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Welcome to Communication Connection

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. This podcast takes a deep

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strap in , it's going to be one amazing

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ride . Let's dive into today's episode

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. Today we're continuing our discussion

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about the five myths , the five

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reasons why people are hesitant

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to get into the podcasting world , and we've

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already identified those five myths

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. And today we're taking a deeper dive into somebody

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else's experience with the time myth

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, and I'm going to pre-thank this individual

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for taking the time out

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of his day to join us . Tony

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Ginnis is a spirit coach

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. Connecting to spirit and the energies

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that surround others are just two of Tony's

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many abilities . Now , Tony

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pursued a formal education in Feng Shui

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with the intention to share what he learned with

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others , spreading prosperity along the

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way . Today , he is the only

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Tuning Fork master teacher in

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Canada that we know of to teach

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under Soma Energetics , and believes

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that self-empowerment is our natural state

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. Now , Tony's issue , though , with

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bringing this information and all of his

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knowledge of the spirit world into

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the podcasting world was all about

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time . Where would he find the time

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? How would he fit it into his day

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that's already filled with

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things taking up his time

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? Tony , welcome to the podcast

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Thank you very much , carl , and thank you very much for

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the invitation . It's been a pleasure

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to work alongside of you

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to develop a podcast like

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this , and that was one of the limitations

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that I saw at the very beginning . With

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all the things I do , I have a networking

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group that I do a lot of background work

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on . I'm a grandfather I have to take lot of background work

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on . I'm a grandfather I have to take care of

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. I don't have to , but it's a pleasure to take

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care of my grandson two , three times a week . There's

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some family stuff there , so when

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I sit down to a project , it has

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to . It's very focused , very precious

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in terms of the time that I use . Otherwise

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we'd be working pretty much around the clock

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and

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when I was looking at this podcast part of it how am I going to possibly

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fit in a podcast ? And

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so when we looked at the various options

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to is it a long podcast ? Am I

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going to do it in 15 minutes or a half

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an hour ? And even if it only

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is 15 minutes , I

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knew there was going to be some work to edit it and

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get the artwork going and all

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the other things and it took more time . That

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was I was really wrestling with . That is , how

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am I going to possibly take an extra you

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know a couple of hours to to get

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something like this going ? And

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for me , the question was , oh you , because

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you have , I managed to go

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through some of your courses there , carl , which really cleared up a lot of

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things too . Thank you , yeah , I managed to go through some of your courses there , carl , which really

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cleared up a lot of things too .

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Thank you , yeah , and I think you hit the nail right on

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the head there when you were talking about whether

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it's a 15-minute podcast or longer

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, and I think that's one of the misconceptions when people

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step into the podcast arena . We have this preconceived

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notion that , oh my goodness

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, all of those guru podcasters

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are going on for 45

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minutes an hour , two hours in some cases

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. That means I have to do the same

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thing . Was that part of what was playing

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on in your mind as well ?

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Oh , absolutely . When I'm looking at

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some of the more popular ones Joe Rogan and

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the various other ones like him , like

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you're right , it's like an hour and a half , two hours

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, and there's no way I mean I

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know he would have a producer and things like that that would go on . I

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wouldn't have that kind of time , so I had to sort of bring it into

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a different recipe , bring another element in there

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. So how long would people listen to

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the topic that I would be talking about

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? Really , what it came down to when

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you're talking about current events

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and whether it's political or what's

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happening in the medical field or whatever , yeah

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, people might stay for a length of

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time , but in my world , where

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I'm talking about spirit , I'm talking about

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people living their lives through

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energy . They may not want

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to listen to it for an hour or

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two . So that helped me a lot

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, because knowing that I'm

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probably good for about 15 minutes to

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maybe 30 minutes might be good , and

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I knew that meditation and other

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things would be part of it . This

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is a great way when people are walking

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, and I'm sort of thinking of

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when a person is walking through a park and

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they sit on a park bench on their phone and

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then they plug in their earpiece and they can meditate

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for 15 minutes and just listen

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and whatever stresses

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that they're going through for the day , they

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could release it in those 15 minutes and that made

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a lot of sense to me . So I

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struggled , looked at the various

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content I could deliver

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and then what kind of techniques

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or what kind of different meditations

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I could produce in sound . And

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sound was good for me because tuning forks

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are a beautiful way to

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incorporate energy in

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any sound . So I could take a regular piece

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of music , add some tuning forks

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and it now has a different element

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. It's not just background music

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, it has an element of energy , of

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release and releasing trauma , releasing

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stress , and for me that was

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very attractive .

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And let's expand beyond that , because

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you've hit a number of different things

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. That as far as content goes . But

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if you were to really start

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to structure it and say , okay , I have to come

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up with all of these episodes and one's

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going to be just a meditation not

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just , but it's going to be a meditation then

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another one might be instructional , but

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what you did , you already

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had your content

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because you were delivering it every

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single week . Anyhow , explain

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that a little bit Over the years .

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we have been very successful . I've been doing

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this for the last 15 plus years and

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it was my way of giving back , especially

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right in the height of COVID . In

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2020 , I believe , we

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launched that , or 2021 , we launched our podcast

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, but before that we

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couldn't go out . We couldn't even go to our own office

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. We had to shut that office down

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and we figured there's

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still people that are looking for some

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form of release , some peace and

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things , and so we wanted to give back and we

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launched a friday 1

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30 . It was a free on

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. We have it on our private Facebook

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group . We launched that and it was called

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Tune In With Tony , and it's basically

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about a half hour of content

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about different things that we have in

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our everyday life , whether it's trying

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to work with trusting issues or

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childhood issues or things that

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are happening , that other people are

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going through trauma just that

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form of release , and so I was giving

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this out anyway . So I was doing that for about

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a year and then I figured

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where am I going to get this content ? I said , well , the

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content is already there . All

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I would have to do is record it

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. Then the work would be basically

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edited and bringing

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it out . And this worked out really good

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. And what was to my surprise was

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when I recorded it and I started to

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shorten it and make it into a podcast

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quality product . When

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we sent it out there , people loved it . People

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just loved that form of candid

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, because I'm talking to a class and

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so many people would comment

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that it's almost like you're talking to me

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. So the content was

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already there . So this is how I was able

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to get the content , because every

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week spirit would say okay , this week

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we're going to be talking about ancestral stuff

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, or this week we're going to be talking about past life , or

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we're going to be talking about crystals , or we're

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going to be talk a little bit about feng shui . And

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so the content was there already . So

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that's how I was able to be convinced

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okay , I've got the content . So

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now the time factor isn't

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so much a factor anymore because I'm already

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doing it and there are some times where I'll

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get a client and they'll want a reading or

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they'll have some comment about what's

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happening at work or with their health or

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whatever , and so I will record

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some of those and I'll let the client

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know I'm recording it . But in what I do

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is I'll take out the personal stuff and

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the things that are more generic . That

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will apply to everybody . I

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would take that and piece it into

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another podcast episode

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and so this way I didn't have

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to do something out of the blue and

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just because sometimes we're in front of the paper

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and it's blank and we just don't

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know what to say . We don't

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know what we know until we know it .

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Exactly , exactly . So , essentially

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, what you did is you figured out

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that you don't have to reinvent content

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and you don't have to find the time

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to structure this content

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. You already had it because you had your

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classes . That's number one . And , by the way , great

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classes . I'll just share that . So

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, shameless promotion for you , tony . They're great

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classes and we'll make sure we post links in

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the show notes so people can see the

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work that you're doing and how life-changing

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it can be for so many different people . So

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not only are you getting it from those classes but

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, like you said , when you're working one-on-one with

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clients , of course you'll get

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their permission , but you'll say , hey , we're going to take

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some of this content out , we'll remove you , but what Some of

9:35

this content out will remove you but you'll . What we're talking about could

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be part of a podcast episode you

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had . I don't want to say you didn't have any work to do , but

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you didn't have to have any additional work

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to do other than the editing

9:46

piece which you were

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planning on doing yourself . Anyways , you

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wanted that hands-on feel

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to your podcast and , as that

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evolves , you're probably

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going to be taking that off your plate anyhow . But

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that's how you got started , was I

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don't need to reinvent content . That

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takes a lot of time , and I know that

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I can break these episodes down into

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bite-sized pieces , be them 15

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minutes or 20 minutes of your instruction , and

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then your meditation might be a separate piece . But

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oh , I have additional pieces I can bring in , and

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that's how you've been successful with your

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show and managed through that myth of

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time .

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Absolutely . Well , when I was looking

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at just the numbers , if I looked

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at , okay , if the average podcast is

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going to be 15 , maybe 20 minutes

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, I want to launch 50

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episodes that we're

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talking about 20 hours , 25

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hours of content I got I can't

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talk for 25 hours . Well

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, over time it's been

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many , many episodes and it

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comes all the time

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and there's always an endless amount

10:52

of things that Spirit has to share to

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either clarify something , and I

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try and record everything . And again

10:59

, when I was looking at it in the beginning

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, I'm thinking , with all the time

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I have , I wouldn't have time to come

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up with , you know , just like

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blank , and I've tried it . You

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know I sit in front of my microphone

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and I'll say , okay , what do I want to talk about today

11:15

? Gee , and it just and

11:17

that would just take enough time that , ok , there wouldn't

11:19

be enough there . But when I incorporate

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it into my regular day

11:24

and there's always things that you

11:26

know , spirit has to say , because that's really

11:28

a channel of what I do I channel things

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and if somebody wants to know what's

11:32

going on , I don't have an

11:34

opinion of my own . It's usually

11:37

spirit that usually comes in and says are

11:39

you open for a reading and so , even

11:41

if it's only two , three minutes and that

11:43

would signal me , oh , I could

11:45

talk about this or I could talk about

11:47

this , and I really expand in

11:49

my podcast . One of the things

11:52

I found is , from a human perspective

11:54

, when I was going through stuff whether

11:57

it's a hardship or whether it's , how am I going to

11:59

get past this , whatever the subject

12:01

is and he says , okay , I could talk

12:03

about this in my class and

12:05

again , I would record it . So I'm incorporating

12:08

the stuff I'm going through , because

12:10

most people are probably going through the same thing

12:12

. Many people are also grandparents

12:15

and they're also wanting to attain

12:18

things in life . And looking at , well

12:20

, although I have not as much

12:22

work that I used to have , but

12:24

my time is so filled up , I couldn't possibly

12:27

come up with a podcast if I have a business

12:29

, but it is about incorporating

12:32

it into your normal everyday business

12:34

life and there's always

12:36

something that will come up that

12:38

will just be so obvious that you

12:41

have to talk about .

12:42

And I think the big thing too is and you've already

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expressed this is you

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have content , but how many different ways can you repurpose

12:49

it ? So you repurpose your content . For example

12:51

, you have the class , you

12:53

have the podcast , you might

12:55

have some posts or blogs that you're writing , you

12:57

have the YouTube channel . So you're not just creating

13:01

all these different pieces of content

13:03

and it's going out on one channel , it's

13:05

going on multiple channels , because it's one

13:08

and then another piece of content

13:10

on those same channels . So you're really diversified

13:13

in where it's going and

13:15

it's saving you a lot of time , even though

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you thought it was going to take time .

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That's right . And it was the content that was

13:21

holding me back , because content and

13:23

time are the thing in

13:25

some cases , and now I'm looking

13:27

at it as , now that I have the content

13:30

, it's managing the content

13:32

with the best time that you have

13:34

left over . And there's still things

13:36

. There are still so many opportunities for

13:38

Instagram where I could do short pieces

13:41

, but to get into that is another thing

13:43

altogether . But when I get to that point

13:45

, that's when I'm going to start to bring in more

13:48

professional help , more producers , to

13:50

say , okay , look , I want to get , let's

13:52

say , another 100 video

13:54

bites that's about 15 seconds

13:56

or 20 seconds long . Give about 100

13:58

of them . Here's a whole bunch of videos . I've

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I've done about close to 50

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or 60 videos , if not more . Again

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with the podcast , I want to be able to incorporate

14:08

that into visual things . So I've been

14:10

doing sound bites was . I took a fantastic

14:13

course on that , on how to do sound bites

14:15

, and I wonder who ran that

14:17

course yeah

14:19

, and that was great because it took

14:21

my podcast from . I usually get

14:24

about 10 or 20 within

14:26

the first couple of days and it shot up

14:28

to 40 or 50 , so I doubled it

14:30

the amount of people that saw that sound

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bite . It was a 20 second

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and it was basically mostly

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sounds . This

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particular one was shedding your

14:41

past and I used

14:43

the sound of crickets and I

14:46

incorporated tuning forks with it , so there's

14:48

no talking whatsoever , it's just

14:50

the crickets and it shot up just

14:52

something about when you package it

14:54

that way , when people see it they'll listen

14:57

to it and for those few seconds you might

14:59

feel something , and then for

15:01

them to say you know what ? I want to hear more

15:03

. So it was a great introduction

15:05

. So thank you for that , carl . You've opened that

15:07

up and there's actually more opportunities

15:10

now and some of the things that were wasting

15:12

time before , because when you are doing something

15:15

so high efficient , you

15:17

start to look at some of the things that aren't

15:19

as efficient and what you were wasting your

15:21

time on , and I'm sort of

15:23

cutting more of those out and focusing

15:26

more on what is really there

15:28

Now that I've got a community . When

15:30

I post something now , almost immediately

15:32

there are people that are waiting for it on

15:35

a certain day , or it's right

15:37

away . There's always some kind of reaction

15:39

, and so now we're incorporating how

15:41

we can put our own ads in there so we

15:43

can say look , if you're having some additional

15:46

things you want to go on , you

15:48

need some extra help . I'm here

15:50

to help you for that . And so eventually

15:52

it's going to be a nice marketing thing . But right now

15:54

we're creating that audience , that

15:57

loyal audience that people are listening

15:59

to , and we have our own style

16:01

. And I've listened to other ones and

16:03

, to be honest , I get sort of bored about

16:05

halfway through because it's just too

16:08

out there . I like things that are

16:10

real and that's the first thing I look

16:12

for , because if I'm entertained when I listen

16:14

to it , then it's probably OK . There

16:17

are some times where something just comes

16:19

in my head and I'll just turn

16:22

on the microphone and just start channeling

16:24

and I'm talking for 30 minutes and I

16:26

would have no idea what I just said

16:28

, and when I listen to it I'll

16:30

say , hey , that was cool . So

16:36

there's a podcast right there , and so it

16:38

happens when you get this urge

16:40

to vocalize something , and

16:42

for my business or for for my

16:45

situation , it

16:47

wasn't a time thing , because normally

16:49

if I get that idea it would just come and go

16:51

and nothing would happen . But now

16:53

I'm channeling something would actually

16:56

help a person find peace in something

16:58

or find some a technique

17:00

that would really help them that they've never

17:02

thought of before .

17:04

The other thing , too , that I think is interesting and

17:06

who better to speak to than

17:09

you about this is

17:11

the fact that we

17:13

invented time , the whole

17:15

concept of time . We , as human beings

17:18

, invented it , and when and I don't want to

17:20

have a deep , you know , spiritual , philosophical

17:22

discussion about it but we invented time

17:24

. So all of our misconceptions or thoughts

17:26

or myths or whatever's holding

17:29

us back in relation to time is

17:31

because of our , our inventions or

17:33

our perception of it . But when

17:35

it comes to the universe , time

17:38

is how would you describe it's ? It's just , it doesn't

17:40

stand still , but it's , it's non-existent

17:42

.

17:43

That's right . When we come into these bodies

17:45

, we come with a set of agreements . We

17:47

have the agreement of time , the

17:50

agreement of space . Because we are

17:52

space-taking beings and

17:54

because of the way we evolve

17:56

physically , there is time

17:59

, but the spirit doesn't work

18:01

on time or space . So we can

18:03

be in more than one place

18:05

at the same time . So we can be in more than one place

18:07

at the same time . Some

18:16

of the questions I'm being asked is if my grandfather is visiting me and giving me sort of channels

18:18

or some ideas , does that mean he's not with someone else , because I don't want to hog all

18:21

the space from grandpa if he passed . He says no , he can be in multiple

18:23

places at the same time Because

18:25

it isn't for us , it's's a limitation

18:28

, but it isn't like that in non-physical

18:30

. So you're right , time is a made-up

18:32

thing for our sense , because

18:35

it is how we age , it's how we we

18:37

look at things and we measure it by

18:39

time . So it's just that way

18:41

. That's why I don't wear a watch . I used to wear

18:44

a watch and spirit told me to take it off

18:46

, because it ages me faster , because

18:48

I'm such a high vibration , it

18:51

slows down the

18:53

perception and it actually ages

18:55

. I took it off .

18:58

So your fountain of youth was taking off your

19:00

watch . Oh

19:04

, tony , this has been a great discussion and I'm so

19:06

glad that you were able to help us

19:08

bust through the time myth and give

19:10

your experience and how you were able

19:13

to get through it yourself

19:15

and also see that there is

19:17

time and how

19:20

are we managing that to

19:22

our advantage , with not only the time

19:24

we have , but things that we're already doing . So thank

19:26

you so much for sharing that . As I already mentioned

19:29

, all of Tony's links his podcast , which

19:31

is Raising your Spirits podcast

19:33

that link will be in the show notes . The link

19:35

for his website , love Higher Self

19:37

, will be in the show notes . The YouTube channel links that'll

19:39

all be there too . Before I turn you loose , tony

19:41

, onto the world this world or

19:43

the spirit world .

19:52

I'm going to give you the chance to give us a final thought . Well , when it comes to anything

19:54

to do with time , a lot of times we think we don't have enough time to do something , but really , in

19:56

reality , there's always time to do something that's important . There's

19:59

always time that we can share

20:01

with our family , and when we look

20:03

at it that if I'm in one place

20:05

, I'm not somewhere else , that

20:08

means there's always that

20:10

feeling that you're missing something

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, so you're living in the past . When you're

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looking at the future , that you want to

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be somewhere else , it means you're living in the future

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. Everything's fear-based when you're living

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in where you are right now , the time

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, right now , where you are . If

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you're living right there , how are you feeling now

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? How are you doing now ? Because

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in 10 minutes it could change , but right now

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I'm feeling good . And if you acknowledge

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that and just be aware that

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whatever you're doing right now is a

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gift for someone that you're

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with , and it's a gift that I'm with you

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now , carl , I did this because

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I wanted to get your perspective

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and it's a gift for me that I

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was able to be on this show , so

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it's where I want to spend my

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time , tony .

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Jenis from a higher self

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. Thank you so much for spending the

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time with me on the podcast today

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. Thank you , carl , and thank you for joining

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us today . Special thanks to our producer

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