The One Where Beth Interviews Mel

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Good morning, Mel. Good morning, Beth. How are you? I'm good, thank

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you. So last time when we

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met, we were telling our listeners all about the

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show and I suppose our hopes, aspirations for the

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show and what we want listeners to get out of the show. But today

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we thought it would be really nice to start to introduce us as your

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hosts, starting with Melissa this

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week. So that's what we're here to do today, to learn more about Melissa's

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story for our listeners. And

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don't we? We always have a story, always a story to

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tell. And so

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since this is a podcast about how

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soul inspires us as human beings,

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I thought it'd be really good just to, well, just to start at the beginning.

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I know our lives are very long and there's lots of twists and turns, but

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just tell me how your life journey and how your

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soul is inspired life began for

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you and how did you end up doing what you're doing in the world

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today? Thank you. It's funny, isn't it, because

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we find ourselves where we are, and it can often,

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I get that question a lot, like, how did you get into doing what it

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is that you're doing? And it's such an unusual

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place of work, isn't it? And such an unusual thing to do

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that. It's a reasonable question, but I'm not sure I could

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pinpoint necessarily a

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particular point in my life. But I'll say this, that I was very

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lucky that when I was growing up, my grandma was a

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hypnotherapist. So from the age of eight, I used to

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be taken across the rainbow bridge, and

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I started to understand the power of

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the mind and the imagination and how it can

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be used for healing and for

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understanding yourself better and for creating outcomes that

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you like or that you want, and also

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that your emotions don't necessarily need to run the show. So

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she would do things. For example, when I was

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at school and I was having my exams and I was feeling nervous,

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and she helped me ground

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into or anchor into a point of confidence. And,

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you know, these things I just grew up with and I guess figured that they

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were pretty normal until I then, you

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know, went into my late teens, early

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twenties, launched into my life of work and

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doing all the things that we're told that we have to do, the regular

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stuff. Went to uni, went to, got a job, started working

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myself up the corporate ladder, you know, getting married and

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having, buying the house and all the things that we're meant to do. Tick,

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tick, tick, tick, tick. But what I realized was that I had

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this kind of low level, maybe anxiety

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going on, just a little bit of, like, I

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couldn't say that I was as happy as the piece of paper.

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Yeah, said I should be. And it was, I

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think, because of that and because of the pressures and the stresses and how my

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body was handling it, that I eventually found Reiki.

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And I remember having a massage, and

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this lady put her hands on my head, just

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above my head, and I felt this feeling like I'd not felt before.

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And it felt as if my head was being

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filled up with this most amazing goo. And then

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all of a sudden, it all emptied and I was like, oh, I feel really

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clear. Like, what was that? And

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that was how I discovered Reiki. And shortly after I

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learned it, and then I realized, because I was quite cynical,

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quite scientific, I like things to be proven. Even the

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hypnotherapy and the NLP stuff I was doing, it was all kind of

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result. So you like things to be proven,

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we should delve into that more. Well, I did now,

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because when I, when I learned Reiki and I had this

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energy that I could physically feel. So that was my proof. I could

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physically feel this energy moving through my hands. And

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I was picking stuff up. Even on the very first time that I

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practiced on somebody, I was getting these impressions,

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and I thought, well, hold on a minute, if I can go to

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a weekend thing, have somebody, like, do some funky stuff, like,

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with my head in my hands, teach me a few things, and now I can

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physically feel energy course through my body. What

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am I closing myself off to? That was the question. Ah,

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yeah. And then that led me to read

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a whole load of things about a whole load of

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stuff. So the law of attraction was kind of the next thing

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I delved into. And that changed everything

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because I started to realize quite how powerful my thoughts

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were, that it wasn't just that it was influencing how I was behaving.

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And, you know, obviously I was doing visualization as a child

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through the hypnotherapy, but that was something that I thought was quite

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different. And now realizing, well, the world is literally

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responding to me. And I think

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for me, because I had so by then, I'd done a lot of NLP

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training, and obviously I'd grown up learning these techniques and

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my grandmother tapping and all sorts of things as well.

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And I was looking at a lot of this through those lens, like, through the

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psychological lens. I was like, well, maybe it is just because I believe it's going

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to happen, that it is going to happen. Maybe it's just that my brain is

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looking for the things, you know? But actually, that was really helpful for me

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because it helped me sift away some of the stuff that was

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maybe a little bit out there,

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actually find practices that were quite grounded and that actually

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worked. And I started to blend these

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psychological, scientific things with the

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kind of energetic, esoteric stuff. Yeah,

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I think that's where the magic is, because I think a lot of people

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are either in a Wu camp or a scientific camp, but

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actually, it is a science. It's a law. It's a natural law of the

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universe. And so I think it's good

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when you get to that place, but it takes a while for some people to

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get to that place. It takes a while because we've had

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so much influence that tells us that, you

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know, there's a path that we need to take, and that's, and that's what we

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do. But, you know, this was all the background

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of how I started to get interested in it. It wasn't until I learned

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Reiki, and I suddenly was like, no, I can't be doing this

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anymore. And I literally, my whole body launched me

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out, like, quite physically out of where I

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was working at the time. And it

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took a series of leaps and jumps and

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circumstances and, you know, some things that were, that were quite

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hard, you know, because was breaking free from this

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thing a lot of courage and trust

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in myself. And it was really when I started

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sitting in circle and developing my psychic and

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mediumship abilities and making this a more important

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part of my life, the work aspect of

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it just naturally rolled in. People asked me,

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can you do me reading? Or, you know, I was having wakey clients. I was

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being then asked to lead some workshops, and it

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just kind of nicely, nicely just unfolded

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in front of me, and I can't be more grateful for

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that. I think that part of it is

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what hopefully some of the listeners will take a lot of comfort from,

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because when we finally allow ourselves to follow

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that path, almost surrender to it and just allow

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magical things just start to drop and things start

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to align and show up for us. But it takes, like you say, that initial

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courage to take that leap of faith on ourselves, or,

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and I'd love to just hear a little bit more when you say physically launched

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out of your body to maybe to. What was that? To escape what

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you're, what was currently going on? What was that all about? What happened? So

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I working in a showroom at the time, and it was a job that

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I equally loved and hated. I mean, it was, it was 50 what?

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Plus hours a week. And there was a lot of pressure and all of this.

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And I walked into the building and the only

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way I can describe it. So this was about three weeks after I received my

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Reiki attunement. I walked into the building and it

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literally felt as if my body was being

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screamed at. Like, you know, when you can

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feel sound, like when the chores or,

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you know, you hear that kind of high pitched thing, it was like there was

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no, there was no sound, but that's what it felt like. It felt like I

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was physically being attacked by

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something. And

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my feeling was, I just need to run. I just wanted to bolt. Obviously, I

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couldn't because I had work, work to do.

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However, I walked into the reception

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and said to the poor receptionist, who probably heard me say it

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7000 times, that's it, I need to leave. I can't be here

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anymore. And there was a local paper that had just been

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delivered on the counter and I opened it up and

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I literally opened it up to this full page ad of

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a job, of a new role that was local and it

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was 30 hours a week and it was, you know, kind of

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in training kind of stuff. And I was like, oh, my God, I was

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like, this. This is the job I'm going to get. And it was a. Well,

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I had to work quite a long notice period, but three months later

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I was in that role. Amazing.

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What was that job for the motor industry? So

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it was quite interesting and it was, it was

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a step from what I already knew. It was a real

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bridge from what I already knew into where I was coming because there was

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a lot of self empowerment and motivation

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and, you know, recognition and training and I was meeting lots of

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people and traveling up and down the country and like, it was the most

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bizarre job. However, that job got me

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official NLP training that paid

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for. You know, I still draw from today. And

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it met me and met a load of people that were

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instrumental to my path. And most importantly, it gave me the

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time to study and to go on courses and to continue my

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reiki. And I was always there with one of my weird books

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because I had an actual lunch break and I'd sit and read my

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strange esoteric books in the gardens

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there. So it was that, that was the bridge

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into then when I finally had my children and, and

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stopped working and, you know, the stories in between there, which

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weren't easy at the time, but

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that was what I was like, well, I can't work for anyone else

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anymore. I just have to do this. I've just got to make this work.

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And the universe definitely listened to me because there's one point I need to go

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and get a job, and I was applying for all these jobs that I was

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perfect for, and I wasn't getting them, and I was, you know,

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like it wants me. Thank goodness I can get

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them. Yeah, there's always a grand plan.

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We keep applying for these jobs, and it's just not landing. You think, what's the

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matter with me? But there's something bigger at play.

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So do you feel as though there's been. Your soul has always

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been calling you? I mean, you spoke then about, that was a physical kind of

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waking up, like a sign, something that you had to pay

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attention to and take action on. But do you feel there's a

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thread or something that your soul has always been leading you

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towards? Yeah. You know,

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what I've learned is this, that so many of us find ourselves in these

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jobs doing the things that we're meant to, and that's where I was.

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And like I said, I had this kind of low level.

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I don't know what it was, but it was a certain dissatisfaction. And,

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you know, you know, I wasn't looking forward to life. Life

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wasn't. There was days where I'd be driving into work thinking,

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oh, well, if my brakes failed right now, then I wouldn't have to go into

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work like it was, you know, this dangerous thinking.

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And I realize now that that was

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a part of me that was

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consistently telling me, Melissa, there's more to life than

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this to life. And the

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more we shove it down, the louder it

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starts to talk to you. And that's what I was doing. And

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so I don't want anyone listening to this, thinking that, oh, well,

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your soul starts giving you, like, dangerous thoughts, because that's not the

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point. The point is that the soul was doing

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what I needed in order to get me out of where I

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was, I think, yeah. And with that

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came vision. So I would, you know, go and

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have a weekend away, or I'd go out with my husband, and every time I'd

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start talking to him about, oh, one day, I'd love to be

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working with people and just helping them, you know, doing some

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coaching and having my own business and maybe running retreats, and I could

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take them and I could train them to do this and, like. And this every

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time. My poor husband must have been so bored,

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and. And it was one day when I heard myself,

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it'd gone away again. By this point, I think two of my three children

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were born, and I heard myself say it again,

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and I was like, I need to stop. No, I was pregnant with my second.

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I was like, I need to stop just saying this. I need to actually start

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doing it. Yeah. And then

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I started to actually listen to my soul. I was

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that rather than trying to ignore it and trying to tick the boxes of doing

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everything that I should, I was like, okay, what do I need to know?

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What do I need to know? What do I need? Yeah.

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That started this communication process

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that I don't need to have the dangerous thoughts and, you know, I don't need

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to drop into despair before

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I realize I'm going. There's a better way. Yeah.

Beth Hewitt: 00:14:40

Yeah. Those dominant

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thoughts and words that we use every day are

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so powerful for keeping us where we are. We don't realize

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it. And the fact that you thought, I've been saying this

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for a long time, but that's all of us, isn't it? You know, when we

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find ourselves stuck in a place, whatever, if it's a relationship or a

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job or, you know, whatever that is, when we actually think about

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what have we been telling ourselves and what have we been saying to other people,

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then it becomes. There's clues there. But until we are

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aware of that, then it's very difficult to move

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away from that. You know, it's interesting. I would see people.

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So where I was, people would come in and they'd be consultants,

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and they'd be training people, and I'd look at them and I'd think, oh, they're

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so lucky. And this is what,

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when you receive these inspirations, and that's what they are,

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well, they're there. I think that these are also signs from the universe, like,

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hey, this is possible. You can do this, you know, is giving

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me something to model towards. And it wasn't perfect

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because it. But it showed me away. It kept showing me

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away. And I think anyone listening that if

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you're finding that you're in a situation, then you find

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somebody that kind of triggers something in you, whether, like, oh,

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well, I could do that. I could do it better than that because I used

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to think that as well. I'd get trainers come in and be like, oh, I'd

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be able to train people better than that. And it would kind of, you know,

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trigger the ego in me as well. It's something.

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There's something in there that you're recognizing in yourself.

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And when you notice that, if you can start to follow

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those clues of, well,

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maybe I could try that. Try it on.

Beth Hewitt: 00:16:34

Try emphasize and see what happens.

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So since then, following your

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path and starting your own business and creating

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lots of different things. Are

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there certain aspects of what you have created up to this point that you are

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the most proud of? The thing that I'm most

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proud of, I want to use that word, is my

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book. Because that had been brewing inside

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me for a long time. Yeah. People. And, you know, I love

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a book. And I'd had people asking me, oh, you should write a

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book. And I'm like, why would, why would I write a

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book? Who would read a book written by me? And

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I felt this real urge at

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one point in, it was really sudden when I started,

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it was very sudden. Like, I literally wrote

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a Facebook post, read it back to myself, and thought,

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this is the start of a book message. This lady

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who I'd been following for a while, who was a book coach,

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and went, is this the start of the book? Went, yeah. I said,

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all right. I looked at what was going on astrologically, because at the time, I

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was working with somebody

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through my astral chart, and I was like, right, give me two

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weeks. And two weeks came, and

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I paid her the money, and I opened up my laptop and I just started

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writing. And literally,

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it was like ten weeks. I'd written

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the bones of the book. I'd written like 60,000

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words or something of the book. Amazing. My first book, there was

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no plan, there was no anything. I had Katie coaching me

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along, really just encouraging me, like, yeah, keep going, keep going, keep

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going. And as I read it

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back, I. Was like, wow, did it feel like you were

Beth Hewitt: 00:18:35

your channel in? Or wouldn't you get into that pen on paper or typing

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on the screen, that things just start to flow through.

Melissa Amos: 00:18:43

You and out completely flowed through. I

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enjoyed writing every single word of that book. I

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thoroughly just, it was like, oh,

Melissa Amos: 00:18:54

I wonder what's going to happen when I open my laptop

Melissa Amos: 00:18:58

today. And there'd be times where I'd be suddenly 3

Melissa Amos: 00:19:01

hours gone, and I've written like,

Melissa Amos: 00:19:05

whatever, however many words. And

Melissa Amos: 00:19:09

so the book is really, it's a story of my life. We just gave you

Melissa Amos: 00:19:13

a very abridged version, but it's a story of the. The

Melissa Amos: 00:19:16

realizations and the information and the

Melissa Amos: 00:19:19

philosophies and the real life implementation

Melissa Amos: 00:19:23

of some of these things and the questions and the ego and the

Melissa Amos: 00:19:27

inspired and all of this stuff in there. So what was I

Melissa Amos: 00:19:30

channeling? Because it was my life, but reading it back,

Melissa Amos: 00:19:34

I noticed how the perspective of what it

Melissa Amos: 00:19:38

was that I was going through has been channeled through a higher

Melissa Amos: 00:19:42

perspective that I now have. Didn't have at the time.

Melissa Amos: 00:19:45

And actually writing that book was super healing for

Melissa Amos: 00:19:49

me because I was, you know, one of the.

Melissa Amos: 00:19:52

One of the practices that I work with are the Akashic records.

Melissa Amos: 00:19:56

And the Akashic records hold the story

Melissa Amos: 00:19:59

of your life and your life's past. And one

Melissa Amos: 00:20:03

of the amazing things about working in the records is

Melissa Amos: 00:20:07

whatever you learn about yourself, you learn through the

Melissa Amos: 00:20:11

eyes of compassion and non judgment and higher

Melissa Amos: 00:20:14

perspective. And I kind of feel like

Melissa Amos: 00:20:18

that version of me

Melissa Amos: 00:20:22

was giving me a. Lot of the stuff because

Beth Hewitt: 00:20:26

the things. In there, I don't. I didn't consciously remember

Melissa Amos: 00:20:30

until I started writing about it. Yeah, well, there's a

Melissa Amos: 00:20:34

significant incident in my life, you know, that.

Melissa Amos: 00:20:38

That came from somewhere. So, yeah,

Melissa Amos: 00:20:42

it was a channeling. It certainly came

Melissa Amos: 00:20:45

from. It didn't come from logic. There wasn't, like, right, this x, y, z,

Melissa Amos: 00:20:49

I need to write. And I've had people who have read

Melissa Amos: 00:20:53

it since and say that it hit them in

Melissa Amos: 00:20:57

a way or they felt it, or there was, like, things started to happen when

Melissa Amos: 00:21:00

they had the books in their hands and, you know, they'd have the book, and

Melissa Amos: 00:21:04

then suddenly angel numbers were everywhere, or, like, birds would start

Melissa Amos: 00:21:07

flying around them or, like, you know, like, weird things would happen.

Melissa Amos: 00:21:10

And that was one of my. Not my intention, that weird things would

Melissa Amos: 00:21:14

happen, but that the book would hold an energy. Yeah. And I think

Melissa Amos: 00:21:18

through the words and, you know, through some of the

Melissa Amos: 00:21:22

energy work I did with the book, it holds something that

Melissa Amos: 00:21:25

imparts on you when you read it so well.

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:29

It is a very magical book. I will put the book in the show notes

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:32

as well, so people can check it out for themselves. But it does hold

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:36

a lot of energy, does hold a lot of power. And I

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:40

think some authors, when they're right, it's

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:44

forced, it's structured. It's. I need to do this amount of words a day,

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:48

but when you allow yourself just to, like you did, just

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:51

allow the words to unfold and flow and not necessarily be,

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:55

I suppose, not being too connected to what

Beth Hewitt: 00:21:59

the outcome of a chapter was going to be until you're reading it back and

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:01

you're going, oh, my goodness, where did that come from? I think that's

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:05

incredibly powerful thing to do. So

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:09

an amazing accomplishment, and people should check it

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:12

out. Thank you. So why would you say

Beth Hewitt: 00:22:16

you do the work that you do in the world?

Melissa Amos: 00:22:20

Why? Why do I do what I do?

Melissa Amos: 00:22:25

Why do I do what I do? It's. I really do feel

Melissa Amos: 00:22:29

like this is what I was born.

Melissa Amos: 00:22:34

You know, I get asked a lot about purpose. What's my

Melissa Amos: 00:22:37

purpose? And am I on my purpose, and am I on my path?

Melissa Amos: 00:22:41

And what I've realized through

Melissa Amos: 00:22:45

my life and through working with others is that

Melissa Amos: 00:22:48

our purpose is to know

Melissa Amos: 00:22:51

ourselves truly. And the book helped, really helped me with that.

Melissa Amos: 00:22:55

But our purpose is to know ourselves. And what I mean by that is

Melissa Amos: 00:22:59

to know the stories that we tell ourselves and to know the things

Melissa Amos: 00:23:03

that light us up and the things that, things that if, you know, if money

Melissa Amos: 00:23:06

were no object and you didn't have to have any

Melissa Amos: 00:23:09

responsibilities, what is it that you would be doing? And what it is

Melissa Amos: 00:23:13

that I would be doing would be discovering and delving and getting

Melissa Amos: 00:23:17

curious about metaphysics and energy

Melissa Amos: 00:23:21

work and the power of the mind and the

Melissa Amos: 00:23:24

invisible realms that are out there and

Melissa Amos: 00:23:28

healing and self empowerment. Because it fascinates

Melissa Amos: 00:23:31

me. It absolutely fascinates me. Like, I love

Melissa Amos: 00:23:35

hearing about the one person that managed

Melissa Amos: 00:23:39

to, you know, against all odds, become

Melissa Amos: 00:23:42

the, whatever it was, healthy, the

Melissa Amos: 00:23:46

CEO, the millionaire, the, like, happiest

Melissa Amos: 00:23:49

person in the world. Like, whatever it was, I love that. And that's what

Melissa Amos: 00:23:53

lights me up. And

Melissa Amos: 00:23:57

when we, when we truly know what it is that lights

Melissa Amos: 00:24:01

us up and we start to follow that, our

Melissa Amos: 00:24:04

second purpose is to assist others and to

Melissa Amos: 00:24:08

help others. And I truly believe that our two

Melissa Amos: 00:24:11

purposes are always aligned. Yeah. What lights

Melissa Amos: 00:24:15

me up and how I influence and impact people,

Melissa Amos: 00:24:19

they're aligned. So why do I do what I do? Because I

Melissa Amos: 00:24:23

love it. I am fascinated by it. I literally, I'm

Melissa Amos: 00:24:26

currently studying my psychotherapy

Melissa Amos: 00:24:29

diploma, and it's like a weekend a month, and

Melissa Amos: 00:24:33

I love it. I'm like, yes, this weekend I get to

Melissa Amos: 00:24:37

learn all this stuff. I'm reading about it. And I took

Melissa Amos: 00:24:41

this, like, psychology book on holiday with me, and I'm like, I love

Melissa Amos: 00:24:44

this. So why do I, this may sound

Melissa Amos: 00:24:47

selfish, but why do I do what I love? Because I love it. I

Melissa Amos: 00:24:51

love it, love it, I love it. And, and

Melissa Amos: 00:24:56

it has such a profound impact on other people

Melissa Amos: 00:24:59

that I love that. I love that, too.

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:03

Yeah. Right? Yeah. So that's

Melissa Amos: 00:25:07

why I do, I mean. I completely agree with you. I don't think it

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:10

sounds selfish at all. I think we should all be doing

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:15

what we want to be doing in the world. We should all be doing the

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:17

thing that makes us the happiest. And in doing that, we

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:21

are giving other people the permission. Obviously, people can do what they want,

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:25

but we're giving people permission to see that they can also do that for themselves

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:29

as well. You know, in us stepping up and following our purpose and passion,

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:32

that, you know, hopefully will inspire other people to take

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:36

that leap of faith on themselves so they can be happy, too. So I would

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:40

say it's one of the most selfless things to do what makes

Beth Hewitt: 00:25:43

us happy and what we want to do in the world. You know, when you

Melissa Amos: 00:25:46

truly know yourself, like, truly, truly all the stuff, stories and

Melissa Amos: 00:25:50

all the programming and all the things. Right. That influence us. But when you

Melissa Amos: 00:25:53

truly know that self that's, that's

Melissa Amos: 00:25:57

within all of that, then what, the thing that lights you

Melissa Amos: 00:26:01

up and, and keeps you going

Melissa Amos: 00:26:05

is usually quite selfless,

Melissa Amos: 00:26:09

like it usually is. I think you could say that to some people

Melissa Amos: 00:26:13

and think, oh, well, then I'm just going to have a hedonistic

Melissa Amos: 00:26:16

lifestyle and I'm just going to be, you know, going around

Melissa Amos: 00:26:20

drinking and doing drugs and having orgies and doing all of these things. And that's

Melissa Amos: 00:26:24

what it is. That makes you happy. But it's like, maybe actually those things

Melissa Amos: 00:26:28

aren't what make you happy and light you up, but they're masking, they're making

Melissa Amos: 00:26:32

you feel good because there's something inside that, you

Melissa Amos: 00:26:35

know, that's not been recognized just yet. So,

Melissa Amos: 00:26:39

yeah, I think. I think that this is, part of

Melissa Amos: 00:26:43

this is what I do is I help people know themselves so that they can

Melissa Amos: 00:26:46

go and, and light themselves up. I love

Beth Hewitt: 00:26:50

that it distills down to that phrase, what you said, purpose

Beth Hewitt: 00:26:54

is to know yourself. Because I think people get trapped

Beth Hewitt: 00:26:57

sometimes in what is my passion, what is my purpose? How do I figure it

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:01

out? And they're so up in their head about it, but it simply is to

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:04

know yourself. Every facet of yourself, every experience, every

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:08

up and down, every challenge, every relationship,

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:12

all of it, the whole holistic thing. Purpose is simply

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:15

to know. Know yourself. I love that. I think it boils it down,

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:19

makes it easy for people to get their head around.

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:22

Okay, so depending

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:26

on when people are listening to this, you may be working on different

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:30

things, but what are you currently working on? What business projects or life projects

Beth Hewitt: 00:27:34

are you currently working on? So, years in the making.

Melissa Amos: 00:27:37

Years and years in the making. Finally

Melissa Amos: 00:27:41

doing it after many requests. I have

Melissa Amos: 00:27:45

soul school launching in, we're starting in January.

Melissa Amos: 00:27:49

And soul school is all

Melissa Amos: 00:27:53

of my knowledge and practices and experience

Melissa Amos: 00:27:56

on working with the Akashic records. And

Melissa Amos: 00:28:00

so I'm so excited about this. You know, the Akashic records

Melissa Amos: 00:28:03

changed and influenced me so

Melissa Amos: 00:28:06

profoundly, not just in the work I do, but

Melissa Amos: 00:28:10

in how I know myself and how I could

Melissa Amos: 00:28:14

support all of the other practices that I was, that I've been working with

Melissa Amos: 00:28:18

before. And since. And I've

Melissa Amos: 00:28:22

been leading Akashic sessions for

Melissa Amos: 00:28:26

six years. I've been running Akashic workshops for five

Melissa Amos: 00:28:30

years, but I've never really done

Melissa Amos: 00:28:33

this, which is a full year immersion

Melissa Amos: 00:28:37

into the records and how we

Melissa Amos: 00:28:41

can work with them and what is held in them and how we

Melissa Amos: 00:28:44

can bring self healing and how we can

Melissa Amos: 00:28:48

work in the records with other people. So how to open other people's

Melissa Amos: 00:28:51

records and. And give them the information

Melissa Amos: 00:28:55

and the energy that they need from that and some of the interventions that

Melissa Amos: 00:28:59

we can use in there to help them activate into their

Melissa Amos: 00:29:02

soul's path. So, yeah, it's going to be a whole

Melissa Amos: 00:29:06

year with me in a nice small group

Melissa Amos: 00:29:10

with some amazing insights, and

Melissa Amos: 00:29:14

I'm so excited about what this is going to bring for

Melissa Amos: 00:29:18

everybody that joins. It's like, it's

Melissa Amos: 00:29:21

blowing me away already. And, you know, like the book,

Melissa Amos: 00:29:25

this is how the course has been being structured.

Melissa Amos: 00:29:29

Like, literally one day I was, you know, I had the idea and I'm like,

Melissa Amos: 00:29:32

right. It was just like, put it out, put it out, put it out. I

Melissa Amos: 00:29:34

was like, yeah, but I haven't got anything. So, like, put it out, put it

Melissa Amos: 00:29:36

out, put it out. So. So I went, fine, and I put it out and

Melissa Amos: 00:29:39

people signed up and I was like, I don't have a structure. I don't know

Melissa Amos: 00:29:42

what's going on. All I know is the XYZ. And then one

Melissa Amos: 00:29:45

day, there's this beautiful day in the sunshine, and I came out in

Melissa Amos: 00:29:49

the garden and opened my laptop, and then suddenly,

Melissa Amos: 00:29:53

like, a framework was just

Melissa Amos: 00:29:56

on my paper. I was like, well, this is very nice. So

Melissa Amos: 00:30:00

I'm excited to see how that expands and transpires

Melissa Amos: 00:30:04

over the months. Amazing.

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:07

That sounds wonderful. And we'll put the link to that as well, because I'm sure

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:11

we can update that for people who are interested in joining that as

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:15

well. So we're coming to the end of our

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:19

wonderful interview. What

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:22

one piece of advice, and maybe it's hard to distill it down into one piece

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:25

of advice, but what one piece of advice would you like to give to our

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:28

listeners who are trying to live their own Searle inspired

Beth Hewitt: 00:30:32

life? Well, we've spoken a lot

Melissa Amos: 00:30:35

today about knowing yourself, and that's always going to be the first

Melissa Amos: 00:30:39

piece of advice that I'd give anyone. What I mean

Melissa Amos: 00:30:43

by that is just start to really get into awareness

Melissa Amos: 00:30:47

of what is happening in your. In your head, what your

Melissa Amos: 00:30:51

brain likes to tell you, what's happening in your body and

Melissa Amos: 00:30:54

what your body likes to tell you. And once you've had a little

Melissa Amos: 00:30:58

listen to that because it's going to keep on chatting to you. Listen to

Melissa Amos: 00:31:02

it, but know that that isn't you.

Melissa Amos: 00:31:05

This brain that tells you all of the things and this body that gives

Melissa Amos: 00:31:09

you all of these responses, they were a part of you, but

Melissa Amos: 00:31:13

they're not the whole of you. So once you've listened to that, just

Melissa Amos: 00:31:17

ask yourself, and whether you want to call that soul or

Melissa Amos: 00:31:21

higher self or intuition or in a

Melissa Amos: 00:31:24

teacher or in a wisdom, just ask

Melissa Amos: 00:31:29

that part of you the question, what do I need to know

Melissa Amos: 00:31:32

today? Or what do you think about? What do I

Melissa Amos: 00:31:36

think about this? And just start to

Melissa Amos: 00:31:40

develop this conversation. Because what this does is a few

Melissa Amos: 00:31:44

things. It, first of all, helps you understand that

Melissa Amos: 00:31:47

these thoughts and these emotions, these feelings that are kind

Melissa Amos: 00:31:51

of spinning around all day long are simply an

Melissa Amos: 00:31:55

opinion and they don't have to drive you. So

Melissa Amos: 00:31:58

it starts to create that separation between what we often

Melissa Amos: 00:32:02

identify as self but isn't. And also

Melissa Amos: 00:32:06

it starts to create this dialogue so that you begin to

Melissa Amos: 00:32:09

turn up the volume of this inner voice or this

Melissa Amos: 00:32:13

soul voice, which will strengthen that relationship. If you

Melissa Amos: 00:32:17

start there, the rest of the stuff

Melissa Amos: 00:32:20

becomes easier to navigate.

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:25

I love that. So it's creating that space initially

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:28

to have that awareness of who, who we are

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:32

and starting on that journey. Exactly. Great

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:36

advice. Okay, well, it has been wonderful

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:40

learning more about your journey and story today. I'm sure our listeners

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:44

will appreciate that as well. And we get to do this all. Again

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:47

next week where you'll be interviewing

Beth Hewitt: 00:32:51

me. So that will be turning the tables. I'm excited for that. I'm

Melissa Amos: 00:32:54

excited to learn about you. I'm really excited to learn more about

Melissa Amos: 00:32:58

some of the similarities and the differences that

Melissa Amos: 00:33:02

we have. Because the way that this podcast came together

Melissa Amos: 00:33:06

and, you know, how this is just kind of flowing into

Melissa Amos: 00:33:09

this, I'm sure there's going to be some real magic come over the next few

Melissa Amos: 00:33:13

episodes. I've just got whole body goosebumps when you said that. So

Beth Hewitt: 00:33:17

I think you might be onto something there. But as you were talking, there were

Beth Hewitt: 00:33:19

lots of similarities. I was thinking, oh my goodness, that's my story. That's my story.

Melissa Amos: 00:33:22

That's my story. So it will all become apparent. It will all start

Beth Hewitt: 00:33:26

unfolding. I look forward to our next installment of the show.