Revival Podcast.

My name is Vena, and today

I'm gonna talk about why we

should do things together and

why surrounding yourself with

people who are already doing

what you want is the easiest

way for you to get there.

Surround yourself with people

doing what you want to do.

If you find yourself

struggling in your health

or in an area of your

life, then find out why

doing it on your own

could be the absolute

hardest way to do this

and a community may make

things so much easier.

Before I started my online

business, my online programs

and the groups, I used to

do everything one-on-one.

And to me that was the most

effective way to help somebody

to get the transformation

in the most efficient way.

And then.

It was suggested to me

to do a, you know, I end

up saying the same things

over and over again.

Why don't I record them,

put 'em into the course

and deliver it that way?

And I was like, Hmm, I don't

think that's going to work.

Right.

And I begrudgingly did it.

It took me some time before

I actually agreed to it, and

I thought, this isn't going

to work because I need to

be part of their process.

Right.

I need to be part of the

person's journey because.

I am there to help them.

So what I found was when I

released the first iteration

of Bye-bye burnout, and it

was only a very small group,

but the transformation

was pretty wild.

Okay.

I have to say.

And then when I ran it

again, I was really shocked.

So what I was shocked about

was that actually I didn't

need to be the picture.

Surprise, surprise.

obviously it's my method, but

what I found was the power

of a community, which I had

not known or seen before.

So the power of a community

to allow you to create the

changes with a lot more

ease, to keep up momentum and

motivation, and to overcome

a lot of your roadblocks that

are standing in your way.

So after I ran it as a group

program, it didn't make sense

for me to continue just doing

one-on-one because it actually

felt like I was not doing

the best service that way.

Right.

So doing the community work

and doing the group work

is so much more impactful

than doing just one-on-one.

And so if someone's working

with me one-on-one, and yes,

people do that obviously, but

there is so much to gain out

of a community, and I'm gonna

explain to you why that is.

really when we are looking

at changing anything

about our life, we're

changing, our health healing

should not be done alone.

We are already experiencing

so much loneliness.

So apparently in Australia,

a quarter of Australians

have reported feeling lonely

and researchers have found

that there are different

types of loneliness.

There are Feeling,

lonely in intimate areas.

So lacking a romantic partner.

social loneliness and not

having enough friendships.

But then there's also

community loneliness, which

is yearning for a community

of like-minded people.

And that is what you

get in a group, right?

So I've seen people in

the group because a lot

of the time as people are

going through something.

Some of the symptoms

concern them, how long it's

taking them to implement

something concerns them.

Like there is just little

things along the way that that

sabotage people's progress.

And so in the group, hearing

other people's journey

makes you feel like, wow,

that's totally normal.

Oh, yes, I'm struggling

with that too.

Okay.

Maybe that's just part

of the process, right.

The community normalises

your experience, and in my

experience that when you

normalize your experience,

it is much easier to work

through that process.

Okay?

When we feel like something's

wrong or is big or bad or

ugly, whatever it is, it

is harder to work through.

Okay?

So the community keeps

you motivated, keeps

you moving through your

roadblocks, helps you to

see your roadblocks because.

Sometimes it's just easier to

see it when somebody else is

going through a problem and

staying stuck and you're like,

oh, I can totally see what

their problem is, and then

you can see it in yourself.

You know, they say that we are

the average of the five people

that we spend our time with.

And so when I talk to women

in the community, like you are

in a community of like-minded

women who are implementing and

overcoming the same challenges

together at the same time.

So say your whole family

goes on to a health program

with you, it makes it so

much easier to stick to it.

Right?

And so having that

community is having your.

Community doing the same

process that you are doing,

so it creates a lot more ease.

When we look at healing

together, there was many

years ago, back in the

times of ancient Greece, if

people were feeling sick or

unsatisfied with their life

or wanted to turn a corner

in their life, they would go

to visit one of the hundreds

of healing centers around

Greece and the Mediterranean.

going to these healing centers

wasn't just about showing up,

getting your herbs, getting

your medicines, and leaving.

It was a whole process.

It was a literally a journey.

So you would have to

spend a few days to

walk to the Healing

Center on your journey.

You would see people who were

leaving and they would share

their stories about what

they achieved there, right?

And sharing those stories.

The people would feel

uplifted walking towards

a healing, center, right?

They would feel, excited.

They would feel inspired.

They're almost

halfway there, right?

In the way that they feel.

So the sharing of the

stories was really important.

And then once they got to

the temple, there was a whole

process that they had to do.

They had to wait outside

the temple to be, fasting

and cleansed because as

they entered, they needed

to leave all their worldly

distractions behind, right?

They needed to

enter this temple.

Or this healing center

with a lot of mental

clarity and let go of a

lot of the worldly things.

And within the temple,

they would get herbal

medicines, they would have

their dreams interpreted,

they would spend a lot

of time in the gardens in

contemplation to understand.

Why they're at, where

they're at, why they're

unhappy with their life

or why they're sick.

Right?

And it was a really powerful

part of the journey.

So in some ways there was

a lot of that work that was

done together, and then there

was time to pull away and do

the self-reflection and the

contemplation in order to

uncover the hidden meaning

why we get sick or why we're

unhappy with our lives.

And then once they left the

temple, they shared their

stories with everybody so

they shared of what they

overcome and what insights

they'd have and what

clarity came to them about.

Where they're at in that

point in their life.

Okay?

And so it just reinforces

that this has been around

for a very long time.

We share stories, we do

things better together than

what we ever did alone.

And if you are struggling

with something right now

that I really would urge you

to look at, well, how is a

community going to serve you?

How can you find your people?

How can you immerse yourself

with your people who have

got the same intention, who

want the same outcomes, and

who are working towards it?

And.

A hundred percent they're

gonna hit their own or meet

their own challenges and,

and saboteurs and how are

they overcoming it, right?

And really normalizing

that process.

I recently joined a mastermind

where, it's gonna require

a lot of travel and it's

very expensive, and I don't

have any one-on-one with

the leader of the who is.

it's his mastermind, right?

And, I've signed up for

the community, right?

'cause the community

is so powerful.

There's people going in

directions that I wanna go in.

There's people doing things

that I want to be doing.

I wanna be around

those people.

I wanna know how they think.

I wanna know what

they're doing.

I wanna hear what they share

their strategies, right?

And so sometimes we look for,

you know, the right person to

work with or whatever it is.

And sometimes it

really comes down to.

How much can a community

influence you

in the direction

that you want to go?

So if this is you,

leave a comment below.

I'd love to know, have

you seen the power of a

community to help you to take

action and do things that

you wouldn't normally do?

Right?

what might help you right

now that in an area that

you're stuck in, how may

a community help you to

accelerate your progress?

Let me know in the

comments below.