Leaving a Corporate Job and Aligning with Your True Self

My guest, Paula Schuster, shares her emotional journey of leaving a misaligned corporate life behind. Imagine overcoming lifelong addictions and shedding old, unhealthy patterns. This episode recounts our guest's awe-inspiring personal transformation, sparked by her profound energy healing experience. From significant weight loss to quitting cigarettes, alcohol, and cannabis after almost four decades, she saw her life shift dramatically. These changes not only improved her health but also led to more authentic relationships and a deeper connection with her true self. She also has an amazing podcast, Scared As Fuck And Doing It Anyway. Join us for a paradigm expanding conversation!

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Business website https://www.reikiflowmn.com/

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Paula coaches people who are ready to make changes in their lives on how to cultivate self-love, believe in themselves, uncover their life purpose, and embrace their authentic selves, by clearing patterns of unworthiness and self-loathing, rewiring limiting beliefs, and learning how to put themselves first. She does this through energetic, mindset, and somatic work and shifts, and helping her clients reconnect with their intuition. Book a free discovery call using this link: https://www.reikiflowmn.com/services. Paula is a certified life coach, certified sound healer, Reiki Master teacher, and podcaster.


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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

So are you looking for more inspiration and possibility in midlife and beyond? Join me, leslie Maloney, proud wife, mom, author, teacher and podcast host, as I talk with people finding meaning in Moxie in their life after 50. Interviews that will energize you and give you some ideas to implement in your own life. I so appreciate you being here Now. Let's get started. All right, everybody, welcome back to another meeting of Moxie After 50. And I have another special guest with me today, ms Paula Schuster. And Paula, welcome, welcome, welcome. First of all, so glad you could be here.

Speaker 2: 0:47

Thank you so much. I'm happy to be with you.

Speaker 1: 0:49

Yeah, and so you have a multitude of things going on projects and things like that we're going to talk about today, and I believe that you are up in Minnesota, you're in the Midwest right, minnesota, okay, you're in the Minnesota area. So a little bit cold up there today.

Speaker 2: 1:07

It is, yeah, it's in the twenties. This morning I don't know what it is now, but yeah, so we're recording this in December of 2023.

Speaker 1: 1:15

So, yeah, this is that. So you got a few months of cold going on for sure, yeah, so give us a little bit of background on you as far as what has led you to this point, just just a little bit of who Paula is and where she comes from.

Speaker 2: 1:33

Sure, well, I was in the banking industry for 26 years and I that was sort of, you know, sucking the soul out of me. And so, in May of 2022, I quit my corporate job after, like I said, 26 years, and it was really to pursue more purposeful work, and by then, I had started my business. I'm a Reiki master and teacher and I'm also a life coach I'm really playing with. I'm a heart healing and empowerment coach is what I'm liking to call myself now, and then I'm also starting a podcast, similar to you, and so I'm also a podcaster now.

Speaker 1: 2:18

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:20

So it's, it's so much more fulfilling you know especially coaching. I coaching is such a fulfilling role for me. You know, I'm given the gift of helping someone see what they have within themselves but they can't see for themselves, and they're given the gift of awareness and empowerment, and so that's really my favorite, my favorite thing that I'm doing right now aside from the podcasting, that's been fun.

Speaker 1: 2:45

Right. So let me ask you. So you said you were in banking for 26 years and um so, and then you kind of did a big step out. You just said I'm going to, you know, really change things up here. And I think people, so many people, get that call and don't take it.

Speaker 2: 3:04

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 3:04

You know, they stay in those roles that they're familiar with and feeling safe and even though they may be feeling like they're stale and it's a soul sucking kind of thing, if they, if they can get to that point where they realize that. So what do you think it was for you, without going into a lot of personal details, but what do you think it was for you? That, you know, was the wake up call that you, you answered.

Speaker 2: 3:30

Well, I would say it was definitely when I was trained and attuned to Reiki Um. I had a big bang awakening when I was attuned to Reiki um in October of 2020. And um, and then six months later, I got my my life coaching certification and really, and I had more awakening and more awareness and more shedding of the you know trauma and layers of conditioning and things. And really when I went back to you know my corporate job after that, I just became so misaligned, you know, with everything going on in corporate America and and yes, that paycheck was safety and security and and all those things.

Speaker 2: 4:12

I was, I was always the breadwinner, so it was a big deal for me to leave corporate America. You know, we had to, excuse me, reduce our budget several times and put our house up for sale and things like that, but I just couldn't go on. I excuse me. I just decided I want to be happy and this is, this is not happy and I need to do something more purposeful with my life. I just am, you know, a drone, you know drinking the corporate Kool-Aid and it just felt so wrong. But that being being attuned to Reiki all three levels in one week was really the start of of where I was really noticing how much I was misaligned with corporate America.

Speaker 1: 4:57

So explain for somebody who may be listening that doesn't really know what Reiki is. And then you're talking about the different levels or attunements just in a layman's terms, so to speak, or lay woman's terms. How would you explain that?

Speaker 2: 5:15

Reiki is a Japanese energy therapy technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. So that's the easiest way to explain it it's it's energy work, it's touch therapy, it's a spiritual practice. In a way it's life force, energy, it's um and it, it, it's an overall. It's a very powerful, non-invasive, gentle, overall healer for body, mind and spirit. So it works on the physical, emotional, mental levels as well as spiritual.

Speaker 1: 5:47

And all cultures have some form of this, no matter what they call it. Right, this happens to be the Japanese line, as you mentioned, and just for those who are unfamiliar, you know, like the laying on of hands, although Reiki is not always laying on of hands, but it's all working with that energy and understanding that we are more than just physical beings. That and this is science, this isn't woo-woo stuff where your energy field is measurable and so we do extend out further than our physical bodies, and so somebody like you works with that energy and um um helps to help and balance the person Right?

Speaker 2: 6:27

Absolutely, absolutely, um. I and I didn't you know realize all these things until I was there at the training and getting you know, getting trained and attuned and and um, what brought?

Speaker 1: 6:39

how did you find out how? What was the? What got you in the seat there?

Speaker 2: 6:44

Well, one of my girlfriends had gone to the this place in Baja Mexico called Yandara Yoga Institute to get her yoga teacher training certificate, and she came back and was just sharing how much, how much it changed her, how beautiful Yandara was, how, how the land is just sacred and you can feel this, this sort of vortex, spiritual energy there, and how lovely and welcoming and and beautiful all the people working there were. And so she had come back and and sometime later she asked, she just reached out and asked me, would you want to go get trained in Reiki at Yandara? And after all, she had told me about it. You know, of course I wanted to go. And then a beach in Mexico, why not? You know?

Speaker 2: 7:30

And I knew nothing, little, you know next to nothing about Reiki, other than it was energy work, and and I said yes, and so I really didn't even know what was going to happen when I got in there or what I would learn, because I went in, you know, pretty blind. Um, and I had just a a massive awakening and healing experience. I mean, I remember getting a tune to Reiki, level one, and I literally felt my self coming back home, to my heart, like I felt it. You know, and, and it was just just uh, amazing, after that week, I, um we sat in uh Satya to share, you know, um, what our experience was for the week, and I, I could barely put words to it. I was just crying and so grateful and saying thank you.

Speaker 1: 8:18

Uh-huh. Did you have any physical um effects from that experience, or was it more on an emotional level?

Speaker 2: 8:28

Um, immediately, I would say it was more on a, on an emotional level. Um, beyond that though, yes, physical effects, and so just the, the shedding of, of the layers of conditioning and trauma that Reiki helped heal and is still helping me heal, you know it, it ended up leading me to lose like 70 pounds.

Speaker 1: 8:52

Whoa, okay, that's a lot.

Speaker 2: 8:54

Yeah, I've healed several addictions. You know I. I quit smoking cigarettes, I quit drinking. I was a functional alcoholic for many for at least 10 years, if not more. And most recently I've quit cannabis, and I was, I used cannabis for 39 years.

Speaker 1: 9:12

Okay, okay, and then it was it. Was it just something that sort of just easily fell away, or was that a process or kind of a little bit of both moving through some of that For?

Speaker 2: 9:23

the cigarettes and the drinking, it was more easy. It fell away. I even quit eating red meat after that trip. I mean, I came home from that week a totally changed person. My family even said like who are you Cause I didn't care about the same things, I didn't eat the same things, I didn't look the same, I didn't think the same same things, I didn't look the same, I didn't think the same. And so it had so many impacts. And you know I attribute a lot of that in large part to Reiki. But also, you know I've been improving. You know the things that I do, tools and practices. I've become a consistent meditator and you know that has also helped. And I've I've been doing a lot of work in other areas too, but I really do attribute the start of it all to Reiki.

Speaker 1: 10:11

Wow, that's what.

Speaker 2: 10:12

I get along the way yeah.

Speaker 1: 10:14

Yeah, that, and then it just opened you up to other things and so on. Did you you must've had with that kind of dramatic, you know, because there are some people that you know we all are growing and becoming more aware. Some of us on the fast train, some of us like boom, and then some it's a more gradual kind of thing. What happened to some of your relationships? That must've shifted some of the relationships in your life? I don't want to imagine.

Speaker 2: 10:47

Yes, absolutely it did.

Speaker 2: 10:48

Um, you know, I just almost all of my friend groups um are, you know, I'm just not interested in the same things as I used to be.

Speaker 2: 10:59

So they're fine, you know, they're great, you know the way they are and I, you know, um, nothing against them, but I'm just not interested in, you know, the things that we used to do together and sort of their, their approach to life and their way of thinking and things. And so, yes, my, my friend friend, most of my friends fell away and I'm, I'm meeting new tribe because I'm really really it's all been a road to being more authentic, because all of my life, up until you know, even just this point more recently this year, um, I was living for everybody else. I was checking the boxes for everything. You know, everyone else and what society tells you to do to be happy and all of those things, and that's what I was doing and I wasn't wasn't really living authentic to me. Yeah, so you know, now that I'm shining more authentically as I walk upon the earth, I'm finding my tribe and those that really are aligning with me now in my life, now.

Speaker 1: 12:07

Yeah, and all those coping mechanisms you were using, which we all have them in one form or another, especially when you're not being you authentically, you right, you have to sort of suppress that with, with different things, and so that's, I'm guessing, one of the reasons why it's so easily. A lot of this is falling away, because you're not suppressing you, so you don't need to dull, you know, dull yourself out, so to speak.

Speaker 2: 12:35

Yes, yeah, absolutely. I mean, some of those things were were easier to quit than others, you know, and there's there's absolutely been bumps along the way. It wasn't all easy, um, especially with the cannabis for me, because that always made me feel like more myself, um, and I never felt dull, you know, when I was using it, um, and I had a medical prescription for it too, because of PTSD from childhood trauma and things, and then I just didn't realize that it was dulling me until I wasn't doing it anymore.

Speaker 1: 13:11

Okay, yeah, I think that can be the tricky part for people too, because, yeah, some of those things you know alcohol too can be like that. Sometimes you know, you feel like, oh, it opens you up and dah, dah, dah, dah. But then there's that funky line that you start to cross, where it's like all of a sudden like oh, it opens you up and dah, dah, dah dah, but then there's that funky line that you start to cross, where it's like all of a sudden like, oh, this is not, this is not an expansive thing anymore.

Speaker 2: 13:34

This is.

Speaker 1: 13:34

This is not. This is becoming a dysfunction, yeah.

Speaker 2: 13:39

It was for me big time yeah.

Speaker 1: 13:41

Sure, and I think that's true for a lot of people. Like I said, there's a lot of different ways we can. We can lull ourselves to sleep, so to speak, right, and so, and I think, and staying awake to that, because our culture presents a lot of things, you know, not getting sucked back in to. I mean just technology. I mean our phone is another. I mean this is another example, right, our addiction that can happen with social media and our phones and all that, and just whoo taking, taking note of that and not. It's so easy sometimes to get sucked back in if you're not, if you're not being aware of the situation.

Speaker 2: 14:20

For sure, for sure, endless scrolling kind of thing. Yeah, I feel ya.

Speaker 1: 14:26

Yeah, so you've got this. So now you're you've been doing the coaching and you've been, and you've been doing the Reiki, and it sounds like you can maybe combine the two at different times.

Speaker 2: 14:38

Sometimes I'm doing that, I'm starting to do that more and more for um. For a long time I kept them separate, you know, um, but I'm finding that, you know, they really do pair well nicely, Um. And so, yeah, especially when I have like a coaching client who, um, you know, sort of comes into a session, um, you know, all caught up in either their, their heads or just in the busyness of life, right, he can help, um, settle them down so that we can, uh, you know, just relax their nervous system and get down to business.

Speaker 1: 15:14

Yeah, so you do a lot of those in person. Then you're not, you do. Do you zoom as well with that and with the Reiki and the Reiki? Yeah, you can do both. Yeah, because energy is energy. That's right, whether you're present or not, yeah, um, so you've got this podcast. Go and tell us a little bit about that and how that all came to be.

Speaker 2: 15:40

Sure, well, um, I I took Kathy Heller's uh podcasting program and, um, you know, beyond or before that, I had learned about Kathy on Instagram and had sort of seen her there, sort of seen her there, and I was wanting to find a coach for myself to help me sort of rewire and you know, rewire my limiting beliefs and help me show up more authentically and maybe help me cure my issues with money and things like that. And so I was trying to decide between her and one other coach and I decided on Kathy. So earlier this year I took her abundant ever after program and then that's what sort of breadcrumb led me to her podcasting program, cause I had no intention of being a podcaster until the breadcrumbs, like you know, as I've, as I've woke up and and um just become more authentic and be been more in tune with myself. I can, I'm really tuning into my intuition and I'm listening right to the whispers and following the breadcrumbs along the way. It led me to podcasting. And so, um, I took her program and and um, I've been doing the work to get that started.

Speaker 2: 16:58

I, for much of the program, though, I was sitting in fear, right, um, of really showing up in that most authentic way, right and having the voice out there and and telling the whole story and and um and all of that. And so when I first um started, I had a different name for my podcast. I knew it was going to be about authenticity sort of self-love and authenticity, because that's really the journey that I've been on for the last four or five years myself. But I had the name Paving your Own Way the Road to Authenticity. And then I started working on the cover art and all of that and I'm like you know the name just doesn't sound right. It's, it sounds too boring, like it doesn't have enough. Pizzazz is kind of what I was feeling. And I was, um, like I said, sitting in my fear and I was just sitting at my desk one day just crying, going I'm so fucking scared to do this, I'm so fucking scared to do this and I hope it's okay if I swear like that. It is Sure we can handle it.

Speaker 2: 18:03

That's it. I'm like that's it, scared as fuck and doing it anyway, and so that's the name of my podcast, and then the tagline is showing up authentically.

Speaker 1: 18:13

Love it. Yeah, yeah, and that's such a great story that we all can relate to, as far as times that we've been scared, as my word to go with is shit. You know, I'm kind of more of those scared as shit. Yes, and deciding and not allow. You know, it's not that you don't recognize that that's going on, but it's like okay, but there's multiple parts of me driving the car here and this part is really scared, but it's not necessarily going to take the wheel of the car, um, and and so, yeah, we've all been there in one form or another. So I love that podcast. So what are you at? Um, the name of the podcast? So what are you intending as far as, like, guests and and things like that?

Speaker 2: 19:01

as far as like guests and and things like that, Um, I'm definitely going to have guests. I'll do some solo episodes, but I think, um, in the beginning it will be more guests. Uh, so that I can gain a comfort level, I will do, um, like my first episode. I think what I'll do is is sort of lay my whole story out there for everybody so that people kind of know where I'm coming from and a little bit about me. So that's kind of what I was planning there. And then some of my friends have given me feedback about like what is authenticity, you know, what are the examples, the ways that people show up authentically, and so I was thinking maybe about doing a solo episode in the beginning about you know what are the examples, the ways that people show up authentically, and so I was thinking maybe about doing a solo episode in the beginning about you know the ways that you show up authentically. We'll see how that goes, but mostly, I think, in the beginning, guests.

Speaker 1: 19:49

That's really good defining that, because that word is getting batted around a lot these days and sometimes, when that happens, it loses its value, and so defining for you what that means, what that looks like and how that shows up in our lives is, I think, really useful.

Speaker 2: 20:11

Thank you.

Speaker 1: 20:11

Yeah, I hope so, yeah, you, you mentioned one thing I kind of want to back. Yeah, you, you mentioned one thing I kind of want to back back. Go back to is you mentioned the little hits of intuition and the breadcrumbs that you were following. I may sneeze here. In a second I feel a little sneeze coming on, maybe, maybe not. So how does that? I think a lot of people want to follow their intuition more, but they don't know how to. They're looking for sometimes it's not a oh bright in the sky, you know, and the light shines down, it's those little inklings and because the more you follow it, the stronger it gets. So how did that show up for you? How do you follow your intuition?

Speaker 2: 21:00

Oh, it's so many different ways. Sometimes I'll get a message in when I'm meditating and you know I'll be sure, because that's really a hit, you know, and so so I'll be sure to follow those. Sometimes I'll be even scrolling on Instagram and I'll pass through, pass by something, and it will just light. I'll feel a little like ping in my heart. Sometimes it's somebody else that I'm having a conversation with and they say something and I'm like, ooh, I that I was meant to to hear that in that way and that relates to this or this. You know it's, it's, um, really just paying close attention and listening. Um, you know, sometimes it's, sometimes it's literally a whisper that I'll hear, um, like you know, be persistent, or something like that, or a memory that will come up along with a little message like that to sort of reinforce it for me. Or sometimes it's just paying attention to what's in front of me and and and you know something that I may be normally saying no to and go, wait a minute, this is coming to me, I'm not going after it, I need to say yes to this, and it's just that awareness.

Speaker 2: 22:24

And that's really what led me to podcasting, because so I had talked about Kathy's abundant, ever after program that I took earlier this year in February. One of the weeks was on podcasting because she's a famous podcaster and the rest of the program was all about limiting beliefs and money and all these things. And then there was one week on podcasting and I didn't. I did all the homework and all the weeks, except for that week. I didn't even read the workbook. I didn't do any of the homework. I'm like I'm not going to do that anyway, it doesn't matter. And then also during that program it was a three month program Um, out of the blue, I got this email from an executive radio producer saying that they that she saw my website and my story and she was interested in learning more about me and wondered if I wanted to do a radio show like a talk show. And I was saying no to that at first. And then I'm like wait a minute, this is coming to me.

Speaker 2: 23:20

I'm going to just have a conversation with this woman. So we did, and we tossed around some ideas. She liked them. I asked her about podcasting versus radio. They did that too. And she wanted me to like line up some conversations over the summer, this past summer, and sort of have have them ready for a fall launch. And I said, well, that's not going to work.

Speaker 2: 23:41

I have plans to spend some time in Costa Rica this summer because, out of the blue, a friend asked us to watch their house and dogs for two months, and so we were like, yes, so I'm like I can't. I can't, you know, do that this summer. And she said, well, you know, my guess is you're going to meet some pretty interesting people in Costa Rica. Buy a microphone and bring it with you and record some conversations, and then we'll help you edit them when you get back. And so I did. I bought the microphone, I recorded a couple of conversations there, and by the time I got back from Costa Rica I was like I'm sure it's going to be a podcast versus a radio show.

Speaker 2: 24:22

And then I saw Kathy's your turn to podcast program and she had this five day, um, sort of free workshop leading up to the longer program. And so I did the five days and I still had no plans on taking her program and um, I was going to maybe partner with this other radio producer, lady and and um, and then I saw they were giving scholarships in the your turn to podcast, and so I applied and they gave me a partial scholarship. And so I'm like, okay, that's another breadcrumb from the universe. Right, I did, I spent the money to to take the program and here and then here we are.

Speaker 1: 25:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot, yeah, a lot of breadcrumbs. You explained that so beautifully, because that's a lot of the ways things show up is a little hit here, a little hit there, especially when it's coming to you, um, paying and paying attention to that, and and how fun that gets to be when we start to follow and be aware of those synchronicities and realize that we're working with spirit, you know and that, and that we are being led and however, however you want to, whatever you want to call it or however you want to look at it, that we are being led and that we there's an interaction happening there, and how comforting that is when you build that relationship Absolutely.

Speaker 2: 25:49

Just a few short years ago, like I wasn't there, I wasn't connected to spirit. I felt like I was all on my own. Everything was on my shoulders. I was alone in this world. You know so, so you know things can happen and change so quickly.

Speaker 1: 25:59

And what a relief quickly.

Speaker 2: 26:05

And what a relief, yes, what a relief. I don't have to carry it all. Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 26:11

Um, just real quick, I noticed what's happening with the video. Are you okay? I'm, it's kind of cool actually. Okay, yeah, that's good. Yeah, and you were also down in Mexico recently. Is this going to be doing some sound healing, uh, for us or something? Are you going to? Is that's going to be a new um thing in your rep repertoire?

Speaker 2: 26:31

Yes, absolutely I. Um, I had been partnering with a sound healer locally and we've been doing some Reiki, sound baths and, um, I had had my eye on this, this training, certification, all year. But I had, you know, spent so much money on all the other things I was doing the coaching program, the podcast program, costa Rica, all these things and so I just had sort of written it off. And then another, and then a friend had mentioned to me out of the blue that she was going to go and that sort of brought it up again and I talked to my wife about it and she's like, well, aren't you going? And I said no, and she goes. Well, I thought you were going to go. And I said, well, I thought I spent so much money investing in myself already this year I wasn't going to do it. And she goes, just go.

Speaker 2: 27:14

So, like a week before the training started, I, I registered and, um, and I thought you know, yes, it would be another offering for that I can sort of add to my business and to my offerings. But I didn't. I went in not thinking it was going to play a really big role and going through that, that training and having that experience and and sort of developing a relationship with these instruments that that they allowed us to to use in the training. I know now that it's going to be a much bigger part of my offerings than I thought it was going in. So I'm so excited about that Because there's so much healing that can happen from sound as well.

Speaker 1: 28:04

And for, once again, listeners who might not be familiar with sound healing. How would you explain that to them?

Speaker 2: 28:13

Oh boy, um, just coming out of the training. Um, let's see. Well, again, it's, it's energy, right? So? And sound actually creates light, and sound works with water, which we are, mostly water, um, and.

Speaker 1: 28:38

So will you be doing like uh, with drums, or you'll be working with different. So will you be doing like drums or you'll be working with different. I mean all different sounds. Yes, how?

Speaker 2: 28:46

will that work? My favorite instrument is the gong, and so I can't wait to get a gong. But crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, tuning forks, both weighted and high frequency drums, steel tongue drums framed drums, hand pans, those kinds of those kinds of things we learned so much but yeah, go ahead, no, you go ahead.

Speaker 1: 29:13

Finish your thought.

Speaker 2: 29:14

I was just going to say that you know, sound is sound, can be such a healing force. Just you know, sort of laying, laying there, receiving these sounds can can impact our body, mind and soul, just like Reiki can. It's all the levels.

Speaker 1: 29:30

Yeah, just like the opposite of that. If people are having trouble like wrapping their mind around that going to a super busy city that's super loud and lots of sirens and construction sounds, and you know, I think of New York city, uh, for instance, when I've when I the times I've been there, it takes me a couple of days when I get back to come down from all the sounds and stimulation of that city, as much as I may enjoy it at the time it's and because so that sound just which can create stress too much sound. So these are sounds on the opposite end that are there to help us de-stress and and and balance our energy.

Speaker 1: 30:14

So it can work both ways um yeah, I what I was, what was I was going to say earlier and I don't remember the name of it, but it it's always when I see the pictures. It's always such a great reminder. And it's when somebody has taken I think they usually do Is it water or sand? Maybe it's sand and they put a little bit of sand in a maybe you've seen these pictures in like a, like a little pan or something, and they play different notes and and the sand will arrange itself in a particular pattern to that note. Have you ever seen those pictures?

Speaker 1: 30:57

I believe yes yeah, and I don't remember the name of it, it can be replicated. I've seen a lot of different, different pictures over the time, over time, but it always is such a great reminder of how sound is affecting us in ways we don't even realize all the time.

Speaker 2: 31:14

Yes, and most of these, you know sounds and instruments are ancient. You know, I mean these, these are things that that, um, you know our ancestors were using to to heal themselves and we just lost track over time. I mean, some of them are newer, but but most are really old.

Speaker 1: 31:34

Yeah, and the crystal bowls, um, I mean, yeah, they, that's maybe a newer technology, but not really. Um, ultimately Right, so that's. So you're going to add that in, so you're going to have a lot of different things to offer your clients.

Speaker 2: 31:51

I'm very excited. I can't wait to um add add them to my website so that I can actually get going on them.

Speaker 1: 32:01

So I like to, in wrapping up, and everybody you'll be able to, I'll put all the ways to locate Paula in the show notes and so her website. And once again you want to, you want to just say your website and say the name of your podcast again and anything else you want to say. Sure I asked you the final question.

Speaker 2: 32:20

Sure, my website is reikiflowmncom and that's R-E-I-K-I-F-L-O-W-M-Ncom and the name of my podcast is scared as fuck and doing it anyway, showing up authentically, and that's not out there yet. I don't have it out on Apple or Spotify or anything yet, but stay tuned, it's coming.

Speaker 1: 32:46

Launching in early 2024, sometime January, February.

Speaker 2: 32:50

Yes.

Speaker 1: 32:52

Okay, in finishing up, here's my question that I always like to ask guests what does a meaningful moxie filled life look like to you? But also, what does it feel like to you as well A meaningful moxie filled life, what it looks like and what it feels like to you.

Speaker 2: 33:16

Well, first of all, it feels, it looks and feels like the most authentic me. I am happier, so much happier than I was for literally my whole life, you know, up until just the last few years. Um, so much happier than I was. And it's because I'm doing things that are more authentic to me. I'm doing things that are more authentic to me, I'm following really what's in my heart, and instead of what I should do or instead of what appears to be safe and secure, I'm following what my heart's desires are. And so it really looks and feels like whatever feels most authentic to me in the moment. And that can change and it changes regularly, and that's okay, and I wasn't there for a long time. So I would say first and foremost that, and then happiness, I think just comes from that. Right, like I've made other changes in my life along the way, because I said I don't want this anymore. It's not making me happy, I want to be happy. I said I don't want this anymore, it's not making me happy, I want to be happy.

Speaker 1: 34:29

And authenticity. Really, happiness follows authenticity. It just does. Yeah, well, paula, we thank you for showing up as you and being the authentic you. We can all feel that in our conversation today. Thank you, yeah, so, and I wish you the best of luck on this podcast. I look forward to listening in and best of luck in the business and adding the you know, the sound healing in there and, um, just, you know, following following those magic breadcrumbs. Thank you, yeah, thank you too. All right, everybody. Um, thanks for listening in and we will talk to you soon. Take care, bye now. If this podcast was valuable to you, it would mean so much if you could take 30 seconds to do one or all of these three things Follow or subscribe to the podcast and, while there, leave a review and then maybe share this with a friend if you think they'd like it. In a world full of lots of distractions, I so appreciate you taking the time to listen in. Until next time, be well and take care.