The Hot Mess Medium Show Ep. 9 -Realistically SLAY Your Goals in 2025
Happy New Year!
In this episode I share a spirit-led message to support you (and possibly inspire you) in actually & realistically conquering your 2025 goals along with some easily digestible examples, my word for 2025 (and how to receive your own word) and a tiny sliver of my experience living in a delusional reality that led me to where I am now.
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00:00:00 Natashia Mack
Hey guys. Happy New year.
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I really, really hope that January has been treating you well so far.
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It feels so good to be recording right now.
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Has been a while.
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And I'm excited to just share with you a couple of messages.
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I really wanted to put something out there this week and so, but I didn't feel inspired to be honest.
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You know, we're in well where I.
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It is winter, but also I'm in a.
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I'm in a personal season of winter and so I've been, you know, hibernating and a lot more.
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Word and.
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I'm also a projector and for me to feel inspired I often need invitations and I just haven't really.
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Gotten any?
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Because of this space that I'm in of just needing to rest and replenish and receive.
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And just kind of taking it easy, going with the flow sort of thing.
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Because I just had two big surgeries in the past.
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Month and 1/2.
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So yeah, that's kind of where I'm at.
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But again, I knew I wanted to put out something, so I was like, OK.
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I'm just going to sit here and kind of TuneIn to what wants to come through today for whoever is listening.
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So immediately when I tuned into sort of the energy, the energy.
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That's sort of.
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Around so many of us right now.
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The possibilities.
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Sort of thing.
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I was seeing how.
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Know 2025.
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I'm seeing a lot of.
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Space opening up.
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It's like I'll sing in my mind, this road up ahead and how this clearing is happening and justice like things are just opening up and more and more space is being created and as soon as I said that, I I.
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Look down and I saw 222 for like 2 minutes and 22 seconds of recording.
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Anyways.
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And.
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So leaning more into that.
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There was this feeling of there being so many possibilities ahead.
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But how it truly is?
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Up to you.
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To.
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This is so weird.
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I've I've been hearing this song.
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On by Wilson Phillips.
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And so, like the lyrics, keep playing, you know, like it's time to break free from the chains. Like you got yourself.
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Into your own mess, but like that means that you have the ability and the power to like, get yourself out of it and.
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It's like I see.
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It's like I'm seeing myself and how I'm the one who kind of wrapped the chains around.
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So it's like I'm able to then unwrap the chains off of myself, but it's so uncomfortable, right? It's so uncomfortable.
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It's like I'm hearing about developing self-discipline to like go out and get it to go do the thing to create the change that you want for yourself to create these new habits.
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And I'm a little resistant talking about this because I don't believe in the whole like New year, new me like.
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I mean, do I wanna get into that?
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It's more of like we can obviously make these changes for ourselves at any time.
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That's kind of where I was going with that, but also.
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Again, it's weird that there's a new year in the middle of winter when we're supposed to be more inward and more chill and kind of like is the word introspective. Like, I don't know.
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You're reflecting.
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You're kind of like taking it easy, right?
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Not a time to go out and.
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Do all these things or plant seeds and grow them and type of thing right?
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But nonetheless, we are also all in our own individual.
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Seasons, just like I explained, the season that I'm in. You might be in a completely different season of your life.
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You get to kind of gauge where you're at.
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Either way.
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I.
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I'm gonna kind of go back to what I was saying.
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Yeah, change is uncomfortable.
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Growth is uncomfortable.
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Creating new habits is uncomfortable.
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I mean, I fail at that all the time.
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Just going to be honest.
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You, you know, I'll. I'll do something for a few days and feel really good about it.
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Then I very slowly drift back into old ways. You.
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And then there's times where I do start something new and it totally sticks.
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As soon as I said that, I looked. It's 11:11.
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Love that so many synchronicities lately.
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Anyways so.
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There's like a balance that needs to be had between self-discipline but also showing yourself grace, right? Always.
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It's not about being.
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Super hard on yourself or super mean to yourself, but you also got to.
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Hold yourself accountable. Take responsibility, right?
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And I was actually just having a conversation with my daughter about that this morning about how.
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You know, when we choose to avoid certain things, that means we.
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Have to take responsibility for the.
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Outcome like what happens?
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Because I can't remember the word.
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You know when you do something and then there's consequences. There we go. Consequences. We have to deal with the consequences of our actions or lack thereof.
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So you know, if there's things that you've been putting off for a long time.
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Organ avoiding just not doing, even though your intuition has been guiding you to do it, that sort of thing.
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There's going to be consequences, that's.
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That's like a very obvious thing.
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Eventually those things catch up to you, right?
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And I'm noticing that in my life right now, this isn't.
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Just like telling you what to do or how to live your life or calling you out.
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I'm literally relating to literally every word that I'm saying.
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Anyways, so where are we going with this?
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Oh yeah, I was hearing also that there's like, no magic pill that's gonna just, like, fix everything.
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Right. We're always searching for like the fastest.
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Way of getting the results yet?
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If you think of it like that, that's not actually how it works.
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Yes, you know we can manifest.
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Yes, miracles.
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And yes, like spiritually, you know and energetically like, it's incredible. What could what you can achieve.
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With your mindset and.
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All that stuff, but at the same time.
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We are humans living a human experience, and there are very real, very real life things that we have to do to experience real life results.
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And I just feel like so many of us are being called.
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To I say this.
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With, you know hesitating.
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We are being called to action.
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It doesn't mean. OK. Get up right now. Go run a marathon or whatever.
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No, that's not what I mean.
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We are being called to take action, but however, that looks like for you, right?
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What?
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Like what's on your heart right now?
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Are you being called to do?
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For some people, taking action means actually.
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Like taking a break because that's what their intuition is being called is calling them to do right so.
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That example is helpful.
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And just, you know another thing here that's coming through is like being more intentional.
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Like OK.
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Let's say you chose a word for this year, right?
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Every year beginning of the year.
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I.
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I I put it out there to God that like, I'm open to receiving.
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My word for this year, and I'm very intentional about it and I don't force it.
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Don't force a word to come to.
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I'm not trying to pick a word and I don't choose it from my ego either.
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I'm like, OK, what word?
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Is my word for this year.
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And.
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This year for me, I God nourish, and that just felt so good.
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In my body and you know I am on a healing journey with my physical health and well, of course, with the physical health. You also got to take care of your mental, emotional, spiritual health, all that stuff.
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So for this year, for me, my.
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My intention is to nourish myself my mind, my body and my soul.
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Last year, my word was.
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Community and family.
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It was family, but I also felt like there was an aspect of community connected to it and wow, was that ever spot on for me.
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And again, I didn't force those words. I didn't personally.
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Choose those.
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It's the words that came to me of of.
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Like the medicine I'm gonna receive for that year. And, you know, last year it was all about community.
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Did so many community events.
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I spent more time with my family.
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Family really came together after the passing of my grandmother, you know, and of course, with those things, you know, with any kind of death, it really causes you to reflect and to realize what's truly important in life and.
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It makes you want to bring the people you love closer to you, things like that so.
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You know, and then with all the stuff with my health, I had to rely on my family, had to rely on my community.
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I had to open up.
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I had to force myself to receive support and even financial support, even though that was really difficult for me.
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It really showed me that I do have a community.
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I do have so many people around me who love me.
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It was really incredible.
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And I'm so grateful for it. You know, despite everything that I faced last year.
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So anyways, for this year with nourish okay. So here's what I'm getting at.
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I'm like, OK.
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Without forcing of.
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I'm like, what does that look like for me? Or, you know, what? Small steps can I start taking towards really embodying that word, really welcoming that word into my life, into my body, into my home?
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And so something I want to start doing is cooking more.
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You know, cooking more for myself. Cook for more, for my family.
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Meaning eating way less significantly less like takeout and things like that.
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And another thing is like really limiting.
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Coffee. So one thing I started I was actually gifted this.
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Really healthy coffee that has like all these incredible things in it.
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It's not actually coffee.
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I don't think there's any caffeine.
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but it tastes like coffee.
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It's kind of like this muddy, watery coffee drink.
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Hey Cortana.
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Anyways and.
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Like I would love to just start replacing.
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You know, regular coffee with that or my mushroom coffee. Like I just wanna kind of switch certain things out for, like, healthier alternatives, but without going overboard.
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Because.
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Yeah, I I I you know, I wanna find balance with that and I don't.
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I still wanna live, obviously.
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And enjoy myself with food. And you know what?
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Consuming but.
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Still making sure that I'm just nourishing myself.
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You know, maybe being more mindful of what I'm consuming in all aspects, right 'cause what we consume is not just food. It's what we listen to, what we see, what we hear, what we read, who we're around.
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So all these things kind of you know.
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Are part of it as well.
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So.
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I'm yeah, I, you know, I have my word sort of as a guide, and I get to be intentional with it and.
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Open myself up to experience opportunities to nourish myself more.
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And to welcome more of that into my life and just be like mindful of that and actively also try to incorporate that into my life so.
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You know.
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Whatever your word is, maybe it's just something you know.
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You don't have a word.
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Maybe this is gonna inspire you to open yourself up to receive your word.
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Or if you already have a word.
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You know, maybe it's something to just kind of sit with a little bit or just kind of play with a little.
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Like.
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How can I start?
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Actively.
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Incorporating this into my life or, you know, embodying it, that sort of thing, knowing that it's not just gonna get, like, plopped down on me and it's not gonna happen for me.
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It's not just gonna happen to me like I have a part to play in this, you know.
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When I was really deep in like new age stuff.
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Not that I'm gonna like.
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Get too deep into.
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That's like a conversation for a whole other time.
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But I definitely.
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Lived in a very delusional reality. And I mean, I think some delusion is actually healthy.
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Right, in order to.
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Really. Keep the faith and really have a vision and really like be like, no, this is gonna happen even if there's no evidence that's gonna happen.
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What I mean by you know, a healthy dose of delusion, but for a long time I lived in a very unhealthy.
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Delusional reality, where, like, I forgot that I actually had to.
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Nourish and take care of this 3D reality that we're living in.
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And I'm so grateful, so grateful, like praising God for plopping me down back on this earth. Although at the time it was.
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Just horrendous at the time it was like I literally just thought my whole entire world was falling apart.
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And I mean, I guess that, yeah, that whole reality fell apart.
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Again I.
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I had no choice but to like face where I was and.
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To accept like.
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Oh yeah, I literally came here to this earth to experience life as a human.
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So I need to actually.
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Be a human and.
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Do very real life things and.
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Experience it all and blah blah blah.
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Why did I bring that up again?
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Oh yeah, yeah, basically just you know.
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I I had to first of all face.
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The consequences of me having lived in that delusional reality for so long.
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And.
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Everything that was sort of like waiting for me.
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You know for when I was ready to finally face it.
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And what else I had to see like talking about it makes me so anxious.
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So when my.
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Mind's going blank 'cause. I just hate revisiting that time of my life 'cause it just feels like a completely different lifetime.
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And there was like 4 years ago.
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Anyways, just being transparent with you guys, but.
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Yeah.
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I don't even remember, so I'm just gonna take a moment to, like, ground.
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And breathe.
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It's wild.
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It's wild how like just, you know, talking about certain periods of your life can.
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Affect you like that?
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Anyways.
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I feel like it would be really good to do a whole other episode where I talk about.
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That time, but I would love like if anyone like maybe some of you went through it.
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You know like.
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Where you are super deep into new age and you just kind of.
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Left that or like let go of a lot of things.
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And this again, this isn't me.
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Bashing it or anyone who is super deep into new age, it's not that.
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Just like it just wasn't for me.
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It just wasn't for.
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And it it's not for a lot of people and.
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I've personally experienced like.
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Spiritual psychosis and it just seems like so many others also experience.
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It When they're super deep into that.
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And I just found that.
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Overtime, simplifying.
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My.
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Relationship with spirituality. Simplifying my spirituality in general and like my relationship with God the Creator. Like it's just.
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Supported me in so many ways like I don't even know where to.
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With that.
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Like I don't even.
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Like a whole.
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Series probably, but I'm only going to talk about it if there's people who are actually interested in hearing more, or people who have questions.
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Know what I mean?
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Like I want to make it worth it and know that it's actually going to be supported for some people.
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Anyways.
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I can't even remember how we got here, but I do OK.
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So you know the part where.
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Um.
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The message that was coming through about this here, right?
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Breaking free from the chains, but realizing you're the one who put the chains there and how there's like no magic pill, right?
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Like we act like.
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You actually have to.
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Put things in place like you actually have to make the phone calls. You actually have to do the thing, you know.
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Like you have to go out and get it type of thing.
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I.
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I love how spirits just keeping it so simple and straightforward.
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Replay.
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I love that we love that.
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And then the other thing.
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The other.
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I was coming through, OK.
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So I started following this man.
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Who?
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His Instagram handle is.
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Am done being obese, I think. I think that's what its handle is.
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So he actually started his account on like January 1st I believe and that's when he decided like I'm done being obese.
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I'm.
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I'm gonna do something about it.
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And he just.
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I just love that spirit springing this up right now.
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I love that.
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He has just been so realistic about his journey.
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Meaning he's setting himself up for success by creating these smaller.
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Realistic and doable goals for himself. So like for example, he's not like immediately joining the gym and like going hard and like killing himself, you know, trying to lose weight he's he's like.
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Again, doing this, realistically you gotta go check him out. I think his first video he's like literally walking.
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Around the block or something like that, like that was his first goal.
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I just wanna walk around the block everyday until.
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Until I can do it, and then I'm gonna extend it right and like, that's how you actually set yourself up for success versus like shooting for the stars right away.
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And then you like, burn yourself out or hurt yourself or whatever.
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And you know, he's being so open and vulnerable and transparent and, you know, I think it was day six. He gave himself a rest day. And he explained the importance of a rest day.
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You know, and I was just like, it's just been so beautiful to watch his journey. And I'm so curious if any of you are following him too.
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Or maybe you logo follow him now, but like his account blew up because.
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People are like wow, like he's so friggin inspiring.
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And again, it's just so real.
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And.
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So now I want to.
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Why spirit was bringing this up? Because.
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There's clearly a reason for it.
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Yeah, OK. This small, tangible, realistic goals.
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So when Spirit's like take action like you got yourself into this own mess, it's into your own mess like it's time to, you know, go, go do the thing right.
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No magic pill that's gonna do it for you. Like you got to do.
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Make sure you are setting yourself up for success by.
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Doing these smaller, more tangible goals and the example that's popping into my head right now is like, don't tell yourself you're never going to drink coffee again.
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No, it's like.
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It's like an addict's mindset of, like, just for today, like just for today, I'm going to have this dirt water coffee. It's really healthy.
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Like just for, just for today I'm having.
00:25:49 Natashia Mack
And if tomorrow I decide I want a normal coffee, then that's totally fine, right?
00:25:54 Natashia Mack
We don't need to do any extremes here because that doesn't help anyone like extremes are not healthy at all.
00:26:02 Natashia Mack
Like, why don't you give yourself permission to try differently this time and ease into it?
00:26:08 Natashia Mack
Right. And so for I think his name is Nathan.
00:26:11 Natashia Mack
Oh my God. I really hope it is. I think it's Nathan anyways.
00:26:15 Natashia Mack
The man from I am done being obese on Instagram.
00:26:21 Natashia Mack
You know his.
00:26:24 Natashia Mack
Like his first steps were walking around the.
00:26:28 Natashia Mack
I don't even know if it was the full block or not, but anyways that was his first step.
00:26:33 Natashia Mack
That was like his first goal, and that may seem like not a big deal to a lot of people.
00:26:41 Natashia Mack
Like, no, he should push himself.
00:26:43 Natashia Mack
No, like, what if that for him is like such a big step?
00:26:50 Natashia Mack
What else is coming to mind is I don't know if you've ever seen shameless.
00:26:58 Natashia Mack
Oh my God. It doesn't mean you have to watch it, but Sheila from shameless.
00:27:02 Natashia Mack
So she has like, a severe.
00:27:05
Call.
00:27:05 Natashia Mack
Complex like.
00:27:06 Natashia Mack
Anxiety paranoia disorder where she can't leave the house, OK.
00:27:13 Natashia Mack
So what she did?
00:27:15 Natashia Mack
Was she set the small?
00:27:17 Natashia Mack
Small goals for like I'm going to take 10 steps outside today.
00:27:23 Natashia Mack
OK, she did her 10 steps and she celebrated herself and like that was this big deal.
00:27:27 Natashia Mack
Then the next day she did 15.
00:27:29 Natashia Mack
I don't know if that's actually how it was, but anyways.
00:27:32 Natashia Mack
It's just for the sake of the example that like.
00:27:37 Natashia Mack
She just made these smaller goals for herself that were actually attainable.
00:27:41 Natashia Mack
Were actually doable.
00:27:43 Natashia Mack
Were.
00:27:44 Natashia Mack
They were nourishing, you know, and they weren't extremes that actually set her back.
00:27:53 Natashia Mack
And eventually she got to like 250 steps or whatever.
00:28:00 Natashia Mack
And and you know, for her, it wasn't about losing weight or anything for her, it was about literally just.
00:28:07 Natashia Mack
Getting used to being out of the house again, right?
00:28:13 Natashia Mack
So that's gonna look so different for everyone. Even for myself. You know, I'm not, like, gonna be super strict or extreme with myself. 'cause. That wouldn't be healthy for me personally, especially as someone who's suffered in the past with Ed.
00:28:29 Natashia Mack
I need to make sure that I am setting myself up for success and not telling myself. You can never have this again or I'm totally cutting this out or whatever.
00:28:39 Natashia Mack
I have to do it in a way that's nourishing for me.
00:28:45 Natashia Mack
So yeah. So the other thing I'm seeing now, like in the vision, you know, 'cause the beginning, I said.
00:28:52 Natashia Mack
It's like this road and like as you're stepping forward, all this space is opening up.
00:28:58 Natashia Mack
All these like opportunities and possibilities are becoming available.
00:29:03 Natashia Mack
But what I just saw was like someone you know, they're taking these steps forward and all the space opens up and when you get there, you're like, Oh my God, I had no idea this was here.
00:29:13 Natashia Mack
I had no idea it could feel like this.
00:29:16 Natashia Mack
Had no idea it's like.
00:29:18 Natashia Mack
So you have no idea because you haven't been there yet.
00:29:24 Natashia Mack
But like it it is there and it is possible, but it's like gonna be better than you expected.
00:29:31 Natashia Mack
It's gonna be like nothing like you had expected.
00:29:36 Natashia Mack
Because how could you know if you haven't been there if you had? If you're not yet that version of yourself, you know.
00:29:43 Natashia Mack
If you haven't.
00:29:47 Natashia Mack
Yeah, taking those steps yet so.
00:29:51 Natashia Mack
I'm also seeing how as you do take those steps forward.
00:30:01 Natashia Mack
Fees.
00:30:04 Natashia Mack
These changes that happen, they're so significant that they're not only.
00:30:10 Natashia Mack
You know, revealing to you.
00:30:15 Natashia Mack
You know these opportunities or whatever.
00:30:19 Natashia Mack
Other things around you change that you had no idea would change.
00:30:24 Natashia Mack
Like for the best.
00:30:26 Natashia Mack
And like in positive ways, it's like you don't even realize the ripple effect.
00:30:32 Natashia Mack
That this one it's like you think.
00:30:36
You're.
00:30:37 Natashia Mack
How do I say that?
00:30:38 Natashia Mack
OK, for example, you are deciding.
00:30:42 Natashia Mack
Yeah, I'm gonna accept that position at this job.
00:30:45 Natashia Mack
And so you do it even though you are so scared to do.
00:30:48 Natashia Mack
You didn't think you're good enough, whatever, but you do it, and then all of a sudden, so many other things in your life start changing, like your family life gets better.
00:30:57 Natashia Mack
Bank account gets better.
00:31:01 Natashia Mack
Yes, it's more.
00:31:02 Natashia Mack
Maybe it's, you know, a little bit harder, something like that, I don't know, but.
00:31:08 Natashia Mack
It's like you notice like all these things that you didn't realize would change.
00:31:11 Natashia Mack
Do, but it's like for the better you know.
00:31:16 Natashia Mack
Like and, how would you have known that if you were to just stay stuck, like with your make believe chains stopping you right?
00:31:24 Natashia Mack
Sorry, it made me giggle a little bit 'cause I keep seeing someone like just literally, just like gently playing these chains around themselves.
00:31:33 Natashia Mack
Holding themselves back. So it's like they're imaginary. They're not real.
00:31:38 Natashia Mack
You're not stuck.
00:31:40 Natashia Mack
Type of thing.
00:31:42 Natashia Mack
Yeah, just like.
00:31:47 Natashia Mack
If you can't jump, take smaller steps.
00:31:50 Natashia Mack
You know, like how are you gonna master something? Unless you just.
00:31:56 Natashia Mack
Try like the baby version of.
00:31:57 Natashia Mack
You know, like you literally have to just start somewhere.
00:32:03 Natashia Mack
Another example that's coming to me.
00:32:07 Natashia Mack
Is how like for. Since like my God 20/17/2018, I'd say like still kind of in the beginning of my spiritual journey and my development journey as a medium.
00:32:21 Natashia Mack
I would get these visions of me in front of a very large audience like me, standing on a stage at like I don't wanna say a stadium, but just, you know, like a big arena or something. Like they're just being.
00:32:38 Natashia Mack
So many people there.
00:32:40 Natashia Mack
And.
00:32:41 Natashia Mack
This vision was just like a reoccurring thing, and it still is.
00:32:46 Natashia Mack
And I even had other people have this vision for me and bring it up to me, you know?
00:32:53 Natashia Mack
So it's just something that's just always sort of been there.
00:32:58 Natashia Mack
But it's like OK, but.
00:33:01 Natashia Mack
So, oh, I love this example.
00:33:03 Natashia Mack
So I could have either.
00:33:05 Natashia Mack
For the moment, where?
00:33:09 Natashia Mack
The opportunity came where I'm all of a sudden speaking in front of hundreds, maybe thousands.
00:33:15 Natashia Mack
Of people.
00:33:18 Natashia Mack
Or I could start to.
00:33:22 Natashia Mack
You know, start small with the smaller group.
00:33:26 Natashia Mack
Start speaking in front of you know, smaller groups of people and work my way up to that.
00:33:33 Natashia Mack
Right, which seems more realistic.
00:33:37 Natashia Mack
And so.
00:33:38 Natashia Mack
I just love that this is coming up because yeah, there's been many times where I've had these like visions or, you know, other people have had visions of them doing something, but then.
00:33:48 Natashia Mack
But then it's like they're waiting for it to happen versus, you know, actively following their intuitive nudges. Taking that action, you know, putting things in place to set them up for success so that they can eventually achieve that result or experience that vision, right.
00:34:05 Natashia Mack
So anyways, I started small, I started.
00:34:10 Natashia Mack
Speaking in front of you know, smaller groups of people, I remember being terrified of speaking in front of three people.
00:34:17 Natashia Mack
I did like a small group event. I called it a group event that's not a group event or like a group meeting in front of.
00:34:26 Natashia Mack
Three people that was like, so scary to me.
00:34:29 Natashia Mack
Like so.
00:34:31 Natashia Mack
But then I did it.
00:34:33 Natashia Mack
And I felt so much relief.
00:34:35 Natashia Mack
And I was like, wow, OK, I could do this, you know?
00:34:37 Natashia Mack
Then the next time it was 5 people.
00:34:40 Natashia Mack
And then the next time it was 10 people.
00:34:44 Natashia Mack
And you know, I stayed kind of there in my comfort zone for a while until eventually moved up to, you know, 1520. I think the most amount of people I've had in an event now has been 50. And that's like.
00:34:59 Natashia Mack
A lot, obviously.
00:35:00 Natashia Mack
So you know, my next goal is like.
00:35:05 Natashia Mack
I know 75.
00:35:06 Natashia Mack
80 I mean 100 would be really awesome.
00:35:10 Natashia Mack
Again, I want to be realistic with myself.
00:35:14 Natashia Mack
So like 75 would be incredible.
00:35:17 Natashia Mack
And eventually I'm just going to keep working my way up.
00:35:21 Natashia Mack
So the other thing is I've spoken.
00:35:27 Natashia Mack
On alive where there was like 150 people or, you know, even 200 people at one point.
00:35:35 Natashia Mack
But that's.
00:35:37 Natashia Mack
Different it really is because it's.
00:35:39 Natashia Mack
There's such a huge difference between being on alive.
00:35:44 Natashia Mack
Where you can't see everyone. You're not standing in front of them. You're not.
00:35:49 Natashia Mack
You know.
00:35:52 Natashia Mack
Yeah, that they can't see all of you and you can't see any of them.
00:35:57 Natashia Mack
There's such a huge difference between that and actually physically, energetically being in front of.
00:36:06 Natashia Mack
All those people so.
00:36:10 Natashia Mack
Yeah, it's a practice.
00:36:12 Natashia Mack
It's a practice, and eventually maybe I will master being in front of.
00:36:19 Natashia Mack
Lots of people.
00:36:21 Natashia Mack
I definitely get way less nervous now.
00:36:24 Natashia Mack
I notice though that like.
00:36:27 Natashia Mack
The more I do them, the less nervous I.
00:36:30 Natashia Mack
But then if I go a long time without doing 1, I get nervous, you know?
00:36:36 Natashia Mack
So last year, like in 2024, I was, I was doing them pretty.
00:36:42 Natashia Mack
Often because I had done a bunch.
00:36:46 Natashia Mack
The previous year in the.
00:36:47 Natashia Mack
So it's like I, yeah, I just did like, so many in a row and that really helped.
00:36:53 Natashia Mack
Then I notice like, wow, I'm not even nervous anymore. Like this is awesome.
00:36:57 Natashia Mack
Actually, just excited, you know, so.
00:37:00 Natashia Mack
But now it's been a while.
00:37:03 Natashia Mack
And so I'm probably going to be really nervous the next time, even if it is a small number of people you know, even if it's twenty people or whatever. Actually, even if it's just like a private session, I know I'm probably still going to get nervous but that.
00:37:18 Natashia Mack
It's nothing like what it was when I first started it.
00:37:22 Natashia Mack
So yeah, that's how I'm working towards that vision of potentially being in front of hundreds of people someday if I even get there.
00:37:35 Natashia Mack
But either way, I know that I'm meant to speak in front of people and that I really enjoy speaking in front of people, even if.
00:37:43 Natashia Mack
Even if I'm still really insecure about it and still lack confidence, I'm still doing it because I I just love it so much.
00:37:53 Natashia Mack
I love the work that I do and that's what carries me forward, you know.
00:38:00 Natashia Mack
That love and that passion for what I do and for being of service in that way and seeing how it impacts people, like that's what drives me forward.
00:38:10 Natashia Mack
Yes, it's so.
00:38:12 Natashia Mack
Yes, it would be quote UN quote easier, I guess, to not do it. But then is it actually easier if like you're not doing the thing you love and you're passionate about?
00:38:22 Natashia Mack
Don't know, I'm rambling now.
00:38:25 Natashia Mack
But I yeah, I.
00:38:27 Natashia Mack
Ended up talking about things I literally did not think I would talk about.
00:38:33 Natashia Mack
I didn't expect this episode at.
00:38:34 Natashia Mack
I thought it was going to be like 10.
00:38:36 Natashia Mack
15 minutes, but I hope you enjoyed it.
00:38:38 Natashia Mack
Hope you got something from it again.
00:38:41 Natashia Mack
New.
00:38:42 Natashia Mack
Thank you for being here.
00:38:45 Natashia Mack
As I mentioned before, like if you want to hear about those things, invite me. OK. The projector in me would love that very much so.
00:38:54 Natashia Mack
You know, to talk about just the whole.
00:38:58 Natashia Mack
Spiritual psychosis thing and how I let go of certain or why I don't know. Let go of of certain new age things and.
00:39:08 Natashia Mack
Yeah.
00:39:11 Natashia Mack
I don't know.
00:39:13 Natashia Mack
Unless they come up for a reason.
00:39:15 Natashia Mack
Anyways, I hope you have a wonderful week and I'm sending you so much love and I'll see you guys later. Bye.
