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Introducing the Tranquil Soulution's Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool - a conversation with Karen Rudolf
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Karen Rudolf introduces the tool she has developed to help people live their authentic life.
Karen Rudolf is the founder of the Tranquil Soulution and creator of the Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool.
The Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool helps people to understand how they can avoid the pressures to just follow the crowd and instead live their authentic life.
In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Karen explains to host Michael Millward the consequences of not living authentically and the benefits of having the courage to live your authentic life.
They discuss
- The importance of celebrating your uniqueness
- Why it is easier to follow the crowd instead of living your own life.
- The joy of collaboration
- How our conscious and unconscious minds work, and impact our decision making
- The power of intuitive questions
- Why it is important to learn how to press your pause button on the pressures of modern life
- Why we should aim to create harmony in our lives instead of balance.
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Introduction to the Podcast
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Made on Zencastr. Because Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform that really does make making podcasts so easy. Hello and welcome to Rest and Recreation, the work-life balance podcast from Abbasida, where we don't tell you what to think, but we are hoping to make you think.
00:00:28
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I am your host, Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abbasida.
Introducing Karen Rudolph and Her Work
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Today, am meeting Karen Rudolph, who is the creator of the Tranquil Soulutions Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool.
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Karen is based in Florida, one of the US states that I have visited. Given the opportunity, I would return to Florida at a drop of a hat and do much more exploring of the Sunshine State.
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You can also access those trade prices by using the link in the description. The link has a built in discount. Now that I have paid some bills, it is time to make an episode of Rest and Recreation that will be well worth listening to, liking, downloading and subscribing to and probably also an episode that you will want to share with your friends, family and work colleagues as well.
00:01:36
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Now, let's say hello to Karen. Hello, Michael. Thank you for having me. I am very grateful that you you're able to meet me today because we've been talking about doing this for six months.
Karen's Journey and Philosophy
00:01:51
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That's quite a wait. So please could we find out a little bit more about who Karen Rudolph is and how you ended up doing what you're doing today? Yeah, I am an empower empowerment strategist.
00:02:04
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I've gone through many many, many things, including nursing back in the day. I've always been one who was very intuitive and always asked myself, what can I build with this? So when I moved down to Florida from New York, I gave up my nursing career to raise a family. When divorce hit, it was like, okay, now what what can I build with what I have?
00:02:31
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i was doing six hours of carpooling, and I didn't know if I was coming or going. And I remember writing a list of my strengths back in the day and saying, okay, taxi cab driver, That doesn't resonate with me. Scratch that one. So I've always asked myself, what can I build with this? And I've gotten to a point now where I've become an empowerment strategist. And what that looks like is empowering people to remember who they are and empower them to empower themselves. So I don't tell people what to do or how to do it. I empower them to remember who they are in order for them to be able to do that.
00:03:14
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And I love what I do. So it makes it very easy. i create fun and play with it. So there's no significance, no judgment. When you talk about enabling people to make their own decisions, essentially,
00:03:28
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It's part of the problem that we have in the world that too many people will take the easy route and follow the crowd, fit in, want to be like everyone else, even when being like everyone else is something that if they were honest with themselves, they would say, i don't really want to be like them.
00:03:48
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ah Yeah, absolutely. You know, we have so many people that ah have been, it's almost like training yourself to to be lazy in a sense and not think. We have, I like to say, we have a society of non-thinkers. It's easier to, as you said, go with the crowd and be the follower. But I find, you know, I love to kayak. And when I'm on the river kayaking, I love to go upstream.
00:04:15
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And when you're paddling upstream, you're paddling against the flow of the water, which is really, really, really challenging. I mean, it's quite the workout to say the least. But I learn a lot from nature. And while I'm struggling to go upstream and I'm seeing everybody else going downstream past me, they're missing so much of opportunities and beauty around them that we miss it. So i have come to learn that there's,
00:04:45
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nothing wrong with being different. And when you're going against the crowd, it's not that I do it to stand out. I do it for my own personal freedom and joy. And I find that's where the joy actually lies. When you're following the crowd, you're not thinking, you're not really participating in life. You're just You know, being, which there's nothing wrong with that. However, you know, so many people don't do any of their own research. They just, oh, I hear this from so-and-so. so so And, you know, it becomes me-me-i-i-i.
00:05:25
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consciousness rather than a we consciousness and i like to be in the we consciousness personally because i just find so much joy and and opportunity and collaboration there and you know so much more on that end of the post than the other if you're the same as everyone else then people can go to everyone else if there is something about you that is you is a is as unique as you are, so you almost become more interesting to other people as well. Yeah, absolutely.
00:05:58
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Absolutely. I mean, I don't want to be like everybody else where all, all of us are unique individuals. Nobody can ever replace you. okay Nobody can ever replace me and we're different. I remember when I started out my career in coaching, you know, I started out as a life coach and I was like, there were, it was, life coaching was just becoming a thing and I was like putting my big toe in saying, that I don't know what I'm doing. And I don't know, you know, everybody else is doing this. You got to do this was basically the way I was being coached. And I'm like, that didn't feel good.
00:06:34
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I don't want to be like everybody else. So I expanded myself and I started taking on quantum physics and neuroscience and NLP and heart math and all these other modalities to really tap into my own uniqueness and create my own way of being that serves others because for me it's all about expanding the magic that we all have within ourselves i'm going to ask you then how does this tool with the very long name tranquil soul lucian's mind mosaic clarity tool fit in with all of that now
00:07:13
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Tranquil Solutions is my company name. And it's not Tranquil Solutions, is it? It's Tranquil Soul Solutions. So there is a second you in Tranquil Soul Solutions. Right. Because when we look at people, we are whole. So all of my copy, you'll see a W in front of the word holistic because it's all the mentally, emotional, the physical and spiritual. So when I look at clients, I'm looking at them as a whole being rather than zooming into, oh, you're having this ailment or this challenge in a relationship or what your finances or whatever. And I'm not just looking at that because everything is energy and everything is interrelated. So when I look at all the aspects of a way of being, because I've i have expanded myself in so many different areas, I kept asking myself, what can I build with this? What can I build with that? What can I do to serve others that's going to create ease? You know, for me, it's all about grace and ease. And in a world where it's just go, go, go nonstop, we don't take the time to pause for the recreation, let alone anything else.
00:08:29
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So I came up with, it was originally called Threads in the Physical Realm. it was a deck of cards that I actually have taken globally. And I kept taking it I'm part of a creativity community. And I do a lot of creative problem solving. So I started asking my peers, would you beta test it with me? and And no matter who or where in the world I was with it, it made a huge difference in their life. So I knew I was onto something. So I knew when I was in South Africa, I made a difference with that. i was just about to ask you, which countries have you been to with this? And you slip in South Africa. So where else have you taken it?
00:09:12
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Germany, South Africa, Canada. I've done a lot virtually online with other countries. But I particularly like going to foreign countries I love to travel and I find that the consciousness in different people in areas are it's received differently so making a difference in the educational system I had no idea I was going to be doing that I didn't I didn't go with an intent to make a difference there all I knew is i believe in what I do I believe in my product in the next thing I know boom you know it was like okay thank you thank you universe
00:09:54
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So how does the Tranquil Solutions Mind Mosaic Clarity
Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool Explained
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Tool work? then So it's gone from the name threads to the digital mind mosaic, which is a clarity tool. And most people who come to me are always looking for clarity. You know, I don't know. I have a problem with the relationship. i have a problem with my health.
00:10:15
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I have challenges with my finances and I don't know. and I'm like, yes, you do know. You just haven't tapped into it yet. In Jungian psychology, they talk about the golden thread of connection.
00:10:30
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That's pretty much what my premise has been. And then it's shifting perception. When you change the way you look at things, Wayne Dyer said, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. My mind heard it differently. but My mind perceived it and heard it as, which was a slight variance. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. And I started looking at different. What can I build with this? So I created this online version of Asking intuitive questions and then showing an image that's been specially designed where you'll get there's so many images in the deck, so to speak, and you'll always pick a different vibrational energy photo. I don't touch it So it's your energy picking that because I believe there are messages in everything. And then when your mind looks at it, it's like, what's the first thought that comes into play? And how does this relate to what your challenge or your angst is or whatever it is you're coming questioning with? So this particular tool was designed for the individual.
00:11:49
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It bypasses me. And if you want a deeper dive then, you know, people will come to me and hire me after that. It came to me as a download many years ago. And I said, I want to put this in every home, in every pocket that everybody can create ease in their life. And that's how it was designed. So.
00:12:08
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You mentioned intuitive questions. I'm familiar with closed questions and I am familiar with open questions, but I'm not sure that I know what an intuitive question is. So what's an intuitive question?
00:12:24
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Intuitive questions that have come to through me, to be asking, they're specifically designed for self inquiry for you. tapping into one's own intuition we all have it whether we realize or not it's there so when you're honest and true with yourself right especially the way the mind mosaic was designed the participant there's no one watching there's no one seeing what your responses are so there's no right or wrong answers it just comes from you and the more truthful you are with yourself intuitively
00:13:02
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the clearer your responses are you're going to get so it's a a developed form of an open question or a more focused form of yeah an open question there's no you wouldn't be able to answer it it's just a yes or a no that way you definitely don't answer it right exactly yeah it's probably something that you've got to think about before you can answer Exactly.
00:13:28
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Exactly. Because I create thinkers. I want people to think. it gets you know It's like practicing that muscle. If we haven't thought for so long, where's the magic in that? The magic comes in in our our imagination and our are tapping into it. Your thoughts and feelings are what's going to really support you in getting...
00:13:51
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the responses that you're looking for good better and different their responses it creates awareness and what you choose to do with an awareness is on you yes if you don't ask you're not going get anything the thing that's going through my mind at the moment is that the tool the clarity tool mind mind mosaic clarity tool sounds fantastic but the way in we should talk about that process makes it sound feel as if it's actually very easy and yet there's this voice in the back of my head saying like Karen is making it sound really easy Karen knows what she's talking about but
00:14:30
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Is this voice saying like, that is going to be hard, very very hard. It's going to take a lot of time to do it. So what keeps people going through the the Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool?
00:14:45
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What makes people finish it? I've had people complete it in less than 15 minutes and got, aha. I had one particular client, he was amazing, that was struggling with his program that he was creating. And even though he was in the creativity community, he came to me and he's like, Karen, I just can't seem to figure this one out. What happens more times than not, we're in our head, especially with an idea.
00:15:17
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And within 15 minutes of utilizing the tool, he came back to me and he wrote me this beautiful testimony. He was like, It took less than 15 minutes and I knew exactly what my next steps were. I knew exactly which direction I was going and it just freed me up to do other things. So that was just one example. There's just been so many repeated examples like that. But again, he had a desire and he was willing to want to. There are people who are skeptical. Well, you know, that's cool. It'll still work. There are people who... think it's hard. it's all
00:15:57
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Everything is energy and frequency. If you put hard into the space, then it everything is going to show up hard for you, right? your Your words create your reality. So what I do is I attempt to shift that consciousness before anything else with those that I work with. That if they're purchasing the tool on their own,
00:16:21
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they don't get the extra aspect of that. It's going to be trial and error, but it's totally not hard. The description i laid out very, very clearly. So of the how to utilize it So I have had another client who,
00:16:39
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she She was so engaged in it that she just kept asking questions and asking questions and asking questions. And ah after an hour and a half, she put it aside with a whole new context. And they went back to it and put it in another an hour and a half because you can build on it.
00:16:57
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so it doesn't happen. I used an expression just there which was aha moments and you get the impression of what people engage with the the mind mosaic tranquility tool is that they will discover that aha moment. Yes. That sort of situational realization.
00:17:19
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Yes. Ah, that's what I have been thinking about. Ah, that's what the solution is. That's what I've got to do. That's the difficult situation that I have been putting off Absolutely, because if you think about, Michael, if you think about an iceberg, right, there's only 5% to 10% of the iceberg that is above water.
00:17:41
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It goes, the rest of the 100% is underwater deep, right? It's the same as our conscious, subconscious mind. So when we ask a question, it taps into the mind, which is usually the ego, which is there to protect us.
00:17:59
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Yeah, but is it then when you say that the mind the conscious and unconscious minds are like the iceberg, the bit of the iceberg that you can see above the surface such is the conscious mind and the element of the part of the iceberg that is beneath the surface that you can't see would be the unconscious mind and it's unexplored it's an unknown quantity until something happens that brings something from our unconscious mind back into our consciousness which is awareness yeah
00:18:34
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awareness so you're going so the more that we learn how to tap into our unconscious mind yes the more we will be aware and the more we will be able to make constructive decisions yes about how we live our lives exactly because you have the answers within yes know we've bill all of our podcasts has been like we don't tell you what to think but we do hope to make you think and you're making me think an awful lot here because i suspect that what this means is that if i walk into a shop or a restaurant or a church or wherever how i experience that space yes will be determined by how my unconscious mind reacts to what is in that space
00:19:25
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and past-based
Influence of the Unconscious Mind
00:19:26
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experiences. Right. Yeah, which is in this. Right. when you go into a shop, for example, with the intention of buying one thing, and you come out with 20, but not the one thing you went into shop for, those 20 purchasing decisions have been made by your unconscious mind because they weren't things that you actually decided to do consciously.
00:19:53
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Correct. I feel as if I'm passing an exam, actually. No, it's not supposed to be challenging. It's supposed to ease, create some grace and ease in your life. So if you want to get some rest and relaxation and recreation, it's like if you're always in your head.
00:20:13
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How can you possibly hit a pause button and learn to relax? And it's a learned skill because so many people have gotten away from it. I mean, I don't know how it is there, but here in the States, I mean, just in school, kids' schools alone, they've taken away the music and the arts and the gym. gym My kids, i I have daughters, and when they did their their in order to graduate high school, they had to do an online gym course because they didn't offer gym that, you know,
00:20:47
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it was ridiculous. ah Yeah, I've never heard of anything so insane. So these are skill sets that people are going to be lacking, right? And then we wonder why our this generation has gone so lazy and they don't think because music opens up the mind art is intuition and in imagination and creativity and you know you've taken those out of the school systems where are they going to get from yes it is a bit like that here in the united kingdom as well sport music art
00:21:25
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are not provided in the same way as they were when I was in school which is quite a long time ago each generation seems to have its thing where when I left school in the 80s it was all lunches for wimps or power lunches red braces wall street all those types of things work work work yeah and be successful now we've got more people saying well what about my work-life balance on this program, what about my work-life balance?
00:21:58
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But I get the feeling that what you're saying is like, yeah, work-life balance is great, but you have to almost learn how to have work-life balance.
00:22:08
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You have to learn how to rest, how to recreate. might invented a new word there. You have to learn how to make the most of your recreation and leisure time. just as in the same sort of way as you learn how to do a job. You have to learn how to live as well.
00:22:27
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Yeah, sadly, sadly, you're absolutely correct. And I mean, I almost, I, I almost don't like to say you have to learn it because we know it right? We, we have that remembering within us. However, if you don't block time and be intentional with it, it won't happen because there'll always be something else to fill the space. And i I personally do not use the term, work-life balance because there's no such thing in my world because if everything is energy and if you're if you imagine yourself attempting to balance yourself on a ball everything energy is in motion consistently right you can't balance energy so i look towards harmony when i put into the space that I want to find time for work and play.
Harmony vs. Work-Life Balance
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I create a harmony between the two, so it's not as significant. And when I'm blocking the time for me, i don't feel selfish. I don't feel like I'm putting other people out because I've put, you know, you can't give from an empty cup.
00:23:39
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That is very true. Very true. But, you know, when you're talking about work-life balance, and I would say people need to learn to work and they also need to learn to live.
00:23:51
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But when you are making time for yourself, how do you fill that time? How do you use your rest and recreation time? I find things that bring me joy that fills my well.
00:24:04
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um Nature fills my well. If I get stressed out from work or if I have somebody that's pulling me out of my energetic flow, I'll go for a walk outside. i have trees in my backyard. i have...
00:24:21
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flowers in my backyard and plants also living in Florida. It makes it more tropical. So we get a lot more lush green. I have plants inside of my house. i'll go I'll go talk to my plants or touch a plant because what happens is you're putting endorphins into the space, which is going to create that happy, joyful space. So it can be that simple as petting a cat or a dog or whatever it is. And, you know, just taking time for you, that's going to fill your well. You know, and what I do is I balance it really well. I love the arts. So tonight I'm going to theater. I'm doing that for me.
00:25:04
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I love to kayak. getting out and being one with nature, I find i am able to center myself there and ground myself. You know, sometimes I'll just walk in my backyard in my bare feet and grow. I'm two miles from the beach here in Florida. I'll go to the beach and go to sunset or, know, just walk there just centers and balances me. And I take deep, here's the key, it's pretty when you're doing that, you're hitting the pause button in order to take that deep breath.
00:25:40
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And you need. think what you're saying as well though is that when you are in these environments when you're kayaking when you're walking barefoot in your garden or along the beach when you are at wonder of nature you are making conscious decision yeah to do that it's not just i've got to go through this space to get to somewhere else you are present i suppose as you walk through those spaces yes always always but again it for me personally it was a life lessons i did not know how to be here now you know and learning to be here now is I have a lot of people that I work with that live in the past past. So we're shifting that energy from past, which causes depression. Depression is created from past life experiences, anxieties, future we have no control over. So when you're here now and you're presence it's all we have is this very moment we have the ability to choose the ability to create and manifest that what we want right here right now it's brilliant you know Karen what I said earlier on you know our aim is to make people think and you've certainly made me think I really have enjoyed our conversation today thank you very much
00:27:04
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Thank you. appreciate it. Thank you. I am Michael Millward, Managing Director of Abbasida. In this episode of Rest and Recreation, I have been having a conversation with Karen Rudolph, the creator of Tranquil Soul Illusions Mind Mosaic Clarity Tool.
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