Aligning with Your True Path: Soul-Inspired Action and Business Growth
Phil Emerton Woodturning by an Old Man https://www.youtube.com/@philemerton
00:00 Introduction and Catching Up
00:35 Beth's Gratitude Journey
01:33 Creating Soul-Led Businesses
02:43 Aligning with Your True Path
04:08 Challenges and Growth in Business
06:52 The Power of Authenticity
10:22 Success and Following Your Bliss
22:37 The Importance of Dreaming Big
31:58 Taking Action and Continuous Growth
34:55 Conclusion and Call to Action
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Hello, Beth. Hello, Mel. Cats say good morning
Beth Hewitt:today. Good afternoon. I know we're all out of sorts. You
Melissa Amos:all in court at the same time every week, and now we're on a different
Melissa Amos:day in a different hour, and we're going to come off here thinking that we've
Melissa Amos:got our whole day ahead. Yeah, we do. I've got
Beth Hewitt:a nine year old birthday party to go to and then the hospital to go
Beth Hewitt:to to see my dad, and then I'll have my tea at some point and
Beth Hewitt:then bedtime. I think that's enough to be
Beth Hewitt:doing today. So what's going on in Beth's
Melissa Amos:world, in the world of mystical, magical moments?
Beth Hewitt:In the world of mystical moments of Beth, I have
Beth Hewitt:just completed, or I'm just coming up this week, we'll be finishing the
Beth Hewitt:gratitude journey for the month of May, and I've
Beth Hewitt:been welcoming in new members, so that's all been really
Beth Hewitt:nice. And then I'm looking at how I can
Beth Hewitt:create an evergreen experience of the gratitude journey. Because a lot of the
Beth Hewitt:people that do the gratitude journey, they come back again. They're like my little
Beth Hewitt:boomerangs. So I'm looking at ways I can make that more of an evergreen
Beth Hewitt:experience. So people can do the gratitude journey all of the time
Beth Hewitt:and people can join whenever they want to join rather than at the start of
Beth Hewitt:the month because gratitude is such an important thing to be doing and
Beth Hewitt:staying on top of. And so if that's what the people want,
Beth Hewitt:that's what I'm going to do. That's what the people want. That's what
Melissa Amos:the people will get. Yeah. So that's what I've been
Beth Hewitt:up to. And I know you've been doing your wonderful
Beth Hewitt:event last week. Yeah. So my brain has
Melissa Amos:been all around creating soul led
Melissa Amos:businesses this last couple of weeks, which
Melissa Amos:I absolutely love and adore, and being
Melissa Amos:with all of the members of the group. And there
Melissa Amos:was healers and energy workers and
Melissa Amos:readers and coaches and actually some people who want bricks
Melissa Amos:and mortar buildings. There was a definite range. And
Melissa Amos:it's interesting to start to see some of the
Melissa Amos:blocks that put, that we put up some of the assumptions that come
Melissa Amos:when we're running a business where we
Melissa Amos:hold ourselves in limitation, where we stop ourselves
Melissa Amos:short. It was really interesting seeing this
Melissa Amos:from such a wide point of view.
Melissa Amos:And you know how it is when we're holding these experiences, these things
Melissa Amos:mirror back to us. So it's fascinating
Melissa Amos:how I think we're all being, but
Melissa Amos:I think many of us are being pulled into a greater version of us, and
Melissa Amos:it's quite hard to maybe know where that is coming and where that's
Melissa Amos:happening. I think we should talk about that. I love this
Beth Hewitt:idea piece of when
Beth Hewitt:we have come into alignment with who we
Beth Hewitt:are and what we're bringing forth into the world, and it's almost like
Beth Hewitt:we start to feel a little bit untouchable. But I
Beth Hewitt:don't mean that in a big headed way. It's almost like it doesn't really matter
Beth Hewitt:now that I'm on this path because I'm following my path and I
Beth Hewitt:trust in the path and I'm starting to align. And everything that I put out
Beth Hewitt:there in terms of my offers and my words and my connections, it's
Beth Hewitt:all, it just feels good. So maybe we could talk a little
Beth Hewitt:bit about that today because it's quite a big topic, but it's
Beth Hewitt:also one of those topics that's, I suppose it's the experience
Beth Hewitt:for everybody is different. And it's like, almost like, how do you tell somebody when
Beth Hewitt:they're in, like, how do you know when you're in alignment? Like, you just know.
Beth Hewitt:But how do you explain that? How do you articulate that to people who maybe
Beth Hewitt:are not feeling in alignment with what they want
Beth Hewitt:to be doing in the world? Yes, because I think that often when we
Melissa Amos:start doing this kind of work, so the healers and the readers
Melissa Amos:coaches and the mentors. Mentors and the teachers and,
Melissa Amos:and the artists and this work that just seems to
Melissa Amos:come from soul or it seems to come from somewhere bigger than us,
Melissa Amos:and it's maybe follows on from an
Melissa Amos:expression of what we are, right? And so we go out in the world
Melissa Amos:and we're like, I'm going to do this. It's going to be my thing. It's
Melissa Amos:definitely what it is that I need. But this is what I noticed, that
Melissa Amos:we are fueled by our purpose. Most of the people
Melissa Amos:who are doing this work don't normally do things the way that everybody else does
Melissa Amos:things and start it. I'm doing this as a business. I'm going to start
Melissa Amos:offering my things. And then we get into
Melissa Amos:our heads about this is how it needs to look, and if I'm going to
Melissa Amos:make it a business, then I need to do it this way. And this is
Melissa Amos:my clients want and this is how I need to give them and everything
Melissa Amos:that's got us to the point of launching,
Melissa Amos:starting that bravery of actually coming out and saying,
Melissa Amos:yes, I'm doing this. It almost falls to the wayside. And then we
Melissa Amos:start finding ourselves looking outside
Melissa Amos:for how do I price this? How do I package this. How does this need
Melissa Amos:to. I can't do it like this. And everyone says, that's not going to work
Melissa Amos:for me because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then we wonder why
Melissa Amos:we're doing work that's so aligned to us. But
Melissa Amos:it feels off. Frustrating. Things
Melissa Amos:aren't biting, unfulfilling, thinking things are
Melissa Amos:failing. And what I've discovered even more so with
Melissa Amos:working with. There was over 150 people in the group.
Beth Hewitt:Yeah. Seeing this time and time again that it's,
Melissa Amos:I think, partly because we come out of
Melissa Amos:alignment with how our work then needs to look
Melissa Amos:in the real world. Yeah, that's what I was just thinking. It's
Beth Hewitt:almost. If you take it as a journey we're in our lifetime,
Beth Hewitt:we're conditioned by this is how we need to be, this is where we need
Beth Hewitt:to go to work, this is how we need to live our lives. Then we
Beth Hewitt:get this soul's calling for. We've always got that souls calling. But we get
Beth Hewitt:this. I'd quite like to be a healer or an artist or something else starts
Beth Hewitt:pulling and then we start to embody that. And then it's almost. We're going
Beth Hewitt:back to the condition. Like, almost like now
Beth Hewitt:I can be who I am, but I'm gonna.
Beth Hewitt:I'm allowing myself to be conditioned by everything that I feel like society
Beth Hewitt:needs me to be, or the marketing needs to be, or the templates need to
Beth Hewitt:be, or the scripts need to be. And so we go through that process and
Beth Hewitt:then all of a sudden we realize, actually, when I'm fully me,
Beth Hewitt:this is how I would do the thing and it wouldn't be the same as
Beth Hewitt:anybody else. And that's where the magic,
Beth Hewitt:I think, is. But you have to go through that process. And I think
Beth Hewitt:we've all experienced some variation of that on the path
Beth Hewitt:because we understand what it's like to be conditioned, we understand what it's
Beth Hewitt:like to be trying to keep up with the Joneses or to keep
Beth Hewitt:our parents happy or all of these things. And then we
Beth Hewitt:find who we are and then we do it all over again. Because that's what
Beth Hewitt:we know as human beings until we go,
Beth Hewitt:actually, if I do it this way, that nobody else is doing, and it
Beth Hewitt:feels good and easy, that's when we
Beth Hewitt:crack open and wonderful things start to happen. And
Melissa Amos:it can be quite subtle and it can
Melissa Amos:quite. It can be quite
Melissa Amos:insidious as well. Like, I've seen this as
Melissa Amos:well, this. What's the difference between I'm
Melissa Amos:doing something because I feel that I have to, or I'm not doing
Melissa Amos:something because I feel it's not allowed, or I'm not
Melissa Amos:doing something because I've got a wounding there or I've got. There's
Melissa Amos:a lot life change there that I'm moving or working towards. And
Melissa Amos:it feels safer to sit behind this
Melissa Amos:somebody else's process or somebody else's
Melissa Amos:thing. And it's so interesting,
Melissa Amos:I shared just the other day that April,
Melissa Amos:I did probably the most inner
Melissa Amos:work for a long time on my business in
Melissa Amos:various guises with various techniques and
Melissa Amos:teachers. And then in May I had one of my biggest
Melissa Amos:cash months. And is there a coincidence with that?
Melissa Amos:No. And it didn't make sense. It doesn't make
Melissa Amos:sense on paper why that would have been.
Melissa Amos:But this is what happened and it
Melissa Amos:keeps coming back into this know thyself, know thyself. Know
Melissa Amos:thyself. And then trusting that whatever it is thats
Melissa Amos:pushing you and moving you and calling you that, that
Melissa Amos:is enough. And
Melissa Amos:it doesnt mean that we throw all the strategies out the window
Melissa Amos:because then where the other side of the coin as well. I feel
Melissa Amos:I'm so in alignment and people should, I should be magnetizing my
Melissa Amos:clients and so I needn't do anything. I don't think that's true.
Melissa Amos:But finding the strategy, knowing the strategies, looking yes,
Melissa Amos:outside yourself, working with mentors, working with other people,
Melissa Amos:seeing the different processes and procedures that are available to you,
Melissa Amos:and then bringing it in and going, okay, so how does this relate to me?
Melissa Amos:Does this feel right to me? Does this go with my soul flow?
Melissa Amos:Is this, if I had this biggest, greatest, grandest burden of
Melissa Amos:me, would this align to that? I think it's
Beth Hewitt:important that we try all of the different strategies
Beth Hewitt:on for size to see how they feel, the ones that
Beth Hewitt:feel good, the ones that don't, and using that as
Beth Hewitt:a barometer of how do I want to add to this strategy? Do I want
Beth Hewitt:to take away from this strategy? Do I want to put more of myself in
Beth Hewitt:here? How do I want to use this to
Beth Hewitt:articulate the thing that I've created in the world?
Melissa Amos:Right. And that's a very powerful. When we get to that space, when we take
Beth Hewitt:the, what do you call it, like the stable stabilizers off
Beth Hewitt:the bike and we're just going for it and we're like, okay, I've got the
Beth Hewitt:strategy, I've got the templates, I've got the idea of how I can do this,
Beth Hewitt:but now I'm just going to take the wheels off and I'm just going to
Beth Hewitt:see, I'm going to wobble about on my little bike.
Beth Hewitt:And I'm just going to allow myself to learn to ride my bike
Beth Hewitt:the way that I'm supposed to learn to ride my bike,
Beth Hewitt:whether it's a bit wobbly or a bit off to the left or off to
Beth Hewitt:the right, and all of a sudden you'll start to come back into your equilibrium,
Beth Hewitt:your balance, and then we've got the wind, the universe
Beth Hewitt:source at our back, supporting us and guiding us on that path. And
Beth Hewitt:that when we get to that point where we feel comfortable
Beth Hewitt:enough to do, that's when I think a whole world
Beth Hewitt:of possibilities opens up to us in terms of
Beth Hewitt:collaborations and connection and ideas and
Beth Hewitt:just that ability to be playful and just try lots of new things
Beth Hewitt:that maybe we didn't even think was possible for us.
Melissa Amos:And that is the point if we are looking at this just from an
Melissa Amos:energetic and purpose, sole purpose
Melissa Amos:point of view, our purpose is to know ourselves and to become
Melissa Amos:ourselves, know and become and take action on that. And that is
Melissa Amos:through our intuition, that is through our nudges, that is through our joy,
Melissa Amos:that is through understanding the challenges that we
Melissa Amos:face and what skills, talents we have to
Melissa Amos:move through them. And whatever it is that you're doing
Melissa Amos:in the world, this is our purpose, and that will be different for
Melissa Amos:everybody, but the fundamentals the same. And
Melissa Amos:so when we are then bringing work, this
Melissa Amos:into our work, and we're becoming the healers and readers, the coaches, the
Melissa Amos:mentors, the yoga teachers, the thought leaders, or
Melissa Amos:whatever it is, I wonder why it is that
Melissa Amos:we feel that then we can't bring it fully into
Melissa Amos:ourselves because we are fully into ourselves,
Melissa Amos:then the people that we're meant to
Melissa Amos:be connecting with, the people that we're meant to be
Melissa Amos:collaborating with, the people that need our level
Melissa Amos:of support, whatever that is, can then find us. But
Melissa Amos:all the while that we're sitting behind something that's not quite us,
Melissa Amos:all the while that we're sidestepping. What I'd really like to do
Melissa Amos:is this. But what I think is the safe version is this. The
Melissa Amos:people who are primed to
Melissa Amos:work with the what you'd really like to do can't find you because you're not
Melissa Amos:there. And I have found, the more I've
Melissa Amos:known myself, and I need to caveat with this, it's not
Melissa Amos:permanent. There's a growth and we carry on moving and growing,
Melissa Amos:but the more I've known myself then, the more I've been able to be
Melissa Amos:sure on, okay, this is the offer that feels good for me right
Melissa Amos:now. This is the launch strategy that feels good for me
Melissa Amos:right now. This is the collaboration that feels good for me right now.
Melissa Amos:This is the message that needs to go out. That just comes because I'm
Melissa Amos:talking about what I love. And from the truth of me, I don't have to
Melissa Amos:be wordsmith to be able to get that through. And then,
Melissa Amos:from an energetic point of view, people are on the other side of that and
Melissa Amos:they can feel it. They can feel like, yeah, this is. This is
Melissa Amos:100% this person. And then we feel
Melissa Amos:more as the reader, we feel more comfortable and confident
Melissa Amos:in who it is that we're connecting with, even though it's
Melissa Amos:on a subconscious, energetic, yeah, we don't even know that
Melissa Amos:it's happening. There's a reception that's going
Beth Hewitt:on, like, it's like dialing into the radio, tuning in
Beth Hewitt:to the station that you want to be putting out there and the
Beth Hewitt:listeners being, this is the channel. This is the right channel
Beth Hewitt:for all of us. Yes.
Beth Hewitt:It's really interesting because my stepdad,
Beth Hewitt:he's 80 years old, and we went round
Beth Hewitt:yesterday, me and Milia went around to see them yesterday, my mum and
Beth Hewitt:my stepdad. And he just said, out of the blue, I've started a
Beth Hewitt:YouTube channel. And we were all like, what?
Beth Hewitt:He was. I've started a YouTube channel. It's just me in my garage
Beth Hewitt:talking about making things with wood,
Beth Hewitt:and I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm having fun.
Beth Hewitt:And if it makes people laugh and it brings me
Beth Hewitt:joy, then that's what I'm doing. And there was. Even though it was just a
Beth Hewitt:silly conversation, and what he's doing is just. Is fun. There was something in that
Beth Hewitt:about when we no longer.
Beth Hewitt:I think it's care, really, when we no longer care what other people or how
Beth Hewitt:we're going to be received, then we allow ourselves to do
Beth Hewitt:these things that for a long time, we might have been stopping ourselves from doing.
Beth Hewitt:And so there was like a beautiful message in all of this. And then he
Beth Hewitt:put it on the tv, we were all watching his YouTube channel
Beth Hewitt:and subscribing and things like that. And I just thought, if an eight year old
Beth Hewitt:man who's been retired for a long time, who has hobbies, who changes these hobbies
Beth Hewitt:all the time, wanted and decided to create a YouTube
Beth Hewitt:channel, and he's doing it because that's what he wants to do, then why
Beth Hewitt:can't I do this? Or why can't somebody else do that? If that's what they've
Beth Hewitt:aspired to do for a long time. Does it really matter if nobody
Beth Hewitt:listens or nobody subscribes? If it's the thing that you want to do
Beth Hewitt:and you're going to have fun with it, why not just do it? But that's
Beth Hewitt:easier said than done. I appreciate that. It is easier said than done, but also
Melissa Amos:isn't. It's our own stuff. Somebody shared something today.
Melissa Amos:First, while I'm looking for this, I want, if you know his YouTube
Melissa Amos:name, I would love for you to shout out. I can find it. It's very
Beth Hewitt:long. Even the name was mesmerizing and funny.
Melissa Amos:Imagine that he might have done that. And, yeah, who
Melissa Amos:knows? Maybe it will be the 100 million subscriber thing,
Melissa Amos:right? Maybe. Maybe. Or maybe it's
Melissa Amos:just. It's inspired this conversation. Maybe. Or maybe it's
Melissa Amos:given somebody else permission to start their own YouTube channel
Melissa Amos:that becomes the next 100 million subscriber YouTube channel.
Melissa Amos:Or he's doing that and it brings him so much
Melissa Amos:joy that he then raises his vibration and then
Melissa Amos:he's a happier man to be around and then it affects everyone
Melissa Amos:that's around him. What is success? Yeah, what is your
Beth Hewitt:version of success? The name is so long that it won't even fit on my
Beth Hewitt:screen, but I think we'll put it in the show notes. But it's something like
Beth Hewitt:Phil Emerton Wood turning by an old man. That is
Beth Hewitt:his name. That's what he's decided to put in. And it gives
Beth Hewitt:lovingly quips to my mum. In it, he talks about my mum and what
Beth Hewitt:she's up to and I know it's so cute.
Melissa Amos:You just do not know where all these things will lead.
Melissa Amos:I'm going to give you another example. Right. So in the call last night,
Melissa Amos:in my challenge for business owners, we were doing hot seating, and there was
Melissa Amos:one lady there and she was talking about all of the things that she has
Melissa Amos:done and will do and actually what her dream is to create
Melissa Amos:a bricks and mortar retreat space. And that's her thing.
Melissa Amos:And my co host, Jessica, was saying, this has been a thing for a long
Melissa Amos:time and all of this, but it's been there. But then she
Melissa Amos:started sharing some synchronicities that have been happening, like,
Melissa Amos:lately, and we were like, okay, like, why do we go ahead
Melissa Amos:with this now? At the same time, Jessica and I have been
Melissa Amos:having a separate conversation about potentially next
Melissa Amos:year, I'm potentially coming to the states and I'm like, we
Melissa Amos:will need somewhere to host a retreat. So we're having a separate conversation.
Melissa Amos:And then this lady over here is having a thing saying she wants to have
Melissa Amos:a retreat center. And part of the thing is because she wants to have people
Melissa Amos:come in and teach and it's. Hold on a
Melissa Amos:minute. If you follow your dream, if you do this,
Melissa Amos:then it's also been the answer to my prayers,
Melissa Amos:which is that I've been looking for this. And so you never know.
Melissa Amos:And the point that you were making, Beth, about, as we
Melissa Amos:follow this bliss, as we follow this desire and we
Melissa Amos:don't know where it's going to lead, and then everything just
Melissa Amos:seems to make sense. It
Melissa Amos:completely changes the measurables at the
Melissa Amos:end, because what is success? And again, if you
Melissa Amos:look at the business metrics, it's. You need to be earning one,
Melissa Amos:2510, 100, a million a month.
Melissa Amos:Yeah, and that's what we see. Yeah, but
Melissa Amos:if you don't. But you reach one
Melissa Amos:person who then goes on and changes the world, or
Melissa Amos:you reach one person and it hits them to then go and do
Melissa Amos:something amazing, and then six months later they come back to you and they're like,
Melissa Amos:Beth, that one thing you said to me on the gratitude journey
Melissa Amos:changed everything. And now I'm earning my
Melissa Amos:half a million a year and I want to invest in you and I'm all
Melissa Amos:in. You don't know where it's going to go, but
Melissa Amos:when you're like that aligned, it doesn't matter so much
Melissa Amos:because you're loving what you're doing anyway and you get less in
Melissa Amos:your head about, how do I need to message this? What words do I need
Melissa Amos:to put out here right now? What do I write in my email? Because you're
Beth Hewitt:just doing your thing. You're coming from that
Melissa Amos:expression and it's not. I don't care what people
Melissa Amos:think about this, because I
Melissa Amos:think you'd agree, Beth, that when we do this, it is
Melissa Amos:something that is bigger than us. So it's not just, I do it for
Melissa Amos:me, what I'm doing, so controversial,
Melissa Amos:but what I'm doing for me. I'm doing it for me. I'm doing it because
Melissa Amos:it's my bliss and it's my journey and it's my purpose and it's my
Melissa Amos:life and it's my Facebook lives and it's my Facebook wall and it's my
Melissa Amos:podcast and it's me. And it's me and it's all me. And I have to
Melissa Amos:do it for me and I make it bigger than
Melissa Amos:me. Yeah, but I can't just do it all for you
Melissa Amos:because if I do it all for you, then you're not getting a first rate
Melissa Amos:version of me, there'd be somebody else who's going to do that better. Yeah. And
Melissa Amos:I'm not. Where am I in all of this?
Beth Hewitt:That's true. It's almost like it's a
Beth Hewitt:selfish but non selfish act. At the same time,
Beth Hewitt:I'm doing this for me. But the byproduct
Beth Hewitt:of that is that you get the best version of me, and that is going
Beth Hewitt:to allow you to maybe do the thing that you want to do.
Beth Hewitt:But also, it's not just what the other person gets out of it, is it?
Beth Hewitt:It could be that even if you do the thing that you are really called
Beth Hewitt:to do, and nothing immediately comes as a result of that, there's nothing to
Beth Hewitt:say. The. The dots, the connection of the dots doesn't
Beth Hewitt:come later down the line. Like, you're doing this thing right now. You can't see
Beth Hewitt:the benefit of it right now, but it still feels aligned. You hear all
Beth Hewitt:the time that you have to keep going, don't give up. Don't give up. The
Beth Hewitt:reward is there. It's coming. We don't know the how. We don't know why or
Beth Hewitt:when it's going to happen, but it's coming. Okay. Yeah. And so
Beth Hewitt:we're doing it, and then we receive that,
Beth Hewitt:the benefit of that in probably more ways than
Beth Hewitt:we could ever imagine. It's just that our limited perspective
Beth Hewitt:as spiritual human beings right now is that we are only
Beth Hewitt:focused on this part of the puzzle, this part that we're working
Beth Hewitt:on right now. We're not necessarily thinking about the bigger vision
Beth Hewitt:that we may or may not hold for ourselves or the vision that the universe
Beth Hewitt:source divine has in store for us that we are just not party
Beth Hewitt:to because all of the other conditions, all of the other people, all of the
Beth Hewitt:other experiences, all of the other set of circumstances that have to
Beth Hewitt:come into play. The planets align in all of that. We're just not parted to
Beth Hewitt:that right now in this moment. So all we
Beth Hewitt:need to do is just stay in alignment and keep doing the thing that brings
Beth Hewitt:us joy. As soon as it doesn't feel good, don't do it anymore.
Beth Hewitt:As soon as it feels like this isn't quite the way I want to do
Beth Hewitt:that, then twist it, change it, shape it,
Beth Hewitt:or. And look at what it is that doesn't feel good
Melissa Amos:because sometimes don't feel good, sometimes you're like, this is the scariest thing that I've
Melissa Amos:ever done. And that's good. And that's a good thing because we're leaning towards
Melissa Amos:something. So it does bring up the healing journey
Melissa Amos:ahead. Right. I was talking about this last night that
Melissa Amos:you. What seems to happen is we find ourselves in a place
Melissa Amos:and then we're like, well, where I really want to go to is all the
Melissa Amos:way over there. This is the dream. But actually all I think is possible is
Melissa Amos:here. And it's only 6ft ahead of us. And so
Melissa Amos:we start moving towards that and then there's going to be challenges.
Melissa Amos:There's always going to be challenges. There's always going to be something that comes up.
Melissa Amos:And I think that this is good for us as humans to evolve and grow.
Melissa Amos:But if all we're aiming for is this 6ft
Melissa Amos:ahead, we're still moving through these challenges, but they're
Melissa Amos:actually not giving us necessarily need
Melissa Amos:and the growth opportunities and the potential. And then we can
Melissa Amos:go jump through these hurdles and we get there and we're like, meh.
Melissa Amos:And that's it. Whereas if we are actually honest with ourselves
Melissa Amos:and we dare to dream, this has been a big thing for me
Melissa Amos:personally. Like, what am I allowing myself to dream? Yeah, what am I
Melissa Amos:allowing to be possible into my future? And I'm like, this is all the way
Melissa Amos:over here and it doesn't matter whether or not it's
Melissa Amos:possible. Right now, in this moment, this is the dream. This is where I
Melissa Amos:want to be. This is where I feel most alive. I feel. I look back
Melissa Amos:at my life and this is the place where it just looks. No, it
Melissa Amos:feels like I'm moving to and I aim for that. Then I will
Melissa Amos:start, the challenges will come and I'll grow and
Melissa Amos:I'll have to evolve. But then it's. It's preparing me
Melissa Amos:for that. All the way over there, rather than just this thing that's
Melissa Amos:six foot in front of me, Eric, it's going to take you
Melissa Amos:further. But we don't let us do this. Yeah,
Melissa Amos:and it's sad, actually.
Beth Hewitt:I think it's because we think,
Beth Hewitt:or a lot of the time, a lot of the people think that we have
Beth Hewitt:to do this thing on our own and that we
Beth Hewitt:forget that as we come into alignment and as we
Beth Hewitt:say yes to the thing that we want to do,
Beth Hewitt:there will be ways to make that happen, that we are being supported
Beth Hewitt:divinely and that we aren't doing our own. But when we start
Beth Hewitt:to think in the first instance, it's because we think we are doing it on
Beth Hewitt:our own. We think, okay, this idea is way bigger than me. I
Beth Hewitt:don't know how on earth I'm going to make this happen, but if
Beth Hewitt:everything is supposed to happen and unfold. And the very fact
Beth Hewitt:that you have that thought, to me is saying that this is a seedling idea
Beth Hewitt:that needs to be brought forth into the world. Otherwise you wouldn't have that thought,
Beth Hewitt:right? Somebody else would have it and it wouldn't interest you.
Beth Hewitt:And if somebody was doing the thing that you wanted to be doing, you wouldn't
Beth Hewitt:be feeling those feelings of jealousy or whatever starts coming up for you or triggering
Beth Hewitt:you because you're interested in that. You want to do that. You want to have
Beth Hewitt:that for yourself. And so if you have that,
Beth Hewitt:then we owe it to ourselves to act
Beth Hewitt:upon it and bring it forth and see what magic that unfolds.
Beth Hewitt:But we're never doing it alone. No, we're not.
Beth Hewitt:We're never. We're always supported. But I think
Beth Hewitt:we either forget that or we don't know that. We don't know that for sure.
Melissa Amos:And it. But it can feel quite lonely, especially entrepreneurship.
Melissa Amos:It can feel lonely because you are doing the thing
Melissa Amos:on your own. And so the reality of how it
Melissa Amos:seems just in front of you is I'm doing it on my own. And I
Melissa Amos:get it when we're posting on Facebook and we're doing all the things that we're
Melissa Amos:meant to be doing and we're like, no, nobody's listening.
Beth Hewitt:Yeah. So then we pull back. And we pull back. But
Melissa Amos:the question I'd love for our listeners to just contemplate
Melissa Amos:is what I'm doing truly the
Melissa Amos:thing that I want to be doing? I'm going to give you another example.
Melissa Amos:I was speaking to a really good friend of mine and she said to me,
Melissa Amos:like, why is this not working for me? And
Melissa Amos:honestly, she is one of the best healers that I know. She is
Melissa Amos:so knowledgeable. She is so. She is incredible.
Melissa Amos:And when I asked her, what is it? I said, if money was
Melissa Amos:no object, yeah, it didn't matter, but you could just do
Melissa Amos:whatever you want to do. What would it be? And she told me, and I'm
Melissa Amos:like, that's why it's not working, because the things that
Melissa Amos:you're doing aren't that now. And she's not
Melissa Amos:allowed herself for that to be a
Melissa Amos:potential reality. Now, that doesn't mean that, okay, that's what I'm going
Melissa Amos:to do. Therefore, now tomorrow, I'm suddenly
Melissa Amos:world famous, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is, it doesn't mean that it's going to
Melissa Amos:necessarily happen overnight. And it also doesn't mean that all of the things that she's
Melissa Amos:been doing in this point would then just disappear. But when we're
Melissa Amos:like, okay, but this is where I'm heading. And actually, the things that I'm doing
Melissa Amos:now are supporting that. They're building my audience, they're building my
Melissa Amos:repertoire. They're helping me get feedback on what the world
Melissa Amos:needs. It's giving me whatever, like, all of the
Melissa Amos:things. So you can still be doing essentially exactly the same
Melissa Amos:things, but because you've got this, okay, the
Melissa Amos:purpose of it is this. I'm realizing my purpose and I'm standing
Melissa Amos:into that and I'm working on that in the background. Or
Melissa Amos:I can see how one can lead to the other can lead to the other.
Melissa Amos:Then it energetically aligns everything, and
Melissa Amos:then suddenly, people, you feel
Melissa Amos:it. You feel it when you look at a photo of somebody
Melissa Amos:and they're smiling and you're like, they're not happy,
Melissa Amos:but they're in the middle of Disneyland and everyone's there with
Melissa Amos:their big grins, and they've been the happiest place in the world. And you look
Melissa Amos:at them, and even though the face and the body and everything is
Melissa Amos:unhappy and you look at them, they're like. Because we take in all of these
Melissa Amos:different layers of information subconsciously. Yeah. Your clients
Melissa Amos:are doing that as well. And even though you're authentically putting yourself
Melissa Amos:out there, you're also hiding behind something. They
Melissa Amos:feel it. They feel it. I know it, and I see it over and over
Melissa Amos:again. Yeah. So we
Melissa Amos:do this funny thing where we fall in the trap of, okay, this is what
Melissa Amos:people want. So this is what I'm going to offer because this is the safe
Melissa Amos:thing, and this makes sense, and this is logical in all of this, and then
Melissa Amos:it doesn't work. And then we're like, if I can't even sell this, then how
Melissa Amos:can I sell that? Well, maybe you can't sell this. You might as well go
Melissa Amos:and sell that. You might as well go for the big thing. Yeah. Exactly. What
Melissa Amos:magic happens? Who knows? And the more I have got to
Beth Hewitt:know myself and my offers and what I put out into the world,
Beth Hewitt:it's always been the things that have been an inspired thought
Beth Hewitt:that I've acted upon that have had the greatest impact. And I know
Beth Hewitt:that's probably the same for everybody. I don't feel like I'm a lone wolf in
Beth Hewitt:that. I'm sure, Melissa, you have had downloaded ideas of inspired things
Beth Hewitt:that you've put forth into the world and have just been magic.
Beth Hewitt:And I'll often say to clients, if you're not, if you don't
Beth Hewitt:fully have the belief in the thing that you're about to put out there,
Beth Hewitt:then today's not the day to put it out there. If you don't
Beth Hewitt:believe in your thing, then others will pick up
Beth Hewitt:on that energy. Today is not the day. Yeah. And so energy
Beth Hewitt:is a big part of this and
Beth Hewitt:how it's received. But don't let that be the
Beth Hewitt:thing that stops you going for the big thing. Like you say,
Beth Hewitt:mel, you might as well go for the one that scares you the most but
Beth Hewitt:feels so aligned. That, you know, because the truth is, no
Melissa Amos:one really believes fully in themselves. Maybe some people do.
Melissa Amos:And if they do, then they've done the work to get to there.
Melissa Amos:Like, most of us have those pesky thoughts, thoughts in
Melissa Amos:our heads that aren't very nice all the time. Right? And
Melissa Amos:that's okay. And another conversation that's been coming up
Melissa Amos:is this confidence when I'm more confident? You won't get more
Melissa Amos:confident unless you do the thing. This meme
Melissa Amos:that somebody shared earlier, like, it really hit me. I'm going
Melissa Amos:to read it as two ladies, and it says, I'm afraid to be
Melissa Amos:my authentic self with people because I don't want to be judged.
Melissa Amos:And then the other lady's, like, whispering, and she says, hiding your
Melissa Amos:authenticity means you're actually the one judging yourself.
Beth Hewitt:Yeah, that is powerful. Who's bulls?
Melissa Amos:And we do, and we judge, and it's natural,
Melissa Amos:is normal with what we do. And we also
Melissa Amos:have this other thing, this other part of us that is spurring us
Melissa Amos:on. And for me, it's as we tune into that more, as
Melissa Amos:we trust more. I'm here for a reason. I have a purpose.
Melissa Amos:I own that. I have certain skills and talents and
Melissa Amos:gifts and challenges. And you begin to own that.
Melissa Amos:That judgment, I don't think, will necessarily
Melissa Amos:go away, but it will become less
Melissa Amos:potent and prominent. And then it's okay.
Melissa Amos:When I hear that judgment, what am I afraid of?
Melissa Amos:Coming back into that and working on that and seeing just
Melissa Amos:things about me where I didn't allow myself to be the full
Melissa Amos:version of me and I didn't even know. I didn't even know that was a
Melissa Amos:thing. I'm like, I'm following my authenticity and I'm growing. And
Melissa Amos:actually, had I landed in that realization six months
Melissa Amos:ago, it might not have been the same. But then I realized, and I'm
Melissa Amos:like, that feels
Melissa Amos:good and true now. And as soon as I landed and accepted that and went,
Melissa Amos:you know what? Actually, this is one of my gifts, and said it out
Melissa Amos:loud. Then suddenly it was like a
Melissa Amos:door opened that I didn't even know, was
Melissa Amos:closed. And like, suddenly the fresh air comes in and you're like, that's
Melissa Amos:amazing. See, I don't think it's something that you just do once
Melissa Amos:you keep on going and you just keep on checking yourself and you're like,
Melissa Amos:okay, why does this feel
Melissa Amos:unlike right now? Why am I now feeling that
Melissa Amos:resistance? Is it because there's some healing and an
Melissa Amos:inquiry understanding to come from it?
Melissa Amos:Probably. Or is it because I've just gone a
Melissa Amos:little bit far in the wrong direction for a while and now I
Melissa Amos:bring it back and I suppose that's the work, isn't it? It is
Beth Hewitt:the work. I think it's important that we do
Beth Hewitt:the work and we understand what's going on and we feel all
Beth Hewitt:the feels. I think there is a danger
Beth Hewitt:in staying in that space for too long. So often I see,
Beth Hewitt:like, really amazing human beings who have got so many
Beth Hewitt:skills and experiences, who want to be doing all
Beth Hewitt:of these things, but they're spending so much time on the inner
Beth Hewitt:work and not then allowing themselves to reap the
Beth Hewitt:benefits of that. A lot of people stay in that
Beth Hewitt:position for far too long, and that's there. We have to do the
Beth Hewitt:work. But also, like you said, confidence.
Beth Hewitt:Action breeds confidence. The more that we do something, the more that confidence
Beth Hewitt:is going to just grow. And so if you're listening to this
Beth Hewitt:and you're in that kind of bubble of doing the work, just
Beth Hewitt:check in. Have you been doing the work? Have you done the work and
Beth Hewitt:you're ready, or do you still need to do the work? We all still need
Beth Hewitt:to do the work. We all still need to check in and learn and grow
Beth Hewitt:all of the time. But there comes a point where we have to go.
Beth Hewitt:Let's bring forth that dream that I have
Beth Hewitt:been growing and shaping
Beth Hewitt:and getting, preparing for all this time.
Melissa Amos:And let yourself dream it. Yeah, because we actually spend more time. We
Melissa Amos:dream, it says possible and then we spend and that's
Melissa Amos:say, 1% of the time. The other
Melissa Amos:99% of the time is all the reasons why I can't do
Melissa Amos:it. And it's not possible. And
Melissa Amos:it's helpful to understand what hurdles might come
Melissa Amos:ahead. And this isn't about ignoring that, but it's how much
Melissa Amos:time do you allow to spend on the dream and getting super
Melissa Amos:clear and keep asking, that is the dream that I had. Is that still
Melissa Amos:aligned? Is that still me? Have I now grown beyond it? Because that
Melissa Amos:happens too, and that's amazing.
Melissa Amos:Yeah, we don't need to get lost in it. For me, it's a
Melissa Amos:practice that it's just keep checking
Melissa Amos:back in. But the truth is that as you do the work, as
Melissa Amos:in go out and do the thing and offer the service and
Melissa Amos:put yourself out there and start to create things,
Melissa Amos:that's when the opportunity to do the inner work, the
Melissa Amos:useful inner work, the productive,
Melissa Amos:if you like the real stuff, because as soon as you,
Melissa Amos:like, reach your limit of your comfort
Melissa Amos:zone and push yourself out, then something's going to come up. And
Melissa Amos:then you're like, we're ready for this. And if the
Melissa Amos:answer is no, then we go, okay, what's going on there? Yeah,
Melissa Amos:then we do the work and then we push ourselves further. There's no point doing
Melissa Amos:all the work while you're still in the comfort zone because as soon as you
Melissa Amos:come out, you're just going to open up to something new.
Melissa Amos:So we might as well, listener, you might as well dream big
Melissa Amos:because the work's going to be the work. Amazing. Hopefully we've inspired some
Beth Hewitt:people into action today, into a soul
Beth Hewitt:inspired action. We would love to hear all about
Beth Hewitt:the things that you have created and started as you've allowed
Beth Hewitt:yourself to dream and do the thing. Thank you all for
Melissa Amos:listening.