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Oct. 16, 2024
ASK YOURSELF GOOD QUESTIONS (mentoring helps)
Today is about the profound impact of good questions.
Introspective questions.
The issue is, sometimes we forget to ask ourselves (good/non self deprecating) questions.
So, having someone to talk to is really important.
*someone who is more concerned with listening than speaking.
*someone who is more curious and expansive than lovingly trying to brace you for impact.
*someone who has the ability to ask really fucking good questions rather than offer (irrelevant) advice.
Really good questions happen when someone is listening for what you're not saying just as much as what you are saying.
They happen when someone is more invested in your wellbeing than their ego or fears.
This is my lived experience of working with a mentor/coach over the last 4 years.
What happens when we get asked good questions?
Our world opens up.
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Transcript
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I think being an artist is having that connection to yourself so deeply, so firmly.
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That against.
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All of the clouds, all of society's praise and all of.
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Everything around you signaling to you.
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You're doing a good job.
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Just keep on going.
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You can't ignore the thing inside your chest.
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That's like nine or something more, and this is not it.
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This is not it.
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Help Me See is a podcast dedicated to the art of seeing.
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It's a space for the restless visionary with an insatiable desire to create the life and work you're meant for.
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My name is Bianca Lea Mora, and I'm a photographic artist, a mother, and a coach who's transformed my fear of loss into power, art, and philosophy.
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One of the scariest quotes I never want to say is, I wish I knew at the time, but I truly believe that we have the innate ability to bring our wise 2020 hindsight to our now.
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You can deeply experience your nostalgia now, while it's actually happening, with no regrets.
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All you have to do is see.
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In this show, we laugh, we cry, we get inspired, we overshare, we have life changing conversations around making meaning, self discovery, and shedding all the BS layers in order to reconnect to our own sacred vision.
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Seeing yourself is an essential key to living powerfully.
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You are the vessel, the lens that filters absolutely everything in your life.
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What are you filtering for? Whether it be conversations with fellow artists and visionaries, or my solo audio journal style introspective ramblings, each episode is meant to feel like an exhale, an unraveling of truth, a moment for you to be able to put your finger on something that you haven't been able to for far too long.
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Come exactly as you are.
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It's perfect.
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Honor your instincts.
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Let's uncover some of the most important things in our lives which all too often can slip out from our view.
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Let's commit to seeing and consciously creating what only you can in your one and only life.
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Let's dive in.
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Hello.
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=Hello= and welcome to another episode of help me see.
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Today I'm on fire and really want to talk about.
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The profound.
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Effect of.
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Having.
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Someone to talk to.
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Having someone to talk to.
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Someone who is more concerned.
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Listening.
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Then speaking back.
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Someone who is.
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More curious.
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And expansive rather than.
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Lovingly.
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Trying to place.
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You or themselves for impact of whatever that is.
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And someone who.
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Has the ability.
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To ask.
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Really fucking good questions.
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Rather than offer advice.
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Or.
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Really anything else? Really, really good questions.
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So when that's listening for what you're not saying, just as much as what you are saying.
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This has been.
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The.
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Impact of working with mentors over the last, what has it been now? For years, I mean, Uh, four.
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Yeah.
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About four years, specifically seeking out personal coaches.
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Um, This coming week, I'm going to open my books up for mentoring sessions and I'm calling the mentoring sessions now.
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As a test because.
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In the past, I've called them coaching sessions.
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But it feels like a lot of people in my immediate world, aren't very familiar with coaching.
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Um, for me, the term mentoring always kind of felt like, oh, allow me to impart wisdom and.
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I didn't like that.
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so coaching felt better, but I also feel like, it might be a little bit confusing to some, so we're gonna.
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Play with the word and I'm offering mentoring sessions.
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What does this mean? Why am I doing it? There's a little bit of a backstory.
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So recently I've decided to start applying for adjunct faculty roles in, uh, photo institutions.
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And.
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As part of my.
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Application process for one of them, I had to.
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Propose my own.
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Course and propose the curriculum upset course.
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So, of course this cannot be a course.
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That's something.
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That feels like, oh, just really simple.
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I can throw together.
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Of course, this course needs to be.
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The.
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Holy grail of everything that I am passionate about rolled up into one succinct.
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Five week.
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Outline, So.
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For the sake of the conversation here and for context.
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I will share.
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So that sentence stone, but.
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Um, the course title is sustaining the visionary artist's life and will being through photographic consciousness.
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And, um, In the course.
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Lessons.
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I'll just read a few of them just in case you're curious.
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Discovering your inner lens, exploring the self and artistic identity.
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Photographic presence.
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A way of being through seeing the photograph is not the point in active meditation.
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Conscious creation, deepening connection between self and craft.
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Healing self-expression and empowerment through photographic practice.
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Developing personal and professional philosophy, harmonizing creative practice with life and career and thriving as a visionary artist.
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Sustaining your photographic practice for life.
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Conviction and flexibility.
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Okay.
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The course overview, um, says it provides a holistic approach to sustaining the artist's life by focusing on personal wellbeing, discovery, and creative exploration through craft.
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Participants will learn to cultivate their artistic vision through self-reflection presence and the merging of professional and personal philosophy that nourished both their inner and outer world.
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It's designed to help photographers create meaningful work, maintain connection to self and develop resilience.
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And navigating uncharted paths as lifelong artists.
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The outcome is participants will have developed a deep understanding of how to align the photographic practice with personal wellbeing and intentional living.
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They will have gained tools for creation, with intention, staying connected to their vision and sustaining.
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Thriving creative life.
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Each participant will leave with a series of photographic journals, reflections at critical their journey and creates the foundation of a practice from which to maintain connection to self wellbeing and a sharp vision throughout their creative life.
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Okay.
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So.
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I write this right.
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I submit it.
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And now I'm waiting to hear back.
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But I don't want to wait to hear back, to get to work.
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And my cover letter for this job.
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I spoke about how, you know, what fuck it.
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Why don't I just read the cover letter? Let me see why not? I mean, I feel like I'd be interested.
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Um, Um, I'm a photographic artist and educator working in the crossroads of philosophy, consciousness, and self discovery through photographic practice.
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Um, Continuous studies ever expanding self-expression and empowering artists from all walks of life.
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Which isn't 12, I've been navigating life as a working artist, walking that line between both professional and personal satisfaction and survival.
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2018, I became a mother and have become devoted to offering tools, to harness creative practice for wellness and support in sustaining this way of life.
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I absolutely love my school and the experience, but I deeply lament there's a severe lack of focus on longterm realities, wellbeing, and awareness, and maneuvering.
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The uncharted territory as artists are left to navigate alone after school.
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After leaving full-time corporate I've juggled freelance opportunities alongside private client commissions.
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But my deepest passion has been in creating education around photographic consciousness.
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I have privately mentored as well as hosted self-lead programs, braiding the threads.
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Of the personal cravings of creative life and the tenacious demands of sustaining it with the immense gifts that the photographic medium can give us.\
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Boba.
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okay.
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Most of the offerings that I see.
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Are around.
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Strengthening, work.
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And.
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even when we're thinking about.
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The process.
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It's a lot about, the ethics of what you're doing and activism.
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And how, to develop XYZ.
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But none of it.
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That I've come across.
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And my general awareness.
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Has been around.
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Helping use this tool.
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This craft.
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That.
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It starts out as something that's our greatest joy or enthusiasm, whatever it is.
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And this doesn't have to be.
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specifically photography.
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But this creative endeavor.
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That we thrive in.
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Live through.
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Can often cause complications in our normal lives, right? It's like, That narrative, the starving artists, like it's so fucking annoying.
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And to be honest, there's a reason why it's exists.
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It's can be really difficult.
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So the thing that you, one of the things you love most in life can be the thing that causes strife.
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But I think.
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Along the way, if we don't have.
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The wherewithal to slow down, to really sit up from our seat of consciousness and walk a couple steps to the left.
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Sit down and look again.
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You know, really have someone to echo and mirror your experience with you.
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We can miss the facts that the very thing that's causing the Stripe can be the thing that helps us lift ourselves out of it.
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The thing that helps harness our control, our power.
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Our, um, skills.
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To navigate these uncharted territories.
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So instead of waiting to have this conversation for, if an institution decides to pick me.
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I want to start having these conversations.
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One-on-one.
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With mentoring clients.
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Anyone can make amazing work.
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What.
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Matters.
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Is the experience and the resonance.
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Inside of the artist.
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Before we even talk about the impact on the viewer.
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We all know how it feels to have someone.
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Gasp and love a piece of work that we've done.
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Though we couldn't care less about.
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It's the most hollow empty feeling and say, yeah.
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Okay.
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But when it's something that we.
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Are deeply connected to, and someone takes a minute to notice that one.
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Oh, that feeling.
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But at the end of the day, We're in this practice, we're in the actual craft.
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As often as we can, as often as, um, life permits, whatever.
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And then when we're outside of that flow state, when we're outside of that creative practice, How are you living your life? How are you feeling your life? Because as much as we do art, as much as we can.
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More of our life is outside of it.
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And the odds are more of our lives.
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Are around.
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People that don't share that same passion.
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That same lived experience.
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Some of my closest friends right now in my life are people that I've met through online programs.
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Because.
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We're meeting at the same frequency of.
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Experience and struggles and, you know, Uh, interest and passions.
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And then when we close the laptop, we come back home.
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And then we're surrounded by loved ones that are so old, meaning that we love so much.
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But that don't really understand.
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And when I think about one of the biggest benefits that I could possibly name.
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When it comes to.
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Mentoring in my life.
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And what it has done for me is created a space for me to.
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Step into my power and not feel like the outlier.
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Uh, space in which.
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There's nothing.
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I could say that someone would blink at.
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With.
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Warning or.
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Saying something that, in which I feel like there.
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Trying to feign interest.
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Okay.
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Sorry.
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I had to pause because 14 minutes in, I realized that my mic wasn't selected as the input source.
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So.
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The first half of this is going to sound a little different.
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Why do I want to mentor? Right now.
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It feels so crucial.
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And urgent for the intentional sensitive.
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Deep and loving souls of the world.
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Be supported.
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To be able to be in their lives.
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And create in their work.
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In the way they're meant to.
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I think about.
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How much.
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Experience and how much art doesn't get lived.
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Because of the overwhelming pressures and.
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Expectations and.
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Struggles of a life.
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And it's really important for me to help support and bolster that I think.
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As.
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As much as I am not sitting here having conquered fucking anything.
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I am sitting here.
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Knowing that my commitment to seeing and my commitment to deepening my understanding of.
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Consciousness.
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Woven with creative practice woven with.
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Neuro linguistic programming woven with.
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Lived experience and struggles in life.
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like.
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Having two little boys and house and the mortgage and traveling a lot for work and all that.
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I come to this space.
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With a deep reverence.
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And a deep.
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Understanding.
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But with a deep conviction.
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In knowing that that doesn't have to.
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Mean sacrifice.
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In your life's work and in your soul's fulfillment.
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I think the trait that I'm most proud of.
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Is the fact that I have an unwavering, tenacious connection to.
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Living into my purpose.
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Whatever that is.
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And I'm continuing.
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Two.
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Discover what that is more intimately and act on that.
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And my unconditional.
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Trust and relationship with myself.
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Helps keep me going in that.
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And I believe that's available to all of us.
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recently I watched a documentary on Robert Irwin.
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He's an installation artist.
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in the world of.
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James Tarell.
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I feel like is a little bit more commonly known even though James Turrell is younger than him.
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Um, So I bought this book.
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I mentioned it in last episode, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing.
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One sees.
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And.
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Before I read the book.
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I only read a couple of pages so far.
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I really wanted to understand more about the artist.
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So I watched on YouTube, there were some documentary that they had of him.
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And oh my God.
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Such a fucking bad-ass.
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He.
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He talks about how he.
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Was really naturally good at illustration.
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Being a painter.
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And drawing.
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And.
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At one point in time, he was at a young age.
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How to show, I think it was a New York.
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And for the first time he was able to look at it and witness his work.
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Without.
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Circumstances clouding or, you know, noise, whatever it was.
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He was just standing there looking at it.
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And he was like, this is terrible.
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Everyone's praising him.
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Like, this is terrible.
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And.
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He said at that point he became an artist.
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At that point, he became, More interested in discovery then whatever he had done previously, because it came easily to him.
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And that's not to say that, oh, If it's E you know, if it's easiest to all right, or you have to be dissatisfied with your work to be an artist, not at fucking all.
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That's not what I'm saying, even though that's probably the case.
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Um, What I'm saying is.
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I think being an artist is having that connection to yourself so deeply, so firmly.
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That against.
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All of the clouds, all of society's praise and all of.
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Everything around you signaling to you.
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You're doing a good job.
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Just keep on going.
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You can't ignore the thing inside your chest.
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That's like nine or something more, and this is not it.
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This is not it.
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So.
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The guy goes on to start.
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Really experimenting with what he could do inside a frame on a canvas.
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Um, Diving into philosophy, diving into perception.
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His art radically changes.
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And then at some point in time, he completely Abandons the painting and starts doing experiential installation works.
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That.
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At one point, he banned them from being photographed because he says there's no use because the photograph won't be able to say anything about them or.
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I dunno.
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I'm getting really worked up.
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Hot and bothered here.
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The point is.
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This may like this man who.
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Doesn't appear.
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It doesn't have the normal appearances of an artist per se, whatever the fuck that is.
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Right.
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He rejects the fact that, you know, you have to be in great pain or sorrow to be.
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You know, making art, he.
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Rejected his own original medium of art, because not because he wasn't getting a claim or success or praise or.
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You know, creating things that were beautiful, but because he decided.
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It didn't mean anything.
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To him and he pursued and is still curious and is still has a twinkle.
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Pursuing.
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Whatever he decides.
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Is.
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The itchy cannot scratch, but he will continue and continue and continue.
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Is he alive? Hold on.
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Let me see.
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Yeah.
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Oh, no, he died.
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Oh, he only died last year.
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Oh, Well, Paul, he died last D here the day before my birthday.
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It says Robert Walter Erwin was an American installation artist who explored perception and the conditional in art often through site-specific architectural and interventions.
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That alter the physical sensory and temporal experience of space.
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Wow.
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He was 95 years old.
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And the Hoya.
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Uh, California.
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Oh, Oh, love him now knew nothing of him.
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I'm sure I had heard his name, but.
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Really had no.
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Understanding of what he was doing.
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Wow.
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And he was probably the most.
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Beautiful.
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Old man.
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Christine.
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Jeez.
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Um, Okay.
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Wow.
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I got sidetracked.
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Where am I? Where am I? Who am I? Who am I.
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What I'm saying here.
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If you're still with me.
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What I'm saying here is.
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I resonate deeply with his willingness to abandon.
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What he had known until that point.
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Letting go.
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Of all those familiar and comfortable for him.
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To really commit.
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To whatever.
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Truth is for him in authentic meaning filled life.
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And one of my greatest comforts.
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In life.
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And the what, the thing I'm probably most proud of.
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Of myself in this lifetime is the fact that I.
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No.
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That I am committed to abandoning what I know.
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In pursuit of truth.
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When I get that itch and that inkling.
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I will not let it go.
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I will dig and I will figure out.
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Where the truth, where the meaning lies within me.
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And.
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I would love to go on that journey with you.
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I would love to be the person to help.
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Mirror back your.
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Fucking.
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Visionary.
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Desires and.
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Goals and intentions and.
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Inklings in life.
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And figure out a way to.
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Make that.
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Lifeforce sustainable make that life force.
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Something that you can access, make that self-trust unconditional and.
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Self-lead.
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I've said it before.
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I'm not afraid of making a wrong choice.
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I'm afraid.
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Of not seeing.
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A choice.
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I'm not seeing.
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The possibility of what is the most.
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Alive.
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I could be in my life and in my work.
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And when I think about.
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My role, the sacred role of being a mentor for someone.
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Although I am an open book.
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I have literally nothing off.
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off limits.
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Any question you might have about my process, my, whatever, my craft.
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Open book, but.
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In mentoring.
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It's not about me.
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It's about you having someone mirror to you.
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Who are you being in this moment? And what you're actually wanting, what you're actually.
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Believing and living and valuing, and where's the dissonance and where are the opportunities for leaning more and discovering more truth.
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You know, some of the.
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Most.
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Impactful.
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Discoveries I've made about myself in my life have been in the last year and so simple.
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And what seems to be so obvious to me.
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But through high quality questions.
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And.
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Very intentional and thoughtful mentors and coaches redirecting me back to myself.
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Redirect back, redirect back, redirect back.
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I'm able to strengthen and stay tethered to my truth.
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And what's real for me.
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no matter how often that's changing, because I'm forever evolving and growing.
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I already do this month after month after month through the self.
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Guided.
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Prompted photographic journaling templates that I make.
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If you're a part of nostalgia now, um, if you're a paid member of my sub stack, every month we have.
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I just start, I've been doing this for years outside of substance, but just the other couple of months ago, I started on sub stack where every month you get a, one of a kind created.
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Canva template that allows you to look back in your photographs from the month.
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Whether or not they're professional or not, it doesn't matter.
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It's more so your personal snapshots, because this is like an inquiry, a self-reflection of consciousness.
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Um, you read the the prompts.
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Feel them and go and look in your archive and create this visual.
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Introspective journal, where you're able to awaken to what you're trying to tell yourself.
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And take that wisdom and move on to your next month of your life.
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Deeply rooted, more grounded, more intentional, more in tune with yourself.
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So with the one-on-one mentoring.
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I'm taking, that monthly practice.
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And bringing it to you.
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Directly and in real time, It's real time intimate.
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Vulnerable safe.
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Non-judgemental.
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Questionings of your beliefs, your values, your emotions, your experiences, your struggles.
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Revealing blind spots.
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And providing a catalyst for.
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Transformation and a clear understanding of your identity and your purpose.
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It's like this.
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Self-created roadmap that gives you.
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So much peace in being able to just put your finger on something and going, oh, oh yeah.
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Oh, that's why that's happening.
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Oh, this is why I feel restless and discontent.
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Oh, you know, it's not a magic pill.
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It doesn't make everything go away and everything.
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Okay.
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But I think.
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That it does something way more enduring, way more.
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Beneficial, which is providing.
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Resiliency.
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And a reverence.
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For your authentic voice and your unique path and your inner compass.
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So if you're someone that's feeling.
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Restless discontent, um, craving a deeper connection with yourself.
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Support in navigating a transition in your life.
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If you're looking to uncover deeper truth or reveal new perspectives or.
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If you have this feeling that there's something.
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More there's something more line something's not quite right.
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There's something.
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That's just out of you that you are really desperate to get a look at.
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If you're looking for someone to go.
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Down down, down into the depths with you.
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And, Figure out what's going on underneath the surface.
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So that we can live more freely, more expansively.
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Later.
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With this unconditional connection to self and trust.
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Then.
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I'm offering one-off 90 minute sessions.
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And if that is something that.
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Felt amazing.
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And you want to continue, um, that investment will go towards.
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A month long support container, I have monthly support options that include.
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One-on-one zoom face-to-face calls as well as in your pocket support through Voxer, which is a voice note app.
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We can send each other voice notes.
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So that's it.
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Questions, questions, questions.
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If you have any questions, please reach out.
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Um, I would love to chat through what this would look like.
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Deep creativity can be, um, Full of solitude and it can be isolating and it can be.
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A little lonely at times.
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And.
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Coming up for air with someone.
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Who not only gets it.
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But it's more concerned with your truth than what they have to say or giving advice.
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We'll never.
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Not be helpful.
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I'm pretty sure.
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That is what I have for you today.
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I'm going to leave you with a question.
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In the spirit of asking good questions.
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Let me leave you.
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With a question.
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So it's by Walker, Percy.
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And the quote says, this is not the question.
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This is the quote.
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The quote says the search is what everyone would undertake.
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If he were not struck in the everyday-ness of his own life.
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To be aware of the possibility of the search.
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Is to be on to something.
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Not to be on to something is to be in despair.
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What are you onto? What is something that feels like it's magnetically, like drawing you towards it.
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What is a possibility.
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You are aware of and curious about.
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I want to understand what is the mobilizing.
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Energetic.
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Life force feeling.
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Space in your life right now.
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What is that? Just identify it.
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If you don't know what that is.
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It's okay.
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Sit there.
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Close your eyes, take a few breaths.
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And remember the last time you felt that energy.
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That like.
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Is that if you're talking to someone about something that when you're like, Like a puppy, like.
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I can't wait to.
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For your turn to speak because you want to talk about it so much and you can't shut up.
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What is that? Or the time where you feel just so exhilarated, you take a deep breath and exhale.
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Not from.
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Tension or from side or from, from actual.
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Aw.
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When's the last time you felt.
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Like you lost track of time.
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Completely.
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What are those worlds? Where are you going? What are you on too? Right now? See you next week.
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This has been an Awkward Sage Production.
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I think being an artist is having that connection to yourself so deeply, so firmly.
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That against.
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All of the clouds, all of society's praise and all of.
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Everything around you signaling to you.
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You're doing a good job.
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Just keep on going.
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You can't ignore the thing inside your chest.
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That's like nine or something more, and this is not it.
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This is not it.
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Help Me See is a podcast dedicated to the art of seeing.
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It's a space for the restless visionary with an insatiable desire to create the life and work you're meant for.
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My name is Bianca Lea Mora, and I'm a photographic artist, a mother, and a coach who's transformed my fear of loss into power, art, and philosophy.
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One of the scariest quotes I never want to say is, I wish I knew at the time, but I truly believe that we have the innate ability to bring our wise 2020 hindsight to our now.
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You can deeply experience your nostalgia now, while it's actually happening, with no regrets.
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All you have to do is see.
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In this show, we laugh, we cry, we get inspired, we overshare, we have life changing conversations around making meaning, self discovery, and shedding all the BS layers in order to reconnect to our own sacred vision.
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Seeing yourself is an essential key to living powerfully.
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You are the vessel, the lens that filters absolutely everything in your life.
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What are you filtering for? Whether it be conversations with fellow artists and visionaries, or my solo audio journal style introspective ramblings, each episode is meant to feel like an exhale, an unraveling of truth, a moment for you to be able to put your finger on something that you haven't been able to for far too long.
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Come exactly as you are.
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It's perfect.
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Honor your instincts.
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Let's uncover some of the most important things in our lives which all too often can slip out from our view.
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Let's commit to seeing and consciously creating what only you can in your one and only life.
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Let's dive in.
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Hello.
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=Hello= and welcome to another episode of help me see.
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Today I'm on fire and really want to talk about.
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The profound.
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Effect of.
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Having.
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Someone to talk to.
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Having someone to talk to.
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Someone who is more concerned.
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Listening.
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Then speaking back.
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Someone who is.
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More curious.
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And expansive rather than.
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Lovingly.
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Trying to place.
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You or themselves for impact of whatever that is.
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And someone who.
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Has the ability.
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To ask.
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Really fucking good questions.
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Rather than offer advice.
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Or.
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Really anything else? Really, really good questions.
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So when that's listening for what you're not saying, just as much as what you are saying.
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This has been.
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The.
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Impact of working with mentors over the last, what has it been now? For years, I mean, Uh, four.
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Yeah.
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About four years, specifically seeking out personal coaches.
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Um, This coming week, I'm going to open my books up for mentoring sessions and I'm calling the mentoring sessions now.
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As a test because.
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In the past, I've called them coaching sessions.
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But it feels like a lot of people in my immediate world, aren't very familiar with coaching.
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Um, for me, the term mentoring always kind of felt like, oh, allow me to impart wisdom and.
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I didn't like that.
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so coaching felt better, but I also feel like, it might be a little bit confusing to some, so we're gonna.
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Play with the word and I'm offering mentoring sessions.
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What does this mean? Why am I doing it? There's a little bit of a backstory.
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So recently I've decided to start applying for adjunct faculty roles in, uh, photo institutions.
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And.
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As part of my.
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Application process for one of them, I had to.
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Propose my own.
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Course and propose the curriculum upset course.
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So, of course this cannot be a course.
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That's something.
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That feels like, oh, just really simple.
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I can throw together.
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Of course, this course needs to be.
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The.
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Holy grail of everything that I am passionate about rolled up into one succinct.
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Five week.
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Outline, So.
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For the sake of the conversation here and for context.
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I will share.
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So that sentence stone, but.
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Um, the course title is sustaining the visionary artist's life and will being through photographic consciousness.
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And, um, In the course.
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Lessons.
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I'll just read a few of them just in case you're curious.
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Discovering your inner lens, exploring the self and artistic identity.
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Photographic presence.
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A way of being through seeing the photograph is not the point in active meditation.
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Conscious creation, deepening connection between self and craft.
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Healing self-expression and empowerment through photographic practice.
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Developing personal and professional philosophy, harmonizing creative practice with life and career and thriving as a visionary artist.
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Sustaining your photographic practice for life.
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Conviction and flexibility.
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Okay.
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The course overview, um, says it provides a holistic approach to sustaining the artist's life by focusing on personal wellbeing, discovery, and creative exploration through craft.
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Participants will learn to cultivate their artistic vision through self-reflection presence and the merging of professional and personal philosophy that nourished both their inner and outer world.
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It's designed to help photographers create meaningful work, maintain connection to self and develop resilience.
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And navigating uncharted paths as lifelong artists.
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The outcome is participants will have developed a deep understanding of how to align the photographic practice with personal wellbeing and intentional living.
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They will have gained tools for creation, with intention, staying connected to their vision and sustaining.
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Thriving creative life.
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Each participant will leave with a series of photographic journals, reflections at critical their journey and creates the foundation of a practice from which to maintain connection to self wellbeing and a sharp vision throughout their creative life.
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Okay.
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So.
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I write this right.
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I submit it.
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And now I'm waiting to hear back.
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But I don't want to wait to hear back, to get to work.
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And my cover letter for this job.
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I spoke about how, you know, what fuck it.
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Why don't I just read the cover letter? Let me see why not? I mean, I feel like I'd be interested.
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Um, Um, I'm a photographic artist and educator working in the crossroads of philosophy, consciousness, and self discovery through photographic practice.
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Um, Continuous studies ever expanding self-expression and empowering artists from all walks of life.
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Which isn't 12, I've been navigating life as a working artist, walking that line between both professional and personal satisfaction and survival.
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2018, I became a mother and have become devoted to offering tools, to harness creative practice for wellness and support in sustaining this way of life.
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I absolutely love my school and the experience, but I deeply lament there's a severe lack of focus on longterm realities, wellbeing, and awareness, and maneuvering.
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The uncharted territory as artists are left to navigate alone after school.
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After leaving full-time corporate I've juggled freelance opportunities alongside private client commissions.
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But my deepest passion has been in creating education around photographic consciousness.
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I have privately mentored as well as hosted self-lead programs, braiding the threads.
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Of the personal cravings of creative life and the tenacious demands of sustaining it with the immense gifts that the photographic medium can give us.\
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Boba.
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okay.
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Most of the offerings that I see.
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Are around.
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Strengthening, work.
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And.
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even when we're thinking about.
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The process.
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It's a lot about, the ethics of what you're doing and activism.
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And how, to develop XYZ.
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But none of it.
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That I've come across.
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And my general awareness.
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Has been around.
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Helping use this tool.
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This craft.
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That.
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It starts out as something that's our greatest joy or enthusiasm, whatever it is.
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And this doesn't have to be.
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specifically photography.
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But this creative endeavor.
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That we thrive in.
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Live through.
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Can often cause complications in our normal lives, right? It's like, That narrative, the starving artists, like it's so fucking annoying.
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And to be honest, there's a reason why it's exists.
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It's can be really difficult.
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So the thing that you, one of the things you love most in life can be the thing that causes strife.
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But I think.
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Along the way, if we don't have.
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The wherewithal to slow down, to really sit up from our seat of consciousness and walk a couple steps to the left.
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Sit down and look again.
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You know, really have someone to echo and mirror your experience with you.
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We can miss the facts that the very thing that's causing the Stripe can be the thing that helps us lift ourselves out of it.
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The thing that helps harness our control, our power.
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Our, um, skills.
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To navigate these uncharted territories.
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So instead of waiting to have this conversation for, if an institution decides to pick me.
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I want to start having these conversations.
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One-on-one.
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With mentoring clients.
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Anyone can make amazing work.
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What.
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Matters.
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Is the experience and the resonance.
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Inside of the artist.
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Before we even talk about the impact on the viewer.
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We all know how it feels to have someone.
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Gasp and love a piece of work that we've done.
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Though we couldn't care less about.
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It's the most hollow empty feeling and say, yeah.
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Okay.
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But when it's something that we.
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Are deeply connected to, and someone takes a minute to notice that one.
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Oh, that feeling.
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But at the end of the day, We're in this practice, we're in the actual craft.
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As often as we can, as often as, um, life permits, whatever.
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And then when we're outside of that flow state, when we're outside of that creative practice, How are you living your life? How are you feeling your life? Because as much as we do art, as much as we can.
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More of our life is outside of it.
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And the odds are more of our lives.
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Are around.
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People that don't share that same passion.
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That same lived experience.
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Some of my closest friends right now in my life are people that I've met through online programs.
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Because.
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We're meeting at the same frequency of.
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Experience and struggles and, you know, Uh, interest and passions.
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And then when we close the laptop, we come back home.
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And then we're surrounded by loved ones that are so old, meaning that we love so much.
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But that don't really understand.
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And when I think about one of the biggest benefits that I could possibly name.
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When it comes to.
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Mentoring in my life.
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And what it has done for me is created a space for me to.
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Step into my power and not feel like the outlier.
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Uh, space in which.
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There's nothing.
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I could say that someone would blink at.
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With.
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Warning or.
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Saying something that, in which I feel like there.
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Trying to feign interest.
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Okay.
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Sorry.
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I had to pause because 14 minutes in, I realized that my mic wasn't selected as the input source.
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So.
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The first half of this is going to sound a little different.
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Why do I want to mentor? Right now.
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It feels so crucial.
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And urgent for the intentional sensitive.
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Deep and loving souls of the world.
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Be supported.
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To be able to be in their lives.
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And create in their work.
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In the way they're meant to.
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I think about.
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How much.
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Experience and how much art doesn't get lived.
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Because of the overwhelming pressures and.
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Expectations and.
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Struggles of a life.
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And it's really important for me to help support and bolster that I think.
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As.
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As much as I am not sitting here having conquered fucking anything.
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I am sitting here.
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Knowing that my commitment to seeing and my commitment to deepening my understanding of.
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Consciousness.
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Woven with creative practice woven with.
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Neuro linguistic programming woven with.
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Lived experience and struggles in life.
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like.
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Having two little boys and house and the mortgage and traveling a lot for work and all that.
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I come to this space.
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With a deep reverence.
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And a deep.
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Understanding.
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But with a deep conviction.
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In knowing that that doesn't have to.
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Mean sacrifice.
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In your life's work and in your soul's fulfillment.
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I think the trait that I'm most proud of.
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Is the fact that I have an unwavering, tenacious connection to.
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Living into my purpose.
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Whatever that is.
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And I'm continuing.
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Two.
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Discover what that is more intimately and act on that.
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And my unconditional.
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Trust and relationship with myself.
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Helps keep me going in that.
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And I believe that's available to all of us.
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recently I watched a documentary on Robert Irwin.
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He's an installation artist.
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in the world of.
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James Tarell.
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I feel like is a little bit more commonly known even though James Turrell is younger than him.
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Um, So I bought this book.
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I mentioned it in last episode, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing.
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One sees.
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And.
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Before I read the book.
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I only read a couple of pages so far.
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I really wanted to understand more about the artist.
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So I watched on YouTube, there were some documentary that they had of him.
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And oh my God.
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Such a fucking bad-ass.
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He.
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He talks about how he.
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Was really naturally good at illustration.
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Being a painter.
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And drawing.
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And.
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At one point in time, he was at a young age.
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How to show, I think it was a New York.
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And for the first time he was able to look at it and witness his work.
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Without.
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Circumstances clouding or, you know, noise, whatever it was.
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He was just standing there looking at it.
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And he was like, this is terrible.
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Everyone's praising him.
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Like, this is terrible.
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And.
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He said at that point he became an artist.
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At that point, he became, More interested in discovery then whatever he had done previously, because it came easily to him.
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And that's not to say that, oh, If it's E you know, if it's easiest to all right, or you have to be dissatisfied with your work to be an artist, not at fucking all.
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That's not what I'm saying, even though that's probably the case.
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Um, What I'm saying is.
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I think being an artist is having that connection to yourself so deeply, so firmly.
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That against.
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All of the clouds, all of society's praise and all of.
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Everything around you signaling to you.
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You're doing a good job.
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Just keep on going.
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You can't ignore the thing inside your chest.
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That's like nine or something more, and this is not it.
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This is not it.
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So.
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The guy goes on to start.
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Really experimenting with what he could do inside a frame on a canvas.
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Um, Diving into philosophy, diving into perception.
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His art radically changes.
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And then at some point in time, he completely Abandons the painting and starts doing experiential installation works.
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That.
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At one point, he banned them from being photographed because he says there's no use because the photograph won't be able to say anything about them or.
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I dunno.
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I'm getting really worked up.
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Hot and bothered here.
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The point is.
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This may like this man who.
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Doesn't appear.
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It doesn't have the normal appearances of an artist per se, whatever the fuck that is.
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Right.
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He rejects the fact that, you know, you have to be in great pain or sorrow to be.
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You know, making art, he.
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Rejected his own original medium of art, because not because he wasn't getting a claim or success or praise or.
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You know, creating things that were beautiful, but because he decided.
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It didn't mean anything.
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To him and he pursued and is still curious and is still has a twinkle.
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Pursuing.
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Whatever he decides.
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Is.
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The itchy cannot scratch, but he will continue and continue and continue.
324
00:20:12,993.3333333 --> 00:20:14,373.3333333
Is he alive? Hold on.
325
00:20:14,493.3333333 --> 00:20:14,853.3333333
Let me see.
326
00:20:18,93.3333333 --> 00:20:18,153.3333333
Yeah.
327
00:20:20,343.3333333 --> 00:20:21,663.3333333
Oh, no, he died.
328
00:20:21,723.3333333 --> 00:20:24,153.3333333
Oh, he only died last year.
329
00:20:24,543.3333333 --> 00:20:30,633.3333333
Oh, Well, Paul, he died last D here the day before my birthday.
330
00:20:31,743.3333333 --> 00:20:42,3.3333333
It says Robert Walter Erwin was an American installation artist who explored perception and the conditional in art often through site-specific architectural and interventions.
331
00:20:42,333.3333333 --> 00:20:45,963.3333333
That alter the physical sensory and temporal experience of space.
332
00:20:46,833.3333333 --> 00:20:47,103.3333333
Wow.
333
00:20:47,133.3333333 --> 00:20:48,333.3333333
He was 95 years old.
334
00:20:49,23.3333333 --> 00:20:49,683.3333333
And the Hoya.
335
00:20:50,763.3333333 --> 00:20:51,723.3333333
Uh, California.
336
00:20:52,503.3333333 --> 00:20:57,313.3333333
Oh, Oh, love him now knew nothing of him.
337
00:20:57,973.3333333 --> 00:20:59,953.3333333
I'm sure I had heard his name, but.
338
00:21:01,123.3333333 --> 00:21:02,413.3333333
Really had no.
339
00:21:02,413.3333333 --> 00:21:04,393.3333333
Understanding of what he was doing.
340
00:21:04,933.3333333 --> 00:21:05,533.3333333
Wow.
341
00:21:07,33.3333333 --> 00:21:08,983.3333333
And he was probably the most.
342
00:21:09,733.3333333 --> 00:21:10,663.3333333
Beautiful.
343
00:21:11,533.3333333 --> 00:21:12,13.3333333
Old man.
344
00:21:12,283.3333333 --> 00:21:12,823.3333333
Christine.
345
00:21:12,883.3333333 --> 00:21:13,303.3333333
Jeez.
346
00:21:15,103.3333333 --> 00:21:18,703.3333333
Um, Okay.
347
00:21:19,3.3333333 --> 00:21:19,243.3333333
Wow.
348
00:21:19,243.3333333 --> 00:21:20,23.3333333
I got sidetracked.
349
00:21:20,113.3333333 --> 00:21:23,83.3333333
Where am I? Where am I? Who am I? Who am I.
350
00:21:26,63.3333333 --> 00:21:27,103.3333333
What I'm saying here.
351
00:21:28,843.3333333 --> 00:21:30,43.3333333
If you're still with me.
352
00:21:30,703.3333333 --> 00:21:32,863.3333333
What I'm saying here is.
353
00:21:32,863.3333333 --> 00:21:36,433.3333333
I resonate deeply with his willingness to abandon.
354
00:21:37,453.3333333 --> 00:21:39,433.3333333
What he had known until that point.
355
00:21:40,543.3333333 --> 00:21:41,773.3333333
Letting go.
356
00:21:42,193.3333333 --> 00:21:44,443.3333333
Of all those familiar and comfortable for him.
357
00:21:46,693.3333333 --> 00:21:48,13.3333333
To really commit.
358
00:21:48,913.3333333 --> 00:21:49,633.3333333
To whatever.
359
00:21:50,53.3333333 --> 00:21:55,753.3333333
Truth is for him in authentic meaning filled life.
360
00:21:55,753.3333333 --> 00:21:59,23.3333333
And one of my greatest comforts.
361
00:21:59,23.3333333 --> 00:21:59,983.3333333
In life.
362
00:22:00,463.3333333 --> 00:22:03,163.3333333
And the what, the thing I'm probably most proud of.
363
00:22:03,703.3333333 --> 00:22:07,663.3333333
Of myself in this lifetime is the fact that I.
364
00:22:07,663.3333333 --> 00:22:08,533.3333333
No.
365
00:22:09,223.3333333 --> 00:22:14,23.3333333
That I am committed to abandoning what I know.
366
00:22:14,23.3333333 --> 00:22:15,673.3333333
In pursuit of truth.
367
00:22:15,703.3333333 --> 00:22:17,653.3333333
When I get that itch and that inkling.
368
00:22:18,463.3333333 --> 00:22:19,573.3333333
I will not let it go.
369
00:22:20,233.3333333 --> 00:22:22,783.3333333
I will dig and I will figure out.
370
00:22:23,353.3333333 --> 00:22:26,323.3333333
Where the truth, where the meaning lies within me.
371
00:22:26,743.3333333 --> 00:22:27,193.3333333
And.
372
00:22:28,153.3333333 --> 00:22:30,373.3333333
I would love to go on that journey with you.
373
00:22:30,373.3333333 --> 00:22:32,983.3333333
I would love to be the person to help.
374
00:22:33,673.3333333 --> 00:22:35,353.3333333
Mirror back your.
375
00:22:35,353.3333333 --> 00:22:35,983.3333333
Fucking.
376
00:22:35,983.3333333 --> 00:22:37,423.3333333
Visionary.
377
00:22:37,423.3333333 --> 00:22:39,103.3333333
Desires and.
378
00:22:39,103.3333333 --> 00:22:41,383.3333333
Goals and intentions and.
379
00:22:41,383.3333333 --> 00:22:43,723.3333333
Inklings in life.
380
00:22:45,163.3333333 --> 00:22:47,683.3333333
And figure out a way to.
381
00:22:47,683.3333333 --> 00:22:48,913.3333333
Make that.
382
00:22:48,913.3333333 --> 00:22:52,693.3333333
Lifeforce sustainable make that life force.
383
00:22:53,53.3333333 --> 00:22:58,303.3333333
Something that you can access, make that self-trust unconditional and.
384
00:22:58,303.3333333 --> 00:22:59,83.3333333
Self-lead.
385
00:23:00,583.3333333 --> 00:23:01,813.3333333
I've said it before.
386
00:23:02,413.3333333 --> 00:23:04,693.3333333
I'm not afraid of making a wrong choice.
387
00:23:04,723.3333333 --> 00:23:05,713.3333333
I'm afraid.
388
00:23:06,73.3333333 --> 00:23:07,423.3333333
Of not seeing.
389
00:23:08,473.3333333 --> 00:23:09,343.3333333
A choice.
390
00:23:09,853.3333333 --> 00:23:11,173.3333333
I'm not seeing.
391
00:23:11,533.3333333 --> 00:23:15,313.3333333
The possibility of what is the most.
392
00:23:15,973.3333333 --> 00:23:16,483.3333333
Alive.
393
00:23:16,483.3333333 --> 00:23:19,693.3333333
I could be in my life and in my work.
394
00:23:21,43.3333333 --> 00:23:22,183.3333333
And when I think about.
395
00:23:23,293.3333333 --> 00:23:28,573.3333333
My role, the sacred role of being a mentor for someone.
396
00:23:29,433.3333333 --> 00:23:31,23.3333333
Although I am an open book.
397
00:23:31,83.3333333 --> 00:23:33,393.3333333
I have literally nothing off.
398
00:23:33,883.3333333 --> 00:23:34,663.3333333
off limits.
399
00:23:35,233.3333333 --> 00:23:40,453.3333333
Any question you might have about my process, my, whatever, my craft.
400
00:23:41,173.3333333 --> 00:23:42,583.3333333
Open book, but.
401
00:23:43,333.3333333 --> 00:23:44,383.3333333
In mentoring.
402
00:23:46,873.3333333 --> 00:23:47,833.3333333
It's not about me.
403
00:23:47,893.3333333 --> 00:23:51,583.3333333
It's about you having someone mirror to you.
404
00:23:52,813.3333333 --> 00:23:59,893.3333333
Who are you being in this moment? And what you're actually wanting, what you're actually.
405
00:23:59,893.3333333 --> 00:24:10,183.3333333
Believing and living and valuing, and where's the dissonance and where are the opportunities for leaning more and discovering more truth.
406
00:24:10,723.3333333 --> 00:24:11,593.3333333
You know, some of the.
407
00:24:12,373.3333333 --> 00:24:12,943.3333333
Most.
408
00:24:13,903.3333333 --> 00:24:15,523.3333333
Impactful.
409
00:24:16,513.3333333 --> 00:24:22,933.3333333
Discoveries I've made about myself in my life have been in the last year and so simple.
410
00:24:22,933.3333333 --> 00:24:25,153.3333333
And what seems to be so obvious to me.
411
00:24:28,123.3333333 --> 00:24:30,973.3333333
But through high quality questions.
412
00:24:31,783.3333333 --> 00:24:32,203.3333333
And.
413
00:24:32,203.3333333 --> 00:24:37,183.3333333
Very intentional and thoughtful mentors and coaches redirecting me back to myself.
414
00:24:37,543.3333333 --> 00:24:40,363.3333333
Redirect back, redirect back, redirect back.
415
00:24:41,293.3333333 --> 00:24:47,143.3333333
I'm able to strengthen and stay tethered to my truth.
416
00:24:47,143.3333333 --> 00:24:48,43.3333333
And what's real for me.
417
00:24:48,383.3333333 --> 00:24:52,523.3333333
no matter how often that's changing, because I'm forever evolving and growing.
418
00:24:54,333.3333333 --> 00:24:59,73.3333333
I already do this month after month after month through the self.
419
00:24:59,73.3333333 --> 00:24:59,883.3333333
Guided.
420
00:24:59,883.3333333 --> 00:25:02,433.3333333
Prompted photographic journaling templates that I make.
421
00:25:02,433.3333333 --> 00:25:07,473.3333333
If you're a part of nostalgia now, um, if you're a paid member of my sub stack, every month we have.
422
00:25:08,13.3333333 --> 00:25:19,83.3333333
I just start, I've been doing this for years outside of substance, but just the other couple of months ago, I started on sub stack where every month you get a, one of a kind created.
423
00:25:19,533.3333333 --> 00:25:24,153.3333333
Canva template that allows you to look back in your photographs from the month.
424
00:25:24,543.3333333 --> 00:25:27,423.3333333
Whether or not they're professional or not, it doesn't matter.
425
00:25:27,423.3333333 --> 00:25:32,763.3333333
It's more so your personal snapshots, because this is like an inquiry, a self-reflection of consciousness.
426
00:25:33,333.3333333 --> 00:25:36,73.3333333
Um, you read the the prompts.
427
00:25:36,733.3333333 --> 00:25:41,563.3333333
Feel them and go and look in your archive and create this visual.
428
00:25:42,193.3333333 --> 00:25:47,663.3333333
Introspective journal, where you're able to awaken to what you're trying to tell yourself.
429
00:25:48,953.3333333 --> 00:25:53,213.3333333
And take that wisdom and move on to your next month of your life.
430
00:25:53,903.3333333 --> 00:25:58,763.3333333
Deeply rooted, more grounded, more intentional, more in tune with yourself.
431
00:26:00,543.3333333 --> 00:26:02,163.3333333
So with the one-on-one mentoring.
432
00:26:02,673.3333333 --> 00:26:05,263.3333333
I'm taking, that monthly practice.
433
00:26:05,773.3333333 --> 00:26:07,243.3333333
And bringing it to you.
434
00:26:07,243.3333333 --> 00:26:11,503.3333333
Directly and in real time, It's real time intimate.
435
00:26:11,893.3333333 --> 00:26:13,723.3333333
Vulnerable safe.
436
00:26:13,753.3333333 --> 00:26:14,983.3333333
Non-judgemental.
437
00:26:14,983.3333333 --> 00:26:20,773.3333333
Questionings of your beliefs, your values, your emotions, your experiences, your struggles.
438
00:26:21,643.3333333 --> 00:26:23,113.3333333
Revealing blind spots.
439
00:26:23,513.3333333 --> 00:26:25,943.3333333
And providing a catalyst for.
440
00:26:26,573.3333333 --> 00:26:31,823.3333333
Transformation and a clear understanding of your identity and your purpose.
441
00:26:33,503.3333333 --> 00:26:34,343.3333333
It's like this.
442
00:26:34,343.3333333 --> 00:26:38,273.3333333
Self-created roadmap that gives you.
443
00:26:38,273.3333333 --> 00:26:43,193.3333333
So much peace in being able to just put your finger on something and going, oh, oh yeah.
444
00:26:44,543.3333333 --> 00:26:45,833.3333333
Oh, that's why that's happening.
445
00:26:46,223.3333333 --> 00:26:49,253.3333333
Oh, this is why I feel restless and discontent.
446
00:26:49,763.3333333 --> 00:26:51,953.3333333
Oh, you know, it's not a magic pill.
447
00:26:52,253.3333333 --> 00:26:55,313.3333333
It doesn't make everything go away and everything.
448
00:26:55,313.3333333 --> 00:26:55,853.3333333
Okay.
449
00:26:56,393.3333333 --> 00:26:57,203.3333333
But I think.
450
00:26:57,833.3333333 --> 00:27:00,923.3333333
That it does something way more enduring, way more.
451
00:27:00,923.3333333 --> 00:27:03,833.3333333
Beneficial, which is providing.
452
00:27:03,833.3333333 --> 00:27:05,33.3333333
Resiliency.
453
00:27:05,693.3333333 --> 00:27:07,943.3333333
And a reverence.
454
00:27:07,943.3333333 --> 00:27:14,153.3333333
For your authentic voice and your unique path and your inner compass.
455
00:27:16,163.3333333 --> 00:27:17,723.3333333
So if you're someone that's feeling.
456
00:27:18,833.3333333 --> 00:27:24,953.3333333
Restless discontent, um, craving a deeper connection with yourself.
457
00:27:25,383.3333333 --> 00:27:28,533.3333333
Support in navigating a transition in your life.
458
00:27:29,263.3333333 --> 00:27:33,943.3333333
If you're looking to uncover deeper truth or reveal new perspectives or.
459
00:27:33,943.3333333 --> 00:27:36,553.3333333
If you have this feeling that there's something.
460
00:27:37,153.3333333 --> 00:27:39,943.3333333
More there's something more line something's not quite right.
461
00:27:40,3.3333333 --> 00:27:40,693.3333333
There's something.
462
00:27:41,293.3333333 --> 00:27:45,613.3333333
That's just out of you that you are really desperate to get a look at.
463
00:27:46,133.3333333 --> 00:27:48,413.3333333
If you're looking for someone to go.
464
00:27:48,833.3333333 --> 00:27:52,253.3333333
Down down, down into the depths with you.
465
00:27:52,673.3333333 --> 00:27:55,403.3333333
And, Figure out what's going on underneath the surface.
466
00:27:55,913.3333333 --> 00:27:59,303.3333333
So that we can live more freely, more expansively.
467
00:27:59,753.3333333 --> 00:28:00,563.3333333
Later.
468
00:28:00,563.3333333 --> 00:28:04,613.3333333
With this unconditional connection to self and trust.
469
00:28:05,303.3333333 --> 00:28:06,23.3333333
Then.
470
00:28:06,23.3333333 --> 00:28:08,393.3333333
I'm offering one-off 90 minute sessions.
471
00:28:09,113.3333333 --> 00:28:11,483.3333333
And if that is something that.
472
00:28:12,173.3333333 --> 00:28:13,373.3333333
Felt amazing.
473
00:28:13,403.3333333 --> 00:28:17,93.3333333
And you want to continue, um, that investment will go towards.
474
00:28:17,543.3333333 --> 00:28:21,743.3333333
A month long support container, I have monthly support options that include.
475
00:28:22,283.3333333 --> 00:28:30,293.3333333
One-on-one zoom face-to-face calls as well as in your pocket support through Voxer, which is a voice note app.
476
00:28:30,653.3333333 --> 00:28:32,63.3333333
We can send each other voice notes.
477
00:28:33,863.3333333 --> 00:28:35,633.3333333
So that's it.
478
00:28:35,693.3333333 --> 00:28:37,463.3333333
Questions, questions, questions.
479
00:28:37,463.3333333 --> 00:28:39,233.3333333
If you have any questions, please reach out.
480
00:28:39,683.3333333 --> 00:28:44,183.3333333
Um, I would love to chat through what this would look like.
481
00:28:44,213.3333333 --> 00:28:52,13.3333333
Deep creativity can be, um, Full of solitude and it can be isolating and it can be.
482
00:28:52,913.3333333 --> 00:28:54,353.3333333
A little lonely at times.
483
00:28:54,383.3333333 --> 00:28:55,223.3333333
And.
484
00:28:57,173.3333333 --> 00:28:59,633.3333333
Coming up for air with someone.
485
00:29:00,83.3333333 --> 00:29:01,523.3333333
Who not only gets it.
486
00:29:02,3.3333333 --> 00:29:09,923.3333333
But it's more concerned with your truth than what they have to say or giving advice.
487
00:29:10,353.3333333 --> 00:29:11,163.3333333
We'll never.
488
00:29:11,163.3333333 --> 00:29:12,123.3333333
Not be helpful.
489
00:29:13,623.3333333 --> 00:29:14,433.3333333
I'm pretty sure.
490
00:29:17,673.3333333 --> 00:29:18,963.3333333
That is what I have for you today.
491
00:29:19,243.3333333 --> 00:29:20,503.3333333
I'm going to leave you with a question.
492
00:29:21,253.3333333 --> 00:29:23,773.3333333
In the spirit of asking good questions.
493
00:29:24,283.3333333 --> 00:29:25,63.3333333
Let me leave you.
494
00:29:25,333.3333333 --> 00:29:25,903.3333333
With a question.
495
00:29:28,63.3333333 --> 00:29:29,593.3333333
So it's by Walker, Percy.
496
00:29:30,403.3333333 --> 00:29:33,673.3333333
And the quote says, this is not the question.
497
00:29:33,673.3333333 --> 00:29:34,243.3333333
This is the quote.
498
00:29:34,273.3333333 --> 00:29:37,603.3333333
The quote says the search is what everyone would undertake.
499
00:29:37,603.3333333 --> 00:29:41,233.3333333
If he were not struck in the everyday-ness of his own life.
500
00:29:41,773.3333333 --> 00:29:44,113.3333333
To be aware of the possibility of the search.
501
00:29:44,443.3333333 --> 00:29:45,883.3333333
Is to be on to something.
502
00:29:46,813.3333333 --> 00:29:49,693.3333333
Not to be on to something is to be in despair.
503
00:29:52,453.3333333 --> 00:29:59,143.3333333
What are you onto? What is something that feels like it's magnetically, like drawing you towards it.
504
00:30:01,483.3333333 --> 00:30:03,223.3333333
What is a possibility.
505
00:30:03,763.3333333 --> 00:30:06,283.3333333
You are aware of and curious about.
506
00:30:08,653.3333333 --> 00:30:11,773.3333333
I want to understand what is the mobilizing.
507
00:30:11,773.3333333 --> 00:30:12,853.3333333
Energetic.
508
00:30:12,853.3333333 --> 00:30:14,683.3333333
Life force feeling.
509
00:30:14,683.3333333 --> 00:30:16,513.3333333
Space in your life right now.
510
00:30:17,773.3333333 --> 00:30:19,693.3333333
What is that? Just identify it.
511
00:30:20,353.3333333 --> 00:30:22,843.3333333
If you don't know what that is.
512
00:30:22,843.3333333 --> 00:30:23,443.3333333
It's okay.
513
00:30:23,983.3333333 --> 00:30:24,673.3333333
Sit there.
514
00:30:24,763.3333333 --> 00:30:26,503.3333333
Close your eyes, take a few breaths.
515
00:30:26,533.3333333 --> 00:30:29,443.3333333
And remember the last time you felt that energy.
516
00:30:30,13.3333333 --> 00:30:30,343.3333333
That like.
517
00:30:30,643.3333333 --> 00:30:36,643.3333333
Is that if you're talking to someone about something that when you're like, Like a puppy, like.
518
00:30:37,273.3333333 --> 00:30:37,903.3333333
I can't wait to.
519
00:30:39,463.3333333 --> 00:30:42,163.3333333
For your turn to speak because you want to talk about it so much and you can't shut up.
520
00:30:42,913.3333333 --> 00:30:49,753.3333333
What is that? Or the time where you feel just so exhilarated, you take a deep breath and exhale.
521
00:30:50,53.3333333 --> 00:30:50,893.3333333
Not from.
522
00:30:52,393.3333333 --> 00:30:56,833.3333333
Tension or from side or from, from actual.
523
00:30:56,833.3333333 --> 00:30:57,193.3333333
Aw.
524
00:30:59,833.3333333 --> 00:31:01,393.3333333
When's the last time you felt.
525
00:31:02,23.3333333 --> 00:31:03,313.3333333
Like you lost track of time.
526
00:31:03,343.3333333 --> 00:31:04,63.3333333
Completely.
527
00:31:04,903.3333333 --> 00:31:17,973.3333333
What are those worlds? Where are you going? What are you on too? Right now? See you next week.
528
00:31:19,462.3333333 --> 00:31:22,682.3333333
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