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Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Awaken Together podcast.

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I am Jennifer.

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And I'm Kat.

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And today we are going to tell you all about who we are, how we met, and our goals for

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this podcast.

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Yes.

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This is so surreal to be sitting here and doing this.

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I like truly, I feel like fate for us really kind of brought us together to do this, don't

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you think?

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It's so surreal to be here.

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I so agree.

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It's wild to think about the first moment we met and now here we are sitting down doing

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this together.

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It's really special.

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Yeah.

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So we want to go into first just kind of a little bit of like the easy parts of who we

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are, just like the quick, short and sweet.

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We're definitely going to get way more into the muck of our like spiritual awakenings

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that we've both experienced.

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But yeah, you want me to go ahead and start, Kat?

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Kick it off.

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All right.

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Awesome.

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So yes, my name is Jennifer once again and I'm originally from Florida.

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I lived in West Virginia for about three years and then moved to Colorado.

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Moving to Colorado was when I really got to dabble more onto the spiritual path, but my

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working journey fully started in like physical therapy.

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So I've been doing physical therapy about eight years.

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I started yoga teacher training in 2016 and have been teaching like various classes at

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different locations, park glasses, online classes.

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But yes, moving to Colorado, which would have been in 2018 is when I feel like my spiritual

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journey like really took off.

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So that is what has kind of like led me to this very moment.

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Kat, you can give a few of your about me highlights.

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I love that.

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So grateful that you made the move and I did too.

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There's a lot of us transplants out here.

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Yeah, for sure.

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I'll start by going backwards.

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I am Kat, Katarina, and I'm a holistic health coach and a yoga teacher.

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And I'm also living in Denver, Colorado.

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Moved here from Boston, Mass.

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Back in 2018 as well, January 2018 with my then boyfriend, now husband.

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A lot has happened in three and a half years.

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So yeah, when I moved out here, I was working in sales, educational travel in particular,

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working with teachers down in North Carolina to help get their middle school and high school

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students traveling abroad.

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Traveling is something that has really shaped the person I am today.

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And I'm 100% Greek.

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So that's a really big part of me as an individual and my upbringing and my values where it all

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comes from.

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I love that.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, I mean really before that, there's a whole story that we'll get into probably

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in our next episode of how we got here to this place.

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We figured that the about me of us has to just be these little baby highlights because

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the spiritual awakening side of us, which is what we want to make this podcast like

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mainly about is going to be kind of a whole separate story.

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You have your personality story.

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They're like, what do you do?

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Where are you from?

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And then there's the deep, deep story.

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Yes, the stuff you don't tell someone on like a first date, right?

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I'm getting more to becoming that person that just does go there, but you know.

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Oh yeah.

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For sure.

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Likewise, girl.

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You and I both.

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Yes.

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And the way we met was actually pretty wild, right?

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There's a whole story behind that.

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So do you want to give some deets on how we met?

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It is really, really funny.

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And I honestly, I couldn't remember what year you moved to Colorado.

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It's so funny.

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We both moved to Denver in 2018.

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I didn't even remember that part.

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But yeah, when I moved to Denver, I had just come from West Virginia and West Virginia

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was a really just kind of like odd little piece of my life.

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But I knew when I moved to Denver that I really needed to cut to connect with like minded

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people.

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So I decided to reach out on the yoga girl community, which is Rachel Brathen's podcast

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and Facebook page and reach out and to see if there were other yoga girls in Colorado,

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which led me to kind of start my own page for Colorado yoga girls.

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And it was just a small little throwing it out there to see if I could kind of meet anybody.

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And one of the meetups I hosted, Kat ended up coming along with some few other girls

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and that was like our first time getting to just meet in person.

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We just did a little yoga class, got to talk.

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And yeah, that led that led us to just follow each other on social media.

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And then when we started noticing, I think later in the year of 2020, Kat had quit her

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job her nine to five, and I quit my nine to five in January.

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And I think both of us were really starting to focus on our social media pages and really

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starting to share our story.

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And I started going, okay, like Kat and me seem like we're in the same spot in life.

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Seriously, it's kind of scary how parallel our lives have been in terms of timing, in

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terms of things that we've endured, gone through, even location.

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Like, it's just been wild.

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So we can't wait to share more of that with you all.

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Yeah, and honestly, like me and Kat have gotten to have a lot of conversations, but this podcast

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will even be us getting to know some of the depths.

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Like some of our interactions have just been, yeah, little conversations over the years.

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So this is our first time really like getting to fully connect.

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So that'll be really fun too.

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And I think another part of the story that I should have mentioned in my little about

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me is I'm currently living on the road out of my car and kind of traveling across the

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country.

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So for Kat, me and her just have all of our interactions this like last year have all

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been just via social media.

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So it's so fun to get a consistent space to talk to.

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So I wanted, we want to go over with you two what our goals are for this podcast.

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Yes, we've got a lot of them.

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So yeah.

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So goal number one is to share our experience, our spiritual awakening experience, because

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it hasn't been an easy road.

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It hasn't been neat, tidy, what you'd expect.

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And we'd love to just share that for anyone who's interested in forging this path for

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themselves.

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And I think too, like with our own individual stories, maybe some of what we say will resonate

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and you'll be able to recognize some of those things in yourself.

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But this has also been a really unique time in history.

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So we all just went through 2020 together.

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We still are in a lot of unknown currently, even day to day.

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And I think with that though, it's very unique to be able to see all these strangers out

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and about and know that we all collectively just went through something and are still

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going through something.

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And I think that's led a lot of people to have more time to kind of focus on what their

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values are or at least not have their normal escape that we all used to kind of have where

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we didn't maybe have to focus on self nearly as much because yeah, we could just move through

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life really busy.

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And I think 2020 kind of changed our external so much that a lot of people seem to have

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at least dabbled more into the internal if they hadn't previously.

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Absolutely.

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We are in the midst of a massive paradigm shift and we are in the age of Aquarius.

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This is what the hippies were singing about back in the 60s of it's the dawning of the

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age of Aquarius.

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Well guess what?

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We're in it now.

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And it's this massive shift from masculine way of life, very corporate, very business

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focused, hard, no pain, no gain mindset mentality to a more feminine and softer side where people

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are opening up, people are caring about their personal growth, caring about how they talk

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to themselves and wanting to shift that from a place of really like being hard on yourself

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to one that's a little bit lighter and freer and just more kind at the base of it.

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And I cannot wait to go into the depths with you on this masculine to feminine kind of

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shift.

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There is so many details to go into on all of that so I'm so glad you emphasized that.

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But yeah I really do believe there is a lot of ways to look at the reality of what we

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are experiencing now.

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And I'm really big on TikTok.

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I love making TikToks and so on that page I do know there is a lot of people kind of

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seeking the spiritual world maybe a little bit more than previously.

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And I think with that there is a lot of beauty because that can be a huge side by side with

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the healing journey and healing from old wounds, learning to find confidence and self love

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again and becoming through things a lot more consciously which is kind of what awakening

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is all about.

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But yeah with that also comes a ton of fear at first you know trying to figure out what

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to let go of releasing old versions of yourself can be extremely terrifying.

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There's like a grieving process with a lot of that and it can also be really hard when

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you feel like you're going at it alone.

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So that was a huge part of starting Awaken Together is that we can kind of go over the

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subjects that we've already focused on in our own life but also go over a lot of the

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different things that get advertised to us and kind of what the shadow side of things

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can be but also the beautiful parts of the spiritual world that we definitely want to

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lift up and emphasize.

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Yes, said so well.

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Nothing like a global pandemic to trap us all in our homes and force us to face ourselves

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and all of the depths and the layers that there is to us.

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And I mean in the end like of course it was a really really hard year and you know a lot

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of people went through a lot of pain and I like to try to find the the rose in a situation

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and I think the world is going to be a better place because of it truly.

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A lot of people are leaving their workplaces if they're unable to accommodate what kind

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of asks they need in order to you know feel the way that they want to feel, get support

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that they want from their workplace.

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Yes, literally a definition of boundaries.

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Boundaries are coming into everything.

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I love that, such a good point.

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We're just being more clear on our boundaries now and yeah just taking time for ourselves,

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knowing when we want to be social and when it's time to just draw back into that cave

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and give yourself that space to refresh which I think is certainly needed.

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So what would you say Awakened means for you Kat?

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Because I think to me awakening is just a really big shift where instead of just moving

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through like the current of things and you know just kind of letting life live you versus

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you live life, there comes a moment whether it's circumstantial or just a conscious choice

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of like I don't like what's happening around me where you decide I really want to know

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why I do what I do, why I surround myself with the people I do, why I react to certain

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things and you dig enough that that consciousness really is with you every step of the way and

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at times you can fall off of that but it's amazing once you kind of wake up to all these

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little things that you do so unconsciously everything really starts to shift, your perspective

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starts to shift, the way you perceive just every little thing that happens to you starts

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to shift.

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So yeah anything to add on like what awakening means to you?

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It makes me think about yoga and a little bit of yogic philosophy around Maya.

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Maya is the veil of illusion and I think that's a really nice way to think about like until

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you awaken, until you have that moment, a rock bottom maybe or some sort of just time

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in your story, in your own journey that shakes you to your core and makes you see things

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differently, that veil is going to be there.

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We're all born with it.

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We have to purposefully remove the veil so that we can see life for all that it truly

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is.

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And are you familiar with Sahara Rose's, what she's shared about with third, fourth and

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fifth dimensional ways of being?

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Definitely have dabbled into that.

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It makes me think of that.

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Yeah, go into a little bit.

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I love that.

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Okay super high level.

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Most of the world, we live in a 3D third dimensional society and so that is ruled by the ego, our

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sense of me, of I am, of pain.

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It also serves a purpose.

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It protects us like if you're going to walk across the street but there's cars coming,

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your ego is going to say nope we're not going there, like it's not safe.

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So it's that place of wearing your heart on your sleeve in the way that your emotions

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are readily available at all times and you're thinking about yourself, me, me, me, right?

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So the fourth dimension is the bridge between the third and the fifth.

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This is the place where you begin to see things differently, like you were saying.

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That's how you start to question things in society that maybe you never questioned before

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and start to feel a little weird or a little icky.

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It's poking holes in things.

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Even conspiracy theories, which I don't love the word conspiracy theory because it is just

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another way of thinking.

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Of course sometimes it can get really in the weeds.

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Yeah, I would love to do a full episode on that.

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Yes, we would love to do that.

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Yes, but it is the bridge.

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So in order to get from the third to the fifth, you have to have a fourth, a 4D moment in

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time and a lot of people get stuck in the third or the fourth.

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Those are where a lot of people tend to be.

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Now the fifth dimension, this is that place of awakening, of being in touch with your

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highest level version of yourself.

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This is a place of enlightenment, of being at peace with everything, even hurt and suffering

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and pain.

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Being able to let it pass through you rather than clinging on to that.

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So this space is really common to have moments of.

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It's less common to be in the fifth dimension for lasting periods of times because of the

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society that we live in and we're constantly being drawn back, whether it's people in our

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lives or work or different stimuli happening in our environments, we get pulled.

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And so it's all just a beautiful balance of floating between one to the next, to the next

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and back and catching yourself when maybe you've been in a lower dimensional way of

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being for a little while long.

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Love it.

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Yes.

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And so if all of that sounds completely foreign to you, we will definitely dive in because

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these are all the subjects I love talking about.

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I think beyond like, yeah, looking at what our goals are in spiritual awakening, what

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we're trying to achieve, like how it was saying, like kind of getting into a totally different

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dimension, our way of thinking has shifted.

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That'll definitely be some of the subjects we go into, but I thought it'd be fun, Kat,

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to go into some of what we each love that we like to talk about, just so you guys can

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get a little preview of some of the subjects we're really passionate about.

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So Kat just did a first one for me.

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I love deep conversations on theory of existence, why we are here, what are deeper purposes

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collectively and individually.

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I love, Kat already knows, to talk about astrology.

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I have spent like three years studying that as like a full-side hobby.

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I'm obsessed with the Enneagram, all things self-analysis.

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I love talking about different books and movies.

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I'm a huge movie nerd, like love to watch the most strange out there movies.

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I love reading a bunch of different books, so I share that stuff a lot.

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Other categories, we're definitely going to talk about yoga.

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For me and Kat, that was our catalyst for a lot of things, so that's another subject

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we're definitely going to get into in these first several episodes as well.

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You want to share a couple of the stuff you like to side-double in as well, Kat?

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I'd love to.

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Everything you mentioned, basically, you're definitely more of like the Enneagram nerd,

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which I love because I love always hearing everything you have to say about it.

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Aside from that, I know we're both Reiki practitioners, so protecting your energy.

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I love helping people with that and really focusing in on it for myself because as an

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empath, it's really easy to become out of balance in that and just find yourself with

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other people's energy residue.

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That is a big topic that I love to talk about.

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What else?

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You are the nutrition baddie.

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Don't forget.

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Kat posts these pictures of food that make you salivate if you follow her page.

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I love food.

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Food's my favorite.

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The Greek background really makes some sense too, I feel like.

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Yes, we love our food, travel, hospitality, all of it.

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This is a little off the cuff, but it's our podcast, so I'm saying it, but psychedelics

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is something that-

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Plant medicine.

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Plant medicine.

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In the past few years, it's really propelled me forward on my path of healing.

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It's not just because of those substances, it's due to really just exploring the inner

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workings of my mind and fully learning how to trust myself and no matter what kind of

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situation I'm in.

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So self-trust, taking risks, poking holes in society, all that 4D way of thinking.

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I love your little sass on your little, let's break all the old down because I'm like,

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yes, I feel that.

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Let's tear it down.

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Tear it down.

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We'll rebuild it.

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Definitely.

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I do think that's another angle and category that I hope to share too because for me with

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awakening on my journey, I grew up in a very conservative Christian household, so my journey

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really looked very tiptoey, very guarded and careful.

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I really went through the route of psychology before I started really allowing the spiritual

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stuff to hone back in because I was so guarded and careful on which things to invite in and

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put my energy to, but I really think that's a huge part of what I can share too is this

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can be extremely overwhelming to talk about some of these subjects with just the average

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person because there's a lot of things that we get born into with our families, born into

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even societal or culturally and it makes it kind of scary to tiptoe beyond fully accepted

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beliefs in some people's eyes, but arguing slash debating against the reason these stuff

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really do matter.

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I'm really passionate about getting into conversations on different people's perspectives too because

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it is good that we do this all together even if we all have disagreements on how to interpret

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some of this stuff because it's something every day, you might have a day where you're

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feeling so in tune, so in that receptive state where you just feel like you're right where

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your soul is supposed to be and then other days you might really have taken on, like

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Kat was saying, too much energetically or been in a space where you really didn't feel

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like you could be as authentic and so there's definitely stumbling blocks in this and that

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is another reason why all these different subjects and categories as you learn different

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methods you have more tools to kind of turn to if something is feeling a little off or

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if you want to kind of explore different avenues and different perspectives that have kind

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of led to overall the same results.

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That's such a good point.

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Little Jen ran.

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No, I love it and it kind of reminds me, I think it was back in 2014, 2015 I was taking

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a yoga class in Boston where I'm from and I remember the teacher saying something along

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the lines of now allow your healing to happen and he was talking all about healing and this

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was new to me then and it's crazy to think about now but I had a little moment of defensiveness

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where I was like, I don't need to heal anything.

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This is why I was thinking in my head, I was like, I don't need to heal anything.

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I'm good.

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What do all these people have to heal?

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And now, like, oh my goodness, I had no idea.

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I was just at the surface but then after that I couldn't forget about it and it prompted

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me to just think about what healing is as a whole, what that can mean.

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It's not just like having a wound, an obvious thing on your skin that needs to scab up and

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heal, these things are invisible most of the time.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And I do think that that was a beautiful story because that is really kind of usually how

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it happens is these little seeds get planted along the way and as they start to bloom,

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you start to piece together like, whoa, that led to this, which led to this and it's like

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everything just starts to seem so much more kind of divine and beautiful and I think you

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get a whole other lens of realizing this journey of being here and existing is actually really

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beautiful even though we have so many things telling us that we don't have enough or that

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we are lacking.

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You can fall into that space of gratitude so much easier, which me and Kat have talked

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about this before.

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It is interesting with awakening because your external life might look a lot more boring

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but your internal life, this beautiful vivid connection, you feel just so much different

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on the inside and although other people can't always see what's changed about you, I can

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attest from my own journey that my internal dialogue and the stuff that I used to think

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and feel so intensely, so much has diminished along the way and so that has been a huge

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reinforcer that I'm on the right path and that I'm doing what I'm supposed to but that

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is why we have to do it together is because one thing that you might tell someone the

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other day is exactly what you need to hear months later.

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Absolutely.

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It's wild.

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It's wild.

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And that's so beautiful.

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I love that you shared that, Jen.

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You're definitely on the right path, that inner self-talk.

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Feeling that difference is so vastly important.

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Yes.

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So this was an awesome episode one.

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We are so thankful that you guys will be tuning in.

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I hope you get so much out of this podcast because even just getting to talk all this

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stuff out means the world to me and I know it means the world to Kat.

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Our next episode is going to go all into our spiritual awakening and what that actually

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looked like for each of us.

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Can't wait.

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We'll see you all next time.

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Thanks for joining.

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Yes.

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Thank you, Kat.

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Bye.

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Thanks for being here.