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Welcome to the Young Nations for the Gratitude Podcast on the Wonder Ration platform.
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Hello, friends.
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My name is Yuri Ashwin, and this podcast explores the themes of building self-awareness and the power of our inner spirit, including the silent pedals we all face.
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Join me every week as I invite hyperfundists as we explore how adversity shapes us, how gratitude lifts us, and how we can all uncover the inner strength that we all have within ourselves.
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Join the conversation.
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I appreciate you listening in.
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Now, citizens, what if the reason why so many people feel stuck right now isn't that they lack answers?
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It's that they've never had a safe space to ask better questions.
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My next guests, Amber Mikezell and Austin Yule, Sweevera.org, to do exactly just that.
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It is an online church that they started during COVID back in 2020 and grew to a global movement of 1.3 million active members that welcomes everyone, spiritual, religious, agnostic, and even atheist, and helps people explore belief, emotional healing, and personal growth without pressure or division.
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And I'm curious to get your thoughts on how gratitude plays a role in that.
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Both Amber and Austin bring real life credibility from their past and from their experiences.
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With Amber, it was her cancer slash pregnancy turning point and faith under pressure, while Austin's, it was his religious hurt that he experienced growing up and unhappiness while achieving financial success.
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Today's episode will focus on the power of self-awareness and of our inner spirit.
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And with gratitude, welcome to the podcast, Amber and Austin.
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Thanks for having us.
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Absolutely.
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Thank you for the beautiful introduction.
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Thank you.
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So curious to find out how did you get started with swevera.org and what was the concept behind it?
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Uh well, we started it kind of goes back a little bit.
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Uh I really struggled with a back injury.
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And uh I was kind of going through a quarter life crisis, if you will.
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And I wanted to heal myself without getting surgery as best as I possibly could, but I couldn't find a way to do that.
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And had an epiphany in Sedona, came back, and I got to meet the one who eventually became the love of my life, Amber.
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And uh she helped me, uh, she became my mentor, then best friends, and then I got to fall in love with my best friend.
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And through that process, she taught me amazing, amazing knowledge around and wisdom just around how to heal the self from the inside out.
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And so I ended up not having to get surgery because of this.
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Really?
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And so this completely changed my perspective on just medicine and the way that we interact with the world, our own thoughts, just body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
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And so we started.
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So it was split in body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
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That's correct.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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And so we started a private practice in in local Phoenix area here.
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And uh, you know, we had to watch Amber uh and some other practitioners grow that from a couple hundred members to about 9,000 members in the greater Phoenix area.
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And then we realized we really had something here.
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Um was this before COVID or this is before COVID, yeah, this is 2015.
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Oh, I see.
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Okay.
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And we started helping with meditation and uh you know, crystal bowls, uh life coaching.
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Uh, we even assisted with um C-level executives, uh professional golfers, etc., uh traveling the country uh and supporting the local community here.
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And is it the frequencies that you tap into when it comes to healing, or is it something else as well?
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Yes, I can she's the expert as a uh she has her master's in quantum sciences, so she knows this kind of stuff.
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Wow.
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So yes.
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So that's such a good question to come back to, but we want to make sure we answer how we started.
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So we'll continue down that thread.
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So a few of our um our amazing clients, um, they saw major changes in their lives and they had the financial ability to uh support and they wanted to invest what they're we were doing, but we felt it just didn't feel right to do an investment.
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And it kind of the idea came uh to to both of us if we maybe did a nonprofit.
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And through that process, we realized um we actually had all the makings for a church.
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And so we started that and we launched in May of 2020.
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Uh our goal was maybe over the next couple years to create a maybe a group of around the same, maybe 10,000 people around the world, and we grew to 125,000 in the first month.
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And then we everything was on lockdown?
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Everything was, yeah, that was May of 2020.
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So how did people find you?
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Uh, through Facebook.
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We started posting uh three times a week uh on just different posts.
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Amber was uh the face and the amazing trusting, you know, with so much going on in the world, it's hard to trust things.
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And we just wanted to really dedicate ourselves to saying, hey, you shouldn't be limited, your your understanding or willingness to get knowledge shouldn't be limited by your ability to pay for it.
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And so we just decided to give high-level knowledge in a way that was disseminated really simply, easily, and really hit home.
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And again, supported body, mind, emotion, and spirit, because people are more than one-dimensional.
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And so that is Amber just really shined.
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She started sharing everything she had been teaching me over the years, and uh I was uh grateful to to help support uh on on the other side, and and uh and then we kind of grew, and then it's it's really blossomed to something we can never even imagine.
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That is truly remarkable.
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And to do it to me so quickly, right?
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I mean, 1.3 million followers not too not too many years to do that.
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So congratulations on your successes, and I think most importantly, how people can find you.
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Right?
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That's that's also key too.
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Uh and speaking of where and how people can find you Amber, the mission is to inspire and nurture heart-centered living across all faiths and beliefs and remind people of the innate goodness that exists within all of us.
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Why is this message important and why now?
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So I think I would say it's always been important.
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But in our current approach, with technology being so prevalent and our ability to get information out and consumed so quickly, we're just all so hungry for it all of the time.
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And we're so quick to judge all of the information that we get so quickly that we're so harsh on ourselves.
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And I know you had mentioned a lot of this podcast is around bullying and some of that kind of innate opportunity that we also have the other way, because we have a negative brain bias that came with us for survival.
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But we also have this innate opportunity within us to love.
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And too often they're constantly conflicting with one another.
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And when you put social media in that mix, which is partly why we're so prevalent on social media, we tend to go more toward that negative brain bias and start not only judging the people on social media, but then judging ourselves in comparison to what we're seeing on social media.
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So then we're in a double lock where we're bullying ourselves and then without even meaning to, we're bullying the people that we don't even know on social media.
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We want to look at it that way.
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So when we look at this based on the Suivera lens, it's how can we start to see the similarities in all of us instead of using that negative brain bias to create differences and start tearing ourselves down and tearing the other person down?
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We can take that moment and go, hey, love connects us.
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So how can I lovingly say we both have an inner critic in there that is probably making us feel less than?
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So how can we love one another and build each other up?
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And that's really the point of these skills that we want to make available, as Austin was saying, for free.
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How can we come together and say, hey, I have a tool that I learned that I can share with you if you want to learn it from me, that helped me get past that scroll judgment on social media.
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Would you like to learn how to do that?
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Great.
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Here, you can find it here in the Suivera community.
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And it's been incredible.
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And that comes through in this all-inclusive environment where it doesn't matter what culture you come from, it doesn't matter what religion you hold yourself to.
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It just matters that you're part of a loving, open, curious mind that wants to share where you're at and what you desire to move toward.
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Going back to the inner critic that we all have in ourselves, and how do you not gonna say treat that, but both of you, how would you quell those negative thoughts that permeate our minds?
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Because I believe that those negative thoughts inhibit you the ability to be the best version of yourself because that self-doubt.
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Yeah.
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So what are some practical techniques or you know, how does one if they're so self-critical on myself on themselves?
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I said myself because me.
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I've got one.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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So I mean, what would you recommend that I do?
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Well, first we have to figure out where is that inner critic entering in?
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Because it's different for each of us.
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I bet your inner critic enters into your thought process in a very different place than my inner critic comes in and attacks me.
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And it's very different than where Austin's comes in and attacks him.
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So this is beyond just childhood trauma then.
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It is.
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Okay.
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It's a seed for where it enters, but sometimes it can enter in new places even in adulthood, right?
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So we have to trace all of the different origin stories for our inner critic and then begin to understand how to put practices into place for each of those different critics that show up because it's a master shapeshifter.
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Is that part of the healing process, Austin?
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These inner critic things that you have that prevent you from healing that replaces medicine?
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Is that part of it?
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I feel so.
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A lot of internal struggles manifest physically.
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And so for me, it was inflammation and pain.
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And and for many, I'm sure a lot of people can can relate to that.
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Um, but it we I feel like we it's easy to like recognize like when I when I was in college, I broke my back, and that's what kind of took me away from my path of being a professional golfer.
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And you know, that's that's a body feeling.
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I couldn't deny it.
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Right.
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But what it I didn't hear, I mean, I went to some of the best specialists in the world, and I spent years working on my back, attempting to figure something out, attempting to heal.
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And it wasn't until I met Amber, is the first time I heard someone say, Well, what were you feeling internally before it happened?
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I think that's a great reminder for the podcast listeners.
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Yeah.
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Again, it's that journey of self-discovery and what you actually feel on the inside that projects on the outside.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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And so the inner critic is something we all have, all we can all relate to in different ways.
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And so it's it's a great way to recognize that we don't have to let it take over.
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We don't have to let it control us.
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Right.
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And it's it's there, and there is a way that it can support.
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And that's why Amber did such a beautiful job with her book, Silent Tier Inner Critic, positioning it as a as you as the inner champion, being like a superhero, and then your inner critic as a supervillain, right?
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And the reason why that that that works so well is because they actually like a superhero is is there, like the the dynamic of the two exists because they're actually kind of codependent in a way.
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Yeah, one can exist without the other.
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Correct.
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Yeah.
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And so if we learn how to listen, so we're silencing, not saying go away completely.
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We're just saying, you know, just listen.
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Yes.
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And and we don't have to let it take over our thoughts and who we are.
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And that's where I was.
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I let it take over who I was, and I became completely uh misaligned from who I am, just on a soul level.
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And then that happened on an emotional level, and then it happened on a mental level, and then it manifested in a physical level.
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That's deep.
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Well, it's great to see you active and thriving.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And Amberg, um going back to going back, there's 12 cult core 12 core cultural principles of Suivera.
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And can you elaborate on my top three that are my favorites?
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Which is head storm before brainstorm.
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No, heart storm.
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Heartstorm before brainstorm, language shapes reality, and I think that's part of that healing, as well as gratitude as a way of being.
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And I love the word gratitude.
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Heck yeah.
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So heart storm before brainstorm, to me, that signaled kind of the inner critic that within myself.
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It's like to have a heart storm, my perspective is you have to look deep within your heart, and the storm meaning that there's battles.
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Who's gonna win, right?
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The good angel or someone else that's attacking you over brainstorm.
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So, how do you how do you uh explain that?
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I love that you bring that up because again, yes, immediately we you hear the term and it's like you can almost create this negative context to it.
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But heart storming and brainstorming, what does brainstorming mean?
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You just write your ideas down.
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Okay, I want to do uh I want to do X.
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Okay, what are the things tacit I have to do?
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The execution, the organization, what do you need to call?
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List goes on.
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Exactly.
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So you get all your thoughts down and you're just dumping thoughts and no, no thought is a bad thought, no idea is a bad idea.
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Heartstorming and the flip of that is all of your feels.
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No feel is an incorrect feel.
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How do we feel about this concept that we've come up with?
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What are every feeling that comes out to it?
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How does it ultimately, so our team gets together and we say, what feeling does this bring up for us?
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Do we feel connected to it?
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Does it make us feel warm?
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Does it inspire us?
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Does it what is every possible feeling around this concept that we have right now?
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Because if our team isn't inspired by it, if it doesn't draw us deeper into lighting a fire, well, we're the ones that are going to be working on it sometimes for years in order to get it into play.
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What about anger and anxiety?
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It could be in there.
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And that's okay.
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It's okay.
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Absolutely.
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If we feel like, no, this just makes me feel heavy, it makes me feel frustrated, it makes me feel then we know it's not something that we're meant to do right now.
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It doesn't mean we'll never ever do it, but it just means that the timing for the concept and where we are is not aligned.
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So we take that and we put it on the shelf, and maybe we'll revisit it later.
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But we have to understand for our team what does that mean?
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And then broader, okay, how about for the consumer?
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What do we feel it will mean for them or for our overall organization, right?
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How is it going to be received by them?
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So we heart storm that out because what we find is a lot of organizations brainstorm and it looks really good on paper, but when you implement it, we forget the human element and that human element of how it makes them feel.
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Think about Maya Angelou, right?
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Right.
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That was such a true quote.
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People will always remember how you make them feel, but we always forget about that when we're taking a concept and really putting it into play.
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So heart storming is always do that first.
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And it looks like in brainstorming.
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It just provides more clarity to what you really want to do.
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Exactly.
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And that ties in that gratitude too.
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Your team is always going to be grateful that you considered the fact that they have to work on that.
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Right.
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I don't like working on things that I don't enjoy.
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I don't want to do that.
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Right.
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So gratitude is always in place constantly so that we really clearly not only think about what we're grateful for, but how are we inspiring gratitude in our organization throughout every action we take?
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And the members as well.
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And the members as well.
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Interesting.
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Austin, on that comment of language shapes reality, I wanted to get your thoughts.
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Because I mean, here you are with your back problem, yet without medicine and Vikadin, I guess.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um I mean it it's language shapes reality, is is far more impactful than we give it credit.
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I think we it well, words have energy.
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Words have energy, absolutely.
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Yeah.
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And and we can feel that.
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And and for example, often like we we really focus on specific words that we want to use in our organization compared to others.
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Like instead of saying divide and conquer, which is something that people use, especially in business, like, oh, you do something and I do another.
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But the wording behind it and the energy behind it, it's never really been used in a positive way, right?
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And so we say, um uh um, gosh, what do we say?
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We say um, thank you.
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Uh what can you say?
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Lift or rise and connect.
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Yes, thank you.
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Rise and connect.
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Okay, sorry guys.
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I'm getting over a cold and feeling a little bit uh doing my best.
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Sometimes the brain isn't always firing too much in the heart these days.
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Um and so yeah, um, we say um Rise and connect Rise and Connect.
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And so it's it's it's always amazing on what we can do when we start to shift our words.
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Uh I mean, I'm a big Star Wars fan, you know, the do or do not, there is no try.
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That's always a good one to go to.
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Yes.
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Because you can't actually try to do something.
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You either do it or you don't.
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Right.
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And so it's it seems so simple, but often the most complex things are the simplest things.
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And the things that are the most profound are usually uh brought down into the simplest things because when they're simple, then that's when you can scale.
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And so when you start to connect yourself with words that are aligned with who you are at every level of self, then your manifestation and how you bring things forward start to feel more aligned.
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Things start to feel easy, they start to feel frictionless, they start to feel like is this a connection that we earlier talked about?
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100%.
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Okay, yeah.
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When you hear people say, like, oh, I oh I need to raise my frequency or I'm a high vibe or something like that.
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Yeah, uh sadly, unfortunately, it's even become a use of judgment, for example.
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Um, but the reality is that everything has a frequency.
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And if we understand this in the radio, right?
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If if you're on the AM radio but you're tuning your car to the FM, you're never gonna reach the AM radio station, right?
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And that's how often our architecture is what you're talking about.
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What do you mean?
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Exactly.
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Um but uh yeah, it's just if you're tuning in in one way and you're expecting another, it's just there's there's there's a reason why they're not aligning.
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Right.
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And so oftentimes we forget, we think it's something outside of ourselves, but the reality is is we need to tune our own energy, and then we can access it.
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And so the more aligned we can become, so if our if we understand ourselves on a soul level first, and then we move that into our emotion, and then we understand our emotions, and when we start to take that awareness and we create clarity in our thoughts, and we create a positive mental mind frame, and then we move that into the way that we do, right?
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Because we are human beings, not human doings.
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Right.
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And we get so caught up in the doing, doing, doing that we forget our very being-ness.
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And so the soul, the mind, and the emotion are the being, and that helps us access the doing to a greater capacity.
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And so we have greater intention and purpose in what we do, then what we do becomes purposeful, full of purpose.
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And your online church isn't preaching, right?
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It's actually just providing these moments of clarity to individuals that they know themselves, Aldusley.
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Actually, we have no dogma.
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We have a creed, but we don't have a dogma.
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So what we ask individuals to do is ask them to understand what they believe and why they believe it, right?
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And then come with curiosity to explore all of those things.
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So yeah, it's it's a very different approach.
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It's very different because normally when you are tied to a religion, again, I don't mean this in a negative way, I mean it with all sincerity and love.
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It provides a form of structure, right, to help.
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I'll essentially be a good person.
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And I think that's the underlying trait of all religions in the world.
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Whether there is a religion or not, it's about what's inside of us.
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Correct.
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Right.
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What makes us be in service to others, which is I think what you're doing.
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Yes at a scale that I would like to have.
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Yeah.
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And love is the underlying connection, which in nearly all religions is the underlying connector anyway.
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So it is the thread that binds.
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Right.
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Yeah, it's the one thing that you know we're there's science behind plants, animals, and people all understanding love.
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Yeah.
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And it's the one thing that if we say, you know, I love you more, it's like, well, you can't prove that, but we know it in the very essence of our soul.
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Even water, that experiment.
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I'm sure Amber, you know.
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Yeah.
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Masuriyamoto.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Exactly.
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Absolutely.
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Do you want to tell the audience what that is?
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Um, yeah, so a amazing scientist, Dr.
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Masuriyamoto, uh, did an experiment with putting uh glass vials and writing on them.
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And he wrote hate and fear and death, and then he wrote love and gratitude and you know uh different frequencies, right?
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Right.
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And so the the molecular the water uh molecules actually on the ones that had hate and fear and death and different negative uh even I think it was shame and guilt in some of these words, uh, the the molecules actually looked very decrepit and uh shattered, which is uh no different than how we actually feel inside.
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Remember, we're you know 70% water, right?
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Yes.
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So uh but the ones that said love and and gratitude, you know, they look like snowflakes.
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And it's I mean, it's amazing the difference.
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And so that's like when you see uh that's one of my favorite things I love about Amber, just the little things that she does on all of our plants.
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She writes, I love you, and gratitude, and yes, you know, all these things, and these plants just flourish.
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And it's it's no wonder that's a good one.
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You want a fun unknown fun fact about me?
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I grew up in a nursery.
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Did you really?
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My dad uh was a horticulturist and started a nursery back in California.
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Wow, that's incredible.
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We don't have a garden, just in sort of FYI.
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Now you do now.
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You're like, no, that's okay.
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No, but I agree.
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You know, granted we weren't singing to the plants, but again, it's that environment of you know, light and water.
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And I think that's also a parallel to a human to an individual.
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Yeah in order for a person to grow their roots, right?
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You need a proportion of sun and water and shade.
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And sometimes you need to let it dry out to enhance and make those roots stronger.
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We're just giant houseplants.
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There you go.
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With more complex emotions, right?
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Exactly.
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How do we know?
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We've never asked a houseplant.
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That's true, that's true.
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But it just does remind us, you know, we sometimes don't think about how powerful our thoughts are, right?
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But they're constantly going in our minds.
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And so if that's if our thoughts are negative, and the negative brain bias that Amber was talking about, uh, you know, we're we're actually affecting uh ourselves on a cellular level in a in a negative way.
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Well, your thoughts were at one point negative, right?
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Highly negative.
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So I'm curious to find out.
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I mean, a lot of this well, the name of the podcast is spirit of gratitude.
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Yeah, but for you, your spirit was broken.
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How did you rise above that?
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If you can sum it up in just a few senses.
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If not, I can understand.
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I respect that, Austin, but just because I think a lot of people are trying to find how do I unstuck myself, right?
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And so they're looking for an answer, they're looking for perhaps another person to guide them to say, well, if Austin has done, has gone through a ch this journey that I'm going through, I could learn.
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Yeah, love and alignment.
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Those were those are kind of the two things that really supported me when I started seeing the clear connection.
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Um, and I started viewing things from the inside out versus the outside in, that completely changed everything.
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Uh, it went from why is this why is this, why is the world against me or why is this happening to me, to uh I'm grateful that life is happening with me.
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And everything started to align because I started to recognize that when I started to accept myself on a very soul level, in that uh you know, I'm a soul having a human experience, then it kind of shifted the whole aspect into you know, my soul gives me the power to be aware of my emotions.
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And emotions are such a beautiful way to experience the world.
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And when I can tap into those, then I can have a really great understanding of my thoughts.
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I can build the mental mind frame, I can be resilient through my thoughts, and I can shape the world from my thoughts into action because everything that was ever created was thought first.
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Right.
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And even before then it was felt, and even before then it was soul level understood.
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That's amazing.
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I mean, that's just one example, Amber, perhaps of what you're able to guide Austin.
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But is there another example that you can share that that for you has left a lasting impression?
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There are so many.
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Um if if an individual can find a way to be present in the moment, and there are so many techniques that you can choose.
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Beyond just breathing.
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Beyond just breathing.
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Okay.
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I mean, breath is a great way to bring yourself back into the present moment.
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Yes.
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But I know Austin uses one on a regular basis where you just have a rubber band around your wrist, right?
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And if you find yourself going to be a little bit more, right?
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Or yeah.
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It just it's a quick tap back to the present moment.
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But it's a quick way to remind yourself to be here, right?
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Or maybe you have a saying, or you set an alarm on your phone that goes off to remind you, be here now.
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Okay.
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But it's these things that in the present moment, you can consistently remind yourself that every action, every word, everything that you do in this moment is what's going to shape your next one.
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That's how you're building your next experience and your next experience.
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That's how you're healing your body.
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That's how you're gathering in quantum sciences.
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We talk about To a certain degree, because we are all creatures where we have to interact with one another.
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What if there is conflict that doesn't enable you to have those peaceful thoughts, then what?
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What conflict could there possibly be that would determine your inner ability to create a peaceful thought?
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I don't understand.
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No matter what's happening to me outside, right, there isn't nothing that could prevent me in my inner realm from creating my own peaceful thought in the present moment.
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Is that building a wall or is that something else?
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It's not necessarily building a wall.
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I'm still very capable of right.
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That's um that's what I'm getting at.
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Yeah, I'm still very capable of realizing that there is chaos outside of me.
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But I choose whether I allow the chaos outside to influence my harmony inside.
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Bingo.
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Right?
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Yes.
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And that's what we begin to understand when we're present.
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Are we being battered around?
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And that's what quantum sciences begins to help you understand, right?
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Are you being battered around?
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Are you this little photon?
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Yeah, being battered around by everything else around you.
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Yeah.
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Or are you going to hold steady in your state and determine your movement through your plane of existence?
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Gotcha.
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Is that what your new book focuses on?
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And then tell us, tell the audience about your book.
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I'm excited to hear this.
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So silence your inner critic.
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Silence your inner critic helps you get together.
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So I'm sorry, what is it called again?
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Silence your inner critic.
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Thank you.
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Okay.
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And it helps you get to that state where you realize you don't have to be battered around in your inner world by that negative voice that tends to drive us or attempt to tell us what we can and cannot do.
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Or if your inner critic wants to suddenly latch on and tell me what I can and cannot do, I don't have to be battered around by your inner critic either.
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Yes.
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So I can't state.
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Okay.
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So that it's a lot of, and it is in that superhero narrative because personifying that inner critic helps you get it out of your head and in a place where you can actually create a character and do something about it.
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Are there other themes in the book that you explore as well?
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There are so many.
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There's well over 200 themes and tools in the book that you can pull out.
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Yeah.
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One of my favorite things that she shares, and it's it's to me, it's absolutely beautiful, is recognizing that it's not about eliminating negative thoughts, because it's just not going to happen.
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Right.
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But true mastery, and I love how she positioned this, is true mastery is not about elimination, it's about the time in which you're able to shift things.
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And so if you're if you're one more time again, true mastery is not about eliminating things, it's about how quickly you're able to shift things.
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Okay.
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And so if you know, for me, I know when I was really struggling- Sounds like an athlete speaking.
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I mean, that's what Novak Djokovic would say.
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Ah, there we go.
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Right.
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Um yeah, I don't know him too well, but uh well, just from what I'm hearing from his interviews, that's exactly what he how he frames it.
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Yeah.
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Amazing.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I I just I know when I when something really rocked my world, I it would take me months to get over it.
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And when I started working these different tools that Amber put in this book um and different aspects of myself, then I was able to shift it from months to weeks, weeks, you know, to days, days to hours, hours to minutes, and minutes to seconds.
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And then that's the the shift.
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And that's what I love about how she positions things, because it's not about being the moment you say I'm gonna eliminate it, then it it assumes perfection.
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And that's just not a standard that anyone can meet.
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And so it becomes more relatable and realistic when it becomes about the time frame.
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And it definitely shows the importance of the power of now and the present moment, because a lot of our pain exists in the future or in the past.
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When we're in the present, that's when we actually truly do it.
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Pain in the future.
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How do you mean?
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Well, it's it's a lot of anxiety around what could happen.
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What is what what do I think is it's a lot of projecting, yes, not actual things.
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But anything that happens in the future will still be a present moment experience.
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True.
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And so we understand the compound effect of money, but we don't apply that to the compound effect of now.
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Great.
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We'll get that on a reel.
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It's true.
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In the time that we have, and this has been an incredible uh recording.
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This thank you for your time, by the way, along with your busy schedules.
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I'll give you the final word to Austin, Amber, what do you want to leave to the audience, the citizens of Yog Nation?
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Anything that you want to share that perhaps we haven't touched or talked about?
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I would say every one of us has the power within us to do anything we really desire if we can just dive deep into the present moment and awareness of self and truly know what it is that we desire.
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Because the majority of the time we don't know what it is we desire.
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We're taking on the desires of what everyone's told us we desire and wearing that as our own.
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So take the time, listen to podcasts like this, begin to know what it is that you desire, and then stay present and take every step to get that.
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I love that, getting that wisdom and knowledge.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Austin, something that we say in Suivera is um when we're not sure what to do or where we're gonna go, um it's hard.
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There's so many different things that we could do and approach, and like you said, how do we get unstuck?
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And one of the quick things that we say is uh what would love do?
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We truly believe that love is first nature for us.
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And so when in doubt, ask yourself, what would love do?
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I just that rocked my foundation.
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That's so true.
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I never realized that.
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I'm sure there's 199 more amberisms like this in the book.
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She's amazing.
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She is thank you.
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And right back at you, so are you.
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That's why we were drawn together.
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In in the group of a ton of people.
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Um game recognizes game.
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Exactly.
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Austin, Amber, thank you so much for your time.
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Thank you.
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We'll see you soon.
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Thank you.
