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Hello. We

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are stepping into

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another episode of It's Still Happening

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and Y'all, this

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is the first episode

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being recorded in

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the new lands in my new home

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in North Carolina. Oh my

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goodness. I'm so excited. And

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even though we're in a new location,

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I'm still doing old Ashley things.

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All right. And what do I mean by that? I'm

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recording in my bed. I'm

1:55

a day late to

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submit this to the podcast team. Shout out to

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them. Um,

2:02

Ziggy is looking very sleepy eyed

2:04

in front of me, cuddled up, and

2:07

we're just gonna crawl into today's episode

2:09

just like we would any other time.

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But it's really beautiful to be in new

2:14

energy, I feel. The

2:18

earth, the groundedness of

2:20

being in this new location, this new

2:22

land. And if you guys don't

2:24

know this, I've never lived anywhere

2:26

that is landlocked before. I've

2:28

always lived on an island or near

2:30

the ocean or a very, very

2:32

large body of water, like Michigan. And

2:35

so to be completely surrounded

2:37

by earth, with no coast

2:40

and no ocean, is a

2:43

new experience for me, and I feel it. I feel

2:45

very held. I feel

2:48

very slow. I feel myself.

2:50

My body calibrating to

2:53

a density that does not feel heavy.

2:55

It feels supportive. So

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my invitation for you as I'm.

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Talking through today's episode is if

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you can put your feet on the ground, if

3:06

you can lay and relax,

3:09

if you could even just take a deep breath

3:11

and imagine that breath creating

3:14

roots out of your body, connecting

3:16

you with the Earth. Do that. Because

3:19

I really want you to feel grounded

3:21

and supported as I do, and I also

3:23

want what I'm talking about today to

3:25

truly tap into

3:28

your own body

3:30

and earth system of truth. All

3:33

right. And,

3:35

um, shout out to the entire

3:37

podcast Bestie Angie team because,

3:39

um, first off, I love them.

3:42

They do a phenomenal job of producing this

3:44

podcast and have been such amazing cheerleaders

3:46

for me in my entire podcast journey, right?

3:49

Other than the very first season they have produced

3:51

every single episode. So

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shout out for them. and much love to

3:56

them and, their owner,

3:59

creator, Angie. It had kind of tagged

4:01

me on a post talking

4:03

about all of her different clients and all these great podcasts

4:05

that we have going on, and I was like, gosh, I haven't talked

4:08

about, I. Ancestors in a long time.

4:11

So I was like, huh, I should probably like address

4:14

that. Which I think if you guys have been listening

4:16

to the podcast this season, you

4:18

are noticing the transition, right?

4:20

Where I'm not fixating or

4:23

as concentrated in my messaging

4:25

about ancestral healing, even

4:27

though everything that we're talking

4:29

about still connects to the concept

4:32

of practice and the

4:34

lived experience of being a generational

4:36

pattern breaker. and healing

4:38

generational wounds and trauma

4:41

through your life, right? Like the

4:43

expression of stepping into

4:46

your full creation power as a woman.

4:49

It's very healing for yourself. It's healing

4:51

for your mother, whatever that relationship might

4:53

be, and it's healing for your lineage. We

4:56

all have these opportunities to

4:58

do something in our lives that we haven't seen in

5:00

a long time in our families

5:02

and our cultures and our race and our

5:05

collective. You know, if you wanna think about

5:07

the lineage of womanhood or the lineage

5:09

of being feminine and,

5:11

yeah, it's still in here, If you are

5:14

just finding this podcast

5:16

and you're like, oh, I thought this was gonna be about ancestors

5:19

or healing, oh, trust me, it is.

5:22

Just hang with me here. I'm

5:24

weaving it in a different way. I'm accessing

5:26

it in a different way, but

5:29

it's still here. All right. It's still

5:31

happening. the medicine is still

5:33

here and you are still, called

5:36

To become a woman who

5:38

is a living representative of

5:40

forward movement and change and love

5:43

and freedom and abundance and possibilities

5:46

in your lineage through how you're living

5:48

right now. Right. And

5:51

in the past I've really focused on accessing

5:53

ancestors and working

5:55

with things in your lineage and then allowing

5:57

that to come forward. I feel like we

5:59

have graduated from that, or rather I

6:01

have, and the work is in

6:04

the embodiment and really focusing on

6:06

you as an individual and

6:08

how that vibrates back into the lineage.

6:10

So just another access point, but

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I felt called to. Say

6:14

that to share that with you. Not

6:17

so much explain it, but to

6:19

have a marker in the podcast

6:21

that we can refer back to explicitly

6:25

of this evolution in my

6:27

expression of this work. All right. More

6:29

to come with all of that, but

6:31

I just didn't want anyone to be lost. If you

6:34

are tuning in and

6:36

I'm trying to pick up what I'm putting down.

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Okay, so with that in mind, let's

6:42

get into this number one

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thing. I believe

6:46

and know to be very true, that

6:49

is holding modern women back

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from creating and experiencing the life we

6:53

most desire we most

6:55

deserve, and we are most destined.

6:59

This has been something I've been with witnessing

7:01

throughout the entire journey of my work,

7:04

right over the last almost 10 years,

7:06

and, um, I'm really excited to dedicate a complete

7:09

episode on it because

7:11

it's been coming up. So much

7:13

in the current program that I'm running,

7:16

which is called Presence in the Process, it

7:18

is a seven week module.

7:21

And it's all about learning how to live in

7:25

the process of great change and

7:27

transformation in your life. Um, I highly

7:29

recommend it, whether you're listening

7:31

to this in the very far future or you

7:33

are right here with me in present time.

7:36

as this episode is released, you can still enroll

7:38

in this program. It is

7:40

life changing. It is teaching women

7:43

how to sit into, moments

7:45

of uncomfortability and see the

7:47

power and the magic of creating.

7:49

and challenging times and dark quote

7:52

unquote dark times, you know, and

7:54

so in this program, as I've been talking

7:56

to the ladies who are currently in it, the

7:59

conversation about

8:02

vulnerability. The conversation

8:05

about being a quote unquote smart,

8:07

intellectual woman. The

8:09

conversation of feeling

8:12

safe when you're in control.

8:14

And as a result, what happens in our relationships

8:17

intimate relationships, but all relationships

8:20

keeps coming up. And I was like, oh my God.

8:22

The number one thing that's holding us modern women

8:24

back in every area of our lives

8:27

is the fear that our vulnerability

8:30

is weakness. And it's not. I'm

8:33

here to tell you, I will say this

8:35

until my last breath, and

8:38

I know I can say this until my last breath

8:40

because I personally have lived the

8:42

entire journey

8:44

and continues to live the entire journey cuz it

8:46

is ever going of

8:49

coming out of my

8:51

armored protective ways

8:53

of being. As

8:55

a coping mechanism, as a way of being

8:57

protected, as a way that I saw my mother

8:59

survive, as a way that I saw my grandma

9:02

survive as a way that I have inherited this

9:04

beautiful characteristic of being so quote

9:06

unquote strong and so guarded

9:08

and armored up in this very

9:10

masculine, harsh world. Right? Moving

9:13

out of that and into the power of

9:15

my softness, my vulnerability, my expression,

9:18

my sensitivity, my ability

9:20

to be innocent, and see

9:22

how magical this world is, and how

9:25

open it is, and how creative it is, and how no

9:27

matter what I may

9:29

experience emotionally and

9:32

temporarily, I'm actually always

9:34

taken care of, and always safe, and always held,

9:36

and always okay. so

9:39

as we were working through some of this

9:41

inside of presence in the process, I was like, oh my

9:43

God. We totally need an episode

9:45

dedicated to us as women

9:48

today. US pattern breakers,

9:50

us paradigm shifters, us healers,

9:53

us mothering differently, us

9:55

being entrepreneurs and creatives

9:57

and balancing our energies

9:59

and doing all these amazing things.

10:02

We need to

10:04

have a call. To

10:07

honor Exalt

10:09

Center, love on, appreciate,

10:12

recognize, bless

10:15

the power of our vulnerability, the

10:18

power and the safety,

10:21

the true safety and truly being

10:23

who you are and saying what you need

10:25

to say and living

10:27

and feeling your feelings in

10:30

this world, and that when we

10:32

do. That's how we actually move

10:34

mountains. Another way, I should say, we

10:36

move mountains because I don't know about you,

10:38

and this is again, what we're talking about, and I'm teaching

10:40

inside a presence in the process I

10:43

find this so interesting, in this very masculine

10:45

world where everyone's saying, fuck the patriarchy

10:47

and quote unquote, toxic masculinity.

10:50

We've all been conditioned to be

10:52

masculine. As women,

10:55

and yes as men, they're either over

10:57

masculine, quote unquote. I mean, you know, I'm not gonna

10:59

go all the way into that. There's gonna be a whole program for all

11:02

of this, but over

11:04

masculine or men who are presenting

11:06

themselves as masculine, but they're actually very feminine, right?

11:08

All these inversions and the ways that we are relating

11:11

and obviously. We all

11:13

have both masculine and feminine energies. I say this

11:15

every time I talk about this stuff. This

11:17

is not about polarity in your one

11:20

or the other. It's that we have all these energies,

11:22

but our expression of it in

11:24

our lives and also in relationship

11:27

means that we tend to take one of those

11:29

characteristics on more. Than the other,

11:31

as we relate, right? And so

11:34

I was looking at how so many of us women

11:36

have been conditioned to be more masculine. Get

11:38

the degree, be smart, show up

11:40

and do what you say that you're gonna do.

11:42

Be structured, have boundaries, say no,

11:45

figure out how to say no, like developing

11:47

all of these characteristics. And we've

11:49

done that so well for so long to get

11:51

into corporate, to create our businesses to

11:54

survive in this world that we're

11:56

now over functioning from that. And

11:58

so, This is the reason

12:01

I believe I and so

12:03

many other women have experienced burnout,

12:05

right? Because we are in a generation

12:08

that's like, we can't keep going on like

12:10

this. Not to say other generations

12:12

didn't burn out, they did, but I feel

12:14

that those generations

12:16

didn't have access to so much technology

12:19

and so much opportunity

12:21

at their fingertips. So their burnout

12:23

was like, I have to keep waitressing. I have

12:25

to keep being on my feet. I have to. But they also

12:27

live very simple or simpler lives

12:30

where we don't have. I have to live simpler

12:32

lives like we are, can do anything,

12:34

and we have luxuries and all these things,

12:37

and we are operating only from our

12:39

willpower and our executive functioning

12:41

and our masculine energy. And I,

12:43

that is one way to manifest. That is

12:45

one way to create. There is that is one way

12:47

to build, but we also know

12:49

is that. Both masculine and feminine

12:52

energies can create. That's why they create

12:54

together and they can create separately. So

12:56

if we have mastered creating

12:59

from the masculine energy, it's time

13:01

for us to swing the pendulum and

13:03

remember and learn

13:06

how to create from our feminine energy.

13:09

Which is again, creative energy, flow

13:11

energy, vulnerable energy. And then

13:13

when we do that coupled

13:15

with our internal masculine energy,

13:17

we can really make

13:19

waves, you know? And

13:22

so this is less about. Talking

13:24

about polarity in a relationship and you're

13:26

feminine and he's masculine, or your girlfriend's

13:29

masculine and you're more feminine, and all these things like,

13:31

I'm not talking about that. We'll talk about relationships in another

13:33

episode, but what I am talking about

13:35

is learning how to balance the creation energies

13:37

within by accessing

13:40

the number one thing US modern women

13:42

are hiding from, pushing away, scared

13:44

to share, resistant to,

13:46

and that is our vulnerability. And

13:49

because of our resistance to

13:51

tapping into honoring, loving,

13:54

appreciating our vulnerability, which

13:56

by the way does not mean that we just go

13:58

off and spew out

14:01

our feelings and tell all of our deepest stories.

14:03

That is not a vulnerability. Like, if

14:05

you wanna learn about this and explore

14:08

it and start to cultivate it, that's

14:10

what presence in the process is for.

14:13

We welcome you in. Whether

14:15

you join us in this live round or you

14:17

just purchase it and you do the recordings,

14:19

it is available to you. Um,

14:22

so it's not about that splurgy like,

14:24

I'm just gonna get on social media and say all

14:26

my stuff to the world. Like it's not that,

14:29

but it is about owning your truth and

14:31

being able to be felt,

14:34

like, feel people should be able

14:36

to empathize and connect with you and fill

14:38

your heart, your true heart, and

14:41

that. You're not gonna be hurt

14:43

by hurting your heart. That's

14:45

so weird. You're not going to be hurt

14:47

by sharing your heart. You may

14:49

have moments where you don't like how someone

14:51

ex you know, responded to your heart

14:53

or didn't connect with your heart, and that made

14:55

you sad, but that is not gonna break

14:58

you. This is what makes

15:00

women powerful. Actually

15:03

the fact that we can access both

15:05

of these access points

15:08

in our masculine and feminine expressions

15:11

and other people, aka men

15:13

can't access them the way that we can, you

15:15

know, so it's this

15:17

hiding and running away from our vulnerability

15:21

on top of. So that's number one. I

15:23

would say number two is being

15:25

such a smart woman that we need to understand

15:28

everything. Those two

15:30

things. That's what's stopping us from being

15:32

able to create with ease. To

15:35

create in a way that's not burning us out. To create

15:37

in a way where we know, honestly

15:39

to create, in a way where we trust that

15:41

it's coming, no matter how long it takes,

15:45

you know, it's like if it doesn't immediately

15:47

come, we have no faith. Essentially

15:50

what I'm talking about is us

15:52

modern women are deeply cut

15:54

off and disconnected

15:56

from our spiritual essence, our

15:58

sensitivity, and honestly

16:00

what makes us. Feminine. What

16:02

makes us woman, and

16:05

maybe you all don't identify with being feminine.

16:07

You're like a woman and you're like, I've always been

16:09

a tomboy. Fine, that's you.

16:11

If that's your identity, that's what you wanna hold onto.

16:13

Cool. I know for me, I

16:15

used to identify as a tomboy simply

16:18

because I was raised with boys. And it

16:20

was safer to behave like

16:22

my brothers than to be more girly.

16:25

Even though in my room I like to paint and

16:27

I like glitter and I like pink and I would cry

16:29

all the time and I wanna express myself. And anytime

16:32

I got in trouble, I would cry to be like, can I just tell

16:34

my side? I just, I, I understand, but I just

16:36

need to express. And my family

16:38

is, particularly my stepdad would be like, oh my God. And

16:40

my mom would be like, this girl is so emotional.

16:43

Right? But I took on the tomboy.

16:46

For me personally, I took on the tomboy

16:48

persona and identity as a

16:50

form of protection. You

16:53

know, and this is gonna be super taboo, but

16:55

I'm gonna say it cause it's my truth. I

16:58

had a moment of being very queer.

17:00

I dunno if you say very queer, but being queer and

17:02

identifying as bisexual and dating

17:05

and having, you know, women as girlfriends

17:07

and lovers as a form of

17:09

protection. Like I didn't feel safe dating

17:11

men. And so I took on more

17:13

of a masculine approach and I wanted to date women,

17:15

and I was fine sometimes being more feminine

17:18

and dating a more masculine woman because it

17:20

was a safe space for me. Now, I know

17:22

that's not everybody's story. I know that

17:24

people can be born two-spirited

17:27

and just born more masculine and all the things

17:29

like we're not getting into the whole L G B

17:31

T Q I movement. Much respect

17:33

my clients have been on. All

17:35

of the spectrums and all the colors and all

17:38

of the genders and all of the sex, like all of that

17:40

is welcome. I'm just telling you

17:42

my story. A little brief

17:45

little snippet of it. But anyway,

17:47

coming back to the point, I feel

17:50

that US modern, modern women are deeply

17:52

disconnected with our sensitivity and

17:54

what makes us woman,

17:56

which is the full expression of both our

17:58

masculine and feminine energies. And

18:00

the only way to bring that back into

18:02

balance to be able to access all of

18:04

that is to bring in the feminine right.

18:09

To bring in the feminine, to incorporate it,

18:11

to get comfortable with it, to open

18:13

up, to be vulnerable, to move slowly,

18:16

to have less judgment. You

18:18

know, just more sweetness, more possibilities,

18:20

more nurturing, right. And

18:22

it's so interesting because what made

18:25

my earlier marketing campaign so

18:27

successful was

18:29

that I outlined things

18:32

like the program or the offer

18:34

or the workshop. I outlined

18:36

it in a way that made your fearful

18:39

feminine feel safe. So

18:41

if your feminine was like, I'm

18:43

searching for something, I'm longing for something, I can't find

18:45

the words. I pride myself

18:48

in knowing the words that the feminine

18:50

needed to hear in order to feel

18:52

safe, to trust me to come and do

18:54

the work. And also, I

18:56

use words and languages that spoke to your

18:58

more dominant characteristic, which

19:01

was your mind, your intellect, and your understanding,

19:04

so that your masculine would feel

19:06

safe to come into this feminine

19:08

journey. So to

19:10

my entrepreneurs out here,

19:12

which hint, hint, we're gonna have some branding

19:15

and marketing and business stuff coming

19:17

back into the fold as offerings very

19:20

soon. I feel very called back to

19:22

refresh all of the things that I did

19:24

back in 20 18, 20 19, 20

19:26

20, around business. Um,

19:29

that's a little tip for you guys. Like if

19:31

you learn how to do copywriting

19:34

in a way that speaks to both the masculine

19:36

and feminine. Both

19:38

parts of our brain, left and right

19:40

brain, both parts of our emotions,

19:42

right? The aspects of self is gonna feel

19:44

more safe to come in and receive the message

19:47

and go in the journey. But

19:50

I'll tell you guys a reason why I stopped

19:52

doing that in my marketing for a while.

19:55

So here's the heads up, giving you

19:57

the full journey here. The reason why I stopped

20:00

speaking to. Soothing

20:02

the feminine in my marketing and

20:04

speaking to the masculine in my marketing

20:06

and my language was because it was double

20:09

work for me. Actually. It was more than double work. It was like

20:11

quadruple work. It was work

20:13

getting you to understand and like

20:16

speaking to that part of your brain. Then it was work

20:18

to get you to step into your truth. Then

20:20

it was work to get you to finally start to be vulnerable,

20:23

and then it was. Work to finally

20:25

get the transformation, actually start doing the actual

20:28

work you hired me to do. And then if

20:30

you were really committed, then I had to

20:32

do the work to help you implement it. Like,

20:35

woo. I just named like what,

20:37

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different steps.

20:40

And I was like, oh my God. People don't even realize

20:42

the journey I'm taking them on

20:44

and how much it took for

20:46

us to decalcify

20:49

ourselves to even receive the support

20:51

and the guidance that we say that we want and need. You

20:54

know, I want you to think about that when you're watching

20:57

and reading and consuming people's content,

20:59

mine or an anybody's on the internet that

21:02

is work preparing you for whatever

21:05

work you're gonna actually be doing. I

21:07

often tell people the journey,

21:09

the program has started way before

21:11

you signed up. It's in what you're consuming,

21:14

what you're thinking, what you're believing, what you're

21:16

reading, all those things that are tapping

21:18

into where you are. And

21:20

so that sounds like a marketing

21:23

approach that you should keep doing if it worked.

21:25

But I found it to be actually very exhausting

21:27

and I found

21:29

that I was constantly calling in women

21:32

who needed to be convinced that

21:34

their femininity, their vulnerability,

21:38

was a good thing. So

21:40

we would end up spending the first month

21:42

or two month, or month and a half

21:45

of our sessions just getting you

21:47

to be real. Just getting you to

21:49

be vulnerable with me, you

21:51

know? And I was like, gosh, I just want

21:54

women to realize

21:57

that you can be vulnerable and you can be real,

21:59

at least with yourself. And then

22:02

secondarily with someone that you

22:04

want to be your guide, your mentor,

22:06

your support, your teacher, right?

22:10

Be real with us. Doesn't

22:12

matter if it's me or someone else be real

22:14

from the get go. You know why it's not for

22:16

me. I mean, it helps me cuz then I can

22:18

better serve you. But at the end of the day,

22:20

it helps you. It helps you get

22:22

the service and the guidance that you most

22:24

deserve and need. It helps you move along in

22:26

your journey. It helps you spend less

22:29

time, right? Trudging

22:31

through all of this junk and get, just open your

22:33

heart up. And I'll tell you one of the things

22:35

that people have always told me, I. When

22:38

I've signed up for different things, where

22:40

I worked with some high level people, like

22:42

high level folks, they were like,

22:45

Ash, you just show up even with all

22:47

your wisdom and how you've helped people, and people

22:49

consider you to be an elder. People consider you

22:51

to be a teacher, and you show up in your vulnerability

22:54

and your innocence and your openness

22:56

and your truth. That's what makes you a leader.

22:59

And I was like, you're right. Because

23:01

every opportunity I have to be

23:03

real. That's gonna help me in my path

23:05

in life. I'm not gonna squander it.

23:08

That's the reason why I'm still balanced in both

23:11

my masculine and feminine energy. The more

23:13

vulnerable I am, the more

23:15

people can connect with me, the more my

23:17

own internal masculine can honor

23:19

what I'm feeling and go into rightful

23:21

action. And when my feminine

23:23

sees my masculine go into rightful action,

23:26

she feels safe and she follows

23:28

through and she peppers it with beautiful experiences

23:31

and blessings. And I'm now in this

23:33

whole recreational vortex doing

23:35

my thing with me. In

23:38

my life. So

23:42

I say all of that to say I'm

23:45

only interested in calling in women who are

23:47

ready to be real, who are ready

23:49

to be vulnerable, even if you

23:51

don't know how. Obviously I'm

23:53

modeling that for you right now, even

23:55

in how I'm recording and talking about this

23:58

on this podcast episode. If

24:01

you don't know how to be vulnerable and you wanna learn,

24:03

you wanna see that it's powerful, that it's safe,

24:05

that it is the most incredible

24:07

gym you could ever have As a woman, you

24:09

need to sign up for presence in the process.

24:12

You need to consider coming on my upcoming retreat.

24:14

You need to get into any type of women's

24:16

circles that can help you experience

24:18

that and know that this can be your

24:20

new standard. It can be a tool,

24:23

it can be an aspect of you that

24:25

doesn't need to be hidden and tucked away. That

24:27

just floated out so easily, but

24:29

I've got a little bit more for you. Okay. So take

24:31

a little breath, wiggle your toes

24:33

if they're, if they're on the land

24:36

or in your sneakers or in your sandals.

24:38

Cause it's summertime. Something

24:42

I witnessed that I found to be so

24:44

phenomenal in every single one of my women's

24:47

retreats when I ran them in Bali from

24:49

2015 to 2017. So

24:51

three years, 15, 16, 17, is

24:54

that the women who came for the surfing

24:57

experience of the retreat were

24:59

all searching for connection

25:02

with spirit. To feel,

25:04

again, like, to feel, to feel alive

25:06

again, and to actually lose control.

25:09

They all talked about. What

25:11

it felt like to get on the surfboard

25:14

and finally start surfing how free

25:16

and how out of control. But alive

25:18

they felt they were searching for connection

25:21

with spirit that was beyond them and they found

25:23

it in the waters and in those waves on

25:25

those boards. The women

25:27

who came for culture, cuz there was something

25:29

that was. Specifically about experiencing

25:31

spirituality and like the Bali culture,

25:34

they were searching for themselves. They were

25:36

searching for meaning inside of themselves,

25:39

and they understood that if they went on this cultural

25:41

experience version of the retreat,

25:43

that they would tap into something of themselves.

25:47

The women who came for the fitness version

25:49

of the retreat wanted to

25:51

be shaken up. They

25:53

wanted to shed, they wanted

25:55

to get out of their like, Um,

25:58

box their conformity. They want

26:00

it to sweat, they want it to be pushed.

26:03

And those are three women

26:06

like archetypes or you

26:09

know, avatars, if you will,

26:12

who all came for woman empowerment.

26:14

And they all came through the form of a retreat,

26:17

but they all were searching for something slightly

26:19

different, even though it was related. Like

26:21

you, we all need a different door

26:24

that will unlock what we're truly searching

26:26

for. Right, and I believe

26:28

we're all truly searching for the

26:30

power of our vulnerability. So

26:33

no matter the program in

26:36

the orientation, like the first night everyone

26:38

got there and we would do orientation before dinner.

26:41

I would leave these very long

26:43

pauses in between

26:45

my introduction in between women's

26:48

shares when they would introduce themselves.

26:50

I would like do these long pauses and

26:52

see who

26:54

would fill the space and what would happen.

26:57

And I did this very strategically. I,

26:59

I used to teach people how to run retreats cause I've

27:01

literally done like over 500 retreats

27:04

and I used to teach people

27:06

how to hold sacred space,

27:09

but I would leave these long pauses

27:11

to inspire the energy of connection.

27:14

It's counterintuitive. Okay.

27:17

And again, same thing around counterintuitive.

27:19

When you're vulnerable, you're actually very powerful

27:22

when you leave space. We

27:25

intuitively from our human

27:27

design want to fill it. And

27:29

when you're in an intimate space with women,

27:31

we fill it with what will make

27:34

people connect. All

27:36

right? And so

27:40

I bring this up to say we

27:42

as women don't need to do very much

27:44

to activate connection or to create

27:46

healing or to unlock what's been lost

27:49

or to release and rekindle. All

27:51

we need is the space.

27:54

All we need is to show up. All

27:56

we need is to be open and vulnerable. All

27:59

we need is to allow who we really

28:01

are, to do what it naturally

28:03

does in a beautiful environment

28:06

that cultivates life. That's

28:08

it right?

28:11

There is something about the magic of when

28:14

women gather. And you might

28:16

be holding your individual intention,

28:19

your individual reason why you're searching

28:21

the hunger, that even when

28:23

you use words, it doesn't fully articulate

28:26

what you want to change and what

28:28

you wanna birth into your life. But as long as you

28:30

come and the space

28:32

is beautiful and you open up

28:34

in your vulnerability and you're, there's

28:37

space, right to connect

28:39

and you see what other women are doing, magic

28:42

always happens, always.

28:46

Plus food and massages and you

28:48

know, experiences, little things

28:50

here, but like the

28:52

bare minimal is what

28:54

bursts the big change,

28:57

the big level up, the elevation

28:59

of you as a woman, the elevation of you

29:01

in your life. And this is the

29:03

reason why I'm back to

29:05

hosting retreats for the first time

29:08

in three years, and I'm doing it

29:10

with the Elevating Woman Retreat. It's

29:13

happening this Labor Day,

29:15

US Labor Day weekend, August

29:17

31st through September 3rd, and

29:20

we only have eight spots left, ladies.

29:22

All right. We're gonna spend

29:24

four days and three nights together

29:26

and a boutique retreat compound

29:28

and the beautiful Cabo San Lucas,

29:31

Mexico. We are gonna

29:33

spend time doing some

29:35

ancestral healing. Activating

29:37

some ancestral freedom codes, reflecting

29:40

back to you who you truly are and who

29:42

you're becoming. You're gonna shed

29:44

some shit. You're gonna bring in some

29:46

magic. We're gonna do some blessings

29:49

and some amazing activities and ceremonies

29:52

together. So it's gonna be

29:54

me, you. 11

29:56

other women and two of my guest

29:59

team members, supporters coming

30:01

together to remember to activate

30:04

and to rise together. I

30:06

believe that this is a time of reclaiming

30:09

our vulnerability and the

30:11

best way to do that is to come

30:13

together in person, in

30:16

a beautiful space and be witnessed

30:18

as you practice doing that. So

30:20

I don't know what your transforming in your

30:22

life or what process you're in. I

30:25

don't know what your plans are for the summer,

30:27

but I know where I will be Labor Day

30:29

weekend, and this is my full

30:31

heart, very vulnerable invitation

30:34

that I wanna see you there. If you have

30:36

questions about this, if you wanna explore

30:39

what this retreat is about in more details,

30:42

the link is in the show notes. You

30:44

can also just reach out to me directly on Instagram

30:47

or email my team. We'd be happy

30:49

to share more about what you can expect

30:51

on this retreat and why I'm so excited about

30:53

it, because this is like, this

30:56

is something that I haven't done in a long time,

30:58

and I also haven't done it in the way that I'm doing

31:00

it this year. All right. So

31:04

regardless if you're coming on the retreat or not,

31:06

which I think that you will be, again, these

31:08

last eight spots are going to go

31:11

and when they are filled, we are done.

31:14

But I want you to think about how

31:16

you can honor your superpower

31:19

of being real and being vulnerable

31:21

today. And after you

31:23

do it today, see how you feel

31:26

and what happened in your life and

31:28

do it again tomorrow. If

31:30

you have questions about that, if you wanna

31:32

be supported, I'll see you in the retreat

31:35

or I'll see you inside of presence

31:37

in the process. Thank

31:40

you so much for listening to this episode

31:42

of It's Still Happening. May

31:44

you feel proud of who you are

31:46

and who you are becoming. May your

31:48

ancestors sing your praises for

31:50

the way that you're living your life, how

31:52

it's affecting your lineage, and how

31:54

it is leaving a legacy

31:57

right now. Right now. Right

31:59

now, I'm sending you lots of love.

32:02

Wherever you are, do your

32:04

thing with courage, and don't forget,

32:07

include compassion. I'll

32:09

see you next episode.