This week I’m coming to you from Ireland! I’ve felt a pull to come here since I was a little girl, and through honoring my intuition, it’s finally happened. I’ve been connecting with the land and ancestors, on this magical quest to live this season of life from a place of deep intention.
We are a new version of ourselves each moment. We are also products of our context, and I’m now in a completely different environment. This seasonal way of living and working, and choosing to live from different places around the world during certain seasons of life, is something I’ve been building towards for many years.
I’ve started living a life of emergence, where I wake up each day to meet myself where I am, and check in with myself on what is most significant to me. For this lifestyle to feel safe and secure, I’ve learned that I need to create just enough structure, to allow the emergence of life and creativity to flow through me, without fear and with basic needs met. This structure doesn’t have to be created through traditional (or even monetary) means, which I’ll share more about inside the episode.
Welcome to a new chapter of my life.I’m following my calling to live and work in a place where I have deep, unexplored roots. I’m also doing the inner work to remain open and receptive to the magic that is all around me. If I am stuck in my ways or beliefs, I could easily miss it.
In this episode, we explore seasonal living and working in other countries, normalizing intuition, and honoring our true yes/no in each moment. I don’t know about you, but I know in my bones that I’m not designed to be the same everyday, or even year after year. I’m dynamic and ever-evolving, and even a bit nomadic! I’m finding that things fall into place, when I show up in full integrity and alignment with myself.
I’m so excited to have you here, at the start of my Ireland journey of self-healing and intentional living (working).
This week I’m coming to you from Ireland! I’ve felt a pull to come here since I was a little girl, and through honoring my intuition, it’s finally happened. I’ve been connecting with the land and ancestors, on this magical quest to live this season of life from a place of deep intention.
We are a new version of ourselves each moment. We are also products of our context, and I’m now in a completely different environment. This seasonal way of living and working, and choosing to live from different places around the world during certain seasons of life, is something I’ve been building towards for many years.
I’ve started living a life of emergence, where I wake up each day to meet myself where I am, and check in with myself on what is most significant to me. For this lifestyle to feel safe and secure, I’ve learned that I need to create just enough structure, to allow the emergence of life and creativity to flow through me, without fear and with basic needs met. This structure doesn’t have to be created through traditional (or even monetary) means, which I’ll share more about inside the episode.
Welcome to a new chapter of my life.I’m following my calling to live and work in a place where I have deep, unexplored roots. I’m also doing the inner work to remain open and receptive to the magic that is all around me. If I am stuck in my ways or beliefs, I could easily miss it.
In this episode, we explore seasonal living and working in other countries, normalizing intuition, and honoring our true yes/no in each moment. I don’t know about you, but I know in my bones that I’m not designed to be the same everyday, or even year after year. I’m dynamic and ever-evolving, and even a bit nomadic! I’m finding that things fall into place, when I show up in full integrity and alignment with myself.
I’m so excited to have you here, at the start of my Ireland journey of self-healing and intentional living (working).
Hello, you beautiful souls. Thank you for joining me for another week on the podcast. If you are tuning in on YouTube and can see my video, you'll notice that I'm not in my office. I am coming to you from Ireland this week and will be for the next few weeks. I have through a magical synchronistic series of events found myself here for about five weeks. And so wearing my my beautiful green dress, it's probably the only green that I have, in honor of being here and really arriving to this incredibly beautiful and sacred land. I've wanted to come here for a really long time. And part of that is due to my heritage, of course, which I've learned the local Irish make fun of that a bit because it is a bit cliche for Americans to come here to explore that lineage. But this is what initially drew me to this place if I'm being completely honest. And I do have Irish blood in me, I think all places around the world have their own energy, their own mythology, their own culture, their own language, their own food and way of doing things. And I find that the more I travel, and land in these new places, these new contexts or environments, the more I surrender, to allowing myself to be moved and even changed by those contexts, because I over the years have developed a deep sensitivity to energy, including the energy of a people wherever I might go. And I think on the path of continuously growing and evolving, I have found travel in particular, and just changing up my environment, right that can be that can even be the the environment of our home or of our office, when we change our context on the outside, it shifts the energy that we're now operating in. And while I also do a lot of deep inner work to cultivate, very consciously energy from the inside out, I think as conscious beings moving through a 3d reality in a 3d world, that is material and tangible, we get to play with dropping ourselves into these different contexts or different environments. So I knew for me personally, I just needed to get out of America for a bit to get out of the collective thinking and the mindset that exists in America right now, to get a new vantage point. Because this is the other thing that travel and being in a different context really seems to open up. It's as if you're literally standing in a new vantage point, looking at yourself, or your life or your relationships or your work, but you're seeing it from a new perspective. And if you're building relationships in that new environment, which I love to do, whether it's the people I'm traveling with, or the people I meet along the way, you also get to experience yourself and your life and your story through their eyes as well. Other people are such mirrors, and this is such a gift that we get to give one another in the deep listening and the sharing of stories that we might do. So I've met many interesting and charming, beautiful souls along the way. And I have to say that being here and following my intuition to be here, despite logic to a certain extent, has been just right for me. And I acknowledge that my way of traveling may not be right for everyone, because I tend to do it pretty creatively. I'm not someone who needs to have everything meticulously planned though, I do like to have a secure enough structure through which emergence and spontaneity can be born. So I you know, knew the general area of Ireland where I was going to begin exploring and starting this solo trip because I was actually in my menstrual phase as I was arriving. Not an ideal time to travel and, you know, in my experience, and in my opinion, but I found myself really needing to give myself the gift of a few days to settle into this space, to experience myself in the question, Who am I in Ireland, who am I becoming as I stand on this land and as I connect with parts of me, that on some level, I've yearned for my whole life, even in the stories that I grew up with, about my ancestors and my relatives, and finally here, what does that really feel like I needed to be inward for a few days to really experience that and hear my inner voice, and even hear some of my ancestors and the intuitive wisdom that started to come online, in the silence. And in the solo travel that kicked off this whole trip, I find that in certain phases of life solo travel as a woman, for me, is incredibly empowering. And because we're cyclical, dynamic beings, having a full spectrum of socialization, and that inward silent opportunity to really hear ourselves and be in relationship with ourselves, I find that both are so important. So I again, I began my trip solo, and I went, I rented a car, which is a very American thing to do. I love road trips, I lived in a camper van for a month, and worked from the road in the US. And I know that I have this travelers soul within me, there are times in my life when I need to stay put and be anchored. And there are also times when I need to move and experience newness in place so that I can experience newness in myself. So I rented a car, I flew into Shannon airport, and I headed southwest to the Dingle Peninsula. And then the Ring of Kerry, which was recommended to me by a local, and I had just a few nights of lodging already lined up around the Ring of Kerry. And I knew that I wanted to spend a lot of time in Killarney National Park by the ocean, I wanted to see the carry cliffs. And so I had a couple of things in mind. But between like in the in between of these anchors, right, and I wasn't attached to the timeline, or when I was going to arrive at these places, or how long I would be at them. I didn't have a preconceived notion of what I needed those experiences to even be they were just on my radar and I could feel the pole. But the in between, for me was highly highly emergent. And I got to be in relationship with myself and my body and any needs that came up. So if I was hungry and needed to just get out of the car and enjoy a hearty meal get you know, get into a space that felt warm or different to make me really feel like wow, I'm in Ireland I'm you know, sitting in a pub, I'm in Ireland like this is I've dreamt of this and here I am What does it feel like to be in that moment to be in the presence of fully being here. So there's all this in between that got to just flow I got to listen to my inner guidance. And there were a few magical things that that happened along the way that I feel compelled to share the first magical experience that showed up was on a beach I don't even know the name of this beach but there was no there were no signs. I saw it from a distance and I knew I want to go on that beach. And I was driving and there's this little road and I thought about that's it and so I honored you know honored the call to go right and I drive down this little road and lo and behold there is this cemetery at the end and a path a boardwalk down to the beach and on the first day that I arrived the sun was out and at this point you know it's pretty high in the sky so it's the sun is heading off these these beautiful tombstones with Celtic symbols at least looked you know it looks like that to me as an outsider and I thought oh my gosh, oh my gosh. So kick off my shoes. And I knew like this is so important that I take this time to to fully ground to feel my bare feet on the sand. And to put them in the ocean. And to feel the energy of the land directly on the soles of my feet, especially after flying, I feel like from you know, being that high up and doing as much moving around as I have, I can become really ungrounded. So I have to be careful with that connection in my root chakra and making sure that I'm fully connecting to the land that I'm on my body, the present moment. And after a bit of travel, the best way that I've found to ground in is to kick my shoes off and get my bare feet on the ground. And there's some science behind this as well, of literally off charging your electrical charge because we are electricity. So you're you're sort of recalibrating the energetic or electric field, that is you and that surrounds your physical body. So I've got onto this beach, and I'm someone who cries, when something is really, really beautiful, I cried happy tears, I cried tears of gratitude, where it's, I almost can't even handle the magnitude of the beauty and the gratitude. And this was one of those moments. So I start crying. And I put a hand on my heart and I'm on this beach and walking towards the ocean, I put my feet in the water. And I noticed you know right away that the colors are different here, the plant life is different here. The people are different here. And yet, here I am so connected. And I set the intention before I came that I really do want to connect with ancestors who moved from Ireland and relocated to America, I set that intention coming in. And I did all sorts of research that my logic brain really loved. I got an ancestry.com membership with my mom last winter. And we spent the holidays, researching all of these, all of these people all of these names, tracing them back to the places that they had, that they had come from before they settled in the United States. And so with that intention in my being. And I think intention is very different than expectation, right? Like I can set an intention for this trip without forming attachment to this specific the specifics of what it needs to look like. So to just drop into that nuance a little bit, I set the intention that I want to connect with my ancestors, but I didn't I wasn't attached to what that looks like I didn't. I didn't say to myself, well, in order for this to feel fulfilling and meaningful to me. I need that to look like directly communicating with them or going to the town where they lived. I didn't have specifics. And when we when we let go of attachment, I think I think it creates a space for magic to really occur. And I had so much spaciousness, including in the gratitude that was welling up and overflowing within me, and I heard, I just heard this, this voice, this phrase that felt like an ancestor. And I don't even know who I don't even have a name for this particular ancestor. But it felt so full of love. And there was a direct connection of direct knowing that that we share a bloodline that we share a lineage and this voice said we were always see people we were always see people. I just melted into that because I know I know that we have always been see people. I grew up by the ocean. I grew up boating, I was on boats before I could even walk. And when I was young, you couldn't even get me out of the ocean. I would just be gone swimming like a mermaid out there all day until the sun was going down and it was time for dinner. So the love of the ocean. I feel like of course it came from childhood and growing up by the ocean. But it also got passed down to me in some way. My mom has an incredibly deep love for the ocean as as did her parents. And I think it goes even further back and that's what I was really getting. That was the gift that this particular moment had in store for me, you're always see people. And I could feel in that moment that the wind in my face, and the sea spray, kind of coming coming into my face. This isn't like I'm leading into this. So there's there's a love for this that is almost inexplicable, inexplicable. And what felt so clear is, you know this, this isn't just something that I love, this is a memory. This is a memory that sits so deep. And so far back. This is like an ancient memory, in my ancestry. And I love the ocean as my ancestors did. And I get to carry that forward to this was a really incredible way to start the journey. And I do tend, I do tend to live life a bit more spiritually a bit more intuitively these days, because plans seem to fall apart more than they ever did before. Part of the reason I chose the name new self, for this podcast is that I believe we are a new version of ourselves, moment to moment. I you know, of course, I can have a structure that provides some degree of security, safety, all of these things. But there's, there's a level of emergence on our planet right now, that feels so much more than it used to be. So how can I even really know who I'm going to be? In a week from now in a month from now, in a year from now? How can I have a five year plan, I can have goals and intentions. And I can have a way of being that I want to show up as that is based on my guiding values and principles and based on the integrity and the commitments that I have to myself. And if I use my intuition, to fully listen and and honor right there, like sometimes we hear within whether we're clear yes or no or a not yet. So maybe we hear that answer. But acting on it is also a whole separate step that can be really difficult, especially if we have tendencies to want to be liked, or people please, or feel like, we can't want what we want. We can't be a note of this because we have an obligation or it's outside of our social norm. And we're afraid of that shame, we might feel if we don't belong, or if we go against the grain. But the more I listen, and honor, listen and honor, my intuition. I'm like I've never once regretted following my intuition, it leads me to incredible places and people and circumstances. And it even leads me to the right difficult things at the right time. Because it's it's not all rainbows and pots of gold, right? Like there's there is really painful shadow work that comes with doing that deep inner healing and becoming an embodied version of our higher self or an embodied version of our values and our belief system in our integrity, our system of integrity that we live our lives with. So I just want to take a moment to well first invite you to when you hear that clear yes or no, regardless of the repercussions, how good would it feel to truly honor it, to truly, truly honor what our intuition already knows. And I want to also take a moment to normalize intuition. Because I'm standing on land where a few 100 years ago, or whatever the timeline is, because I don't know my history very well yet. But I am standing on land, where if I had been in the fullest expression of my intuition, and use my voice to channel used my voice to guide or even share, what's the topics that I'm exploring in this podcast, I literally would have been burned at the stake. Like that. That is so healing in and of itself to me to be to be a woman on this land in this time on this timeline. I'm getting to honor my intuition and use my voice. Because I would have been burned at the stake for being this version of myself in a different context. There are women right now on the planet, who are being punished and beaten and killed for doing this exact same thing. And yet here I am on this land with with this, this dark history, there are shadows and darkness in, in all histories and a lot of it gets rewritten, forgotten, especially if a culture is stripped of its language, and stripped of the freedom to share its history orally, which which tends to happen when, when colonialism or a colonizer seeks to control, one of the first things that they do is they strip all the components of that, of that which makes up the culture so that the people are disconnected from the culture, and the land and each other. And everything they want to do and believed in, they become this, this traumatized, stripped down raw human being that is sent suddenly, in a new context of survival, where if they don't go along with the new beliefs of the colonizer, their lives are at stake. So we've lost so much culture. And while while I only have you know, X percentage of Irish blood in me, I do feel the collective pain that, that the women in my lineage especially would have experienced in these different eras where it was not okay to be an intuitive, empowered, grounded practitioner of divine feminine or the feminine wisdom and knowing that is so easily channeled through us. That was a direct threat to the level of control that colonization was seeking. So if I can do my part, I can do my deep work and inner healing on that alone. And you do your deep healing work, just imagine, collectively, what we begin to unlock, and the the trauma, the collective trauma, that we begin to release in our own bodies, but also in our ancestral lineages. Because on an epigenetic level, if you know anything about epigenetics, we do, we have the ability to turn on or off our genes. And our genes typically respond to our context. So if we, if we're learning how to survive in a certain context, a new gene might turn on, some other gene might turn off. And we pass that genetic blueprint on to our offspring, so that that next generation has the best shot at survival based on the wisdom that we've learned from existing and surviving. In that context. Part of why self healing is so important to me, is because I do not want to pass my trauma and my harmful patterns on to future generations, whether I physically have a child because I don't have children yet. Or whether that is just not passing the on energetically, or through our mindsets through the way that we develop culture. These patterns can end with me, I can do the deep work to create enough space to be with the hard things and process like fully process and metabolize these traumas through my body so that they don't have to live on. This is one reason that self leadership and the practices that I have around this are so interwoven for me with with the self healing world, because I feel that I have a responsibility that I have a sacred duty, not that I have to fulfill but that I get to fulfill this sacred responsibility to do my deep healing work and and basically do my part in healing the elective it's a big part of, of what I'm focused on here in Ireland, healing that ancestral line. And I do that through a number of ways. So if you find yourself curious about, well, you know, what is what does that really look like? do that through a number of ways. But at the most basic level, it looks like fully feeling. Whatever comes up, and being the nurturer or the inner parent, to your inner child, as you process that pain, or that sadness, or those emotions, so that they don't have to live in your body or live in your genetics any longer. Trauma gets passed down, not just through us perpetuating it, but literally in our genetics. I feel self responsibility to heal my trauma. And like I said, it's not just doing that, for my physical offspring, I'm also deeply motivated to do that for my inner child or inner children. There is a lot of ego death or death of past selves that has occurred, especially in the last three years. For a lot of us this is showing up in conversations with all sorts of people from all over the world that are very constructs of reality are very identities that we have been so tied to and thought were solid, the securities that we thought were were in place to keep us safe, the systems that we thought would be there forever. All of this is breaking down. All of this is breaking down, and it is much less permanent than we ever thought. It's easy to fall into the mindset of permanence. So part of, you know, part of what I do when I'm doing this self healing work, in addition to just feeling the emotion is, is also noticing the thoughts and the beliefs that come up, particularly when the thought starts with I have to, or I should, because that is, you know, as I say that you can probably feel it in your body. If you're, if you're tuned into your body right now. I have to I should, what's the emotion behind that? It's fear. That is fear based motivation. Rather than love based motivation. And when those thoughts come up, I have to pause and ask myself, wait, where does that come from? Is that my solid? or is that coming from somewhere else? Is that my internalized? Patriarchy is that my own internalized colonizer that is self controlling me within? Because we internalize the culture that exists around us externally. To feeling our emotions, noticing our thoughts. getting curious curiosity is the easiest way to remain open and become observant to become inquisitive about why it is that we feel this way. Where does that come from? I think it's a it's a dangerous belief to believe that this is just the way it is. This is how it's always been. These it's not actually true. Humans have tried on many, many versions of society, culture, community success, there was a for a very long time we didn't exist with the construct of money. And that really runs the dominant narrative and how our systems play together these days. So where do these thoughts come from? Where did these motivations come from? Is that Is that me? Is that in my highest interest getting really curious so that we can stay open and hold these things with with spaciousness? And I like to I like to also do a bit of that inner parenting that inner dialoguing with myself. When fear or sadness shows up. I get to say to myself, like it's okay. I you know, I feel, I feel the sadness that you're feeling? That's okay. It's okay to be sad right now. Your feeling of sadness is valid. What do you need? What do you need right now we so rarely ask ourselves what we need. But we can create that inner pattern of self nurturing, and inner parenting. To create a feeling of safety and security within ourselves. I think this is truly the only type of security and safety that really exists in the world is that enter a culture of safety, there's nothing out there, that is going to save me or protect me or keep me fully secure. I get to create in our security, I get to create a sense of inner safety in my body through my relationship to myself and my parts, including my inner children. So this has become a really beautiful practice and you can do it in any context, whether it is personal life, or work life in work, it might look like inner dialoguing with your inner critic. And saying, like, ah, yeah, yeah, you feel you feel shame, right now you feel you feel not good enough, that didn't feel good, did it? That's okay. It's okay to be afraid and not feel good enough. Right now, I'm here, I still love you. I think you did a great job, or you did the best job that you could, that's okay, we can we can feel this. And we don't have to define ourselves by this fear. And this feeling of not being enough. So maybe instead of a parent, you're showing up as this like really loving, conscious inner boss, if you will, this inner mentor, speaking to ourselves, in ways that we would speak to others who we love is a great way to sift through the voices and the the self talk that occurs. self talk is huge when it comes to creating these inner cultures, which we had a whole episode about, if you if you tune into that. I'm also deeply motivated to do this work for my future self. I don't yet know exactly who she'll be, or exactly what will motivate her, but I have to, I have to believe that. She'll also live a life of embodiment and integrity. And I want to give her I want to give that future self, all of the opportunities for freedom, living cyclically, honoring her and her intuition that I possibly can. It's taken me sticking me many years to build this lifestyle. of cyclical seasonal living. Because life for me ebbs and flows, there is a bit like the tide goes out, and it comes back in. That's true for resources, and money. That's true for creativity and productivity. It's true for anything that is opposite or has a duality to it. There's there's this pendulum swing that occurs between these these equal but opposite energies that exist within us, at least that's what I found. In within my menstrual cycles specifically, I deeply know now what this feels like after years of practicing cycle thinking. So I know that when I'm ovulating, that is my creative time. That is when I really have access to language and channeling spoken or written word. It's when I feel most social. And when I'm in my menstrual phase, that's my time of rest. That's my nonverbal inward time, and it is equally as important and as valuable as the external producing. And yet, our current construct of work typically asks us to live only in that half of the cycle. But lately, I'm also playing with seasons on the annual cadence and what what do I really want What my lifestyle to look like? Do I want to honor the the yearning like the nomadic yearning that shows up in me in the spring or the summer to I want to build a life that allows me to really begin to be still at drop into my intuition and experience more ceremony and ritual in the fall and get really cozy and really still in the winter, maybe with less work or less contracts. So I'm looking at, I'm looking at work not as linear and not as constant as the the nine to five template that I had previously subscribed to and thrived within because I learned how to play that game. I really did. And I, I rose in the ranks, I did all kinds of cool things that people would look at and be like, Wow, you have lived some kind of life in your career. Like, that's amazing. What are you up to now? And I'm like, well, kind of living nomadically and honoring my creativity. And that's not the answer that people want to hear. I think sometimes there's, I think there's a fear that shows up in them. Of Wait a minute, if you've experienced as much, you know, traditional success as you had, and you're now opting out of the matrix. What does that say about my life and what I'm choosing, sometimes, sometimes it can be triggering, or, or a direct threat to see someone living in a completely different construct or a completely different paradigm, than what we have been sold our whole lives and built our whole lives around, can feel really threatening we can we maybe even attack the the other person or the other paradigm and brush it off, as you'll never, you'll never make money that way or, you know, that simply won't work. And I get a lot of a lot of those kinds of comments on YouTube, especially where there's just there's not there's not a resonance with how I'm living in what I'm expressing. And, and that's okay, that's okay. You're allowed to live in your construct and your paradigm or reality as well. And I can, I can live in mind, and I don't need you to resonate. I'm here speaking to those who do. So that we can make sense of this together and begin to build lifestyles, and share ideas and learnings and lessons in our healing journeys. So that we can do this together, essentially, to learn a lot about lifestyle design and living cyclically. And that designing our lives, again, doesn't have to be as linear or as sort of their lives don't have to be as linear or cut and dry. As we once thought. There's not only one path to having having lodging in another country, for example. Sometimes, I think when we think home, having a home, we think, Oh, we either have to buy it or rent it. Those are the only two options. Not true. I'm in a four bedroom, three bath, three story home right now with a balcony and a yard, and a river. All these paths right near Dublin. And I'm house sitting with a dear dear friend, who I connect with on such a spiritual level. on a community level, we are a community of two here in this beautiful house and we have begun creating sacred space so that we can really drop in and be in the energy of Ireland in in our way. So we bought fresh flowers. We turn the fireplace on and I make things cozy. We make tea all the time. Like how how can we live in a way that feels like ceremony. There's a there's a phrase on the cacao the The ethically sourced amazingly delicious cacao that we have purchased from a biofield tuner locally. If you don't know what cacao is, that's okay. It's a it's a plant medicine that is such a heart opener and a grounder. And so here I am in what is a better circumstance than I could afford on my own. And there is a non monetary exchange of value happening here. We are watching this home and the two adorable cats that live in it and the few plants that are here and in exchange, we have a home base that feels cozy and safe and we get to go on adventures from here. There's not only one way to get to that which we want to call in, experienced a similar type of non monetary exchange when I lived in my campervan that two summers ago, where you know campervan was coming up in my thoughts in my journaling was in my dreams, and I just felt like, oh, I need to get to the desert, I need a season traveling through Utah and Arizona and Colorado and really being with myself to build that sacred safety within myself. And I thought you know, at first and looking at different websites where you can rent a camper van, and how much do they cost and oh my gosh, there's so much that goes into it. I can either buy it totally retrofitted. And I like have pretty high standards when it comes to those things. Or I could try and retrofit it myself or hire someone to help me with to design it. But that's that can take months if not years. And my soul my heart is guiding me to live the campervan life now. So logically, it's like, well, sorry, go from but looks like looks like you didn't plan ahead, you don't have the resources to make this dream come true. But I stayed open. And I kept visualizing and kept calling it in. And I kept feeling just feeling knowing really, it was annoying that I was going to be living in a camper van for some extended period of time. And lo and behold, a family friend had just recently bought the most beautiful camper van. And she's grown her business. And so the writing was was on the wall at that point. There were very clear ways that I could help her grow her business. That's that's what I do. That is literally what I do I help I help entrepreneurs and founders scale their businesses sustainably, and regeneratively. AKA growing without burning out. I've got a whole methodology that I've picked up over the years of working with hundreds and hundreds and 1000s really at this point 1000s of entrepreneurs and founders around the world. So I had this incredible gift that I could that I can offer at the exact moment that she was looking to scale. And she had this asset that was available, and she was willing to trade. So there has to be an openness to these non monetary exchanges. But if you can remain open and not close yourself off to well, if I'm going to receive this, it has to come through in this way. The new limit the ways in which that thing can come to us. So we can prevent story is very similar to the house sitting story. And of course, it's not like I'm just sitting in my room wishing for these things and not taking any aligned action. Aligned action is part of this. We wouldn't be in this beautiful house if I hadn't Googled house sitting in Ireland and found this app, which I have to pay for so that they can do a background check. But that made you know that made me feel even safe, more safe. You know, this is legit. This is this is a a worldwide platform connecting house sitters with people who are traveling and seeking house or pet sitters. So it took that aligned action and then kept looking kept, you know kept looking when the notifications would come up and oh there's a new listing in Ireland. And then I use my intuition to feel my yes or no to this particular I sing. And when this one came up, and the way that the dates lined up, it was like, Well, yeah, that's it. And when, when I connected on video chat with the homeowner, it was like, Yeah, this is it. So there's a, there's the intention, there's the aligned action. And then there's the using your intuition to know when you're clear yes or no. And that's been, that's been a three step process, essentially, that has become how I make my decisions, and how I emerge gently invite life to move through me in really magical and synchronistic ways. Because none of this would happen if I wasn't open to the possibility of really creative avenues for this coming into fruition. And I just couldn't be more grateful. I mean, the cats are adorable, my friend is so incredibly wise, like such an incredible human being and to get to share space with her is so nourishing for my soul. She invites me into living intentionally and everything that I do and letting go of some of that workaholism that, that impulse, really, a compulsivity. It's more like it, there's like some OCD there. Because of the fear I had for so long of my identity being linked to my work. And if I don't produce today, I'm not valuable. If I don't get my shit done. You know, insert harmful negative self talk here, like the intentionality that we've showed up in in creating this sacred space and waking up in the day, and really listening to where life wants to take us what each of us needs. I had been doing that on an individual level for quite some time. And I shared in one of my recent posts that I got more done than I've ever I've ever gotten, quote unquote, done in a month. But I did it by waking up. Okay, I found this on the web for what are my recent posts? Oh, thank you for that. Sir Sirius joined us. But I, in one of my recent photos, I shared you know, all these things that came to fruition. podcast started writing a book. I mean, I literally recorded eight episodes in a month, got social media up and running in a much bigger way, built a website built my first online course being a self Reiki course, that self paced, it's like incredibly beautiful, and came through with such ease and dedication, right, like those two had to come together for this to really be birthed. But I look back at that month, and I'm like, How did I do it? How did I do all that it doesn't seem humanly possible. But I did it by showing up each day. And seeing what was alive for me what I was called to do in that day, and trusting that whatever was showing up was the right thing for me to do. Was that like a month of kind of testing this theory, that our intuition and living a life of purpose, sharing our gifts, and standing in those authentic authentically and unapologetically, that this way of living, has deep rewards. And when combined with dedication, and commitment to ourselves to show up over and over again, in our integrity, and really honor that yes or no. Incredible things are still possible. So what what this past month has shown me is that producing beautiful pieces of really art, right, like anything that I create for business leaders to self heal and grow their companies regeneratively that's my art, business is my art. So these things come through. And it's my form of creative expression. And it is a beautiful amalgamation of all of my gifts that I need. And my, my vast experience that I've had over the years, it's all it's all coming through. So it's proof that proof that I really needed for myself at this particular time, that I don't need to get there by whipping myself and forcing myself have to sit at a desk for eight hours a day to get shit done. If I am zoomed in laser focus on a computer all the time, bypassing my physical, emotional and spiritual needs, I'm living a life with blinders on. I'm not open and receptive to the intelligent flow, and reciprocity and synchronicity that is sitting right around me. It's like there were LinkedIn messages that when I, when I had those blinders on and thought, oh, boy, here we go, I'm starting another company got to sit down and crank it out and do the step by step. I mean, I've, I've turned out so many companies at this point, have a have, it's like, built into my muscle memory almost. But I knew that it was unsustainable to grow this one in in that way. So just I had to really unlock this, this self love and this kindness that I hadn't previously allowed myself to give myself because I was still operating in the construct of, you have to work hard to get to where you want. I think working hard, has evolved to working smart. But for me lately, it's it's gone beyond that, you know, we can we can work with dedication and commitment to ourselves and to what we believe in. We can work intelligently in the systems that we create, and the containers that we build for our creations. But I want to work, attuned, I want to work consciously, I want to work intuitively. And let that be the primary way that I'm showing up to to usher in and channel. All that's wanting to come through me. There's a new, there's really a new template for life that is available to us now, thanks to COVID Thanks to the pandemic, helping us see getting in a car that emits emissions and driving to an office where we are sedentary. And work away on our little computers all day. More than is possibly possible. Like that model isn't the only way COVID showed us that. I want to take this a step further. Let let my life be the proof that you've been waiting for let my life be an invitation or one version of how life can look differently how life plus work can be done differently. It's really what I'm seeking to do. Here I'm seeking to, to live my life as an invitation to let the embodiment of my integrity be a model or an invitation into doing that as well in your life. And in your companies. In your families. It's I'm finding it to be a profound way to live. It feels both ancient and new. To live in a way that honors the seasons and the cycles and yet live from a place of total purpose. Rather than producing for profit, at the expense of our health and our relationships. It's one commitment that I have to myself during this Ireland trip is to keep living in this way. And to do it inside of the community of two in this house, inside of the intentionality that we have inside of this calling to make as much as possible, a ceremony to live with a reverence for life and for its unfolding. Just absolute magic in that. And there's a wildness to Ireland that I haven't even tapped into. It's in the spirit of of becoming a new self moment to moment. Who knows where I'll be in a week from now who knows what insights will be coming through. These are just the these are just the beginnings of what this time here will be eat, and how it will shape me because I'm in a completely new context, there's no way that I won't change, there's, there's no way that I won't evolve. Changing my environment, in some way is a bit of an insurance policy that I am going to continue growing and alkalizing. Especially when you do that with other aware conscious people. And on land that you feel connected to supporting the healing of the land, and the people in whatever way is in integrity for you. So no doubt, we'll be doing all kinds of healing, all kinds of getting to know the land here, the folklore, the myths, the people, but it has been an absolutely beautiful start. Gratitude has guided me and kept me open. And I know that it will continue to. So with that, I want to want to bring us to a close here and leave you with an invitation. I mentioned the practice of learning to listen to your yes and your no. And then taking the next step of honoring it, of truly honoring it. Whatever the the perceived consequence or fear might be finding a way within yourself to honor it anyway. So that's perhaps more of a challenge. But I also want to invite you if this is, if this is resonating, if if building a lifestyle that is cyclical, and regenerative and has self healing baked into it, if that is something that you're wanting to build, and you want to build the company, or business to support that lifestyle, so that your life and your work can grow together, and can be built on, on systems that truly support your healing and your regeneration. That is what I specialize in. That is what I have been working on mastering. For all these years. It's what all of my work at Harvard University TechStars Impact Hub, leaders on purpose has distilled into. So I would love to if you're, if you're someone who's, who's ready to build that, and already has a sense of your purpose, and you want to scale it or growth through a company that supports you and your lifestyle. Reach out, reach out. And you can learn more about the different ways that I work with people at Nicole bellisle.com. On the work with me page, there are some specific formats that that may work really well for you. I work at a one on one level. But I also work at a group level, maybe you have an executive team or leadership team founder team that is wanting to all do this and begin integrating life and work in this way. And I can I can help you build the regenerative operational systems and the financial systems that will support this type of lifestyle. And really a lifestyle that that is right for you. Because yes, my life is being lived in a way that can be an invitation. But yours will look different, yours will look a little bit unique. And that is that is beautiful. And I've got the templates and the questions and the frameworks to help us uncover what that is together. So that's a genuine invitation to come work with me in that particular way. There are other ways to work with me as well, which you can also find on my website. And if you don't already follow me on social media, I'm really, really trying to put out meaningful and conscious channeled content on Instagram, and LinkedIn. And I started writing a book. So if you're not on my waiting list for my new book, you can also jump on that on my website. I can't wait to continue these conversations with you through this podcast, and hopefully begin to work with some of you. This is Season One of the new self podcast. Season two, I'm going to be bringing in some awesome awesome guests. I'm already lining them up. So we're about to go to even more wild and incredible places in human consciousness in this intersection of life and work and building, building a conscious life So Thanks for Thanks for showing up week after week if this is your first podcast, listen on the new self podcast. Welcome. If you've been here before, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your ongoing support. And I look forward to seeing you next time.
