Tell me more about your vision for Lift One Self.
So my vision is exactly the word that she said
is to create safety and sacred spaces.
And it's also change.
And so what I know about change is changes within.
So if I can hold the space for people to go within
their body, then they can begin the change.
And then that starts to ignite all around us.
And that's where we see a different world.
Everybody wants to say they want to change in the world,
yet they're not willing to do their own work.
They want to place the blame where
if you start doing your own work,
then you can hold the space for others to do their own work.
And then that's where we'll see the change.
And that's exactly it's that what
is that one finger pointing at someone else
and the rest pointing back at you
and knowing that we have to do the work on our own.
And that definitely aligns with what you've been saying.
It's just creating a safe space to be vulnerable
and to have understanding that it's OK to cry.
And but it's also a good time to reflect and understand
that it starts with you before you can actually
change the world.
We really can't change unless we do change ourselves.
And another one too is I know we talk about sadness and peace.
There's also befriending anger.
Anger is a very healthy emotion also.
And to be able to let go of the rage,
when you're feeling helpless and there's
a lot of things that are going on in the world that we're
being aware of that makes us feel helpless.
So it ignites the anger and rage.
And your body needs some expression.
And so working with it rather than repressing it
or suppressing it or actually taking some actions
that you don't want to because that's not the way that you
want to show up.
So it's actually working with the energy
and changing the narrative of, well,
what is this actual emotion?
What are the underpinnings so that I
can stay within myself and not tell myself
I should be something other or feel something other
than what my experience is?
Makes all the sense in the world.
I remember hearing the boiling pot.
And I believe that that's us taking our anger
and suppressing it and pushing it down and down and down
or and then topping it with so many other feelings
until that one day comes where you can't control anything
in that pot and it's just boiling and it's just like,
boom.
And now you've put yourself in a situation
to where there's nothing else you can do
but show the anger that you've pressed down so much.
So I really do love that.
I love that you said that because so many people say
it's horrible to be angry.
It's then coming out and it's more rage.
I think there is a healthy angry.
There is a healthy anger.
And the rage is the part that where you end up suppressing in
and now it's just coming out on everyone and everything.
So I definitely, I can see that.
And I love that.
I totally love that.
When it comes to all of this and you starting this,
how long have you been, how long has this been going on
for you, this business?
I created Lift One Self in 2019, the summer of it,
and then bang, COVID happened.
I was about to ask.
Go ahead, talk about it.
Yes, so COVID happened.
So that first year I was in a lot of empathy
and seeing that a lot of people were in pain.
So I offered a lot of freeness and offering my space.
And actually also as a parent of two
navigating through those waters,
I had already pulled my children out of the school system
to do some homeschooling.
So I wasn't forced into it.
So it was a different transition.
Yet we did a lot of outdoor things.
And so being told that you can't go outdoors
and not able to do this and that, we had to pivot.
And I had to take better care of myself with the stress
and being isolated and me seeing it a different way
than anybody else.
So I had already went through death
and had a better relationship with it.
So it gave me more of a curriculum to better have the verbiage
and the simplicity in my language to serve others.
So that's why this year now I've been on so many podcasts
and offering my presence of there's a different way
of being able to better understand your biology
and better understand what regulating your nervous system
and what your authentic emotions are.
So this is where at times you have to get planted again
and go down and make sure that those roots
are more stronger so that when the winds come,
you're not getting pulled out.
So that's what COVID did for me and the business
to better understand it and what I can offer to others.
Absolutely, because at that point in time,
you had to lift oneself up and everybody else in the home.
I had often said during that time,
it either make you or break you.
Just the isolation was just something so different
that never experienced, it was a make or break.
And that's in business, that's in oneself,
that's in parenting, that's in relationships overall.
I mean, that was a time.
So to create this in 2019,
it seems like that was something that was divine.
It's like, oh, I'm gonna put this in your head,
but let me take it even further.
I'm about to shut the world down.
Now what can you do?
Exactly, and it showed me that times,
something will be planted in you
and we want momentum right away.
Yet you have to remember what slow momentum is
and see that do you have the patience
for the endurance of the long-term?
Because when you don't have the attention or the momentum,
it's like you wanna give up because what's the point
where it's like, actually, you might be in a cocoon
somewhere to better understand yourself.
And like everybody talks about the caterpillar,
the cocoon and the butterfly,
what they don't talk about is where the cocoon,
the caterpillar is eating itself and turning into goo.
So that doesn't feel good,
yet you weren't seeing that there's transformation going on.
So it allowed me to really understand
more of a business perspective,
where also understanding my ego of needing that validation
and recognizing this is much more profound than that.
Absolutely, I love that, I love that.
It is so crazy how our journey
is not necessarily set by ourselves,
but if we are okay with who we are and within ourselves,
the journey can be easily set out for you
rather than us taking the wrong road
and doing the wrong thing.
And so when it comes to being,
now you said you've been on several podcasts.
When it comes for us, what's your goal
for being on the show?
What would you like and where would you like that to go?
I would love to create collaboration
and understand that the listeners that are listening in,
you're here for a reason.
And I just want to direct you back within yourself even more
and to know that there's community out there.
So like-minded of what you guys are creating out
into the podcast world and YouTube world
of showing people that you can have a vision for your life,
no matter how small or big it may look like,
it's your vision and it matters.
So I just want to amplify that to remind people
that there's so much more potential in themselves,
yet they just have to regulate their nervous system.
And once they do, that's where the magic begins.
Absolutely.
I love that.
So with you doing this and you actually,
I believe, I guess I would say that this had taken flight
really 2021, 22 for you.
Yeah, about that.
Because another thing that happened is in 2022,
my friend was diagnosed with breast cancer
and then pancreatic cancer all in a span of three months.
So I was assisting her and she was only given
three months to live.
Yet here she is about, in March it was a year.
So we're in July now.
And like she says, if it wasn't for me,
she wouldn't be here.
So that took, that also showed what I'm able to do
with the regulation in regulating the nervous system
and helping to bring back homeostasis and stuff like that.
So I would say 2023 is where I've been now
really supporting Lift One's self
and bringing it out to the masses
so that they can see what's possible
within their own biology.
Absolutely.
So everything that you pretty much do
is pretty much online, right?
And over the telephone and is that Zoom as well?
It's Zoom.
I do my sessions through Zoom
so that I can see the body image
because I can hear it in a tone also
because I can feel it energetically.
Yet I wanna create safety also
so that when somebody sees an expression
that they can see that I can reveal my vulnerability
and somebody's not gonna turn away.
So that brings more safety into the world.
And when I see people,
I can see when they're blocking certain emotions.
So I'll be like, bring that out.
Like what that right there, let's let it come out.
So it can have the light of your awareness
and it can see that it's safe to feel that expression
and go through the arc of the charge.
So your position in this, is it energy healer
or what is your title mask?
I title it energy healing,
yet I think I'm gonna go more into regulating
the nervous system, cause that's what I'm doing.
Cause I really understand the nervous system.
Cause like I said, those lesions in my brainstem
and my cerebellum gave me a front seat window
with the nervous system and seeing these chemical dumps.
And I had to relearn how to walk
and formulate thoughts together and take actions
and bring back energy into my body
to be able to function and everything else.
So it's going to be probably,
that's where I'm going to pivot
where it's gonna be nervous system regulation
by anchoring in your breath.
Got it, got it.
So as a leader in this and everywhere
that you're wanting to go,
where do you see the challenges?
And this is a question that we ask everyone.
When it comes to funding your vision,
why do you believe that leaders hide
from funding their vision?
So although you're on Zoom
and I'm sure you're at a place right now
where your Zoom is not the free Zoom, right?
You're now trying to fund your vision
and where you're going to go,
where are you going to go?
Where are you headed to?
And what does that look like?
And how do you feel about leaders funding their vision?
You know, with anything that you believe in,
you're going to have to use the currency to spend.
So you're going to have to spend,
you're going to have to fund.
I think at the beginning when 2020 happened,
I got to see that I had a relationship with currency,
which is money funding,
yet there was still a part where it was blocking me.
And so this year, that's why I'm putting myself out
because I understand that I'm deserving of receiving.
And that's the work that leaders have to do.
It's very good to give, give, give all the time.
Yet you also have to learn to receive
and understand that if you believe in a higher power,
then that funding will be supported
and you'll be in alignment of finding those doors
and those opportunities.
And it's going to take some action
that is needed for yourself.
Yet it really takes a different relationship with currency
to understand where can we go and take some risks.
Like any business,
you're going to have to go into the unknown and uncertainty.
You're going to have to take some risks and some gambles,
yet be intentional with it.
So that if there is a loss
that you will see it as a learning loss.
It's not like a loss,
there's still something to be taught and learned in
so that you can still pivot and still keep momentum.
So I think with the vision that I have,
I'm doing these small intimate ways,
yet I'm envisioning bigger retreats and bigger stages,
bringing myself in different places of the world
so that when they're in my frequency of my nervous system,
they can feel that safety
so that they can regulate their own nervous system
and see what's possible.
Cause like you said,
I'm living testimony of something that you don't see as much,
yet I'm living proof that there is things that are possible.
That I love this.
I so love this because it fits,
it all fits with lifting, lift oneself,
and everything that I've read on your website.
And then I also went and I saw some of your podcast
on Facebook and I was like, okay.
And then for you to come on and it all to marry,
I think that's one of the things that we have come to see.
So transparency,
this is actually my first co-hosting free show.
And the cool part about it is when we read
and I've done things differently
and I've been lifting oneself to say in my past,
but to see and read and then go to the patterns
of what you have or what you submitted,
it actually marries when you talk while speaking.
So I really, really see that this is something
that you're very strongly feel about
and that you have a great vision and you're so there.
It's not wavering because of the simple fact
this was your own testimony.
And I think that's where a lot of good leaders come in at
is having their own testimony
and being able to take that testimony
to actually help somebody else.
So I don't really have any other questions.
Do you have anything for me?
What is your vision?
What's your vision for you personally
and your vision of how you service other people?
My vision is very interesting.
And so when, as I'm working on myself right now,
I say daily that I wanna make a living eulogy.
And often, seeing so many funerals happen, COVID happen
and so much death going around,
you see the joy and the love of people when others are gone.
And that's not when we necessarily need to hear it, right?
Because that's the spirit talking.
So daily, I want to love unconditionally.
I want to work hard and be kind,
which is the shirt that I have on.
And I want to make sure that I realize
that no one is disposable.
So we tend to pick and choose.
And for myself, if I can spiritually say,
I do believe in God.
And so I think the biggest thing for us
is to love one another.
And that's the true, but sometimes the biggest
and the hardest thing is to love people
that are hard to love.
So in my daily eulogy and to create that eulogy
is to say, I'm gonna love you regardless of who you are.
And I'm going to want to be able to connect with you
on a level.
And we may not be that connection
where we stay together forever,
but I can accept you for who you are
because for everyone, there's a story.
And so, because I may not know that story
or nor do I have the opportunity
or they don't become that vulnerable to tell me that story,
I know without a shadow of a doubt, everyone has a story.
And that story can affect the present.
And that might not be towards me,
but it could be just towards the story
and that opportunity to not meeting someone like yourself,
to give them that space and that safe place to say,
I can change, I just have to deal with the gut
and everything that's in there
that I don't necessarily have control over
nor do I know how to say.
So for me, that's my vision.
Those are the things that I see.
And at the end of the day, I just really believe
that we don't have control over a lot, right?
And it's okay.
And when you don't have control and you let go,
when you try to focus on the day and the present,
then I think all is well.
All is well.
Thank you for being here today.
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