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124. The Role of Inner Work in Achieving Holistic Health
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In this episode of the Spiritual Fitness podcast, Eric delves into the transformative power of inner work with the inspiring Shannon Beardsmore, a spiritual mentor, manifestation coach, and facilitator at Diamond Academy. Together, they explore the profound impact of imagination, self-love, and inner work on personal growth and fulfillment. Eric and Shannon share personal stories and expert insights designed to help you unlock your true potential and lead a vibrant, purposeful life. Shannon opens up about her journey, discussing her struggles with self-worth and the life-changing transformation she achieved through self-love and inner work. She emphasizes the vital role of imagination in manifesting desires and provides practical tips on staying connected to your inner child and maintaining a high vibration, even in the face of challenges. Tune in to discover how to trust the process, embrace self-love, and let your imagination guide you toward a more meaningful existence.
Also in this episode:
- Use your imagination to visualize positive outcomes and manifest your desires. It's not just about thinking but feeling and embodying those visions.
- Facing your inner demons and doing the inner work is crucial for personal development. It's about digging deep and removing the layers of trauma and negativity you've accumulated over the years.
- Community and Support: Being part of a supportive community like Diamond Academy provides the encouragement and guidance needed for personal growth and manifestation.
About the Guest:
Shannon Beardsmore is the radiant and compassionate heart of Kathleen Cameron’s House of Manifestation. Known for her warm presence and infectious laughter, Shannon brings joy, inspiration, and unwavering support to everyone she encounters. As a spiritual leader and dedicated mentor, her mission goes beyond guidance—Shannon is committed to empowering others to bring their dreams to life. With a deep passion for helping individuals on their personal journeys, she serves as a guiding light for those seeking to manifest their deepest desires and live their most fulfilling lives. Connect with Shannon at ShannonB.ca and discover the transformative power of her teachings at the House of Manifestation.
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Transcript
Introduction to Holistic Health Focus
00:00:06
Speaker
Welcome to the Spiritual Fitness Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Bigger, and each week we will explore powerful practices, inspiring stories, and expert insights to guide you on your path to holistic health. By blending spirituality and physical wellness, we support you in strengthening your body and soul. Whether you're a seasoned spiritual seeker or just beginning your journey, the Spiritual Fitness Podcast is here to help you unlock your inner potential and live your most vibrant, purposeful life.
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It's Miracle Season.
00:00:41
Speaker
Welcome, welcome, welcome. Spiritual Fitness IG Live Edition. We're back again with another episode. I'm excited. Today will be incredible.
Guest Introduction: Shannon B
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I got the amazing Shannon B. Shannon is a spiritual mentor. She's a manifestation coach. She's a mom. She's a wife. She's all these things in such a powerful superhuman. Today we're going to talk about, like I said, imagination, self-love, the importance of inner work. Because listen, in life,
00:01:15
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We want things to be a certain way, but we don't want to do the work that it requires, right? So I'm going to bring Shannon in. She's going to speak her story, her truth, and give you all the gems and wisdom you guys need to heal yourself, to open up your third eye. And it's just bringing that love, right?
Journey Together: Eric and Shannon
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That self-love awareness until your paradigm and yeah your vortex.
00:01:38
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By the way, to people who don't know, I met Shannon at a rise, retreating Mexico months ago, like last October. And then I think like two months or three months after that, we started working together one on one. She's just an amazing human. Like she is powerful. She's a leader and she has transformed her life so much inside out. And she's been through so much to get where she is today. It's such a beautiful story and glory that I get the privilege to witness, you know, a few times a week Well Shannon, welcome and can you just give people a but little bit of background on who you are, what you do. I know I gave my introduction, but I would love to hear from your spirit so they can get to feel you and know you as we in this process together.
00:02:21
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Yes, thank you, Eric. Oh, my goodness. It's such a blessing to be in your energy. I know we talked about that yesterday. I hope people get their energy, but I'm so blessed that I get to be in your ener energy. So thank you for having me here.
Influences and Inspirations
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So, yeah, I work with Kathleen Cameron. So I am that you train Kathleen. She's powerhouse. We all know me in the station world. So I was blessed. yeah She was a lighthouse for me. And in my darkest days, she shone really bright and she was doing the work.
00:02:51
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So I was attracted to her light and I did the work and then I got to stay and I continue doing the work with her. But I get to be a lighthouse for other people in her world. So it's so beautiful. And I'm actually the facilitator for House of Manifestation. That is a community within Devon Academy, which is Kathleen Cameron. So I love, love, love that I can shine my light. But also what I love the most about what I do is that I can be that beacon of light for someone else because I know what it's like to be on the other end of that. And that's just my purpose here is just to help serve and just to pour love into whoever I can. I do that every day. I'm like, God, who do you need me to talk to today? Who can I help out? How can I help them?
00:03:37
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That's kind of me there. I'm passionate about self love because it actually saved my life by working on my own self love. And it's just so beautiful that we get to share this to the world. You always say medicine so I had to go through my dark days to receive my medicine now I can give that out.
00:03:56
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Yeah. And it's important, I think, to people
Spirituality and Manifestation Practices
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who don't know. So Kathleen Karen, Kathleen Karen manifest is acquired on my as a friend, as a great individual, she's a great soul. And she has a, you know, Academy, a company of phenomenal women. It's called Diamond Academy. And in this group, they teach all about like spirituality, manifestation, abundance, sacred co-creation, and anything to kind of amplify change alike.
00:04:22
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From my experience, when I went to the Riser treatment they hosted last year, I've never in my life been so inspired by women. Like, I mean, I just want to share a brief moment. There was a moment we were in the ocean and I had fear around jumping in the ocean because I didn't feel like I could swim that good. And, you know, I'm the trainer and MC there, like you got all these women just jumping in, Kathleen, mom jumps in and just jumping in. I'm over there like,
00:04:49
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looking and like, I'm the athletic one training everyone, but I'm not jumping the ocean. So I felt compelled and I felt strong and I felt willing to do it because of the energy that was there of the community of Diamond Academy, everybody that was at the retreat, and I jumped in the ocean. And that ocean died for me jumping in, opened me up, and I was liberated, right? All because I was in the energy of people who want to win in life. The women at Diamond Academy are inspirational, they're phenomenal,
00:05:18
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And you know Shannon happens to be one of them who carry the torch of leadership of divine love, self-love, healing, inner work. And you know working with her, I just realized like, oh, you're a powerhouse. You got this. So before we get into it, Shannon, I want you to kind of like, before we can teach people about imagination, the benefits of it, I want you to speak on like what is imagination to you and how do you use your imagination to kind of reflect the life you
The Power of Imagination
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want to live? Because I think You always say, I like playing in my imagination. I like to play in my imagination. What is your relationship with your imagination and how do you use it to benefit your life that you're living today?
00:05:56
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So I love this. It's so fun. I remember someone saying this to me before and I didn't even realize it because sometimes like when people say something to you and their perception, you don't realize someone said, Sheena, you're playful. That's what I love about you. And I'm like, Oh, really? Like, this is before and before I did the work and I was just like, Oh, I am like, my soul is young. I love to just like,
00:06:20
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just have so much fun. And I think what I realized when I woken from is that it doesn't have to be so hard. Everything doesn't have to be so hard. And I was living in my masculine as a mom, as a wife, all the things and everything was so hard. So my life around me, just I kept saying this is so hard, this is so hard. So I kept seeing hard, right?
00:06:45
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And when I've done the work and doing the love and like, it's the day to day stuff, right? Like you said, like it's the stuff people don't see that people are like, Oh, you're so happy. You're so this, but there are days and I'm like, Nope, not gonna do like today. Right? But I give myself grace instead of beating myself up because there are those ebbs and blows, right?
00:07:08
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So what I do now and what I know and a bold manifestation is the imagination is your biggest business tool is your biggest like anything like you want anything like you just have to look at it like I love this analogy of Steve Jobs.
00:07:23
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Steve Jobs was planted a seed in his head from God. You're going to have an iPhone, you're going to make an iPhone. And no one knew what it was, right? And people are like, this guy's crazy, all the things, all the things, but he knew what he knew. So you couldn't shake up, right? So I just think of Steve Jobs and I went to LA or to the Grove and went into the Apple store. If you've ever been to LA, the Grove, and the Apple store has a tree in it. Like it legit has a tree growing out of the store.
00:07:53
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And I'm like, that's badass, right? Because that came from someone's mind. And the same with Walt Disney. He looked at Swampland in Florida. So this is gonna be the most magical place in the world. As a mom, it's not that magical. This thing is sweaty and kids are crying. But he looked at that and he said the same thing, but it came from his thought. So what if you can be like the bender of time, the creator of your universe by playing in your imagination?
00:08:21
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And I always say like, I get signs of land, that's a phrase we use here. And I think it's from as a man thinketh, or a floor to show, or something like that. All the books merged together, right? As signs of land. So when you're like, sailing for a long time, you see a tree or a sea bird, they're signs of land. So like signs of land, I always say and claim my imagination that I'm going to go on tour with Taylor Swift.
00:08:43
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And I'm going to teach this material to her because she has the biggest platform for young girls. What impact if she knew just a little bit of this, that she could share this to these young girls today. And I'm like, wow, what an impact. So I I go with my imagination. I close my eyes. I'm like, what if?
00:09:01
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What if I'm actually going to get a tattoo on my finger that says, what if you were whatever is calling your heart? Why don't you take five minutes and play there and see what that feels like? That's the daydream and ways to do when we're younger, right? Yeah. I think the biggest thing to preface is so she said to people, and people listening and watching, she said, Steve Jobs, she said Walt Disney.
00:09:22
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Well, Shannon might not know that I know because I'm a numbers guy. So Walt Disney and Steve Jobs are Life Path Ones. They're born leaders. That's her side. So Shannon is a born leader. She's a Life Path One. So Life Path Ones are here to lead consciousness people to their highest self.
00:09:41
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They have energy, they have the power. To go back to imagination, where I think we do well, which is bad, we play in a negative imagination of the worst thing happening. How many people on here can sit at home and think about something, a circumstance, and really see it in their mind's eye that, oh, this is going to happen. I'm going to lose my job, the relationship. but You know, we get so engulfed in that negative imagination that it becomes real. But if we can shift that imagination to a more positive outcome, it can be the same income result, right? But I think we live in fear, we live in lack, we live in worry and self-doubt. It's because the information that's coming through social media, mass media, politics, the war, it's all distorting our vibration and energy to confuse who we are on the inside. Like I tell Shannon all the time, you're powerful, you're a leader, you're a lighthouse. People love being around you because you make them feel good.
00:10:39
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But Shannon is honest. like She doesn't always feel good. I don't always feel good. It's not real. But we keep it real. We keep it authentic. We keep it raw. And we try to show up to be our best self because when you have a gift, you still got to gift the world with it because that's how you heal. And I think imagination is one of those faculties that we don't really talk about.
00:11:00
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And I think if you can kind of help me, Sharon, I think my challenge with imagination, I always struggle with seeing things, but I know I could feel
Techniques for Harnessing Imagination
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things. So I didn't know that feeling is just as well as seeing is part of your imagination. So to people who struggle with visualizing or imagining their greatest dreams coming true, what are some steps or some tools they can embrace to kind of get in that space where, because I think you do it like five minutes or 10 minutes every day, you just play with your imagination. What are some steps they can use to kind of get in that space where they feel confident?
00:11:34
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Okay, so we have five senses, right? But however, I like love doing guided meditations because I like getting people in the field. So I think one time when this came up, when I really realized it is I brought people because like the people I was teaching at the time, I was like, okay, how many of you guys celebrate Christmas? And I think everyone did. And Christmas for a lot of people, most people is a happy time, right? So you can get into that energy like that, right?
00:12:01
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So I was like, okay, this is the end of the year you're at Christmas. So like closing your eyes and pretending you're where your favorite place is for Christmas around the Christmas tree. What do you smell? It's cooking for you. What's playing?
00:12:18
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What are you drinking? What are you holding in your hand? Right? Like when you get into these senses and you get into like, really playing in that like, what does that taste like? It is like, oh, that's yummy, right? Because like, it gets fun. And that's what you were saying before the negative one. I want to touch base on that because that's a story. Because then it turns into a story. And that's what we're doing. We're playing in this imagination of a story that benefits you. But when you're going to the negative, you're on a loop.
00:12:47
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And that loop will can continue to play unless you go in and dig that shit out, right? And that's the thing, it's the embodiment of this work. It's the work and the doing. And so when you play in your senses, it's so good, like, okay, for instance, people hear that maybe they're looking for a partner, right? So, okay, let's talk about this, because this is what we get all the time. It's either money or love, right? So, okay.
00:13:15
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looking for a new partner. Okay, what are you going to do? Where are you going to be? Are you going to go on your first date to, you know what I mean? Are you in Hawaii? Are you going to meet them in Hawaii? ah Do you have a lay on you? do you Are you dancing? Right? What song are you dancing to?
00:13:30
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When people have big goals, I ask them like, what are your kids? What are you listening to? What are you telling them? Play your song that way you celebrate that when you are like, yeah, we're going, we're moving into this new house. This is our song. It's like, get it, girl, get it, or whatever it is. Get your kids involved. Share your imagination with your family, with your loved ones. like play in it. And it's so fun. Because like, I have a six year old. So I like love getting his skills and me. I love getting his wheels going and and just like, what will that smell like? What are we gonna have to eat there? And they just asked them these questions to provoke his imagination. And I and he'll say like, sometimes when I'm talking to people, and he was like, whatever you say will happen. He says it all the time to people he schools other people. He's listening to me, right? Yeah.
00:14:24
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You know, someone asked the question, what if your family are negative and think you're weird ah so a Hey, that's fine. Listen, I know I'm weird to a lot of people. Guess what? I'm lifted and gifted every day. It's miracle season over here. But here's the thing, right? You know, it's so true. If you think of Christmas, everybody you just said the word Christmas, a vision pops off from past, present, future, right? What Christmas is going to be, birthday.
00:14:51
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But I think, you know, some people might say imagination. Yeah, that's so cheesy. But everything we imagine, think about when we're angry, right? When people are angry, where you have a motion that's controlling how you think that what do you want to do a behavior. So I know people personally, when they get angry, watch what I do to this person.
00:15:09
Speaker
Oh, they think he's going to do me like that. You're in your imagination because you're thinking about it. Your thoughts become things and then your behavior follows. So how do we get into a more abundance flow of love and flow of gratitude? Look, today, no matter what, it's going to be incredible. It's going to be phenomenal. It's going to be everything I can imagine, right? That I can imagine. You know where imagine.
00:15:34
Speaker
And it will be just like your son said, whatever you say will be. I always say you believe it's true. So people like I don't want you to take this conversation is live for granted because it's like, oh, no, I want you to really integrate the information that Shannon is bringing through. I really want you to embody it. And I want you to come over here just to look and scroll and like, oh, it's cool. No, no, no, no.
00:15:55
Speaker
This information is going to sit in your consciousness to integrate into your body so you can have the best life. We're not supposed to be in lack and in victimization and being victims. You're not a victim, you're a victor, you're a winner. And I don't want you guys to take this information to take this time.
00:16:12
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that you're utilizing to watch this for granted, because it's so important. We imagine our life every day. When I woke up, I imagine seeing my clients getting all out of the day with Shannon. It was in my mind's eye. I'm like, I said a prayer before I got on. I was happy. but Shannon was like, I'm ready. I'm over here dancing. Hey, let's go. like I was fired up because I know this medicine. I know this message. I know this wisdom is going to heal a soul. It's going to get somebody to join Shannon in Diamond Academy to change their life, amplify their spirit.
00:16:42
Speaker
Because listen, people, we're here to help each other. There's no one that's better than no one because no one can be no one. We're here to help each other evolve. So every time you come on this and every time we speak, it's important for you to listen and take it in because Shannon is going to give you everything you need to know, including me. But with that being said, Shannon, imagination is so important. I always imagine you on stages. I mean, let's just give them a little bit of the medicine, like when we talk about because I want them to kind of relate. in a way so they're not just saying we're just speaking because we got lips. So I think it was January, right? We were working out, you were talking, he was like, I want to be the MC for this event. I want to be on stage. I want to be the MC for Manifest Toronto. That was in May. We said this in January. So we had conversation, Shannon and I all was talking about her being an MC of this event.
00:17:34
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Five, six months later, four months later, Shannon is on stage, the MC at Manifest Toronto. She had a thought, it was an idea that was a tension that she imagined happening, and she did it.
00:17:47
Speaker
We also have other goals that she's hit, but she had to imagine it first in her mind. So I don't want you people thinking we're just speaking. She actually did it. So Shannon, so you did the manifest Toronto, but now you had a space in your life where you told me, cause tell me about the thought you had about going to Sedona and how that changed your life.
00:18:08
Speaker
don know Okay, so Manifest Toronto was like, when it happened, I wasn't even surprised because it was already done. And that's the thing is that, like I said a about seed jobs, those seeds were already planted so that when it came to fruition, it's not surprising you guys.
00:18:25
Speaker
yeah The in between, the in between people call it contrast, we call it whatever I call it the in between now. And the in between is where you in your imagination, you have to be the strongest. Because when you are focused attention on whatever it is in front of you,
00:18:43
Speaker
If it's a pile of crap, or like a shitstorm going on in your life, if you're focused on that, you're just going to pull more of that in, right? And so what I've known since I've been really, really tuned into my, like, I've been very disciplined with going to my imagination, like Eric said five minutes, I'm like,
00:19:04
Speaker
I can go for like an hour like scenario after scenario like i'm a director of the ship like i'm in it i have so much fun i'm like and what is this and what is that and it just goes it's just this huge elaborate story that i would have like oh my alarm goes off and i'm like oh factors
00:19:26
Speaker
but so My intuition was leading me to Sedona. and I was like, okay, I'm going to Sedona. I wrote it down. I knew it. and Then all of a sudden, like I always say, if it's easy, it's from God. I got a call and one of the girls was like, I'll take you just to Sedona, Shani. I was like, that easy, hey God? and I was like,
00:19:46
Speaker
Alright, and I was like, okay, tell me the date we can go. And she told me the dates. And it was exactly when Diamond Academy was closed for the summer. And it happened to be a week later. So I jumped on a plane and had the most transformational, like, shift of my light.
00:20:02
Speaker
But it was already done I knew it was going to Sedona and it just happened and it was super easy and I had the best time. But I'm just saying like, I already knew it. So I didn't have to like and sometimes people think like, when you're in the in between and things are heavy and things are real, like because real life exists. And the days that you don't feel like I really feel like I want to imagine it for an hour.
00:20:26
Speaker
But we know the tools now to like connect with people that inspire you, get into nature. like These are things that sometimes, like as a mom, like I don't get to do because I'm doing all the things as a mom. And if I don't get to do it my window of time in the morning that I love to do,
00:20:45
Speaker
and like it could slip away but no I make sure that I put that effort in even if it is five minutes I will give myself five minutes and I will do that because I know my energy and frequency will shift you got to do something today Eric sent me something I was having a really bad day and he sent me an Abraham Hicks And I couldn't sleep that night and I listened to it and I was like, if you want something to change and you're like, you have to do something right now. And I was like, OK, because I don't want to feel this way.
00:21:19
Speaker
When I went to Sedona, I realized I had some murse, a lot of anger in my body and I didn't realize it. Cause like, this is easy for me. This is fun for me. Like I come and show, I can be in my energy and light, but sometimes it gets really dark. And I didn't understand that. Like I'm doing all this work. How does this darkness still come? But I had anger that I didn't bring up. And sometimes putting a flashlight on your shit, literally your shadow, whatever you want to call it.
00:21:48
Speaker
It's scary, and it's uncomfortable. And like, you don't want to like, do it. So you resist it.
Inner Work and Transformation
00:21:56
Speaker
So I had a lot of anger come up. And then recently, I had it some more anger come up. And I was like, What? I'm not an angry person.
00:22:04
Speaker
I pushed it down for so long. So no matter what, if you are playing in your imagination and you're calling in these bigger forms of your life, this kind of stuff has to come up. yeah It's just how to come up to release it so you can be on that frequency of the person that you're calling in. Right. So this person that I'm calling in this big, big, big, huge life, I already see done. This stuff has to release. I have to get rid of it. It's got to go.
00:22:32
Speaker
I think the biggest thing is easy not to do the work, but it's easy to say one thing, but we don't want to do the work. And I think, you know, we can segue into like how important it is to do the inner work for the highest good, for your peace, just for regulation in your nervous system that feels safe at home with family. I mean, I give you so much and encouragement and it just props for just being a mom like Shannon has three kids. She has a 20 year old, a 17 year old and a six year old, a husband and she's a wife. She's a mom. She's doing a lot of things and she's still showing up for herself.
00:23:05
Speaker
So what is the excuse, right, that we can make that we're not doing anything we need to do because is it hard? Yes, but it's worth it. So can you speak on like the benefits over the course of the last six to seven months, all the work you've done, all the readings and traveling you've done to get where you are, how important it is to do the work in a work It's not as hard as we think, it's just we don't want to look at the things that's our mirror to make us wake up. But can you speak to the people how important self-work and the work is for their development?
00:23:40
Speaker
Yeah. So it's so funny that when I first started this journey and this work and doing this work is like, and the work is like really digging in, finding out who you truly are, right? Like who you truly are. And like, I put like blankets and blankets and blankets over top of this person because I was afraid to be seen because I was literally, literally dying inside.
00:24:04
Speaker
on empty and I didn't know and I just like was just trying to plow through life and quicksand pretty much is how I best can explain it. and I just started digging into me and then I think I wanted shares when I saw at Rise was another really huge pivotal point in my life where I Eric and Kathleen, they were both part of it. It's actually funny because Kathleen got us to do journaling and questions. And like, she said before, this is so funny, she said before, like, you feel like you want to run, just sit and get into it. I felt like I was like, I'm a runner.
00:24:42
Speaker
like I was like, I gotta to get out of here. And then I started scratching at myself and I was like, I gotta lease. I honestly, everything inside me was coming up and my whole body was trying to protect myself because this feeling was coming up and I didn't know what it was. And I literally got up to leave and you grabbed me. I don't even know if you remember and you were like, put your arm around me. You're like, you're right. I'm like, I gotta to get out of here.
00:25:06
Speaker
I was scratching for my heart space. Looking back and reflecting on that moment, I didn't know it was my heart space, but I was just scratching this thing. like It was so itchy. I had to get out. and Then Kathleen came over and she's like, what's wrong, Shannon? and I'm like, I don't know. I just need to leave. It was real. That's the thing is like people don't realize like feel the fear and do it anyway is actual real because when you surm- when you push down emotion and it comes out, it comes out and it's scary. I was scared. I was literally in fear and she was just like, you do know, you do know, you do know. It was like, I swear it was like a semi- it was a little exorcism because I was like, I don't know.
00:25:47
Speaker
I don't know and then it was that i felt like i was i'm worthy and i don't know and i didn't realize that i gave everything i give to people all the time and i didn't know i was like yeah i'm worthy and this and that that was the story i was telling myself but i didn't feel it.
00:26:03
Speaker
That moment in that retreat was like pivotal. like I cried and I cried. and There's a picture of me to holler at my store in the microphone and like everyone put their hands up and pray over me and send me love. I didn't feel worthy of people's love because I had put myself so far on the back burner for so long that I didn't even realize I wasn't even receiving.
00:26:27
Speaker
Why do you think people feel so unworthy? What does that come from? Because a lot of people feel that in these times. For you, you can talk about you, but from just experiencing it down academy with different people, what do you think unworthiness comes from? It's such a real thing in the world. And no one really talks about it in a way that people can relate or reflect and say, you know what, that's me. I get in that space sometimes, but I don't know why.
00:26:51
Speaker
I honestly, if you ask me the question for me, like, this is what I'm thinking is for me is I started doing things that didn't serve my best purpose. And so like, you make that commitment to yourself. Like, this is the thing like you're training, you make the commitment to yourself, because if you give up on yourself, you're only giving up on you, right? But like, you give up on like, say someone else. Like, I made it so easy for me to put myself third, fourth, fifth.
00:27:20
Speaker
It didn't feel like I ever put myself first. Yes, then I burnt out and exhausted. But like this is the thing, right? That is why. And I think a lot of the moms that can feel this and a lot of people out there that just like when you so like say you said to me, Shan, let's go to this club or something. I don't drink anymore.
00:27:41
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my bedtime bay 30. Would that really serve my soul to go to that club till like one o'clock in the morning when I know I get up at five and I love watching birds and drinking coffee. It's like old lady over here. But the thing is, I would say yes, because I didn't want you to be upset with so A lot of people do that in their lives because they're so afraid of what other people will think of them that if they say yes, they say no to what serves them. Again, and you start putting yourself second self.
00:28:15
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And that's the worthiness thing. So like for the long time, everyone wanted a piece of Shannon because I had this great energy that I can throw. They can be in my energy, but I wasn't filling my cup up. And I remember I asked to be an emcee for an event and I went, I killed it. Everyone loved it. I did a TikTok, did a dance dog thing. I went back to my room and I sat in the shower on the ground and I just was sobbing. And I'm like, am I cracking up? What's going on here?
00:28:44
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But I wasn't filling my cup up. I gave everything, my all to entire room of faces that I don't know. I wasn't giving anything to the person that means the most. Yourself is the most important person. You got to put your mask on first. I wasn't doing that. So my worthiness kept getting pushed down because I was putting my myself down. And then i was burn I was sitting in a shower crying my eyes out like having a panic attack.
00:29:09
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And I didn't understand it. I didn't understand what was going on. And then I kept happening, happening. And then I went on medication because I thought I was losing my marbles. I just didn't love myself. I didn't quote myself first. I didn't say no to the things I didn't want to do.
00:29:26
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Yeah, and and that's the thing, he you know, when we say yes to ourselves, even saying yes to yourself is uncomfortable. Because if you're a nervous system and you're a psyche, it's not programmed to put yourself first. It feels weird. It's like I can relate to people please and not put myself first. Being a limelight, being the person that makes everybody feel good, but when I leave, I feel like shit.
00:29:48
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I feel empty. I feel low. I feel sad. But nobody in the world would know because I got this big smile. And the thing and what I realized was that for people who are givers like yourself and myself, and we're naturally give is so hard to receive, especially when you're not anticipating people don't know people who are successful people who are wealthy and who have a lot to give those people want to receive more than they give. If you ever have someone who gives so much and you get them something, one of two things happen. One, they're shocked, like, oh, wow, thank you. Or two, they're like, they're so excited, right? Because when you're giving so much of yourself, so much of your time, so much of your energy, so much of your insights and your intellect, you're extending energy from your vessel. You got to get filled up. So
00:30:38
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Why, you know, as a mom or father or whoever, how not put yourself first before you give to anybody? I always say the first thing you should connect to before you connect to anybody is the spirit will save you your God consciousness to see where you are with yourself before you talk to someone else, because that's going to really determine to pick how your day, you know, stands out.
00:30:58
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I think what you say, which is so important, is that you went so far on the other side of yourself, not loving yourself and putting yourself first that you had to go on medication. And this happens and people don't talk about this, you know, and medication is not always prescription drugs. It's drugs in the streets. It's alcohol. It's marijuana. It's all these things to numb. The pain we don't want to feel is because we're a neglecting our true self. There's a picture my cousin sent me years ago. And at the top of it, this is what depression looks like. And it was like Robin Williams. It was like all these superstars and all these famous people with big smiles, like you and I, but they're severely depressed and some took their lives.
00:31:43
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And my cousin said to me, that's why I love him. He said, I don't want you to be this person, but it's a real thing. People don't understand when you got to put on all the time and you got to show up, you don't want to show up, but you do it anyway. Right. But when I tell is dark.
00:31:59
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And while you're staying in that picture, like I see in that picture of mental health and like that was me. like Me in that shower, like I think two months later, it was like one of the first times I had my first thought of suicide. And I remember Christmas being one of my favorite holidays. I remember that that Christmas, I thought about, it'd just be better off with without me.
00:32:20
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hey And I'm pretty sure that I post depression on top of all this that I just wasn't diagnosed with. But it was then like I was like, wow, like what's going on here? And then I had like a couple other episodes where it was like it was really scary because I was drinking on top of all of this, too. So.
00:32:39
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I think that the best thing that I can say is by learning to love myself was I was able to release alcohol from my life.
Steps Towards Self-Love and Healing
00:32:47
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And that was the huge game changer for me because I think about it as like, you know, like back in the old days when they have like, shackled, I mean, they might even still do it in jail, but they shackled their feet and they have this ball chain. Like that was my life with alcohol for my whole life, actually.
00:33:04
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I watched my family grow up with it and just being a party thing. And then it was the way I coped with things. COVID, I had like, I signed up to get alcohol to my house like almost every second day. Like that's not normal, right? So like, and showing my kids this house coping and I didn't love it.
00:33:22
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So I didn't love who I was, I had gained so much weight and like, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside as long as you love yourself on the inside. And, um, but I had just, it was like, it was really bad, but that was right around when I just like had a couple ways. How can I do this? How can I relieve this pain that I have inside me? Because this is a monster.
00:33:46
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I was up every single night. I couldn't sleep. I was just like trying to figure out ways that I could go to sleep. So I would have like a vape and like marijuana vape or whatever to like help me sleep. But like I didn't cope that well with marijuana in my system, but drinking and all the things. And then trying to get up in the morning and being a mom, like it was a shit star. Like I was in a shit star. And I just remember that's why I called Kathleen my beacon of like my lighthouse because She just kept coming around for me. And God kept showing her this story to me. And I was just like, well, this girl is triggering the shit out of me. She's so annoyed. Her best life is COVID and she's flying to Vegas and all the things she's living her best life. She triggered the hell out of me because she triggered everything that I wanted. But like my insecurity kept her small because I was small.
00:34:39
Speaker
So then I was like, I had to reach out to her. And then when I did, she just embraced it with love. And I was like, wow, like, I don't even know what I'm doing. Like, I literally laid I remember, in like, investing my first program with her, it was $10,000. And I remember thinking, how do I do this? Like, I don't even know how to get $200 for groceries. Like, I don't know what this was like insane to me.
00:35:04
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and I had followed her for two years and I just kept telling myself that she was just trying to sell me a program and like and making her bad and wrong. and Then I got to the point where I just like, God, I can't go on. like I don't know what to do. and Then she was like, you need millionaire. I'm like, I need something.
00:35:21
Speaker
rolling around in bed like a little toddler, like, you know, when toddlers have fits and be like, Oh, and they're kicking their feet. And I was like, God, boy, this way I can't. But it was the fear coming up and creeping up in my body and had to break through that. It's almost like, you know, when they say Humpty Dumpty, like, I had to break that version of myself. And then I had to come into millionaire and ah I dug into me.
00:35:45
Speaker
And then that's when I had like sunrise had that next elevation and then Sedona had that next elevation on me. And I love how Kathleen says shift up. And then we shift up. And then we shift up because this is for the rest of your life. Like if you're a new found Eric.
00:36:02
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Your soul is calling you here to just explore for the rest of your life. Be curious. I remember you said that the first time in November or October when I met you, he said, and my soul is curious. And I was like, I love that word. I love that you're saying that. And ever since then, I'm just like, my soul wants to be curious, but my soul wants to play. And like another thing, like I found out I want to be, I'm like, I'm a mom. I love to be a DJ. Like it's just fun things like that. And like,
00:36:30
Speaker
I just get to live my best life without those shackles on now. And it's because I dove into me. There was no drug that did it. There was no like secret blue, red pill. Actually, Emma said that to me yesterday, Eric. That was weird. And it's like, you know, that that place, it's like red or blue pill mom. He just came up the stairs. He's knocking on my door. But then he said, um he said, teach me about the matrix, mom. And like,
00:36:55
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Look at him knocking. Teach your mother matrix. Yeah, I think, you know, it's beautiful, like how you said everything because it led you to today where you are. But can you speak briefly on, for one, what is self-love and what does that look like? Because I think in a manifestation, spirituality, person development space, we have all these words, but no one really knows what they mean. So we have all this knowledge, but then we can't embody what we know.
00:37:22
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So we say, let's manifest. Let's grow our self-worth. Let's heal. And it's like, okay, so you've got to love yourself. You self-love. What does that look like? And what does it mean? Because I know, I mean, you've done it. I've watched it. Like I'm watching you transcend your life from loving yourself more, putting yourself first, making decisions that were uncomfortable, but benefited you on long on the back end. But I feel like you are the medicine of self-love for people and you do it well. How does one love themselves?
00:37:50
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Oh, I love this. And see, I think in pictures, right? So like we said that and I'm going to give everyone, I got to tell you exactly. And you're going to know this feeling too. When you see a newborn baby and you pick up a baby and you hold that baby and you look into the light in that baby and you hold them with so much like love and light, that's self-love.
00:38:11
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So like, that's the feeling because this person is so gentle, like you're a delicate like you can't drop this baby, right? So when you can have that feeling and that like, that for yourself, that self of Because one thing I used to do is beat up on myself, but that wasn't good enough. Like I would get off a call like this and I'd be like, oh my God, I can't believe I said that. I swore or said that, whatever. I'm so not professional. Like these stupid stories. Now I'm like, I don't care.
00:38:42
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And this is what I did, whatever. like But that's the thing is like when you look at a baby, they're the closest to God, right? We're further away from that light. So that's why when you look at a baby or look at little kids, the innocence is so beautiful, right? So like how do you nurture like when you hold a newborn baby, right? That's how the care that you got to give yourself, because that little person inside, and I love that you have a picture in your kitchen of your little self.
00:39:11
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I saw them. I'm a retrader the other day. I love that you. have that and one of my favorite favorite favorite I told you this my favorite like persons out there like I just love his business mine is RuPaul and in RuPaul Drag Race I like it's my guilty pleasure I love the show there's so much talent but at the end they always get like they pull up a picture of their little self and they say like what would you say to your little self but what if we did that every single day and how that nurturing feeling that what you would do for a newborn baby for yourself
00:39:44
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Yeah. So I had this vision, it's great to go back to imaginations. It's interesting how things work. So one time, I mean, years ago, I was getting this idea of like, my inner child wants love, right? So I, okay.
00:39:59
Speaker
What should I do? My spirit was like act as if your inner child is in your bed as your son. So I was literally in the bed by myself imagining my inner child, the younger me as my son. And I was like hugging him, but I was talking to him like, I love you. I'm proud of you. I'm never going to leave you. I'm never going to like forsake you. I got you to stay strong. You know, like I was talking to him like he was my son, my inner being.
00:40:24
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And I'm like, sometimes we forget, right, that your inner child wants to be free. And I think it goes back to you playing and having fun and being a DJ and being goofy and being silly. And for years, I tried to be so just all positive, all professional, like, I'm silly, I'm goofy. I do all types of things. You know, I'm me.
00:40:45
Speaker
But because of the environment I grew up in, I felt like I had to be a certain way. I couldn't dance. People would judge me. Nah, I don't get left. Like, I don't care. I'm going to be me. And guess what? I'm going to take up space. I'm going to be me. I'm going to be intelligent. I'm going to be fearless. I'm going to be confident. I'm going to be raw and authentic. I'm going to be E because I was trying to be Eric for so many people. All I need to do is be E. That's Baltimore.
00:41:10
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not the guys who went on these shows and did all these things. so That's cool, but B.E. So I always tell people your inner child is that nickname that your family or your friends gave you growing up that maybe they know or no one knows, right? Yeah. be that That's the real you, right? Me trying to be cool for people who don't know me, don't really care about me. For what?
00:41:31
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I'm gonna be eating and I'm gonna light that on fire because then you feel free. And I think it's important for everyone listening. Like right now, how does your inner child feel? Is it confused? Have we like really pushed it down? When was the last time?
00:41:48
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Some of you have fun. no I struggle with having fun these last few years because I'm like, where's my fun? How do I have fun? Now, it's a great net. It's such a... like I'm intentionally having fun every week. Like, yup, Sundays, these days, we're going to have fun. And I don't care because the more fun we have, the more rest and relaxed state we can be in, the more we can manifest our true desires because we're not thinking about it.
00:42:12
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We're in that playful state, that inner sense, that inner child. And it's so beautiful how you said it. And I'm just thankful that you never gave up on yourself. Yeah. And I love the more you'll manifest with ease too, because it just comes to you then it's just easy. It's so easy that way. And I'm forever grateful you sent that to me. It's like, what do you want to do now that like, cause right now where we are right now is past thoughts. It's our past imagination.
00:42:43
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So like, what can you do right now? Even if you are watching this and you feel terrible, can you swing your legs over your bed and just like stand out on your front step and breathe the air and be like, man, that fresh air feels so good.
00:42:58
Speaker
And those are little things that you can do. And like I always play my imagination in the morning. This is a little trick that I gave myself. OK, so I do this. It's like I'll set my alarm really early and then I'll set it again. Probably like good like 15 minutes later. So like for anyone who does snooze, you'll love this.
00:43:17
Speaker
So, I'm not about snoozing. Like, I set one alarm and two alarms. So, I know and then I just get up because snoozing makes me more tired. So, I'll set my alarm and then I'm like, oh, playtime. I like lay back down. So, I'm like, in my brain, I'm tricking myself and giving myself a little bit more sleep. This is my playtime. If I fall asleep, I fall asleep. That's grace. I just give myself.
00:43:37
Speaker
And then I get up and I do my daily thing, but then I'll go back into my imagination and then I do it at nighttime, too. So like I'm constantly in my imagination because it's fun there. And this is how you can really like if you are visual, like you can really pull it out of the sky and pull it into your life. This is how you do it. So a lot of people will say like Eric talked about that story. They're like, how do I make this happen?
00:44:05
Speaker
How do I make this happen when all I see is negativity? People around me are negative. And my friend Jess did this to me and it was one of the coolest things I ever heard. She's like, no one has that power over you. You give it to them. So it's up to you. It's a choice. So everything is a choice. And like, just even like I was thinking about like, I got a bike because we were working out and I got a bike. And I'm like,
00:44:28
Speaker
What if I went to the Olympics for my biking? You know what's crazy? You say the Olympics and this is how people don't understand, right? We got to understand the frequencies and the energies that was moved in the Cosmo. Because the Olympics had been on yesterday, literally yesterday, I'm doing pull ups in the gym. I say, yeah, I'm working out like an Olympian. I'm old.
00:44:51
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all because it's in our vortex because we're watching the Olympics. So now I can only think about being an Olympian just like you said, I'm riding a bike like an
Protecting the Mind and Subconscious
00:45:00
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Olympian. Because now imagine and all the negative distortion that's thrown in our subconscious conscious mind in the world from media that we think about that we integrate without knowing for music, movies, TV shows, gossip. So we also got to do what they say, you got to protect the door of your mind, right? Because anything can slip it in. That's why your environment is important. Moving your body is important. Affirmations, self-love. But the thing is, it's so funny. I had this shit in two months ago to do a live, she's like, I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready yet. I'm like, okay.
00:45:32
Speaker
All right. Hey, look, now we're here. So that's how life works. Like you've got to put yourself in a position where you can receive, but also be ready for the blessing that the universe is trying to give you, because in these moments, life is happening. Life has happened now for us. We are manifesting a new reality, a new timeline, because we're speaking about things that have impacted our lives. Like this is the past thought that we're in now. It's incredible. It's incredulous.
00:45:58
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I love that. like If you can really just sit down and think about this, I was talking to some ladies this morning and I was just like, think about when you're done and you're in heaven and you're watching because everything's already done for you. like Everything is already done. like When these seeds come in, they're up to us to nurture them with our imagination. That's how you water those seeds. That's how you break them. You go into your imagination.
00:46:24
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when we're done and I was like, when I'm watching my movie back with God sitting there eating my popcorn and be like, oh, that happened. That in between had to happen because in my imagination, I was calling for 50K months. Right. Like my goal is 83K, but I'm not right there in my belief yet. And Eric says, oh, I think you can do 100K. But I'm like, well, 50 feels really fun. Yeah.
00:46:52
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It feels fun because I had written it before, and then I found it, my goal thing on the back of my phone. I'm like, ah, plan to land a tap. It's already done. The universe wants to give it to me. I just have to play my imagination a little bit more.
00:47:05
Speaker
Outcome your brain to find a way to bring it to you should think about always tell Shannon all offline just people listen think about your rent There's a number that you got to pay even if you don't know you do have the money. It's in your mind Pittering when we do sets and we do reps. I say six and we got two rounds 15 reps you notice you got to hit 15. So what happens when you get closer to 15, you might slow down. Or if I say stopping until I say stop, I go into I say stop, you don't really know what type of energy to break. But if you have a number, or that's why I tell people set a number, how much money do you want to make them up?
00:47:39
Speaker
Don't be afraid. Oh, you want to make 20,000? Put it out there. And then constantly think about it. And then ask your spirit and its pray like, how can I bring this in? The next thing you know, you get a call, you got to check from some six months ago, you know, you were doing Uber three years ago on its page, you five thousand. It's like.
00:47:54
Speaker
It comes, right? Because we're playing with our imagination and we're telling o ourselves and our subconscious that this is what we want and we're going to get it. Because like you said, from the beginning to now, you just knew and you know, I just know, I just know. You said you didn't ever say you believed. I know that frequency, right? Belief is a prerequisite to knowing. Knowing is certainty with no resistance. I know Shannon is going to make more than 50K this month. I know.
00:48:23
Speaker
You know, we're just going to call it in, you know, it's a miracle season. I know and I love it, but I don't want to tell the mechanical people on here because some mechanical people are like, I need to know the checklist. You don't have to do anything extra. And why I say play in your imagination instead of just go to your imagination is because when you play, you're in that childlike state where it feels fun.
00:48:47
Speaker
There's just so many people get hung up on, I gotta do this, I gotta bring this in, so I'm gonna go in my imagination, I'm gonna just focus on this. You're focusing on that it's not here yet. Like, my thing with Taylor Swift, it's done. And one time it came out of my imagination and I had a phone call from Kansas City, I was like, she's at Travis' house and she's calling. I mean, it wasn't them yet, but still, it was fun.
00:49:15
Speaker
Yeah. Like, you know, life doesn't have to be always heavy and serious, tough. Like we create that and we look for, you know, Dr. Wayne Dyer will say, stop looking for ways to be offended. Some people go outside their home every day. and They look for someone to ascend them so they can get in this negative vibration or state so they can have a reason. And some people look for pain to have meaning in life because they don't have nothing going on.
00:49:38
Speaker
Right. And because they're not tapping into themselves, they're disconnected because the world has given us so much to disconnect as full religion, TV, like all these things that take us out of the true medicine of who we are. Right. I always say, why don't I have to speak English? Why can't I speak Spanish or Portuguese? Oh, this is when we speak in America. But no one ever answers that question. Why is the sky blue?
00:50:05
Speaker
yeah Where do words come from? That's where my thinking goes, right? I know that's too much for some people, but that's how I think. I'm like, I don't believe everything someone's telling me because of the positioning. You got to prove to me or I got to see it myself or I got to feel it.
Community and Personal Growth
00:50:19
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So people, what I'm really saying is you, us, we need to learn how to have our own autonomy. You have your own soul. Don't take what I'm saying as everything is true. Take what you need for your truth and add it to your life.
00:50:35
Speaker
Chan and I give you the medicine that changed our lives, the wisdom that helped us so you can add it to your book of life. It is just important to show up for yourself every day and put yourself first. It's not always be easy, but if you just set the intention, I know I got to put myself first. I'm going to try and we'll work on it. I'm going to pray about it. Eventually you'll get there because you're setting it, you're speaking it and you're creating it. So.
00:50:58
Speaker
Shannon, this was incredible. You're amazing, like always. Please tell our listeners, people watching, where they can find you, how can they connect and give you your energy to work with you and be part of Dom Academy or just talk to you and have a really powerful level of conversation.
00:51:13
Speaker
I'm just Shannon B on Instagram and Facebook. You can find me there. I do have a podcast, season one. Self Love is Sexy with Shannon B. And yeah, YouTube's coming along too. So yeah, but I work in House of Manifestation. So if you're interested in working with me, then just shoot me a message on Instagram. It's the easiest way. Shannonb.cn. Just some brief synapses on like what House of Manifestation is so they understand.
00:51:41
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. So how's the manifestation is a community of people that talk this talk, right? Like if you're looking for to circle around, there's some men in there, but we're mostly ladies and every Friday we have a manifestation meetup. So we just hang out with me. We just, whatever spirit brings up, that's kind of where we go with it. It's really cool because we're in so many different countries. So you get to chat with people all around the world. So if you're a realtor,
00:52:08
Speaker
and you say you're looking to buy a house in italy that you might be on with the realtor like you never know you network with people so really it's a networking event. Plus we are studying you to can be prosperous which is an incredible book and book but i read a book club in there and we have so much fun our book club is fire like. What a nerd i have now to be like i'm so excited for book club and then in there kathleen i'm camera teaches once a month yes about two hundred dollars a month exactly it's one ninety seven a month so.
00:52:38
Speaker
Kathleen teaches once a month in there, but we have mentors, Eric's a mentor in there. So he teaches in there. The most beautiful thing is that there is so much information in there for whatever it is. And there's so much value that you get whatever you're looking for. So the self is in there. So it's a look on your concept and where your thoughts are right now.
00:52:58
Speaker
and it's a three-week course the south we always tell you to start with them within the house and manifestation so but it's just so much fun and we just like you get to be surrounded by people that are i just say talk in your top walk in your walk right on the wind right i think the biggest thing i've learned in the process of experiencing you and people from Diamond Academy, all the women, even on the master classes I teach is that people are emotional, people are raw, people are honest, but it all comes from a place of, I just want to do better in life. I want to win. I want to up level my life. I want to change my life. And I don't know what to do, but here I am, help me to help myself. And I think for me, I want to be around people who want to win.
00:53:42
Speaker
I don't want to be around people who talk and all of you can live in it and that's doing it. And I think it's important because what we don't understand the collective consciousness in certain groups changes your life. So just like your environment, the energy in your environment, how you think a certain way and be a certain way. So with this group, you're going to think on a certain frequency. You're going to be on a c certain frequency.
00:54:01
Speaker
And you're going to live from that vibration because of the people who hold space there. And that's why it's important. That's why community is important. A lot of people don't have community outside of their job or family. And so they just settle for what's in their frequency. And they go to the parties in the events that they really want to say no to because they don't know that these types of communities exist. Dominic adding House of Manifestation with Shannon B will get you right, get you in your highest timeline for your alignment to be the best servant person you can be, not for the world, but for yourself.
00:54:31
Speaker
then you can see how you can serve the world. This is what she brings, this is what she does, and this is why she is who she is today, you know? So people follow her, tap in with the content, get a hostile manifestation, be curious, ask questions, have no fear, and we're all here to serve each other. So Shannon, thank you, you're amazing. This was another, another interesting and she's been phenomenal conversation. Thank you for bringing the message. We did it, we did it. Thank you.
00:55:00
Speaker
ah day hi This information is so valuable. So Tim and Ann's habit is so important. It's bigger than me. It's bigger than you. It's about us. It's about we. It's about community. you know We got to come together vibrationally and talk about the things that are changing our life, affecting our life, and that's a part of our life. so That's all I said. Subscribe to Spiritual Fitness Podcasts on all platforms. Follow my YouTube, Eric Bigger. If you have any questions, DM me. By the way, it's Miracle Season. Get your merch. 50% off if you use promo code MCs on all cats. I don't have a Miracle Season moss, my Miracle Moss, but go get your jar of Miracle Moss for your immunity to detox all of the mucous and things out of your body. But to be your best health self,
00:55:47
Speaker
And more importantly, just stay tuned. We're going to have more episodes like this where we're going to come online and have someone talk the talk and speak the truth. So that's all this is and everyone loves and likes. I got to go. Be great. Samaritan's season. I'm out.
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