Today's episode is dedicated to all of us women who are deciding to become consciously empowered and creative in our lives and our being and in our existence. Whatever you desire is possible for you, so start planning for it right now. Today I’m going to talk about the power of your vision and bringing that together with your drive to do what needs to be done.

Vision comes from desire - desire comes from heart - and heart comes from my destiny. From there, the action brings your vision to physical life. In this episode I’ll explore what it took for me to give myself permission to explore your vision and create the energy of possibility. We’re not planning the way we have before - we’re planning through our knowing, our embodiment, and our energy.

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I was speaking with a, private client the other day and she

was talking about how it's challenging for her to begin walking away from a

specific situation that, she's very familiar with and feels comfortable with.

And as we were exploring this, more and more she kept bringing

up things that I know we all say, and that is that the unknown.

Is scary or she's afraid of the unknown and what is known is more

comforting and feels more safe.

And while it's not exactly what she wants, she still knows it

better than what she doesn't know.

And I talked about this in previous episodes, but I really wanna start

this particular session together with this, construct or this experience

front of mine because it is one of the.

Most common and biggest lies and traps and um, pitfalls that we trip

ourselves into is this believing.

We don't know what is coming for us.

The truth is we do know.

That's the surprise of this episode and the trap door to your freedom,

is that we do know what's coming.

And what's coming to us is exactly what we believe, what we feel comfortable in.

If we're liberated and living actively in our lives, it's what we desire.

It's also what is lying dormant in our psyches, in our wounds,

and in our energy fields.

And so unless we cultivate the space to be empowered to create

what we want in our lives, we will.

what is the young, quote always say, it says, until you make the

unconscious conscious, it will direct our lives and we will call it fate.

Right?

So today's episode is dedicated to all of us women who are deciding to become

consciously empowered and creative in our lives and our being and in our existence.

It's welcome to the show, y'all.

Whatever it is that you are truly desiring is possible for you.

So you have to start planning for it now.

And those of us who have been women who are very, well versed

and skilled and are doing, and our functioning and our masculinity and

our masculine energies and our outward expressions to make things happen, we.

By activating our will, right, and our strength and our resilience,

and all of those good things.

We know about this, we know about planning, we know about taking action.

We know about moving into doing what needs to be done, when it

needs to be done for what we want.

But what I wanna illuminate for you is actually the power of your

vision and your desire, your sight.

And you're wanting and igniting these two qualities or aspects of

yourself, characteristics even is really how I should probably speak

of these really illuminating them, igniting them, activating them, and

bringing them together to work for you.

I'm recording this podcast, a day late.

Sorry, Sarah and.

Under the energy of the eclipse and the full moon, our solar eclipse and the full

moon and scorpion, as we're all doing this huge sloth thing off shedding of

old aspects of ourselves to once again through through a cycle of rebirth and.

I, it got me thinking about what's being released in my own life and my own

identity shift and, a new brand and the evolution of my business, and honoring

the fact that things that used to ignite me do no longer do, and things that

I never thought would absolutely are.

And.

allowing me, giving me permission to actually reflect on my life,

especially my life as an entrepreneur in these last 8, 9, 10 years.

And so I said, what is the thorough line?

Every time my life and business, my identity and expression took a turn.

And while it felt like it took a turn for the worst, it actually was for my best

because it's always working out this life.

Everything that happens to me is actually happening for me.

I know it sounds cliche, but that is a mantra I truly live by and I remind myself

in moments of transition, true is true.

You know, everything that's happening in my life is happening for me.

It's always working out for me.

This is not just mindset.

This is deep belief.

and so when I looked over my life, I was like, my goodness, every time a

huge transition such as this one, but different than this one, but similar

to this one, but different, right?

Has happened.

I have done this thing every single time I've been doing this thing, this one thing

every single time that has supported me, and I wanna share that with you today.

Let me give you some examples because as y'all know, I always teach by

living and my stories always illuminate the things I'm teaching and sharing.

And if you hear Ziggy whining in the background, it's because my mom is in

town and she decided to spoil Ziggy as I do with the day, not at the spa, cuz he

did that last week, but he went to doggy daycare for the whole day and he's butt

tired and he wants to lay in bed with me.

And I won't allow him to lay in bed with me because he is gonna be trying

to get comfortable and he is gonna be messing up the microphone and like, so

that's him whining outside the door.

Sorry.

Okay.

So back to the story here.

What I have always done is start envisioning and connecting to my

desire for something different.

And by doing those two things, I started activating in essence of

possibility within my psyche, within my mind, within my imagination, within

my body, within my energy field.

And through that energy of possibility or that vortex of possibility, I've

then been inspired and motivated to take rightful aligned action.

And what I just said, this.

Envisioning this, connecting to my heartfelt sense desire.

Allowing that to create this energy of possibility and allowing that to

create inspired action is completely different than thinking about what you

want and immediately going into action and figuring out how to make it happen.

When we fall into that, how is this gonna happen?

I need a sign.

Someone needs to push me, someone needs to tell me someone needs to.

To teach me, we are completely operating in our wounded,

feminine and masculine energy.

And not to make this about polarity and stuff, I'm just sharing what I know.

Having worked with so many people and having led my own life amazingly

well to this date, if you ask me.

and what has been uncovered.

Looking at people's lineages and working with them, with their

ancestors to get them unstuck, right?

Getting them unstuck from self-doubt, getting them unstuck from like burning

out and always taking action, but not having any soul and love and trust in

their energy field, or being all about the flowy trust feminine, someone's gonna.

Take care of me, rescue me dams zone distress, and moving into rightful action.

Right?

And it's the balance of these two that, as I was sharing in the Elevate Mastermind

earlier today, it's the balancing of these two energies within us and also the

balancing of those two energies within our entire maternal lineage and also in

our entire paternal lineage that starts to heal these survival patterns that we call

ancestral wounds, generational curses.

And then manifest into these sabotaging behaviors and self abandonment, right?

Or even self punishment where we're just doing, doing and never allowing

ourselves to have what we want until we perform or earn, right?

All of those things.

So I just wanted to like broaden the spectrum a little bit and now

bring it back to what I'm saying.

What I've always done is that thing envision what I want.

The only way I can have the envision is if I give myself permission.

To desire what's in my heart and what's in my heart, truly, when

it's truly from my heart, not from my wound, not from my scarcity, not

from my lack, not from my control, not from my fear, but from my heart.

Like this would explode my heart.

Make my highest self inner child, inner self true, self happy, no matter what.

Then it's part of my destiny, right?

So, I wanna give you examples of this.

Vision comes from desire.

Desire comes from heart.

Heart is from my destiny.

And then action comes from that energy of possibility of those things.

and the action helps bring it to physical life, right?

When I was interested in my book writing tour, Those of

you may have heard this story.

I cried for over a year.

Like I knew it was time for me to start working on this book.

I knew that I desired to travel.

I knew that I really had this feeling and desire to get free and let go of all this

responsibility so I can tend to myself and tend to the infant that is this book.

And, um, I was grieving.

What was short to come, which was a transition in my business, but I

started planning not from the strategic, have the pipeline filled and have the

post done, and all this like doing masculine strategic perspective.

I started planning this itinerary and this possibility, right?

Creating that possibility by filling into where I wanted to go, by imagining

what it would be like to write this book and what it means for me, and how

it would feel to sit down and type for hours and what it would be like to not.

Have to go anywhere, but just walk the streets and wonder as the idea is flooded

into my system and I'm jotting it down on a notepad or on my phone just to get back

and have a good meal and write again for the day, like to not have to be anywhere

or speak to anyone, lose my phone because I'm just laying in bed, resting and

reflecting on what wants to pour into me.

Like I got into imagining days like that and feeling into

how much I longed for that.

And when this desire really started coming into my field of awareness, I cried a lot.

Like I was in a mastermind at the time myself as a participant.

And I remember being in the bathtub like I.

Thrashing around trying to fight this idea and like trying to rationalize it

and thinking about my team at the time and the flow of the money in the business and

I was like, how am I ever gonna do this?

Like, this seems so irrational.

It seems like the antithesis of all that I worked for.

And I just was like resistance to it in the moment.

But the more that I was thrashing around, the more I felt the desire for

it and like, I could not compromise it.

And so not ignoring that desire and no longer being able to compromise,

started bringing forth the vision.

And as I danced more with the vision and more with the desire, and came the

possibility and outta nowhere, it was like, this has to be a book writing tour.

This must happen.

All right.

Elevate Mastermind Cohort One is about to end.

I'm booking in my flights.

Then came the action because I gave myself permission to envision it and to feel it

and to desire it and to want it, you know?

So yes, we can say I had to give myself the permission slip.

That's true.

But even when I give you permission, if I were guiding you or supporting you,

or you give yourself permission, it's not so much about the action of giving

permission in my perspective, it's more about the actual experience of.

Permissioning, if you will.

Like what is the action of permission?

It's not the permission slip to walk the hall, it's actually walking the hall,

and in this case, walking the hall was feeling into the creative process of

leaving behind a business or putting it on pause in order to become an author.

To wander the world and gather my words and my experiences and dilute it

down to the most potent concentration of medicine, of edification to

those who are called to my work, not just now, but for years to come.

You know,

a long time ago, and by a long time ago, I mean 2013, 2014, maybe even 2012.

I created a vision board.

I had a Michigan Avenue apartment in Chicago.

It was a studio.

It literally looked out on Michigan Avenue, so all the parades, all

the marathons, all of the soldier field events, whether the bears

were playing or it was a concert.

I had frontline, views into this living in this apartment, and I

remember this urge again for travel.

I had no idea where the island of Bali was.

In fact, if you guys don't know this, I only heard about Bali because I

dated someone who talked about Bali all the time, and I was like, oh

my God, if I ever marry this man, we're gonna get married in Bali.

Like seriously?

And it just goes to show that did not happen.

Obviously, But he talked about it so much that I was like,

this is a place I want to go.

And that seed of like, Hmm, I desire adventure.

I'm kind of over my career and I want a hard reset.

I wanna launch into my womanhood, which I really felt the initiation into the

beginnings of womanhood at age 28 for me.

And I'm talking about empowered womanhood, not just like by age womanhood

or by bodily function womanhood.

Right.

And I had this little vision board.

I didn't even sit down and say Bali and Crowns and Bolonese culture, any of that.

I had a vision board that was a cork board, and I would just pen up different

things that I caught my eye about.

Travel and changing your life again, and exploration and adventure and

bright colors and palm leaves, like, you know, had no idea it would be Bali.

And over time, that's what happened.

It ended up being body.

It ended up being, you know, a three week trip that turned into moving

there in less than two months.

Because I gave myself permission to explore and to envision and to feel.

It wasn't about naming the exact thing.

It truly was about the feeling state.

And the reason why it's so important to highlight this is

because I almost feel like we have commercialized and commoditized.

Is that a word?

Is that a word?

Y'all commoditize?

I think so.

Commodified, whatever.

We've turned into a commodity.

Spirituality and growth so much that we can speak to it so smartly,

but it dilutes and like butchers the experience of being it.

It's almost like explaining it to y'all.

Still does not capture the experience of it.

I can tell you to do this.

But when you do it from your own intuition, when you do it from your

own heart, when you do it from your own spirit led experience of being

present in your life, these words don't even fucking commute to it.

And that's what I wanna inspire you to understand and to realize and to take

on yourself is the living of this.

the words, don't scratch the surface to the lived experience.

So you might think that you're not doing it and you're looking for me or

someone else to guide you or tell you or teach you, but telling you this

stuff is only even tapping in, in my experience to the mental gate, and

I wanna penetrate into your heart.

And your energy field and help ignite what's already there for you,

asking you to trust yourself to dive deeper into the lived experience.

When I hit 250 K of revenue in my business, it was super

easy, and let me tell you why.

It wasn't because of strategy.

I actually had no strategy.

I was going off of what I felt, how I was inspired, what my heart

said to do, who came to my door, and I felt moved to work with them.

It came easy because I had always envisioned that making 250 k.

Salary or $250,000 in a year would be my like, I'm happy.

You know, I never really like this has changed, but in back in the day, I didn't

dream of like having a million dollar job.

Like no one really has a million dollar job unless you're ceo

like the hugest corporations.

Right?

In my mind, I was like, oh, if I become a VP in advertising or a senior strategist

director and I make 250 to 300,000, A year I'll be happy as my salary, like

that's all I really aspired to back then.

And now that has evolved to desiring to be a multimillion dollar brand guide,

author, teacher, owning, you know, real estate and all these other things.

That's part of my business and brand and really my life.

But back then it was like, yeah, I just wanna make 250, 275,

$300,000 a year and I'm good to go.

And so, being aligned and in the heart of my business, It was very easy to look

up and be like, oh, I didn't realize the revenue was hitting $250,000 and

surpassing it because I was already in my energy field for so long.

Now, giving myself again, quote unquote permission, but really stepping into

envisioning and my heart sense for wanting millions of dollars in a year.

A million and or millions, right?

Eventually in a year that's being cultivated in my

energy field from my desire.

My desire is for a reason, right?

I don't want these numbers just for no reason.

I think that's definitely the definition of greed, right?

But, we can talk about conscious business and money and pricing

and reasons and all that stuff.

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a little side note, since we're talking about business right now, but it was

a number, the 250,000 a year was a number that was in my mind, and I didn't

even remember that it was in my mind.

So that money actually came relatively easy.

I didn't have to strategize for it.

I didn't have to look at pricing models for it.

I just priced what I wanted in my business and served from my heart and

had a vision of a successful business that people loved and appreciated

and understood the intricacies and the detail of the business, and felt

the heart of my guidance, right, and my consulting and my coaching.

So again, it's an example, a different example, right, of having a vision

and having your heart activated on something and it comes to fruition,

and it was very loosely held.

Like I wasn't thinking every year I can't wait for my business to make 250,000.

Like I didn't even know.

I didn't know when I made my first six figures, and I didn't know when

we were inching up to two 50 k.

And then when we surpassed it, it was just like, oh, that happened.

Another example of this, And gosh, now that I'm talking about this,

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did, we dove deep into all these things.

And I'll give you guys another side note.

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whenever I do that, cuz that's been on my mind for a little bit.

But coming back to this, I remember when I was really working on healing my heart

so that I could call in partnership.

And at the time you guys listening, right now I am.

I'm engaged, right?

And so I remember having a notebook specifically dedicated to my love life

and I was working through healing.

Broken hearts and distrust and all kinds of gnarly things in my lineages

that was showing up in my life.

And also things that happened in my childhood that imprinted me with different

types of scenarios when it came to love and partnership and being with a

man in this lifetime for love, right?

And romance and all that good stuff.

And so I remember, I had a particular entry and journey around the things

I want my partner to say to me.

And do to me and for me and who I wanted them to be for me.

And lo and behold, I remember when I met my fiance and we were dating, I was

just like, I had to ask him straight up.

I was like, you know, I won't be mad.

At all, but I just need to ask you and I a question and I

really need your honesty here.

And he's like, yeah, sure.

And I was like, did you read my journal?

Did you read the pink journal with like the crown on it?

And he's like, no, I would never read your things or go through your things.

and he's like, why?

And I was like, well, because you're literally saying things that I journaled,

like word for word verbatim that I said I wanted my partner to say.

And he was like, wow, are you serious?

Are you just fucking with me?

You know, just trying to like pull at my heart.

And I was like, no, I'm dead ass serious.

Like, are you sure you didn't look at my journal?

And he's like, no, I don't even know where you keep a journal.

I don't.

I didn't do that.

And I was like, my goodness.

It's just so powerful when you connect to, again, your vision, your desires,

your heart, what you really wanna experience at the deepest level.

Like truly like Unbound.

Unbridled, completely, deeply in it.

I desire this.

I know that it's true.

I know that it's possible.

It comes to you and it comes to you literally, like as

if you wrote a movie script.

So again, connect to your desire, your desires from your heart,

your desires are of your destiny.

Those things will allow you to start envisioning what you want.

And with those two, combine desire and vision, you will start to

create the energy of possibility.

And with that, we creational women can have and create and experience

whatever the fuck we want.

That is our promise from God.

I truly believe from the gods, if we will, if we wanna say it that way.

And with that energy of possibility, you'll be inspired to take rightful

action, action that does not deplete you action that is aligned to what

you want at the right enoughness, not overdoing, not underdoing.

So the takeaway here is I want you to tune into what's possible

for you just as I am right now.

And we're gonna be doing this forever in our lives.

But it's so important, I believe, to be doing it right now as we are sharing

old identities in this eclipse energy as the next three months, six months, nine

months, 12 months and beyond for another year, will be embodying and cultivating

and calcifying, and setting up the structures for this new identity and

this new life that you are here to birth.

That I am here birthing right now.

And so if you feel heavy in this moment, especially under this eclipse energy,

and you need to get into new energies or new spaces to be supported, right, to be

supported as you move through embodying and creating these new possibilities

and moving through this process, I always say get into a new environment.

Get around good people who understand this, who are doing

this in their own way, travel.

Cultivate sisterhood and experiences, and guess what?

Yes, we are doing that inside of the Elevating Woman Retreat.

If you haven't heard, we're doing a four day, three night retreat

in Baja, California, sir, right off into Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

The retreat is happening August 31st through September 3rd, 2023.

It is for an intimate group of 15 women who will journey with me into

the beautiful desert energy of the island to connect with the ocean.

Connect with our higher selves, connect with our creational energy

as full whole women who are changing our whole entire lives, who are

changing our whole entire lineages, who are living our legacies right now.

So if you are unlocking.

A new version of yourself through this eclipse energy, and you've

been working on this or feeling called to this for quite some time.

If you are a woman who's been like, you know what?

I've done some great things, but I need to do things differently.

I need to see myself differently.

I need to see things differently.

This retreat is for you if you are birthing.

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and you wanna be supported and guided into that journey to get clarity, to

gain confidence in this new expression of yourself and all that you can do.

This Elevating Woman's Retreat is the retreat that I've created for you.

Before we can take action, we have to be rooted in our conviction and our desire,

and sometimes we just need the rest, the support, the pampering, the guidance to

access that desire and that conviction.

We don't have to do it alone.

So I'm so excited to be offering the Elevating Woman Retreat, and I would

love for you to be a part of it.

If you're interested in that, check out the link in the show notes and you

can obviously reach out to me directly.

Either via email or hit me up on Instagram at Ash inspires whatever you choose to do,

whether you come on the retreat or not.

I wanna just again, remind you that this is the time to plan now for your

future, and we don't do that in the way that we've been doing it before, right?

We're doing that from our energy, we're doing that from our knowing, and

we're doing that from our embodiment.

Okay.

I hope this episode is ministering to your soul and giving you the

medicine and the inspiration you need.

Whatever you do, do it with courage and do it with compassion

as you walk your path in life.

I'm sending you lots of love wherever you are.