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Escaping Reality, Finding Bliss: The Epic Adventure of a Soul-Searching Explorer! With Monika
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Aug 5, 2024
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Fitness Guys, Healthy Living podcast
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I am my friend here, Monica, and she's going to introduce herself, and then we're going to go from there
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Welcome aboard, Monica. Hi, Jimmy, and thank you for having me here on your podcast
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Amazing. I'm Monica, as you said, Monica Bodera, joining you from London in the United Kingdom
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and my accent comes from Poland where I was born, brought up
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and I moved to live in London in 2000, I believe. So if you count my years, it's nearly half of my life
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I've been here nearly here for half of my life. So yes, I run a spiritual awakening circle platform
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for people who are on a spiritual path and who are also providers of guidance
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that's spiritual, personal development guidance. And I'm a mom, and that's what makes me most happy and proud
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So how did you come up with the whole thing for your spiritual group
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I had my personal experience, which was certainly about spiritual awakening. And that was around the time my son was born
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And out of the darkness, the light came through, shines through. So I had rather difficult personally time
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And all sorts of experiences started happening. I couldn't make much sense out of it while it was happening
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Apart from the fact that I've reviewed my life completely, I've changed the many ways I've conducted my life in
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and I've realized that there is more to mind and body. There is something called soul and I've connected
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And while I was in within that process, I invested a lot of time and money as well
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into my personal and spiritual development. And while I was exploring and seeking new connections
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and people and trainers who were taking me that extra step forward
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And I came across a lady called Nikki DiGirolamo, who is a British lady based in Italy
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We were talking on the phone a lot, and we realized that we are at the point where we are both available
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to start doing something within that niche. And I was certainly super
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excited. We've just got into the first lockdown. So there was no option to travel to Italy
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She runs retreats there. I was absolutely amazed by the location of what I've seen online
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And the only option to do something together was a digital platform. And that's how the Facebook
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groups, Virtual Awakening Circle, came to live. And of course, I managed to go to Italy and see her in real
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life we've had three or four meetings in between lockdowns because as you might know we are
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in a second in the second lockdown again in London but yes that's so that so it was an answer to
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my need to start a different career different professional path and as as you know those things happen
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when we need them. So that was my connection with Nikki and somehow
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we came with that plan to do something really helpful for others
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and I think that's how we continue just to provide some help, some support for people
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who experience the variety of challenges on that path. And so what do you discuss
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about in a spiritual group? It's mainly a platform for connections. So we've got about 4,500 members, and they come from all over the world
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And what we as Admin's do is we provide them some useful nuggets of wisdom or advice
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We invite them to discussion, to sharing their experiences. and outside of our control, obviously, discussions happen and so people connectively
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So it's about exchanging experiences because some of those experiences can be unsettling
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We are not taught at school what spiritual awakening is, how to handle a certain sort of more difficult
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part of the process and and if we reach out and ask we'll get answers and that's what this group
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is mainly used for and uh how many uh people are part of your group four and a half thousand
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fifty percent i would say a fifth cent are members uh of our members are from the u s
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30% will be from the UK and 20% are members from Australia, India, other parts of Europe
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Poland, my native Poland, I've been doing some work with the Polish community and I'm just seeing new influx of Polish people joining in
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So, yes, it's very international group and it's still growing. Jeez. How many years have you been doing it
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We have, well, what was it? It's coming to the first anniversary in April
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I seem to remember the 8th of April as our start date
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So yeah, so nearly a year. It feels like we've been doing it for the last 20 years
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I know that feeling. I have two milestones coming up as well on April 12th
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April 12th would be Crazy Fitness Guy's fourth birthday. And it would be my podcast first birthday
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Well, beautiful. Amazing. So you kept it going for the last four years
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Yeah, four years, which, uh, well, it's good. Routily long four years
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Yes. Yeah well it is one thing to start but then keeping it going is the other challenge Yeah I thought it would be a walking on park No
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Why I wish. Yes, yes. But you get to speak to nice people like me
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Yeah. I do like speaking. I do like speaking to a lot of people and I like podcasting more than I do
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writing on my website at times just because the algorithms change every I read a statistic that
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Google updates their algorithm like over 400 plus times a year and like overkill oh my god that's that's
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more than once per day yeah pretty much oh my gosh you see sometimes ignorance is a blessing as
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they say and I'm and I'm quite ignorant on those matters So thank you for letting me now
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Now I'm not going to have a sleep last night. Yeah, there's some days where I just feel like just ripping my side down
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Yank. So what are your goals for your group
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To help as many people as possible. So that's the overall goal for what we do with the group
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We have other ideas on how to develop the concept and how to obviously run a business as well
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But the business side is connected mainly to our retreats base in Italy
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central Italy in Abu Zerbollah. we have a we are building a eco-eco spiritual village and of course we can't really travel freely
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so it's on hold but that's that's our plan for making it more business-like for the group the plan
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is really to build it as as keep building it keep building it if it's if it comes to you know
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700,000. That's great. It will be wonderful. But it is about helping people, giving them the platform to connect
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And our major challenge, I would say, is to keep that platform safe and safe in terms of
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not letting people who might prey on vulnerability of the process. people maybe not aware what is expected, what kind of service might help them
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So mine, it's a little petty hate of mine, but I need to remove people from the group and
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when they don't behave. And when I mean don't behave is when they try to sell things like card reading, spells
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and it's useful and great, but we know whom we would like to recommend
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We trust those people and when they come without any verification, it just becomes quite, for me personally
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it's a huge responsibility to have that platform with people seeking their support
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and having someone who offers that support without prior knowledge of me and Nikki
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And so that's a challenge, but the plan is to grow it, keep growing it and connecting
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That's one of my goals, too, is to keep growing my group. Currently I have like 35 people in the group, but I just, I kind of, it's funny, I started off with my group sometime last year
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and then I was going to try to transition because I didn't feel like a Facebook group
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was feasible and possible for me to run but then but I got no one else to join the group
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on this other platform and so I was like I'm going to take this thing down
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and after taking it down for a little bit I kind of jumped everything back to Facebook and a lot of people started joining and I like
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yeah a lot of people started joining and they got more interest in the group and I was like wow
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and it's like so it doesn't do well on one platform go back to where all began and I was like
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now they're interested. Yes, sometimes it takes a full circle, doesn't it
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Vicious circle. It's interesting. Can be, yeah, can be when you run around it
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But are you aware of Clubhouse? Yeah. I think we had this conversation
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I think I did ask you, yes. Just to add to the availability of different platforms
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there was this new kid on the blog, the clubhouse, and that is additional time and effort
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which I've decided to develop. Oh gosh, it's now I think it is my
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it might be my vicious circle that I move to a different platform
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developing it from scratch basically. But what I will tell you, it's a massive platform
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it's very vibrant, is very dynamic. So that development happens much quicker
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than what I've seen on Facebook. I'm still hoping to get on Clubhouse
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because, but I'm still waiting for the Android app to come now
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I can afford an Apple phone. Nor do I want an Apple phone
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Yeah, well, they are. they are coming with an Android version very soon
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So that will add a huge influx of new users, I'm sure
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Yeah, like I. Someone was telling me. I was going to say that a few people were telling me
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that the Clubhouse for Android is not going to come out until sometime later
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a few months later in the year. I was like, well, that's very specific
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Yeah. You know, that's actually Clubhouse. You don't get any specific. It like I think the founders the developers are literally creating as they go So we are there on the platform already and they are still creating it and finding their ways around it
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So it's a very interesting time to be on it. Someone was telling me about the statistics about iPhone users, specifically for Poland
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I'm sure other countries will have different statistics, but apparently it's only 10
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of the mobile users who have iPhones. So, yeah, so with Android app up being available
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I'm sure that that platform will grow quite quickly. And I've heard as well, actually, there was Mark Zackenbeck on Clubhouse last week
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And he's talking about his audio app for Facebook. So Clubhouse will have a competition soon
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That's just dumb. It's difficult to continue with what we've got, I know
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Yeah, we need Facebook's version. That's going to work. Some of this stuff don't work
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It doesn't work. yeah i've i seem to uh i mean i've never used marketplace i think facebook has a marketplace
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some some sort of shop yeah never used it i've never used um and i've recently seen something
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like a facebook dating i was like gosh no not either it is oh my god i thought well i must be dreaming
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um but apparently so so still not using that I was like, if I'm not going to put in my relationship status on Facebook, yeah, no thanks
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I'm not going to trust you with my dating life. Yes, yes
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Literally, that's what they, I guess, do. Just get the information from users and develop all the apps for them
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But, wow, we are where we are. As I'm saying, I'm using a lot of clubhouse
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now which is taking time. Facebook is growing, which is great, and I don't see Facebook going anywhere
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But because Clubhouse is integrated with Twitter and Instagram, the side effect is I'm growing Instagram
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So which I don't know about you. Do you use Instagram? Yeah, I use Instagram
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Yeah, I've been seeing people when growing their Instagram like crazy. on some numbers and it's like, can I get a pause of the action
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Yes. Yes. It's time and effort again, Jimmy. It's just, oh, it is time and effort
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And patience. Oh, that one too. Yes. Yes. Which sometimes I don't have
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Now you're doing absolutely great. I'm very impressed. of your business and, you know, what you do is just great
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It's funny. I got, so how many, so do you have a website for your
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for your spiritual group? Yes, we do, actually. It's exactly the same name, spiritual awakening circle
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I mean, who would like to register such a long name, but we did? So it's spiritualawakening circle.com
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wishing you like typing it all. So we have a website with more information on different plans
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I'm currently developing online courses for people who want to have more than a free platform
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I didn't mention that the group is all free, that the content is available for free
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But for those who want to deepen the guidance, the knowledge, the training
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that's what is going to happen for them. They will have options through us
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and through all the amazing teachers who are part of the platform as well
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So there will be information about that. And we also have a program
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to support those spiritual business or intuitive business people. So that's where we take a view
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to help them with visibility help them with again going back to retreats in Italy
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There was a program and I can't wait when we can travel again
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because this is really exciting meeting people in real life. And I'm not complaining, it's great
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I can see you, we can talk and we can connect. The same with the group of people I'm working with
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But there is nothing better than meeting people in real life. from my point of view
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I agree with that. I'm looking forward to being able to travel again
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I'm hoping. It's funny, I just got this offer. It wasn't really an offer
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but this guy that interviewed me a while back, I think sometimes like last month, I forget the exact date
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But I remember it was this month? I don't know. But he said I would be a good fit for this panel discussion that has so many meetings a year
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And he thinks that I should sit on this panel and provide
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feedback to provide feedback to this organization and and once
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we get out of this pandemic I'd be able to travel to the different meeting locations
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and everything and I'm like sounds interesting that's amazing and
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and it was kind of like it was kind of daunting to me
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today because I'm it is since it's like my first week back from spring break I just like everything
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kind of just piled up on my desk like one thing after the other and like yeah this is fun
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I was like one thing I learned so far as being an entrepreneur is like take one week off you you
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come back and there a few a few things that doesn work correctly and like my newsletter to all I like awesome And it like why am I giving these people my business and I not going to give them my business anymore my whole point was just like everything
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you just kind of came crashing to me at once and today when I got that email
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and it's like can I do this? Can I handle this? I don't know
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and then I had to remind myself and it's like just because you submit the application
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doesn't mean you're going to get picked. And it's like, it's not like a, hang it
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It's like it's kind of like a job application, but it's not a full-time job
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It's just, it is, I be speaking to these people giving feedback
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I don't know exactly. I don't have all the ends and nuts and everything. But what they said on their website is that they have these different meetings
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I'd be invited to. I get to share my and they would compensate me for my time
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and my travel expenses might have I get to ever travel again
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and I was like I might have to do this because I want to get the heck out of this
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I was like it's not that I don't like my house or the state that I live in but it's like
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can I travel somewhere? I was like I'm antsy as heck to get out of here
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absolutely and that's that's that's a really good way of having both your your career
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developed further while you are traveling i mean perfect combination yeah and this guy also said to me
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who interviewed me i was like oh you meet a lot of connections and uh he'll be and you'll be thankful to
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have these connections like, oh, well, now the suspense is like killing me. I was like, I must do it now
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Yes. Yeah. Well, when the opportunity knocks the door, we should take it regardless if we are
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ready or not. That's what I've been. And that's what my, my sort of experience as someone who
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run own business is, it's continuously proving to be right. It's, you don't ask
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when you get an offer, you justAST and you keep fingers crossed
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It's all happening. I keep fingers crossed for you because it sounds really good
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Now, how are you with traveling? Are you good? Yeah. I'm good with traveling
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I travel once by myself. Actually, unless we can't me and go back and forth from the shore to my shorehouse
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I've traveled multiple times by myself, but on a new. airplane. I traveled once by myself to see my, one of my best friends at his house in
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Nebraska when he was living in Nebraska. Now he's back in Pennsylvania. But I, yeah, he's
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yeah, I'm pretty good at traveling. I've been traveling for me. I went on different vacations
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with my family member. sometimes I hated traveling because I don't know just because I carry a lot of luggage
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every time I go to my shorehouse I bring my two laptops with me
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and it's not because it's just work or anything I just I don't know
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I have one computer that is like literally a tank and by running by a tank
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it's a gaming laptop so I play my video games on it
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where the other one I can play video games on it is too but I
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notice that the fan is a lot louder than this one of the games I play on it
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it's a heavy game the computer can handle it but gaming laptop
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is like think of it's like cutting butter it's like it literally can just handle anything and everything
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And it's like, yeah, I always have to bring this computer with me
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I was like, even though it's a lot heavier and a lot bigger, it's like, I've got to take it with me
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Like, nothing can surpass this thing. Well, then you are agreeing to the compromise of carrying the weight of it
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Yeah. You see, I think that those little comforts, which we have
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traveling little things which make our traveling more comfortable or kind of give us that
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sense of familiarity yeah that computer is something you are so attached to in a way of wherever
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you are you feel like i'm presuming you feel like at home because that's the part of experience
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you you are so familiar with yeah so before we wrap up where can people find you on social
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media and everything. People can find me on Spiritual Awakening Circle Facebook
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One of the admins. So if anyone types Monica, probably Monica, with the K, of course, with the K
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will be the first one appearing there. I'm on Facebook. My profile is there as well, personal profile
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So Monica. dot Boderra. And I'm on Instagram with my name. There is spiritual awakening circle on Instagram
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And now I'm on Clubhouse as well. So I'm on quite a few platforms
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But the best one, the best one for me is to reach out through spiritual awakening circle
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Facebook group on Messenger. I check my requests now. You know, when you are not friends with people
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Facebook doesn't allow you to see the message. it just puts it in the request folder
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But nowadays, since I've had quite a few situations when I was expecting something
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or someone getting touch and I couldn't see the message. And I thought, ha, there is their request folder
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There were all the people who are not friends with me would go to
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So I do tend to check it. So it's a good little habit of created
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check the request as well. Definitely. Well, thanks for being here and let's stay in touch
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Thank you so much, Jimmy, always. And thank you as well for being a great guest on my podcast
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quite a few months back. So thank you. Or stay in touch and I would love to hear about your traveling job
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That would be great. If I get it. Well, when you get it
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If I'm when, I get it. Yeah, I'll be the positive one
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