Starting With Gratitude

🎙 "The best thing the Creator creates is the Creator." - Jocelyn 

We all have an inner-Creator that seeks to be liberated and empowered by pure love and pure passion. And I sincerely believe we are all being called to honor this truth and embrace, as well as unleash, the Creator within us.

For the past almost couple of years I have been diligently and devotedly creating multiple creations, including this podcast. I've created the most content I have ever created in my entire life! When I first committed my Self to my tunnel vision and consistency, I sincerely believed my whole life was going to change within six months. I really thought that after six months of hardcore focus my whole life was going to be different and my creations were going to be responsible for that. And... my life did change - just not the way my ego expected. And when my egos expectations weren't met, I began to doubt my Self as a creator and doubt what I was/am creating.

It's one thing to step into your power by creating what you feel called to create and it's another thing to allow what you're creating to be in a state of flow and divinely unfold in divine timing (with little to no expectations). 

I am so grateful to be arriving to this acceptance and surrender that allows what I create to simply Be and be enough. I am grateful to let go of expectations and sincerely liberate my creativity. I am grateful to be approaching and creating and Being in relationship with my visions differently. And I am excited to expand in conversation with you about this! fellow Creator.

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Have you ever had a conversation with someone who is living the life of their dreams? Well, this episode is that conversation with an artist whose wholeness expands into various creative expressions! So, if you are someone who has many passions and dreams, how do you manifest them all? What does it take to live your dream life? Does spirituality play a big role in that? And what's a powerful force that assists you in making it all happen?

Andrés Tardio manages Artist Relations at Genius and conducts the interviews for their popular series, Verified. Beyond that, Andrés is a seasoned music journalist and photographer with work featured in publications including Billboard, Complex, MTV News, and beyond! Some of his past clients have included Mercedez-Benz, Apple, American Express, and others.

As a proud, accomplished husband and father who is excited and open to continue expanding (mentally, physically, spiritually), Andrés shares his story with us - a testimony of the power of passion and going with the flow of where your heart and your truth takes you.

If you are a creative (or aspiring creative) in need of some inspiration to trust your process and motivation to trust your passion(s), this conversation is especially for you!

Topics we touch on in this conversation include (but are not limited to):

• Being your true Self
• Listening to your intuition
• Being a creative with many passions & pursuits
• Comparing your Self to others
• Experiencing imposter syndrome
• How fatherhood changes you
• Overcoming challenges in partnership

If you enjoy this conversation and are a lover of music, then you will definitely enjoy Andrés podcast "My Years Through My Years"! Explore his podcast here.

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🎙 "When you don’t wholeheartedly know what you are worthy of, you will settle for less." - Jocelyn 

I know I'm not alone in healing my sense of self-worth, in reflecting on my worthiness. What really triggered this for me was the pandemic. "Losing everything" had me feeling like I also lost my worth and my value. But this didn't wholeheartedly feel true to me. It didn't feel true to me that our worth and our value is dependent on our external circumstances, on our performance, on our achievements. And that's because that isn't the truth. 

Having this conversation about self-worth and expanding our conscious awareness about our own sense of self-worth is so important because our sense of self-worth impacts and influences our lives in so many ways we aren't even aware of. We need to know, wholeheartedly know, our worthiness is innate. We need to know, wholeheartedly know, we are worthy of love, of joy, regardless of what we have or don't have, regardless of who we are or are not. We are worthy. 

If you've been exploring your self-worth, if you too have been contemplating this or perhaps have felt called to - this conversation is especially for you. And I pray you walk away from this episode with more clarity, confidence, and comfort in your worth.

Topics we touch on in this conversation include (but are not limited to):

• Worthiness being innate
• How the environment we were raised in affected our self-worth
• Being conditioned to believe you have to earn your worthiness
• Why it's important we heal our sense of self-worth
• How to heal your sense of self-worth
• Inner-child healing & ancestral healing
• What happens when you heal your sense of self-worth
• What happens when you have a low sense of self-worth

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What began as a pursuit into the yogic path led to the introduction to cacao medicine and ceremony, which then led Christine Olivia Hernandez to a heart opening journey of spiritual, divine unfoldment. Christine did not know all that cacao would lead her to but she knew when she first experienced its medicine that she was called to deepen her relationship with it, explore it, and introduce others to its healing gift.

Christine's life story is a testament of what happens when you answer your callings and journey with an open heart - healing happens, soul purpose fulfillment happens, sisterhood happens, love happens, divine partnership happens, ancestral and inner-child work happens, and beyond. Now a Cacao Ceremonialist, Author, and Founder of the Maltyox Method, Christine is devoted to honoring her Guatemayan Ancestors, enriching others lives by sharing her gifts, embodying gratitude, and continuing to walk the path to remembering.

This is a beautiful conversation on the experience of divine, spiritual unfoldment, the empowerment that comes with remembering your roots, and how living life with an open heart leads you to your truth!

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Topics we touch on in this conversation include (but are not limited to):

• The beginnings of Spiritual unfoldment
• The Maltyox Method
• Gratitude as a way of life
• Cacao medicine & ceremony
• Healing with the heart
• Remembering your roots
• Being empowered by your roots
• Ancestral & inner-child work
• Trending spirituality
• How to awaken the healer within
• Making a difference in the world
• Embodying Divine Femininity
• Coming into Sisterhood
• Being in sacred partnership

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🎙 "Don't count your Self out just because you think the Universe hasn't counted you in." - Jocelyn 

Is it just me or do you also feel the cosmic, Universal encouragement to take a step back & see the bigger picture? Is it just me or have you also felt called to expand your perspective & not be so fixated on what you see right in front of you? This episode is inspired by this encouragement, by this calling. 

Knowing that it's bigger than you is helpful. It helps you realize you're not alone, it relieves you from the weight of overwhelming your Self with unnecessary responsibility, it reminds you that you don't have complete control - ever, & motivates you. 

Too often we forget that it's bigger than us, it's bigger than what we see right in front of us, it's bigger than our current circumstances, it's bigger than the stories we know & tell ourselves. Too often we contribute to the limits of our beliefs, our perceptions, our narratives & it stunts our growth. It stagnates us. It distances us from the truth. 

In this episode, we are taking that moment to take a step back and see the bigger picture. I am sharing with you three ways it's bigger than you, why knowing it's bigger than you is helpful, reflectional prompts to get your contemplations flowing, & gratitude affirmations to bring our conversation full circle.

Topics we touch on in this conversation include (but are not limited to):

• Three ways it's bigger than you
• Why knowing it's bigger than you is helpful
• The importance of knowing your true Self
• The value of knowing who you are not
• How to discover your purpose
• Making an impact on the world
• Allowing your Self to explore & make mistakes
• Not taking things personally
• Relationships that end
• Spiritual awakening & healing
• Divine timing

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🎙 "The purpose of our limitations and our struggle is to trigger our expansion." - James McCrae

If you're on social media and you find your Self on a spiritual path, you've more than likely come across one of James McCrae's memes. They're relatable. They're humorous. They're spiritual. And they're deep. And in this episode, we're getting deep with James McCrae on the "true" spiritual journey. What is it? What does it consist of? And what do we keep in mind when we're on it?

James McCrae is an Author, Poet, and Meme Artist who believes the Sun reflects God, expanding out of your comfort zone leads you to discovering your true Self, and emotions are the Source. He has recently published the book "How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis," which you can purchase here and offers coaching and creative services on his website here.

This conversation is rooted in navigating spirituality, awakening and healing both on a collective level and on an individual level. Wherever you are on your journey, I have a feeling you'll very much enjoy *this episode!

*This episode was recorded about two months prior to publish date

Topics we touch on in this conversation include (but are not limited to):

• Our purpose is soul development
• Self-imposed limitations
• Identity as limitation
• Experiencing cycles of death & rebirth
• The collective dark night of the soul
• Being in relationship with your heart
• Finding your true Self
• Expanding out of your comfort zone
• What doesn't get talked about enough in spirituality
• Words are vibrations
• Ego resisting change

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We are living in a time where practicing discernment, tuning into your intuition, and trusting your true Self are progressively, incredibly important. With wellness, healing, and spirituality becoming more and more capitalized and colonized, a strong discernment is necessary for your alignment to truth and divinity.

I am so grateful to have been strengthening my discernment intentionally over the past couple of years, and in this episode, we'll be gaining clarity on what discernment is as I expand on ways in which I've been strengthening it. I am also sharing affirmations, prompts, and reflections on knowing what and who are for your highest good.

I am excited to have this conversation with you! Thank you for listening.

If you'd like to read the page I share in this episode titled "Seven Attitudes or Qualities Required for an Authentic Discernment Process," click here. If you'd like to watch the Youtube video I mention in this episode, click here.

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A beautiful, honest conversation on how spirituality and awakening changes your whole life, Psychology-Based Business Coach, Jen Casey shares with us the breakdown of her journey. From having a voice in her head that was not kind nor uplifting to unidentifying with that voice to changing that voice into one that empowers her, the truths she awakened to of who she is not and who she is not only impacted her internal (and external) voice but impacted her relationships and her career, too.

In this conversation, Jen vulnerably details the conscious beginning and continued unfoldment of her spiritual journey, including feeling lonely, discovering her gifts, shifting to an abundance mindset, and aligning with the sisterhood her heart has always desired - making this an affirming episode for those walking the path of their own spiritual journey.

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Topics we touch on in this conversation include (but are not limited to):

• shedding who you are not/who you used to be
• experiencing disassociation 
• adjusting to your newfound awakening
• tuning into your spiritual gifts
• channeling the divine
• learning about past lives
• how spirituality impacts your career
• shifting to an abundance mindset
• manifesting a 7-figure business
• manifesting sisterhood

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🎙️"Gentle reminder that you are worthy of approaching solitude as an intentional, spiritual practice that not only brings you closer to your Self but to the divine." - Jocelyn

We are continuing the conversation on solitude. In episode 61, I expanded on my own personal journey through solitude. In this episode, I am getting straight to the point on how solitude may change your life (as it did mine) and am offering some affirmations, reflectional prompts, and gentle reminders for you and your own relationship with solitude. 

As of now, in this moment as I type this, episode 61 is the most listened to episode I've published to date, which inspired me to make this "part 02" and gift you some words of encouragement. As I mentioned in this episode, if it weren't for the solitude I've experienced in the past couple of years, I wouldn't have experienced the most profound healing and spiritual awakening that I have in the past couple of years. I have become an advocate for solitude (as I am an advocate for community healing, too). 

I encourage you to gift your Self grace and compassion as you listen to this episode and as I guide you through some self-inquiry. 

If you enjoyed the format of this conversation, please let me know (on social media, via email or Apple Podcast reviews) as I decided to try something new! I personally really enjoyed offering you some affirmations, prompts and reminders.

🕰 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
5:21 Gratitude Affirmations
9:51 06 Ways Solitude Heals
29:48 Reflectional Prompts
37:04 Gentle Reminders of Worthiness
40:34 Outro

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🎙 "Most of my life has been spent in the passenger seat or the back seat of the car of my life, so to speak. So, I would say it only was within the past six years, maybe, where I felt increasingly conscious and more invested in being as fully conscious as possible of my own reality..." - Didier Sylvain

Are you in the drivers seat of your life? or are you in the passengers seat? the back seat? What does it take to become the leader of your life? How do we get there? These are some of the many questions on life, leadership, and becoming that Didier Sylvain and I expand on in this episode.

Didier Sylvain is a Transformational Speaker, Leadership Trainer, and Life Alignment Coach that sees the journey to leadership as a journey not to be rushed, a journey of conscious awareness, and active listening. He mentions that he spent most of his life in the passenger seat and shares with us his own personal, transformative journey in practice and in awakening, as well as what he has learned along the way.

This is a clarifying, calming conversation that not only sheds light on leadership and conscious, intentional living but on allowing yourself to expand, gifting yourself expansion. This conversation is also a beautiful example of holding a safe space for truth, perspective, duality, and healthy exchange. If you're seeking encouragement to step into your power, this episode is especially for you.

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Topics we touch on in this conversation include (but are not limited to):

• seeing burdens as blessings
• shifting your perspectives
• not being the leader of your life
• becoming the leader of your life
• forming identity through music
• play as a form of healing
• inner-child showing up in the work
• practicing conscious listening
• being conscious of your reality & personality
• being in divine alignment
• moral obligation
• no as a complete sentence
• trusting your voice
• fearing your success

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