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 Cortes. 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 Cortes. 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, Alise CORTESJY live from
Dallas, Texas, which is home base

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

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

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

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

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are designed to help equip leaders,
insight 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
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I hope you walk away with something
you can immediately put to use.

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or conference at any rate. I'm
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Now onto this week's program with us
today is Catherine Rawlings and Terry Spears,

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

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

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

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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's
doning in from Missouri. Kathy and Terry,

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welcome to Working on Purpose. Thank
you, Alist. We happy to

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be here. It's really wonderful to
have to have the two of you here.

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And I I was delighted when we
cross paths and I realized you can

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make for a delightful guests. And
I have read your book cover to cover,

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as you can tell by now,
and so listeners for you to understand.

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I've prepared some questions that I wanted
to direct in the dialogue, and

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we've decided that we're going to serve
them up to one of the authors first,

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and then if the other wants to
chime in, they can do so.

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So just know that that's how we
architected the conversation so that it will

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flow gently for you. So before
we get into the contents of the book,

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ladies, I think it would be
helpful for all of us and probably

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very interesting to understand just how this
joint book together came to be. So

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what's the history and why were you
compelled to write it together? I'll begin

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with that this is Kathy. I've
always been a seeker my whole life.

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I've always quested to find the bigger
picture, the bigger perspective of life,

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never really being satisfied with the answers
that I got in normal conversations, and

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so throughout the years I focused on
developing that within me. So for the

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last forty years I have been receiving
divine inspiration, sharing it with others,

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helping them to understand their lives issues
from their bigger perspective. And this brings

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us to our current experience in getting
together in writing this book. About six

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years ago, after my meditation,
I had the most unusual experience that caught

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me by surprise. I heard a
resounding voice and urging an invitation asking me

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if I would like to receive divine
inspiration on talking about and learning about our

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higher truths. Now, this receiving
was not new to me, but this

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very clear, direct question was new
to me, and it was an answer

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to my prayers of I was ready
to expand into more of myself and get

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a more direct communication, clear line
with my creator, my God's source.

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So when I heard this, I
got a thump in my chest and I

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sat for a minute trying to digest
what I had just received. And of

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course my answer was a resounding yes. So I sat there for a little

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while and I wondered how this was
going to come about. And I heard

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very loudly again, call Terry,
Call Terry, invite her to participate in

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receiving divine inspiration and your lessons together. Well, I had not I have

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known Terry for years, but we
went our separate ways, and so I

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was compelled to reconnect with her and
share with her what had happened and see

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if she was interested in participating the
mess together. And so I was looking

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around for her phone number, and
I fortunately found it and she answered,

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and so I told her, kind
of still in disbelief, what was going

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on, and she didn't even miss
a beat and she said yes. And

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so I said, okay, this
will be as I understood it was going

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to be like weekly lessons that I
was open to, just waiting to see

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what would happen. So at that
point, Terry and I began our lessons

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together and with the two of us, when two or more are gathered,

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it's extremely powerful in your genuine quest
for inner truth and answers. Well,

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that's what happened. We had an
a amplified connection and we were able to

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just thrive and of course took it
was always a stretch to understand the material

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that was given. And then we
started to accumulate so much of this powerful

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information that we said, what are
we going to do with this? Why

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don't we compile it in a book? And so we decided that that would

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be a good way to do it. So from then we went through our

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processes. I had resistance to a
book. We had done four books before

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and it was co authored our four
books. Uh, but and it was

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all sharing higher truths that we received
higher truths. But we both didn't like

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the reality of the marketing and the
other things that went with self publishing,

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so we weren't really diligent in this
area. So we got somewhat disappointed,

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and then we kind of just said, no, that's it, We're not

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going to write any more books.
And so as we decided to write this

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book, what happened in the interim
that was so powerful for me was in

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my resistance. I was blocking this
pressure that I had felt. Even though

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I knew that we would be writing
a book, I still was in resistance.

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But I had this pressure building in
me physically, and it was getting

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so uncomfortable. My head was boiling
inside my pineal gland and so on felt

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like it was going to burst.
I was off balanced in my body,

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I was not doing well, and
the pressure was building. Well. I

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knew what I had to do.
It was not something that I was really

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anxious to do. So I decided
to stop my resistance and allow this material

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to be given, and then we
Terry open to receiving she feeling pressure as

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well. We collectively then received our
book, and we were so invested in

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this and it was four months from
the time that we began to the time

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the book was on the market for
sale totally completed. Wow, and that

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brings you up to our present moment. That is an amazing rendition. If

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I can just say a couple of
things, and then I do want to

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hear from Terry as well. First, what a way to narrate an awful

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lot of time and experience in those
few minutes, So thank you for that.

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And second, I want a presence
for our listeners, Kathy and Terry

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that what I heard from that is
the importance of really listening to yourself and

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the divine. I think it's so
important. I think in today's fast paced

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society, people don't take the time
or the effort to still themselves to be

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able to listen. So I want
to call that out. And then also

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to the beautiful collaboration that you have
together. How what you made of that

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collaboration is I've read the book,
it's beautiful. So just wanted to chime

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in on a couple of those things. Thank you, You're welcome. And

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Terry, what about your perspective?
Well, thank you. As we work

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together with our divine guidance, with
inspired guidance, we had so much information

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that it really felt necessary to begin
to share what we were experiencing so that

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that might actually help relieve some of
the desperation that we felt humanity had in

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escling in escalating amounts. So we
soon knew that we were writing this book

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now in our journey, and then
we understood that part of the wisdom of

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that was the body, soul,
spirit team structure pulling that wholeness of our

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self back together, and how that
functioned, and how that would literally create

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reusable stepping stones to achieve this wholeness. And so this is our gift to

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humanity now that we feel is really
in a time of great need. I

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completely agree with that, Terry,
and it's a lot of the reason I

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do the work that I do is
a lot of people are living in an

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existential vacuum and that seems to manifest
into depression and reliance on drugs and alcohol

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and various other things. And so
we're on similar journeys, which is why

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I wanted to have you on the
show. So from here, if we

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can, ladies, I want to
give our listeners as much usable, actionable

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intelligence as we can give them the
short time that we can. So I've

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picked out some different areas as you
know from your book that I want us

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to talk about and if we can, I'll drill up the questions and the

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first that's going to answer it if
you could be just brief to talk about

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what your perspective is on that,
and then if the other wants to chime

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in at all, then we'll do
that and then just keep going. So

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let's start with in your take charge
section, you say that it's up to

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each of us to take responsibility for
our personal growth, and of course I

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agree, But I've met many people
over the years who are not necessarily motivated

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to cultivate personal growth. It's just
not a priority, it's not their thing,

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and they don't see value in it. So have you found a way

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to help encourage people to want to
grow personally? I don't know if there

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is a way, but it's a
different, different way of looking at it.

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We all have a soul plan,
we all are in process. We

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all have our abilities to receive and
change at the pace that we can.

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But a lot of focus goes to
busy, busy, busy, do do

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do, don't take time to even
know what you're doing, to even stop

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and feel the preciousness of the moment
and we get stuck. A lot of

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people are stuck in an archaic belief
system, old behavior patterns that are not

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refreshed with the new inspiring energies that
are given to us now. So it's

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a dying thing. It becomes stressful
to try to maintain the feelings of the

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old. It gives a false sense
of security when even if it's miserable,

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that we are conscious of it and
we know about it, so it feels

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safe, But it really is as
a false profit. It really is not

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what's happening of the opportunities that are
happening now for change. So how is

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someone penalized by that? They're penalized
by losing out on the wonderful experiences and

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being consciously aware of what's happening in
our internal changes, our worldly changes,

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and we just continue in a status
quo. It's kind of a miserable lifestyle,

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really, But what's the antidote and
my feeling is to look behind the

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scenes, look for the bigger picture
of what's really going on energetically. It

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might appear that everything is terrible,
non inspired, not moving. People are

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just going through life, spending their
time, filling their time with nothing being

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much that's meaningful. But there is
movement because we have a master plan of

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development, a God given master plan
that is not of these qualities. These

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are just steps along the way of
us opening and changing to the bigger picture

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of life. So our concerns for
people are extremely powerful. Whether there are

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casual concerns or deepailt concerns, they
are still powerful because they send out an

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energy of caring and concern, an
energy that enters into the energetic fabric of

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the individual. And so it might
it might appear that people are really in

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a miserable place, while their egos
and their perspectives are in a miserable place.

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But people as a whole are perfect
beings that are going through their changes

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of life and their recognitions in their
own way. That's useful, Kathy,

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that's very useful. Good. It
takes away that the comparison in any judgment

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as well. Hold your thought if
you will, Kathy, We've got to

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grab our first break and then Terry
think about it. If you want to

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say anything else to that, I'm
your host, Alice Cortez. We've been

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on the air with Kathy Rawlings and
Terry Spears, the authors of Inner Journey

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stepping stones into our destiny of love. We've been talking a bit about how

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they came together to conspire to write
this book and the adventure that came with

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that, and we're just getting into
the contents. After the break, we'll

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continue the conversation, starting with energy. Stay with us, We'll be right

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back. Alise Cortes is a speaker
and engagement and development catalyst. She designs

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and delivers professional development, leadership and
engagement workshops and can bring her expertise to

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your organization. She will help ignite
meaningful development within your workforce that will increase

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employee engagement, performance and retention.
To learn more or to invite Elise to

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speak to your organization, please visit
her at www dot Elisecortes dot com.

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She would welcome the opportunity to help
get your employees working on purpose. This

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is working on Purpose with Elise Cortes. To reach our program today, send

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an email to a lease Alice at
a least Coortes dot com. Now back

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to working on purpose. Well,
thanks for staying with us, and welcome

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back to working on Purpose. If
you're just joining us. My guests are

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Kathy Rawlings and Terry Spears, the
authors of inner journey, stepping stones into

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our destiny of love. Kathy joined
us from Arizona and Terry's calling in from

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Missouri. I'm your host at last
Cortes. So, Kathy, you are

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just finishing up something that you wanted
to say more about about the section there

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about personal growth. Did you want
to say something else? Just very quickly?

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Is that right now we have new, refreshing energies showering the planet.

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It may not seem so because of
the chaotic events that are taking place not

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only within us but around us,
but this is what's happening. Happening,

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the jostling up, the new coming
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best of our ability is great.
We really don't have to stress or worry

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over the outcomes. We do the
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levels of growth, but God has
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concern ourselves with. Got it beautiful, Terry? Did you want to briefly

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weigh in on that before I ask
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I could say is that when we
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turning points that literally will push us
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soul, team Spirit team begins to
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magic of literally surrendering ego, believing
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and literally reveling in our recovery of
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listen to the soul's urge as we
honor our body sneeds. That was beautiful,

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Thanks beautiful, add Terry, thank
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ahead and serve this question to you, Terry. I, for me am

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increasingly attracted to the notion of energy. And of course you talk about that

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in your book and just now,
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is about getting present to and managing
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idea of vibrational and energy especially And
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Self chapter that I quote. As
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journey through daily experiences and choices of
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the qualities of the experiences and harmonize
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within our energetic body and create a
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ladies. Tell us more, all
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frequently are very painful, and we
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the harshness. These are experiences that
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to at some point release. So
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often with these unresolved pains and fears
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so we store them, pushed away, all flavoring our current life. When

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we do this, life becomes old
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generally some outer push becomes our reckoning
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literally tips over, or maybe it
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Well, here we begin to address
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spheares, anguish from our stored emotional
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we literally now begin to release and
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where we can finally heal into appreciation
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love, refreshing our lives with our
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frequency of feeling rather than the old
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packed in there, Terry, thank
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probably want to keep this episode and
download that again so you can hear that

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that was a beautiful rendition. Quickly, Kathy, did you want to add

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anything at all to that before we
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okay, okay, beautiful. This
is just the yummy stuff I was

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hoping for, ladies. I love
it. It's nice and chewy too,

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just before dinner for me, so
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So, Kathy, this one's for
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stepping stones for our journey, you
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comes forward to guide our sharing,
a gentle push that is always with us,

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you say. And I have increasingly
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its direction myself and know that is
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my work and across my life today. So that listening that you talked about

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before, Kathy, was very important
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people who connect with my message feel
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my question to you is, how
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this nudge get access to it.
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can't control of that aspect of people's
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do encouraging information that helps them to
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their life. Maybe not understanding what
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Sometimes they're very acceptive of this,
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it. So sometimes it's just a
good idea to use silence with the attitude

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of sharing and expressing our intense desires
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this, we take the personality out
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the I don't want to say the
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and are our learning and caring for
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silent way acknowledges the power that is
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never a word needs to be really
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just confusing to people and they sometimes
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someone does understand but they're just ignorant
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open, they're appliable, they're willing
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and then this becomes a very enjoyable
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a bigger purpose. But I think
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someone, but to create the loving
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as a structure of ourselves and the
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this because I do want to say
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the caring and the experience of the
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make the difference. This makes big
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that, Kathy. Let me let
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So listeners, of what I heard
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in a place with someone and you're
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them and listen to them, you
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to step into at their own their
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Kathy, and you you definitely opened
up something for us. So thank

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you for that, Terry. You're
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the next question just to keep us
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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 busyness 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
gets much easier. Well, that was

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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
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new version of what it is and
is our individual purpose as we become aware

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and reached out to share this is
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inward and or the yin and the
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That's just beautiful. So many people
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and refine their purpose. So let's
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you say more about your perspective on
purpose and how it unfolds. Yes,

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indeed, life is just full of
busyness. And because I'm still leading a

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professional life along with the life of
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messages, I'm an example of that. And one of the things that I've

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done is just continue applying role models
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So as I have lived in this
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more with my gifts and strength and
what I have to share the clarity Kane.

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When I ask for my classy,
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And so then I made space pick
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my divine inspiration. So purpose became
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evolved. It's been a journey weaving
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When inner journey was coalescing and ready
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became undeniable, although at first I
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It's not always convenient, is it? Like I don't really want to do

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another book? Yeah, but I
understand this material was so beautiful, so

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enriching, and the chaos of the
world was also escalating. I saw how

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it could begin to help. It
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were give mixed, it would begin
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we continued with our working together,
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we literally were lifted each day in
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we were then in sync with our
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Wow, sounds delicious, yes,
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Kathy, did you want to chime
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on to the next Oh no,
we're already okay. Good. You'll notice

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listeners that I'm reading from their book
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beautiful the way they write, and
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That's why I'm doing some of this
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to the topics that we're working from, So that's why we're doing it this

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way. I wanted to talk from
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say in that chapter we refresh our
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to fruition. This is the natural
progression of life where our personal purposes can

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way with the wind and continually redirect
our courses. People create and this is

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the heart of living our purpose.
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would you speak to this notion of
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passions and our core related to our
purpose? Absolutely? And I just want

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to mention that what Kathy just did
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one of my journeys has been moving
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know and letting myself be real and
sharing that with another one. And I

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very much honor that in Kathy,
me too. So speaking to this passions

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and creating our purpose literally, as
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as we honor that play with that
dance with that, we are lifted

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and this pushes us, lifts us
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have, the sharing that we have, and this is how inner journey was

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created. And sharing this exquisite passion
literally is our joy inner journey. This

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book has given us the structure to
do this. It aligns so perfectly with

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our destiny of love that it has
been a total joy to do this.

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The higher frequencies that we experience as
we're working on this lift us into another

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pristine reality. And this I wish
for everyone that was stunning, Terry beautiful.

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Thank you With that, Let's grab
our last break. I'm Alis Cortez,

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

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the authors of Inner Journey, stepping
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We've been talked talking more about the
contents of the book. We'll continue to

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do so after the break. Stay
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at a Leascortes dot com. Now
back to working on Purpose. Thanks for

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sting with us, and welcome back
to working on Purpose if you're just tuning

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in. My guests are Kathy Rawlings
and Terry Spears, the authors of Inner

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Journey, stepping stones into our destiny
of love. Kathy joined us from Arizona

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and Terry's calling in from Missouri.
I'm your host to Leise Cortes, and

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I'm here in Texas, so to
take us here to the finish, I've

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got a few more things I want
to surface here. So Terry, you

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say that, well, both of
you say this in the book, but

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I want to start with you and
we'll continue on and we'll see if Kathy

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can join us. If she can't, then you and I will chat and

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she'll just listen. So you say
in your book that our purpose evolves and

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is designed to do so in our
life journey. Then later you go on

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to say, pleasantly surprised we face
the new and fresh idea that our soul

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has an evolutionary program is expanding and
growing in richness. The soul was given

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to each conscious human being as the
navigator of life, purposely identified with the

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master blueprint of each person to evolve
in personal abilities, to experience changes throughout

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the walks of life. What kinds
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I find that just so compelling,
and the idea of our soul ever expansive,

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incredibly alluring, and I'm not sure
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able to evolve, as you talk
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a little bit more about that,
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if you would. Yes, the
soul is like a higher perspective of us,

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our physical selves. And so as
we the human walks around and has

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all these experiences, and we grow
with our feelings that are generated from these

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experiences, we heal, We come
into greater understanding, greater love, greater

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compassion, and this literally is fed
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We keep repeating life, we keep
continuing through life with more experiences, more

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feelings, refining into greater understanding,
love and compassion, which in turn enriches

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the soul. So as we refine, our love for all growth and literally

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this oneness, that love for all, the connection to all of life,

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is very freeing and will refine and
often will shift our purpose. So the

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goal of love and love continuing refining
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the mission how we achieve this,
how we share this evolves and then our

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body, soul, spirit team becomes
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of us, rather than just our
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There's more to us than that,
and this becomes obvious as we continue

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through these experiences. This book has
been wonderful to help ground the sacred wisdom

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that we've been given, and it
lends itself to these kinds of exchanges of

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the heart that quicken myself but quickens
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So each exchange lifts and refines love
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Using your word, it is.
And you know, there were many

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things I got from your book,
but that notion of the soul really being

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expansive, I think is just is
just really such a fresh idea. I

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mean, why would I think otherwise? But somehow I guess I was.

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So you have mentioned before the gift
of just being kind and present for other

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people, but you also talk about
the gift of compassion as access to growth

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and again, we want to be
able to presence for our listeners as much

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usable information as we possibly can.
So how can we use this gift of

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compassion as access to growth. Compassion
comes as we shift from our authority into

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our authenticity. This is a vulnerability
that we have where we are willing to

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

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

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feel them, they begin to release. They no longer hold as captive and

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in old patterns and ruts, and
so as we begin to do this and

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allow ourselves to be authentic in every
situationuation, then we begin to move into

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self acceptance and self love that grows
into unconditional love. This lifts us in

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soul growth, gifting us with compassion
where we literally begin to rise up and

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

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into the caring of others. This
becomes service move service love given love,

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shared love multiplied unconditionally. Thus the
soul recovers itself and holds new potentials of

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growth. Lift enlighten body, soul, spirit, and together we receive that

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kiss of compassion, and this experience
changes everything in our lives. So okay,

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

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me, and I hope you also, listeners, just the rich vine that

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these ladies live on by being receiving
as they do. You've hinted at this,

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and I did want to ask you
a little bit about this, if

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you can say something briefly about it, Terry, But how can we grow

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our soul by being authentic by choosing
It's a choice. I have to say

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that it is a choice. We
can hold our authority, we can be

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eccentric, we can hold what we
have known as our truths, or we

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can let ourselves be vulnerable and authentic
and set aside what we knew to be

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able to learn, to be teachable, to use experience to do something different.

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Okay, so that's going to take
me into another place that I was

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really intrigued with as well. I'm
going to greet this again because it's beautiful,

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Listeners, quote our soul, the
very fabric of our physical existence is

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impacted through all of our sensory perceptions
of life and records and energy, all

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feelings, thoughts, impulses, and
frequency exchanges. If we don't enrich our

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soul with the complex flavors of our
experiences, it can't enrich us. Would

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you say more about that? That
is so delicious and it spoke to what

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you just said, so I had
to call it up there exactly. This

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authenticity, this courage to feel be
honest with ourselves, stepping into these stuffed

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feelings. Reaching for that authenticity really
takes courage, and so when our bravery

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is very richly rewarded when we do
this, when we allow the fullness of

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all of our parts of our team
to come forward, not just the mind,

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not just understanding it, but letting
ourselves feel all of these feelings and

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stepping into them, letting them begin
to resolve and soften, then it's as

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if we have shifted gears. It's
as if we know how to finally use

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all of those gears on that stick
shift and we have a smooth ride.

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That is your ability to narrate this
so that we can really get access to

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it is beautiful, Terry. That's
just a stunning thing. 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, from what

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

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I'm going to step into it with
with that possibility at my 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 finished 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.

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

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

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full 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

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pain. Around this, a softening, a benevolence, and an understanding of

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another's point of view comes and compassion
grows. Resentment softens the walls of negativity

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just melt, and this is our
gift to ourselves. Compassion rises, forgiveness

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

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and to everyone around us. Well, that is an invitation for all of

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us. Thank you for that,
Terry. To close the show here,

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I would like to be able to
give the last word to my guests.

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So I don't know if Kathy wants
to say anything, but let me let

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me say for you, Terry,
what would you like to leave our listeners

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with. I would like to just
help anyone out there understand that inner journey

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is a handbook to help us heal
our splinteredness back into wholeness, and to

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enjoy all the benefits of the love, compassion, passion, grace, just

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to name a few. This handbook
literally will help us to escalate our growth

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as we continue to use it.
And literally we have read and reread this

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material and it continues to lift us
into greater and greater clarity of love.

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Literally. And so I just want
to thank you so much, Elise,

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for this sharing. It certainly has
been our pleasure to share well. And

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thank you very much for being both
who you are and for being willing to

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accept the call that you each got
and for being obedient to that, being

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obedient to purpose. It's as I
said before, it's not always convenient.

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It was it hasn't been for me
either, but I wouldn't trade it for

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anything. It's the most amazing experience
I've ever had in my life. But

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I also recognize that it's a journey
and it does take an awful lot of

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effort and obedience and being present to
that. And so I thank you both

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for the amazing work that you've done
and that you are out to help help

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the world and share it with us. So thank you both for being on

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working on purpose. Thank you so
much for Luise. God bless so listeners.

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If you want to learn more about
Kathy Rawlings, Terry Spears and their

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book in her journey stepping stones into
our destiny of love, the best way

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to find them is to send them
an email. You can send them that

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email to purpose Realized at gmail dot
com one more time. The email address

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is purpose realized at gmail dot com. Last week, if you missed the

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live show, you can always catch
it via recorded podcast. We were on

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the Earth not to let Lafonte size
from France, talking about her remarkable book

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and ted talk and journey going from
a businesswoman extraordinaire, superwoman in life to

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paraplegic and then achieving her dream of
becoming a writer and now inspirational speaker.

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I dare say you'll be inspired hearing
her story. Next week we'll be on

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the air with Tony excuse me,
Tom Wolsey, author of the winning Mindset

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that Saved My life, and hear
the story that inspired its writing. See

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you there. Remember that work is
at least or third of our life,

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so let's work on purpose. Well, you hope you've enjoyed this week's program.

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Be sure to tune in to Working
on Purpose, featuring your host Alis

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Cortes, each week on the Voice
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your life's purpose at work.