Hi everyone! In this solo episode of Enter the Portal, I share how my personal search for community led to the creation of the Wild Ones. Yes, this is the Origin Story of The Wild Ones!

It’s been a trip, and it was strange to reflect back on how I even ended up in film school in the first place or ended up working in the NBC newsroom (which ended up being the most depressing part of my life).

You’ll hear how this put me on a mission to share the good news going on in the world, creating a documentary in Honduras and even an entire 48-hour film festival.  I discovered a real talent for pulling people together for big, splashy events.  I even became the events coordinator for several non-profits and their galas.

I also share with you about the personal transformation I had during my Kundalini training, my Holistic events in Minneapolis, and the breakthroughs responsible for both The ReWilding Retreat and The Wild Ones Community.

Time Codes:

02:08 Embracing Documentary Filmmaking and Empowerment

05:55 Expanding Horizons: Honduras and Spoken Word Cinema

08:45 The Birth of Holistic Discovery and the Power of Meditation

16:09 The Rewilding Virtual Retreat

18:00 The Origin of the Wild Ones Community as A Membership

22:49 Community is Key to  Personal Growth

…and if you are not a wild one member yet, what are you waiting for? Just use the link below to learn more about this vibrant community of free-spirited seekers and heart-centered leaders, with a ✨ Magical Library of transformational workshops from experts all over the world, expansive challenges, and monthly Moon ◐ circles are all waiting for you inside The Wild Ones community Join The Wild Ones →

Connect with Jenner Linden:

Website: https://www.thewildones.community/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we.arewild/

Coaching: https://www.thewildones.community/work-with-jenner-today

Join the Wild Ones:

https://thewildones.space/

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Part two of my journey to reclaim my

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sovereignty, my self-expression, and

creating the community, the wild ones.

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So if you listen to the last episode,

I talked all about my transformational

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journey, my bathroom floor moment, what

sent me down this path of understanding

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who I am, why I am the way I am.

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Understanding how the brain works

and how we've been conditioned since

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the time we were born, and even well

beyond that through our lineage.

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So if you haven't listened to

that episode, I highly suggest

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going back, but it doesn't mean

you have to do it in order either.

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Today I wanna share with you about.

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How and why?

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Essentially, I created the wild ones

community and my passion, uh, for creating

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community didn't start with the wild ones.

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I had been doing projects well before

this, so in the last episode I talked

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about how I worked for television news

for many years, and when I left that I was

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kind of left with like, what do I do next?

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Well, I decided to go into this world of.

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Nonprofit work.

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Went to the world of nonprofit

work and I actually started working

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with multiple organizations and

helping them with their gala.

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How I fell into this work, I kind of, I,

I actually started doing, um, volunteer

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work myself, and I was on a board.

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For a nonprofit, and then it

just, I fell in love with the

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work and so I continued to do it

with some different organizations.

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And so I raised hundreds of thousands

of dollars for different nonprofits.

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I was in charge of

bringing everyone together.

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I was in charge of creating the

event, who were going to be the

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guest speakers, who were going to be

the, um, sponsors, all this stuff.

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So.

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I really had a good understanding

of events and creating and

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bringing people together already.

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A couple things that I've done

before, the wild ones that are

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really fun and I love sharing with

people because as I mentioned, I am

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a three six projector, so I've had a

really a fulfilled journey for sure.

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But one of the first things that I did.

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Out out the gate, like on my own,

because one of the things I should

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say that I realized just taking a step

back, is I knew that I wanted to share

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the good news in the world, right?

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I had talked about that a little bit

last time with working for television

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news and how depressing that was

for me and how I really wanted to

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create something where I could share.

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The good news in the world because

I knew there was way more going

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on in the world than what we

were hearing on television news.

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And I wanted to be someone who

could shift that conversation or at

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least help shift it a different way.

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And I kind of thought that

I had to do documentaries.

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I'm like, okay, so it has to be

documentaries, even though I am

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not, or I should say I wasn't at

the time like this big documentary,

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uh, thinker, but I thought that

was kind of how I had to do it.

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So I ended up entering

into a film contest.

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It was called philanthropists.

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And they were inviting people to

create stories around a nonprofit or

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an org organization that was inspiring.

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And if you won, essentially you would

get shown on this big theater screen in

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it would only

be the top 10 films that would get shown.

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So I had just moved back from

California and I had done this whole

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transformational work, and my, uh,

friend group had completely shifted and

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changed like who I was hanging out with.

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I.

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Before I left was completely different

and I needed to find a film crew.

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I needed to find people, I needed

to find this nonprofit organization.

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I kind of was like, I

didn't really know anyone.

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And I started doing some research

and I found this incredible group.

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At the time they were called,

UH, solutions, twin Cities.

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Not really sure if they're still

around or still doing what they do,

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but they would do, they would hold

PechaKucha events and they would.

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Share solutions to problems

half happening in the world.

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And I'm like, this is so up my alley.

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I want, I wanna be a part of this.

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So I ended up meeting with these two guys

and I was like, Hey, I wanna enter this

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contest and I want you to be the subject.

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And they were like, let's do it.

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And then I reached out to people on

Craigslist who had camera equipment and

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I'm like, Hey, do you wanna be a part

of this cool thing that we're doing?

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And I had a meeting, it was a couple guys.

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I think I mentioned that before.

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The film industry at the time

was definitely very heavy male.

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But I was really lucky to

find all of them, honestly.

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They were all really incredible.

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Well, one of the guys, uh, his name

was Andy, and he had, he was a dentist,

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but he had everything you needed.

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He had lights and mics and um, cameras and

tripods and all the things that you need.

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For creating film.

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So it was really incredible, uh,

bringing this whole team together.

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And we did a bunch of shoots and had

a lot of fun and we entered the film

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contest and we got shown you didn't

even know if you were gonna get shown.

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So it's like you invite your family

and everybody and then you get there

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and um, yeah, hopefully your film

was shown, but we did get shown.

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So that was really incredible.

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So that was one of the very first

things that I did on my own thinking,

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okay, I need to start doing.

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Something, creating something on my own.

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Nobody's just gonna call me up and

say, Hey, John, wanna, you know, hang

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out at our film company and do some

really cool shit that wasn't happening.

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So the next project that

I did, I wanted to travel.

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I wanted to travel the world and

do something really incredible.

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So I ended up meeting some people.

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A long story, so I don't wanna

fully get into the whole story, but

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I ended up going to Honduras for

a month to shoot a documentary for

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an orphanage out there, and I had a

big fundraiser before it happened.

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So I actually literally walked

up to people on the streets.

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And at bars, and I asked

him if they would play.

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So there's some bands if they would

play at this event that I had.

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And I found a gentleman who was an artist

and I wanted someone who would do a live

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painting during one of the band sets.

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And then I also happened to know.

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The second best auctioneer in

the world, and he was gonna

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auction off this art piece live.

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And there was a whole bunch of

other things that we had, because I.

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That's my jam, and I had a

blast putting it together.

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But I also got to show my film that

I had won for philanthropist project.

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We raised lots of money so

that I could head to Honduras

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and go on this huge adventure.

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I'd never left the country at that point

in my life and well, that's not true.

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I'd been to Canada.

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I went like over the border.

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I mean, Minnesota is, you know.

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Is right there.

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But Honduras was a big stretch.

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There was actually a, uh, coup

going on at the same time.

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Anyway, I was safe.

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I was good.

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Everything went well.

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I think I did actually get my

camera stolen at one point.

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I.

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But not my film camera.

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It was a click camera.

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Um, anyway, that's digressing and

I'll share one more project that I

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did with you that was really fun and I

actually did it, uh, with my husband.

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He helped out, we were actually dating

at the time and I created the spoken word

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Cinema, which was a 48 hour film project.

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So.

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Filmmakers had 24 hours to

create a cinematic interpretation

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of a local poet's poem.

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And then they all got shown at

the Boulder Theater in Colorado.

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And it was a really fun event.

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It was so much fun to put together.

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It was a ton of work.

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But I had always wanted to do a

film festival that was on my list.

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And of course it had to be like.

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Something creative and fun as well.

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So that was an incredible project.

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So I've had, you know, experience

in creating community, bringing

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people together for a common cause,

connecting with others, um, bringing

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in different resources, different

experts, all for the greater cause.

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So in 2016, I was wondering what

my next project was, and I knew I

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wanted to do something in the world

of spirituality and self-development,

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but I wasn't quite sure what it was.

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I'd already been working with

clients and doing feng shui for them.

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But I, I knew it was

something more than that.

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So I would sit in meditation,

I would ask my guides, I would

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ask my higher self, what's next?

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What do, where am I going?

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What is the thing that I'm here for?

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What is my expression and how am I gonna

leave my mark in the world essentially?

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And I gotta download?

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And it was to empower women.

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And I absolutely pushed it aside.

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I thought, what me?

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That's a buzzword right now.

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Everybody's talking

about empowering women.

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I'm not going to do that.

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Like seriously.

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So the great thing about.

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Our guides and higher

self is they don't leave.

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So I kept getting it in my ear,

like throughout the next couple

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of weeks, this empowering women,

and I finally took a moment to

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think about it and I thought, huh.

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Why not me?

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I mean, I'd been on this journey of

transformation for about 10 years

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already, and it had radical shifts

in my romantic partnership with my

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body, with my self-expression, with

my creativity, with my everything.

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So much going on in my life

that was completely different.

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I often refer to.

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My twenties, there was my twenties,

then there was my thirties, and

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it was like the thirties was my

like expansion, you know, decade.

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So why not me?

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Why wouldn't I teach what I've learned?

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Why wouldn't I share what I've learned?

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But I knew I didn't wanna do it alone,

but I knew I didn't wanna do it alone.

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So I actually created a community

right away in on meetups.

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It was called Holistic discovery.

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Actually, to this day,

it is still in there.

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So if you're in Minneapolis and you

look up holistic Discovery, that is one

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of my many meetups that I still have.

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So I created this meetup and

it was really late at night.

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It, it was like in January or something.

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It was really late at night, and I just

thought, I'm gonna create a meetup.

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I'm gonna call it holistic discovery,

and I'm gonna bring in people that.

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Know a lot about these different layers

of self-development work, of magic, of,

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you know, understanding ourselves, of

somatics, all these pieces, and I'll

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do some workshops and they can do some

workshops, and we can do this together

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kind of like a little community.

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One of the things that Meetup

asks you is, are you going to have

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less than 50 people in your group?

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Are you gonna have more than

50 people in your group?

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And I was like, well, I don't know.

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I've never done this before.

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They're gonna have, it's gonna be less so.

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Plug it in, it's gonna be less.

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I do all the things to create the meetup.

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I go to bed, I wake up the next day

and I'm getting all these emails

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from Meetup, meetup that are saying,

Hey, you've gone over your limit.

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You have more than 50 people.

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You've gone over your limit.

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And I'm just like, holy shit.

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People want this.

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This is incredible.

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And that's when I knew I had

something there because I wasn't

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just sharing my own wisdom.

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It was also about bringing people

together and really collectively

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all sharing our wisdom.

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I.

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So we launched in-person events.

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This was in the beginning of 2017,

and we did that for a couple years.

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It was a lot of work.

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I kind of laugh because it's the one

thing that I really stuck with and

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like who sticks with live events?

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I.

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Those are a ton of work y'all.

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So I knew I wanted to bring the

community online and we kind of

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started dabbling with hybrid online

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It wasn't amazing and we didn't get

a really good response from people.

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So then 2020 happened and I was like.

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Okay, now I can go online because that's

what I've actually been wanting to do,

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is to get online so we can be global

so that we can connect with all the

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people in the world that don't have a

yoga studio on the corner in their town.

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Or have a crystal store metaphysical

store, or can talk about being a witch or

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can talk about, you know, the moon going.

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Into TAUs for the full moon this month.

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You know, like I wanted a space

where people could come to that would

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feel like home for them, that they

could express themselves no matter

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where they were at in the world.

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So this was really exciting for me.

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So we ended up.

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I didn't have the idea of doing

a membership at this time.

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I knew I wanted to do something with

what I was doing with holistic discovery,

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but I didn't put my finger on it yet.

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It wasn't very clear what

that was going to be.

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I.

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But I'd had a coach at the time, and

this is, this is like my plug for getting

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a coach, like this is the plug for it.

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Because I'm telling you, I know

like it can be a stretch, it can be

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hard to spend the money on a coach

and coaches always share about how

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important it is to get a coach, but.

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I'm telling you to have a different

perspective from somebody, especially

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on a one-on-one basis or even in a small

group container, can absolutely make the

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difference in building your business.

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I wouldn't be where I am today if I

only did online courses, or if I only

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did free stuff on YouTube if I tried

to figure this out on my own without

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having that reflection or being able to

talk, being able to talk to somebody.

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It's life changing.

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I had been talking with my coach

how I always wanted to create

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a summit, an online summit.

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I used to listen to Healing with

the Masters by Jennifer McClain,

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like way back when the secret

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I.

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Nine, I think it was.

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And when I began my journey, that

was one of the things that I really

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loved was listening to her calls

with all these different experts.

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And I was like, I wanna

do something like that.

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Like it always been on my list.

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And she's like, you could totally do that.

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You've done so many events and so many

things, like why couldn't you do that?

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But of course I'm like, what me?

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But this is the other amazing

thing about having a coach.

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Is that she pushed me off the ledge

and she started sending me connections

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with people that she knew that would

be really great to be on my summit.

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I started getting these emails back

from these women and I was like,

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whoa, okay, so I need a name, I

need a date, I need a, and it was

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kind of like, okay, well it's on.

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Like let's do this.

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And with that, the virtual

retreat was birthed.

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And in its first year we had 1500 people.

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The second year we had.

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3000 people.

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The third year we had 6,000 people,

and last year it's fourth year,

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we had almost 12,000 people.

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So we have doubled every year.

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That's a lot of pressure.

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We are in our fifth year now, we're

actually going to be doing it.

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It's launching on the second.

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October, which is my mom's birthday,

which I think is really, really special.

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It's also so wind season, the

witches holiday season, so it's

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gonna be a very different energy.

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'cause we've always done it in the spring

and now we're doing it in the fall.

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It's also when my birthday is, I'm a

Virgo, so I'm really excited about.

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What this is gonna hold.

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I also really like that I get to bring in

my passion for shifting the conversation

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because at that time in the US we'll be

about a month away from the elections and

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everyone's going to be talking about them.

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So I, it's kind of fun that I actually

get to do what I have been wanting

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to do, which is how can we have

a different conversation around.

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You know, ourselves and our lives and

deconditioning, it's gonna be incredible.

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Okay.

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That's my plug for . But either

way, I was in the middle of

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planning and I had to figure out

what I wanted to launch after I.

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There's always something that you

launch after the summit or big event

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or challenge or whatever you're doing,

and I knew I wanted to do something.

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I didn't know what it was.

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I thought it'd be a program.

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I was thinking of different program

ideas and what am I gonna do and

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how is this all gonna fit together?

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And then I gotta download.

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I was actually in the middle of work.

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I wasn't even like meditating or

anything, but I got this download,

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why don't you create a membership?

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I was like, whoa, a membership.

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Yes, I can do exactly what I've been

doing with holistic discovery, bringing

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in all these different experts all over

the world, and we can hold it within

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community within this membership.

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And I just was like lit up.

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Lit up like crazy.

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So.

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This became the Wild Ones community

and what it is today, although

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it has been many, many different

iterations, I'm constantly shifting

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and changing and moving and growing

as we are growing consistently.

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So we've been around for five years now.

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The Wild Ones community is five

years old, which is so incredible.

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We have over.

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250 workshops and practices

inside our magical library.

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So there's a lot of content in

there and it's really incredible

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and it's all a little bit different.

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It all has its own flavor and

that's what I love about it.

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I love that I was be able, I was able to.

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Bring these different worlds.

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I had personally found myself

in all these different pockets,

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all these different communities.

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You know, I had one for my somatic

work and one for my spiritual work,

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and one for the hypnosis work.

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It's all these different types of

communities, and I really wanted to bring

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everybody together and I wanted us all

to have these conversations together

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because we were all on the same journey.

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We were all of wanting to evolve,

to connect, to grow, to share,

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to be a part of communities.

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So why not bring it together so

we can share with each other?

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And that's essentially what we've

created within the community, which is

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so incredible and I'm so proud of it.

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I'm so proud of what we've done and

what we've created with the wild ones.

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I've always wanted to

bring community together.

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That's, I mean, it's in my

story, it's throughout my life.

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That's always been really important,

but really understanding the power of

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circling up with other like-minded human.

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But I wanted just something I

had been really realizing more

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in the past couple years is this.

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Everyone talks about the witch

wound, and I think it stems from

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this time when we used to be in

community together when circles

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were led by witches and priestesses.

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And that got taken away from us

when, um, Christianity came in.

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And so.

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I think it is a very important

piece of our history.

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And the reason why I say this

is because we have a form.

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When people join to be a wild one,

they get a little form and they

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let us know why they're there.

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And I would say like a good

70% say it's the community that

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they really wanna be a part of.

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And also within our world.

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Post COVID, OVID.

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You know, a lot of people are

looking for community again,

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and what does that look like?

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And it's even hard to kind of come

out of our shells as well, right?

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Like we're used to staying at home

now, and so it's a little bit harder

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to be social and remember what that is.

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Again, there's a stat that's been

floating around, something about.

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One in four people don't have any

friends, which I find just mind-boggling.

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And I recently was listening to a

New York Times journalist talk about

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how for the past month he has been

creating AI friends and what that

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experience has been like for him.

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He said it was interesting, but

he's like, it's also like, you

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know, they're not really your

friends and you know that, but.

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Some people might not know that.

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Um, but either way it made

me cringe, like just cringe.

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And I'm just thinking about all these

lonely people that wanna connect

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with people and it makes me so sad.

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And so I feel very honored right now to

have gone the route that I've gone with

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this community, with creating community.

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So not creating a program on my

own and continuing to be a coach.

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So it's one of my.

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Missions with the wild ones

is really creating a space

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where that is easy for you.

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That's really important for me that

we have that kind of container that it

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feels easy for you to share yourself,

that it's no problem to share.

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In our community forum, we have ours.

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It's in, uh, an app called Kajabi, so

it's not on Facebook and it's totally

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private, which is really quite lovely.

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I hope I got across why I love community

and why it's so important to me.

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Community is at our very core.

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Community is what's going to help us

continue to transform, continue to

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shed our conditioning, continue to

unite in what's really important to us.

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I think community and creating

community is going to change

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the world, to be honest.

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I think that is a really important

part of what we're all experiencing

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in the world right now is this

is this piece of community.

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So with that said, I hope if you are

not a member in the wild ones yet,

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that you become a member and join

us in this incredible community.

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And of course, there's our

incredible expansion guide

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that so many people have raved.

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This is something that we just

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every month we have a theme.

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And it's all inside of notion.

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If you know a notion, then you know

that it's incredible and amazing.

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It's basically like, uh, modern day

easing where we talk about the new moon.

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I have a full moon

ritual in there for you.

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We do a tarot spread for the

month that you can do on your own.

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I also have a practice for you

every single month in there because

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I know we don't always just wanna

listen to workshops and, and listen

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to audio, but to actually have a

practice that you can write out in.

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The document in Notion

It's and Notion is free.

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If you're thinking like,

what is this thing?

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It's a free thing.

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You're gonna fall in love with it.

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When you get to know it, you

might even get mad at me like,

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Jenner, why this is so cool.

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It also has a calendar of

all of our events, and this

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is what I think is so cool.

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So it's not just a calendar, but when

you click on the event, you can put

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all your notes from the event or the

intentions that you set, or action steps

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that you wanna do later in the future.

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So it's all contained.

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It's like way better

than a downloadable PDF.

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It's like, it's like next level.

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So you're gonna, you're gonna love

it, and you get access to that.

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And that's the incredible thing.

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We actually do keep the monthly membership

at a really low rate so that most people

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can afford to come into the community, and

then we even give you a bigger discount

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if you want to stay for a whole year.

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And of course you'll find all

of that in the show notes below.

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Thank you everyone for being here today

for allowing me to share my heart, my

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mission, my vision, what's so important

to me in creating the Wild Ones community.

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And I'll see you on the inside.