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Ash Johns: Oh my goodness, y'all.

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So first thing I want to point out is that this episode is number 36, and

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I happen to be 36 years old today.

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Well, it's like, it's not my birthday. I'm just saying like today I am 36.

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I'll also be 36 tomorrow. I also was 36 yesterday.

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Anyway, the point is I just feel like that's like a magical little oomph.

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Like maybe it's an omen, maybe it's like, you know, This episode is gonna be juicy.

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Um, I truly do believe that. I think every, every episode is juicy because you guys get to experience

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whatever the hell I'm talking about when I'm talking about it. Anyway, let's jump into it.

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Talk about an intro to this episode.

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so you guys don't know this, but I kind of categorize each one of

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the recordings into different like, Categories like themes and this one as

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well as quite a few of them have been around like initiating into womanhood.

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this one in particular is about, life lessons.

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I call them life level ups or Level up and life.

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And yeah, some of the other ones have been obviously about ancestral

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healing and we'll have some more coming through for entrepreneurship.

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I know I've been hinting at that, but like, yeah, entrepreneurship is

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definitely like, Super duper on the way.

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So those of you who are entrepreneurs, particularly online entrepreneurs,

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healing entrepreneurs, creative entrepreneurs, helping entrepreneurs,

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this is gonna be your jam. And, and if you're not that and you aspire to be, this is gonna be your jam.

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And, If you are not, and you don't aspire to be, but you know

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someone who is, then it's gonna be their jam and you're responsible.

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I'm, I'm tasking you with sharing those episodes with those people when they

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come up, which is gonna be starting next. Week.

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Okay, so next episode we're gonna get into some entrepreneurial

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things, and I'm gonna tell you a little bit why, in today's episode.

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So welcome. Today's about level ups in life lessons.

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We're gonna be looking at some lifestyle stuff, some perspective shift.

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It's just some good. And. It is 10:02 PM All right, so 2202.

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I do live my life by military time, if you didn't know that about me.

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It's just something that lingered from my days of rowing crew early mornings,

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having a military coach, military.

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Yeah, that I think that's right. but I'm, I'm just in this nice cozy spot.

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I've got my tea. I don't even know what kind of tea this is because I.

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It was just like loose tea bags. We're, we're still unpacking.

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We're in our new place in, um, North Carolina, if anyone's curious.

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It's actually Durham. thought if I was gonna tell people, but like, yeah, it's, it's, it's the

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city, town of Durham, which I'm just falling in love with every single day.

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And so because of that, I like some of my tea bags just spilled

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out and they're not labeled. So I don't know if this is like sleepy time tea.

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I don't know if it's chamomile, ginger. Detox.

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Uh, it's not mint, but whatever it is, it's got me in a nice, calm,

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chill, present vibe and, um, yeah.

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I invite you to join me. Join me in this. So I've got a lot to talk about around this paradox of life, and if you've

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been around my neck of the woods for a while, you'll know that I talk.

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In paradox, I talk at various levels of consciousness, of spiritual

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awareness, of embodied knowing.

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I talk from just a multi-disciplined dimension, um, perspective very often.

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And so sometimes I have to like, Shift which plane I am explaining something in.

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And so today we are definitely leaning into the paradox of life.

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I'm gonna talk about it from a spiritual perspective. I'm gonna talk about it from an experiential storytelling perspective

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cuz you know that's my jam. And ultimately it's another teaching on moving through transition.

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It's another illumination of how you can be, Embracing the

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cycles of change in your life. I feel that a lot of us, especially because we're coming into the

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summer energy or you know, we're in summer energy, a lot of us are

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feeling brighter, more energized.

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We're getting some clarity. We're at least getting outside a little bit more and having fun If you're

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in the northern, uh, hemisphere and those of you who are in the Southern

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hemisphere, cause we've got quite a few people who are listening from Australia.

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Shout out to you guys. either way, the hibernation of winter is.

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Still giving you that energy of clarity, breakthrough on the edge, you

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know, still moving in your process. But I believe some transitions, some definite, shifts are

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becoming, you know, clearer to us.

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And I spoke a little bit about that.

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On an Instagram live that I hopped in on, this past Sunday.

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So if you missed that, I might put up the replay.

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I can't remember if it was recorded or not, but it's a good reason

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to make sure you're following me on Instagram at Ash Inspires.

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It's also a really good reason to be on my email list because lately I have been

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giving like a 30 to 60 minute heads up.

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When I feel called to pop on Instagram and do a live teaching

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or you know, connecting community, I've been sending that email out.

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And so if you ever catch that email, you can make space,

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make time and join me live. So get on my email list.

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If you're not, most of you are, follow me on Instagram if

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you're not, most of you are. And, um, make sure you leave a review, a rating of this podcast.

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Some of you are, if you've been enjoying, Hanging out with me every week and

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receiving what I am putting down.

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So with that in mind, we are entering the second half of the new year

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and I know right when July hit.

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Everyone's gonna be like, oh my God, half the year is done.

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Look back at your ions.

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Pressure. Pressure. What are you gonna do? And that's not actually the vibe that, I'm teaching from, or I'm, I'm moving

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from, but I am moving from the truth that.

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M most of us are starting to crown, most of us are starting to figure

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out if our new legs can walk. You know, we've got giraffe legs, we're like kind of, we got birth or we're

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being birthed into a new expression.

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we've had great change in our lives and we're trying to just like, feel

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into that and see if we can be more confident in it and try on the new

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clothes and check out the new size and, you know, all of these things.

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And so, As we're moving into that second year energy, I'm really

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feeling the call for us not to look at what you said you were gonna

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do at the beginning of the year. Cuz to me, the Gregorian calendar of January 1st just isn't true to me.

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I use January 1st as a precursor, as a warmup, as a hint of what I've

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been planting and resting into in winter to then be declared, come.

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Spring Equinox come, you know, March time.

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And so we saw that particularly with 2023.

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If you guys notice, we go back to the beginning of the year.

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All of us were kind of quiet at the beginning of the year. Everyone was like, new year, who cares?

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Like, I'm just gonna relax. I'm gonna take care of myself.

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I wanna move slowly. And we felt that surgeons even astrologically when we

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really felt the new year. click in, well into March, right.

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So this isn't about, we're halfway through.

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This is more, We are all getting birth.

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what has moved through you and shifted you in these last six months?

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In those last three months that you can now understand grass own

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and you're being called to, um, become more conscious with, become?

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More honorable with, to move with more authority in, to

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practice the new outfit, right?

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To try walking in it in the world, not as a question, but as a knowing.

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And I, I really, really, really feel that. So, by the time you guys listen to this episode, we would've

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already crossed that, threshold. so I encourage you just to kinda.

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Sit back and feel into what is your path in life?

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What is your life urging, asking, begging, inching you, like, nudging you into that.

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You get to try on for size, um, and eventually get very comfortable in right.

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So we've been talking about this inside of presence in the process, which I'll

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mention a little bit more later on in this episode, and that's the reason

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why I wanted to talk about it here. But I also wanna share with you guys, that I just finished a seven day fast.

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All right? And again, if you've been around my parts, you know that I love doing fasting and

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I do various kinds of fasts, not for.

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Weight loss, like never for weight loss.

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In fact, anytime I've lost weight on a fast, I've just gained it back.

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So it's not for that, it's always for spiritual growth, it's always for clarity.

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It's always for an energetic shift, it's always to go deep inside of

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myself and, you know, reflect and be introspective and to clear out stuff,

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and just honor the place that I'm in. So I just did that and for the first time, This is actually one of the

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lessons I wanna share with you today. For the first time going into this fast, I decided for it to not be an extreme fast.

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Okay? So in the past I have done full seven days, no food, only water,

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um, even longer than that. I have done water fast where I went to, remote villages in

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Indonesia and Bali and drank spring water that I fetched for myself.

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no internet, no cell phone, just nature, spring water,

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prayer, meditation, journaling. I was allowed to have like, A physical massage to help move

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some of the toxins outta my body. obviously that you had to do like an enema and all these things to help

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it along, and only bathing in natural water that came from the ocean.

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I've also done just like, you know, no hard foods.

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Just soft foods. I've done the Daniel fast.

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I've done just fruits and vegetables.

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I've done three days of raw fruits and vegetables, three

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days water, and then three days. Fruits and vegetables, all raw, right?

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So there's various, variations of a fast that I've done all through the

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years, but this one felt very unique.

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And it's my first time doing this one, in this way.

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So I'll tell you what I did for seven days.

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Monday to Monday, Well, I guess it was Monday to Sunday because

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on the following Monday I broke the fast, which was two days ago.

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I eliminated all social media consumption.

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Like all of it, I was allowed to post on social right, and to give it,

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like, schedule stuff and, and let it come out into the world and to write.

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I was allowed to obviously go live, but I did not allow myself to consume.

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So there was no scrolling, there was no checking my feed, there was no

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going to people's profiles that I like and I'm staying in contact with.

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There was no absorbing any information from other people.

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And not only was that a social media thing, it was also an email thing.

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Like if it was not specifically like, like I had to deal with

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it, I did not answer any emails. I let support do that for me.

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if I. Was like signed up and this actually happened.

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I signed up for like a webinar or an event. I did not go to them.

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One of them I tried to cheat and I'm gonna lie. I went to it and I didn't even last five minutes.

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My whole spirit was like, absolutely not.

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Like, honor what you said. If there's a replay, you can catch it later.

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If not, doesn't matter. So I eliminated consuming any advice, any teaching, like

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even from my elders or mentors. Like none, no support.

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The only, advice or like wisdom support I did allow myself to receive

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was from obviously my family, my, um, my fiance and one of my great

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friends who we speak every single day as a part of our accountability.

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these things Are sacred and, and are okay.

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Right? So it was eliminating of consumption.

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I eliminated, um, no alcohol, so no wine.

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And I had bought like two new nice bottles of wine and I was just

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looking at them like, oh my God. So no wine, no social media, no consumption of advice, no sweets,

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no like cookies, no ice cream. Which ice cream is like my y'all.

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If you ever wanna get me a gift, if you ever wanna take me out.

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Ice cream is my favorite. It's my favorite dessert.

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I love vanillas. I love French vanilla.

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I love, I love all kinds of vanilla bean, like I love vanilla ice cream.

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I think there was a study somewhere that said that people who love

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vanilla ice cream are the most spiritual and most creative.

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And if that's true, I think it's true cuz it's true for me.

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So no ice cream, no sweets.

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And then let me see what else.

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Was there anything else that I denied myself oh yeah.

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Oh gosh. How could I ever forget this? I had no coffee, no lattes, and, um, I've been only doing decaf coffee

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and decaf lattes for quite some time.

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Um, it's helping with healing my adrenal glands, helping me with my digestion,

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and just energetically as I move through different levels of consciousness

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and I start like, My lifestyle has changed in so many great ways.

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I just feel that I don't need the caffeine, which I never did.

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I never drank coffee for caffeine. I, I like the taste of it.

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I like the ritual of it. I like the sweet, you know, milky, bold.

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The aroma like the, the combination of coffee and incense has always

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been very soothing for me. So, um, I eliminated my decaf lattes.

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I love honey lavender decaf lattes.

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So I did not do those. And I also eliminated complaining or talking about anything that I

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actually do not want in my life, right?

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So that took a lot of awareness and consciousness.

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So, um, I don't know if you guys, do fast, but I highly recommend it.

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I think that. It doesn't always have to be food.

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It could be anything that you go to for emotional reprieve,

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anything that's a distraction. Anything that's like your vice, that your system is going to have

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a response to is enough detox.

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Like I've detoxed from sex, I've detoxed from many different things,

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listening to music, signing up for things, seeing a lot of people that had

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meaningless conversations, like you can do a lot of different kind of, Detox,

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but this one was very special because I found it to be quite ease, useful.

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I. You know, and I think in the past I've always looked for a fast to be, you

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know, strenuous and tough and give a real shock to my system, but I actually

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felt my nervous system, my energy system feel very at ease with doing

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this and start to move into clearing and replenishing and becoming more vibrant.

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Much faster. Like so fast.

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And so if you've been feeling that potentially as you're clearing out and

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stepping into this next expression of yourself or whatever your path in life

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is asking you as we move into this quote unquote second half of the year,

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which is really just the second quarter of the year, if the year only started

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with the spring equinox, but whatever.

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I encourage you to consider detoxing, to consider a clean out to consider

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fasting because even with this move, what's been taking the, the

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unpacking process like a long time, which honestly is not a long time.

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It's only been two weeks here, but it feels long for me is that I'm also.

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Detoxing our home. Like I'm like, I don't need this.

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I didn't use this. I don't want this. This doesn't represent me so much so that I'm like, where are my clothes?

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Like I got rid of so many clothes that I'm like, oh, I need to actually do, I.

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Like a wardrobe, like I need to get a stylist and get new clothes because I've

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just been tossing out a lot of things. So here is permission.

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I know sometimes we think of summer as the time to get out and about

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and to do more things and to be more social and to fill up your calendar.

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But for some reason, 2023 to me, feels.

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Very different than other years. It's like not status quo, it is not going with the normal seasons.

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It feels like, and I, this might be with the Jupiter and Taurus situation, but.

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It feels like such an important year to take our time and

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our process of leveling up. Not to gain quickly, but to truly do that fine tooth comb, cleaning

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out, organizing, restructuring, and setting ourselves up for what's to

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come in 20 24, 20 25, and beyond.

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So if you feel called to do a detox, I highly recommend that you do.

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So. I've thoroughly enjoyed mine and it's great to be here.

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So whenever I do a fast, I guess this is more about fasting, but I'm gonna tell you

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guys what I learned in just two seconds. I also love to say what I'm fasting for, like what's my intention, and

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one of the intentions I always put when I fast is just for God, universe,

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spirit, higher self to reveal anything else that I need to know.

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Like I always include that clause because oftentimes similar when we

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sign up with a coach or a mentor or a program, we go in with our own specific

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intentions, which there's nothing wrong with that, but it can't be so rigid.

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Of this kind of outcome that we don't get what we actually need.

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Like sometimes our minds knows what we need and what we want, but it's

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trying to control the experience or how we get there, that we miss

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receiving what we truly want. So I often just show up with my own intentions, which I had about.

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Seven of them that I wrote down personally, which I

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won't share those here. and then my eighth one was like, whatever I actually do need, like show it to me.

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And I think that's another reason why this particular fast was so easeful,

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because it wasn't these like, Effort, and I'm doing this to get something.

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I was like, I'm putting, I'm clearing myself out energetically.

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I'm putting a stronger, clearer channel or signal out to the universe

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for what I desire to come towards me. And also, hey, now that I'm a clear channel, God, universe, angels, ancestors,

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higher self, bring to me what y'all know is most supportive for this incarnation

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of my life and where I'm at in my journey. And I trust me and us to collaborate in that experience.

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Right. And then the third thing I did, in preparation for this fast was to

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beyond like telling everybody that I'm close to, that I'm doing it.

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So they would like not send me Instagram posts and all these things,

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but I also got clear about what I was, committing to do every single day.

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So, I think y'all know this about me.

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I am very much so into rituals, into ceremony and practice.

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And not to be elaborate about it, I'm actually very casual

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with it, but at all times, I'm speaking to spirit at all times.

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I'm giving like prayers at all times. I'm giving reverence to my, myself and my existence.

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And so I just was really clear about doubling down on like my prayer, my

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worship, my meditation, reading sacred texts, um, taking my salt baths, which.

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I didn't take as many as I thought I would. I thought it would be one or two a day and it ended up being

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like three over the whole week.

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but I believe that that's also having moved to a new location I've already shedd

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so much off of my energy and physical body that it was more about me being in nature.

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I spent a lot of time in the sun. I spent a lot of time just sitting in grass.

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I spent a lot of time just walking around town and being with Ziggy and

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observing people just to get that energy of cleansing and movement.

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in my experience. So yeah, I would love to know if you are interested in doing a fast, and

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what that fast might be or even how my, share of my fast has inspired you.

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Definitely hit me up on social. Let me know.

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I'd love to see it. Okay, so here are some things that I learned about the fast, obviously.

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Number one, the paradox of I don't actually need to do extreme things

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to receive a clearing in my, fast.

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Like again, I think from a background of being Christian.

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a background of even, you know, doing so many different ceremonies

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and being initiated and trained into so many different sacred

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indigenous cultural practices. It is like strenuous.

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You know, I've stayed up all night working with spirits or like talking

21:45

to people or lighting candles, and. In meditation or out in the woods, like I've done things like that.

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And so those things tend to be very mentally, emotionally, and

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physically and energetically taxing on the system for a change.

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And it was really nice to realize I can experience great

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transformation in the most useful way.

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Right, and that is paradoxical.

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You know, there's a time and a place to put in that heavy effort

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and really like be on your knees in pain, and there's a time where it

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can be very soft and move mountains.

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That's number one. Number two is that, and I've talked a little bit about this already, we'll get

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to some new ones in a moment that this summer, the vibes are just different.

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I am thinking right now, this summer, about next summer, I'm thinking

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right now this summer about how I want my fall and my winter, the

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next two seasons to go, and so.

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when we go into like fasting or we are honoring a transition that we're in

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and we're working through embodiment and like, what's my action steps?

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What's the true insight? What's the new operating system I'm moving from?

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I. Or moving into moving from and moving into, um, it usually calls us to be

22:59

very present, like in the present moment, and that's true, but for some

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reason, this fast, fast forwarded me 365 days and it was like, I want

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you to live from this experience.

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Your everyday presence every day that you're walking in this process on your

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path at this pace is about next year.

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And that was such a strong conviction because I tend to be very present.

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You know, I don't do a lot of forecasting. I feel into everything and I live off of the moment and you know, it's

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grounded, but it's very much so what feels rightful right now and the bigger

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picture where it's giving me that perfect in between of like, life is

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gonna be very different by next summer. So what you do this summer, what you do this fall, and what you're

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ready to do in winter means so much.

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So I've been thinking about how I wanna unplug in this winter, in

23:54

preparation for next spring and next summer, which means that if I do the

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foundations that are needing to be done in this transformation this summer and

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really wrap them up, come early fall. I'll have so much spaciousness.

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So the paradox here is like, actually this summer is about work play.

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It's not just about playing, it's not just about frolicking.

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It's not about just ice cream cones in gelato in Europe, it's

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actually about some hard work.

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It's making up not even making up, but I guess that's one way of looking at it.

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It's making up for the downtime that I had for sure, the back end of last

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summer, into the fall and into the winter when I was on sabbatical.

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Right. So it feels counterintuitive, but it's actually very, very, forward moving

24:41

and easeful and yeah, it feels great.

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Like I'm, I'm actually very, very excited for these next couple weeks, so hang on,

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because, um, I'm gonna tell you what's coming up in the next couple weeks.

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The takeaway here is that there's a huge theme of if you let go,

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you're gonna gain so much more. I really feel that coming through if I let go from the normal programming of

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this time of year, if I let go of any of the previous programming and really

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step into what my path and purpose, and process is asking of me right now.

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If you do that right now talking to you, you're gonna gain so much more

25:24

relatively quickly and be so grateful that you quote unquote made the sacrifice.

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But even that, I don't think it's a sacrifice to be doing what your life

25:32

is calling you to do and knowing that it's always gonna work in your favor.

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Another one is something that I've been preaching a long ass

25:40

time, so you've heard me do this. I've used this as a tagline, but it is all about going back in order to move forward.

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And I dance with this cuz there's times where we don't need to look back.

25:51

We actually need to be looking forward and let go of the past.

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There's times we need to go back and we need to get the best things of the past.

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We can apply it forward. There's times we need to go back and heal and release the past in order to move

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forward, right, and not carry it forward. There's so many different expressions of this on the different planes

26:07

and dimensions, but for right now, it truly is about this 180.

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I talked about this a bit in my ig live of this like feeling of spiral living.

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Where you might think that you're doing a 360 and you're in the same

26:22

spot, but really you did a 180 and you're revisiting and reclaiming things

26:26

that are good for you from your past.

26:29

And for me, that's showing up with the entrepreneurship work.

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Like I'm working on revamping the Ashley Johns brand.

26:36

There's a bunch of things that I've got and offerings for you guys that is just.

26:40

So beautiful and I'm so excited and grateful for, and at the same time,

26:44

we've got a whole nother, two other businesses that are starting, that

26:48

are more local base, that have been, um, one has been a family dream for a

26:52

long time, and the other one has been a personal dream for a very long time.

26:56

And again, it's going back to things that I dreamed about a long time ago

27:00

and didn't ever have the space or didn't center it, or it wasn't right timing,

27:05

or I didn't believe in myself, whatever. and it's time to do it now.

27:08

So I'm remembering. Things that I said, I am going back and reclaiming stuff that I've

27:13

dropped on my path that wants to be part of my journey right now.

27:18

And this one's really important because what I find is that when we see ourselves

27:23

quote unquote, Repeating, we see it as bad, and that's not always true.

27:28

And in my work I've talked about repeating patterns in a negative

27:32

way because that was the context in which we were doing the work.

27:35

And right now I, we still do that work, right?

27:37

The clearing of repeating negative limiting patterns, and then there's

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the truth of a repeating pattern that is a thorough line of life.

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To you. It's a thorough line of love.

27:46

It's a thorough line of who you truly are that needs to

27:49

be reintegrated and amplified.

27:52

And I feel that big time right now, like my creativity, my interest in

27:56

beauty, my interest in in interior design, my interest in travel.

28:00

Like those are things that are a hundred percent, it's been in my body

28:03

and my brain and my being since I was a little girl and need to be dialed up.

28:08

So there's a going back in order to move forward.

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And the other one I wanna highlight here is the paradox of not caring

28:17

in order to receive love, like letting go, realizing you are love.

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And then that's when you actually get the love and the recognition.

28:25

And it's so interesting, y'all like, Even in the context of my work, I feel

28:30

like when I'm not promoting stuff, that's when you guys are like randomly

28:34

signing up for things or finding old links or tagging me and being like, I

28:39

bought this six months ago or longer, but I'm just now getting to it and

28:43

oh my God, it's so on the right time. Like I had that happen.

28:47

I had someone this past week who tagged me in some things and it was like, Ancestral

28:51

healing work that I was doing and recorded and teaching about in 2018, 2019, 2020.

28:57

They signed up for it. They got the whole bundle package and was like doing the work, and

29:04

I was like, how cool is it that.

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I'm not caring about that work right now.

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Like the expression of the work has evolved. I'm in a different place and it's still great work reaching people in

29:14

the way that they need to be reached. People are appreciating it when I'm not even thinking about it.

29:19

I, I like that. Like that's pretty awesome.

29:22

I believe that right now in. The coaching industry, in the healing world, in the online business space

29:29

everyone is like, if you don't tell people, they won't find it.

29:33

And don't get me wrong, there is a truth to being visible.

29:35

There's a truth of showing up. There's a truth of people feeling your vibration and understanding who you are.

29:41

Right, which I'm in a cycle of that right now.

29:43

And then there's a truth that whoever's looking for, they're gonna

29:46

Google it and they're gonna come across you, right, in some way,

29:49

shape, or form at some point in time. And so we don't have to control an effort and grasp and push to

29:56

be seen or to be recognized or to, you know, be appreciated.

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Whether we're talking about that in the context of business or we're

30:04

talking about that in the context of an intimate relationship or anything else.

30:08

You know, so to release some things and do it out of just pure love

30:14

and like release it in a way where it's not that you don't care about

30:17

it, but you're not grasping at it. So maybe it's not, not caring to receive love, but you're just

30:23

doing it because you wanna do it. You're being, and then next thing you know, people are

30:27

praising, people are appreciating, people are coming forth like.

30:31

It's just one of those paradoxal teachings, those spiritual laws of

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truth that is so hard for us to.

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Continually trust. Like I think it's a lesson that just keeps lessening.

30:45

We keep getting opportunities to embody this over and over and over again.

30:49

And, um, you know, the way that people talk about this is like, if it's meant

30:52

to be just let it go and it comes and I'm like, eh, sometimes that's true.

30:56

And sometimes you also need to show up for what you really want.

30:59

Anyway, let me not. Teach all the versions of the paradox.

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I'm just saying this one is deeply resonating, and if you're one of the

31:08

people who you know have come across this podcast outta nowhere and we're

31:12

just getting to know each other, you're feeling into my field, I'm

31:16

delivering, you know, into yours. Amen.

31:19

Right on high five. Right. Okay.

31:21

So the key to all of these, I believe, is to let go of the outcome.

31:28

You know, I was not thinking about the outcome of getting like a word from

31:34

God Almighty about anything in my life.

31:37

When I did the fast, I just was like, I'm gonna do this useful fast.

31:40

It's still meaningful because I love all these things.

31:43

They're things that I spend a lot of time and energy and give a lot

31:46

of my, my love and attention to.

31:49

So to release them and to see what I'm gonna receive is, Beautiful to

31:54

say, you know, I'm gonna focus this summer and I know something great is

31:58

gonna happen by next year, but I'm not sure what that's gonna happen.

32:01

I don't know exactly what's gonna happen next year. I just know that I feel called to do this work in the way that I'm

32:07

doing it right now and to fall and we're gonna see what happens.

32:10

Right? The, there is something about being, I don't wanna use the word obedient,

32:16

but just following your call.

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To show up in your path a certain way, even though you know what you desire,

32:25

but you don't know what the outcome is.

32:27

Like, dare I say, it's even fun.

32:30

Like I'm actually having fun in life. The energy of the heaviness of being in transition and the dissolving

32:39

and the, I feel like I'm coming into form and I think it's not just me.

32:42

I think this is a lot of us, you know?

32:45

So this is what we've been talking about and I've been guiding

32:48

the ladies and they've been. You know, exploring and getting their own insights inside

32:52

of presence in the process. I realize a lot of this chapter I've been in, um, and out of like developing

33:01

and sharpening my faith, like I think the whole thing has been about really

33:07

tuning in and evolving my faith and not faith again to get something, but just

33:12

faith, the experience, the expression, the relationship with faith and trust.

33:18

And a lot of times when we say faith and trust, again, it's to get something

33:21

or it's trust with the evidence of, and I'm just saying just the

33:25

relationship of being in the faith and the trust and see what happens.

33:31

It's, it's like purifying it, it's, it's simplifying it, it's bringing

33:35

it back to just the essence of those two words and what they mean.

33:39

And I would also say that we've been talking about inside of presence in

33:43

the process is how, this is character development and character development as

33:48

a human character development as a woman, character development in the evolution

33:53

of my values and the expression of it.

33:55

Like it's completely life changing.

33:58

So if you are still in a process and if you.

34:04

Are ready to stop floundering about in your process, waiting for it to be

34:09

over and wanna come into an intimate experience, presence in the process.

34:14

It's still here for you to sign up. All right.

34:18

Ultimately, when you surrender to your process, you'll know when

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it's time to take inspired, aligned action and inspired, aligned action.

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That is ease, useful, and it's fun as I was just describing.

34:29

And. To me, like lots of that is happening right now.

34:32

I feel so refreshed. I feel crystal clear.

34:36

I feel the next expression of my life and my businesses.

34:39

I'm in love with my fiance. I'm in love with our lives, and it's not because everything is booming

34:44

and like wild, it just feels like a reinvigoration or recommitment.

34:49

A realignment, you know? But it's only when we allow ourselves to dive into the process, to go

34:54

into the depths of the psyche, the depths of the underworld that we get.

34:59

Those keys, those gems, right? And we get to come up and show them to the world.

35:04

So with that in mind, I'm happy to share with you guys what's coming up these next

35:09

few weeks now that I'm out of the, fast, now that we've got the quote unquote

35:13

second half of the year coming up. I'm so excited about this.

35:17

We are, and we have been working on this, to be honest with

35:20

you guys, since like October. So this isn't new stuff.

35:23

It's like just new that I'm ready to talk about it and to share

35:27

it and to make it available. But we have been revamping all of my offerings to date.

35:32

I have been. taking inventory of them, evaluating them, analyzing them, seeing what needs

35:37

to be just like thrown away, archived, never shown to a human ever again.

35:42

What things can be rebundled? What things need to be refreshed?

35:46

What new insights and inspiration I have that need to be added

35:50

into the program or the course in order for it to be more complete.

35:54

And so I am calling this.

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All access ash. All right.

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All access ash is where you're gonna be able to purchase an all access

36:04

pass to have all access to me as I recreate or not even recreate.

36:09

I would say revamp and add to all of my programs.

36:14

And if you don't know all the programs I've created, you

36:17

can definitely head to ashley johns.com/offerings, Slash all offerings.

36:23

If you go to ashley johns.com/all offerings, um, you can see all

36:29

of the offerings and there's even more than what's on here.

36:32

But I'm gonna be taking my time going through each one of these and updating

36:37

them with new videos, new teachings, new worksheets, new meditations, and really

36:44

just adding on to what was already there.

36:46

You know, how. Sometimes you create something with the consciousness you have

36:50

in the moment that you create it. And when you go back and look at it, you're like, oh my

36:53

goodness, this is so good. It's so dead on.

36:56

I'm so glad people are still finding it and signing up for it.

36:59

Evergreen in the universe, in this world.

37:02

And if I could go back, which I can, I would add this.

37:05

And I would talk about this and I would include this.

37:08

And guess what? We have a podcast episode about that.

37:11

So that's exactly what I'm going to be doing over this summer.

37:15

We've already reorganized everything and now I get to

37:18

record all that fresh new content.

37:20

and I would love to do it with you. I would love to do it with you because not only is it gonna enrich the

37:25

experience, but you're gonna get to ask the questions that you most need

37:29

relating to that particular program.

37:31

And it just makes it so much more fun. Like, I don't wanna be recording these solo.

37:35

I want us to add to it, enhance it, talk about it, and you get

37:39

all the things that you want need. And we also get to come together in community.

37:44

So all access ash is coming up.

37:47

It's at a sweet. Sweet dope price if you're purchasing the entire all access ash.

37:54

And if that's not accessible to you right now, don't worry because every single one

37:58

of these programs are gonna go through their own marketing and sales cycle.

38:02

So you can buy each program at a time.

38:05

But the idea about all access ash is you're in for the ride.

38:08

You're like, oh my gosh, I get to have access to ash updating.

38:12

Of these things. I wanna do that and I wanna see how she works, right?

38:16

So it's not even just being able to come to those calls and,

38:20

experiencing the new content that's being added to the programs.

38:24

It's also seeing the behind the scenes of how I work.

38:27

Right. A lot of people have questions about how'd you do your automations and what

38:31

email, and how do you design stuff, and how'd you get your ideas and how

38:35

do you organize and what are your notes and what's your work schedule look

38:38

like and how many hours do you use? Like you're gonna see all of that.

38:41

So you're gonna get access to my actual working calendar.

38:45

We're gonna come in, I'm gonna share my, my actual screen.

38:48

You're gonna see. The behind the scenes and also get to experience receiving the teachings,

38:53

which is gonna be so much fun.

38:55

I've never done that before, but I just feel deeply inspired.

39:00

And again, this entrepreneurial energy is just coming through so clear.

39:04

And I know a lot of you are questioning how you wanna move your business forward,

39:09

how you're being called to serve. What does it look like, what's sustainable?

39:13

And I just wanna share some of the things that I've learned and

39:16

how I work in case it inspires and supports you on your journey.

39:20

So that's that. The second option you have to join me this summer is called Summer of Shift.

39:28

You can join me in community as we create our summer projects and our summer play.

39:34

So the idea behind summer of Shift is that this is us learning how to actually.

39:41

Work and play together.

39:43

Right. It's projects, it's outdoor, it's meaningful.

39:47

It's the work that we do this summer is going to pay off the next year, right, for

39:53

the entire year coming the next 365 days.

39:56

Not that we have to wait until next summer to enjoy it, but like, What

39:59

we're doing now, how we play now, how we adjust our relationship to

40:03

work, what we choose to create from a foundational perspective should be fun.

40:09

And so we're gonna kick this off with a beautiful masterclass,

40:12

literally called Shift Your Shit. The idea here is that we get to shift your perspective and see where you're

40:20

at in your relationship to work and your relationship to your genius in

40:24

relationship to your message, right?

40:26

And then afterwards, you can join me for just, you know, a small

40:30

community accountability, fun, intimate group to hang out and share.

40:36

What you're gonna be playing with this summer.

40:39

So details about both of these offerings.

40:41

If you wanna join one or both is in the show notes.

40:45

I'm very excited both of these will take us up until the Elevating Woman Retreat,

40:51

which by the way, we have seven spots still available so you can jump in.

40:56

On the retreat if you feel called, which I know that you do.

41:00

I'm seeing all of you who keep checking out the sales

41:02

page and all the information. So reach out if you have questions about all access Ash, if you have

41:09

questions about summer of shift, if you are questioning how you can make the

41:13

Elevating Woman Retreat work for you, which is all inclusive, by the way.

41:17

Don't be a stranger. You guys get first dibs to all of these things.

41:22

And of course, everything is in the show notes, so, Okay.

41:26

Wrapping up this episode, I wanna encourage you to take inventory over

41:32

the last three to six months of your life to trust yourself in embodying,

41:37

stepping into showing up as what your path in life is asking you to evolve into.

41:44

Right, and if you want to join me as I do that live and in living color as the

41:50

incredible human that I am, modeling all the possibilities as I walk my path in

41:55

life, you've got these options to explore.

41:58

Whatever you do, I hope and pray and urge you to do it with both

42:03

courage and compassion for yourself.

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I'm so glad that you're here. Thank you so much.

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I'm sending you lots of love wherever you are, and I'll see y next week.