On this episode of The Karen Kenney Show, I dive into the power of an invitation - the good, the bad, and the just plain weird.

I share some personal stories about how our culture has shifted from the old days of friendly, unannounced visits - to a time when people practically hide when the doorbell rings.

Growing up as a kid, I remember it was totally normal for family or friends to drop by with donuts and coffee on a Sunday morning. 

But nowadays… a “just stop by anytime” invite often feels more like a brush-off than a warm welcome.

So, it got me to thinking about how the language and tone we use in our invitations can make all the difference.

Like how a vague offer of “you can come if you want to” - doesn’t really make anyone feel wanted; in fact, it can sometimes sting a little.

I also get into the nitty gritty of why direct, heartfelt invitations matter so much.

Because when someone takes the time to reach out with intention - you feel seen, valued, and truly part of the fold.

This episode isn’t just about social niceties.

It’s about helping to break down those internal stories or instructions that make us feel like a burden or sometimes, not even worthy of being invited.

Whether it’s old family patterns, cultural habits, or just plain discomfort, a lot of us struggle to ask for what we want -or- to trust that people really want us around.

I share my own experiences and encourage you to reflect on yours, because you deserve to feel included.

My big takeaway?

If you want to build real connection, don’t leave your invitations up to chance.

Be specific, be enthusiastic, and put a little extra love into your ask - whether it’s for a dinner party, a big event, or just a simple hangout.

A thoughtful invite has the power to lift someone up, help them feel like they belong, and make this crazy world a little warmer and kinder! ❤️

KK’S KEY TAKEAWAYS:

•​ The words and tone you use in an invitation can influence whether someone feels genuinely welcomed.

•​ Open-ended invitations like “drop by anytime” often feel halfhearted and don’t leave people feeling truly wanted.

•​ Direct, thoughtful, and enthusiastic invitations help build connection, trust, and a sense of belonging.

•​ Cultural shifts and personal stories shape how we give and receive invitations, sometimes making us hesitant to reach out, accept, or stay a while.

•​ A warm, personalized invite can help break down feelings of unworthiness or isolation.

•​ Making intentional plans, rather than casual or passive invites, shows effort and strengthens relationships.

•​ Going above and beyond by including a personal touch - like a handwritten note or a specific ask – makes your invitations more meaningful.

•​ People want to feel wanted and welcomed; take the extra step to make your invitations sincere and clear.

BIO:

Spiritual Mentor and writer Karen Kenney uses humor and dynamic storytelling to bring a down-to-earth, no-BS perspective to self-development. 

Bringing together tools that coach the conscious and unconscious mind, Karen helps clients deepen their connections with Self, and discover their unique understandings of spirituality.  

Her practice combines neuroscience, subconscious reprogramming, Integrative Hypnosis, somatic work, spiritual mentoring, and other holistic modalities to help regulate the nervous system, examine internal narratives, remove blocks, and reimagine what’s possible.

A passionate yoga teacher, long-time student of A Course in Miracles, and Gateless Writing instructor, Karen is a frequent speaker and retreat leader. Via her programs The Quest and The Nest, she coaches both individuals and groups. 

With The Karen Kenney Podcast, she encourages listeners to shift from a thought system of fear to one of love, compassion, and personal responsibility. 

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Hey you guys, welcome to the Karen Kenney show, and we're

excited to be here with you today, and I do my best to keep

this sucker short and sweet, maybe maybe also a tiny bit

sassy, short and sweet and a little bit sassy. Okay, here's

what I want to talk about. I want to talk about invitations,

invitations. Okay, I don't know why this is on my mind so much

today, but I just got back. It's fucking pouring out. Why do I

have to swear so much? Potty mouth alert. It's, it's, it's

really raining outside today. I just got back my sweetie, and I

got drenched out there, but while I was walking in the rain,

I was thinking about this concept of what constitutes,

like, a good invite. And this is something that has bothered me

for, like, a long time. It's the way, it's the way. And maybe

it's because I'm a lover of words, and I love language, and

I know the power of words and the impact that words can have,

not only on on us, but on others, right, when, when the

way we speak to ourselves and the way that other people talk

to us, it's not always just what we say, it's also how we say it,

right, like our tone of voice and all that. So words, I know

the power of language, the power of language that often gets us

trapped and stuck in our suffering and our thoughts of

separation and all that stuff. So I look at words very

intentionally, and I try my best to use my words intentionally.

And when I think about this concept of invitations and being

invited, and how we invite people, whether it's into your

home, into your life, into a relationship, into your

business, your programs, whatever, into working with you,

relating with you, into a relationship with you

professionally, like how we invite people into our world,

really matters. So I wanted to just put this out there, in case

it is helpful for you as well, and maybe you can understand the

impact that the way that you invite people, the impact that

it has, or the lack of impact that it has, because it can

actually be a little bit repelling. So I'm going to give

you some real life examples, because, you know, like, I'm a

storyteller, and that's what I like to do. So there's a thing

that happens here in New England especially. So let's go back,

like, when I was a kid growing up. So I remember, like, back in

the 70s being a kid, and people used to just, like, drop by a

house all the time, especially on, like, Sunday mornings,

right? And people would stop by with Dunkin Donuts. They'd come

in with, like, a box of donuts. They'd knock on the door, the

screen door, you know, you'd hear the screen door open and be

like, oh, yeah, it's, it's, you know, Uncle this, or, you know,

this, this, aunts dropping by this, uncle dropping by, one of

my father's friends, like, whatever. Somebody was like,

come into the house, and they brought snacks, they brought

donuts, they brought coffee for the adults, like, whatever it

was, and it was just like a given. You would just drop by

people's houses, like, back in the day, when we didn't have

answering machines, you couldn't leave people a message, you

couldn't call them on your cell phone. Those things literally

did not exist. You would call somebody's house and the phone

rang, and either they picked it up or they didn't, but they

could be in the back. Yeah, so you didn't know if people were

home or not, so you would just, I'm sure younger generations are

cringing if you're listening to this right now, like, What do

you mean? You just stopped by people's houses unannounced?

Yeah, we did it all the time, and that's really changed. There

was, like, this open invitation, hey, if you're in the area. If

you're in the neighborhood, I love you. You love me. We're

pals, we're friends, we're family. Stop by. That was a

thing, and people did it, and they actually took advantage of

it, because they actually, back then, wanted to see each other.

They wanted to spend time together face to face, in

proximity, in the present, right in each other's energy, right?

In presence, right? We like that. We liked seeing each

other. Now there's a comedian. I can't remember who it was, but

he does this whole skit about, like, your doorbell rings and

it's like you start to prepare your family for, like, home

invasion or war, and like people are like, diving behind the

couch and hiding behind the curtains and peeking. It's like,

Oh, my God, who would dare come to my front door? You know what

I mean? There was like, clearly, there has been a shift in our

collective consciousness and individually, obviously, as

well, about what people constitute as kind of badging in

and interrupting your peaceful time at home, or interrupting

your home space or whatever. And even now, like our generation,

we would actually just call each other. We wanted to talk to you.

We would pick up the phone and call you. And now people like,

Oh my God, why are they calling me? Like, I roll, I roll, I

roll. And it's just like, cringe to like. Call people. It's like,

Oh, why do I have to call and talk to you when I can just text

you whatever. But there are those of us who are in the age

group that we actually like to hear the sound of our friends

voices. We actually like to I know for me in my work, right? I

like to be able to see people so I can see their body language,

or hear their tone of voice or whatever. Texting, for me is

just like, yeah, it's fast. It can get the job done, but I

would way prefer like, voice messages voicemail, so I can

kind of get, like, more of that energetic hit, rather than just

a bunch of words, especially these days when people don't use

punctuation and stuff like that. I'm not that person. I'm still

that old school pain in the ass. Yes, I capitalize words. My

grandma. My grandma might be a little off. I don't worry about

my grandma so much, but I actually try to, like, construct

real sentences with punctuation and stuff not being mean to

other people who don't choose that. That's your choice. That's

your thing. But as a writer, it's just not going to happen.

I'm going to I'm going to spell out words, right? I'm going to

spell out words unless I'm writing WTF or S, T, F, U, once

in a blue, blue moon, to be funny, but I like words. But

here's my whole point. Is that something has happened in the

collective where all of a sudden to just show up at people's

houses is like a big like, I'm doing the big X, like the big no

ant, do not do it. Ant. People don't like it, whatever. So that

has gotten a lot of us to a place where we feel like it's

inappropriate to just show up at somebody's house. And so this is

where a direct invitation

really matters. Now let me break this down too. I'm going to kind

of cover a couple of different scenarios and situations that

I've experienced. So, number one, there is a habit of people,

at least in my world, that I know, whether it's family

members or people you grew up with, like whatever, and they'll

say this to you, stop, stop by anytime, drop by anytime, which

is now they're giving you an open invitation. Now to some

people, that just sounds like, How fantastic is that they're

just telling you stop by their house anytime they must love

you, like you, whatever. Here's the thing, and I have explained

this to several of my family members. Okay, when somebody

says to me, yeah, drop by anytime. Stop by anytime, and

they might see this as I don't want to how do I say this? I

don't want to assume that I know why they're particularly saying

this, but I can just tell what it feels like being on the end

of this, and because the culture has changed so much, why I'm

never gonna do that. Okay? So I have sat, literally sat down and

said to a few people in my family, look, you say to me,

just stop by. Just drop by anytime. Here's the problem with

that in my brain. Now, some of you listening to this might not

agree with me, that's fine. You can just stop listening, go your

own way, or keep listening and maybe learn why, or hear why it

might not be super comfy or all that warm and fuzzy to those of

us on the receiving end of that. So here are some of the things

that I specifically pointed out. Number one, if you live more

than like 15 minutes from me, right? If you're talking like 20

minutes, 25 minutes, a half an hour, 45 an hour away my family

down in mass and stuff, still, I am not going to get in my car

and drive an hour with the fingers crossed and hope that

maybe you're going to be at home, right? I'm not just going

to, like, drop it, because it takes a certain amount of, like,

time, money, gas, whatever effort like to, like, go and do

that thing. Number one, I'm probably not just gonna happen

to be in your neighborhood, unless I'm already down in

Massachusetts visiting somebody else or going to the cemetery or

doing whatever, handling business or whatever. Okay,

that's number one. Number two, when you just do that thing and

you say, oh, drop by anytime, what you're essentially doing is

you are basically kind of throwing our relationship to the

wind in a way, meaning this now that implies that there is no

effort on your part from this time forward where you have to

think about me, make plans with me, make an effort to actually

get together and have a relationship with me and

communicate with me and spend time with me. Because what

you're doing basically is you're taking the ball, call it or call

it the hot potato. You're lobbing it into my court, and

you're just doing this open invitation thing where it's

like, yeah, stop by anytime. A, if you know me at all, you'll

know I'm not going to do that. And B, now you have no

responsibility or effort to feed into the relationship, to make a

concerted effort to make a specific. It thick, right? Plan

with Me, and then, if we just don't see each other, and then I

say to you, I haven't seen you in a long time. What you'll say

to me a lot of times is, or what has been said to me is, well, I

told you you can stop by anytime, okay, yeah, that, to me

is what I call lazy invitation, that open ended, whatever

invitation. That's how it feels, because for a lot of people, and

this isn't just me, okay? Now, this is me personally, right? I

don't like to do that. I mean, I love to surprise people, but I'm

not just going to show up at your house without warning,

right? I would call you first, or text you or whatever. But I'm

not just gonna just like, like photo, you know how like you can

photo bomb somebody. No, I'm not just gonna like house bomb you.

Okay. Number two, it's like, so that's me in particular. But

then also kids who grew up feeling like a burden, feeling

like just their very existence was putting people out right.

Kids who felt like that like their needs were too much. What

they wanted was too much like their parents, their caretakers,

their siblings, their guardians, whoever it was, if they ever

made that kid feel like it like the parents, life would be

easier if they weren't born or around or like whatever. There

are people who feel like to drop by would be just unannounced, to

just show up whatever would be a burden. They don't want to

inconvenience other people. They don't want to surprise people in

a bad way. And then there are certain cultures of people,

friends I grew up with in in Lawrence mass that I know where

it was like they were taught as kids. You do not go to

somebody's house unannounced. You do not go to the house and

overstay your welcome. You do not go to the house uninvited.

You do not go to the house and like go in the fridge or eat

their food, or imposition your hosts in any way, right? So

sometimes it's culturally, sometimes it's just your own

upbringing and what you experience. Sometimes it's a

personal thing where you're like, I just don't want to be a

burden to people. I hate feeling like a burden to other people.

This is just something that, you know, I'm aware about myself. I

don't like to put people out. You know, like some people are

amazing hosts when they have you in their home. They know before

you get there, what snacks you like, if you like your water

cold or room temperature. Like, there are people who just make

you feel so welcome, right? Part of what makes you feel so

welcome is the way that they invite you. So right now I'm

kind of talking about, like, how not to do an invitation well,

like, not, it's not that it's a bad invitation. It's a very New

England thing to say, Hey kid, when you're in the neighborhood,

drop by. Love to see you anytime, like, whatever, right?

But a lot of people know you're not going to do that, so it's

kind of like a lazy blanket. I'm not calling people lazy, I'm

just saying it's kind of like this an invitation that actually

doesn't have to be followed up on, which makes the person who

say it say it feel good, like they did their part, like they

invested somehow in the relationship, where, to me, it

just feels like a really weak invitation. Let me give you

another example of a weak invitation, and if this has ever

happened to you, double A men hands me right now and tell me

how you can even write to me, write to me, and tell me how it

feels when you get this kind of invitation, right. Somebody is

having a patty, somebody is having folks over for dinner,

somebody's going to a movie with a few friends, somebody's going

to a sporting event, like, whatever, right? And you find

out about it, and you ask them about it, or you hear about it,

or it comes up in conversation, and the person turns to you and

says, Well, you can come if you want to. You can come with us if

you want to. Oh, I'm like, grabbing my face. Now I

understand again. I'm nitpicking here. I'm getting into the

semantics of language, because what's missing in that

invitation is the person who's saying that you can come if you

want to is clearly kind of making you feel that. Like, how

do I say this? I don't necessarily want you there. I'm

not inviting you outright, but like, if you want to come, like

you can come to me that is not a warm and fuzzy invitation. If

some somebody says to me, Well, if you want to come, you can and

I'll almost always say, Well, do you want me to come? Do you want

me there? Because if I feel like my presence is. To ruin your

good time if I feel like you actually don't want me there.

I'm not really big into going into places where I don't feel

welcome or invited. Now I always say this caveat. That doesn't

mean that I'm not going to show up at some demonstration or some

rally or some protest or something, right? There are

times when it is appropriate to go where you are not wanted and

you are not invited, right? To use your voice. Stand up. Stand

up. You know, stand up. You know, show up. Say what you got

to say, use your voice, whatever. I'm not talking about

that. I'm talking about these relationships with your friends,

your family members, your co workers, whatever. And when

somebody says that kind of, it's like a lame that's like a lame

invitation. Well, you can come if you want to. I'm like, oh,

because what I'm picking up, right? Because I'm a wicked

sensitive person, and I'm hyper aware of people's body language,

tone of voice, the words they choose or don't choose, or say

or don't say, you know, I can tell. I'm like, Oh, you actually

are not that excited about me being there. So their words,

their mouth is moving, and I'm doing this thing with my hands.

Their mouth is moving, flap, flap, flap of the gums. But

their eyes are saying something different, their energy, their

tone of voice, people know when they are truly welcome into your

home, into your life, into your hat, right? Do you know what I'm

saying? So double A men hands, if you've ever gotten one of

those, well, you can come if you want to. You want to.

Okay, the best way, right? The best way to invite people is to

directly invite them, like make it wicked clear what your

intentions are. Make it wicked clear what your feelings are

towards them. There's a way different thing of saying to

somebody, yeah, the doors are always open. Stop by anytime.

Hey, if you can come, if you want to, like my sister, you

know, I'm making this up. My sister's having people over at a

house. They got a pool. It's fun. Like, if you want to come,

you can come. No, that's I'm not going to that. I'm not going to

either of those scenarios, right? But if you say to me,

Hey, I'm just calling to let you know we got tickets to this

show, and I would love for you to join us. I'm wicked excited.

I really think you'll love this band. I love we always have such

a good time. We're together. Will you come with me? Please? I

would love for you to be there. Do you see how that feels really

different. And I get it like a lot of times we How do I say

this? We're afraid to let people down. We're afraid to seem mean.

We're afraid so we do like wishy washy. We do like indirect and

it's not so much that it's passive aggressive. It's just

passive inviting. Passive inviting where there's no effort

involved on your part, and maybe you really don't want that

person to like come for whatever reason. That's fine, you know,

but we can be a little more direct with people, like leaving

people feeling and not that you make anybody feel anything. It's

up to that person to decide how they want to feel about it. Like

me, I get an open invitation, I'm going to decide that I'm

probably not going to do that thing unless I call first, and

then I say, Hey, I'm in the neighborhood. I don't get down

this way. I'm only down this way. Like, every four months,

like, if you're in town, I'd love to see you blah, blah,

blah, whatever, right? But there's just a sort of like

lackadaisical kind of energy and effort that gets put into our

relating these days. And I think more and more and more people,

you know, I'm thinking about doing some writing workshops,

some salons, things that I've done for a really long time, but

I haven't done one in person in a really long time, you know.

And I went at the beginning of this year, I also was doing some

online yoga teaching. And like, that's fine. Look, I can teach

yoga online. That's fine. You know, I had a TV show for 13

years teaching into a camera. It's fine, but it's way

different when you are in person, when you're in the room

with other people's heartbeats in their breath and their bodies

in their movement when you can actually, when I can actually

put my hands on people, you know, and give them a little, a

little adjustment, or a little wishy, wishy at the end of yoga

class, right? A little head massage, a little whatever. It's

way different when you're in the room. And so I think, and people

can blame it on covid, I think, you know, in the whole pandemic

and the separation and, you know, all that stuff, but I

think we were already moving in that direction, way pre covid,

where people were just kind of moving into their own little

bubbles. And I get it, everybody has to decide what the right

distance is for them when it comes to certain relationships,

people, whatever. But if we are going to be in relationships and

friendships, intimate, professional, personal or

otherwise, the way that we invite people into our world

matters, and the words that you choose have an impact. They make

a difference. So I'm just. Saying, if you're going to

invite people, do it warmly. Do it wholeheartedly. Do it with

energy and enthusiasm and intention, and let them know,

right, that you're specifically inviting them that you would

love for them to be there, right? And a lot of times,

things just get done, and I get it RSVP electronically, like

whatever data. But we can always put a little personal touch on

things. We could always put a little extra love on things, a

little extra kindness, a little more warmth and effort. And you

know, the thing is, is that it's so everybody wants everything. I

shouldn't say everybody, so many people these days want things to

just be fast, convenient, easy. It's almost like robotic, non

human look. Humans are messy. Humans are a little bit messy,

meaning dealing with different peoples, right? Their histories,

their preferences, their personalities, their patterns,

right? It's not always smooth ceiling when you have to deal

with others, with other people, we can be a pain in the ass,

can't we? But I'll tell you, nothing feels well. I'm sure

there's there are some things that feel better, but you know

what it does? It feels wicked good to know that somebody else

is requesting your presence, that somebody else wants to

spend time with you, that somebody else sees you and loves

you, thinks you're fun or fantastic, they want to be with

you. Like to get invited into a space where you know you're

going to be seen, you're going to be held, you're going to your

voice matters what you're thinking matters what you're

feeling, matters that you belong there, and that's so much about

what the good welcome does. Right? The good welcome makes

people feel or helps people to feel like they belong, not only

that, that they're wanted and to feel wanted, it kind of all

those other kind of insecurities and beliefs, beliefs and stories

and narratives that people write about not being worthy, not

being good enough, not being lovable, not being fill in the

blank, right? They're too much. This not enough that these,

these kind of like beliefs that we got inherited. If you listen

to my last episode, these beliefs, these stories, these

narratives that that get passed down to us, that we inherit what

we start to feel like, right? Who am I to be in that room? Me

all the shit when somebody gives you a really genuine, sincere

welcome, where they put energy and time and intention into it,

and you can feel their heart. You can feel that wholeness,

that holiness of that invitation, where they want you

to come into the fold of their home, their party, their event,

their relationship, work with you. Whatever it is. It's a

beautiful, beautiful thing to be directly and specifically,

intentionally invited, and it quiets all that other noise. It

just quiets, well, they invited me. They seemed excited. They

wanted me there. Then it gets to, you know, it helps other

people to start to question those negative narratives, those

not so helpful narratives, of, I'm not good enough, I don't

belong, I'm not worthy, I'm not welcome. It's like, nope.

And we see this acting out, like on a mass scale too. I mean, so

much right now that's going on in the country is we're telling,

quote, unquote others, I'm doing big air quotes others, that

they're not welcome here. Like, what are you what? I don't even

get me started. Don't even get me started. I often say to

myself, you know, it's so fascinating to me how arrogant

white people can be thinking that this is their country. I'm

like, people can't be immigrants if they were already here and

you invaded the space. It's not that's not, that's not how this

shit works. People can't be immigrants if you brought them

over on slave ships and shit. You know what I'm saying? Like,

I just think, like, there's so much we are poorly welcoming so

many people right now. And I don't know, I grew up in

Lawrence Massachusetts. Man Lawrence. Massachusetts was a

cultural melting pot. It was the immigrant city. And I will say,

all that color, all that language, all that cultural, you

know, like kaleidoscope, it was a beautiful thing. I am better

off for having been raised in that environment. And, you know,

I often jokingly say it's kind of weird sometimes living in a

state that's like one of, like, the second whitest state in the

United States, so, and I'm back, I just had to say, and I'm back.

But this is what I wanted to say, is I hope that if you

listen to this show now, look, there might be things that I.

Say where we don't always agree politically, professionally,

personally or otherwise, but I try to welcome like people into

my world in a way where I'm like, Look, come in now, I can't

guarantee this is a safe space for you, because you and your

nervous system are the ones that decide what's safe. But I can do

my best to say, Hey, come on in now, because I'm very honest and

direct. There might be times when you don't like what I say,

but my intention is never to be mean. My intention is never to

be harmful, right? We just I just might sometimes say some

shit that like you don't like, and that's okay, right? We're

humans. We get to disagree with each other, but my intention

always is, is to have an invitation from the hot. To have

an invitation from the hot. And, you know, because this is an

online thing, I'm not doing this in person. You know, I do, kind

of do an open invitation. And I ask people like, hey, if this

podcast, like, if it benefited you, if you love this episode,

if you got something good from it, it was helpful in some way.

Please share it with somebody. Please pass it on. Invite them

into the Karen Kenney show, podcast, family into the

community, right? It is kind of an open invitation that way. And

I would love someday, I don't know it'd be so fun to like,

record an episode like in person. Sometimes, I'm not sure

what that would look like, but that would be wicked fun. Or to

even do, like a call in I've said before, I'd love to do a

show where people can just write in some questions, and I would

answer them on the thing. So if you ever have a question, send

it in. I'll do my best to like respond online and see what I

can. Maybe I'll be helpful in some way to somebody. But I hope

this is hope this has been helpful to you this particular

episode, either it helps you to maybe figure out why some

invitations have felt a little icky or just not that great,

like in your body, or like Ill like that did not feel soothing,

or it might help you to identify with the fact that maybe you

felt like a burden your whole life. That's why you don't like

to ask for help, or why, like, maybe culturally, or just some

stories you've written about yourself that you don't want to

be a pain to anybody or whatever. But here's the thing

people one of the things I learned about asking for help is

that people get to say no. So my asking doesn't have to be a

burden. I will do whatever I can in my own power to, like, help

myself first. But if I hit a wall and I get to a place where

I'm like, I don't know how to do this, or I need, like,

literally, physical help or whatever, I'm going to ask, and

people have the ability and the opportunity, right? They have

the right to say no. So look it, you're not a burden to people.

You know, if you start to suspect you're a burden, take a

look around. Like, take a clear moral inventory. Take a look at

your behaviors. Maybe you have been taking advantage of some

people, and then cut the shit. Get you get it right. Like, cut

it out, knock it off, right? But most of us, in general, when we

feel like we're a bird and not some old stories that we've kind

of implanted, like into our own brains and put into our own

narrative, and those stories aren't particularly helpful,

because they keep us separate. And what else? The other thing

that keeps us separate is kind of these ways of doing things

where we we don't make specific energy in inviting people into

our homes, our lives, our world, in the most loving way. And

maybe this will help you if you're that listener to if you

want to do it better, I gave you some examples, right? Make it

specific. Make it even fancy. Send written invitations,

handwritten invitations, like send it in the mail or take a

picture and text it. You are cordially invited, but

personalize it. Personalize it. Have a little energy. Have a

little enthusiasm. Have a little warmth. Have a little hot,

right? Have a little kind of generosity in your in your offer

to invite people to come have an experience with you, or spend

time with you, or whatever. We like to be seen. We like to feel

like we met up and that our presence, like your presence has

been requested, right? Like, how cool is that to feel like your

specific presence has been requested? It's a beautiful

feeling. It's a beautiful gift to give. It's a beautiful gift

to receive, and the person who extends the invitation you're

also receiving, because when you see somebody's face light up

like you, you invited me. You want me to be to at your kid's

birthday party or your shower, or your graduation, or whatever,

your wedding, these big moments in life, or just, hey, I'm

having a get together at my house on Saturday. We're having,

like, you know, a vegan barbecue, whatever, like, come

on by. So it just matters. It matters. This is how we build

connections. And nowadays, in a world where we have so much

separation, so much suffering, so much sickness, so much

division, right people coming together right now, really,

really matters, and it makes a difference, and it's a beautiful

way to spread more love in the world, which is one of the

reasons why I do this show. Okay, that's it. I don't know

how fast and smooth or I was. I don't know if it was short and

sweet. I'm gonna wrap it up, though. Okay, thank you so much

for listening. I appreciate you. If you want to find out what I'm

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you're having a fantastic day wherever you go in the world.

May you leave the animals, the other people, yourself, the

environment and the planet better than how you first found

it wherever you go, may you and your energy and your presence

and your love and your invitation be a blessing. Bye,

bye.