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Conquering the TEDx Stage: A Journey of Storytelling and Triumph

Conquering the TEDx Stage: A Journey of Storytelling and Triumph

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Conquering the TEDx Stage: A Journey of Storytelling and Triumph

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0:36

Hello everyone , welcome back to the Amanda Quay

0:38

Show . I'm your host , amanda Quay , today's

0:41

episode . I want to share

0:44

my experience of

0:46

landing and giving

0:48

a TEDx talk . I've just

0:51

come back from London , ontario , where

0:53

I delivered my first TEDx the Healing

0:55

Power of Storytelling which will

0:59

be aired on YouTube in the near future

1:01

. But in the meantime

1:03

, while it's fresh especially , I'd

1:05

love to share with all of you what

1:08

that process actually entails , what it looks

1:10

like , what I learned , all of the things

1:12

. Now , if

1:15

you know what TED or TEDx is

1:17

, you know it's a global platform

1:19

and the brand TED

1:21

is about sharing ideas

1:23

worth spreading . It's often

1:25

focused on technology

1:28

, entertainment and

1:30

other specifically data-driven

1:32

components , but

1:34

oftentimes there's also big lessons

1:36

and learnings and other ideas that

1:38

are shared . Some of the most

1:40

famous TED talks are

1:42

like Benet Brown's , the Power of

1:44

Vulnerability , which isn't specifically

1:46

about technology or data , and

1:49

so it's a platform where ideas

1:52

get to be shared . The talks are always

1:55

less than 18 minutes that's the

1:57

max that TED will ever accept and

1:59

they all have one idea woven

2:01

throughout . They're very

2:03

, very scripted talks , and

2:06

so it's less

2:08

rambling and more very , very pointed

2:10

conversation , and

2:12

the platform itself has grown

2:14

so much so that

2:16

the actual

2:18

TED events get hundreds of thousands

2:20

of applicants a year , and

2:22

each TEDx event , which are the

2:24

local events with the same

2:27

branding , often get

2:29

hundreds of applicants

2:31

for every single event and each

2:33

event takes like 10 to 12 speakers

2:36

. So it's not

2:38

the simplest thing to get accepted

2:40

and to do and it's there's

2:43

a lot of weight and pressure when you actually

2:45

get that far . And

2:47

so I want to talk about

2:49

that , because when

2:51

it came to me that I was going to be giving a

2:53

TEDx talk , this was shortly

2:56

after I'd launched my book as

2:59

kind of a next step , as

3:01

another goal to have is to think about

3:03

if I were to have an

3:05

18-minute platform with

3:08

the world's attention , what would I say , what

3:10

would I want to share in a talk like that

3:12

? And I had many ideas

3:14

coming in and out and

3:17

you know

3:19

, lots of things obviously related to

3:21

what I went through in my story and the journey

3:23

. And the other thing that's important

3:25

to note about Ted and Ted X is

3:27

they do not accept any

3:30

metaphysical talks , and

3:32

so everything has to be backed by science

3:35

, in a sense , and anything that's

3:37

considered pseudoscience is

3:39

usually either tagged or flagged

3:42

or sometimes won't even be posted , and

3:44

so any kind of spirituality conversations

3:47

are not . That's just not the platform for it , and

3:49

so it couldn't . It can't really

3:51

be about any of those components

3:53

, but you can weave in lessons

3:56

and learnings that aren't specifically

3:59

woo-based . And so , really

4:01

thinking about that , really thinking about using

4:04

this platform to share an important

4:06

message with the world , something I want to be

4:08

known for , something I want to stand for and

4:11

you know , I , to

4:14

be honest , didn't have the

4:16

exact idea , the exact

4:18

anything prepared when

4:21

I actually went out and started applying . I

4:25

take a very different approach than a lot of people and I don't

4:27

necessarily just decide

4:29

this is the one talk and I have to find the one place

4:31

to give it . Now I went

4:33

the other direction . I started reaching

4:35

out to events and

4:37

I started looking at what they wanted , because

4:40

not everybody knows , but every

4:42

single TEDx event carries a theme and

4:45

they are looking for very specific types of talks

4:47

that are for that theme and

4:49

what they're wanting to

4:51

share in some sense . And so I

4:55

applied it probably to

4:57

three , four events that were somewhat

4:59

close to where I am thinking

5:02

. Less travel could be helpful , but

5:04

none of the themes were really spot on

5:07

that were . It was

5:09

not this , knowing that this is the one . It was more

5:11

just what is the application process

5:13

? Let's try some things . And I

5:15

really didn't hear back from those . And

5:17

then this application

5:20

for this Western U event crossed

5:22

my inbox and I had less than 24

5:24

hours to apply before the deadline . It

5:26

was I think I'd landed on my inbox at like

5:28

six o'clock at night and it was due by midnight and

5:31

I almost didn't apply because of that . But

5:33

then I saw the theme , and this particular

5:36

theme was Phoenix Rising

5:38

from the ashes . It was all about the

5:40

stories of rising from

5:42

it all burned down , and

5:45

I went that's , that's

5:47

the one , that's my theme

5:50

, that's my event . I

5:52

can do this and , with

5:54

the help of my dear husband , I sat

5:57

down and basically threw

5:59

together an application and I

6:02

trusted my knowing that this

6:05

event needed a different talk than anything that had

6:07

been in my head . And

6:09

I came up with this idea of the

6:11

healing power of storytelling , in

6:13

part because it was specifically about

6:16

what do we , what's

6:18

the benefit of rising from the ashes ? How

6:20

do we overcome these things ? What's the message

6:23

as we're rising ? And

6:25

I just kept coming back to this idea

6:27

of storytelling and changing the narrative

6:29

of the story that's being written , and

6:32

so I went with it . I trusted that

6:34

, knowing that this event needed this talk

6:36

, and I submitted it

6:38

and I heard back a week later . They wanted

6:41

to interview me . So it was the first time

6:43

that happened . That's very exciting , and this was back

6:45

in November of 2023 . And

6:48

they interviewed me and they had some great

6:50

questions , because their audience base

6:52

is students . They really wanted

6:54

to know how I was going to approach the

6:56

students , how was it going to make my

6:58

Phoenix Rising story relevant for the students

7:00

and what was the lesson that I and the

7:02

idea that I was sharing in my talk and

7:05

how all this would be woven through . And

7:07

I got amazing feedback from the interviews

7:09

. They they thought I had some

7:11

really great answers and I buttoned it all up

7:13

and I said , all right , I'll see you in February , just

7:15

setting my intentions out in the open . And

7:19

then I heard back another week or so later that I had

7:21

, I had gotten a spot and I was invited

7:23

to speak at their event , and that

7:25

was exciting in itself . But that's just

7:27

the beginning and now

7:30

you have to write the talk . And some people go

7:32

in , like I said , and they've already written their talk and they know

7:34

what they're going to say , which is fantastic . But

7:37

I hadn't done that because this was a new

7:39

idea , this was a new talk , this was something

7:41

specific for this event , and

7:44

not everybody

7:46

does everything the same . I I've

7:48

never been able to outline , and

7:51

even if I do outline , I don't follow the outline when

7:54

I write my , when I wrote my book , there was no outline

7:56

, anything I do . It's not outlined

7:58

, it is very much channeled

8:00

through . This is what needs to be said , this

8:03

is how I'm going to say it , and it comes out . And

8:05

so I sat down to write the speech as

8:07

I was preparing to meet with the coaches

8:10

assigned to me for this event , and

8:12

it just poured out of me , an entire

8:14

speech poured out of me , and I had gotten

8:17

pieces of it , you know , the night before

8:19

, as I was falling asleep and

8:21

it just poured out , and

8:23

so I ran with it and I shared

8:26

it with the coaches and they were just

8:28

like , oh my god , this is the perfect talk for

8:30

this event . I said I know right , and

8:33

they encouraged me to add some more to it and

8:35

to flesh it out , which I did . And

8:37

then you have to make sure you

8:39

stay within a certain time limit . Their

8:41

request was it to stay under 15

8:44

minutes , even though Ted's is 18,

8:46

. They wanted it a slightly shorter , and each

8:48

event will be different . Some people want 12 minutes , some

8:51

people want even less than that , but

8:53

this event was 15 . And so then I

8:55

had to practice it and I had to time myself

8:57

and that in itself is

8:59

a lot of work to flush through and

9:02

eventually I got my speech to a point where

9:04

I felt like it was what

9:06

it needed to be and I started

9:08

practicing in front of other people , and

9:11

this was surprisingly

9:13

challenging as somebody who has no

9:15

problem talking as it was a kid who talked

9:18

too much , as a person

9:20

who has a podcast and has been

9:22

interviewed so many times and had happy

9:24

to speak on any and every platform . This

9:27

surprisingly challenging to give a speech

9:29

, a scripted speech from

9:31

memory , in front of other people . I had never

9:33

done that before and I found

9:36

myself exceptionally nervous

9:38

not in my mind , but my body

9:40

was having like a physical reaction

9:43

to doing that . I found

9:45

myself uncontrollably shaking . I

9:47

couldn't stop it and I try to breathe deep

9:50

breath . I'm trying not to look at my notes because I don't have

9:52

distinct memories yet and I'm trying to give this

9:54

talk in front of my local Toastmasters

9:56

group and I

9:58

get through it . But , holy man , did it

10:00

really hit me how much more

10:03

work I was going to need to put into this talk

10:05

, because that

10:08

did not go like I wanted it to , and

10:10

I was really grateful for the

10:12

opportunity to practice in that way , because

10:14

it's very different to practice your speech in front

10:16

of the people you live with , or to be

10:18

sitting in your chair over Zoom , grounded

10:21

with your feet versus

10:23

hands free , and what do I do

10:25

with myself , especially

10:28

when you've never done so before . And so I came

10:30

back and I started really recognizing

10:33

that this speech needed

10:35

to be so well memorized

10:37

, so well flushed through , that I

10:40

could do it in my sleep , because

10:42

if I didn't have to worry about remembering what I was

10:44

going to say , I could truly focus

10:46

on my breath , my groundedness

10:48

, my presentation , everything else , and

10:51

I didn't have to focus on remembering . And

10:53

that felt really , really important . And so I

10:56

set out to memorize

10:58

this 15 minute speech , which , if you've never

11:00

done something like that , it's a very long

11:03

speech to memorize , very long . I

11:05

think it's not that big of a deal , but it's five

11:07

pages long . At 15 minutes

11:09

, it's a very long speech and

11:12

I wanted it to maybe memorize , not

11:14

in chunks but word for

11:16

word , because of what I was weaving

11:18

in and how I was saying each thing

11:20

led up to the next thing

11:22

and how I was presenting the overall idea

11:24

. It was very

11:26

important . It felt very important that

11:29

it be spoken the way that it was written . And

11:32

so I started repeatedly

11:35

just practicing over and

11:37

over and over and over in my head , speaking

11:40

it out to myself , recording myself , listening

11:42

to myself and just keep practicing

11:44

. And I started to get chunks and

11:46

I could do chunks , but then I would not

11:48

remember what came next and I'd have to figure

11:51

out how to weave each chunk together . And

11:53

okay , this part always comes

11:55

after this part . And I would play mind

11:57

games with myself to try to build these building

11:59

blocks in my mind of how this all wove

12:01

together . And

12:04

it started to stick . Little by

12:06

little started to get better . I practiced

12:08

in my head at least once or twice before I went

12:10

to sleep . Every night I practiced in the bathroom

12:12

. I would get up in front of the mirror practice

12:15

, have my speech there if I needed it . But

12:17

you know , the goal is

12:20

not to do that . I'm really honoring

12:22

that . For me , feeling that level

12:25

of confidence gave my nervous

12:27

system a breather because

12:29

I knew I knew I knew this right

12:31

, that's what I was going for . And

12:34

about Two-ish

12:37

weeks before the actual

12:39

talk I started to get it 100%

12:41

. I started to no longer check my notes

12:44

, I started to . If I just sat for a minute I

12:46

could have the next piece come . And

12:48

it got easier and easier and easier . I

12:50

started to realize that if I practiced

12:52

while I was running every morning

12:54

that I would get muscle memory involved

12:57

and I would be practicing while my heart rate

12:59

was elevated and that was going to support the

13:01

potential nerves on the stage . And

13:03

I started to see the benefits in that right . And

13:06

I just kept going , and going , and going . And then

13:08

I went back to my Toastmasters group and

13:10

I gave the speech at this time from memory

13:13

, in front of everybody , without notes , and

13:15

it was vastly different and

13:18

, although they don't know it , I messed

13:20

up , but I kept going and nobody knew . And

13:23

that permission that if

13:25

I mess up nobody will know , they will still think it's a beautiful

13:27

talk helped me relax , just

13:29

even a little bit more , just

13:31

to breathe a little bit more and

13:34

to know that you know . At that

13:36

point in a week and a half , I was

13:38

about to be on the red dot stage . It

13:40

was just about refinement now at this point

13:42

, and so I left last

13:45

week , about a , you

13:47

know , on the 31st . I left first thing

13:49

in the morning and

13:51

headed down to or

13:54

up , I should say , to London , ontario , to

13:57

meet the team , to go through the dress rehearsal

13:59

and to actually give this event . And

14:02

to say I was not nervous would be lying

14:05

, because I absolutely was . But

14:07

I had this level of confidence in what

14:10

I was doing now because I had practiced

14:12

so much . I had I

14:15

had read not just in my mind

14:17

but out loud . I had practiced standing up . I

14:19

knew what I was doing with my hands , with my body . I

14:22

felt grounded . I had all of these other

14:24

practices to help keep me clear

14:27

and centered . I knew I had all

14:29

these people behind me , all this energetic

14:31

support , and I

14:33

was ready . And so I went to

14:35

the dress rehearsal and I

14:38

got to stand on the red dot stage before

14:41

which , if , if you ever

14:43

give a TEDx event , if they don't

14:45

offer a dress rehearsal , ask , go

14:47

there today before . Stand there , feel

14:49

it , look what the audience is going to look like

14:51

. I want your first time on

14:53

that stage , especially with the level of weight

14:56

involved , to be you

14:58

know the time you're delivering it , because it adds a whole

15:00

nother layer of just . So

15:03

I got to deliver it without

15:05

the big audience there , but with my coaches there

15:07

and some sound people , and

15:10

practice that and that went really well . I was

15:12

feeling good . I was still a little bit shaky , to

15:14

be totally transparent . I was still had

15:16

some shum shakes in my feet , but I

15:18

was able to hold myself

15:20

grounded and I got to just know okay

15:22

, I can do this , I can do

15:25

this , and my

15:27

intention the day of was

15:29

to not watch any other talks until

15:32

after mine . So , like they said

15:34

, there's like 10 to 12 speakers per event . Mine

15:36

had 12 . We were in four

15:38

groups of three and I was after

15:40

lunch , and so the morning ones

15:43

I didn't even show up , I wasn't even there . I

15:45

focused on staying in my energy , my

15:48

speech , practicing Well , I'm

15:50

putting my makeup on , doing my hair

15:52

, all the things just being in my space

15:54

. And I showed up at lunchtime . I met everybody

15:57

and I was in the third group the last one of

15:59

the third group after lunch , and

16:01

so that , like

16:04

, our window was the most

16:06

nerve wracking window because I was at

16:08

the event . Everybody's knowing

16:10

I'm coming up next . I can feel

16:13

the nerves of the people who

16:15

haven't yet spoken , especially the last group

16:17

. I can feel their

16:19

anxiety . They're all trying to repeat their

16:21

speeches in their head . I'm trying to stay in my energy

16:23

. I can feel the audience just and

16:27

I remember being like

16:29

I have to pull everybody out of my field . I

16:31

have to stay centered . I turned on

16:34

my frequency device , I focused

16:36

on my breath , I went into a meditative

16:38

state and I just grounded myself

16:40

. I got this

16:42

and next thing , I know they called my

16:44

name to go get mic'd up and

16:46

get ready . And you're kind of half listening

16:49

to the person before you in

16:51

why you're backstage , but mostly I'm just

16:53

visualizing myself rooted

16:55

to the ground , present , purposeful

16:58

. I'm not repeating my speech anymore

17:00

. I know . I know , I know it

17:02

, I know I can give this speech

17:04

like it is the back of my hand . And

17:06

then it's my turn and

17:09

I go up on stage and there's , you

17:11

know , the audience isn't packed . I was probably

17:13

about 250 people total , which

17:15

is a pretty big audience for your first big speech

17:18

. And I went out there

17:20

and I took a deep breath and I delivered

17:22

the talk of my life and

17:25

I am so

17:27

proud to say that I fricking

17:29

rocked it . I didn't mess

17:31

up a single time . I delivered

17:33

it emotionally , powerfully

17:36

. I knew the audience was going

17:38

to react to a lot of what I said and

17:40

I just let it wash right through me

17:42

. It didn't let it hit me like I did before

17:44

. I didn't worry about what they thought , it

17:47

just delivered what I needed to say

17:49

. I spoke with power

17:52

and intention and just

17:54

everything I wanted and

17:56

I , I just

17:58

, I just , and I came off

18:00

the stage . Holy crap , I did it . I

18:03

think they even caught a clip of me at the end

18:05

just whispering in the mic . I did it Because

18:08

it was such a big deal

18:10

. It was such a big deal and because

18:13

it was the end of the last session . Then

18:15

there was a break before the fourth session , so everybody

18:17

left the theater and all came

18:20

to talk to me , which I wasn't actually expecting

18:22

. I didn't know how many of those things worked and I

18:24

got so much amazing feedback , so much amazing

18:26

feedback . People were shocked that I had never given

18:28

a speech like that before and

18:31

they all wanted to read my book , which was great

18:33

. I had people asking me if I wanted

18:35

to make my book into a documentary . I

18:37

had just all of this feedback and people who

18:40

were there for other speakers relating to what

18:42

I was saying based on their own history , and

18:45

I thought that was really amazing too , because

18:47

this was a Phoenix Rising event

18:49

, right . So everybody sharing their rising

18:51

story of how they rose out of their darkness

18:53

, and so a lot of people related

18:56

to what I was saying , whether they

18:58

had any kind of direct experience . They still related

19:00

to the message and

19:03

that was amazing to just be

19:05

in that that I did it

19:07

and people received it in the way that I intended

19:10

and my phone is blowing

19:12

up from people buying virtual tickets

19:14

and had seen it back home and

19:16

my mom and my sister and everybody was watching

19:18

me and that was amazing . And

19:21

then I got to relax . I got to take a deep

19:23

breath a very surreal

19:25

one and sit and enjoy the rest

19:27

of the event . And afterwards

19:30

there was this like why don't

19:32

you know what to do with myself ? Now I

19:34

don't even know what to do with myself because I

19:37

did it . I don't need to repeat the speech anymore

19:39

. I delivered it , it's

19:41

done , it's out there . They

19:44

have to do their editing and post-production

19:46

of the video they recorded and they'll submit

19:49

it to Ted , but there's nothing

19:51

more for me to do other than

19:53

to share that I did deliver this talk

19:55

and to tell people that

19:57

when it's live , I will

19:59

, of course , share it . I want to share

20:01

it . I would love for you to share

20:04

it and to spread it even far

20:06

and wide , because there

20:09

are so many parts of my story that

20:11

I want the world to talk about because

20:13

I'm not the only one

20:15

, but very few , if any

20:17

, are talking about it like I am , and

20:20

I want that to change . I want

20:22

the awareness to shift . I want

20:24

people to realize what happens

20:26

in every single city and how

20:28

much power we actually have

20:31

to shape the story and the narrative of

20:33

our lives . Like I want people to know that

20:35

you get to choose the story that's being

20:37

written and that the healing power

20:39

of that story is your

20:42

choice , not anybody else's . And

20:44

how you do this and how I did this

20:46

and the call to action is really

20:48

what story are you telling

20:51

for your life and how are

20:53

you showing up in that life ? And

20:56

I want the world to really feel that

20:58

message , and so I'm so excited

21:00

for it to come out . It likely

21:02

will take a month

21:05

or two or more , I have honestly

21:07

no idea . I may get

21:09

some pieces earlier , but once it actually

21:11

gets posted on the YouTube , maybe a little

21:13

while , and once I share it , of

21:15

course you all will know . But

21:19

the experience

21:21

of preparing and

21:23

then actually delivering this talk was

21:26

another level of healing

21:28

and empowerment than

21:31

even writing my book and

21:34

that's something I didn't actually know

21:36

. I wasn't prepared for that part , because

21:39

writing my book , publishing my

21:41

book , launching my book , was one of the most

21:43

healing things I did . Reliving

21:45

in detail , allowing it to lift up out

21:47

of my body and then share my book

21:50

with the world , to have people resonate

21:52

with my story , to thank me for sharing my story , that's

21:55

really fucking healing . But to

21:57

then take that story and turn it

21:59

into a 15-minute talk and

22:03

to deliver it on a TEDx

22:05

stage and to

22:07

feel and know that

22:09

level of impact that this talk will

22:11

have is a whole other

22:14

level and it feels , at

22:16

least to me , like an even bigger gateway and

22:18

even bigger doorway to what

22:20

is going to be possible with the

22:23

way that I want to support and

22:25

shift and change the world , because we

22:29

got a lot of work to do and

22:31

I will speak on

22:33

every stage if invited to

22:35

talk about this . But the

22:37

TED and TEDx stages are one of

22:39

are seen and revered as

22:44

one of the most prestigious

22:46

in a lot of ways , and so to be able to share

22:48

my message in a stage of that , of

22:51

that , you know , seen

22:54

in that way , is it's

22:57

going to change things , and I know it's

22:59

going to change things and I'm freaking here

23:01

for it . And so , if

23:03

you do have that story , if

23:06

you have a memory you want to

23:08

write , if you have a talk you want to

23:10

give , if you have a message

23:12

that you want to reach a global platform , a

23:15

TED and TEDx talk is a

23:17

beautiful way to do it . Launching

23:19

a book is another beautiful way to do it . There are so

23:21

many avenues and that's the beauty really of

23:24

the world is there's so many avenues

23:26

and platforms already established that

23:29

we can use to help build your own global

23:31

platform , whatever that looks like

23:33

. And you know

23:35

, I know that there's more coming and

23:37

I know that at some point my story

23:39

will be on film in some

23:42

capacity . It will be , whether

23:44

in documentary form or not . It

23:46

will be out there in all of these other ways because

23:50

it needs to , truly it needs

23:52

to be . People need to know they're not

23:54

alone . People need to know what is happening

23:56

. People need to know the power

23:58

they have to choose , that they have the

24:00

power to choose . They have the power to heal and

24:02

to change their lives and they have the power

24:04

to bring awareness to all the fucking bullshit

24:07

that goes on in the systems

24:09

today . The level of

24:11

privilege that

24:13

the legal system implies

24:16

, that the safety from your abuser

24:18

is a privilege , because

24:21

you must pay to get divorced

24:23

, whether or not you have the funds to do so , because

24:25

you must have the right lawyer

24:28

behind you . It is an implied

24:30

privilege , whether anybody wants to admit it or not

24:32

, and that is a

24:34

problem . And I

24:36

want to raise the level of awareness so that people know how

24:39

much this happens and how bad it gets

24:42

. And even with the

24:44

level of privilege that I have held , it

24:47

still was the fight of my fucking

24:49

life and I will

24:51

do everything I can to shift that awareness so that people

24:53

can have these conversations , and that includes

24:55

speaking on these type of stages talking

24:59

, sharing , writing , doing everything I

25:01

can . And I want to

25:03

encourage anybody else out there , if you

25:05

have that too , to think about

25:07

what platforms would listen and

25:10

hear your message . What would you

25:12

say if you had

25:14

18 minutes of the world's attention ? What

25:17

would you say ? How would you get

25:19

them to hear you ? How would

25:22

you hold their attention long

25:24

enough that they actually heard what

25:27

you said and felt

25:29

something from it , felt some

25:31

shift in their perception , some

25:34

change in their awareness that actually

25:36

made them go , wow

25:38

, holy shit , she's right , they're

25:41

right . What are we going to

25:43

do about it ? That's

25:45

the level of impact that a

25:47

really good talk could have , and

25:51

that's my intention is to do more

25:53

of . It Is to share

25:55

more and more of the possibilities and the shifts and

25:58

the changes and the growth that can come from

26:01

these horrible things , so that

26:03

we can use them and help other people . And

26:05

so , with all of that

26:07

, part two of this conversation , which

26:10

will come out next week , is what

26:12

happened after , because it has only

26:14

been six days now since

26:17

my TED Talk , and my

26:19

trip home was insane

26:22

, like beyond insane , and

26:25

if you're Facebook friends or

26:27

on any of my social media , you

26:29

may have seen a sneak preview , but the

26:32

trip home was nuts , absolutely nuts , and

26:35

I am not somebody who believes in coincidences

26:37

Absolutely not . Everything has an

26:39

energetic underlying , everything , and

26:42

I knew that my talk , as I put it out into the ethers would

26:45

have ripple effects . But I did not

26:47

expect the literal bomb to

26:50

go off like it did

26:52

as I was leaving Ontario and

26:55

as I was coming back home , to be grounded

26:57

back in my space . And that

26:59

is a story for next time , because , holy

27:02

guacamole , if that

27:04

energetic experience is a preview

27:06

for me of what is coming once my

27:09

talk is released into the big

27:11

wild world web , I

27:14

don't even have words . I

27:16

truly don't . So with

27:19

that , lots of love to you all

27:21

. Tune in for next week

27:23

and I will share what happened after that and

27:26

from there we'll see what happens

27:28

next . Lots of love everybody .

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