Creating Abundance Through Feng Shui with Amanda Gibby Peters

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Hello, and welcome magical creatures to the Wealth Witches podcast.

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This is a place where we brew financial empowerment and mix in a little sprinkle

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of magic. I'm Caitlin Magnuson, your guide on this enchanted

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journey to financial enlightenment. Here, we honor all identities and

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invoke our inner witches to create holistic wealth and prosperity. So

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grab your crystals, open your minds, and let's get ready to conjure some

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financial clarity clarity.

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Welcome back to the Wealth Witches podcast. Today, we have a

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really exciting guest, Amanda Gibby Peters.

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Amanda is the voice and visionary of Simple Shui, a modern

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day mission driven, love based practice of feng

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shui. She's been teaching feng shui techniques and tips for nearly 2

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decades, witnessing the breathtaking life transformations of her

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clients, students, and community. She is also the host of the

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House Therapy podcast where she shares insights weekly that can

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transform that why is this happening to me energy into I can't

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believe this is my life energy. Her work has been featured on Architectural

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Digest, Food 52, Lonnie, and Amazon.

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She is Dallas based with an international clientele where she lives with her husband and

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their rescue dog, Ruby. Amanda, thank you so much. I'm

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so excited to chat all things Shway for your business

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today. Oh, I'm so excited to be here, and I'm excited

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to talk Shway. It's always my favorite conversation and

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to get into the money part of it because everyone loves those

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tip. I mean, who doesn't? Right? Who doesn't want to set themselves

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up for more money, success, everything else? So I actually we

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didn't even cover that I was gonna ask you this, but I would love to

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know how you even got started in this world.

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Oh my gosh. This is such a great story. So if you wanna hear the

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long version of it, I have, like, one of the first podcasts that I

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did, one of the first episodes dedicated to it. But the short version of it

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is, you need to know, I came in as a complete skeptic,

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almost a little bit snobby. Like, I was in a

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bad situation in a home that we had just bought. Like, everything in my

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life felt like it was going wrong. I you know, we

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have grown twin daughters who are now at some school, but at the time they

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were 3, my husband was traveling, and it just felt like

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things were not coming together in this new to us space. And

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so I grabbed a book, treated it like an oracle because, you know, we didn't

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have oracle cards way back when, or they weren't as

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mainstream, I should say. And I opened in, it said feng shui. And sort of

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the gist was if you change your house, your life will change. And I was

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like, well, I just changed my house. And, you know, not

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making the correlation that it actually could be the very

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reason that things had taken a hard left turn. So, anyway,

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I thought, well, I'm very academic. You know, I was fresh out of grad school,

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and I was like, I'm gonna approach this with sort of that cerebral, you know,

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mindset, and I'm gonna try things out, and I'm gonna blog about

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it. And, you know, the the the short version of

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this is it wasn't that thing changed. Anything changed

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instantly, but I was curious to keep trying more things

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because our house was feeling more like a home. And there

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were, I would say within a few months, some big changes that got my

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attention. And then I did another test round, just because I

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wasn't gonna be persuaded. I thought it was all coincidental.

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Mhmm. But I, you know, did one last test round, and it

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was a big enough, you know, situation that

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it got my attention. I thought, well, I can continue being the skeptic

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or, like, I could get really curious and figure out what's going on here, and

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that's how I started out. That's why we're here today. I love

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that so much. And, yes, the the way back in the day when you had

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to actually open a book and do some, you know, manual research, so

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you couldn't just go Google everything. Yeah.

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Oh, okay. So that's that's really, really cool. And now

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what you're working on is simple shui. Like, that's the the

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whole, like, how we can be bringing elements of Feng

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Shui into your life. And I've been following you on Instagram for a while

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now since I think before Robin had even connected us. And

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you post such actionable tips. And for

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someone that is creative, but very left brained

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and analytical, I love that because they're short, they're to the point,

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they're actionable. So what was the idea behind

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Simple Shway? So I love that question.

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So I came into it reading everything. You you know, you bring up Once Upon

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Time, We Had to Crack a Book. I love books. And, you know, this was

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kind of before Amazon, so I was going to whatever the

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bookstores were. I was going to the used bookstores to find anything I

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could read about feng shui. I would write letters

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or call people who like the authors who are brave enough, you know, to

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leave that information, and I just started, you know, feasting on

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whatever was available. And one of my first consultants, because

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I have had consultants, you know, in our home, one of my first consultants

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was Ellen Whitehurst, and she was generous enough

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to, let me write for her

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blog. Right? So she had been in Red Book. She had a book published.

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She, you know, worked with a lot of New York socialites and that kind

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of stuff, so I thought, oh, this is fantastic. I'm just going to

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start, you know, functioning people now. And she's like, well, pump

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the brakes, sweetie. Like, you think you know, but do

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you? And luckily, she kind of turned me the direction I need to

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go, which was to find a certification. So after that first certification,

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again, here I am feeling legit, I write this article for

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Mindbody Green. It goes viral. And, of course, a lot

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of old school practitioners come out, and they're like, that's not really feng shui that

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you're practicing. And I was I was really horrified,

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and I thought, okay. What is this real Feng Shui? So I

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went back to school, and I learned some

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of the older practices that have just continued to all of

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Feng Shui has evolved. Right? But I started learning some of

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those and got certified. And what I realized in that

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whole experience was this. So many of us find something on

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Google School or we, you know, hear someone who

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suggests something and we go to try it, and there's no context or infrastructure.

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And, really, we're just cannonballing into we don't even know what,

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hoping that because we don't understand it, it's gonna work. When in reality,

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there are really practical steps, very simple things we

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can do that are going to be in service to

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us far more than that super esoteric thing that you happen to come

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across. And that's how simple Shui began. I love

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that. So diving into the meat and potatoes, for

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lack of a better phrase, the episode, when we're looking

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at using or utilizing I hate to say using. So utilizing

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Feng Shui for our business, for

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prosperity, like, what what should we even be like, how should we be

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framing that? Like, where should we be setting the groundwork to be

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in a good spot to be, like, thinking about what we want to be bringing

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more of or less of into our lives? I mean, there

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are so many things that people can do and I again, I think that they're

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really simple. I think we tend to just it's it's common. We over

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complicate as much and want it to be complicated and sexy when it can really

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just be simple and actionable and consistent. Yes.

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Absolutely. So what I tell people is, you know, just because

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it sounds simple doesn't mean it's gonna be easy. Right? And

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so what I like to tell people is, like, let's

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get to know what your home means. And right

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off from the start, you know, there are 3 areas of your home that

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are so important in terms of what they are contributing, your front

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door, your bedroom, and your kitchen. Sometimes they're referred to

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as power spots in feng shui. And, again, I love this as a starting point

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because, usually, there is an access point for almost

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anyone. Right? And so the front door, you know, real quickly,

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if you think about the term curb appeal and how people make

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knee jerk assumptions about a home based on how it

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presents, that is what the front door is doing

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for you. So, you know, when we're talking about bringing in more

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opportunity, actualizing or manifesting or creating, you

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know, it starts at the front door because when you think about it, everything we're

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calling into our lives enters through this portal, and

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so the quality of that opportunity is being informed by what's

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happening in this space. So doing things like shaking out your mat,

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sweeping, wiping down the door, wiping down the hardware, replacing

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the light bulbs, you know, trimming away anything that is

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struggling or has since died. Right? Any of

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that will improve the chi, which then informs

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and influences the quality of energy that not only enters your

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space, but then is traveling through all the different areas of

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your life because your home represents all the different areas of your life. So

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there those are just like that's a weekend project. Super easy.

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And, you know, I always love to tell people, you know, once you do that,

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set the intention and, like, maybe blow some cinnamon in through your

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front door or, you know, put some coins and a red

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envelope inside that under the doormat, and it's very suggestive of money

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walking into your life. But you can't blow the cinnamon and you can't put the

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coins there until you've prepared the space for success. And,

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again, I think that's where people get ahead of themselves. Mhmm. They hurry and

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do the little ditty that they just read or heard, and they don't think about

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really optimizing. And I know we're all tired of that word, but, you know, really

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preparing the space for the best outcome

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that's possible. Right? So front door is the first one.

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Kitchen is so symbolic of your well-being

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and your health, and that extends to your financial well-being and health.

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So what I see in kitchens is people have everything out on the counters,

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and there's literally no room to receive whatever it is you're trying to call into

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your life. So taking a quick audit, like, what do we actually

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use? What do we actually need? And can we find somewhere for other things? Because

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having landing spaces in your kitchen, that's a big deal when

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you're trying to call in not only new ideas or opportunities,

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but also solutions or ways of seeing things differently that'll help you

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move through or navigate challenges. I'm a

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big fan of having something fresh in that space, so, like,

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fresh fruit or flowers because, again, this is talking about your health,

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and that health umbrella is pretty big. So things that are healthy and

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thriving mean that you will too. And my favorite sort of

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magic with the kitchen is stoke those burners on your

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stove once a day for, like, 9 days or 27 days. A

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fantastic way to really speak to stoking

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prosperity and opportunities. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. And warming

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up a kitchen Mhmm. Actually, you know, sort of has a lot of overlap

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in other cultures in terms of how people feel in your home.

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So there's a lot of win just with that. Right? And when we talk about

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how other people feel, know, if you're somebody who's trying to call in a relationship,

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great tip. If you're trying to call in collaborators or networking,

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great tip. It can also be just stoking the opportunity to make more

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money. And then finally, the bedroom, this is all about you. So

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what I have found in all the time that I've done this is a lot

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of time is to be put ourselves last on that list. We take care of

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all the other areas of our home because that's what people

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see, and that's what we're you know, we have the opportunity to impress people.

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But the reality of it is if we're not prioritizing ourselves,

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then no one else is gonna prioritize us. Right? And so

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being mindful about what you keep company with in your bedroom,

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this is an interesting exercise. Like, you know, do you have a bunch of self

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help books stacked by the bed? Do you have a bunch of, like, you

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know, creams and, you know, gadgets to help make you look

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younger? You know, like, what is the messaging that's happening in

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your room? And the reason that this is so

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imperative is we are in our beds, most

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of us, for a third of our lives. The closer we are to something, the

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stronger its influence or so, long as she says. And so

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when we are under the constant influence of these things that are saying not

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enough, try harder, do better, we

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are we're creating the resistance ourselves. So I like to say

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it's okay to have things pile up and it's okay to be in those,

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you know, sort of swells of big thinking,

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but when you start to feel the resistance, when you start to

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feel the drag, take some of those things out, remove them, and be

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really, really, you know, mindful about who you're

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sleeping with. And my favorite thing in terms of money

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making is, you know, to get

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a red envelope or you could get 9 red envelopes.

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We're gonna use the function map, the baguette here. Imagine

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you're bad in a Tic Tac Toe board. Okay?

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Money, it doesn't matter what the denomination is current like, if you have coins, you

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have dollars, whatever you want, put some money in each of those red

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envelopes, and then put them underneath your mattress between your

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mattress and box spring, your mattress and your bed. And, you know, as

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you put those, I would sort of set some intentions. And then the

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idea here is that you're making money while you sleep. So, I mean, really

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fun stuff. But, again, just like the front door, the same applies to the kitchen,

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the same applies to the bedroom. You gotta do all the other work. Mhmm. Before

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that, just the quick and easy put the envelopes and the intention, we need to

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set the stage, prep. I'm assuming clean, wipe down,

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declutter. Yeah. I think a lot of times, you know, I

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tell the story often of when I first started out, people would say to me,

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like, I waived the smoke stick and, you know, nothing changed. And I would

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look at their spaces, and I'd be like, but look at the chaos

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that's still there. Like, you can't just co opt all responsibility

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on these tools and, you know,

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resources. Like, you have to cooperate. Your edification is

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required too. It doesn't just yeah. Yeah. There

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needs to be some some buy ins and effort put in, not just,

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literally, as you were talking about the kitchen, I was envisioning what my kitchen

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currently looks like being in the middle of harvest season with an abundance

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of fruits and vegetables, but that also means there are canning jars

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everywhere, and there is clutter everywhere. And it stresses me out.

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I'm like, oh, we're almost there. We're almost there. We have a couple of days.

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I am so excited when I'm done canning to be able to go fresh slate

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everything. I just go to the farmer's market tomorrow. I'm gonna get some flowers,

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get that all set up, and I just I'm already preemptively excited for,

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like, how good that will feel. Yeah. And I, you know, I

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think you bring up something that's really important for people to understand. It's

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okay. Like, life is messy and then there's the cleanup, and

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life is messy and there's a cleanup. So people sometimes will reach out in a

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panic, like, oh my gosh, we're in the middle of moving and how bad is

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this? It's not bad. Like, you're just in the process of moving. It's

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when things stagnate, when this is just the way of being

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that we start to get curious. And instead of judging something as

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bad, I like to reframe it. Like, where is there an opportunity

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for improvement? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.

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No. I I think being able to embrace the seasonality and where you're at in

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life, and then great. If my kitchen

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counter had canning jars on it year round and it was completely covered,

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I would probably not feel my greatest.

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That tends to happen in my office. The office is where things go to die

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and clutter. And so I'm I'm gonna yeah. We're we're going to be making some

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strides on that this weekend because there is definitely stagnation of

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receipts and clutter and Yeah. And crystals and weird

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tile, and not in places where I want them. And, yeah, I I love that.

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Okay. So super actionable. Cleaning,

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wiping down, updating, sprucing up

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the front door, the entryway, the curb appeal side of things

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so that we have, we make the way for prosperity to

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enter. We have just this really lovely intentions that we're not

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just putting a red envelope under the mat, blowing cinnamon in, and being

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like, okay. Done. I did the work. We're good. We're going to lay

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the groundwork. Yes. Lay the groundwork. I think that that is

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lovely. And one actionable thing that you could totally do over the weekend or even

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depending I mean, at our house, we could do it in, like, a day because

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we don't we live in the mountains. There's not a whole lot of, like, plants

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needing to be manicured or things need to be taken care of.

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Woah. That would imply. So for most people, this

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I love the front door makeover because it really does

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feel, like, possible for everyone. It doesn't

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feel like it's an enormous amount of space that you have to try to figure

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out how to make the space work. A front door is pretty straightforward.

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The other thing that I will say that I love for the front door, and

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if you're in my world for even 2 seconds, you know this,

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you can always step out and just sweep, and it really

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is that ritual of out with the old and with the new. So once you've

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done sort of the, you know, giving it the

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sprucing up and you belong the sentiment or you put some money

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under the mat, going out with some sort of

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consistency that's realistic for you and sweeping is the way of then

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creating that connective tissue, which is the maintenance of making

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it remain welcoming. Right? And making

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sure that you are really

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being as inviting as you can. And by the way, that article I

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mentioned, you know, in the story of, you know, this article that went viral,

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my very first one from Mindbodygreen was on the power of sleeping.

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And it you know, I've heard so many crazy stories. So

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again, when people are, like, sweeping, really? I'm, like, try it. See what happens.

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That's yeah. That's wild. Just the the again, the

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simplest things that we could be doing to just connect with

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intentionally Mhmm. To bring more

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prosperity, to bring more opportunities into our lives.

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When out of curiosity, I because I don't know the answer to this question. So,

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like, let's say, we've taken the time, we've taken the intention, we've we've really

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decided that the kitchen, the front door at the bedroom are

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going to be our areas of focus. Right? Because you've made this so straightforward and

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actionable. We get that taken care of. What sort of because you

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mentioned a maintenance schedule or, like, you know, a schedule that works. What

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does your feng shui practice look like from a time commitment

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wise for you? And, obviously, you've been practicing this for years. So I'm

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assuming you have some sort of routine set up. I know we're just talking about

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3 areas. But what does that look like on, like, a long

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term maintenance perspective in your life? Yeah. So I think

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it's like anything, you know, that you commit to doing.

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The longer you practice it, the more sort of 6th sense

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or muscle memory you build around it. So my friend,

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door, I mean, it has the ebbs and flows. Like, right now, there's a

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mat out there that definitely needs to be replaced, and it's sitting right in front

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of me, and it's gonna be done this weekend. But I was actually

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waiting for some of the temps to cool. So it's like I'm

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constantly let me say this. When you come into feng

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shui, in my world, one of the first invitations that I

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sent is I want you to now see your home as a

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living, breathing family member. Because

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when we start to appreciate that this is an energy

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that we are part of, it's not just part of our lives. We're actually

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also part of this home's life, and a lot of these homes will outlive us.

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Right? You start to, 1, step into a much different

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conversation with your space, and you do feel more

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inclined to take care of it when there

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are needs and demands. And in return, I

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think anything you do for your home is ultimately an act of self hospitality

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because it's just going to, you know, benefit you

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in ways that you probably aren't even making the connection to.

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Right? So when you start to get in that conversation, you are

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able to see where things are kind of getting loose and need a little bit

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of, you know, cleaning up or tending. So I have very much that

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ebb and flow. People make the, you know, the assumption that if they come to

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my house, it's so zen is something I hear a lot, that

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it's perfectly organized, that, you

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know, just whatever the assumptions are of someone

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who talks about space. You know, and I always tell people, like, I live with

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other people. Like, come on. Like, I'm not

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It's not just me. Here. Yeah. They they

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are, you know, adjacent to it, but that doesn't mean that they like,

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this is their love language too. So I have what I

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sort of think of as, like, nonnegotiable. It's like I'm not going to

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go to bed with my kitchen a mess. I have this

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ritual of walking the house before we go to sleep because I like

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to turn off lamps. Like, I just like to see and make sure that everything

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in the home is okay. Right? And it that sounds maybe be a little bit

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overboard, but I get up in the morning, open blinds, turn

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on lamps, do the things, and then I go back through in the evening the

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same thing. And it helps me stay on top of what's happening or what needs

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to be addressed or even, and this is something that's super subtle

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but can be powerful where the energy has started to feel a little bit

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more quiet. Right? So now with our girls off, you know, they're in

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Vancouver going to some school. With them gone, our house isn't

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getting the same level of engagement that it once did, and so I'm,

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you know, feeling my way through this and going, okay. We need to spend a

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little bit more time in here. So I'm you know, the in terms of the

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maintenance, there are certain rules I have that I follow, like,

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I don't let my front door get too far gone,

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right, in terms of, like, the weather. I'm in Texas. We get all sorts

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of storms, so I don't let the weather build up too much on the front

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door. Obviously, if light bulbs go out, those get replaced right

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away. If there are repairs, I'm pretty diligent about

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them, but I have a ton of books on my bed right now. Right? I

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mean, like, that's just you know, I go through phases and they

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stack up. Here we are. Right? So it all

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depends on what season I'm in. Okay. Okay. I

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love that. I I think it's really interesting sometimes

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because I will work with, you know, yoga practitioners

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or meditation practitioners, and everyone

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thinks, oh, you're just you're zen all the time. You're chill all the time. Like,

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you don't have we all have fluctuations. We all have seasonality. We are not

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all living in a vacuum with no outside influences

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around us. And so I think that it's really funny sometimes to have that reality

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check. I think it's almost similar to when you look at someone that you're, you

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know, maybe idolizing or someone that you see as being some star or

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coach or, and then you actually get to know them. And you're like, oh,

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you're you're human. You're fallible. Like, you have flaws and

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quirks and, oh, okay. Wow. That makes things

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a little bit different. So love how simple you

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have made this. And when we're thinking about

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we're doing this with our partners. Right? So, like, I have a spouse. Don't have

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any children, but we have cats and dogs and chickens and all sorts of

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creatures roaming in and around our house at any given time.

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What does that look like? Because I think a lot of the listeners have, you

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know, maybe a spouse or children, and I'm just envisioning, like,

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utilizing aspects of feng shui, especially when you have young

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children or even teenagers, and there's just a lot going on in

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the house. What sort of changes for you, or what are some of your nonnegotiables

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when that was your phase of life or for people that are in that phase

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of life? Yeah. So it's funny. This actually just

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came up in, one of my course classes yesterday,

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and, you know, someone was asking about, you know, sort of, like, the

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emo, you you know, gothic looking art in a

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teenage room. And then someone was asking about,

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little kids and trying to clean up their clutter. So here's the thing.

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You know, one of my very first teachers said you really can't function by other

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people, but you really probably shouldn't be functionally anyone over 10. And

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I know some people think, you know, you're just moving things

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around, and I think that's where, like, the first misconception happens is

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that people think that it is purely an aesthetic practice.

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You're actually working with energy. It's a very process,

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and it doesn't feel completely aligned to be doing something and

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setting intentions on someone else's behalf. So, generically

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or sort of universally, let me say this. With little kids and

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teenagers, hands off, I tell people there are

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reasons their rooms look the way they do. Little kids go out in the

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world. It's hella scary. I mean, can you really imagine being a

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5 year old stepping out to the world? All of these things that we're aware

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of, the things that happen at school, they come home and they create these

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nest that soothe their nervous systems, and we

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go in and we're like, that's clutter. You need to clean it up, and we

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try to make it look like it belongs on Pinterest. And we've completely

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stripped them of that nurturing that they are

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instinctually doing for themselves. So house rules,

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like, let's have a routine for putting things away at the end of the night,

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or let's make it so that, you know, schoolwork and, you know, some of

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the more yang activities are not in the bedroom, right, if

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we're worried about helping them sleep. But come up with your house rules

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and then just hands off. Right? And those rules can evolve, but

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don't try to control it because what's actually happening is much bigger

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than whatever your design preference is. In terms of teenagers,

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you know, the flip side of that is, you know, this is where they feel

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the most alive. Right? They have all this yang energy

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pulsating through their bodies, and yet they're told when they have to be in class,

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you know, if they can drive, you know, there's probably some parameters

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around that. They just don't have total freedom, and so they treat

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their rooms almost like a dumping zone. But what's happening,

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if that's helping to quell some of that energy that they

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don't have anywhere to channel it. Right? So when we go in and we're like,

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everything has to be cleaned up and, you know, it has to look a certain

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way, again, we are interfering with

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a soothing mechanism that they have found.

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So with teenagers, I say again, figure out some house rules.

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And a really great house rule that I think

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serves beyond the obvious is opening the blinds. Right?

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Kids love to sort of be in that cavernous room, letting the

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sunlight in once, so it's just cleansing the space, and 2,

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it's helping them feel less under the influence

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of some of the things that are happening. Right? And that doesn't feel

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like it's super disruptive Mhmm. To whatever they've got going on.

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So in terms of, like, spouses or say you live with your

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parents or anything like that, again, you can't feng shui other people. So what I

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what I suggest is work with what you have

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jurisdiction over. Meaning, you are starting

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to inform the energy

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to, you know, whether it's enhancing something or improving

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something. When we get worried about what everyone else is doing,

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it tells me that we don't trust what we're doing is gonna work, and

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therein lies the problem. It's not everyone else. So trusting that the

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things that we're doing to improve the chi

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is actually going to be a much better marketer or

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PR person for you than you going and wagging your finger. And

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here's the thing, feng shui is not transactional. You're not gonna sweep your porch

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tonight, and tomorrow, you're gonna have, like, 5 new job opportunities in your

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inbox. It might happen, but, you know, don't be

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surprised if it doesn't. But what happens is you are starting to

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make these deposits into your account, and those do

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compound. Those do add up. And there will be a point where you

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look back and you see some of these things that you've been doing and you

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can tell, oh my gosh. Like, we did kinda shift trajectories,

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or people stopped arguing, or I stopped getting this resistance,

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or we you know, some of the things that are getting in our way or

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we feel are disruptive to us, they tend to mellow or quiet. So

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you've gotta you gotta be willing to push your sleeves up and go a little

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bit of the distance and not be as, I don't

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know, in need of everyone's participation.

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There are so many purely financial parallels and

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just life parallels. I feel like with that, like, so

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many of our 2 millimeter

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changes add up over time and compound

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over time. That it may not be, like, I don't need to go

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out, cut my hair, dye a different color, change my entire

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wardrobe to start feeling like more of myself. I could.

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I can absolutely take some big drastic action, but I can also start

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taking steps today. And so much of that it also chills much

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more sustainable, renewable, long term, you

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know, possible for you to be doing. So what a wonderful way to look at

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that. I mean, truly, to keep things simple from the Feng Shui

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side of things, like, what an appropriate name. So for

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anyone that is wanting to learn

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more, maybe about simple Shui to begin with or Feng Shui in

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general because I know that I've heard Feng Shui tossed around

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for my entire life. Mhmm. It it's just kind of a

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household whether it's appropriate or how it's

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being spoken about, you know, is knowledgeable. Another

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topic conversation for another day. But

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I I think that having an understanding around it and part of, like, my

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understanding even with astrology this year is where are we

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working energetically? Where are we noticing and observing

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and being present in our own lives instead of going through

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the motions. And so much of this keeps feeling like

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it's telling us to be active observers in our

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lives instead of allowing or

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allowing ourselves to be the victim of our surroundings or the victim of our circumstances.

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Where where can we be noticing our part that we're playing in it? Where can

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we be noticing, like gonna look around my office right now and tell you

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right now that the energy is not the greatest in here, so I know what

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I'm doing this weekend. And I also know that

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whenever I clean things and I declutter, I feel

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so much better, so much clearer, so much more

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unburdened. And I think that the biggest takeaway for

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so many areas of our lives are being more present instead

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of and don't get me wrong. I'm all for a Netflix binge.

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But I think it's really easy to numb out, dull

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out, ignore, not pay attention, and just allow ourselves to be

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this passive observer instead of an active observer in what's

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what's occurring in our lives. Yeah. There are a lot of studies

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out there that just keep, you

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know, asserting that the where we

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live does affect our brains and our bodies. And I

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think, actually, you can look at that from a lot of different perspectives and make

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that same correlation. And so when you know that that is an

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influence that you're under and, again, like, think about it. You know? However

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many meals you eat at a fair, however often you work out, or however often

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you journal, you are in your space a lot. And

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so to, like you say, numb out or, you know,

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play victim to, like, well, I can't do that or I can't do that, There

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are so many opportunities within your space to improve how you feel,

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and, you know, you have to think thoughts, feelings, feelings

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drive behaviors, decisions, those drive your outcomes. So

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going into a space that feels good, like you just said, when you clear everything

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up, it feels so much better, imagine that being the

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energy that you're steeping in and then walking out into the world and what's possible.

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There's a reason we get dressed up to go on interviews or first

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dates. So when you apply that same sort

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of thought to, like, what can happen when and when I say

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dress up, I mean take care of your home like it actually represents you,

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that it feels more aligned with you, that it's suggesting what you want

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to be true if maybe it still is out of reach. Right?

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Any of those things are going to change how you show up in the world

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and how the world responds to you. So it's no small

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thing. No. It's it's really not. And I

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think that for so long,

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it has been so easy to live in the very traditional, like, masculine, you know,

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patriarchal view of, like, clocking in, you're clocking out, you're putting in the time.

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Nothing else has any sort of impact in what it's just you.

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It's all you drive, do the thing, you know, conquer the

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day. And this feels like one

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piece of such a larger puzzle when it comes to

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anti hustle culture and, you know, everything that's

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really felt like it's been getting traction for the last, I

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don't know, decade that it's finally being talked about more often

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in open circles instead of just, oh, that's that's

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just this wooing spiritual thing. That's just you know, it it just is what it

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is. Like, there's not that there needs to be science to back it, but, like,

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we're seeing so many more data points

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around how it is impacting our lives. Yeah. I mean,

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listen. I I think that, you know, there's so much

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design. We're so visually driven these days, you know,

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thanks to the shows and thanks to Pinterest and the glossy mags

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and all of these things. And I want to emphasize to people because I,

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you know, I think that there is this confusion that either feng shui

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oftentimes is minimalism. It's not. You're looking at my space. I

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definitely lean maximalist. And I think that

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people think that it is cost exhaustive.

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Right? And it's not. I mean, I think that's actually the wisdom

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and the beauty of feng shui is that so many of the practices don't

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cost anything. It's just about understanding how energy is moving through your space

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and working with what you have in a more intelligent,

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deliberate way. So, you know, if you're stepping into someone's world

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and they're saying you need this and this and this and this and this, maybe

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consider some other options before you dive full in and commit.

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Right? Because, honestly, when I go into anyone's homes, I'm looking

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for what's already working in their favor. We love to celebrate that. And then, 2,

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where are the easy wins? Because I'm all about creating momentum, and I'm

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about creating palpable feedback so that they understand,

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oh, wow. I have a lot of say here. I have a lot of influence

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in my space because I feel like that's a very validating experience, and it's

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much more likely that they will stay this path, understanding

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that whenever the weather hits, because it's gonna hit all of our

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lives, that they have action based steps they can take

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in their home to help weather that. Right? Like, they

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can navigate that with a little bit more confidence. Absolutely. And it doesn't

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have to be something that is overwhelming, all time consuming.

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I mean, even the the action points that you've been given for those 3 areas

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could be relatively inexpensive or

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free depending on what you're needing to do. Right? Like, there are definitely there's action

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you need to be taking, especially if you have budgetary constraints,

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and just cleaning, moving energy, like, taking

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care of the areas that you're in Yeah.

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Is so powerful and so intentional to come at it.

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So thank you. That was that was amazing. If

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if our listeners here were to take away

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the biggest or the couple of biggest takeaways from all

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of this, like, if they were never to

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dive further into Feng Shui, which we would all love them to dive further into

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Feng Shui, what would you tell them to make the

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biggest difference in their lives and their business? I'll tell you. It's what I started

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with. I want you to I'll give you a really quick exercise, and I promise

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I'll make this quick. I want you to think of your favorite place in your

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house, and I want you to just write down some words that

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come to mind, however you would describe it, but your favorite spot. It can be

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a bookshelf. It can be your desk. It can be a room. It can be

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a corner. K? Then I want you to think of a place in

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your house or your space that you don't love, that either

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it's just something you can't figure out how to make it work or it's never

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fully come together or there's a lot of stuff you need to do, but I

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want you to write down how that feels to you. And

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then if you haven't done this, I'm gonna say you need to hit pause because

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you can't really reverse engineer this.

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When you have those words, I want you to replace the space, the place, the

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room, the shelf, whatever it was, with I am.

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And those are all of your strengths. Those are all those things that are

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fantastic and that you love about yourself and what how you feel and what you

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put out there. And then everything that you don't like, those are the

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struggles. Right? And it's not about

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highlighting good, bad. It's saying here now I have a template

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for what makes me feel good so I know what I can do more of,

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and here is where I can work on that and carry that over. So it's

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a really powerful exercise in understanding that our homes

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are metaphors for our lives. If you do nothing

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else, then at any moment that you feel like you need sort

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of a a life revival, we'll call it, just walk into a room

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and start first impressioning everything. What does that make me think of? How does

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that like, what are those first hits? And then you can decide, is

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that good enough for me? Is that something that I like the way the story

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is being told? Do I appreciate that? And if not,

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or if you find that you have more things that you're not appreciating versus the

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things you do, audit out some of those things. Like, really give the

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stuff that makes you feel good and bold and happy and

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whatever it is that you wanna feel. Give those the best geography in

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your space. I love that. I did that exercise in my head as you

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were saying it, and, woof, definitely was more

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impactful than one would think for how straightforward that was. So thank you so

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much for sharing that. Now, if everyone is wanting to dive

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more into Feng Shui, where are the best lists to find

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you, your services, where you hang out, and your

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offerings? I know you have a book. You have a podcast.

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Yeah. So I tell people the best place to check me out is either listen

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to House Therapy the podcast. Those are episodes that are about 15 to 20

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minutes. They drop every Tuesday, so super simple way to start wading in.

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And then Instagram. I take Instagram to its, you

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know, character limit. So you're getting a lot of information,

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you know, that you can just scroll through. There's a lot of tips. There's

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just a lot of use useful, practical, you know,

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user friendly, suggestions there. I would subscribe to my

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newsletter if you want something coming to your inbox. You can do that over at

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simple shui, simpleshey.com. And then over

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there, you can look about my services and courses. I have a course, become

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your own feng shui consultant. That is a 6 week

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self study course, but it takes you through the fundamentals and basics. And once a

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month, we meet for a q and a. And then from there, there are other

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courses and programs that you can do, but that's usually the entry level.

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And then, yeah, my book, Simple Shui for Everyday. It's 365

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ways to feng shui your life, but it's not calendar sensitive. You can

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really grab and go, and it's something you come back to over and over. It's

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the kind of tips that I was really craving when I was going

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into Feng Shui. I wanted the things that I could do while managing

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littles in my house Yes. Not needing to have to

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understand a lot of other concepts. So it is a great beginner's

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guide. I love that so much. All of those are going to be linked in

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the notes. And, Amanda, thank you so much

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for such a powerful, magical episode. I

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I'm inspired, and I know I'm going to be working on over the weekend

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and probably spending some time each weekend working on because I know it

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it's just such a good reminder of how much better I feel when I

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when I'm happy with my spaces. Yeah. And when I I feel

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comfortable and welcome and clear.

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Yeah. I mean, listen. It's like when you don't have the

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distractions, you're just that much more available, and here's the

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part, the money part, receptive to what's trying to get to

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you. Absolutely. I love that so much. So

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thank you. Thank you for taking the time

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for this and for our listeners and for the conversation. I I

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couldn't be more appreciative. Oh, well, thank you for having me. It was a great

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conversation. We covered a lot of terrain, and I'm excited. So if anyone

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does anything, take before and afters, tag me on Instagram, amanda

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gibby peters. I wanna see it all. I love that. I love that. I

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will be attacking you as we go along. So Yep. Amanda,

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thank you so much. Thank you.

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That's a wrap for this episode of the Wealth Witches podcast. I hope our

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magical money talks have left you feeling empowered and inspired.

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