Tell me about your vision. My vision definitely
starts with me, which is a little like self -centered,
but I feel like we have to be that. It has been
a really long process. Like from my childhood,
I knew I was a little different. I knew I had.
leadership qualities. I knew that making friends
and having relationships with other people, thank
you, was really part of my joy. And so my vision
is about inspiring and empowering other people.
And I do that through living an inspired and
empowered life myself. It's taken a lot of years
to kind of morph. I've gone on a lot of side
journeys. But this vision is that we all are
truly ourselves, that authenticity is really
important. And I think it's getting a bit of
a bad rap right now because it's used so much.
But there's a reason it's used so much right
now. Authenticity is our core truth of who we
are, what we showed up to be, how our vitality
and our vibrance comes across. It's what fills
our heart and helps us bliss out. And I feel
like. Helping other people through transformation
and, like I said, empowerment helps people become
more authentic. And when they become more authentic,
they can connect with each other and find their
so -called purpose and passion with a lot greater
ease. So my vision is that everybody, everybody,
because we're all in our bodies right now, even
though we're these grand spirits that are eternal,
is that. Everybody, you're going to see like
my past life as an Italian or something come
out here. That we're in these bodies and that
my vision is that everybody can live a life that's
super blissful, fun, joyful, and really meaningful
that has super huge impact. And I believe we
have to kind of do that together. I was definitely
because of childhood conditionings. I was definitely
a go it on your own. I don't need anybody. I
created stories. I created career careers. I
created relationships that allowed me to be the
independent person. I was praised for being that
person. And then at some point it was like, this
isn't really. going to jive for me just being
on my own. And I started to find the joy in collaboration
and the joy in being inspired by other people
and be lifted up by other people. So again, my
vision is big. It's constantly evolving and changing
and growing. And I like to use all the things,
all the things. I've gone on tons of detours
and reinvented a million times. And I think that's
part of it. Yeah. What's the story behind your
why? How did you get to this point where you
care so much about authenticity? Yeah. Well,
the why comes from a few different directions,
but one of the biggest loves of my life was my
grandmother, Pansy. I actually have her shirt.
I have a shirt on today with a Pansy on it in
case you don't know what a Pansy is. And that's
just for inspiration. She's been gone for a while,
but she was like one of the greatest loves of
my life. A teacher, a spiritual guide, a wise
woman, a butt kicker, all the things. She was
so great. And I have a very beautiful mom as
well, who was really young when she had my brother
and I. So we spent a lot of time with my grandma,
Pansy. My why is that she taught me how to really
love life, how to love people and connection.
She was all about her tribe. She was from a family
of nine. And she was all about wanting to see
her people. She lived kind of a couple hours
from them. And we would go and sit with all of
her sisters and the old aunties, and they would
tell stories. And always when I sat with my grandmother,
we would sit at the table and she would be like,
wait, before we start dishing this gossip or
whatever we're going to meaningfulness that we're
going to talk about, we're going to make a pot
of tea. We're not going to have a cup of tea.
We're going to like take the time. It's sort
of a little bit of a ritual and we're going to
have this pot of tea and then we're going to
discuss whatever we discussed and we're going
to take the time and we're going to savor each
other, the conversation. and our cup of tea.
So a lot of my why comes from her. She was also
a salesperson. She sold pre -need cemetery property.
Okay. So if you think your job's hard, she, that's
what she was selling a place for you to eternally
rest. She had a great sense of humor, which I
feel is something that's really important in
life is to be able to laugh at all of these things.
Right. And My why is just she gave me so much
to go on. She was when I was having hard times,
she was there. That truly unconditional love,
even when it was her giving me that butt kicking,
really. cemented for me that this is what I was
here to do for other people. That every generational
wisdom that she passed on, every joy, being in
the garden, sitting with her clients. She used
to take me to work with her. So I used to get
to sit with her clients a lot. It's probably
where we learned to sip tea as well. She had
a lot of Japanese clients. So that was fun. I
heard that. Everything she gave me, like everything
that I am now, everything that's like so beautiful
and good and friendly and fun. I feel like I
had the opportunity to not that she gave that
to me, but she helped me cultivate that. Yeah.
Yeah. And she was an artist. So I'm an artist
as a writer, but she was an artist as a painter.
She was, like I said, a gardener. It was all
these aesthetic beauties through nature and animals
and all the things. And I feel like it's my purpose
to help others, like I said. feel that and then
i also as a young girl lost my dad um and i didn't
really know until later in life what had kind
of transpired but that kind of a loss um because
i feel like you know if little girls have a great
dad they're they sort of sort of it's a big loss
for them and that kind of imprints on how you
make choices as you go forward um so i feel like
what i The person I came on the planet to be
shifted when we lost him. I was only five. So.
my life shifted a lot and it, that's when I became
like, no one will ever hurt me again. And I'll
become really independent and all those things.
And it took me a very long time, a lot of failures.
I mean, we have to be willing to fail in life.
Like we have to just be willing to be epic messes
because I think that's part of what we're doing
here. And that's part of what the humor is about.
Yeah, we have to do these epic failures. And
I had a lot of those. But through all of that,
I began to come back around to myself. And I
mean, I can't tell you how many ways I did that.
A lot of it's through travel. I am a travel addict.
At 47, I became a flight attendant. So yeah,
it was amazing. And I feel like the universe
was like, you're going to do this right now.
But I traveled a lot before that. And that traveling
helps you to see other cultures and find your
way through letting go of judgments. And I'm
finding that a lot right now in this day and
age that we have a lot of judgments. I have a
podcast at Tea With Me in honor of my grandmother.
And I was just talking about like how we're all
so triggered. To me, I look at when I travel,
I don't go to another country and be like, your
food is ridiculous or your religion is ridiculous.
I don't want to hear about it. Your way you build
your homes with mud is terrible. Why would you
do that? I travel so that I can see things I'd
never see before and understand people in ways
I'd never, ever understand them. So I feel like.
We're sort of in a bubble right now. And if we
could find that curiosity and openness. So anyway,
my whys are people that are closest to me. I
have nieces and nephews now. And it's really
important to me to help be a generational wisdom
giver. Thank you for being here today. I'm really
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