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0:42

megabit. It's Georgina. Easterbrook

0:45

everybody.

0:47

Thank you for helping me. Oh

0:49

my god, babe, don't feed up. Thank you so much

0:51

for coming on. Like, I look Obviously,

0:54

I've spoken loads about how much

0:56

I love being able to call this new

0:58

job, you know, or sitting and chatting to

1:00

interest in people every week is just a dream

1:02

come true for making some sort of fucking nosy

1:04

cow. But I

1:06

feel like I'm really excited about you because I know

1:09

very little about this space. I'm super

1:11

interested by it and you are blowing

1:13

up on TikTok merit. So I feel like that's

1:15

the right way to say it. I'm so old. I don't know if that's

1:17

how you cool kids say. But yeah, I feel like so

1:19

everybody is interested. It's a proper

1:21

movement

1:22

now, isn't it? Yeah. Definitely. Yeah.

1:24

TikTok's been such a wild journey

1:27

for me, honestly. And the fact that I

1:29

get to sit and talk about something I'm

1:31

really passionate

1:32

about, like you say, every day for a job is just

1:34

unbelievable. But

1:36

how did you get into it with me? Because

1:39

let's have it right. If you're going to say your sort

1:41

of Korea's adviser at school, like

1:44

crystal queen doesn't often pop

1:46

up because it so how did how

1:48

did you first start believing in the powers

1:50

of crystals? How did you fall into what you're doing

1:52

now? Yeah. I mean, it's it's been

1:54

a really well journey for

1:55

me. I mean, I've always been not massively

1:57

into crystals knowing much about them, but I've

1:59

always been drawn since, like, growing up, like, what

2:01

I've been going through hard times. I've kinda

2:03

gotten into a crystal sharp and picks up some bits,

2:05

but many just from looking at it, not knowing too

2:07

much about it. And then I've

2:10

always kind of worked minimum wage

2:12

like shop

2:13

jobs. I've been in, like, Debenham, Zulu,

2:15

like, they've done it.

2:16

Oh. A little bit of new look. Yes.

2:19

Yeah. Me too. Not so much. Wherever

2:23

bargain I've been out then. But

2:25

I did make up retail for real

2:27

time about working right now. We'll be brown at

2:29

the concessions like that. And then during lockdown,

2:31

like, a lot of other people, I

2:34

lost my job. The shop jacked down,

2:36

and I was a bit like, what am

2:38

I gonna do now? And I

2:40

was in a really bad place, mentally, at

2:42

the time, like, you know, it all just happens at once. I

2:44

could just go through really bad breakup, you

2:46

know, in a very nice relationship. I

2:49

struggling with a knee and disorder at the time.

2:51

I just had a really low opinion of myself. I didn't

2:53

love my job. I kind of felt a bit lost.

2:55

And that kind of threw me down a massive swirl

2:57

of was in such a low place I wanted to know

2:59

about mind, how it worked, like, positive

3:02

thinking, and I was basically relearning everything

3:04

just has to be happy. And along that

3:06

journey kind of drew me back into crystals

3:08

and actually wanted to learn more about them what

3:11

they do and since learning

3:13

more about it, I was like, wow, this could really change in so

3:15

many people's lives, which is why I ended up

3:17

making the pixel account. And

3:18

obviously, if you wanted to hear it, so that's

3:21

really good. Yeah. No. It's amazing

3:23

babe. And I think it's something that you've managed to

3:25

polysomething that helped you, something

3:27

that you are passionate about. It is something,

3:30

you know what? That not only makes you money

3:32

or whatever is a way of life, but also it's helping

3:34

others

3:34

too. Yeah. That makes me feel like

3:36

that would makes you feel like I have a purpose of some

3:39

kind of work to be able to share the people and see

3:41

it help, then that that makes you feel so happy.

3:43

Yeah. I read something somewhere and

3:45

I'm gonna see it wrong because I'm not an expert,

3:47

but it's it's like what you you

3:49

should have something that, like, feeds you saw, something

3:52

that, like, feeds you bank account, something that,

3:54

like, feeds you might you know all those things, and it sounds

3:56

Yeah. It sounds to me as though what you're doing kind

3:58

of ticks all the boxes for you, which is great.

4:00

Yeah. Okay.

4:03

So, imagine.

4:05

Right? Don't even imagine that I'm like

4:07

useless at this because I am I'm I

4:09

I wanna know more, but I I'm bit I

4:11

just don't have any knowledge of the crystals at all. So

4:14

1 you're talking to someone who knows nothing about crystals

4:17

and describes sort of, like, what

4:20

describe, like, what you think the crystal

4:22

does, like, what it's what it's different ones

4:24

have different healing

4:25

powers. Is that right? Yeah. So I mean, obviously,

4:28

to address, like, there will be a lot of kind of skeptics

4:30

about it, and that's absolutely fine. To

4:33

me, at first, I was kind of in that same boat.

4:36

But the wall to break it down into

4:38

a bit simplistic wall, if you look at, like, the

4:40

power that nature has for us on, like, daily basis,

4:42

like, look at how much we need water. Oxygen,

4:45

all these things that cover plants and just natural

4:47

forms. It doesn't seem shocking to me that rocks

4:49

should have some kind of impacts on

4:52

us as humans. And

4:55

So these are all signs that have formed

4:57

on their own through, like, billions billions of years

4:59

of a process, meaning they have, like, very

5:01

high energy in them. And they've

5:03

been used to many kind of cultures, generations

5:06

to bring about different healing powers. But, yeah,

5:09

basically, it's that Each Crystal

5:11

has its own set of energetic properties,

5:13

which then define how they can help

5:15

you in different areas of your life. Some are really good for wealth,

5:17

some are really good for

5:18

confidence, attracting love, and

5:20

that's what I found listening about it.

5:22

Oh, I'm not surprised. And listen

5:24

to me, like, I'm a I'm a firm believer

5:27

that everybody needs something to

5:29

believe in. And I absolutely don't

5:31

mind what it is, whether it's a football team,

5:34

whether it's whether it's a crystal, whether

5:36

it's a man in the sky, like, whatever

5:39

it is, like, I think it's beautiful that

5:41

people have something that brings them hope, that

5:43

brings them comfort because life can be difficult

5:45

sometimes. Can't it? Okay. And

5:48

that's how you're saying you found this, and

5:50

it brought you a lot of did it break

5:52

your focus? Yeah. Definitely.

5:54

Yeah. I think with each So when you're

5:56

kind of getting it as well, it's kind of you're

5:59

saying an intention in your mind that you're saying looking

6:01

for something or have you asked for when

6:03

you get a specific sign when you're saying, this is gonna

6:05

bring me happiness. You're also then focusing your

6:07

intention there. That's a big part

6:09

of it as

6:10

well. That is right, and that is very

6:12

clever. Thought you just picked up on there because it's

6:14

in a sense it's like manifestation, isn't

6:16

it? And again, I'm not an area that I'm really

6:19

an expert in, but we did have roxadofusión who

6:22

you know, manifesting Queen's absolutely fab.

6:24

And she really wet me, whistled,

6:27

g. Like, I've got really tired of talking about

6:29

it. Just like I am getting tired of talking about the Crystal

6:31

channel. And I think it's amazing, like, a

6:33

lot of people think manifesting

6:35

is just being like, oh, I really want bigger

6:37

house or I I really wanna

6:40

meet the Miami Dreams this year. So I'm gonna make

6:42

it happen in head. And that's not what it is.

6:44

Actually, is it? Like, it's far more than

6:46

that. And you're right. Like, the first

6:48

step is setting an intention. And if you're

6:50

going out and actively sort of

6:53

I don't know. But, like, buying Crystal, finding

6:55

more and whatever, that is specifically a happy nurse

6:57

or love or health or

6:58

whatever. That's your first step to setting that intention,

7:01

isn't it? Definitely manifesting. And this is what I've

7:03

said to everyone and why have you been getting teams like

7:05

I've never I own a crystal business. I badly

7:07

bleeding that, but I've always said that I don't think

7:09

going to bump up is gonna change your life. I really

7:11

don't think it is. I think the most powerful

7:13

tool for, like, positive change in your life and attract

7:16

some things is starts with you and your mind

7:18

and getting it in the right Easterbrook are there

7:20

simply

7:20

to, like, really amplify that journey

7:22

for you. think that's what people these understand

7:25

as well. And that's important. It

7:27

really is, but I completely understand

7:29

what is in and I can see how we can be

7:31

a step on the way to get in what you

7:33

want out of life, you know. Has

7:36

it worked for you, babe? Like, in terms of,

7:38

like, powerful manifestation, are

7:40

you, like, just look

7:42

happy, you look gorgeous, and you clearly do

7:44

more. You look so

7:45

Oh, you're welcome. Yeah. I was really scared.

7:47

Yeah. The life my life has completely

7:49

done. Is that three sixty or one eighty? I think it's

7:52

a lot eighty. I always ask myself

7:54

this question because if you went three sixty, you'd go

7:56

by the way you start. It's a week it's one eighty.

7:59

Yeah. Yeah. It's done a three sixty 1 eighty blacklit

8:02

fucking spin around, like, is I thought

8:04

you you could sit there and let you to me, like, a

8:06

few years ago. I was actually saying it's my boyfriend that

8:08

I was like, you can sit me down and be like, you're

8:10

coming on. VitchPass' podcast, and

8:13

you're talking about football, and then you're talking about

8:15

what you've done, how you've been part. As

8:17

if, like, it's it's crazy how

8:19

quickly life can come at you, but now I'm

8:21

definitely the happiest place I've ever

8:24

been, but I also feel proud of that because I feel

8:26

like I've really put in the work to get

8:28

there. And when you start from, like, in Rockwell,

8:30

I'm like, I know you're on a status. You've had I know you've

8:32

had struggles and stuff, but your mental health

8:34

and whatnot, like, you really gotta pick yourself up

8:36

on the floor. That takes a lot of fucking work. So

8:38

taking that first step is the hardest

8:40

part, but it's so rewarding in the end.

8:43

So not only do you

8:45

believe in the power of these,

8:46

like, you you chat and you talk about

8:48

it, you've all you also sell the crystals

8:51

in, like, beautiful jewelry form Yeah.

8:53

I feel like I I mean, as a

8:55

person that as ASTBTTT

8:57

committee I o, brown, and bronze, and

8:59

black. So hi.

9:02

A lot of people are on their browser. I'm not

9:04

having people at home as well, but I feel like you'll

9:06

be such a nice way to be able to

9:08

incorporate it into your daily line. And

9:11

as well as that my dad is a jeweler.

9:13

So in knockdown, actually, when I literally had

9:15

no fucking clue what I was doing, he let me come and,

9:17

like, sit him with him, like, day where can do

9:19

his table earth news at me just to make

9:22

a bit of cash to get by. And that's

9:24

kinda and this is why I was such a bad labor and everything

9:26

happens for reason because At that time,

9:28

I was so low and I was mad at her seeing some sense

9:30

of purpose. So that I've been realizing, I was like, I'm

9:32

finding my purpose. Like, this is a positive

9:35

time. And

9:37

I was looking at the cream of these neck because these

9:39

pieces of jewelry. And then I thought and I was really getting

9:41

back into the crystals at the time. I was like, wonder

9:44

if I could incorporate the two somehow and make

9:46

my own business. And obviously, I

9:48

kind of made the TikTok in the beginning to

9:50

support that, not knowing it would actually

9:52

take off. And now I've got the business, which I'd

9:54

say, feed your back cover also feeds my soul and

9:56

the TikTok side of things, which I don't make any money

9:58

for while I just do it because I purely really enjoy

10:00

it. Yeah. Is

10:03

it do crystals work better? Gee, when

10:05

they're actually on your body? Is there something

10:07

like keeping them closed to your skin? Or because your

10:09

heart are held it be, like, a constant reminder of

10:11

what you're actually wanting and No. I

10:13

I personally think so. I mean, if you wanna get

10:15

into, like, the details of it as well,

10:19

crystals depending on the shape of them as

10:21

well have very different influences. So for example,

10:23

like, a spare, like, risk adverse events,

10:25

like, feel like more connected to us, like more

10:27

fun. People use certain

10:29

crystals like towers, for example, like

10:31

the points to manifest because it's

10:34

believed that that helps focus the energy of

10:36

the crystal my necklaces,

10:38

for example, and if you can see, but they're maybe, like, no they're,

10:40

like, mini tail points. So it's, like, pulling the

10:42

energy back into

10:43

yourselves. So I designed it

10:45

all with intention of it working

10:47

the best account. We need to take it out there.

10:50

was just gonna say, like, I am such a

10:52

sucker for a lovely piece of jewelry being, and

10:54

I do I like to liaise on bikinis in

10:56

the

10:56

store. So that would be amazing. What's

10:58

your best sellout? What are people most

11:00

looking for? Well, people lovevanadium.

11:03

I think because it's massive on cyclical

11:05

eleventh. It's a big dance you like, which I love at

11:07

the moment. It's so much the generation of

11:09

empowerment and and feeling yourself

11:11

and being confident, and it's very much a stone

11:13

for that as well as moving what I've got on.

11:16

LabraduraEye as well and Malachi, which

11:18

is this type of transformation. But I think

11:20

what made these ones really successful is I always

11:23

find growing up that I didn't want these big clunky,

11:25

like it's some people stuff. It wasn't mine

11:27

that big. Hickey looking. Yeah.

11:30

But the pages and all sorts like that, they are

11:32

amazing. But I wanted things like where oh,

11:34

my night. So I haven't built lots of warm, whatever.

11:36

So that was kind of my idea in

11:39

mind.

11:39

Yeah. Oh, well, it's absolutely beautiful,

11:41

babe. So that's really the interest a no. Because when I

11:43

asked that question, I thought you were just definitely gonna

11:45

say like, oh, everyone's just after the storm,

11:47

the healthy frame, the perfect fella

11:49

or something. But It's lovely that people are after

11:52

ones that are more about empowerment and transformation.

11:54

Like, that's a really I

11:56

think that's a really

11:58

positive shift in terms of female

12:00

mindset. Do you not? Yeah. I think that's

12:03

my audience specifically. So I just because I might

12:05

like to use the fuck in. But I mean,

12:07

attracting the rights on there, I think, is an amazing

12:09

piece of stuff about about about that to the costume

12:11

on home. But at the beginning, I noticed

12:13

especially in the TikTok space that was

12:15

And I couldn't have probably grown a lot quicker how

12:17

I've gone down the path of being --

12:18

Yeah. -- how to get an ex back. How

12:21

to but it's just so not

12:23

what I sound It's

12:24

toxic in it. It is toxic.

12:26

Yeah. Exactly. And it's just I I

12:29

maybe if I ask it's pretty great. Maybe you cheated. That's

12:31

not something big. Maybe. Well, I think

12:33

a lot of people a lot of girls, especially,

12:36

which is really excited operating at this place of

12:38

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12:40

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12:42

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12:44

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13:24

Then. Yeah. And that's not to say,

13:26

like, you can't you can't find the person, not be

13:28

completely here, like, god knows. I found my

13:30

boyfriend now and I something all these issues

13:32

are coming up with, like, healing that I need

13:34

to do. Because I'm not old, but used to niceness.

13:37

But at least from a self sense

13:39

of self worth of knowing what you

13:41

deserve. Even if you'd actually feed it yet, you need

13:43

to know that you deserve good things.

13:46

You're so right. Is this idea, I

13:48

think, within society? And

13:51

I think we perpetuated actually as

13:53

women unknowingly. That you

13:56

are in fact half a person unless

13:58

you are loved by a significant

14:00

or that. And that's not true. Instead

14:02

of trying to find that person, a complete will

14:04

should be working on ourselves -- Yeah.

14:07

-- to become a full person,

14:09

you know? Like, and I'm not saying I'm

14:11

not saying there that we're lacking in

14:13

any sense, but we can all do with self improvement,

14:16

we can all do with growth, and whether that's expanding

14:18

more minds, whether that's traveling, whether it's,

14:21

you know, getting a bit of friendships or getting out with

14:23

comfort or whatever it is, like, we could all do

14:25

with, like, working on ourselves before. We

14:28

try to invest all of this energy in finding

14:30

a significant other because it's

14:32

nice. It's a dog that is wrong. I love her can.

14:35

Voorhees. Voorhees. So

14:38

busy gets right on me tips. But,

14:40

yeah, but I, again, same as

14:42

you made, I don't think I was I

14:45

think I was ready to meet him. think was

14:47

at a time in time in my life where

14:50

I'd experienced a bit of heartache and

14:52

gone through some some, you know,

14:55

quite quite hard times. And actually,

14:57

I'd worked on me self, was feeling strong, was

14:59

feeling confident, was feeling ready to be loved, and

15:01

that's when he came

15:02

in. Oh, wait. I suppose I think I manifested

15:04

him enough. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Well,

15:06

my conversation, I think it takes up all this stuff. It

15:08

actually made it seem really confusing, but I think

15:10

bringing it back to its simple forms. It's just

15:13

you get what the energy you put out and

15:15

it's and this is what I was doing. Like, I

15:17

was so self destructive and I really

15:19

didn't have my opinions of myself the way I

15:21

spoke to myself on a day to day basis was

15:23

so toxic and not nice, and

15:25

that's so normal for so many people.

15:28

And so the energy I'm putting out was

15:29

like, I'm not worthy of what I was attracting

15:32

men or people into my life that viewed me

15:34

the same way.

15:34

Yeah. She

15:35

treated me the same way I treated myself, and

15:37

it it sounded as true. And I think you just gotta get

15:39

to the point where talking about being so

15:42

sensitive, such as nothing is but being comfortable

15:44

on your own is a subject

15:46

to me that I was so forward to being in a relationship

15:48

so long. That when I was first single,

15:50

I was so uncomfortable being in my own presence.

15:53

I didn't know why I felt like I needed

15:55

that external validation. But just

15:57

being, like and also now, I'm in a really hard relationship,

15:59

but I'm no deep down. The if

16:01

that ended for whatever reason, I would be okay.

16:04

And I it isn't, like, like, it's not

16:06

nice, but it's not like soul crushing home and pass

16:08

away if that person I'm actually

16:10

full of

16:11

mine, and I do like my own company.

16:13

But that took a long time to get to that place.

16:15

It reminds me and I think feeling

16:19

comfortable in your own skin and up having

16:21

a sense of self worth, like, there are really

16:23

difficult things to to achieve.

16:26

Especially just because we've been

16:27

conditioned. Yeah. Not

16:29

like ourselves, you know, to be

16:31

able to do all. Yeah. And to compare exactly.

16:34

Yeah. So it's it's a really difficult

16:36

journey. And it is sometimes far easier

16:38

to just jump on a date and a half or

16:40

gone on a night out and like pull a fella

16:42

or, you know, initiate a conversation and

16:45

get the validation that way, but the

16:47

hard work, putting in the graph with yourself

16:49

is far more rewarded than spending fucking

16:52

three years with some fellow who still lives in his

16:54

mask box room once I know a song

16:56

and adds no book and idea

16:58

about his

16:58

finances. Exactly. And it's just like

17:00

that in the stratification as well as it, like,

17:02

go ahead. Yeah. Like, again, that's so fun

17:04

and that that showed you wanna do, then five

17:06

bit is when it's coming, like like I say, like, feeding

17:09

that place of luck. But

17:11

if you're

17:12

like, that is in gratification of that. I know this

17:14

is something I was so guilt for, like, ordering

17:16

that takeaway --

17:17

Yep. -- really -- Yeah. -- getting

17:19

with that guy just because instantly and

17:21

make it feel better. But then when that's all gonna done,

17:23

you I can hang out your ass the next day in

17:25

Smurface's

17:26

bed, you're like, oh, I feel shit getting

17:28

out. Like, you feel worse. Yeah.

17:30

You feel worse. Oh, You

17:32

know what, last, I feel like there'll be plenty of women

17:35

listening to this who potentially are

17:37

in some destructive cycles who

17:39

aren't living their best lives, who are trapped

17:41

in that instant gratification like

17:44

sort of mindset. What advice would

17:46

you give them

17:48

you know what, to support that cycle

17:50

to get what they deserve out of life. I think

17:53

learning more by yourself is so important and

17:55

starting from basics like what I've learned

17:57

on my journey is that your brain is

18:00

so used to comfort zone. Your brain enjoys

18:02

comfort zones. So even if they're destructive,

18:05

try to form new habits is really hard at the

18:07

beginning. And I noticed this going

18:09

to whatever new romantic

18:11

connections because my old relationship is so

18:13

distracted. My brain would try to instantly

18:15

create more limbs. Yeah. Because

18:18

that's that's what it knows. That's what it thinks

18:20

love is. Well, I see me. That was exactly

18:22

the same when I first was going out with Aircon.

18:24

I was like, well, we haven't

18:26

route, like, he's he's

18:28

not hiding his

18:29

phone.

18:30

Like, it's so Yeah. Literally, this is

18:32

me, man. It's so I fucking sat there, like, a witch

18:34

and I was like, what am I gonna cause the fact that

18:36

they were, because that's what law I thought love was

18:38

and thought love back to

18:39

her. Isn't it terrible? Yeah.

18:42

Sort of how it sounds? Even, like,

18:44

when you're trying to solve and even have, like, eaten

18:46

healthy if you're used to not or even like

18:48

recovering from eating more. Like, it's

18:50

all what you're used to. And

18:52

venturing out for that is so uncomfortable

18:55

for the brains and the savage brainers there

18:57

to help you survive. And so it's like,

18:59

is it? Keep safe? Yeah.

19:01

Yeah. So I just have to literally detach

19:04

myself from my own peaking sometimes and go,

19:06

no, this is just a chemical reaction and

19:08

I uncomfortable because

19:11

this is new and exciting, but then remind yourself

19:13

why you're doing it and keeping yourself in check

19:15

is the most important thing. But being burned

19:17

yourself along the way as well is also great.

19:20

It's it's like being the boss of your own brain

19:22

is so hard, isn't it? Yeah.

19:26

You're right. just It tries to keep you

19:28

it it thinks it's doing the right thing and tries to

19:30

keep you safe, but unfortunately sometimes those

19:32

learn toxic

19:32

behavior. Yes. We're aware for

19:35

me was just the biggest turning, but understanding

19:37

why I thought that way rather than just thinking

19:39

it may get a lot easier to cut me forward.

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No. I love that. I feel like

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I'm really pleased you're in a good place, Jay.

19:46

You're great. Thank you. And I feel like you are

19:48

helping women. Even just about, like, little

19:50

bit of advice there, I think that's great. Being

19:53

a boss of your own brain, convincing yourself

19:55

to get out of your complex on being kind, they're

19:57

all such such important gripets

19:59

of advice. Thank you, bitch. Who's

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