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Re-Remembering Redmoon (Re-upload)
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It has been a year since our co-host and dear brother, Janus, passed away after his battle with bile duct cancer.
We still grieve. And we continue to celebrate his life.
This re-upload includes a collection clips of him from this show, along with messages from people that loved him.
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Commemorating Janus Redmond's Legacy
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It's been one year since we said goodbye to our beloved co-host, Janus Redmond. And the grief is still very real. The love is still very strong. And we'd love to republish this honoring of our dear friend, Janus Redmond.
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On today's episode, we are remembering Red Moon. Giannis Osiris Red Moon left a legacy and we are here to share with you his words, his wisdom, and the words of loving friends.
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Enjoy episode.
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Welcome to Stay Sparked. I'm Betsy Finkelhoo, the creator of the Power Affirmation Journal and Somatic Bodyworker. I am John Halcyon Stinn, the host of the Hug Nation YouTube channel and the Pink Path Personal Growth Program.
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We always love starting with gratitude. And today we have a shared gratitude for our former co-host and sparky, Giannis Osiris Redmoon.
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yeah So grateful. And that is what our episode is all about today. This beautiful human that has been part of our Stay Spark journey and also part of our personal lives for many, many, many years. And we are so, so grateful for this platform to get to share the inspiration that he has left behind as he has transcended this body and um left this earthly realm.
Impact and Influence of Janus Redmond
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So many beautiful treasures. And that's what we are here to share about today.
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It's such a i think important awareness to recognize that we are always putting our ripples into the world. And those ripples affect the people we touch. And then the people that those people touch are influenced by our ripples. And I've just been so aware lately of how the powerful ripples that our brother put into the world have impacted so many people.
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And as we continue in our lives, we are, in fact, ambassadors of his energy, of his vibe. And one of the and beautiful things about The technology in the world right now is that those ripples can be amplified dramatically.
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Ripples and ripples and ripples and ripples. And so it's such a, an honor to, to collect and share these ripples, love and energy and wisdom that he shared with us to continue to echo into the world. And then those people are going to continue to spread that into the world.
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Yes, and our hope on this episode that we are here recording in 2025, that the sparks that Janus Redmoon has shared on these episodes and through all of your beautiful shares may create lots of inspiration for many, many, many years to come. And so what we are here to do today is bring through some sparks that he has shared in previous recordings. So we're going to get to hear his voice here today. we are also going to welcome the voices of the people that he has touched in a very beautiful and deep way as a way to celebrate his legacy and to keep coming back to the magic that is Janus Redmond.
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And we are so grateful to get to share this episode with Janus' with the hope and intention that this will give you, Rumi, an opportunity to get to know your dad on a much deeper level through his wisdom and the gifts that he has shared with the world.
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We love you, Rumi. and da tata yeah we say i love you dad iie lay i'm my So enjoy this journey of listening to Giannis and all of his beloveds sharing with you today.
Janus' Personal Journey and Career
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i was adopted at a very early age. Um, well, that's just a few days old, frankly, but... And they didn't tell us we were adopted until my sister and I, we were both adopted. didn't tell us until we were 11.
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But I would be at family functions, Thanksgiving or Christmas, and I would look around at everybody. And our family dynamic was a little odd. All the men were all the men were African-American, were black, and all all the women were German.
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So that's what I saw growing up as far as adults. And all the kids were like these mixed nuts like me. ah So I looked like I was related to everybody. But I remember at a very early age looking around and like, something's not right.
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Something doesn't seem, something something's not right. Something's not happening here. And just having that feeling and then being told at 11, like, oh, by the way, you are adopted. I grew up in Tacoma, just Washington State, just south of Seattle.
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Spent my formative years there and ended up moving to Los Angeles I went to a USC film school and I ended up moving there in 1990 when I was 22, I believe.
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And so I was there LA. I only really lasted the school for about a year, ah but ended up living in LA for 17 years. And most of that time I was in the health and fitness industry as a fitness trainer and spent a few years as a competitive bodybuilder, natural bodybuilder. So spending six, seven hours in the gym every day, uh, working out twice a day and like living that, living that lifestyle.
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Um, and it's one of those things you do anything long enough, you tend to burn out on it. So after 17 years and having discovered, uh, burning that at the tail end of that,
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um los angeles is one of those towns that has a expiration date that kind of sneaks up on you and so you love it on monday and you wake up on tuesday they're like oh my god what am i doing so um so then i moved briefly to the bay area trying to flirted with uh flirted with the east bay for about six months and it never quite took i always felt like i was visiting and not letting and So then i reached out to some San Diego friends I had made through the festival scenes for various, you know, San Diego DCOM and bring that itself and such and a really solid connections and solid people, you among them in San Diego.
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And I reached out to a handful of people and was like, well, I'm thinking about moving to San Diego, but I had no job. I have no place to live. So I would need a little bit of need to get by with a little help from my friends.
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You guys could, uh, assist with the landing in San Diego. And everyone I reached out to reached back and said, yes, by yeah by all means, like with work opportunities and places to and so on and so forth. So it was a very welcoming atmosphere in San Diego. And that was almost 13 years ago. so I'm here now still. And ah yeah, loving it, living ah within the San Diego dream.
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It's been good.
Philosophies and Reflections of Janus
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This is Katarina. Janus was a mystic. At the very core, he was a very practical mystic. I always appreciated his grounded approach to life, to spirituality, to community.
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He had that earth energy down as a Capricorn while always cultivating his mystical essence. I remember so many conversations about metaphysical aspects of life, ancient Egyptian secret practices.
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We talked aliens, Pleiadians, Acturians. We talked about his encounters with those beings and so much more. I loved the way that he embodied his spirituality.
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He never claimed to be perfect. He always aimed to be authentic through and through. And I respected that and admired that in him.
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So, yes, Janus was a mystic. And when he was given his name, his new name, Janus Osiris, Red Moon, each part of that name was representing a lineage that he was connecting, that he was channeling that lineage in his own unique way, through his essence, through his
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a presence, and through his embodied wisdom. That's how I'm going to remember Janos as a practical mystic.
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We're the only ones we have any control so... And realizing that and really taking that away from um ceremony and out into the world and integrating that, you know, that newfound perspective, it's important it to to kind of realize, um you know, that we're the ones that we're responsible responsible for our own experience.
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And then you get to a point where you realize that one of the, and A main realization is that we're we're never going to arrive at this place, this destination of being perfectly healed, where we're like this perfectly awesome, we got it all figured out.
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We're never going to get to that place. So you learn to be like, okay, so this is who I am. How do I navigate who I am in this world? And realizing that, you know, the only thing that really needs to be healed is the belief that we are not already whole.
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This is Ishmael. Janus was a primary catalyst in my life. He, uh, He was somebody recognized the quality of the work that we were all doing together. And when he recognized something that he thought was important, he had a natural desire to share it with the people that he loved. And he did that in my world, introducing me to people that still to this day are the primary people that have made major influence in my life and the lives of people around me.
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Yanis, thank you for being willing to love. Thank you for wanting to share your love. Thank you for how doing that has changed my life and the lives of so many people around us.
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Thank you for your expansions. Thank you for your contractions. Thank you for your willingness. Thank you when you weren't willing. And most especially thank you for your love for me and your recognition of me. It helped me to understand and recognize myself.
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My life is better because you are in it. And I love you.
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if you're gonna If we're going to go out and be social, that the art of listening is something we want to cultivate. And we want to be able to show up for friends. And we want to be able to show up for strangers as well. So it's important that if we're going to put ourselves out in the world, that we're able to not only like receive from the world, but also to offer to the world, to the people that we're encountering. And that is done in the...
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um the realm of presence, like being present with somebody and really like, I'm not going to ask somebody how their day was unless I am fully prepared and able to hear the answer, no matter what that answer is, and then respond accordingly. So it's important to kind of do a little self-check when we're leaving the house and kind of being, kind of knowing what what it is we're open to, what it is we're up for, what it is we're capable of, and then being able to show up for for friends and strangers and in a way that is like healthy in the same, empowering, and And able to kind of receive and be a cheerleader for whatever it is they're there' they're up for or whatever they're up to. And to also, even if they're not really feeling that great, at least let them know that they've been heard.
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and that Which is really most what most of what everybody is looking for at at any given moment. This is Rebecca Mesritz. Yonus, you magnificent, mythical man, you as Big D introduced Yona and I on the dance floor at that first Fuente so many years ago now.
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When we met, it felt like I had already known you for ages. We visit each other in dreams many times, and one of those dreams inspired a whole body of created work for me, which became my master's thesis.
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The subject of that body of work was how we can sometimes learn something new from our dreams. And you had been a guide for me in that dream that I had.
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I was honored you wanted one of the pieces from that show, which then became a ceremonial vest for you. Knowing you, I'm sure you traveled pretty far in it.
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Your complexity is not lost on me. Light and shadow are both teachers. Hard-won wisdom. Our most recent conversation was a clarifying one.
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Dignity, respect, and maturity prevailed, and I was glad for it. how I wish we could have had one more night to come connect and play and ride the waves of conversation on the very nature of truth.
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I guess that must wait for now till we dance again on the other side. Perhaps you were there already dancing with Seda. Keep a light on for us until we can join you, my friend.
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Bless your life. Bless your journey. Thank you for all your teaching. I love you.
Community and Diversity at Burning Man
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In 2006, a couple of friends and I formed ah ah a camp that turned out to be pretty big. And, they know, the RLD days. and there was red like this yeah and there was And there was a question as to, like, who do we invite? You know, because we want to like you know because we want to we want to have the cool kids there. And then then I was like, no, we invite everybody.
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We're all the cool kids. where Everybody gets to be the cool kid this year. um And we're going to have the awesome camp. And it was a fantastic camp with about, turned out to be like 120 people. And a lot of people were there and part of this camp who would not...
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have found themselves in the same group of people, a group of people. But it turned out to be amazing. because It was just so, so diverse and so like authentic. Everybody was coming with their authentic selves and that was like honored and respected. It really felt like a strong sense of community. Like we were all there for each other for that entire time. And that was, that was a lesson for me. Like, no, everybody everybody can provide something. Everybody can offer something.
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This is John. One of the deepest ways I remember his impact is in the gentle, loving way that he ah helped people with race relations and evolving attitudes about ah privilege and cultural differences.
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And when George Floyd happened, I reached out and said, would you be up for doing a Facebook Live and talking about this thing that is so delicate? And he was absolutely enthusiastically in and and did what he does so well, which is... kind of holding people's feet to the fire with love so that you can hear it, so you don't get defensive. He was so understated and so powerful and changed so many people's awareness in the world. So here's him giving a little insight into why the Burning Man community could do a little better.
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Talking to a number of my friends, people of color and black people who have gone to Burning Hat. Race wasn't really much of a factor in my experience, I'm happy to say.
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until I brought it up, um meaning that, um and this is true for the, you know, not only on the playa, but also like outside, off the playa, but still within the community.
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My race doesn't really come up as a factor until I would bring it up in regards to being concerned with issues of race in the world at large.
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And then discovering that for a large number of people, ah bring an environment, the the culture is um a bit of escapism.
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It's a bit of an escape from these real world kind of stuff where I don't have to think about that. don't have to worry about all the myriad issues that are out in the world. The idea of Burning Man kind of presents itself as an incubator for ideas to bring back into the world to elicit change. A lot of people are there for the party. a lot of people are there for, you know, all the you know the the sparkles and all that.
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ah that is certainly there to get. But I found that when I would bring it up, whether it was online or in person, at a gathering or whatever, and people just didn't want to hear about it.
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I would bring up issues of diversity issues of race or such, and people would literally be like, you know, hold that thought for a second and turn around and run. Not walk, run to the office of the side of the party. I just watched them just sprint away from me as I'm standing there like mid-sentence. I kind of realized, that's where I became a little bit disappointed um, the, um, the culture, um, not all of it, but a large part of it, just because realizing that there was a, a wanted, a desired separation between, uh, the two worlds, which is kind of, which is kind of dangerous actually, because there's a lot of people in one culture where, you know, some aspect of, you just see it, a you see it a lot, whether it's in the tantric community, the Burning Man community, the plant medicine community, um,
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It's all good in their little bubble, but when they have to open that up to being like, okay, so we're going to try to do so or affect some change in the real world. And a lot of people, a lot of people in all these communities are, are simply not interested.
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Uh, haven't been interested in it. Um, And so yeah it's tough. so It certainly doesn't, you know, not to implicate everyone in all these cultures, but it's a significant enough number. It's kind of disillusioning.
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Unless you are happy to reside within that bubble and stay there, then that works for you. But it's like, you know, the guy eating, you know, eating steak in the Matrix movie. It's like,
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I know this isn't real, but it's really good. and If I could just stay in here, that'd be fine. I'm not i've i' not particularly interested in you know the struggle that's happening out there. and I'm happy to plug me back in.
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and you know These people, it's like, we're talking about woke culture. like You go to any of these cultures, most of these people would consider themselves conscious or woke or whatever, but um they don't want to be woke to some real warbs realw world stuff.
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um They might even talk about it, but when confronted with actually doing something about or standing up, you know, for other people, they lack the courage of their convictions.
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I'm Michael Ravenwood, and I always remember Yanus as a really grounding and calming presence whenever I had the chance to hang out with him and You know, one thing in particular that I remember was a time when i was just sharing some things that were going on my life and i was talking about how I was handling some, you know, kind of challenging family affairs and, you know, business stuff had come up and whatever. I just, you know, shared it in a certain way.
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And he's like, Hey, I want to pause you, man, for a second. And i want to remind you of you know, how much that all is. Like, you're talking about it right now as if it's just, like, the thing that's happening for you, but... but really, like, you should take a moment and just really let it sink in how much you're handling right now, and really, like, appreciate yourself for doing all that for your family. And, you know, and he just kinda, like...
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paused me for a moment ah so as to give me presence to what was going on. And I just remember thinking, wow, I think he's right. I think I'm just kind of glossing over all this stuff. And i really need to kind of pause and allow it to to sink in. Appreciate how much is going on and maybe take a break for a minute.
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And I really, i was really grateful to bull him for that.
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It's
Manifestation and Life Purpose
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Tigger. There was a time when I needed a gig, and he had a gig, vouched for me, and I got the job. My worksite overlooked the driveway, so I'd often see Giannis roll up in his white Audi two-seater.
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I always got a kick out of seeing my super tall homie roll up in that tiny little convertible, dreadlocks to the breeze. Now at this job, a group of us sat around a big table working with our hands and chit-chatting about every topic imaginable.
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One day we're talking about manifesting and vision boarding, and Janus walks in. And we ask him whether or not he thinks vision boarding works. He says, and I'm paraphrasing, be careful with vision boarding because it's great for helping you to get clear on what you want, but the moment you put something up on the wall as a vision for the future, it's like you're telling the universe that you know you can't have it now, and that's not necessarily true.
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Take my car. I had it up on my vision board, and I remember looking at that thing going, wait a minute, what do I need to do to make this happen? I looked on the internet, and within minutes, I'd found one just like it.
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Got down to the dealership, and with the matter of within a matter of days, that car went from being on my vision board to sitting in my driveway. So yeah, the vision board helped me quote-unquote manifest the car, but I got the car because I took action, and I made it happen.
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He made it happen. Thank you, Janus.
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If you're going to ask for people's opinion, oh what do you think about this logo? What do you think about this idea? You are going to get negative positive and negative feedback. So what are you to with that? just Just do your thing and let and whoever resonates with that will resonate with that. So maybe a little a little less seeking of other people's opinions and more just stick to your, you you you have this idea, this inspiration for a reason. Yeah.
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you know, follow that. But then also we do want some feedback. We we do want to like, and a lot of times, you know, we're excited about stuff. So we want to share that excitement with like our friends or our coworkers or family whatever. So, so yeah. So when somebody shares their stuff with us,
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You know, for me, it feels good to, like, I don't want to be ah i don't want to be a dream squasher. Like, I'm not here to squash people's dreams. So, which could be a challenge when somebody comes up with an idea or what do you think about this? That really sounds like, wow, I don't know about that. um Instead of being like, ah, i don't know about that. I'm like, okay, so what it's what's exciting to you to do that?
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what's what's where's where's the Where's the inspiration from ah for that? what's what's what's so What's the juice behind it?
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Hi, my name is Senna Bunz, a.k.a. a Ms. Bunz, as Janus always called me. I was blessed to know Janus Osiris Redmond since 2009 when we met at Burning Man, of course.
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Over the years, his loving friendship provided me and my children with the experience of a healthy, grounded, and wise masculine energy, something that is very rare and we will cherish forever.
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Yannis never really felt like he was of this world. He lived life on his own terms with pizzazz, loyalty, and charm. For us, he was someone I could lean on to help navigate this wild little thing called life.
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With reverence for honesty and integrity, he helped me navigate some of my darkest days. He always showed up, meant what he said, and never missed a chance to say something deeply profound.
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and he became a father i got to see his heart expand beyond his wildest imagination thank you beyond news for loving me thank you for being my friend thank you for showing us what it feels like to have unconditional support i miss you deeply and i vow to live each day to the best of my ability in a way that would make you proud to call me your friend.
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Through acts of kindness, being in my integrity, listening to my heart wisdom, and asking myself, what would Janus do?
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We're not just cruising along. We're either trending up or we're trending down. so having some awareness of that being like okay i'm moving one moving one way or the other what do i want i want to move up so what am i going to do to kind of instead of just ah assuming that's going to happen on its own right really taking the reins okay i i'm going to change how am i going to change what the what is like this is all my whole experience like looking around this is all temporary so what can i do to change this in a direction that i feel that i'm going to feel good about that is gonna allow me to
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Offer my gifts to the world that is going to be to everyone's highest benefit, including my own. And, you know, taking the taking the time to and taking taking it slow and realizing like, okay, so how do I go about this? And integrating all my past experiences into the present moment and using that as a guide to get me to where I want to be.
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But what brings us to joy um throughout the day? Because a joyful person is definitely fun to be around. if It's definitely like you're going to the world. I see the world, experience the world in a much better way when you are coming from a place of joy.
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i just heard something recently that said the meaning of life, very simple in five words, the meaning of life is to enjoy the passage of time. That is it. And that can be connected to, you know, what's my purpose? like What does my meaning say? i won Okay, to enjoy the passage of time.
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How do I do that?
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This is Angelina Aria. Some of my fondest memories are walking in nature Mission Trails and just talking about Egypt and the time that you came with me to buy my Prius. Thank you for being there for me.
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And just the first day we met New Year's Eve back in l L.A. at that boxing ring in 2006. two thousand and six I trust that you are navigating the afterlife brilliantly.
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i see you doing it. I'm just sending you big love, brother. And I know one day we will meet again. Much love. I might have some negative stuff going on in my life and I may or may not share that with you, but I'm definitely going to share with you guys like what's awesome in my life and just kind of speak that out. And that's definitely puts, you know, that puts the good stuff out there and my appreciation and gratitude for that good stuff.
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Gratitude is one of those things like you you do it because it feels good, but the fringe benefit is that gratitude gives you more things to be grateful for. The more gratitude you express, the more you have to be grateful for. It's like I've seen way too many instances of this too for for it to be so easily dismissed and just, oh, that's some hippie woo-woo stuff. Like, now
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This is Cynthia, Cyn. So I met Yanus years and years and years ago um when he was known as Big D. I remember he worked at Trader Joe's and I used to love going in there. Just to run into him and have a quick chat. um He was always just such a warm, welcoming presence. And so I moved out of of San Diego, moved back four years later, and then i knew him as Yanis. And again, he was just as warm warm and welcoming um as I remembered him.
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he um i just would love to run into him at parties and have conversations. He was a really good person to ah to talk to. um yeah I loved getting to know him. And I remember there was this one time he saw that I was hanging out with A person that, you know, I didn't know at the time had a bad reputation. And he reached out to me and said like, hey, you could do whatever you want, but I care about you. And, um you know, i i don't want anything bad happened that that to happen to you. So just be careful. And I just felt like that was such a sweet big brother thing to do. and that he really truly did care and yeah i just I would never forget that um and I will never forget him he's just a very he's a very kind warm welcoming person um and I miss him already so um he's always going to have a special place in my heart
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This is Lily. Yannous was like a big, fierce, protector brother in my life, and I am just so grateful for all the ways he's shown up for me over the 10-ish years that I knew him.
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One moment in particular i'm remembering is i needed to buy a van and I wanted to go and of traveling around California looking for my new home outside of Los Angeles and he...
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offered to look for a van for me in San Diego and go and check it out because I had really no ideal or car experience.
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So he did and he went the extra mile, he found a great van and he also built out a bed platform in it so that I could have storage underneath and have a comfy bed on top.
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And that was just one of the ways that he would go out of his way as a brother, as a friend, as an ally. And another moment I'm remembering is after a particularly terrible breakup that I had, he just was there. He came to visit me. he you know, listened to me He held me when I cried.
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He was a really good brother. I love you, Yanus, and I'm so happy that you are flying free. and i know that you're protecting me and
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your friends, your beloved, your son from the Aether Realms. We love you.
Service and Human Experience
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I've always found that if I'm kind of like, kind of stuck in my own stuff and I'm feeling like a sense of purposelessness or i'm not, if I feel like I'm just on a hamster wheel, I will take it upon myself to be of service in some way. Like, okay, so put table my stuff.
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help somebody out over here. And that could be like helping a friend move or working at a, ah you know, we're working at a meal train or serving, you know, serving food at the at the local, whatever. But there's definitely a sense of joy, sense of accomplishment since like, all right, doesn't like, not necessarily like have to fill an obligation, but it's just like, I'm doing, I'm doing some good stuff here. right. All right. That's fine. It's like the whole idea is that it isn't enough. It's like, eh, whatever.
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um You know, I did some good stuff today. I can feel good about that.
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This is Shannon, Giannis' last partner and the mother of the beautiful baby boy we had together, our little roomie, roomie hunter, Red Moon.
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And
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want to say how Giannis made me laugh Like no other person has ever made me laugh. And consistently...
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I would have just nights and nights in a row. It was kind of our ritual, our nightly ritual, where he would just have me in such insane stitches that my stomach was seizing up and I could barely breathe and I was laughing and crying so hard.
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It was magical and such a great way to get all of the endorphins and serotonin and yumminess through to get me into a sleepy state. It was such a great way to be sent off every night.
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Yeah, it was kind of uncanny how he just knew exactly what to say and how to say it. That would get me laughing so hard.
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And I'm so grateful to him for all those nights of laughter and all those days of laughter.
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yeah even our neighbor said that he loved how often he heard laughter coming from our house. So, and of course,
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i will love Giannis forever for just who was and the amazing gift giver he was and that he gave me the most incredible gift of our son.
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was...
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the one thing I wanted more than anything in this life was to be a mother. And he gave me that gift.
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One thing where my partner and I are both stoked about is just the the community that he has been born into, like like with you guys. And like we're we're part of a ah fantastic community of people.
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friends and family and framily, as we as we call it, where I'm just so stoked that he's going to be meet so many awesome people from so many different walks of life and different perspectives. And he's going to be surrounded by these aunts and uncles who are just going to love him up and show him all these fantastic ways of being in the world. He's going to have some some fantastic models to to to model, to some awesome people to do modeling. And i but i i I give thanks for that every day.
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This is Raven. My first memory of meeting Giannis was at a gathering surrounded by community. He was so welcoming, so kind.
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He had this way of making you feel like you belonged, like you were already part of the circle. And that never changed. In the years i knew him, he was always that way with me.
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Warm, inviting, accepting. the kind of friend who wanted every everyone to feel included. And then there were our deep drop-ins on life, on art, on love.
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Those conversations, his presence, his wisdom. i hold them close. I am forever grateful for his friendships.
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we have to let go the idea that we are human beings and that we are humans becoming, that we are always in this state of, you know, evolution and growth and the end decline and decay. Like these things are always happening.
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Every morning is another opportunity. Every, so every sunrise is another opportunity to begin again, to begin anew. So we don't, it's like that we have to constantly be improving or, um, constantly be growing. It's, You know, that's kind of a fringe benefit of the the evolution. As long as we are, we feel like we are living into our truth, living into what's ah up, feeling authentic to us in this moment today. I think, I think that's the idea. the That's the point.
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This is Betsy. i want to share a very special bonding experience we had at Damanhur in Italy at a sacred site called the Temples of Humankind. Giannis was a guide for me in my spiritual development as I was young and discovering the realms of mysticism and the unseen ways, which he seemed to just carry naturally.
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and we had this opportunity to sleep inside a beautiful temple space called the Hall of Mirrors. And that experience bonded us as we did deep meditations and rituals as a group that helped us to remember our infinite nature.
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And so with the privilege of many, many, many years later, getting to sit at his bedside just a couple of days before his passing, we recalled those moments and looked into each other's eyes and remembered our infinite nature as i am deeply saddened by his loss i also know deeply that he is continuing on the journey in the formless space And so in celebration of this mystical being that is Yonis, I am so grateful, so thankful for the gift that he has given to me in his life and also in his passing.
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You are infinite, Yonis. Thank you for your magical existence. We love you.
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This is Eliza Moon. My friend Yonis is an incredible being. that touched me in the masses, like so many people he's touched.
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And I've been friends with Yanus for 16 years. We met in Guadalupe Canyon at the Hot Springs. And I just remember him talking to me and I felt like it was like soul recognition, like we've known each other for lifetimes.
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And remember him taking me to my performance with the Shimmy sisters at Portugalia. And he took me there and we bonded over our past, like we're both adopted and I feel like there and after I feel like he's been like my brother like protected like we're definitely feel like soul family and yeah that's he watched me be pregnant and was you know the the first person to visit my son when he was a baby just born
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um Yeah, it's been sweet. He's been considerate and thoughtful and fun and playful. And he always honored me. Like, he'd always pick me up and like go on hikes. And he would take me and my son to the beach or the park. And he introduced me to so many people. Like, he took me to parties.
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I just felt like the impact he left for me is like I belong. Like I felt like he loved me unconditionally. Like nothing I can do to would spray him from not loving me. And I really love that he was able to represent unconditionally loving.
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And that he was able to show up for me and my son in a huge way. And he's so funny. So he was like playful and fun. And I miss him dearly.
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but I feel like he's with me right now. I really feel his presence. And I want to continue to feel his presence and his insight. Because he definitely helped me um throughout my life. When I was struggling, he was there with me.
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So I love you, Janus. You're legendary.
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But it's important to remember that it's, there is there are very few destinations in life. It's most is most of it is a journey. and acknowledging and like, you know, when you have you when you have these moments of like insecurity where, you know, you're viewed as like, oh my gosh, you're you're you're so together. It's like, oh, you should have seen me like, and you know, two hours ago.
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And and But it's important when we get to that place, and it's it's true for how we express ourselves and it's true our experience in life. Like, if we're, okay, this is my pink phase. You know, this is not the destination. This is just where I'm at right now.
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um And when we're feeling those bouts of insecurity and, like, you know, maybe even, like, moments of despair, it's like, okay, this is where I'm at right now.
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you know, work through it and I'm not going to wallow it and I'm not going to plant my flag here. This is just where I'm at right now. I am, I am always moving. Um, I can see where I'm moving next. And then, you know, that allows for us to feel it, to be in it, and then to kind of come out of it with a different perspective.
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Ryan Sweeney here, just reflecting upon the number years that I've known Yannous and kinda who he was for me. So, it was around 2013 when I met Suzanne Angelo. We went on our first date and, uh,
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You know, that started a chapter that will forever shape and change my life. in the um The first time that I went ah back to her house, he was living there, he was her roommate, and I just remember you know his presence. He's got quite the powerful presence, ah yet with a gentle, kind, endearing, loving a way of being about him. That was just...
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really nice to be around. Um, over the years, the various community gatherings, festivals, house parties, ah events of all types, dinners, just get togethers. We always carved out some time to talk about the deeper things and, um, and just always really appreciated his ability to listen and, you know, carry a conversation about the, the bigger things in life. And, um, know, towards these later years, especially about fatherhood and everything that, uh,
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goes into the wonders of raising a ah human and being that that human's guide and i sharing the wisdom.
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Godspeed, brother. I love you. You'll always be a part of me
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Janus, brother, our Sparky, we love you so much. You are always remembered. You are infinitely woven into our hearts and souls. And even though you are no longer in your body, you are deeply with us in spirit.
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I feel you here with a big old smile, taking it in. it is such a privilege to have crossed paths and to have been made a better man because of you. The world is better because of you.
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May we let your ripples continue flowing.
Embracing Life's Highs and Lows
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We came from a place where everything is perfect and we are going back to a place where everything is perfect. But right now, while we're here, everything has stopped perfect. And that's what we kind signed up for.
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We signed up for the human experience, which is if nothing else messy. And it ah has a lot of ups and downs as ah the highest of highs to lowest of lows and all the points in between. And we are here for all of that. We are here to experience That's it. This is kind of what I signed up for. It's like, I really wanted to be here and, uh, and having this experience of of, life and this body with these people in my life. Yeah. Yeah. I signed up for this. Okay.
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All right. Be in Love it.
Further Resources on Janus Redmond
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In addition to the clips that we're sharing here today, you can always visit the Remembering Red Moon YouTube channel for a collection of his wisdom and wit.
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Stay smart, friends.