00:42:58.762 --> 00:42:59.161
Tarverly,

1141
00:42:59.262 --> 00:43:00.801
I had a flashback to Canandaigua,

1142
00:43:00.802 --> 00:43:01.098
New York,

1143
00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:02.270
1981,

1144
00:43:02.271 --> 00:43:03.161
where I was 11 years old.

1145
00:43:03.162 --> 00:43:04.583
And my friends would come and knock on the door.

1146
00:43:04.958 --> 00:43:06.411
And then you're gone for hours.

1147
00:43:06.723 --> 00:43:07.145
And you come,

1148
00:43:07.583 --> 00:43:09.755
when I see Jack come walking back in the house,

1149
00:43:09.833 --> 00:43:10.489
all sweaty,

1150
00:43:11.130 --> 00:43:12.270
his hands are all dirty.

1151
00:43:12.817 --> 00:43:13.192
I'm like,

1152
00:43:13.193 --> 00:43:13.770
good for you.

1153
00:43:14.020 --> 00:43:14.176
Yeah,

1154
00:43:14.177 --> 00:43:14.630
it's the best.

1155
00:43:14.959 --> 00:43:29.681
that is the best talk about connecting with yourself in an organic way that's what we that to me is how we preserve our sovereignty in this like machine world that we're caught in that's how it's

1156
00:43:29.759 --> 00:43:42.072
it's amazing it's amazing so okay good for you well thank you good for him i just but it's i it's the joy of having a gen x parents is i'm like get your ass outside go

1157
00:43:42.999 --> 00:43:43.960
You've got a wonderful bike.

1158
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.381
You've got kids now that are nice and they're neighbors.

1159
00:43:46.682 --> 00:43:46.823
Go.

1160
00:43:47.204 --> 00:43:47.422
You know,

1161
00:43:47.423 --> 00:43:51.044
there's nothing quite like riding a bike when you're a kid and feeling the wind in your face.

1162
00:43:51.590 --> 00:43:52.372
Like the wind,

1163
00:43:52.528 --> 00:43:56.169
like riding down the sidewalk and just that free feeling.

1164
00:43:56.215 --> 00:43:57.676
That's what freedom feels like.

1165
00:43:58.012 --> 00:44:01.825
We don't ever want the next generation to forget what freedom feels like.

1166
00:44:01.826 --> 00:44:01.934
No,

1167
00:44:02.137 --> 00:44:03.637
and you can't get that on a treadmill.

1168
00:44:04.294 --> 00:44:04.419
No.

1169
00:44:04.637 --> 00:44:06.825
You can't get that on a stationary bicycle in a gym.

1170
00:44:06.950 --> 00:44:08.590
And you can't get that from AI.

1171
00:44:08.591 --> 00:44:09.747
And you can't get that from AI.

1172
00:44:11.090 --> 00:44:11.872
Let's talk about...

1173
00:44:12.183 --> 00:44:13.303
Book one.

1174
00:44:13.543 --> 00:44:13.843
Okay.

1175
00:44:14.043 --> 00:44:14.644
Okay.

1176
00:44:14.782 --> 00:44:15.683
The impetus of it.

1177
00:44:16.165 --> 00:44:16.962
You want the story?

1178
00:44:17.083 --> 00:44:18.224
Shall I share the story?

1179
00:44:18.263 --> 00:44:18.864
The crazy,

1180
00:44:19.044 --> 00:44:19.645
crazy story?

1181
00:44:19.743 --> 00:44:20.806
As much as you want to,

1182
00:44:20.884 --> 00:44:21.485
because I want some,

1183
00:44:22.063 --> 00:44:23.524
as many teasers as possible,

1184
00:44:23.525 --> 00:44:25.767
because then we'll clip it and drop stuff for you.

1185
00:44:25.768 --> 00:44:26.165
Great.

1186
00:44:26.267 --> 00:44:27.087
Like when you're looking,

1187
00:44:27.088 --> 00:44:28.063
when the book's going to drop.

1188
00:44:28.352 --> 00:44:28.634
Okay.

1189
00:44:28.806 --> 00:44:31.540
Or drop again and everything else and what's happened.

1190
00:44:31.852 --> 00:44:32.931
So it started with,

1191
00:44:33.071 --> 00:44:34.290
I'll go back to

1192
00:44:34.915 --> 00:44:36.727
2017, 18.

1193
00:44:36.728 --> 00:44:37.774
I started writing my memoir.

1194
00:44:38.493 --> 00:44:39.509
I've had a pretty crazy.

1195
00:44:40.191 --> 00:44:40.431
you know,

1196
00:44:40.531 --> 00:44:43.094
wonderful life full of all kinds of magic,

1197
00:44:43.133 --> 00:44:45.074
which we haven't really talked a lot about,

1198
00:44:45.075 --> 00:44:46.176
so everybody will have to read the book.

1199
00:44:46.535 --> 00:44:49.195
But I've had these crazy wild experiences,

1200
00:44:49.196 --> 00:44:54.383
and I wrote a memoir about it and did a lot of education in the publishing industry.

1201
00:44:54.461 --> 00:44:56.383
So I knew how to query agents.

1202
00:44:56.430 --> 00:44:56.774
I knew,

1203
00:44:57.883 --> 00:44:58.102
you know,

1204
00:44:58.103 --> 00:44:59.602
what the publishing business is like.

1205
00:45:00.060 --> 00:45:00.621
Tried all that,

1206
00:45:00.681 --> 00:45:01.322
nine months later,

1207
00:45:01.502 --> 00:45:01.983
no bites.

1208
00:45:02.803 --> 00:45:03.223
So I thought,

1209
00:45:03.303 --> 00:45:03.584
okay,

1210
00:45:03.825 --> 00:45:04.043
like

1211
00:45:04.825 --> 00:45:05.547
I've learned a lot.

1212
00:45:05.606 --> 00:45:08.891
I was really happy that I did this big writing experience.

1213
00:45:09.453 --> 00:45:11.672
And I think that everybody should write a memoir actually,

1214
00:45:12.071 --> 00:45:20.266
because it creates so much change and transformation in your body when you pull out these little situations that have formed you.

1215
00:45:20.688 --> 00:45:24.578
Like writing a memoir is taking out the things that have made you who you are and putting them to paper.

1216
00:45:24.625 --> 00:45:26.203
So I was grateful for that part

1217
00:45:26.732 --> 00:45:26.853
Well,

1218
00:45:26.854 --> 00:45:31.258
then I got a call from an agent very near the end of when I decided to put that aside.

1219
00:45:31.797 --> 00:45:36.980
And one agent asked me all kinds of questions about the memoir and then said to me,

1220
00:45:38.387 --> 00:45:40.824
we know people like you that write like this.

1221
00:45:42.027 --> 00:45:43.043
Are you writing other books?

1222
00:45:43.044 --> 00:45:43.887
Do you have any other books?

1223
00:45:44.277 --> 00:45:44.652
And I'm like,

1224
00:45:44.684 --> 00:45:44.809
oh,

1225
00:45:44.855 --> 00:45:45.027
funny,

1226
00:45:45.043 --> 00:45:45.715
you should say that.

1227
00:45:45.716 --> 00:45:49.871
And I held up this four book outline that I had just written within that week,

1228
00:45:50.402 --> 00:45:53.965
all the details of how I wanted to write about magic and the directions and

1229
00:45:54.304 --> 00:45:54.525
you know,

1230
00:45:54.585 --> 00:45:58.847
bridging the gap between what I think is spirituality and witchcraft,

1231
00:45:58.890 --> 00:45:59.992
like finding the middle ground.

1232
00:46:00.390 --> 00:46:00.750
And they said,

1233
00:46:00.751 --> 00:46:00.953
okay,

1234
00:46:00.972 --> 00:46:01.172
great.

1235
00:46:01.173 --> 00:46:02.336
We want to see those first.

1236
00:46:02.789 --> 00:46:03.297
And I'm like,

1237
00:46:03.531 --> 00:46:03.734
oh.

1238
00:46:05.398 --> 00:46:10.414
So I set the memoir aside and I kept that outline and I slowly started to work it,

1239
00:46:10.523 --> 00:46:11.195
started to work it.

1240
00:46:11.196 --> 00:46:12.757
And then one day it just happened.

1241
00:46:13.211 --> 00:46:13.461
I think,

1242
00:46:13.476 --> 00:46:15.257
I guess it was about two years ago.

1243
00:46:15.711 --> 00:46:16.867
I decided I was going to do it.

1244
00:46:16.882 --> 00:46:20.023
I was going to self-publish these four books.

1245
00:46:20.404 --> 00:46:23.568
And self-published because I'd been down that avenue already.

1246
00:46:23.587 --> 00:46:27.671
And I know the challenges of the industry and I felt like it's better to publish it than not.

1247
00:46:27.773 --> 00:46:31.698
So I self-published the first book and that was a year ago,

1248
00:46:31.917 --> 00:46:32.659
January,

1249
00:46:32.675 --> 00:46:33.175
it came out.

1250
00:46:33.214 --> 00:46:33.878
Is that when it was?

1251
00:46:34.198 --> 00:46:35.698
It's not wild to think that a year ago,

1252
00:46:35.777 --> 00:46:36.237
January.

1253
00:46:37.003 --> 00:46:37.862
So the book comes out,

1254
00:46:38.784 --> 00:46:40.425
everything is going really great with the book.

1255
00:46:40.426 --> 00:46:40.941
In the meantime,

1256
00:46:40.942 --> 00:46:42.441
I have another grandbaby arrive.

1257
00:46:42.442 --> 00:46:44.972
So I'm spending time with my family and the new grandbaby.

1258
00:46:45.416 --> 00:46:46.297
I come back and

1259
00:46:46.738 --> 00:46:49.681
I feel like it's only five or six weeks after it drops,

1260
00:46:49.682 --> 00:46:49.802
but

1261
00:46:50.579 --> 00:46:51.322
I can't remember.

1262
00:46:51.341 --> 00:46:52.642
I think it was five or six weeks.

1263
00:46:53.165 --> 00:46:59.494
I attended an event where I ended up meeting a major publisher who found out that I had self-published book one of a series.

1264
00:46:59.892 --> 00:47:01.095
And they asked to see the series.

1265
00:47:01.173 --> 00:47:04.783
I made a proposal and they gave me an offer to buy all four books.

1266
00:47:05.439 --> 00:47:05.564
So

1267
00:47:05.954 --> 00:47:11.064
I took book one down and it will be re-released under the banner of Llewellyn Worldwide.

1268
00:47:11.065 --> 00:47:13.579
It will come out in July of 2026.

1269
00:47:13.580 --> 00:47:14.079
And it's been...

1270
00:47:14.980 --> 00:47:15.962
Awesome.

1271
00:47:16.021 --> 00:47:19.003
Like working with a great publisher that knows the industry,

1272
00:47:19.183 --> 00:47:26.175
that knows more about how to reach the people who this can help and impact felt amazing.

1273
00:47:26.292 --> 00:47:27.995
And it felt like having somebody in my corner.

1274
00:47:27.996 --> 00:47:29.698
And now I had help when I was self-publishing,

1275
00:47:29.737 --> 00:47:31.893
but they still wanted you to make all the decisions.

1276
00:47:31.894 --> 00:47:32.253
And I'm like,

1277
00:47:32.315 --> 00:47:34.018
I don't know anything about book covers.

1278
00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:37.237
I don't know anything about this piece or typeset or paper color.

1279
00:47:37.581 --> 00:47:44.128
The things that I think a lot of people care about when they self-publish were things that I didn't care about when I was self-publishing.

1280
00:47:44.175 --> 00:47:44.284
So

1281
00:47:44.893 --> 00:47:46.694
I was thrilled and excited.

1282
00:47:46.695 --> 00:47:48.795
So I have four books coming out with Llewellyn.

1283
00:47:49.217 --> 00:47:51.018
Book one and two will be at the end of next year.

1284
00:47:51.900 --> 00:47:52.982
And in between that,

1285
00:47:53.037 --> 00:47:55.506
I also have a different publisher that picked up my Oracle deck,

1286
00:47:56.146 --> 00:47:58.248
which is all made from my own art,

1287
00:47:58.303 --> 00:48:03.092
which is made during channeled sessions and different magic rituals.

1288
00:48:03.170 --> 00:48:05.014
I create a lot of art at that time.

1289
00:48:05.029 --> 00:48:06.139
So I put that into a deck.

1290
00:48:06.670 --> 00:48:08.982
And then book three and four will come out in 2027.

1291
00:48:09.170 --> 00:48:09.576
And

1292
00:48:10.028 --> 00:48:14.573
I have a very exciting new book that's not public yet that will come out in between all of that,

1293
00:48:15.151 --> 00:48:21.964
that is to bring some more bite or I'll say some claws back into witchcraft.

1294
00:48:22.019 --> 00:48:27.464
Because there's a difference with foundational magic that we all need and want.

1295
00:48:27.511 --> 00:48:28.667
And my four books are,

1296
00:48:29.401 --> 00:48:29.714
to me,

1297
00:48:29.870 --> 00:48:32.495
very foundational to how I teach and how I live.

1298
00:48:33.026 --> 00:48:34.495
But there's been this undercurrent,

1299
00:48:34.605 --> 00:48:35.120
even for me,

1300
00:48:35.261 --> 00:48:37.839
and part of that is the rise of witch talk and And

1301
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:40.166
a lot of surface level magic that has come up,

1302
00:48:40.188 --> 00:48:40.807
which isn't bad.

1303
00:48:40.848 --> 00:48:42.129
It's probably just an entryway.

1304
00:48:42.731 --> 00:48:44.711
But I want to take people deeper,

1305
00:48:44.891 --> 00:48:49.856
especially when I feel like with the rise of what's happening with AI and the chaos in the world,

1306
00:48:49.879 --> 00:48:52.059
I feel like our humanity is a little bit in question.

1307
00:48:52.496 --> 00:48:53.965
So even though I'm writing these other books,

1308
00:48:54.293 --> 00:48:58.465
I feel the need to bring something forward that has a little bit more bite to it.

1309
00:49:00.121 --> 00:49:04.715
A little bit of let's stop softening the human experience and

1310
00:49:04.944 --> 00:49:08.308
and stop softening everything into love and light and high vibration.

1311
00:49:08.868 --> 00:49:18.341
And let's get a little bit down and dirty with the practice and bring a little blood and a little bit of cursing back into it and all for the name of sovereignty,

1312
00:49:18.419 --> 00:49:18.638
right?

1313
00:49:18.639 --> 00:49:21.927
To be able to protect ourselves and our consciousness and our families.

1314
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:25.583
What is the main premise behind book one?

1315
00:49:25.724 --> 00:49:28.724
And then how does that spill over into book two?

1316
00:49:28.989 --> 00:49:29.567
What's book two about?

1317
00:49:29.568 --> 00:49:30.708
So book one is the north,

1318
00:49:30.849 --> 00:49:32.005
which is the element of earth.

1319
00:49:32.505 --> 00:49:33.446
And it's Rituals,

1320
00:49:33.526 --> 00:49:33.807
Gifts,

1321
00:49:33.867 --> 00:49:34.748
and Spells,

1322
00:49:34.789 --> 00:49:35.089
I think,

1323
00:49:35.189 --> 00:49:36.552
of the North is the title.

1324
00:49:36.873 --> 00:49:38.537
And the book series is called Sacred Magic.

1325
00:49:38.916 --> 00:49:39.236
In fact,

1326
00:49:39.318 --> 00:49:40.298
it is for pre-sale now.

1327
00:49:40.299 --> 00:49:41.720
You can find it at Barnes & Noble.

1328
00:49:43.002 --> 00:49:45.205
Any online book source you can pre-order.

1329
00:49:45.306 --> 00:49:45.767
Book one,

1330
00:49:45.768 --> 00:49:46.908
if you just search my name.

1331
00:49:46.986 --> 00:49:47.548
We'll drop links.

1332
00:49:47.955 --> 00:49:48.189
Great.

1333
00:49:49.728 --> 00:49:51.056
And it takes us through that.

1334
00:49:52.017 --> 00:49:54.160
initial stage of sitting at the top of the wheel,

1335
00:49:54.820 --> 00:49:56.502
which in terms of seasons,

1336
00:49:56.584 --> 00:49:57.865
it's like a winter of the soul,

1337
00:49:57.924 --> 00:49:58.885
not a winter of the weather,

1338
00:49:58.924 --> 00:50:00.006
but a winter of the soul.

1339
00:50:00.428 --> 00:50:01.850
The north is the place that we began.

1340
00:50:01.904 --> 00:50:10.295
It's when we put the seed deep into the earth and give it nutrients and give it water so we can explore what's happening inside our own body,

1341
00:50:10.357 --> 00:50:11.779
maybe move a little bit slower,

1342
00:50:12.217 --> 00:50:15.920
maybe explore a new project that you want to work on and think of that like the seed.

1343
00:50:16.545 --> 00:50:18.529
And we cover dreams,

1344
00:50:18.560 --> 00:50:18.982
we cover

1345
00:50:19.249 --> 00:50:24.896
what spirits visit you when you're in the north section of the spiral path of your life,

1346
00:50:25.896 --> 00:50:27.158
how to work with ancestors,

1347
00:50:27.197 --> 00:50:35.267
which are known to be those deep land spirit guides because they're connected through your body and your body is the north.

1348
00:50:35.330 --> 00:50:37.924
So it's a lot about connecting with your body,

1349
00:50:38.267 --> 00:50:39.533
awakening your psychic gifts,

1350
00:50:39.924 --> 00:50:41.564
how to dream with plants,

1351
00:50:41.627 --> 00:50:44.752
how to do all the magical things that include the earth.

1352
00:50:45.689 --> 00:50:46.971
And then book two is the east.

1353
00:50:46.972 --> 00:50:47.830
So then we go into air,

1354
00:50:48.283 --> 00:50:48.674
which is

1355
00:50:49.193 --> 00:50:49.894
our beliefs,

1356
00:50:50.095 --> 00:50:50.795
our thoughts.

1357
00:50:51.015 --> 00:50:53.257
It's everything related to what we can smell,

1358
00:50:53.659 --> 00:50:57.964
all of our spiritual and psychic gifts that we use through our olfactory system,

1359
00:50:58.261 --> 00:50:59.206
but it's also sound.

1360
00:50:59.964 --> 00:51:09.917
And so a big part of book two is creating magical playlists and how to use music specifically to change your beliefs or support a belief that you might be unwinding.

1361
00:51:11.167 --> 00:51:11.292
Yeah.

1362
00:51:11.293 --> 00:51:11.620
So again,

1363
00:51:11.698 --> 00:51:13.323
it's that spirituality and witchcraft.

1364
00:51:13.917 --> 00:51:19.000
I bridge between the two because I think that they go hand in hand and sometimes they're not covered that way.

1365
00:51:20.437 --> 00:51:20.980
That's my way.

1366
00:51:21.980 --> 00:51:22.637
I love your way.

1367
00:51:23.059 --> 00:51:23.457
Thank you.

1368
00:51:23.496 --> 00:51:23.738
I do.

1369
00:51:23.996 --> 00:51:24.441
I love you.

1370
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:25.301
I adore your way.

1371
00:51:26.098 --> 00:51:29.840
I love it that you're making the term love and light a little edgier.

1372
00:51:30.855 --> 00:51:31.184
You know,

1373
00:51:31.402 --> 00:51:31.777
listen,

1374
00:51:32.855 --> 00:51:33.324
listen.

1375
00:51:33.449 --> 00:51:33.762
Come on,

1376
00:51:33.777 --> 00:51:33.902
man.

1377
00:51:33.918 --> 00:51:34.527
I love it.

1378
00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:42.418
Don't nobody's going to grow and become an exceptional human and ascend and experience all kinds of magic to be love and light.

1379
00:51:42.889 --> 00:51:45.553
We can desire love and peace on our planet,

1380
00:51:46.072 --> 00:51:47.875
but love and light does not combat evil.

1381
00:51:48.355 --> 00:51:52.176
Love and light does not combat the systems that want you to be something different than you are.

1382
00:51:52.222 --> 00:51:54.738
Love and light sure isn't like awakening your sexuality.

1383
00:51:55.363 --> 00:51:55.480
And,

1384
00:51:55.660 --> 00:51:55.941
you know,

1385
00:51:56.144 --> 00:51:56.926
we need that.

1386
00:51:56.965 --> 00:51:58.722
That's part of connecting to our body.

1387
00:51:58.746 --> 00:51:58.910
I mean,

1388
00:51:58.911 --> 00:52:00.144
we could have a whole show just on that.

1389
00:52:00.191 --> 00:52:04.066
But connecting to our body is connecting to what does pleasure feel like?

1390
00:52:04.067 --> 00:52:05.519
And it isn't just sex.

1391
00:52:05.566 --> 00:52:06.051
It can be.

1392
00:52:06.176 --> 00:52:08.129
But what does pleasure feel like?

1393
00:52:08.379 --> 00:52:09.191
That's not love and light.

1394
00:52:09.535 --> 00:52:10.238
For a lot of people,

1395
00:52:10.301 --> 00:52:10.613
that's...

1396
00:52:11.418 --> 00:52:11.698
raw.

1397
00:52:12.899 --> 00:52:14.780
I think for my personal sexuality,

1398
00:52:14.881 --> 00:52:15.721
instead of love and light,

1399
00:52:15.741 --> 00:52:16.963
I want love in a dimmer switch.

1400
00:52:17.842 --> 00:52:21.264
That's great.

1401
00:52:21.585 --> 00:52:22.366
Would be much better.

1402
00:52:22.952 --> 00:52:25.530
I think that would be far more complimentary to me.

1403
00:52:25.913 --> 00:52:26.475
That's so great.

1404
00:52:26.476 --> 00:52:27.717
We all have these edges,

1405
00:52:27.749 --> 00:52:28.030
you know,

1406
00:52:28.139 --> 00:52:32.624
that I think that the edges in all things is how we grow the most.

1407
00:52:33.405 --> 00:52:34.983
We grow the most through challenges,

1408
00:52:35.139 --> 00:52:35.795
through edges,

1409
00:52:35.858 --> 00:52:36.483
through pushing,

1410
00:52:36.842 --> 00:52:37.077
you know,

1411
00:52:37.078 --> 00:52:39.842
the boundaries of our beliefs to redefining ourselves.

1412
00:52:40.157 --> 00:52:43.141
And if we want to envision a world where there's less sexism,

1413
00:52:43.461 --> 00:52:44.320
less racism,

1414
00:52:44.402 --> 00:52:45.524
less oppression,

1415
00:52:45.985 --> 00:52:48.164
we have to be willing to be a little edgy.

1416
00:52:48.766 --> 00:52:53.328
I think I think it was a podcast I was listening to recently and I can't think of who it was.

1417
00:52:53.391 --> 00:52:58.695
But the person was talking about the fact that we there's a lot of people right now that are unhappy with the way,

1418
00:52:59.195 --> 00:52:59.961
especially in the U.S.,

1419
00:53:00.024 --> 00:53:00.664
things are running.

1420
00:53:00.711 --> 00:53:07.586
But that we're such a soft group of peoples right now that nobody's willing to like fight for a revolution.

1421
00:53:08.086 --> 00:53:08.789
And I'm like.

1422
00:53:08.821 --> 00:53:09.843
Like bring your claws out,

1423
00:53:11.124 --> 00:53:13.966
bring your magical wand out and in your own way,

1424
00:53:14.306 --> 00:53:14.509
right?

1425
00:53:14.510 --> 00:53:16.247
In your own life and in your own circumstances,

1426
00:53:16.290 --> 00:53:17.009
protect yourself,

1427
00:53:17.493 --> 00:53:18.751
learn how to be powerful.

1428
00:53:20.415 --> 00:53:28.446
We have become so incredibly soft and that now there's an industry to make us fat.

1429
00:53:28.821 --> 00:53:33.431
Now there's an industry with Ozempic and all the stuff that can get us skinny.

1430
00:53:34.228 --> 00:53:35.134
And which looks,

1431
00:53:35.774 --> 00:53:35.884
I...

1432
00:53:36.201 --> 00:53:41.806
Now I'm seeing stuff on TikTok of these celebrities that have been on GLP-1 or whatever,

1433
00:53:41.807 --> 00:53:42.646
the semi-glutides,

1434
00:53:42.670 --> 00:53:43.010
and you're like,

1435
00:53:43.068 --> 00:53:43.728
oh my God.

1436
00:53:44.568 --> 00:53:44.951
I know.

1437
00:53:45.451 --> 00:53:46.349
Oh my God.

1438
00:53:46.514 --> 00:53:47.396
Do you know Lizzo?

1439
00:53:47.553 --> 00:53:48.451
Is it Lizzo or Lizzy?

1440
00:53:48.678 --> 00:53:49.014
Lizzo.

1441
00:53:49.537 --> 00:53:50.998
She published an article,

1442
00:53:51.139 --> 00:53:52.014
I think on Substack.

1443
00:53:52.162 --> 00:53:52.724
You should read it.

1444
00:53:53.224 --> 00:53:54.787
And I think it was titled something like,

1445
00:53:54.834 --> 00:53:57.006
what are we going to do with all these skinny girls?

1446
00:53:58.162 --> 00:54:00.053
Because their belief system,

1447
00:54:00.068 --> 00:54:03.162
their emotional state is still not the size of their body.

1448
00:54:03.866 --> 00:54:06.107
And I thought it was super fascinating.

1449
00:54:06.548 --> 00:54:07.109
You should read it.

1450
00:54:07.110 --> 00:54:07.609
I will read it.

1451
00:54:07.829 --> 00:54:08.669
It's really good.

1452
00:54:08.712 --> 00:54:09.130
To me,

1453
00:54:09.533 --> 00:54:10.290
I'm just,

1454
00:54:11.193 --> 00:54:13.212
I'm baffled by that.

1455
00:54:13.251 --> 00:54:13.618
And again,

1456
00:54:13.658 --> 00:54:13.939
it's just,

1457
00:54:13.954 --> 00:54:15.158
it's a generational thing.

1458
00:54:15.939 --> 00:54:16.798
And as a dad,

1459
00:54:16.939 --> 00:54:18.283
I try really hard to like,

1460
00:54:18.978 --> 00:54:19.837
I teach my kids,

1461
00:54:19.900 --> 00:54:27.353
but also it's a lot of times the best teaching is let them fail on their own and let them have wins on their own that I'm not,

1462
00:54:27.806 --> 00:54:28.243
that I'm not,

1463
00:54:28.447 --> 00:54:29.056
I'm there to help,

1464
00:54:29.493 --> 00:54:31.118
but I'd much rather go forth.

1465
00:54:31.915 --> 00:54:32.634
Resiliency.

1466
00:54:33.842 --> 00:54:34.984
Go forth and do your thing,

1467
00:54:35.545 --> 00:54:35.906
kiddos.

1468
00:54:36.447 --> 00:54:37.928
And I'm always here for you,

1469
00:54:38.451 --> 00:54:39.931
but you need to fail.

1470
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:41.401
But see,

1471
00:54:41.681 --> 00:54:43.303
failure is the roots of a tree,

1472
00:54:43.924 --> 00:54:44.223
right?

1473
00:54:44.224 --> 00:54:45.186
When we go back to the tree,

1474
00:54:45.283 --> 00:54:46.405
like the deeper the roots,

1475
00:54:46.506 --> 00:54:47.526
the higher the branches.

1476
00:54:47.865 --> 00:54:48.627
The more you learn,

1477
00:54:48.990 --> 00:54:53.412
the more you go deep into fractures and change and growth,

1478
00:54:53.514 --> 00:54:54.772
the higher you can excel.

1479
00:54:54.936 --> 00:54:55.615
It's the same thing.

1480
00:54:55.655 --> 00:54:57.233
That's how it all keeps coming back to the tree.

1481
00:54:57.342 --> 00:54:57.451
Oh,

1482
00:54:57.483 --> 00:54:57.998
and here we are.

1483
00:54:58.858 --> 00:54:59.311
Look at that.

1484
00:54:59.420 --> 00:54:59.545
Yeah,

1485
00:54:59.592 --> 00:54:59.951
and it goes,

1486
00:54:59.952 --> 00:55:00.155
I mean,

1487
00:55:00.186 --> 00:55:01.108
I won't take my shirt off,

1488
00:55:01.109 --> 00:55:01.405
but it's like,

1489
00:55:01.623 --> 00:55:02.280
it goes all the way up.

1490
00:55:02.281 --> 00:55:02.405
See,

1491
00:55:02.436 --> 00:55:03.280
people don't have to hug a tree.

1492
00:55:03.281 --> 00:55:03.967
They just have to hug you.

1493
00:55:04.030 --> 00:55:04.295
Hug me.

1494
00:55:05.608 --> 00:55:06.170
I'm a hugger.

1495
00:55:06.358 --> 00:55:07.342
I was raised by Italian.

1496
00:55:07.623 --> 00:55:08.092
Fucking hug me.

1497
00:55:08.108 --> 00:55:08.733
I'm a hugger.

1498
00:55:09.248 --> 00:55:09.373
Yeah.

1499
00:55:09.374 --> 00:55:10.014
But as you're saying that,

1500
00:55:10.030 --> 00:55:10.389
I'm like...

1501
00:55:10.904 --> 00:55:17.671
It gives meaning to what I wear that proudly that this is failure here,

1502
00:55:18.171 --> 00:55:19.312
but in my hand,

1503
00:55:19.351 --> 00:55:20.570
that's what I work with the most.

1504
00:55:20.571 --> 00:55:22.757
And that's how I'm going to create failure is through my hand,

1505
00:55:22.758 --> 00:55:23.859
whether it's typing on a keyboard,

1506
00:55:24.320 --> 00:55:25.820
talking with somebody or something like that.

1507
00:55:25.898 --> 00:55:26.281
It's like,

1508
00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:27.085
no,

1509
00:55:27.195 --> 00:55:28.882
it's okay to do that.

1510
00:55:29.195 --> 00:55:30.304
Don't be afraid of that.

1511
00:55:30.335 --> 00:55:31.179
Embrace that.

1512
00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:31.851
That's the edge.

1513
00:55:31.852 --> 00:55:32.867
That's the edge.

1514
00:55:33.132 --> 00:55:35.304
And that is not love and light.

1515
00:55:36.835 --> 00:55:37.429
That's the thing.

1516
00:55:38.044 --> 00:55:38.964
That's get down and dirty,

1517
00:55:39.045 --> 00:55:39.205
man.

1518
00:55:39.264 --> 00:55:40.206
That's get down and dirty.

1519
00:55:40.305 --> 00:55:40.585
Right?

1520
00:55:40.844 --> 00:55:42.305
And to everybody that looks different,

1521
00:55:42.306 --> 00:55:43.266
it looks different at work.

1522
00:55:43.305 --> 00:55:44.766
It looks different in relationships.

1523
00:55:44.786 --> 00:55:46.067
It looks different in families.

1524
00:55:46.606 --> 00:55:49.106
But getting down and dirty with yourself in your own life.

1525
00:55:51.364 --> 00:55:53.145
In terms of the people you work with,

1526
00:55:53.504 --> 00:55:53.825
and I mean,

1527
00:55:54.044 --> 00:55:55.231
your online stuff is great.

1528
00:55:56.044 --> 00:56:01.122
What are some overlying challenges that you see all the time?

1529
00:56:01.887 --> 00:56:06.997
And how do you overcome those challenges for those people or the advice you give them that you share?

1530
00:56:07.256 --> 00:56:09.859
Hmm.

1531
00:56:09.879 --> 00:56:12.301
I got asked this question a couple of weeks ago and I,

1532
00:56:14.523 --> 00:56:15.144
about 50%

1533
00:56:15.406 --> 00:56:17.109
of my clients are female,

1534
00:56:17.164 --> 00:56:17.367
50%

1535
00:56:17.445 --> 00:56:17.906
are men,

1536
00:56:17.969 --> 00:56:19.109
which is kind of unusual in this,

1537
00:56:20.789 --> 00:56:22.414
in this field as a spiritual coach.

1538
00:56:22.492 --> 00:56:23.500
Let's say most women,

1539
00:56:23.906 --> 00:56:25.797
spiritual coaches would primarily coach women,

1540
00:56:25.859 --> 00:56:27.859
but I have a strong masculine presence.

1541
00:56:27.860 --> 00:56:28.094
So I,

1542
00:56:28.500 --> 00:56:30.141
I tend to work equally with men and women,

1543
00:56:30.203 --> 00:56:30.656
but I would say

1544
00:56:31.125 --> 00:56:32.781
I'll talk on the female side.

1545
00:56:33.766 --> 00:56:35.750
Most of the women that I work with,

1546
00:56:36.068 --> 00:56:38.909
have no idea how fucking powerful they are.

1547
00:56:39.469 --> 00:56:41.207
They see themselves as small.

1548
00:56:41.450 --> 00:56:42.371
They have contorted.

1549
00:56:42.789 --> 00:56:48.711
They have changed to fit into what somebody believed they should be from the time they were young.

1550
00:56:49.289 --> 00:56:52.305
And they've reached this cusp where they don't want to do that anymore.

1551
00:56:52.633 --> 00:56:53.368
And they don't know how.

1552
00:56:54.086 --> 00:56:55.086
They don't know how to say,

1553
00:56:55.508 --> 00:56:56.539
that actually wasn't me.

1554
00:56:56.680 --> 00:56:57.430
This isn't me.

1555
00:56:58.071 --> 00:56:58.946
What do I do now?

1556
00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:01.758
I've wound myself into all these things,

1557
00:57:01.789 --> 00:57:02.539
even with family.

1558
00:57:03.264 --> 00:57:05.546
neighborhoods and friends or sometimes relationships,

1559
00:57:05.566 --> 00:57:06.187
sometimes not,

1560
00:57:06.587 --> 00:57:06.708
but

1561
00:57:07.530 --> 00:57:09.909
I've contorted to become what I thought I was supposed to be.

1562
00:57:10.273 --> 00:57:11.429
And I know that that's not me.

1563
00:57:11.476 --> 00:57:12.390
And now what do I do?

1564
00:57:13.155 --> 00:57:20.843
And that's where a lot of deep spiritual work and a lot of magical practices can really help remove the bindings.

1565
00:57:21.343 --> 00:57:21.984
For a visual,

1566
00:57:22.046 --> 00:57:29.437
just think that a lot of those women come to me and they have been bound up by society's expectations for them and their families and other people.

1567
00:57:29.515 --> 00:57:32.687
And they come to me and I help them unwind that binding.

1568
00:57:33.580 --> 00:57:34.841
Now from,

1569
00:57:34.982 --> 00:57:35.322
I know,

1570
00:57:35.663 --> 00:57:35.843
right?

1571
00:57:36.062 --> 00:57:36.183
Wow.

1572
00:57:36.363 --> 00:57:37.683
So from the men's side,

1573
00:57:38.144 --> 00:57:39.445
most of the men that come to me,

1574
00:57:40.046 --> 00:57:46.116
it's because they don't know how to hold the space for the women in their lives and they feel things kind of spiraling.

1575
00:57:46.390 --> 00:57:49.804
A lot of times it's that same demographic of women,

1576
00:57:49.913 --> 00:57:51.116
even if it's not their spouses,

1577
00:57:51.163 --> 00:57:58.882
it's that same demographic of women that they are trying to figure out how to navigate life with.

1578
00:57:59.163 --> 00:57:59.913
That's a part of it.

1579
00:58:00.351 --> 00:58:02.070
And so I teach them how to hold.

1580
00:58:02.488 --> 00:58:03.990
big masculine space.

1581
00:58:04.371 --> 00:58:05.310
And then secondarily,

1582
00:58:05.732 --> 00:58:21.123
I'll say the whole other category of people I work with are those that don't have a confirmed or identified gender or sexual preference and they want to play and explore and they don't have anywhere in their life that they can go and talk about things that are not inside the box.

1583
00:58:21.794 --> 00:58:23.935
And it's one thing that I'm super proud of.

1584
00:58:23.966 --> 00:58:27.732
I'm surrounded by a lot of people that support transgenders and...

1585
00:58:27.864 --> 00:58:28.104
you know,

1586
00:58:28.124 --> 00:58:29.305
different sexual preferences.

1587
00:58:29.324 --> 00:58:31.124
And I just help people know that that's okay.

1588
00:58:31.165 --> 00:58:32.204
That is part of their power.

1589
00:58:32.563 --> 00:58:37.786
So when I say the women don't know how fucking powerful they are,

1590
00:58:37.849 --> 00:58:38.145
actually,

1591
00:58:38.208 --> 00:58:43.169
I'm going to say that most people that come and sit in front of me on a screen or in person,

1592
00:58:44.286 --> 00:58:45.974
I get to see them as,

1593
00:58:46.130 --> 00:58:46.364
you know,

1594
00:58:46.365 --> 00:58:47.489
the goddess sees them.

1595
00:58:49.770 --> 00:58:50.270
And I love it.

1596
00:58:50.552 --> 00:58:51.036
Oh my God.

1597
00:58:51.833 --> 00:58:55.895
Is there anything that you want to talk about that we haven't talked about.

1598
00:58:58.384 --> 00:59:01.107
I want to talk about hexing and cursing.

1599
00:59:01.246 --> 00:59:01.707
Let's do it.

1600
00:59:01.787 --> 00:59:01.988
Okay.

1601
00:59:02.107 --> 00:59:06.254
I want you to ask me questions on what you believe that to be.

1602
00:59:07.293 --> 00:59:13.957
Let's talk about the darker side of magic a little bit because it is a common misconception.

1603
00:59:13.980 --> 00:59:15.574
So let's just like dispel that.

1604
00:59:15.855 --> 00:59:20.480
So I want you to ask me what you might want to know from a practicing witch that we haven't talked about before.

1605
00:59:20.949 --> 00:59:21.809
What would you want to know?

1606
00:59:22.215 --> 00:59:23.387
As a practicing witch,

1607
00:59:24.324 --> 00:59:27.309
what are the biggest misconceptions?

1608
00:59:27.867 --> 00:59:28.238
about

1609
00:59:28.838 --> 00:59:30.139
hexing and cursing.

1610
00:59:31.360 --> 00:59:31.602
Okay.

1611
00:59:31.701 --> 00:59:32.281
And curses,

1612
00:59:32.362 --> 00:59:32.883
I should say.

1613
00:59:33.164 --> 00:59:35.703
So- What are the biggest misconceptions about hexing and curses?

1614
00:59:35.863 --> 00:59:37.328
I'm going to answer that second.

1615
00:59:37.344 --> 00:59:37.524
Curse,

1616
00:59:37.525 --> 00:59:37.930
you're like,

1617
00:59:37.931 --> 00:59:38.211
fuck you.

1618
00:59:40.313 --> 00:59:40.750
Actually,

1619
00:59:40.789 --> 00:59:41.570
every time you say that,

1620
00:59:41.649 --> 00:59:42.149
it's a curse.

1621
00:59:42.813 --> 00:59:46.992
If you're driving down the road and somebody have road rage and you get mad at someone and you say,

1622
00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:48.899
I hope you go crash two blocks from now,

1623
00:59:49.274 --> 00:59:50.305
you've just cursed the person.

1624
00:59:50.399 --> 00:59:51.774
It's actually the same energy.

1625
00:59:51.867 --> 00:59:52.055
Okay.

1626
00:59:52.477 --> 00:59:52.727
You know,

1627
00:59:52.728 --> 00:59:56.164
when you get mad at a neighbor because their dog is barking all the time and you say,

1628
00:59:56.211 --> 00:59:56.320
oh,

1629
00:59:56.321 --> 00:59:57.258
I wish your dog would blah,

1630
00:59:57.259 --> 00:59:57.383
blah,

1631
00:59:57.384 --> 00:59:57.539
blah.

1632
00:59:57.930 --> 00:59:58.414
It's a curse.

1633
00:59:59.326 --> 01:00:05.954
So we actually use this kind of dark magic all the time because in every spiritual tradition,

1634
01:00:05.974 --> 01:00:06.774
in every religion,

1635
01:00:06.775 --> 01:00:08.958
they will tell you that at the beginning there was the word.

1636
01:00:10.114 --> 01:00:11.458
So when you're speaking it,

1637
01:00:11.599 --> 01:00:12.317
so it shall be.

1638
01:00:12.841 --> 01:00:15.302
So don't think that that's different than that.

1639
01:00:15.364 --> 01:00:15.536
Now,

1640
01:00:16.739 --> 01:00:22.130
I want to say that hexing and cursing is in my practice and what I teach primarily in protection.

1641
01:00:22.489 --> 01:00:25.270
If you need to do something to protect yourself or those you love,

1642
01:00:25.849 --> 01:00:28.333
it's really easy to ask yourself where that line would be.

1643
01:00:28.946 --> 01:00:29.787
By asking yourself,

1644
01:00:29.887 --> 01:00:33.070
what would you do physically to protect those people that you love?

1645
01:00:33.792 --> 01:00:36.054
If Brandy or the kids was in physical danger,

1646
01:00:36.515 --> 01:00:36.956
what would you do?

1647
01:00:37.292 --> 01:00:37.597
Anything.

1648
01:00:39.058 --> 01:00:40.394
It's the same with spiritual practices.

1649
01:00:40.395 --> 01:00:42.183
It's the same with hexing and cursing.

1650
01:00:42.659 --> 01:00:44.198
And at least that's how I teach it.

1651
01:00:44.238 --> 01:00:45.823
Everybody can do their own thing.

1652
01:00:45.855 --> 01:00:46.730
That's how I teach it.

1653
01:00:47.136 --> 01:00:48.152
And so what is it?

1654
01:00:48.261 --> 01:00:48.527
Well,

1655
01:00:48.605 --> 01:00:49.964
it can be anything you want it to be.

1656
01:00:50.214 --> 01:00:52.245
It depends on your own values,

1657
01:00:52.636 --> 01:00:54.136
which leads me to this other question.

1658
01:00:54.152 --> 01:00:55.933
The most commonly asked question I get is,

1659
01:00:55.995 --> 01:00:57.292
am I a good witch or a bad witch?

1660
01:00:58.798 --> 01:00:59.579
And my answer is,

1661
01:01:00.020 --> 01:01:02.182
it depends on how you define good versus bad.

1662
01:01:03.061 --> 01:01:03.924
So I'll ask you,

1663
01:01:04.244 --> 01:01:04.905
do you think,

1664
01:01:05.463 --> 01:01:06.467
I'll give you a situation.

1665
01:01:09.045 --> 01:01:13.912
If I was to open a portal in the earth and suck the soul of a man into that portal,

1666
01:01:13.951 --> 01:01:15.787
which means they might walk around as a human,

1667
01:01:15.850 --> 01:01:18.444
but they would be devoid of feeling deep emotion.

1668
01:01:19.397 --> 01:01:25.225
If I did that because I know that man has been touching their teenage stepchild inappropriately,

1669
01:01:26.725 --> 01:01:27.912
would you consider that bad or good?

1670
01:01:28.346 --> 01:01:28.486
Good.

1671
01:01:29.007 --> 01:01:29.187
Right.

1672
01:01:29.867 --> 01:01:33.191
So with all things in life,

1673
01:01:33.430 --> 01:01:35.832
there's good and evil and how you determine that is up to you.

1674
01:01:36.496 --> 01:01:38.980
And it's no different in witchcraft.

1675
01:01:39.418 --> 01:01:40.535
It should just have the same tools,

1676
01:01:40.558 --> 01:01:41.855
but you have those same tools with the knife.

1677
01:01:41.879 --> 01:01:43.277
It could be the same thing,

1678
01:01:43.363 --> 01:01:46.668
whether you're using a weapon or whether you're using hexing and cursing.

1679
01:01:47.168 --> 01:01:47.277
So

1680
01:01:47.808 --> 01:01:51.887
I always think that that's important to talk about because what you would fight for as a human,

1681
01:01:52.027 --> 01:01:53.090
why wouldn't you use magic?

1682
01:01:53.091 --> 01:01:54.137
If you know how to use magic,

1683
01:01:55.105 --> 01:01:55.855
it would be the same.

1684
01:01:59.302 --> 01:02:03.566
We always have a joke that we speak on behalf of our dog and cat.

1685
01:02:04.808 --> 01:02:06.191
And because like a cookie,

1686
01:02:06.628 --> 01:02:07.370
and she's a pit bull,

1687
01:02:07.371 --> 01:02:08.191
and she's wonderful.

1688
01:02:08.691 --> 01:02:12.956
And she sleeps at the foot of our bed a lot and is bound up with blankets and everything.

1689
01:02:12.957 --> 01:02:14.074
And there's times she'll,

1690
01:02:14.300 --> 01:02:16.378
we'll say something and she'll pick her head up and look at us.

1691
01:02:16.394 --> 01:02:16.816
And we're like,

1692
01:02:16.863 --> 01:02:17.097
she's like,

1693
01:02:17.098 --> 01:02:17.925
I just want to fuck you.

1694
01:02:19.956 --> 01:02:23.769
So we think our dog and cat put a curse on us often.

1695
01:02:24.191 --> 01:02:24.753
So funny.

1696
01:02:25.113 --> 01:02:25.394
Actually,

1697
01:02:25.613 --> 01:02:27.613
I have a lot of telepathy with my dog.

1698
01:02:27.816 --> 01:02:28.550
I kind of know

1699
01:02:29.062 --> 01:02:30.084
Like when you're in tune with energy,

1700
01:02:30.103 --> 01:02:31.025
it's also just energy.

1701
01:02:31.084 --> 01:02:32.886
You're probably reading your dog correctly.

1702
01:02:33.127 --> 01:02:34.185
I believe that to be true.

1703
01:02:34.326 --> 01:02:36.849
Brandy 100%

1704
01:02:36.951 --> 01:02:38.810
has that with the dog and the cat.

1705
01:02:38.873 --> 01:02:39.115
Yeah,

1706
01:02:39.130 --> 01:02:39.474
for sure.

1707
01:02:39.475 --> 01:02:39.794
Like she,

1708
01:02:39.935 --> 01:02:40.373
and they,

1709
01:02:40.771 --> 01:02:42.154
the way they respond to her,

1710
01:02:42.396 --> 01:02:44.474
like the cat doesn't like to be held.

1711
01:02:45.044 --> 01:02:46.138
Brandy really,

1712
01:02:47.263 --> 01:02:48.826
my stepdaughter a little bit,

1713
01:02:49.138 --> 01:02:52.560
but really it's Brandy's the one that she lets her hold her and she,

1714
01:02:52.685 --> 01:02:55.373
the cat's right there and getting rubbed and all that.

1715
01:02:55.374 --> 01:02:55.888
Where if I do it,

1716
01:02:55.889 --> 01:02:57.763
it's fuck you and takes off.

1717
01:02:58.410 --> 01:02:58.550
Yeah.

1718
01:02:58.650 --> 01:03:00.812
And if you ask them out loud sometimes,

1719
01:03:00.832 --> 01:03:01.875
even though they don't speak English,

1720
01:03:01.933 --> 01:03:03.136
but if you ask them out loud,

1721
01:03:03.214 --> 01:03:03.394
right,

1722
01:03:03.656 --> 01:03:04.136
at the beginning,

1723
01:03:04.175 --> 01:03:06.136
there was words to use the word ask.

1724
01:03:06.441 --> 01:03:09.503
Like if the dog is barking and there's no reason why,

1725
01:03:09.621 --> 01:03:10.121
ask them like,

1726
01:03:10.144 --> 01:03:10.839
what do you need?

1727
01:03:10.925 --> 01:03:12.066
And just sit quietly for a minute.

1728
01:03:12.067 --> 01:03:12.808
See what comes to your head.

1729
01:03:13.144 --> 01:03:14.464
They might say pepperoni.

1730
01:03:17.746 --> 01:03:18.808
You might hear something.

1731
01:03:19.105 --> 01:03:20.199
You would be surprised.

1732
01:03:20.200 --> 01:03:21.339
They would communicate in their own way.

1733
01:03:21.433 --> 01:03:23.277
You are capable of interpreting it.

1734
01:03:24.449 --> 01:03:24.699
I mean,

1735
01:03:24.700 --> 01:03:25.621
we could do this all day.

1736
01:03:26.324 --> 01:03:27.433
You could do a whole...

1737
01:03:27.962 --> 01:03:31.466
book series on spirituality and animals.

1738
01:03:32.007 --> 01:03:32.245
Oh,

1739
01:03:32.745 --> 01:03:33.089
I mean,

1740
01:03:33.628 --> 01:03:35.171
I know some powerful animal shamans.

1741
01:03:35.190 --> 01:03:36.690
I don't consider myself to be like,

1742
01:03:36.714 --> 01:03:38.573
that's not my practice.

1743
01:03:38.574 --> 01:03:40.932
I feel like I don't know much about animal shamanism other than

1744
01:03:41.432 --> 01:03:42.979
I know I can hear my dog.

1745
01:03:43.315 --> 01:03:44.424
I hear him often.

1746
01:03:44.565 --> 01:03:45.503
I hear what he says,

1747
01:03:45.518 --> 01:03:45.940
and I'm like,

1748
01:03:46.003 --> 01:03:46.143
whoa.

1749
01:03:46.534 --> 01:03:46.862
But again,

1750
01:03:46.987 --> 01:03:49.268
I'm also the person that hears my plants talk to me.

1751
01:03:49.690 --> 01:03:50.190
I love that.

1752
01:03:50.284 --> 01:03:51.831
I can walk through rooms and I'll be like,

1753
01:03:51.940 --> 01:03:52.065
oh,

1754
01:03:52.190 --> 01:03:52.768
I'm so sorry.

1755
01:03:52.831 --> 01:03:54.503
Did I not water you for 10 days?

1756
01:03:54.846 --> 01:03:56.534
You just yelled at me and said water.

1757
01:03:56.778 --> 01:03:57.219
got it,

1758
01:03:57.359 --> 01:03:59.300
message received.

1759
01:03:59.341 --> 01:04:00.221
But I'm not special.

1760
01:04:00.241 --> 01:04:03.565
We can all hear and feel and know these things.

1761
01:04:03.964 --> 01:04:05.089
And it's inside our body,

1762
01:04:05.167 --> 01:04:08.026
which is why you hear me talk a lot about connecting to our body.

1763
01:04:09.128 --> 01:04:11.456
I think that you are extremely special.

1764
01:04:11.815 --> 01:04:17.979
I think you should give yourself a little more grace on that one because you're the one creating awareness in others that they are special.

1765
01:04:20.135 --> 01:04:20.760
And I love it.

1766
01:04:21.260 --> 01:04:22.760
And I love that for you.

1767
01:04:22.979 --> 01:04:24.448
I am blessed by our friendship.

1768
01:04:25.370 --> 01:04:26.182
I'm blessed that you came.

1769
01:04:26.994 --> 01:04:42.377
you know out to vegas and we did this there's an open seat for you there whenever you want to come back um you know if you want to if you want to come back before the book drops or anything like that oh that would be fun by all means and we'll do a little meetup of the witches okay

1770
01:04:43.080 --> 01:04:48.392
i'll invite you i mean brandy's there already but yeah we might be flying the wall i'll be flying the wall

1771
01:04:49.967 --> 01:04:53.151
I better go to teach me the protection in case those things start coming my way.

1772
01:04:53.211 --> 01:04:53.672
What do I do?

1773
01:04:53.930 --> 01:04:54.492
Just be mute,

1774
01:04:54.551 --> 01:04:54.813
Jeff,

1775
01:04:55.371 --> 01:04:56.012
which is rare,

1776
01:04:56.133 --> 01:04:56.895
but that would happen.

1777
01:04:56.896 --> 01:04:57.356
I want you to work.

1778
01:04:57.371 --> 01:04:59.418
You can be our servant when the witches come together.

1779
01:04:59.574 --> 01:04:59.817
Okay.

1780
01:04:59.895 --> 01:05:00.215
Okay.

1781
01:05:00.699 --> 01:05:01.020
Okay.

1782
01:05:01.676 --> 01:05:02.356
Thank you so much,

1783
01:05:02.403 --> 01:05:02.699
my love.

1784
01:05:02.700 --> 01:05:03.121
Thank you.

1785
01:05:03.122 --> 01:05:03.598
For coming in.

1786
01:05:03.637 --> 01:05:05.746
This has been an absolute joy.

1787
01:05:05.809 --> 01:05:07.059
I appreciate you so much.

1788
01:05:07.121 --> 01:05:07.465
Thank you.

1789
01:05:07.481 --> 01:05:08.043
It's my honor.