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My guest today, Kristina Rogers, shares her sweet, intention life in San Miquel, Mexico and 4 ways in which you may experience your intuition.  

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Today's guest, Liz Murphy is one of those you eagerly follow online (she was a knitting pattern designer and shared her family's homesteading journey) and feels like you know her in real life. 

In fact, even though she doesn't know your name, you're pretty sure she's one of your dear friends, she just doesn't know it yet!  At least that's what happened to me!  (is that sketchy? ;-)

Over a year ago, Liz announced online that, to her very own surprise, she was shifting gears from designer knitting patterns and into offering mediumship readings. 

Her email was grounded and heart-centered and I remember reading it in awe of her bravery.

Shortly after I booked a reading and had an experience that I can't logically explain.  We talk a bit about it on the show!

We also talk about how Liz and her family live a life different than most and how allowing herself to shift gears and pivot when it feels right have given her a life she loves.

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(w/ Ricki Oldenkamp)  
Do you know what's better than foraging for fresh wild blueberries while chatting with friends and hoping the grizzly bears have a different spot?    NOTHING!

My guest today talks about her love of foraging and kitchen witching as a way to be part of nature, a welcome juxtaposition from her days observing nature in her work as a scientist. 

She also shares how she went from living out her "Jane Goodall" dreams to taking a chance and responding to her environment to become a teller of stories.  As a self-proclaimed nosey person, Ricki Oldenkamp speaks with passion and joy of her career now as a copywriter and of the honor she feels in hearing, translating, and telling another's story. 

Before that though, and in the midst of years of travel, she followed her intuition and took a trip that didn't necessarily make sense, but unfolded beautify, one step at a time.

Take a listen!  You'll be glad you did.

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So...you've made a list of what brings you joy and you've been practicing some gratitude every day!

You've thought about your energy flow throughout the day and what your ideal day would look like. You took some tests, read some things and you know yourself and how you operate in flow a bit more.

Then you got clear on the habits and commitments in your life that do not bring you ease and joy and determined what of those you want to cull, delegate or limit.

NOW...we're bringing it all together with our calendars and starting to put some JOY into place. Scheduling it first. Allowing life to flow around the most important things to us.

• Give the audio a listen.  
• Get your calendar and to do list and start sorting all this information into what you want more of in your life.  While you're at it, add tasks to your to do list that put culling and delegation into motion.
  Create a list for daily things, weekly things, monthly things and quarterly/yearly things.  These are the things you want to ensure are part of your rhytym.  Things like walking, meditating, visiting an art museum, sitting in front of your watercolor paper, live music, a solo adventure, cermonies...you get the idea.  Things that will inherently bringing connection and joy into your life.
  Now, schedule them!!!  Put them in first and honor that commitment to yourself.  After all as Dr Edith Egar says, the only person that you will be in a relationship with for your entire life, is YOU!

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Today's lesson can be both a YES! kind of lesson and a "oh, but wait, that's too hard" kind of thing!    Culling out the things in your life that are not making you happy can be HUGE and can be simple.  But, we only have so much time and energy each day and if we commit to all the things, we won't have space for what matters.

So, let's begin!

• Give the audio a listen.  (above)
• Make a list (YES, I love lists!) of all of your commitments and daily habits and rate them.
  First mark all the the things on your list that excite you.  Things you love doing and that are clear yeses.
  Next, give the list a critical view and cross off everything that doesn't really need to be done and that can easily be culled away.
  Then, look at what's left and determine what does not in fact need to be done by YOU!  Be really honest about this and find ways to delegate or hire out these things. (ideas in the audio!)
  Finally, turn a really critical eye to what's left.  The things that you don't really want to do, but that you feel you have to.  Do you REALLY have to?  Is there another way to accomplish what this task does?  Can it be cut anyway?  What story do you have in your mind about what it means about you if you don't do this?    Saying no, opens your life up to what you are meant to be doing and how you can stay in joy and ease.

Tomorrow, we'll get out our calendars and start to pull some of things we're learning about ourselves together!

Comment below and tell me what you are no longer doing!

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Okay, did you picture your ideal day?  Do you have an idea on how your energy flows through the day?  Share with me what you've learned!  Hit reply, I would be delighted!

Today we're going to talk about the value in finding out more about your personality type and how you operate!

• Give the audio a listen.
• Found out more about yourself through a personality type of test.  All four of the links below lead to sites that I have used and liked and that offer a free summary.
   
  Human Design.  Maybe you'd like to learn more about what human design is first?  Click here)
  Myers Briggs Personality Test
  Your Astrological Birthchart
  The Enneagram Institute  

Day 4, we'll talk about saying NO!  Yes.  We will.  And about honestly pruning your life to remove what is not bringing you joy

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How was day one?  Did you write out your list of joyful things?  What were you grateful for this morning?  Yes, comment below  and tell me!

Today we're going to go deeper into thinking about how our energy flows throughout the day and what your ideal/dream day would look like.

• Give the audio (above) a listen.  I tried to keep it really short. I REALLY did.  But it's 22 minutes!  ...What can I say?
• Track you energy through out the day.  How do you feel first thing?  At lunch time?  In the afternoon, the evening and at night?  When is your brain the most powerful, when do you like to exercise, when do you like to get hands on?
• After you listen to the guided mindfulness exercise (I call it a meditation in the audio, but really it's more of a mindfulness exercise!)  write out what comes up for you and your ideal/dream day.  No judgements, no editing!

Day 3 we'll talk about getting to know yourself even more!

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So, today for lesson one. 

• Give the audio (above) a listen.  (released 8/16/23)  It's roughly 10 minutes long
• Start a gratitude practice twice a day.  Say aloud one thing you're grateful for and for better success, tie it to a habit you already have, like brushing your teeth.
• Make a list of all sorts of things that bring you joy...don't edit it, let it flow.  It could be sunshine on your face, or a project in your hands or a walk with a friend.  Set the timer for 10 minutes and free write.  Just let it out!!

Day 2 will include a guided meditation and thoughts on your rhythm and natural flow!

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Today's episode is about turning on the heat and holding it steady.    I once heard Cathy Heller use this water boiling analogy for showing up in life and it stuck with me.   So I share it with you today.

Showing up in life,   relates to a new program I have coming out and a free 5 day workshop - Finding Your Joy that that is live August 7th.    

Sign up here!    https://courses.kinshiphandwork.com/f/find-your-joy

I believe, a joyfilled life is your birthright.  And living vibrantly is within our reach.   And if we can do it together!!!  All the better.  

As the wise African proverb says, "If you want to go fast, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together."

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this water boiling analogy and have you join us next week!

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(w/Emma Brassfield) You've just put in another 11 hour day at the studio, rushing in to add some padding here, or attach a tail there, poised to help Chewbacca to the loo or fix a broken seam at the drop of a hat...but mostly waiting and chatting with your coworkers and drinking bottomless lattes.  Sounds exotic and fun to this homebody, but day after day after day of long hours and little family time seems wearing. 

And they were to my guest Emma Brassfield.   She loved, mostly, her career doing costumes and special effects for film and tv, but after she had her eldest child, the hours and uncertainty of the next gig began to wear.

So, she took her creative juices to her own business, Studio 7t7!  She started out selling toys she had hand crafted and soon discovered the production of sewing for resale didn't suit.  BUT, that road led to another...folks kept asking her for patterns for her creations and a new path was born.  The 7t7 club is her pattern membership and its feeling just right.

I love how life flows along like that, especially if you have the gumption to follow it.   Do what your passionate about, discover what's not working, make a change...continually adjusting to fit the person you are now and the wished you have today.  

Have a listen!

Emma's links online...

The 7t7 club

Studio 7t7

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Emma Brassfield

Based in Surrey, UK, Emma Brassfield creates all of the Studio 7t7 items and patterns.

After having her eldest daughter, Emma wanted to find unique gifts and items that you would be proud to give and equally thrilled to receive. After finding a distinct lack of affordable, beautiful and well made items, Studio 7t7 as you see it was born.

Since 2001 she has been creating magical creatures and wonderful characters for film and TV. Her credits include The Batsuit for Batman Begins, Mythical creatures for Harry Potter,  Chewbacca for Star Wars, The Flash for Justice League and her most favourite creation: Iggle Piggle for In The Night Garden.

All of the skills she has learned through her adventures during this time have been harnessed into her special creations and sewing patterns.

In 2020, Emma started a Youtube Channel to teach others to sew and to make their own gorgeous gifts via sewing patterns and free tutorials.

Pull up a chair, grab a cuppa and browse the Studio for gorgeous gifts, sewing patterns, tutorials and classes.

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