Can You Hear the Call to Your Purpose?

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortez. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five, it's working

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortez. Welcome back to

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the Working on Purpose Show. Thanks
for tuning in again this week. I'm

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your host, Elise Cortez The Alive
from Dallas, Texas, which is home

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base for me. If you've been
tuning in for a while, you know

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this program is designed to be an
inspirational thought leadership platform that advances the conversation

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on living with passion and inspiration and
working on purpose and as I'm committed to

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helping create a world where people actually
want to go to work. The content

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choices are designed to help equip leaders
inside organizations to make work fulfilling part of

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life so employees thrive, give their
best performance, and want to stay.

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I talk with my guests to draw
on their expertise and share my own experience

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consulting, speaking, and developing workforces
across the globe each week. In these

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conversations, I hope you walk away
with something you can immediately put to use.

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this program is a reflection of the

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work I do. So as you
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company or conference at any rate.
I'm glad we're connected, and thanks for

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listening. Now onto this week's program
with us today is Katherine Rawlings and Terry

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Spears, who have each co authored
five other books separately. Today we'll be

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focusing on the book they co authored
together. Excuse me, they didn't co

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author, they wrote those separately.
Today we'll talk about the book they co

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authored together. It's called Inner Journey, Stepping Stones into Our Destiny of Love.

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We'll be talking about specific points from
their book. I think beautifully illustrate

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can help guide us on our path
to a more fulfilled and purposeful life.

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Kathy's joining us from Arizona and Terry
is dialing in from Missouri. Kathy and

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Terry, welcome to working on purpose. Thank you at least, we're glad

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happy to be here. It's really
wonderful. I have to have the two

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of you here, and I was
delighted. I was delighted when we cross

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paths, and I realize you can
make for a delightful guests. And I

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have read your book cover to cover, as you could tell by now,

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and so listeners for you to understand, I've prepared some questions that I wanted

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to direct in the dialogue, and
we've decided that we're going to serve them

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up to one of the authors first
and then if the other wants to chime

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in, they can do so.
So just know that that's how we architect

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of the conversation so that it will
flow gently for you. So before we

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get into the contents of the book, ladies, I think it would be

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helpful for all of us and probably
very interesting to understand just how this joint

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book together came to be. So
what's the history and why were you compelled

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to write it together? I'll begin
with that this is Kathy. I've always

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been a seeker my whole life.
I've always quested to find the bigger picture,

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the bigger perspective of life, never
really being satisfied with the answers that

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I got in normal conversations, and
so throughout the years I focused on developing

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that within me. So for the
last forty years I have been receiving divine

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inspiration, sharing it with others,
helping them to understand their wife's issues from

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their bigger perspective. And this brings
us to our current experience in getting together

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in writing this book. About six
years ago, after my meditation, I

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had the most unusual experience that caught
me by surprise. I heard a resounding

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voice and urging an invitation asking me
if I would like to receive divine inspiration

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on talking about and learning about our
higher truths. Now, this receiving was

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not new to me, but this
very clear, direct question was new to

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me, and it was an answer
to my prayers of I was ready to

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expand into more of myself and get
a more direct communication, clear line with

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my creator, my God's source.
So when I heard this, I got

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a thump in my chest and I
sat for a minute trying to digest what

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I had just received. And of
course my answer was a resounding yes.

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So I sat there for a little
while and I wondered how this was going

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to come about. And I heard
very lovely again call Terry, called Terry,

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invite her to participate in receiving divine
inspiration and your lessons together. Well,

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I had not I have known Terry
for years, but we went our

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separate ways, and so I was
compelled to this and reconnect with her and

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share with her what had happened and
see if she was interested in participating the

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nest together. And so I was
looking around for her phone number, and

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I fortunately found it and she answered, and so I told her kind of

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stilling disbelief what was going on,
and she didn't even miss a beat and

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she said yes. And so I
said, okay, this will be as

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I understood it was going to be
like weekly lessons that I was open to,

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just waiting to see what would happen. So at that point, Terry

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and I began our lessons together and
with the two of us, when two

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of more are gathered, it's extremely
powerful in your genuine quest for inner truth

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and answers. Well, that's what
happened. We had an amplified, amplified

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connection and we were able to just
thrive. And of course it was always

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a stretch to understand the material that
was given. And then we started to

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accumulate so much of this powerful information
that we said, what are we going

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to do with this? Why don't
we compile it in a book? And

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so we decided that that would be
a good way to do it. So

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from then we went through our processes. I had resistance to a book.

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We had done four books before,
and it was co authored our four books,

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but and it was all sharing higher
truths that we received higher truths,

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but we both didn't like the reality
of the marketing and the other things that

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went with self publishing. So we
weren't really diligent in this area. So

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we got somewhat disappointed, and then
we kind of just said, no,

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we're that's it. We're not going
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as we decided to write this book, what happened in the interim that was

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so powerful for me was in my
resistance. I was blocking this pressure that

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I had felt. Even though I
knew that we would be writing a book,

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I still was in resistance. But
I had this pressure building in me

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physically, and it was getting so
uncomfortable. My head was boiling inside my

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pineal gland and so on felt like
it was going to burst. I was

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off balanced in my body. I
was not doing well, and the pressure

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was building. Well. I knew
what I had to do. It was

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not something that I was really anxious
to do. So I decided to stop

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my resistance and allow this material to
be given, and then we Terry open

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to receiving she feeling pressure as well. We collectively then received our book,

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and we were so invested in this, and it was four months from the

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time that we began to the time
the book was on the market for sale

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totally completed. Wow, and that
brings you up to our present moment.

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That is an amazing rendition. If
I can just see a couple of things,

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and then I do want to hear
from Terry as well. First,

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what a way to narrate an awful
lot of time and experience in those few

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minutes, So thank you for that. And second, I wanted presence for

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our listeners, Kathy and Terry that
what I heard from that is the importance

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of really listening to yourself and the
divine. I think it's so important.

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I think today's fast paced society,
people don't take the time or the effort

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to still themselves to be able to
listen. So I want to I want

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to call that out. And then
also to the beautiful collaboration that you have

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together. How's what you made of
that collaboration is I've read the book,

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It's beautiful. So I just wanted
to chime in on a couple of those

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things. Thank you, You're welcome. And Terry's what about your perspective?

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Well, thank you as we work
together with our divine guidance, with inspired

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guidance it. We had so much
information that it really felt necessary to begin

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to share what we were experiencing so
that that might actually help relieve some of

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the desperation that we felt humanity had
inc in escalating amounts. So we soon

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knew that we were writing this book
now Inner Journey, and then we understood

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that part of the wisdom of that
was the body, soul, spirit team

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structure pulling that wholeness of our selves
back together, and how that functioned,

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and how that would literally create reusable
stepping stones to achieve this wholeness. And

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so this is our gift to humanity
now that we feel is really in a

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time of great need. I completely
agree with that, Terry, and it's

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a lot of the reason I do
the work that I do is a lot

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of people are living in an existential
vacuum and that seems to manifest into depression

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and reliance on drugs and alcohol and
various other things. And so we're on

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similar journeys, which is why I
wanted to have you on the show.

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So from here, if we can, ladies, I want to give our

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listeners as much usable, actionable intelligence
as we can give them the short time

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that we can. So I've picked
out some different areas, as you know

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from your book, that I want
us to talk about, and if we

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can, I'll drill up the questions
and at the first that's going to answer

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it. If you could be just
brief to talk about what your perspective is

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on that, and then if the
other wants to chime in at all,

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then we'll do that and just keep
going. So let's start with in your

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take charge section, you say that
it's up to each of us to take

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responsibility for our personal growth, and
of course I agree. But I've met

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many people over the years who are
not necessarily motivated to cultivate personal growth.

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It's just not a priority. It's
not their thing, and they don't see

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value in it. So have you
found a way to help encourage people to

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want to grow personally? I don't
know if there is a way, but

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it's a different, different way of
looking at it. We all have a

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sole plan, we all are in
process. We all have our abilities to

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receive and change at the pace that
we can. But a lot of focus

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goes to busy, busy, busy
doo doo do don't take time to even

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know what you're doing to even stop
and feel the preciousness of the moment,

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and we get stuck. A lot
of people are stuck in an archaic belief

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system, old behavior patterns that are
not refreshed with the new inspiring energies that

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are given to us now. So
it's a dying thing. It becomes stressful

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to try to maintain the feelings of
the old. It gives a false sense

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of security when even if it's miserable, that we are conscious of it and

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we know about it, so it
feels safe. But it really is a

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false prophet It really is not what's
happening of the opportunities that are happening now

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for change. So how is someone
penalized by that? They're penalized by losing

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out on the wonderful experiences and being
consciously aware of what's happening in our internal

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changes, our worldly changes, and
we just continue in a status quo.

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It's kind of a miserable lifestyle,
really, But what's the antidote in my

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feeling is to look behind the scenes, look for the bigger picture of what's

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really going on energetically. It might
appear that everything is terrible, non inspired,

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not moving. People are just going
through life spending their time, filling

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their time with nothing being much that's
meaningful. But there is movement because we

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have a master plan of development,
a God given master plan that is not

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of these qualities. These are just
steps along the way of us opening and

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changing to the bigger picture of life. So our concerns for people are extremely

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powerful. Whether there are casual concerns
or deep filled concerns, they are still

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powerful because they send out an energy
of caring and concern, an energy that

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enters into the energetic fabric of the
individual. And so might it might appear

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that people are really in a miserable
place, while their egos and their perspectives

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are in a miserable place. But
people as a whole are perfect beings that

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are going through their changes of life
and their recognitions in their own way.

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So that's useful, Kathy, that's
very useful. Good. It takes away

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that the comparison in any judgment as
well. Hold your thought if you will,

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Kathy, We've got to grab our
first break, and then Terry think

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about if you want to say anything
else to that. I'm your host.

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Alice Cortez moving on the air with
Kathy Rawlings and Terry spears, the authors

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of Inner Journey, Stepping Stones into
our destiny of love. We've been talking

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a bit about how they came together
to conspire to write this book and the

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adventure that came with that, and
we're just getting into the contents. After

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the break, we'll continue the conversation, starting with the energy. Stay with

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us, We'll be right back.
Elise Cortez is a speaker and engagement and

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development catalyst. She designs and delivers
professional development, leadership and engagement workshops and

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can bring her expertise to your organization. She will help ignite meaningful development within

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your workforce that will increase employee engagement, performance and retention. To learn more

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or to invite a lease to speak
to your organization, please visit her at

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www dot Elise Cortez dot com.
She would welcome the opportunity to help get

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your employees working on purpose. This
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To reach our program today, send
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Cortez dot com. Now back to
working on Purpose. Thanks for staying with

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us, and welcome back to working
on Purpose. If you're just joining us,

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My guests are Kathy Rowlings and Terry
Spears, the authors of Inner Journey,

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Stepping stones into our destiny of love. Kathy joins us from Arizona and

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Terry is calling in from Missouri.
I'm your host, Elise Cortez. So,

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Kathy, you were just finishing up
something that you wanted to say more

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about about the section there about personal
growth. Did you want to say something

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else? Just very quickly? Is
that right now we have new refreshing energies

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showering the planet. It may not
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are taking place not only within us
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happening. Happening, the jawsling up, the new coming in living and managing

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our lives to the best of our
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to stress or worry over the outcomes. We do the best we can.

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We're all in different levels of growth, but God has our back and that's

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all we need to concern ourselves.
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Did you want to briefly weigh in
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next question? Well, what I
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own crises, these are our turning
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something different while our body, soul
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We come to the magic of literally
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a choice, expanding inward and literally
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and we begin to listen to the
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needs. That was beautiful, Thanks
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that. And let's go ahead and
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I, for me am increasingly attracted
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course you talk about that in your
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that so much of life is about
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I've become a tuned to the idea
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in the Reclaiming Fragments Fragments of Self
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and grow on our own inner journey
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we signal the body to internalize the
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each event. This is fascinating ladies
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we create frequently are very painful,
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the judgment, the harshness. These
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we're waiting to at some point release. So memory from the past guides our

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steps now, often with these unresolved
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makers, so we store them,
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When we do this, life becomes
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will generally some outer push becomes our
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literally tips over, or maybe it
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anguish from our stored emotional files.
These are fragments of ourselves that we literally

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now begin to release and requality fine
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can finally heal into appreciation of ourselves
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refreshing our lives with our energies that
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feeling rather than the old emotions.
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Terry. Thank you for that.
So listeners, you'll probably want to

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keep this episode and download that against
you can hear that that was a beautiful

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rendition. Quickly, Kathy, did
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that? For we're going on to
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okay, beautiful. This is just
the yummy stuff I was hoping for,

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ladies. I love it. It's
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for me, So it's like a
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this one's for you to start.
So one of the stepping stones for our

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journey, you offer is to acknowledge
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our sharing, a gentle push that
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And I have increasingly felt that nudging
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know that is why I'm able to
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my life today. So that listening
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was very important to me. But
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my message feel very aware of this
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is, how can we help people
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to it. That's a very good
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aspect of people's growth and my opinion, but we can do encouraging information that

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helps them to understand the changes that
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not understanding what is going on,
but usually people do. Sometimes they're very

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acceptive of this, at other times
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it's just a good idea to use
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our intense desires to help one another. When we do this, we take

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the personality out of the experience and
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want to say the trauma, but
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learning and caring for another person in
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the power that is given in care
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needs to be really spoken at a
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people, and they sometimes resent that
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understand but they're just ignorant of how
to do something, then they're open,

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they're ap pliable, they're willing to
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this becomes a very enjoyable time for
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purpose. But I think our idea
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but to create the loving acceptance,
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a structure of ourselves and the I
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because I do want to say that
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caring and the experience of the people
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the difference. This makes big changes
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Kathy. Let me let me quickly
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listeners, of what I heard from
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a place with someone and you're present
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and listen to them, you create
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step into at their own their own
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Kathy, and you you definitely opened
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for that, Terry. You're welcome. I'm going to go on to the

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next question just to keep us on
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moves fast. But did you want
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would say is that I agree with
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love, our intention of caring,
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chaotic bubble. And so I'm right
there with her on that life will help

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a person pause in their business and
help open them up so that they finally

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do listen to their nudge. And
we all have them. They're like a

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hunch and when we choose to honor
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this is spirit knocking, then life
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a fantastic addition that definitely took that
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Terry. So next one for you, Terry, to start this is

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around purpose in general. So on
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You say, quote Life's purpose is
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version of what it is and is
our individual purpose as we become aware and

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reached out to share this is a
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inward and they and the yang the
cycle of life expanding contracting. That's just

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beautiful. So many people listen to
this program wanted to discover and refine their

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purpose. So let's talk more about
this, Terry. Can you say more

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about your perspective on purpose and how
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just full of business, and because
I'm still leading a professional life along with

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the life of receiving and being an
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example of that. And one of
the things that I've done is just continue

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applying role models that are not necessarily
current for me. So as I have

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lived in this and I began to
examine that and align more with my gifts

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and strength and what I have to
share the clarity cane. When I ask

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for my charity, it literally came
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I made space picked the place a
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So purpose became more clear and has
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a journey weaving multiple strengths into different
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was coalescing and ready literally to present
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at first I tried to deny it. It's not always convenient, is it?

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Like I don't really want to do
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understand this material was so beautiful,
so enriching, and the chaos of the

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world was also escalating. I saw
how it could begin to help. It

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could begin to help. If those
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to neutralize some of that. So
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Kathy and I working together on this
book, we literally were lifted each day

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in this wonderful wholeness of knowing,
and we were then in sync with our

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purpose, a most exquisite feeling,
wonderful. Wow, it sounds delicious,

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yes, and I do recognize it
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to chime anything on that briefly before
we go on to the next Oh no,

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we're already okay. Good. You'll
notice listeners that I'm reading from their

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book in part because I just can't
duplicate how beautiful the way they write,

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and because I want to let you
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this reading, and it helps you
get present to the topics that we're working

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from, So that's why we're doing
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from the chapter on personal purpose,
and you say in that chapter we refresh

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our goals and seek avenues to bring
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natural progression of life where our personal
purposes can way with the wind and continually

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redirect our courses people create and this
is the heart of living our purpose.

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Oh that is just beautiful. So
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to this notion of how we seem
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related to our purpose? Absolutely?
And I just want to mention that what

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Kathy just did was literally an example
of authenticity. And one of my journeys

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has been moving from authority into authenticity, releasing what I know and letting myself

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be real and sharing that with another
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in Kathy, me too, so
speaking to this passions and creating our purpose

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literally, as we allow our passions
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that play, that dance with that, we are lifted and this pushes us

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into lifts us into our creation,
the offering that we have, the sharing

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that we have, and this is
how inner journey was created. And sharing

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this exquisite passion literally is our joy
inner journey. This book has given us

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the structure to do this. It
aligned so perfectly with our destiny of love,

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that it has been a total joy
to do this. The higher frequencies

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that we experience as we're working on
this lift us into another pristine reality.

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And this I wish for everyone that
was stunning, Terry beautiful. Thank you.

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With that, let's grab our last
break. I'm Elise Cortez, your

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host. We've been on the year
with Kathy Rawlings and Terry Spears, the

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authors of Inner Journey, stepping stones
into our destiny of love. We've been

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taught talking more about the contents of
the book. We'll continue to do so

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after the break. Stay with us. Alise Cortez is a speaker and engagement

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dot com. Now back to working
on Purpose. Thanks for seeing with us,

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and welcome back to working on Purpose. If you're just tuning in.

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My guests are Kathy Rawlings and Terry
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stepping stones into our destiny of love. Kathy joined us from Arizona and Terry's

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calling in from Missouri. I'm your
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in Texas, so to take us
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few more things I want to surface
here. So Terry, you say that,

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well, both of you say this
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to start with you and we'll continue
on and we'll see if Kathy can join

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us. If she can't, then
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listen. So you say in your
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to do so in our life journey. Then later you go on to say,

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pleasantly surprised we face the new and
fresh idea that our soul has an

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evolutionary program, is expanding and growing
in richness. The soul was given to

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each conscious human being as the navigator
of life purposely identified with the master blueprint

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of each person to evolve and personal
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life. What kinds of things impact
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just so compelling, and the idea
of our soul ever expansive, incredibly alluring,

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and I'm not sure that I've ever
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as you talk about in your book. Would you say a little bit

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more about that, Let us in
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Yes, the soul is like a
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And so as we the human walks
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we grow with our feelings that are
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We come into greater understanding, greater
love, greater compassion, and this literally

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is fed into the soul and enriches
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We keep continuing through life with more
experiences, more feelings, refining into greater

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understanding, love and compassion, which
in turn enriches the soul. So as

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we refine, our love for all
grows, and literally this oneness, that

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love for all, the connection to
all of life, is very freeing and

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will refine and often will shift our
purpose. So the goal of love and

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love continuing refining is continues to be
our purpose, but the mission how we

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achieve, as how we share this
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taing becomes very active, which is
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just our mind and our hearts and
a physical body. We there's more to

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us than that, and this becomes
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This book has been wonderful to help
ground the sacred wisdom that we've been given,

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and it lends itself to these kinds
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myself but quickens another person along their
destiny of love. So each exchange lifts

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and refines love itself becomes irresistible,
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it is. And you know,
there are many things I got from

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your book, But for that notion
of the soul really being expansive, I

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think is just is just really such
a fresh idea. I mean, why

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would I think otherwise? But somehow
I guess I was. So you have

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mentioned before the gift of just being
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you also talk about the gift of
compassion as access to growth. And again,

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we want to be able to presence
for our listeners as much usable information

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as we possibly can. So how
can we use this gift of compassion as

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access to growth? Compassion comes as
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This is a vulnerability that we have
where we are willing to step into

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our feelings. As we step into
old emotions, As we step into the

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pain, the judgment, the fears
that we've had and let ourselves feel them,

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they begin to release. They no
longer hold us captive and in old

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patterns and ruts, and so as
we begin to do this and allow ourselves

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to be authentic in every situation,
then we begin to move into self acceptance

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and self love that grows into unconditional
love. This lifts us in soul growth,

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gifting us with compassion where we literally
begin to rise up and claim the

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gift of love for all around us. We move outside of ourselves into the

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caring of others. This becomes service
service love given love, shared love multiplied

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unconditionally. Thus the soul recovers itself
and holds new potentials of growth, lift

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enlighten body, soul, spirit,
and together we receive that kiss of compassion,

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and this experience changes everything in our
lives. So okay, so that's

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so compelling and rich, and you
know it's so obvious to me, and

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I hope you also, listeners,
just the rich vain that these ladies live

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on by receiving as they do.
You've hinted at this, and I did

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want to ask you a little bit
about this, if you can say something

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briefly about it, Terry, But
how can we grow our soul by being

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authentic by choosing It's a choice.
I have to say that it is a

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choice. We can hold our authority, we can be eccentric, we can

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hold what we have known as our
truths, or we can let ourselves be

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vulnerable and authentic and set aside what
we knew to be able to learn,

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to be teachable, to use experience
to do something different. Okay, so

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that's going to take me into another
place that I was really intrigued with as

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well. I'm going to read this
again because it's beautiful. Listeners, quote

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our soul, the very fabric of
our physical existence is impacted through all of

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our sensory perceptions of life and records
and energy, all feelings, thoughts,

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impulses, and frequency exchanges. If
we don't enrich our soul with the complex

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flavors of our experiences, it can't
enrich us. Would you say more about

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that? That is so delicious and
it spoke to what you just said,

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so I had to call it up
there exactly, this authenticity, this courage

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to feel be honest with ourselves,
stepping into these stuffed feelings. Reaching for

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that authenticity really takes courage, and
so when our bravery is very richly rewarded

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when we do this, when we
allow the fullness of all of our parts

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of our team to come forward,
not just the mind, not just understanding

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it, but letting ourselves feel all
of these feelings and stepping into them,

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letting them begin to resolve and soften, then it's it's as if we have

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shifted gears. It's as if we
know how to finally use all of those

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gears on that stick shift and we
have a smooth ride. That is.

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Your ability to narrate this so that
we can really get access to it is

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beautiful, Terry. That's just it's
a stunning thing. I there's lots of

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things I could comment on that,
but I'll just say one thing really quick.

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This is not related to being authentic
per se, but it is about

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stepping into courage and my own fears, and that is I'm doing a two

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hundred kilometer race in a country called
Bhutan, which is between India and China

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later dismay, and the idea is
to stimulate my emotional, physical, and

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spiritual arenas. I'm doing it intentionally, so I fully expect to be overcome

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with awe, gratitude and just the
connections that come with that. So it

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just just spoke to me when I
read that in your book that I went

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right there as well. Just being
in the country at Bhutan, I've from

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what I understand is very very uplifting
to body, soul, and spirit.

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I'm going to step into it with
that, with that possibility in my wings

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for sure. And now with that, we're almost out of time here,

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so I just want to make sure
because we finish in about four minutes total.

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So if we can just quickly talk
about forgiveness. This is probably so

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important for so many of our listeners, and you say the act of forgiveness

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is one of the most powerful steps
and changing negative feelings into positive feelings.

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Short brief on that one. Yes, forgiveness, It's an eternal truth of

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love. When we release our blame
of another for our own feelings, situations,

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patterns, taking full responsibility for our
reactions, then we are claiming full

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responsibility and we empower ourselves. We
can consciously choose to change and grow,

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for instance, change our need for
an attachment to the feelings of blame.

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As we step into the full array
of feelings and begin to release our pain

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around this, a softening of benevolence
and an understanding of another's point of view

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comes, and compassion grows. Resentment
softens the walls of negativity just melt.

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And this is our gift to ourselves. Compassion rises, forgiveness is complete,

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and a blessing to ourselves, our
soul, and our spirit happens and to

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everyone around us well. That is
an invitation for all of us. Thank

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you for that, Terry. To
close the show here, I would like

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to be able to give the last
word too to my guests. So I

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don't know if Kathy wants to say
anything, but let me say for you,

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Terry, how what would you like
to leave our listeners with? I

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would like to just help anyone out
there understand that Inner Journey is a handbook

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to help us heal our splinteredness back
into holness and to enjoy all the benefits

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of the love, compassion, passion, grace, just to name a few.

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This handbook literally will help us to
escalate our growth as we continue to

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use it. And literally we have
read and reread this material and it continues

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to lift us into greater and greater
clarity of love. Literally, And so

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I just want to thank you so
much, Alise for this sharing. It

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certainly has been our pleasure to share
well. And thank you very much for

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being both who you are and for
being willing to accept the call that you

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each got, and for being obedient
to that, being obedient to purpose.

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It's as I said before, it's
not always convenient. It was it hasn't

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been for me either, but I
wouldn't trade it for anything. It's the

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most amazing experience I've ever had in
my life. But I also recognize that

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it's a journey and it does take
an awful lot of effort and obedience and

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being present to that. And so
I thank you both for the amazing work

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that you've done and that you are
out to help help the world and share

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it with us. So thank you
both for being on working on purpose.

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Thank you so much, Alise God
bless so listeners. If you want to

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learn more about Kathy Rawlings, Terry
Spears and their book Inner Journey Stepping Stones

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into our Destiny of Love, the
best way to find them is to send

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them an email. You can send
them that email to purpose Realized at gmail

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dot com. One more time.
The email address is purpose realized at gmail

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dot com. Last week, if
you miss the live show, you can

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always catch it via recorded podcast.
We were on the Earth na A Lee

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Lafonte Sis from France talking about her
remarkable book and ted talk and journey going

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from a businesswoman extraordinaire, superwoman in
life to paraplegic and then achieving her dream

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of becoming a writer and now inspirational
speaker. I dare say you'll be inspired

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hearing her story. Next week we'll
be on the air with Tony excuse me,

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Tom Holsey, author of the winning
mindset that Saved My life, and

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hear the story that inspired its writing. See you there. Remember that work

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is at least a third of our
life, so let's work on purpose.

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Well, hope you've enjoyed this week's
program, be sure to tune in to

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