Show Notes

Title: Old Loops

Episode Description: My tolerance for old loops is gone, and I've stopped needing to take certain steps for "closure". This episode is about reading a dropped tolerance for repetition as a frequency shift rather than impatience, letting endings close organically instead of forcing them, and trusting momentum.

Key Takeaways:

• A sudden low tolerance for something that used to be fine is a sign your frequency has already shifted.
• Not every ending needs an announcement or a big exit. Some things just stop being relevant.
• Momentum doesn't require a fully explained destination to be trusted.
• Creative openness shows up when you stop trying to control outcomes.

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Show Notes

The Conversation

Episode Summary

A short, easy comeback episode where my energy is right now, the books I'm deep in, and my Sacred 90 journal arriving on the very day I recorded this.

• Timelines collapsing and trusting synchronicity
• The books shaping this season: past lives, the divine blueprint, and fate
• My Sacred 90 journal arriving today, and what's coming this week

Books Mentioned

Many Lives, Many Masters — Brian Weiss

Destination New Earth: A Blueprint to 5D Consciousness — Alex Marcoux

The Astrology of Fate — Liz Greene

Sacred 90 Journal

Starting this week: a 90-day practice for connecting with the higher self, moving through Foundation, Integration, and Embodiment.

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SHOW NOTES

A portal isn't a door out there that opens and pours something into you. It's a threshold that shows you what's already moving inside you. Nicole gets into that this episode, coming straight off a hike through Panther Meadows on Mount Shasta, a place indigenous tribes have called a doorway between dimensions for centuries, and straight out of Liz Greene's The Astrology of Fate, the book that's had her rethinking what fate and choice actually are to each other. This one moves through the Lion's Gate, the mountain, and something as ordinary as a shower or washing your hands, all as the same conversation. The chart, the place, the date, none of it was ever the authority. It's a mirror. What you see in it is still yours to work with.

IN THIS EPISODE

• What a portal actually is, underneath the trending language
• Mount Shasta and Panther Meadows as a portal you can physically walk into
• The Lion's Gate
• Water as a daily, accessible portal, showers, washing hands, and why that's not a stretch
• Liz Greene's argument in The Astrology of Fate, fate as an unfolding, not a script
• Reality as a reflection of self, applied directly to place, date, and water
• What to actually do with a threshold moment that isn't a ritual performed for an audience

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SHOW NOTES

Addressing the questions that keep showing up in the comments, the DMs, the ones people ask when they're not sure who else to ask. Family who thinks this is crazy. A husband who isn't on the path. Friends who disappeared after the waking up started. This is the light one, personal, unfiltered, straight through the actual questions.

IN THIS EPISODE

• How to stay in your frequency around family who think this is crazy
• What it's like to be awake inside a marriage when your husband isn't on this path
• Losing friends after waking up, and why that's not the tragedy it looks like
• Whatever else comes in before we hit record

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In the past few years, many of us have experienced a season that required us to shift from how we were living. To step back from the noise, the performance, the conditioned version of what life is supposed to look like, and to feel what's underneath all of it. That season is real and it's necessary.

Here's what it taught Nicole. Everything showing up in her reality, the things she was judging, the things she was fearing, the patterns she kept trying to call something different, was always her, pushed out. The reality around you is a mirror. And what's showing up in it is not what you're trying to call in. It's your dominant identity, what you actually believe at the deepest level, made visible.

That is the realization that changes everything. Because if you are the matrix, if you are the 3D, then the work is not to escape it or fight it or fear it. The work is to go neutral, observe what's reflecting back, and shift the identity the reality is responding to. You are whole and complete. You are consciousness choosing a human experience. And once you know that, the world showing up around you stops being something happening to you and becomes something you're creating. All of it. Always.

IN THIS EPISODE

• The season of isolation and what happened
• What it means to be consciousness choosing a human experience
• The realization: everything in your reality is you pushed out
• Your dominant identity versus what you think you're calling in
• Why the reality around you is always a mirror, not a message about what's possible
• How to go neutral and what that actually looks like in practice
• What shifts when you stop judging and fearing what's showing up
• I am the matrix. I am the 3D. What that means and why it changes everything
• What becomes available once you see the reflection clearly

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SHOW NOTES

They've been telling us for years. In the movies, the books, the shows. This is a game. And the ones already in the frequency have started to feel what that actually means.

In this episode Nicole gets into what mastering the game looks like when your desires outgrow the 3D. The gifts that have been online all along, telepathy in the small moments, imprinting energy into shared reality when you imagine a scenario with someone. And the unexpected thing she found underneath all that expansion while journaling: a seven year old version of herself, asking if it's safe. This one is about wanting everything the game has to offer, and bringing every part of you along to play it.

IN THIS EPISODE

• The game they've been showing us all along and why you already knew
• Desires that outgrow the 3D: portal travel, time, gifts that don't have names yet
• Enjoying the comforts of the 3D fully, and how appreciation opens the bigger wanting
• The gifts have been online the whole time: telepathy in the small moments
• Imprinting energy into shared reality when you play a scenario out in your mind
• The Adjustment Bureau and why art keeps saying the true thing out loud
• The nostalgia for a simpler life and what it's actually asking for
• The inner child as consciousness: giving her safety inside the expansion

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SHOW NOTES
Almost everything in the reality creation space is about wanting and getting. The scripting, the frequency work, the living from the end, all of it is oriented toward something you’re moving toward. Very little of it talks about what comes after. The season where you’re not chasing. The contentment that coexists with ambition without any friction between them. The forward movement that doesn’t need urgency to feel real.
Nicole is in that season right now, genuinely, and there is a low-grade feeling that keeps surfacing about it. Shouldn’t she be pushing harder. Wanting more. Striving further. That guilt is what this episode is actually about, because that’s the last layer of programming. And naming it out loud is the more advanced conversation.
This one is for anyone who has done the work, who is living it, and who keeps wondering why the peace doesn’t feel like enough of a problem.
IN THIS EPISODE
        •       The season she’s in and what it feels like
        •       The low-grade feeling about not pushing hard enough and where it comes from
        •       Why the reality creation space almost entirely misses this conversation
        •       The contentment that coexists with ambition without friction
        •       Why not pushing doesn’t mean not moving
        •       What forward movement looks like when it doesn’t require urgency
        •       The difference between living the work and talking about the work
        •       What the most advanced version of reality creation is

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SHOW NOTES

We've gotten very good at outsourcing our decisions to our circumstances and calling it sovereignty. The resistance is consistent, the circumstances are hard, so the teaching says trust it and go. And that teaching is not completely wrong. Sometimes a block is a redirect.

But sometimes it isn't. Knowing the difference requires something harder than following the path of least resistance and calling it sovereignty.

IN THIS EPISODE

In this episode, Nicole gets honest about what it looked like to be ready to make a big move, to have done the research and positioned to go, to be following the redirect script completely, and then to make a different call. The path didn't open up. She just stopped waiting for it to.

• What she was actually doing before deciding to stay, the research, the positioning, actively preparing to leave
• The redirect teaching and why it's not wrong, but why it isn't always right either
• The moment something shifted, and what the real question underneath it was
• What it means to choose a blocked reality conscious

• The difference in frequency between resigned staying and chosen staying
• What the land is giving that perfect conditions never would
• The sovereignty question: who is actually making this decision, you or the circumstance
• What this practice looks like going forward, working the blocks, watching the reality shift

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There are two frequencies you can build from. Love or pressure.

In this episode, Nicole speaks to what it looks like to build Kokora in the middle of a relocation, a life transition, and a season of real financial uncertainty, and to do it from love anyway. Because the frequency you build from travels into the work, and Kokora exists to carry something specific. This one is for anyone building something creative who has felt the moment when the thing you love starts to feel like the thing you need, and what it takes to come back to love before it goes too far.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• The two frequencies you can build from and why only one produces work worth receiving
• What building from pressure actually looks like and how it shows up in decisions
• The coaching chapter as the clearest example of a pressure build
• What a love build actually requires, practically and philosophically
• The makeshift studio and what imperfect conditions are actually teaching
• Why Kokora is deliberately not carrying all the financial pressure
• Who Kokora is actually for and why building for the right person changes everything
• Pricing from love not from apology
• What scaling looks like when you actually love what you're building

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Most people stay in a version of success that looks completely right from the outside and feels completely wrong from the inside before they're willing to admit it. Because admitting it means asking a harder question, "should I be doing this at all?"

In this episode, Nicole gets honest about the coaching chapter, what misalignment feels like when you're inside it, what it costs to stay past the knowing, and what changes when you stop trying to earn a life and start deciding to have one. This one is about the difference between a life that works and a life that's actually yours.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• The difference between a life that's working and a life that's actually yours
• What earning worthiness looks like and why it's exhausting in a specific way
• The coaching chapter, where the misalignment lived, and what finally made leaving feel sovereign
• What the matrix tells you a realistic life should look like
• The identity piece, when leaving something feels like losing yourself
• What alignment actually feels like versus what ease feels like
• What you actually want and why you're allowed to want all of it
• The pivot to Kokora and what building from love versus pressure feels like

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