Episode 45

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21st Oct 2024

Creating Abundance Through Feng Shui with Amanda Gibby Peters

In this enlightening episode of the Wealth Witches podcast, host Katelyn Magnuson welcomes Amanda Gibby Peters, founder of Simple Shui and a renowned feng shui expert, to explore how the ancient practice of feng shui can transform both your life and business. With over two decades of experience, Amanda shares practical, actionable tips on how to use feng shui to invite prosperity, clarity, and abundance into your spaces.

The conversation covers how small changes in three key areas—the front door, kitchen, and bedroom—can have a profound impact on your energy and financial well-being. Amanda breaks down simple practices like decluttering, setting intentional spaces, and aligning your environment with your goals. Whether you’re a feng shui beginner or a seasoned practitioner, this episode offers valuable insights on how to make your home a powerful ally in your quest for wealth and success.

Tune in for a blend of ancient wisdom and modern application that will inspire you to create abundance in all areas of your life.

Key Takeaways

  • Feng Shui is a powerful tool to align your environment with your intentions and attract abundance.
  • Focusing on three key areas—your front door, kitchen, and bedroom—can significantly impact your financial and personal well-being.
  • Simple actions like decluttering, cleaning, and setting intentions create space for new opportunities and positive energy.
  • Feng Shui practices don’t have to be expensive or complex; small, consistent actions can yield profound results.
  • Treat your home as a living, breathing space, and by nurturing it, you nurture yourself and your business.

Guest Bio:

Amanda Gibby Peters is the voice and visionary of Simple Shui — a modern-day, mission-driven, love-based practice of Feng Shui. She’s been teaching Feng Shui techniques and tips for nearly two decades, witnessing the breathtaking life transformations of her clients, students and community. She is also the host of the House Therapy podcast, where she shares insights weekly that can transform that “why-is-this-happening-to-me” energy into “I-can’t-believe-this-is-my-life” energy. Her work has been featured on Architectural Digest, Food52, Lonny, and Amazon. She is Dallas-based with an international clientele, where she lives with her husband and their rescue dog, Ruby.

Connect with Amanda:

Instagram: @amandagibbypeters

Website: simpleshui.com

Her Book: Simple Shui for Every Day: 365 Ways to Feng Shui Your Life


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Transcript
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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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Katelyn Magnuson

Katelyn, the driving force behind The Freelance CFO and creator of Wealth Witches, is revolutionizing accounting with a sprinkle of magic. With a decade of experience, she’s not your typical number cruncher. Her unique blend of expertise and approachability, infused with a touch of spiritual insight, has made her a go-to authority. Katelyn believes finance should be a stepping stone to success, not a barrier. With a judgment-free ethos, she simplifies complex financial topics, making them actionable for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Her ultimate goal? To empower you to manifest your authentic life—not a cookie-cutter one!