Episode #188 - Alignment, Energies, & Becoming "Light Warriors": An Interview With Colleen Lindberg

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Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and

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determination all converge into

an amazing, heartfelt experience.

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This is Speaking From The Heart.

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Joshua: Welcome back to episode

number 188 of Speaking from the Heart.

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Today, we have Colleen Lindberg

joining us, and she's a soul mission

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activator and spiritual guide.

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Her mission on Earth is to dismantle

the conformity infrastructures

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holding us back so people can fully

embody their potency and power.

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She believes that each soul's

mission is a unique rhythm that is

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meant to ripple through the world.

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Her programs, teachings, and channeling

abilities guide Light Warriors into more

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embodiment into their light, owning their

unique tools and vibrations so they can

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make their massive impact in the world.

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This light warrior that is on the show

today certainly has challenged many status

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quos that we've had of other guests that

have talked about energy properties,

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spiritual awakenings, and so much more,

but I think that today's conversation

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isn't just about having this idea of

challenging who we are in changing the

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perspective that we have intuitively, but

it's about learning how we can be better

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versions of ourselves by simply breaking

it down into ways in which boundaries that

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we have created for ourselves, whether

that's in our world, whether that's in

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our culture, whether it's in society,

don't need to apply to us anymore.

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It doesn't mean that you break laws

because we all made a contract in society

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to be able to respect each other, and

govern each other, through those various

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rules but there are ways in which we have

put further limits on ourselves that we

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really discuss and break down through

this interview with Colleen today, and

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it's really about curiosity not killing

the cat, which you'll talk a little bit

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about what I mean by that in this episode,

and how those adventures, how we can

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break those stigmas, to become better

versions of who we are, can really help

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us in seeing what is truly our potential.

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I know that for many of us, we have

heard this story over and over again

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on this show, but I think that every

person's perspective brings a different

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version of why they do this, and I think

you're going to enjoy why Colleen's

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story resonates with me, and why it

resonates with this show, in that we can

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be very comfortable, and make impacts,

through success, if we're just willing

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to challenge and reflect on who we are.

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But with that, let's go to the episode.

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All right.

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We're here with Colleen Lindberg.

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Colleen, thanks for sharing

your heart with us today.

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Colleen: Rock on, Josh.

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I am like so excited to be here with

you today, and I'm already laughing,

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because I cannot wait for our

discussion, and to see where it leads us.

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Joshua: I am excited, and I have

to say, I think you are a first.

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I haven't had anybody yet from Costa

Rica, so thanks for being part of the

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show, and allow me to be able to ,have

somebody on from that area of the world.

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For all my listeners, you have

to go pull up a map because it's

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somewhere in Central America, so-

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Colleen: Nine degrees from the equator.

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Joshua: Yes.

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Yes, and I did a good job because

sometimes I even forget my own geography,

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but that's what happens sometimes,

but Colleen, I want to say that I've

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already let my listeners know a little

bit about you before we got started.

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I really want to dive into the fact

though, that you live in Costa Rica,

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and you don't seem like you were

born and raised in Costa Rica, so

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I'm wondering if you could talk to

us a little bit about how you kind of

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landed there, and if it involves your

business a little bit, I would love

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for our listeners to hear that as well.

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Colleen: Yeah.

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Well, Costa Rica was an intuitive hit,

so what that means is literally I woke

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up one morning in the early part of

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whomever you speak with said to me, "Hey!

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You're moving to Costa

Rica.", and I was like, "Okay.

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When am I leaving?",

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and they're like, "In the fall."

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I'm like, "Of this year?", "Like, yeah."

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I'm like, "Should I

start selling stuff now?"

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"Yes.", and literally,

I have never been here.

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I didn't come here beforehand.

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I didn't know anyone, and I left Canada

with three duffel bags, and a ticket

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to not come back, and here we are,

two years almost later, in the space

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of everything, and it's been a ride.

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Let's just say that.

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Joshua: What prompted you, outside of

this voice that told you that you needed

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to go, that you felt that Costa Rica

was the location that you needed to be?

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I mean, it could have been anywhere.

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It could have been

somewhere in South America.

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It could have been over in the Far East.

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Why Costa Rica, do you think?

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Colleen: Yeah, so I knew like in about

: 2021

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thought I was going into the US to like

Florida, or to like Texas, more like

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Austin, and I hadn't lived in California

before in the past, so in: 2018

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this whole entire move, sold everything.

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Moved to California, did the

thing, and I knew it was coming.

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It was like spirit just talks through

me, and everything I do is intuitive,

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right, so literally, it dropped in,

and I listen, and that's how I lead my

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life, and a lot of the business that I

do is about helping accelerate people

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in their intuition, and trusting the

callings that come through, so when Costa

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Rica dropped in, I just went, "Okay.",

like I didn't question Costa Rica.

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I didn't be like, "That's exactly

the weather I want to live in.", or,

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"That's a space I want to move to."

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I had no reference point at all.

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It was literally a complete trusting of

the message that was dropping into the

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field, and for me to just literally trust

in the process of it all, literally I

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had a girlfriend of mine like about a

month and a half before I left say, "Hey,

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can I come, and stay with you for like

a month when you go, and just do this

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vacation kind of thing?", and I was like,

"Yeah.", and then she started asking me

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all these questions, like, "Do they have

different plugs?", or, "Can we drink the

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water?", and I'm like, "I don't know.

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I never looked up anything.

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I'm just moving to Costa Rica.

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Not even sure where I'm landing

yet.", and just literally trusted

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the whole process of everything.

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Joshua: You know, and I feel like

you have that sense of adventure.

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I get that vibe from you, and I've had

some people on recently that have talked

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about what it has meant to be a digital

nomad, or be free to be able to travel

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the world, so do you have that sense

of adventure that you're willing to try

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new areas, new opportunities, or are you

pretty set in your ways, and I highly

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doubt that you're the second part of that.

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Colleen: Definitely not

set in my ways at all.

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Definitely rebel boundary

pusher; let's go experience life.

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That's like my MO.

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I am all in for new experiences

and literally living.

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I really believe that we're actually

on this earth plane to live, and

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to be humans, and most of us are

caught up in our doing all the time

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because that's the conditioning.

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If we're in North America, it's like

we do, and that's what we've been

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conditioned to keep doing and doing and

doing, and I learned that the more I

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am, the more the doing aligns, and it

feels different and is aligned, but yeah,

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I'm all about pushing the boundaries.

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I'm all about dismantling conformity.

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I'm all about, like, "Let's get out of

the boxes that we're in, and go play and

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experience life.", and yeah, Costa Rica

is a prime example, obviously, of that.

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Joshua: Yeah, and especially for a lot of

people that want to go and visit, or even

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want to check out what it is all about.

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Costa Rica is a great place for a lot of

different activities for sure, but y ou

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said something that strikes me, because

I sometimes, even growing up as a kid,

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I didn't have that kind of ambition.

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I was more of a book nerd, and

I really enjoyed learning and

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had a thirst for knowledge.

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What led you to say that you wanted

to have a sense of adventure?

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Was there some particular type of people?

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Was there a situation that occurred?

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I'm kind of curious like how that

fell into your lap of I wanted

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to have that in the first place.

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Colleen: Growing up, the same thing,

and I'm still a bookworm and if

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people actually knew me, knew me,

they'd be like, "You're a nerd."

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I'm like, "I know I'm a nerd, as well

as an adventurer nerd, as well as a

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competitive sport player, as well as I

push the boundaries in my own body to go

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experience stuff.", you know, and, there

was a time in my life, coming into late

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teens, early 20s, where I just started to

push energy into things, meaning people

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would be like, "You can't do that."

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I'd be like, " Why can't we do this?

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Why can't we try this?

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Why can't we do it this way?", and it was

like, I was always in this curiosity of,

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"Well, they say that we can't, but what

if we could find a way to?", and you know,

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I was also that little girl that started

her own business when I was really young,

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and I would go pick the apples off the

neighbor's tree, make cinnamon apples, and

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then I'd go sell them back to the neighbor

whose tree I picked the apples from.

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Joshua: Wow.

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You were one of those people.

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Colleen: I was that kid.

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I was always looking for ways to create

stuff in life, and I really feel that

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over the years it's transitioned into

exploration, and pushing boundaries,

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and seeing what we can do, and I

really feel that most of my adventures

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in life now are because of having

that attitude where I'm like, "Hey.

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We're stuck in this

situation, but are we really?

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There's got to be a way.", you know.

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Joshua: That leads me into what you call

yourself, and I love the title of this.

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I've never heard anything like it, and I'm

going to start with this first one: soul

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mission activator, so tell me a little

bit about how you activate the soul of

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somebody, because you started to allude to

that even with your own personal journey.

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You're taking some of this,

and transferring it into

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people that you work with.

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Tell me a little bit how that works.

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Colleen: Well, I really feel, and I

preach this, quote unquote, all the time.

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We cannot teach unless we are,

meaning we haven't integrated it.

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We aren't authentically yet, so if I'm

not living my soul's purpose, and I'm

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not living in this space of discovering

this truth within me, I cannot teach

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that into the world, right, so every

single human that has dropped into

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this earth experience, I call it, has

a reason why they're here, and some

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of us are like, "Well, I don't want to

speak on stages.", or, "I don't want

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to write the books.", and it's not

this big grandiose thing for everybody.

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It could be this beautiful experience of

raising your kids in a certain vibrational

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alignment, or it could be that you're

meant to help that woman in your life get

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to where they need to go, or it's like,

we all have a piece of the puzzle, so my

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job is to help someone rediscover that

piece, remember what's in it, and then

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stand behind it potently to be able to

own it, to own their truth, to step up

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into their power, and have confidence to

speak that into the world, because most

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of the time, we're shit scared of actually

speaking what is actually coming through

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us, because we're too worried about what

people are going to think, we're too

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worried about, "Can we actually do that?

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People are going to think we're crazy.",

and all the things, because most of

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the time, our soul's path, especially

in business, is different than other

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people; is a flared aspect to it is

adding some like coating on top of the

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chocolate sauce, and it's like, when

we step up into that, sometimes we're

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lone rangers for a while, because we

haven't found our crew that actually

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can hold us, or be with us in the

space, but over time, they show up.

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Joshua: I don't know about sprinkling it

with chocolate, because I already feel

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a little fat as it is, but maybe I'll

substitute that with a sugar free, but-

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Colleen: You can have coconut water.

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Joshua: Yeah.

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Well, yeah.

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You got the coconut water in

Costa Rica, so you know what?

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I'll take that, but you saying that,

you seem like you've defined this group,

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so the second term, and we were talking

about this before the show, because

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this really stood out to me, is that

you want to guide "Light Warriors".

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Literally, people of light that I

guessing are able to stand boldly

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for what they believe in, or what

they are confided into doing in their

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lives, so I'm assuming that's what it

sounds like, because of what you have

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described, but why don't you tell us

what that really means for you when

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somebody wants to become a light warrior?

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Colleen: Yeah, so we are all light

warriors, and even though we don't

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actually maybe see ourselves that

way, but you're in this world for

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impact in some way shape or form.

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You, Josh, and your coaching and stuff,

the work that you do, it's like you're

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illuminating a light in someone to

move through their stuff, to accelerate

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themselves into the world, to activate

themselves in the world, and every light

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warrior has a pathway and a laneway.

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It doesn't mean we're all going to war,

although we do have an inner battle inside

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of us of shifting our stuff, and stepping

up into the space, and being able to

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speak our truth, and to own the dimensions

to the work we need to do in the world.

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We've all got our shit we're working

through; every single one of us, and as

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a light warrior, we continue to shine

the light through that stuff to step up,

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even, to have the courage and the grit to

move through, because if we don't, then

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the light is dimmed inside of us when

the light is being called forward for us

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to step up into, and it's really about a

movement within our own selves of owning

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the fact that we have a light, and we're

meant to like serve the world that way.

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Joshua: Okay.

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I have to ask you this, because it's

always something on my mind when I have

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people like you on the show, because I

know for me, and I've even said this to

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a number of guests that have been on,

that because of doing this, even this

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podcast myself, and my listeners know this

too, that I feel a sense of growth, and

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prosperity, and commitment to what this

has meant in my journey of healing from

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suicide, which is a big part of my story,

Colleen, and I know we didn't really talk

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about that, but that's where I've spent

a lot of my days, thinking of, "Why am I

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feeling like I'm worthless, or a piece of

shit?", because that's exactly what I even

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say to my therapist, and I've been saying

that for over four and a half years.

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What has it meant for you to work

with people to help them expose

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that they do have that light inside?

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Has it changed you, in other words,

to maybe make you even stronger,

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knowing that you have that commitment,

and that ability, to help others?

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I'm kind of curious of asking that,

because there has to be a shift in

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you as you work with people, and I

wonder how that projects in your life.

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Colleen: If you would have asked me this

question five years ago, I, for sure,

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would have had a different answer for

you, but I can literally reflect back

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into a space that happened Thursday,

five days ago, where I got on the

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call with a client of mine and she

said to me, "I'm ready to check out.

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I don't want to be here any

longer.", and I was like, "Okay."

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This is what I said to her.

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"Okay, great, so if you can wait till

after we're done our call to do that,

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that would be amazing, and let's just talk

through a couple of things right now.",

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and I already know that she's meant to

be on this Earth for a reason, or she

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wouldn't have been able to get into my

energy, and what I mean by that is that

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there's like a gate of energy around

me, and when somebody lands in my field,

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they are meant to activate this next

level inside of them, but it doesn't mean

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that it is easy for them to do, because

all of a sudden, all the shit shows up

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in their space that they have to deal

with; all the anger, resentment, fear,

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all the things are coming up because

they're like, "How can I speak this?

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How can I make money at this?

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How can I move this forward?", and

all the things, and we chatted through

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all of this, and we moved through

all of this, and at the end of the

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call, I just said to her, "Thank you

for choosing me.", and she's like,

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"Well, you know.", and I'm like, "No.

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You need to really feel and understand

this is that I love humanity, and I can't

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save everybody, but here's what I do

know, that if you come into my field, you

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are meant for a reason to be here, and

that this is not an option in your actual

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energetic field.", so therefore, I can

say stuff like that to her in the space of

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things, because I already know that she's

not meant to lead this earth plane yet.

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She's got way too much other stuff to

do, so now it's my job as her coach is

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to bring that out of her, and to give her

the tools necessary so that she can ease

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into the space, and it is not an easy feat

some days to be able to work with this.

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I don't usually go into these really

dark endeavor places with people,

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but it's showing up in my life now,

and I'm like, "I've been chosen

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for a reason to step up and to help

them and to move them through."

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I've been given the assets and the tools

necessary to do that, and my job is to

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keep trusting what I'm being told, and

to keep them in my field when I'm being

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told to, and to keep on them when I'm

being told to, and every single time it's

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worked so far in the space of things,

and I just keep holding that energetic

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capacity that I can just keep serving,

and if I can be a bright light and

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someone's attracted to that, I'm meant

to help shift in some way in their world.

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Joshua: I love hearing that because it

is, for me, every time that I meet with

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someone, I kind of create the same playing

field too, because I want this to be

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something of a two way street, even from

my own clients, so I kind of love that

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you're like, "Come in my field, and it's

okay if you're not completely there, but

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you're accepted here, and I would not

be working with that if I didn't believe

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in you.", and I have had both men and

women in my business that I've shared

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that with, and it's sometimes awkward

with women because me being a male, it's

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like, I have to break down some barriers.

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I go right into it right away and

be like, "Welcome to my world.", and

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it's almost like, it's kind of creepy.

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For my listeners.

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Colleen just did this like, "Ha, ha, ha.

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I'm in your grass sort of thing.",

so like I kind of get that vibe

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too when I create that, and I don't

want to have that way out of the

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gate for some of my clients too.

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I think that we have to find a space

that we intentionally know that both the

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client and ourselves can both be safe

and being able to practice that, so I

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guess I'm kind of wondering then for

how you deal with this in your own life.

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Do you create that space

with somebody else?

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Do you create that space for yourself?

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One of the things that I've always

been asked is, "Do you use your own

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tools, Josh?", and I have to say, "Yes,

but sometimes no, because I'm also

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human, and I'm bad at sometimes the

discipline of it, but I'm working on it."

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That's part of what we do.

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That's why we're always knowledge

thirsty people of wanting to try

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new tricks, so I'm wondering how you

go about doing that in your life,

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because, obviously, you don't manifest

this energy all by yourself, right?

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Colleen: Right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so I do use the tools, but just

like yourself, I am also human, and

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I have a community of people that

I lead every week, and in a certain

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portal, and I say to them all the

time, I'm like, "Guys, I'm human, okay?

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I just need you to really understand.

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Although I know you see me as a spiritual

guide here, I am human too, right?", so I

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tell stories of my humanness so that I can

reflect into the space with them as well,

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but I am on my journey, just like you are.

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I am at a certain level in my

life that I'm desiring to lead at

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another level of light, and I am

actively doing the work to get there.

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There's a specific meditation that I've

been guided to do three times a day

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for the next 30 days, plus these like

Psalms of activating certain energies

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and stuff, me and the Lulu out there,

dimensional stuff and work that I

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do, and I am some days super on it.

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I've never gone down to more like less

than twice a day, but there's some

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days that I'm like challenged to get

in three times, and I'm just owning the

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space that I'm in, and doing everything

I can to hold it there, but I am.

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I like to work out.

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I have two puppies that

are nine months old.

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My life is a bit chaotic, plus owning a

business, plus my friends, like we need to

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go for coffee, plus I live in Costa Rica.

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You want to actually enjoy where you live

too at the same time, and some days, it's

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the balance of it all is never happening,

so I just take ownership of what I can

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do, but a lot of the techniques that I

teach, and the tools and assets that I

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have, I use consistently all the time,

because I have to be a by product too

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of the work, and if I'm not growing

and shifting and changing, I can't

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lead people to do it either, you know?

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Joshua: What would you say is your

biggest challenge that you're working

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on, and why is that a challenge for you?

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Colleen: Yeah, so I'm breaking through

the ceiling of complexity, let's just say.

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I've been in a successful state

of my life for a long time,

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and it's been comfortable.

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I've been doing five figure months since

: 2015

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for me to do that, and I am now at the

cusp, or precipice, of being held in

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more worthy standards, we'll say, in my

own world, and breaking through that,

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because I know that when I can do a

certain level of income, it means I'm

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making a certain level of impact in

the world, and it's a big thing, and my

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job is to step up, and to step in, and

consistently be there all the time to

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show up, and some days, I really suck

at it, and other days, I'm like really

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on, but it's that level of expansion to

be able to hold it and understand the

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responsibility of being able to hold

it, and I'm like, I'm right at the edge.

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One foot's off, and I'm almost

there to fly and I could feel

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it building and I'm like, "Okay.

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Do not fuck this up.", you know,

because I've self sabotaged and

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stuff in my life, we all have, and

I used to wear the t-shirts and be

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like, I self sabotaged my whole life.

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I do not do that any longer, so I'm

like right at the edge, right, and I'm

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like, "It's right there.", and now it's

just about, "How about we just fly?

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Let's just let go.

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Let go and see what happens."

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Joshua: You use the phrase,

"responsibility to own it", and i'm

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wondering if you could expand upon

that a little bit, because I think the

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level of responsibility that sometimes

we have to take in our own lives,

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especially when it comes to owning,

like you have described it as, "shit",

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can be very tedious in nature, and to

be honest, before even this recording,

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I had this conversation with a friend.

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I need to own up to some of even my own

shit that I'm not doing, because I want

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to get to a five figure per month income.

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I'm not there yet.

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I'm getting there, but slowly building

up to it, because I've only been

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open less than two years, but I'm

starting to make strides in that

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direction, so I'm wondering when you

say, "responsibility to own it", tell

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me more of what that means for you.

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Colleen: Yeah, this multifaceted answer

for sure, because when we are aligning

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in a certain level of income, and

we're showing up, let's say a hundred K

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months, let's just say that's what it is.

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There's a lot of people in your

life that are relying on a certain

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energetic capacity, whether that's

in how you lead in programs, how you

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show up in your marketing to make sure

everything is like conducive to what

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you're actually giving value within.

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How you show up for your one to

one clients, and it's like taking

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that energetic responsibility

to be like, "Can I hold it?"

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Now, I'm not in charge of their results,

but I'm in charge of holding the container

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open so that they can step in and take

the responsibility, make the change, honor

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who they are, step up into the space, and

it creates this energetic imprint in the

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world, and that means that I'm showing

up online in the purity of who I am.

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That means I'm authentic in all the

ways that I show up in the world.

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That means the responsibility of being

out there to light the lights, like this

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podcast is doing, and to be available

for that, and to just be who I actually

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really am, and to actually communicate

the shit storms, or communicate the

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things I need to take responsibility in.

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There was a lot of times I

ran from that so many times.

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I have so many stories about running

from responsibility, and now it's

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like something shows up in my

field, I'm like, "Swallow the pill.

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Take the heat.

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Have the conversations.

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Have the real talk, and let's move through

this.", and I think that's some of the

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hardest parts about us being a human,

really, in the space of things, and

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nevermind a coach, and an entrepreneur,

and all the stuff is like, "Where do you

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need to swallow that pill, and where do

you need to really step up into this?"

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Joshua: It's almost

like The Matrix, right?

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Neo was faced with the two pills

that he had to take, whether it was

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the red or the blue, and that all

meant different types of results.

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I feel that sometimes we are deciding

each day which pill we want to take too,

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and is it easy or hard for you some days

over others to do what you're doing?

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Colleen: Yeah.

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I wouldn't say every day's easy.

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I say it's aligned, which means that

some days I show up and I'm just like,

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"I don't want to fucking be here.

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I don't want to record my podcast.

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I don't want to make posts.

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I don't want to record the videos.", you

know, and I honor those days at the same

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time that I honor the days that I'm super

on, and in it, and we are all human.

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We flow through our duality.

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We all have it in us.

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It's just a matter of do you let it take

over your life, or do you allow yourself

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to flow with it in your life, and when

we do that, some days I'm like canceling

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masterclasses or I'm moving program

teachings, because I'm like, "Guys.

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I can't hold this energy.

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I could show up for you in the way that I

am, but it's not going to come across, so

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I'm going to move it to this day where I

know that that feels more aligned, and I'm

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going to honor what's coming through.",

and sometimes that's hard, where sometimes

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we've been coached to show up anyways,

where maybe I do need to show up anyways,

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but I am not coming in, and the guys

pretending to be something that I'm

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not, because who's that going to serve?

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Nobody.

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Right?

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Joshua: That is so true, because

I have had even clients that

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have moved their appointments.

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I have moved appointments myself, and

it's all because of how we're feeling,

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and if we're not able to give that

percentage that we are guaranteeing,

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especially through services, like

that's one thing, and it's a business

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transaction, I get it, but, there's

something more to this and you said it

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already is that you want to create this

community of essentially light warriors.

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Colleen: Yeah.

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Joshua: So, when you're saying to

us, "This is why I want to do this.

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This is why I'm doing the

things that I'm doing."

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What are you ultimately trying to show,

or what you're trying to achieve, Colleen?

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What is really your ultimate

goal by doing all these things,

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because you have this business.

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I haven't even mentioned the

business, and we're already like

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almost at the end of the time, but

the business of CLC Consulting.

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Obviously, you even said to me

that you feel that that's not even

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aligned with what you're doing.

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You're working on that, and as any

good business owner, I know that you'll

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come back to me and be like, "Josh!

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Let's change that sometime down

the road to something else,

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because I know that this is where

I'm aligned.", and that's cool.

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You're working on yourself.

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That's perfect, but what is it

that you really want, because

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I hear all these great things.

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You offer all these awesome opportunities.

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I offer all these awesome

opportunities too.

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I know that I need to also work

on myself, and work on others.

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What is it that you ultimately

want to see in others, Colleen?

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Colleen: Yeah, so before I even

realized my actual mission on

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this earth experience, I used to

be part of a business networking

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group, so I've been an entrepreneur

for 15 years, so done the things.

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Did the brick and mortar stuff.

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Moved online before zoom was popular,

and all the kinds of stuff, right, and

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I used to go to this networking event,

and we would have these papers, and on

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the paper, it would actually say, "If I

can help light your light, then you can

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go out and help the lights of others,

but until you're lit, you can't light

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anyone.", and at the time when I channeled

that, I didn't know what it meant.

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I was like, "Oh, this sounds really fun.

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I'm going to put it on this paper,

and it's going to be a thing, and I'm

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going to step behind it.", you know,

like the young version of Colleen.

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It's really kind of fun when I go back

to my YouTube channel, and watch videos

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from like four years ago, five years ago.

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I was like, "Who let me publish this?",

but I keep them on there anyways just

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to go back for entertainment value,

but that's the mission, and that's

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the impact, and that's the objective.

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How many lights can I light up, and

whether that's in content, whether

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they come through free offers, whether

they ever do anything paid in my

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world, and I call it like the light

wagon; when I drive down the street.

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How can I illuminate more people by being

in a light wagon, and that's the goal.

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That's really the objective, and I may

never know all the people that I've

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touched in the world, because I just

don't need to, but I really feel like

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that right when I'm about to pass over,

I'm going to see them all, and I'm going

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to be like, "Fucking lights.", you know,

like, it's just going to be that way,

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because I just feel that the more we

are this way, and the more we lead in

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that, the more impact we make in the

world, whether that's the grocery store,

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the woman giving you a pedicure, the

guy walking his dog down the street,

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it's like, what if we lived in a world

that way, and everybody led that way?

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That's where we make change.

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Joshua: In a way, you're

trying to create a culture.

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Colleen: I'm trying to create a movement.

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Let's call it a revolution is what I say.

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A light warrior revolution.

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Like how do we shift humanity, and we

can, whether it'll be in this whole

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lifetime that I'm here, or the legacy

will continue on, I don't know, but

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just every day I wake up and go,

"How do I light more lights today?"

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Joshua: Have you ever considered

a career in public speaking?

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Colleen: I can easily flow

with conversation, so put

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me on a stage anywhere.

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Joshua: Yeah, no, no, absolutely.

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You know, that's my specialty,

my bread and butter.

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I love working with people that have

a message that they want to unlock in

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themselves, and they don't realize that

they have the, quote unquote, voice

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to be able to do that, and everything

that you've just said the last several

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minutes makes a lot of sense to me

as to why you want to develop that

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for so many people with that light

that they have inside themselves.

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They don't realize sometimes

they even have that light.

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That light might be very dim, but

you want to make it shine brightly.

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I have to ask to kind of

wrap this up, what's next?

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Is there something that's on the

horizon for you, especially in this

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new year that we are in, that you want

other people to know, because there's

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so many opportunities, especially in

beginnings, that we all can enjoy,

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and the energies of beginning can be

exciting, but also daunting in itself.

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Is there any advice you have for

any of my listeners as they start

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out this year, especially since they

might want to be a Light Warrior?

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Colleen: Yeah.

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Do it.

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That's what I'm just going to say to you.

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Just do it.

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If it comes into your field, and it's

on your heart, stop questioning it.

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Stop analyzing it.

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Stop worrying about what others are

going to think, and just take action,

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because everything will align if it's

meant to align through your heart.

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Period, but we talk ourselves out of

things so often, so many times, so the

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quote of the day is just do it, by Nike.

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Joshua: Well, Nike did have the

right idea, and they made billions of

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dollars off of that slogan, so, okay.

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Really, really last serious question.

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Is Costa Rica coffee better than

any other coffee around the world?

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Colleen: I don't know about any other

coffee around the world, but Costa

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Rican coffee is a vibe, and when you

buy it here from the local farms, you

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get fresh roasted beans, like you could

go to the farm, and they will roast the

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beans for you right now, so it's very

rare that you can do that anywhere else.

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Then you come home and you grind

them up, and you make pour over

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coffee, because that's a thing here.

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You can use coffee makers if

you want, but I do pour over.

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It takes fucking forever to

make a cup of coffee, but-

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Joshua: It sure does.

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Colleen: The bomb, you know.

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I will not trade it for anything.

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I'll take it with me everywhere.

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Joshua: The reason I have to end on that

question, in all seriousness, is because

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the java that we can make in our lives is

really all the things that you have just

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talked about for the last half hour, and

I love that, because maybe in Costa Rica,

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that's where we need to be to be able to

start those beginnings, so you might see

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a whole bunch of people coming in the

new year afterwards, wanting to check

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you out for that, so thanks so much for

saying that, because I agree with you.

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Although it's a pain in the ass,

pour over coffee is pretty damn

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good, but Colleen, we're out of time.

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I want to give you the last few

minutes though to pitch your business.

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How can people reach out to you?

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How can they connect with you?

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: 00:31:28

How can they even follow

you on social media?

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If you want to let everybody know

how to do that, I'll give you

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the last few minutes to do so.

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Colleen: Yeah.

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Thanks, Josh.

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Well Instagram is my playground,

I call it, so I know you'll have

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all the links in the show notes and

stuff, but come and follow me there.

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: 00:31:42

Let me know that you

listened to this episode.

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: 00:31:45

Tell me about something

that you took from it.

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I'm super active in that field, and I

actually, one of the main things I love

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is to know somebody listened to the

podcast and took something from it, so I'm

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going to encourage everyone to do that.

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I have offers that go through my field

consistently all the time from business

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structured spiritual business offers,

to activating spiritual gifts, so if

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something hit here today and you're

like, "Hey, I just felt called to

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contact you.", just send me a message,

and that's the deal, like really.

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That's kind of how I work.

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Joshua: Like you said, and I will say

again, I'll put all that in the episode

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notes too, if you want to go check out

all those links, and also check out what

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Colleen's offering, but I have to say, not

only do you give me a jolt when it comes

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to all these things that you're doing- Ha!

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You see what I did there?

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But- but I have to say.

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You have a fun spirit.

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I can sense that, and even sensed it

before we started, and it helps to

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know that there are people that want

to activate that light warrior spirit

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that we have inside of ourselves.

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It's just a matter of just finding

that place that we need to be, and not

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being pushed away from all the other

obscurities, all the different demands

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of our life and being able to create all

that, so for being able to do that, and

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creating that space and having people

land in your field, Colleen, thanks for

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Speaking From The Heart with us today.

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Really appreciate your time with

us, and I do hope that you continue

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your journey of helping others.

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It sounds like an amazing journey

and has so much yet to give, so

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thank you for your time with this.

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Colleen: Aw, Josh.

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Thank you for the space, and for

holding the space for all of us,

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all the listeners out there and

all of us coming in as guests.

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This is a powerful place to be,

so just grateful to be connected.

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Joshua: I want to thank Colleen again

for being part of the show, and sharing

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a little bit of her energy, especially

as it resonates to all of us being able

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to become better versions of who we are.

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That energy.

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How we move forward.

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That potential possibility.

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Those three key phrases and words,

regardless of where you might stand in

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your life can have so many impacts, so

many ways in which we're able to move

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forward and challenge the status quo.

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That's always been our mission

on this show to change that

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perspective, to help us see what

is bigger and brighter out there.

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What is bigger and brighter,

especially as we expand ourselves

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outside of our comfort zone?

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Having those aspects of our life, that

calling, if you will, means that we

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have to push boundaries aside that we

have manufactured and isn't because

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of somebody else's perspective.

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It could be, and we've had plenty

of people in the show, like Colleen,

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that have discussed what that looks

like, but it's about finding areas

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and perspectives that I have learned

throughout even my own life that I give

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people through my coaching business those

opportunities to break the boundaries,

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: 00:34:35

their "secret love life" that they

have, if you will, so that they're able

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to push beyond that relationship into

a brand new relationship of success.

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Success is defined in many different

ways, and it doesn't mean that

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success for one person will meet the

requirements for, say, another person.

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That's why there's a variety of

different career paths, a lot of ways

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: 00:34:58

in which we're able to interact with

the world that do create not only

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manifestations of these versions of

who we are, but also what the idea of

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what success is, but I have to say,

when we discuss the fact that curiosity

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does not kill the cat, we have to learn

that life, and the adventures that we

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go on, do have those ebbs and flows.

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Those valleys, those peaks that we've

talked about on numerous occasions,

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even on Speaking From The Heart,

have not been just conversations

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that have been empty handed.

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They haven't been without purpose,

because we could get "shit scared",

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especially using the words that Colleen

mentioned, and have those impacts

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from those shit scare moments, so that

we are able to manipulate the way in

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which we're moving towards the future.

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That shit scared moment for

me was when I tried to end my

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life, almost five years ago.

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It was also the moment in

which I opened this business.

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It was also the time I stood on a

stage acting as Christopher Columbus's

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first mate in my fifth grade play.

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We all have different reasons as to why,

and I have no idea where Christopher

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Columbus came from, but I did participate

in that kind of play growing up, but

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I think that's what we have to learn

is that we all have different moments.

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Those moments of, quote unquote,

enjoyment, which really are those

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shit scared moments, impact us in

ways in which we're able to become

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not just the person that we are, but

they also set artificial boundaries.

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: 00:36:30

Those artificial boundaries

can be very toxic.

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They can hold us back, so we have to

be able to distinguish between what is

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: 00:36:37

good and what is bad, and sometimes that

is a very hard exercise without having

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some outward perspective coming in.

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We can get into those types of

energies, we can learn why those

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energies exist, and expand ourselves

into vast beings, those "light

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warriors" as Colleen refers to them as.

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: 00:36:57

We all have those capabilities

of becoming better.

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We've heard those in spiritual contexts,

stories of not only persistence but also

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overcoming, but loving humanity has been

something that has been a common theme

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also in many of my guests that have shared

the reasons as to why they do what they

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do, but the biggest thing is to learn how

we can reflect on those moments, and get

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the desire that we want to have out of

them, where we need to go that is, but

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: 00:37:26

that means that we have to take time to

ponder what life is supposed to be like.

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Colleen really shared a lot about what

that looked like, especially with what

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: 00:37:34

she had to dismantle to get to her

potency and power, as she puts it, into

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: 00:37:40

the ways in which she's able to function

today, but I have to say, the biggest

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: 00:37:45

thing that stood out to me today is that

when it was talked about, that success

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can be very comfortable as a whole

if we're able to make those impacts.

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Can you hold a container that will

have that energetic imprint, being

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able to carry that along with you

to align with that bigger mission

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of what it means to go through life?

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That duality of what success and failure

is means that they each have those

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advantages and disadvantages, but to be

the light that lights others; quantity,

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or quality, really depends on what you're

wanting to do to change that perspective.

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In other words, are you

willing to just do it?

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Are you willing to just take the risk

and see what actually happens, and

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I have to say that there are many

people out there today, maybe even

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yourself included that is listening to

this, that might not want to do that.

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It might be very uncomfortable.

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It means that that container that

you're trying to carry everything in

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includes all the other shit moments

that have happened in your life, and

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you're not feeling very particularly

brave to share what those things are.

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That means that you have to step outside

your comfort zone, realize that success

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can be very comfortable when you're

able to actually challenge yourself, and

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make those wonderful impacts on others.

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I think the biggest moment in my life

when I learned that those impacts

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can make a big difference for me was

when I was a kid, knowing that I had

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a different way of thinking about

things, but I didn't quite know what

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the word was that was associated with.

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It meant that I was thinking differently.

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It was meaning that I actually saw

things that other people didn't see,

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but at the trade off of feeling very

uncomfortable in my own skin, sometimes

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even being overweight for that matter,

and being teased continuously from a

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number of different people, and up to

the point that even in college, I didn't

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have a great relationship with women.

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It was a very hard moment for me to be

able to say that I could be comfortable

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with my own energy; the way in which

I express myself and be able to become

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better, be able to find my calling.

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It took me a very long time to get to

this moment, but it also means that we

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have to find areas of our life to find

those opportunities, and we have to go

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through some of those ebbs and flows.

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We have to go through some of

the challenges that we have.

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We have to also explore what it means

to get to that other side, and that

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other side, especially for some people

that are trying to figure out what it

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is, their position in this world, and

being curious about it, means that they

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: 00:40:23

have to take a risk, and taking a risk,

ladies and gentlemen, especially being

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a light warrior, as Colleen puts it,

is something that we, especially as

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human beings, don't really want to do.

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Being able to be a guiding light,

being able to put yourself out there

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to create that infrastructure to

help others, means that you have

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to build it for yourself first.

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Building that life isn't

necessarily the easiest thing to do.

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It means that we have to take risk,

and Colleen certainly took a number

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of them, even myself included,

had to take those risks, and learn

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the hard lessons along the way.

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Even when we're shit scared in

those moments, we have to feel

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through all the different things

that we might be taking personally,

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but actually are trying to help us

become better versions of who we are.

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Whether that's in our relationships,

whether we're trying to work on ourselves

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with people that are helping us become

better, or just trying to mend some of the

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broken relationships that we have can be a

very logical first step, but it comes even

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more to what might be some of those past

relationships that you have once lived.

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Loving humanity, especially when

it makes mistakes is something that

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we have a hard time doing today.

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It means that we have to forgive

and forget, but we never seem to

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let go of those things, and we

have to keep on reflecting on why

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that is such a big deal for us.

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It can be very uncomfortable for us to

go through life knowing that we have

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all these struggles, that we have to put

this container together of this imprint

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that we want to share, but we have to

align that energy and align that purpose

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with the light of others; that quantity

or quality that we decide to surround

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ourselves with, and that decision comes

solely on us to make, whether we want

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to do that today, tomorrow, or never.

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I learned the hard way that I thought I

could do this all by myself, and I never

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decided that I wanted to seek out help.

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: 00:42:23

That help really could have made a

big difference earlier in my life.

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: 00:42:27

It would have not wasted all the time

that I had put into it previously if I

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was able to see that I was capable, and

that I was able to be more accepting

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of what other people had to say.

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: 00:42:39

Sometimes just doing it can be the

biggest step forward in our lives.

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It means that we have to challenge not

just what it means to step outside of

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that job that we hate, and find something

new, or leave that person that might

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have been treating us very bad, and not

taking care of their responsibilities,

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: 00:42:58

their end of the bargain, or even

getting rid of opportunities in business,

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not doing much of anything, and not

helping us get to our ultimate goals.

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It means that we have

to be ever exploring.

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: 00:43:11

We have to put on our safari hat, and have

our machete in hand, and cut through the

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branches, the trees for that matter, so

that we can find that pillar of success,

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that energy, if you will, that we really

want to attune to, and some people are

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absolutely risk averse when it comes to

that, and I can understand why, because

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: 00:43:32

we've been conditioned to do that.

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: 00:43:35

The next time that you feel that

you're being held back from something

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: 00:43:38

that has been holding you back

for a very long time, think about

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: 00:43:42

the energy that's surrounding it.

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: 00:43:43

Think about what you've been told.

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: 00:43:45

Is it really the truth?

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: 00:43:47

Is it something that we can think a little

bit differently about so that we are

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: 00:43:51

able to become better, that we're able

to really explore more deeply of what it

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: 00:43:55

means to really be attuned, and be more

embodied, with our own light so that that

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: 00:44:01

light can share to the whole entire world?

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: 00:44:04

That impact, that vibration, that ability

for us to be a guide for others means

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: 00:44:10

that we have to first start working on

ourselves, and if you're not quite sure

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where to start, attune yourself to all

the other people that are around you,

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: 00:44:18

even those that are willing to help, those

that provide services for you to help

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: 00:44:23

become better, so that you're able to be

more focused, more directive, and be more

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authoritative as to where you want to

head, not just in your future, but where

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: 00:44:33

you are today, with a clearer purpose.

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: 00:44:37

We are all entitled to that, and I know

that you have what it takes to challenge

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: 00:44:41

that status quo, because you, my fellow

light warrior, will certainly make ripples

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: 00:44:47

in this world, shining your awesome light.

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Thanks for listening to episode

number 188 of Speaking From the

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Heart, and I look forward to

hearing from your heart very soon.

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: 00:45:01

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: 00:45:02

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