[00:00:00] Nathan Maingard: If you ever get stuck in your comfort zone, where you know that there are things you want to achieve, and when you wanna step towards them, you feel fear or that overwhelming sense that you're gonna fail, that you're not gonna get it right, that you're not enough, then this episode is for you.

[00:00:20] I'm your host Nathan Maingard and welcome back to We Are Already Free, the podcast where misfits from the mainstream stop worrying how bad it all is out there, and instead get inspired and informed so they can focus on being the change and finding their tribe and living a beautiful life together.

[00:00:38] Speaker: When you hear the words, we are already free. What comes up for you? Acceptance change to shift in awareness. Human beings are so powerful, there's so much more. Everything is love behind it. Breaking the chains of your own minds, that which remains nature. Getting outta the matrix. We're sitting on the treasure and it's already unlocked.

[00:00:57] Speaker 5: We are already free. You're free. You are a walking map. Have always been free. You are always free. Already free. We are already free.

[00:01:05] Nathan Maingard: This is a solo episode of the We Are Already Free podcast. and this is a very personal story that, I hope and believe, will inspire you to step outside of your comfort zone and just take that next step. Say yes to life, and really an invitation to realize How to transform limiting Fear into more Freedom How to transform limiting Fear into more Freedom that the things that you want are out there.

[00:01:27] The things that you want are beyond the person that you currently embody. If you don't have them already, it's because you haven't embodied that aspect already. And this story is gonna be super fun and wild, and I promise you, to the best of my ability, every part of this is absolutely true. So This is definitely for anyone who has that feeling of wanting to expand beyond where you currently are, but are feeling kind of stuck inside of the box of who you believe yourself to be.

[00:01:53] So I hope that you enjoy this solo episode of the podcast.

[00:01:57] So the year is 2010, to set the stage for you. I am living in London. I'm in my mid twenties, and I'm really struggling. I was working, in a job that wasn't really fulfilling for me and was living in the big city of London and just kind of felt directionless.

[00:02:12] I didn't have a sense of my purpose. I didn't have a sense of what I was in the world for. I had a crippling insecurities and, and issues with self-sabotage, et cetera. And I decided to go on the London naked bike ride. Now, if you've never heard of that, it's a cycle that happens all over the world in, in various cities where people cycle naked or as close to naked as they feel comfortable.

[00:02:34] So I went butt naked, cycling through the city of London, and at some point on that cycle, I saw this incredibly beautiful woman on the back of someone else's bicycle, and she had one arm in a cast and she was topless, and just looked like this goddess of wild adventure and magic. And, and I saw her and then carried on my cycle and, and, and did the rest of the cycle.

[00:02:56] And later that afternoon we all ended, oh, some people ended up on a hilltop, now with clothes on, on Primrose Hill in London if, if you know the city. And we were setting up to play some music and there was this group of these incredible musicians from America who had sailed on a cargo ship, I believe, over the ocean with their bicycles. And were doing a bicycle music tour of Europe. And who was one of the people who was part of that, but this woman that I had seen on the back of a bicycle. So we all met and we chatted and she was there with her boyfriend. Much to my dismay. But it was just so inspiring, this feeling of, wow, there are people in the world who are living these adventurous lives beyond anything that I could have imagined.

[00:03:37] Like it just seemed so out there and wild and epic So we played the music, everyone went on their way, and that was kind of the end of it. And I had thought of her so much after that, just thinking of this incredible inspiring woman and this group of people. And a few weeks later I was standing in line at the, the cafe that I was kind of working at, but at the time I was just going to buy some food.

[00:03:58] It was this cafe called Inspiral Lounge in Camden Town. And I suddenly turned to my left and who was standing literally next to me, but this same woman. And we struck up a conversation. I said, what, what are you doing here? I thought you were off to Europe with your boyfriend. She said, no, I've left my boyfriend, I've left the tour and I am now heading back home.

[00:04:18] I'm here just for another day or two, and then I'm going back to California where, where she was from. And, uh, and yeah, I'm, I'm moving into, I've decided that I need a change in my life. And we started, struck up a conversation. And both of us were at this stage of wanting a different way of living. I had just decided to be celibate, because I had realized that I was hurting myself physically and emotionally using women as an escape.

[00:04:41] And this came after a 10 day meditation sit that I had had all these insights. So I was like wanting to be celibate, but also meeting this beautiful woman and being a young man in my twenties and all of the stuff that goes with that. But, um, anyway, so, this woman and I spent the next 24 hours basically just together the entire time, just chatting and speaking. And she'd decided to be celibate as well, separately from me. But after separating with her partner, just needed more time alone. And so we connected over all these things and over the next few months we spoke almost every day for hours sometimes, and.

[00:05:17] I was clearly like, kind of falling for her, but we were also becoming friends. There was a, there was a friendship. We were growing and there was also a sense of some deep connection. And in our conversations she heard me say numerous times. Like, I'm really struggling. I feel lost in my life. I, I'm living with family in London.

[00:05:32] I'm, I'm kind of working, doing work that I don't know if this is what I should be doing. And just feeling kind of hopeless and lost and overwhelmed and wanting more from myself and more from my life, but not knowing what to do and feeling kind of stuck. And so this woman at some point said to me, well, why don't you come to Northern California?

[00:05:47] I can get you work here as a seasonal, uh, trimming, what they call it, trimming ganja marijuana, cannabis. And I, I wasn't even a smoker by that point. I hadn't smoked in many years. But, uh, it was lucrative pay. You could get paid, at least what to me seemed like a lot of money, working quite a hard job for a couple months, a year, and then making really good money and being able to just enjoy the rest of the time.

[00:06:11] So I was like, okay, let's do it. And I spent my last money buying a one-Way ticket. I. I don't know how they even let me into the country, thinking about this again. I bought a one-Way ticket to to San Diego and decided I would go visit my grandmother who lived just outside of San Diego for, I would visit her for maybe a week and then head up to go and start this seasonal work and meet up with this woman, who I was clearly also very attracted to. Although we hadn't kind of had those conversations, but we were speaking so much.

[00:06:38] Anyway, so I arrive and the first moment of arriving in America was this feeling of, you know, I am here with a one-way ticket. I dunno, when I'm leaving, I'm on a tourist visa, I'm gonna be doing illegal cash labor. Um, and, and yeah, and, and I managed to talk my way through the, the customs.

[00:06:57] I don't even know, I'm just like hesitating. 'cause I'm like, how much of this should I be saying on a, on a public podcast? They'll never let me into the country again. But anyway, so what happened was, as I mentioned, I'd been living with family in London and I had actually spent a lot of my youth, a lot of my life feeling like I needed to be supported by other people.

[00:07:15] Like I wasn't strong enough to take care of myself, uh, financially and energetically, et cetera. And so I really wanted to break out of that. I wanted to show myself that I have the capacity to support myself and be abundant, et cetera. So I was staying with my grandmother and, and enjoying the time there.

[00:07:31] She knew that I had very little money. I don't think she knew how little, but I basically had a hundred dollars to my name and I didn't have any credit cards at that time. It was just, that was it. I had a backpack, a guitar, a hundred dollars, and I was staying with my grandmother. And I said to her, I'm gonna hitchhike up to San Francisco and then go find my way out to be with this woman, and well to, to go and work up there.

[00:07:52] My grandmother obviously being kind of concerned about what I was telling her. Uh, at, just before I left, she actually handed me a credit card that she said, you can draw up to a thousand dollars off this credit card in case you have need, like in case you know, and, and I took it from her initially, and I walked away and I went and I sat in my room and I just had this moment of realizing.

[00:08:13] This is a moment of inflection. I have a choice here. I can either continue to feel disempowered and to be supported by others and to need support from others, or I can take my power back in this moment.

[00:08:24] and choose to be to, to like live honestly with myself. And again, I'm saying this all, I know that it's different. There are some people who wouldn't even have the opportunity to be given a credit card like that. There wouldn't be people who had the opportunity to live with their families, et cetera.

[00:08:39] But I have had those opportunities. That is my life. I can't deny that or hide away from that. And it is what it is. So it required me to make a choice to move into a different direction, the direction of independence. And I did that. I went back to my grandmother. I said, thank you so much, but I don't need this.

[00:08:53] I don't want this. And I gave her back the credit card. And now I went on my way from Southern California to North to Northern California from san Diego to San Francisco. And along the way, I visited my aunt briefly, and then when I had visited her in LA I just asked her to drop me off at the side of the road and I started hitchhiking.

[00:09:13] What I didn't know at the time, this is what blows my mind in hindsight, what I didn't know at the time is I was suffering from something called Mercury toxicity or heavy metal poisoning. Uh, and that's a whole nother story, but basically what it meant is that sometimes I would feel fine and energetic, as a someone in their twenties should feel, I think.

[00:09:29] But other times I would just get these very low dips of energies where often waking up in the morning, I would feel hungover, even though I wasn't really drinking or doing any drugs. Or, I was generally taking care of myself. But I had this heavy feeling of poisoning, of, of feeling sick and unwell and low energy a lot of the time.

[00:09:44] And that was really challenging, but I didn't know what it was. I thought it was just in my head, like I just need to think more positively and, that kind of stuff. And it took me still another year or two to understand what was actually happening. So I would stay, I stayed with my aunt for a little bit and then asked her to drop me off so I could hitchhike.

[00:09:59] I got a few rides with people. Heading further north, but I was just feeling more and more exhausted and I was having this, this fatigue come over me. This, which was part of this chronic fatigue that I was experiencing. And it was scary. I was now in the middle of nowhere. I had no money left and I, and I needed to get to San Francisco.

[00:10:17] Oh, I've forgotten like a key part of the story. So this is the crazy thing that happened while I was staying with my grandmother. This is gonna blow your mind by the way.

[00:10:24] So while I was with my grandmother, at some point I was chatting with this woman up in Northern California and she dropped two bombs on me within one conversation. Firstly, she said now she was in a relationship with another woman. And that was way out of the blue. I obviously was crushing on her majorly and was like, okay, what the hell just happened?

[00:10:45] The second piece of information, which was actually kind of more important to me in that moment, is that my job had fallen through. So I was now in America with no money, uh, on a one way ticket, and with no illegal job up north that I could use to make some money with. So. I had to then decided, well, I'm just gonna go to San Francisco anyway and just see what happens.

[00:11:05] Like I'm just gonna trust that everything's gonna be fine. And this is a key piece is like that trust, that courage to just step into the unknown. To jump off the cliff, not knowing if there is a net. Removing all the nets and seeing what happens. So back to the story, I was now hitchhiking up to San Francisco and the fatigue started to hit me. This, this poisoning that, I didn't know what it was, but that's what was happening.

[00:11:28] And I remembered that I had previously purchased a ticket, a train ticket on the, I can't remember the name, but the American, uh, train line. And I called them from a payphone where the guy had dropped me off from the hitchhiking. 'cause I'm not starting to feel exhausted and I'm like, I need to get somewhere where I can find a rest.

[00:11:45] And it's still early enough in the day. I might be able to, I, I need to see how far I can get. So I called the train people from a payphone, which payphones are still around then. I don't even know if they are now. And I said, Hey, I've got this ticket. Can I change it so that it can get me from where I am now to San Francisco?

[00:12:01] And they said, yes, you can. I was like, that's amazing. So I still had my a hundred dollars and I now changed the train ticket. I got on the train and I arrived at midnight on a Sunday. I. in San Francisco, the, the train stopped somewhere. We had to get on a coach, and then the coach took us into like the docks in San Francisco, if you've ever been, and it's midnight.

[00:12:20] It's my first time in San Francisco and I'm just at this point, like, what do I do?

[00:12:27] Are you enjoying this story by the way? You can let me know. If you listen on Spotify, there's now, uh, you can comment, which I would so love 'cause I would love to hear who you are, where you are and how this story's resonating with you. Um, and there's so much more to it by the way. It gets crazy. So do stick around.

[00:12:42] And so it's midnight. I'm in San Francisco for the first time in my life I've just stepped off a coach. I've got my backpack on my back, my guitar in my hand. There was a little park I remember across the street, and I could see people sleeping on the benches. Like on cardboard and wrapped up in little sleeping bags.

[00:12:57] And I, I thought, okay, is this gonna be me tonight? Like, is this where I'm sleeping? Not knowing what to do? And as I was, I, I remember I turned in a circle just in a 360 degrees, just turning, looking in different directions. And I wasn't scared. I, I really wasn't, I was excited, I was a bit nervous, but I was like, oh, I could feel this feeling of mystery. I don't know what's gonna happen. I am open to the universe, to anything.

[00:13:22] And as I turned in a circle I to, I saw two men walking out from the shadows of a building and one of them was dressed completely like a monk. Like he had, uh, a monk's habit as if he'd just come out of a monastery. And I, my initial thought was, oh, I wonder if these guys are coming from a dress up party or something. 'cause you know, why would they be dressed up as monks?

[00:13:42] And so I walked up to him, I said, Hey guys, what are you up to this evening? And they said, we are monks. And we walk the streets of San Francisco at night seeing if anyone needs our help.

[00:13:54] What the fuck? Really like that moment of just like, what is going on right now? This is magic. This is a full on fricking miracle. And so I said, well, here's my story. I've just arrived. I, I don't have much money and I dunno where to stay. What do you suggest? And they said, well, if you walk up that main street there, you'll eventually find yourself in the area where the hostels are. Maybe you could find a hostel to stay in tonight. And I thought that could be a good idea. You know, I dunno how much it would cost. Probably 20 or $30, which is nearly half the money I have. But at this point, to have a safe bed and then I can kind of work out everything from tomorrow, that feels like a good idea.

[00:14:31] That seems like, that just feels right. So I started walking off up the street. And I walked for a while and then this guy comes towards me and he holds up a map and he says, Hey, are you looking for the hostels? And again, now this is like one in the morning and, and he had a little map and he was, I, I realized, I think in hindsight, I think he was making money by helping tourists to navigate around the city.

[00:14:53] And like he had little maps that he would give them, but he just gave it to me and he drew little circles on the map for where I could find the hostels. 'cause they were not directly on the street I was on. They were a few streets over. So immediately I was like, okay, now I have a map. Now I know where I'm going.

[00:15:07] I'm off to the hostels and I keep walking. And this isn't even the end of this, this night's story, it gets better. So I'm walking now, I've, I've, I've got a sense of direction. I'm feeling solid. I come to a red light waiting to cross the street, and as I'm standing there, I just hear a voice next to me. He says, Hey, where, where are you off to?

[00:15:23] And I look to my right and then look up and there's this very tall Australian, quite a young guy in his twenties, I guess like me, but, but younger than me, maybe early twenties or late like 19, 20, around there. And he is clearly a bit drunk, but very friendly.

[00:15:36] And he's like, Hey, what, what are you up to? And I said, again, my story. This is what's going on. I'm now looking for a hostel, uh, et cetera, et cetera. And he says, well, my hotel is just up the road. I'm heading back there now. If you want, you could sleep on the floor and then you don't have to pay for a host tonight. Oh my God. Again, I was like, what is happening right now? This is crazy.

[00:15:55] So I said, okay, yeah, let's do that. Sure. So I went to his spot, set up my sleeping bag on the floor. And again, I was traveling with my backpack, my guitar, so I had a sleeping bag with me. I was kind of organized in that way, set up my bag on the floor, uh, and, uh, my sleeping bag and, and slept the night and woke up in the morning, said a groggy hello to, to the roommate, uh, in the hotel, and, uh, had a shower and, and left. Never saw him again.

[00:16:18] And, and now I'm in San Francisco. I've still got a hundred dollars to my name. And I have no idea what to do. I've got, I've got nothing. There's, I don't know anyone in San Francisco. I don't have anyone in social media. Like I, I was just a complete stranger in a new city.

[00:16:32] The one thing that I remembered about San Francisco was that there was a, a restaurant. There was a restaurant called Cafe Gratitude, which 'cause I'd been working in the raw vegan industry for some years, and Cafe Gratitude was considered one of the great success stories. Where it was all, or like primarily, raw foods and super healthy and based on generosity and gifting and this whole cool idea.

[00:16:56] So I was like, I'm gonna go to Cafe Gratitude and eat a meal. That was like the goal that I had set for myself. So I walked quite far down into an area called the Mission, which I, 'cause I found out, you know, I asked people, or I had found out somehow where Cafe Gratitude was. And I, and I got myself down there, walked into the cafe and sat along the bar and I said, you know, what's, what's available for food?

[00:17:19] And they had these things called gratitude bowls and they were, I think around 10 or $15. Which was a lot of my money at the time, but again, I'm just going on faith at this point. I just felt like I'm trusting that I'm gonna be okay here.

[00:17:33] So I order my bowl of food and the guy, there's a guy sitting next to me at this little bar and he leans over and he says, Hey, what are you, what are you up to? What are you doing here? And I told him a bit of my story and you know, said, I dunno what's happening next, but I'm just here and I'm exploring and this is my experience. And he said, well, I have a book that I've written. And he said, if you buy my book, I think he even asked for $30 for it, or it was between 20 and $30.

[00:17:58] So a lot of money. He said, if you buy my book, you can stay on the couch, on the, the sleeper couch in my RV tonight in my, his motor home basically, which was just down the street. So I was like, okay. And his book wasn't about how to, was about how to save money. I think it was like, you need to save 10% of all your income and then you'll be okay. Which I haven't done, by the way. But nevertheless, I met this guy and he said I could stay in his rv. So. That was it.

[00:18:23] I went and dropped my stuff in his RV after breakfast and we went on this long exploration of of San Francisco. We basically walked the streets for like seven hours, saw all kinds of wonderful things, met cool people, had an amazing time, slept in the rv, and the next day he said to me, um. You know, if you want, you can stay another night. Like, so don't worry about it. So I left all my things in the, in the RV and he went off and did his own thing and I went off and did my own thing.

[00:18:52] And I went and found a cafe, got my computer out for the first time in a while, and, and opened up to check emails. And, and again, I'm just free flowing. At this point, I've got maybe $60 left or $50. And I see an email that has come in from this woman who's trying to get ahold of me. The woman who had previously organized me the job in Northern California that had then fallen apart, fallen through. And she had emailed me and said, Nathan, please get in touch. I found another job for you. I found work.

[00:19:17] So here I am in San Francisco going, what is happening? My life is just like an unfolding miracle. And none of this could have happened, by the way, if I had, number one, had a safety net, or number two, had money. Because by not having money, by not having a safety net, I had to be open to life. As my friend Roaman says, previous guest on this podcast, stay open to life like.

[00:19:39] I had to stay open to life. I was reliant on the web of connection around me. And I know that you may be thinking, oh, that's very dangerous. Or if you were a woman, or if all these other things like, yes, it could have been terrible. Terrible things might have happened, but this is not the only time I've done something like this.

[00:19:54] And I also know women who've done had many experiences like this, who've hitchhiked around the world and been safe the entire time. So there is a certain energy that we can bring to our experiences that opens the doorway for miracles to unfold. So anyway, now I've got this positive email. She, but she says that work's only starting in a week, so, so, you know, you'll come over here when you're ready, but it's, but it's only about a week away.

[00:20:16] So I'm like, okay, cool. So I gotta find something to do for the next week that's gonna keep me fed and bedded, you know, like roof over my head, food in my belly. So later that day, I had returned to the RV and I'm waiting outside the RV for my friend to come back so that I can go in and, and spend the evening with him and, and have a place to sleep, basically.

[00:20:37] And while I'm waiting, I look across the street and I see someone walking down the street, and as he's walking down, he's opening up the dust bins and he's digging around in them. Now, I had previously done something like this before, which is called dumpster diving. I dunno if you've heard the name before, but dumpster diving is, because in the cities people throw away so much valuable stuff. Everything from food to TVs, to the electronics, to furniture, to clothes, and I had, while I was in London, at times I had found really high quality things. Like incredible food from Whole Foods that was still good to eat. And I know this might sound weird to you, but you can look it up on YouTube. It's like a really common thing, dumpster diving and, and it's actually amazing how much goes to waste in cities.

[00:21:22] So I saw this guy walking down the street digging through the, the trash, and it looked like he was dumpster diving. He didn't look like he was homeless or anything. And it, I mean it would've been fine if he was, but at least in this case, he, I was curious about what he was finding. So I walked out to him.

[00:21:35] I said, Hey, what are you finding on your missions? Have you found anything cool? And he told me later that when he first heard me, he thought I was trying to sort of like come in on his territory and see like, take, see what he was getting. So I could also get some. But through speaking I made it clear that I, you know, I wasn't looking for anything. I wasn't trying to get anything from him. I was just curious. And so he felt safe with me and we started chatting and I told him again a bit of my story 'cause he was curious. And he said, well I have an apartment just down the road and if you want, you're welcome to come and stay on my couch for the next week while you wait for the next thing to come through.

[00:22:11] And I did. And he became a really good friend. His name's Rome. And we became friends and I, every time I visit San Francisco for the, I've visited maybe three times since then. And every time I visit him, I, I generally will stay with him even for a night or two. And we stayed really good friends.

[00:22:26] And, and one of the amazing things that happened was when I first arrived, he had just separated from his partner. So Rome would go off and work in the day, and I would be in his tiny little flat, like really, really small. And, and he had just separated from his partner. And so he was going through quite an emotional time himself. And because of that, I think he was in a bit of a state of overwhelm. So his kitchen was kind of a mess, like his sink was blocked up and it was just chaos.

[00:22:51] So one day when he went to work, I checked out what was going on and I managed to unblock the sink and I washed all the dishes and I cleaned the kitchen and I cleaned the place up. And when he came back, the, the look on his face, like the, just the sense of gratitude and joy that I saw. It was just such a gift. Because I felt like he'd helped me so much already to have a place to stay, and I saw how much I could help him. Just by taking care of something that, for me was quite easy to do.

[00:23:20] But for him was clearly in that moment very overwhelming and it was amazing. I stayed with him. We had a great time. We shared stories, we shared meals, and uh, and I was just blessed with his company basically. And when I needed to leave, I purchased him a little chili plant, like a little pot plant, so that he had something to take care of, something that was alive that he could look after.

[00:23:42] And he gifted me, unexpectedly, a 100-year-old copy of Alice in Wonderland, which I still have somewhere, uh, even though it's got a few pages missing. So that was that experience and off I went to, to spend this time doing this work in Northern California. And there is more to this tale. So, but that was like the big piece was, was the medicine of.

[00:24:05] Being cared for every step of the way in ways beyond what I could imagine. 'cause then I went and did the work. I made some good money, I bought a ticket, and I continued on my journey elsewhere. You know, like I just, my life flowed from there in different ways.

[00:24:18] Actually, the, the final, one of the other things that happened was that I saw a psychic while I was there, and I've never been. I've always been quite skeptical about those kinds of things, but she came highly recommended by this woman actually who had got me the work in Northern California. And the, I was, again, I was very confused at the time. That was the time I wrote the song Fire. I dunno if you've heard my song Fire, but I can put it in the show notes or maybe I'll play it at the end of this, uh, this episode and you can hear, uh, and there's many reasons I wrote it and I won't go into that now, but.

[00:24:46] I was going through the fire burning in the fire of life and realizing that the only way through was to sit in it and allow the fire to purify me, like the story of the Phoenix. To be reborn out of the ashes of my old self. And so I wrote that song and I saw the psychic and the psychic said to me, Nathan, if you go back to South Africa and do work as a musician. You will, you will do really well.

[00:25:09] And I remember when she first said it, I was like, that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Like I've never made money as a musician. I made little bits here and there. I've played gigs. But it was never, I never thought I could do it. It was always fear holding me back, holding me back.

[00:25:21] Lo and behold, a few months later I was back in South Africa and I was playing music as a full-time musician, and I was making more money doing that than I'd made doing anything else in my life up to that point. So, yeah. There's so much more to these stories, but that is what it took, the courage that it took for me to hand back that credit card, to say no to the net, to release the net, even while I was navigating this chronic fatigue that I had from mercury poisoning, which I only managed to get clarity on when I was back in South Africa over a year later.

[00:25:51] But all these things, all these challenges, through my willingness to step into the unknown, to release the net, and to move beyond my comfort zone, I was gifted. Experiences that will live with me for the rest of my life and friendships that I will remember forever. And it's just beyond what I could have.

[00:26:07] I could never have booked a trip like that for myself. I could never have chosen an experience like that for myself. It required me to be so courageous in those ways. This is my, my hope for you is that you can find courage to let go of the need for a net. To let go of the resistance and the fear that is holding you back from whatever it is that you want to be achieving and dreaming into your life.

[00:26:29] And if I can be of support, please reach out. This is the transformational work that I do. This is why I have so much faith in this work, because I have walk. That path again and again, and again of having the courage to let go of the old stories, to let go of the net and to leap and be caught in the hands of the divine again and again and again.

[00:26:47] And I wish this for you, so whatever it is, whether you're stuck in a job that isn't working for you, whether you are unclear on your life purpose, whether you know what you want to do, but you have the fear of making those changes, please reach out. I would love to support you. You can just check out the links in the show notes, and it's been a pleasure to share this episode with you.

[00:27:05] If you're on Spotify, you can comment directly on this episode and I'd love to hear your thoughts. But otherwise, you can always reach out to me using the links in the show notes. How did this land, how does it resonate? How is this, does this connect with any of your own stories? So please reach out and also let me know this is a solo style.

[00:27:21] It's a different way of doing an episode, you know, different to me having guests, but we are back with the podcast, by the way. Uh, I know that I took a break for a while. I was on honeymoon and I'm just been getting things rolling again. And now I've got some epic guests lined up. We've got talk to. Dr. Tom Cohen, whose episode was like Mind bendingly challenging about how much of reality or, or societal, the beliefs that society holds as just like 'normal these are obviously true.' How much of that might not be true around viruses and sickness and illness and wellness. So. That's a wild episode, that we've got an amazing episode with a master sematic coach coming up as well in a few weeks, and as, as always, so much more. So I'm so happy to have you here. I'm Nathan Maingard. This is, we are already free, and thank you for your journey, for your attention, for your time. I hope that you are feeling blessed and abundant and loved and enjoying this insanely mysterious miracle of an experience called life, and I really would love to hear from you. So please either comment or send me a message or find me on socials.

[00:28:25] Go to the show notes, and yeah, blessings on your path. I hope to see you again soon. And one last thing, if you haven't yet, please do review the podcast. It makes a huge difference and helps me to get more epic guests for all of us and helps more people to discover it. So. Thank you.

[00:28:39] Blessings on your day. We'll be back next week. And as always, please remember we are already free.