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There's a quiet evolution happening in the world of wellness.
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One that's not about treatments or techniques, but about tuning in.
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And today's conversation is for the practitioners, the healers, the professionals who are beginning to ask, what if I could bring.
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All of myself to the work that I do./
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Welcome to Connecting to Spirit.
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I am your host, Lisa Brandis, and I'm here to help you unlock your intuition channel with clarity and deep dive into self-discovery, all while navigating the ups and downs of personal and spiritual growth.
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If you're ready to say goodbye to self-doubt, embrace your unique gifts and connect with a supportive community on the same journey, then you're in the right place.
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Whether you're just starting out or you've been walking this path for years, this podcast is here to guide you, support you, and inspire you every step of the way.
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So grab a cozy spot, settle in, and let's dive into some empowering insights together.
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My special guest today is Terry Messenger, a transformational coach whose own journey through self-doubt, addiction and trauma, led her to discover the life-changing power of NLP and hypnosis after radically transforming her own life.
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She.
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Found her true calling, which is guiding others to reprogram their subconscious minds release trauma and unlock their highest potential.
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Terry's mission is especially powerful for those in the wellness field, people who are called to heal others, but sometimes loose sight of their own inner alignment.
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This episode is about how to come home to your intuitive power and lead from a place of purpose.
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Welcome to connecting to Spirit.
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Oh, thank you Lisa.
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It is so good to be here and worth every moment of getting set up for this beautiful podcast.
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We are recording in a professional studio today and beautiful.
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Terry went on the journey with me of figuring this out.
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I kind of wanted to explore the difference between.
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Being in the presence and in the room with somebody.
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I was having a chat with my husband and he was saying that Steven Bartlett, was talking about how when he's in an interview and you can really see and feel the energy of the person, it allows for a more transformative experience.
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And that's what I'm really keen on today.
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So we are gonna deep dive in.
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I couldn't agree more actually.
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You know, there's nothing like, you know, being in person and I feel that we lost that a little bit, uh, through the pandemic.
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Yep.
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So it's, it's actually great to be here in person with you, Lisa.
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We were talking in the car on the way in Terry, about.
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You are probably one of your most pivotal points, on your journey that kind of flipped the, the script for you and took you on a deep dive into your own self-healing and which led to NLP.
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Do you wanna let, let us know a little bit about what that, you know, what that turning point.
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Journey was for you?
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Yeah, sure.
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Well, look, I believe that I always had a gift within me and I was one of those kind of people that grew up feeling a little bit like the black sheep.
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I didn't.
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Excel in school, but I found that any topics that I did, it was either I was at the top of the class or I was right down the bottom.
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I never kind of did anything in between.
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I was quite a troubled teenager, so I kind of led a bit of a rebellious life I really had everything on a plate for me.
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I went to a Catholic school.
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I also contribute a lot.
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Of my public relations skills, Lisa, to the fact that I had gone through eight different schools.
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So I had to adapt very well to kind of change and people.
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But what I did find is that I excelled on stage and you know, a lot of people will say to me, you know, is confidence something?
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Think that we acquire or is it born?
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And I don't believe you are born with confidence.
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Nobody is born with confidence.
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And I felt that by default.
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'cause you as a channeler would understand this.
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Um, you know, you've got Anya and you kind of tap into Anya and you get these downloads and these incredible transmissions, which I've experienced myself, and they're just.
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You can't make this stuff up.
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And so for me it was really about the fact that I had this kind of other part of me that would come out and, it was that.
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Part of me on stage.
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It was that part of me, when I needed to perform.
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And, it was just something that I really adapted to.
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So, after, being sacked from eight jobs in a row, that was a really big pivotal time in my role.
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Is it because you're a true entrepreneur?
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Work works?
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Absolutely.
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I'm unemployable Lisa.
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You don't know what you don't know and really in life, I knew that when I went into the wrong jobs,'cause mom and dad, they put me through all this education.
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So I had a lot of good education and I went to business college, it wasn't for me to be in an administrative role.
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You know, I wanted to be out the front.
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The light needed to shine brighter than that.
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Yeah.
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I wanted to be out the front with people.
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And you know that is where I sang, but I think.
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This comes back to people's purpose.
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Sometimes you don't know there's a missing link in life.
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And you don't know why.
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And quite often that it's because you haven't tapped into your true life purpose.
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True power.
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I was called to find my purpose.
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So it was almost like the universe kept throwing me against the wall.
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And you know, if you believe in God, you know.
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You can't blame God when bad things happen.
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But quite often God will allow things to happen, you know, so that we can kind of carve our character and create that part of us that, you know, we are supposed to become.
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So, you know, all these signs of being in the wrong jobs getting fired.
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My self-esteem obviously.
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Plummeted pluming.
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Yeah, I can imagine.
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Absolutely.
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Terrible.
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And you know, then I remember I accidentally fell over my first job that, where I was in a sales role and what I didn't know is I didn't know, but I excelled in, so on my first day I sold 12 pairs of shoes and I thought that was terrible, just doing what came naturally and didn't have any signs at that young age of 18.
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That, hang on a minute, Terry.
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You know, this is what you are called to do.
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You are called to connect with people.
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Was it about sales?
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I don't think so, Lisa.
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I think it was about connecting with.
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The other person and really getting to know them.
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Like I found that I would know why they were buying the shoes.
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I mean, it was a very, high end shoe shop and it was in the city, and so we were getting like celebrities and people like that that would be coming through and I would find out.
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What are you here for?
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And it was just a natural way about me that I would be able to connect with people.
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And so, and that's the key word there, isn't it?
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Confidence.
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Yeah.
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And being able to connect with people.
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I love what you said about not everyone's born confident.
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You know, it's kind of learn.
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Behavior and develops over time, and I kind of think intuition's a little bit the same.
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We kind of believe that some people are just naturally confident and naturally gifted or naturally intuitive or spiritual or psychic, but in my experience, it's a learned skill if there's that passion and if we follow.
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Passion and what it is that lights us up.
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And it sounds to me like you found that natural ability through sales, through just caring and having a genuine curiosity about people and an interest in their lives.
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And I find that when we naturally bond with someone, and we know that sales is an emotional transaction.
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So when someone feels valued, they feel like you've seen them.
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And then naturally.
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It's how do I help you through sales?
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So then how do I help you?
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And then almost the shoes sell themself, don't they?
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Because they've come with a purpose.
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And mostly what they're gonna do is walk out of that shop and feel like, wow, that lady was amazing.
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And well, you're connecting.
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You're connecting with people and, and, and you know, when I did eventually learn neurolinguistic programming and of course I had to go through life.
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And learn all my other lessons before.
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Yeah, don't skip over that bit.
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So how did, did you got to that?
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So, you know, I, how did you come to learn NLP?
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So I did all the things that normal people did.
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You know, I got married at 24 years of age.
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I had my first baby when I was 26.
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And then.
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You know, I, I was a natural mother in a way.
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So, the instinct of being a mother was quite natural.
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It was like what you see in the animal kingdom, but it wasn't enough.
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I couldn't just be that person that was at, at home with children.
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And then of course, by the time I got to the third one.
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I had probably one of the worst cases, that I can possibly imagine of postnatal depression.
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And, you know, life kind of went down a very dark, slippery slope.
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I managed to get myself up a bit when I found my passion.
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I joined.
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The church and you know, I even did a bachelor of ministries, which I didn't actually carry before.
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Okay.
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So, so just for the timeline of understanding for the listeners, was that when you,'cause I know you married Ian.
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Yes.
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Who's a chiropractor.
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Yeah.
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So, and you both ran a center That's right.
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So if we go back around the same time or was that before?
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Well, that's a good question.
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You must have tapped in.
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You're very intuitive, Lisa, because I met Ian through my studies now I didn't Oh, through the church?
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Uh, through Baptist Theological College.
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Oh.
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So I did not complete, I do need to say I did not complete my Bachelor of Ministries Fell alive and then that was it.
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Nothing else?
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No.
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I met his daughter.
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Oh, and, uh, she was a student.
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And I was a student.
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And then, you know, I mean, my life, nothing seemed to add up.
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And I think when people are, in a position where things are not right, their lives are not on track.
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It almost seems like a messy jigsaw puzzle.
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Like one closed door after another where just nothing seems to go your way.
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Well, it's like, you know, why am I here?
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What am I doing here?
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Nothing.
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Thing kind of made sense.
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Yeah.
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Um, I, I did this because I was hungry for something, so my soul was searching for the purpose that was calling me, and unfortunately, it did end up resulting in a marital breakdown.
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So my marital, uh, breakdown happened after being with my childhood sweetheart.
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So the way that it all happened, everything came to a screeching halt, but when it did happen, nobody could accept it.
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That was around me because we were like the perfect couple.
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We had the children, we had the house, we had what society dance and everything.
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And we had so many friends and we were everyone's barbecue friends and mm-hmm.
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So we had all of these things, but secretly deep down inside, we were sort of two lost souls in a way.
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I feel that we, I lost myself.
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Now.
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We are great friends today and I'm so grateful that, you know, he's the father of my children.
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When I met Ian, it was, he'd lost his wife.
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So his wife passed away, in 2006, and he'd been on a long journey as well.
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So he'd been suffering with her for quite a few years.
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So when that happened, it seemed like everything happened quick.
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Yeah.
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But it didn't happen as quick.
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As what people thought.
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So on the other side of the world, there was my life and then on his side of the world, there was his life.
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And you know, when everything, like when his wife passed away, when my marriage broke down, when we met and we came together, it was like it was meant to be.
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It was almost ordained.
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But for a lot of people it was like, this is too fast, this is too quick.
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But for, so making the difference how, you know, quite often people, yeah.
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We'll have, um, very strong opinions on the choices that we are making.
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It can make it so hard, it's hard enough to make these massive life changes.
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Yeah.
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Let alone having everyone's opinions weighing in on it.
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Yeah.
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And, and that taught me to become very strong.
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Yeah.
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And I think a lot of our adversities, Lisa, do teach us strength.
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And I had a lot of adversities through my childhood, through my teenage years.
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I had a lot of trauma, so there was already so much that was buried.
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And usually what I find is this is very typical.
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Classically my clients were aged between 28 and 58.
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So that seemed to be the age category.
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And the reason it was 28 is because.
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28 seems to be an age when people start to kind of settle down.
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A lot of life things seem to, settle and things start to catch up with them.
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And I think that's when the wheels fell off for me.
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I believe that really the wheels had fallen off around 27, 28.
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So my client,'cause they say our clients are a mirror of us.
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And they might be two steps behind us.
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They're not necessarily 10 years behind us.
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And so, you know, it's the same thing.
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They're searching, I was searching.
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Is that led you to NLP was just that search searching?
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Uh, I get a lot of that with my students, just feeling like something's missing that they don't necessarily know what it is.
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Or I've, I've climbed that acquisition, ladder got the kids, got the house, got the car, got the status.
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Mm.
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But then still it's like, oh, I thought this was meant to bring happiness.
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So we realize then that the happiness doesn't come from it.
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The materialistic, yeah.
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Gains does it that, yeah.
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For me, the transformation comes from that deep connection to our soul and that, and then that allows, like we spoke earlier, of connection.
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You know, to me, when we deeply connect with someone, yeah, things just shift, don't they?
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I think it's when you find your purpose, and this is where I've come to know that it's the genius zone, which is a bit of an evolution for me.
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And the podcast and the master key.
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They're the, they're the two evolutions and you know, so.
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Long story short, I met Ian and he decided that he would put me through neurolinguistic programming.
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Now, I didn't know it was gonna be such a life.
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Changing situation because I felt that when I did my study too.
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You don't realize how much you actually unpack of your own life in part of the training when you are, we, we were both discussing, we both did the Yeah.
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Big long diploma for our clinical hypnotherapy.
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Yes.
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And it, it, I mean, but that's a beautiful gift, isn't it?
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We think initially we're doing it to be able to serve others and make a difference with others.
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And yet here it is, we start with ourself.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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So a week, uh, a week in the life of, if you are.
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Doing one hour of neurolinguistic programming that if with a very good practitioner can be like a hundred years.
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And I'm not even joking.
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And I'll, I'll tell you why, because, there's a lot of modalities, and I won't bore you with all the different modalities, but the, the perceptive shifts.
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So the way that you look at the world, the way you speak to people, the way you rapport, and I remember thinking.
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I know this stuff.
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Mm-hmm.
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You like this is stuff came naturally to you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I feel like I had been doing a lot of it, but there's something about conscious competency as well.