Lisa Marie Rankin [00:00:00]:

In this episode, I sit down with Elizabeth Brett, a former NBC reporter turned modern day priestess, mama, activator, and guide. She's been featured on The Today Show, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Shape Magazine, and Cosmo Radio. She's changed countless diapers and careers, and now helps women undergo soul deep transformation. We explore what it really means to follow your bliss, how to embody archetypes, reclaim your sovereignty, and tap into the magic of feminine alchemy. It's a rich, soulful conversation, and I can't wait for you to hear it. Let's dive in. Welcome to the Goddess School podcast, where Eastern wisdom meets Western mysticism. I'm your host, Lisa Marie Rankine, author, teacher, and Ayurvedic wellness coach here to help you reclaim your feminine superpowers, and I am so glad you're here.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:00:55]:

Listen, women are magical. They are intuitive, creative, wise, and magnetic. However, in today's fast paced world, these gifts often get buried under a more masculine way of life. Together, we'll awaken those powers. In each episode, I'll take you through sacred teachings like Ayurveda, shadow work, and the mysteries of archetypes and rituals so you can live with more clarity, synchronicity, and joy in all realms of life, like relationships, health, money, and more. So let's dive in so you can make the most of your one mythic life. The veil is parting. Let's begin.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:01:38]:

Hello, beautiful listeners, and thank you for joining me again on the Goddess School podcast. And I am thrilled today to introduce you to Elizabeth Brett. She was once an NBC reporter and she is now a modern day priestess. We're going to be talking about sovereignty, archetypes, rituals for your home, and so much more. So, Elizabeth, thank you so much for joining me today.

Elizabeth Brett [00:02:01]:

Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's such a treat to be here.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:02:05]:

Yes. I would love to hear how you went from an NBC reporter to a priestess. Could you just tell folks a little bit about your journey?

Elizabeth Brett [00:02:16]:

The journey? Oh my goodness. I would love to share about that. So I like to refer to my NBC reporter gig as my muggle job because it was what I did before I really knew all of my magic, and I really hadn't yet gotten in touch with all of the very sacred and and very feminine parts of myself. And so I became an NBC reporter right out of college. It was sort of a natural thing for me. And I was in that world for ten years. And, you know, it's a world of hustle. It's extreme deadlines on a daily basis with you have no time to turn around turn around three stories a day sometimes, and, you know, stood out in the middle of hurricanes, like, did all the things.

Elizabeth Brett [00:03:07]:

And in some ways, it was everything that I hit was supposed to want of success. I was good at it. And so I kept moving up in markets. So I started in this might not make sense to anyone not in the TV world, but instead of getting promoted in a normal way, like in a in a business, you get promoted by moving up into bigger and bigger markets. So I started in market like '55 and I ended up in a top 10 market in Houston, Texas. 10 Years in, I was I was under 30 when I when I got there, and all indications were that I was gonna go national or, you know, whatever my next move was was gonna be a a big one. And I got to a point where there were a couple things going on. So first of all, I realized that as good as I was at really connecting with people and and getting their stories, being in that amount of trauma every day, being in those moments that were like the lowest points in people's lives was taking a real toll on me.

Elizabeth Brett [00:04:10]:

I was an empath, still am, but I didn't know that at the time I didn't have the words for that. And I didn't really have the understanding of how I needed to protect myself in this amount of trauma on a daily basis. And so it became this question of, is this worth it for me to continue this? And I recognize that I really couldn't have a life outside of news because it was taking so much of my emotional bandwidth on a daily basis. And the schedule was bonkers. I mean, I, you know, I would either go in at 3PM and end at midnight, or I'd go in at 4AM and end at 1PM and then be sleep deprived, you know? So it was like, it was just a lot of factors that led me to recognize that this path that I'd always thought was my path and this version of success that I'd been taught to want. You know, I was mini famous and in places where I worked, people knew who I was, but it wasn't like I was mega famous, but I also, I had done really well. I'd been chosen to go to the Olympics. I had these big things that were check boxes, you know, it still didn't matter.

Elizabeth Brett [00:05:21]:

In the end and it wasn't worth it to me. And I began to recognize that I needed to reevaluate just about everything in my life. And I left to start a business. I helped women get over heartbreak. And in that, this is like my whole journey, but in that I w I was on the today show, wall street journal, New York times. I got a lot of coverage because I knew how to do that. And then while I was working in that, I started to get asked to do keynotes and other things. And I had women begin asking me, well, how do I.

Elizabeth Brett [00:05:51]:

How do I do interviews really well? And how do I speak on stage really well? And how do I nail this, like, video stuff on my website? And I started to love, I just did it as like a side hustle, but I started to love helping women with their messages and with speaking on stage and speaking on camera. And so I started to realize that that's actually what I wanted to be doing. So I had a business called media bombshell. And again, I was like in this world. So for the last fifteen years, I've been working with women. It's just taken a lot of different shapes and forms, and I feel like it slowly but surely kept getting more and more sacred. I would get deeper and deeper, like in the messaging work with the women that I worked with, who were like leaders and, you know, real experts and incredible women, we would really get deep into uncovering what their signature talk was or, you know, what their core messaging was. We would get really deep and we would go really into what do they wanna stand for.

Elizabeth Brett [00:06:51]:

And so I I loved that part of it and often would get the feedback about this was much deeper than they thought it would be, but I hadn't yet journeyed into the sacred feminine for myself. So I did that when I ended up again in another, I feel like I've had nine lives here, Lisa, but in another iteration, I was a stay at home mom for a few years. During that time, COVID hit and I realized I needed a different foundation that I had a two year old and a four year old. I was home with the kids all the time. My husband was working around the clock and I didn't have all the tools to not only maintain my sanity, but be the foundation for my children and my husband at the time. I had kind of been on my own journey into Mary Magdalene and understanding this whole possibility of another truth that that there could have been priestesses and high priestesses and that, you know, mother Mary and Mary Magdalene could have been part of that. That was all mind blowing to me. And, and as the reporter in me that loves research was like, give me all the stuff.

Elizabeth Brett [00:07:56]:

And it was all book learning until that moment where I was like, I need a different foundation. And it's amazing how they say, you know, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. My mentor, Alain Khalila appeared at that time with an offering. And I actually thought I was moving into a Magdalene training with her, but the universe and I have a pretty funny relationship where, like, I will be placed where I'm needed, whether or not I recognize it. And, I ended up in what has become the mystery school that I have done a deep dive into, which is the thirteen Moon Mystery School. And it's 13 different divine feminine archetypes that we move through one every month, and it's a year long program. I've been in it for five years. I've mentored in it.

Elizabeth Brett [00:08:43]:

So take another first year. And then she hits through the 13 archetypes and what I recognized in this that I had never found in anything else was the first time I went, I was in ceremony. I just felt this deep remembrance. Like, even though I had never done it in my lifetime, that it was literally in my DNA, it was something that my ancestors had clearly done. And I knew it. I knew it as I became more and more interested about inner alchemy because I could feel things shifting in me so quickly. I mean, I've been in therapy for dozens of years and things hadn't moved that were moving for me in ceremony. You know, I've been an hour and a half, no drugs, just my full presence and consciousness and the, I would have these incredible shifts.

Elizabeth Brett [00:09:36]:

And so I became fascinated by this experiential version of the sacred feminine and began to incorporate more and more of it into my life, into the way I related to my people and eventually kind of reluctantly into my work. Yeah.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:09:57]:

Oh, wow. That is so beautiful and what a great journey. And I have to say one of the things that I really love about your journey is that it did take so many twists and turns because I think people sometimes think that they need to have everything planned out and whatever they set their eyes on, that's going to be it. And in your example, I mean, you had this fantastic, like, career that, you know, most women and I remember, you know, especially when they're younger, like, I want this and you were actually getting it. So sometimes it's hard to deviate from the things that are working. Like, it's one thing if things aren't working, but you were really connected enough to self. And what all of those turns from what was it called? Like, media babe, or what, what did you call your Be a bombshell. Yeah.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:10:40]:

Be a bombshell. I love it. But all of these turns, and it's like kind of that following your bliss. So with my community, you know, we do a lot of work with myths and archetypes, and we've got Joseph Campbell, who's author, educator, mythologist, and, you know, he's known to saying for following your bliss. And then the doors start to open the life that you wanna live is actually the life you're living. And that's beautiful because that's what you did. And we don't always need that plan. It's just what's, what's sparking me up.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:11:06]:

What's, you know, what's lighting me up. What is interesting to me and how do I just follow that? And then we'll see what happens.

Elizabeth Brett [00:11:13]:

Yeah. And I love, I love Joseph Campbell and I love that because it really was. I, I feel like probably so many people in your community would fall into this category. I would consider myself a seeker. I've always been a seeker. And so for me, it was natural to recognize that I was still seeking, and I am still seeking. I'm still on that journey. Right? And so it was never I've never had until I found priestessing the feeling of I could do this the rest of my life.

Elizabeth Brett [00:11:41]:

And the reason I think that all the twists and turns made so much sense for me is because I was discovering different parts of myself, and every step along the way had beautiful initiations that led me to exactly where I am that enable me to show up exactly the way I do. And so it's a permission slip for anyone to continue with the sole nudges. I wouldn't always understand why I was doing something. I just knew it was the next right thing to do for me at that time. And so there was a beautiful amount of trust. There was a beautiful amount of surrender in the different steps. And, still to this day, those are two things that I work with all the time. Trust and surrender.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:12:27]:

Yes. Those are so important. And I think another, like, just to kind of dive a little bit deeper in the trust and surrender and listening to your intuition is I think sometimes people think like my intuition is going to guide me to a place that is easier, where everything's going to be, you know, very, it's just going to be obvious. And I feel like in your case, Leaving an NBC news reporter job probably wasn't easy. You probably had family members and friends being like, really? Are you sure you wanna do that? And yet you trusted your intuition that this doesn't feel right for me right now. And I don't wanna put words in your mouth, but sometimes when we connect, that doesn't mean it's an easy decision or an easy choice, but there does need to be that sense of trust.

Elizabeth Brett [00:13:10]:

Yeah. And I love that you've highlighted that because it absolutely wasn't easy. It wasn't easy, you know, any step of the way. In fact, several times, I would say I might have been kicking and screaming on some levels about it because, again, I had that list of things I checked off, like, the boxes I'd checked. Even in coming out of the closet as a priestess, you know, I was actually about to go back to grad school for a degree in marriage and family therapy. And I had this near death experience in the ocean with my daughter. Essentially, I went into the water as one version of me, and I came out as a different version. It was one of those moments where in a flash, like, in an instant, it was it probably was a total of three minutes of my life where there was really a struggle to get her to safety.

Elizabeth Brett [00:14:05]:

And then my ability to fully surrender in the water and and know that, like, no matter what, it was all gonna be okay. And then to find myself crawling out of the water and coming back to shore. I don't remember how I got there. I just know that it was truly one of those moments where I turned around, I looked at the water, and I knew that the ocean was giving me an opportunity to release any stories about having to prove anything, about having to follow anyone else's expectations, and to truly tap in to my inner knowing on a whole new level. And it took maybe two weeks to unravel that whole projection of my life that I had set up very carefully and very methodically over a very long period of time to go back to grad school to become a therapist. Yes. It seems like on the outside, like that was easy because it did unravel quickly. Once I made the decision, I was able to unenroll and all the things, you know, But the actual choice to step in and say, I'm not gonna go get that degree, and it's not gonna make sense to you, my husband, to my dad, to my family members, to anyone around me, to my neighbors.

Elizabeth Brett [00:15:28]:

Right? What I am gonna do is I'm going to step into priestessing in a very modern day way, and that's going to become how I get to spend my days because I know it's my soul's work. Didn't make sense to anyone. Still, sometimes I have family members and people asking me like, you know, really, this is what you're doing. You know, my uncle, will like jokingly at a wedding last year was like, oh, so you're a wedged shit. I was like, yeah, watch out. I I actually cast spells, you know? It's like, it's not the easy thing. And yet when it's the true thing, there almost becomes for me now. I know that feeling when it's the true thing, when it's the thing that there's almost no choice anymore, because I know that when I'm truly in alignment with that inner knowing with that, that soul wisdom, as I call it, then everything else will be so much easier because I have stepped in to that knowing, and I've allowed that to lead and not allowed the external voices and not allowed, like, what society says I should do.

Elizabeth Brett [00:16:41]:

Right. And what success is supposed to look like get in the way. But, yeah, it's often actually the opposite of the easy choice.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:16:49]:

Yeah. So important for folks to remember. And I think also inspiring as well, too, that. Yeah. Sometimes you're going to want to do things and probably most of the time you're aligned to self is you are going to have to start to walk outside the well worn path and start to start to pave your own way. Yes. So I would love to hear what is a modern day priestess and you even use the word priestess. And can you just, yeah.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:17:13]:

Tell listeners like, so what is it that you do now?

Elizabeth Brett [00:17:17]:

So I love that you're asking this because I specifically say modern day priestess, because for me, the difference is I am not someone who stays. You know, tucked away, who is frolicking in the woods and, you know, communing with the earth and is, you know, on my own planet. Now I'm very much a real world. I take all of my spiritual practices and implement them in my modern life. So and it's not separate from. I invite women to begin these practices in their daily life, that this is not just a thing you do. It's it's like, you know, if you're on the yoga mat and you feel peaceful, but how do you take that same thing as being in ceremony? How do you take what you're doing in ceremony and then bring it in, allowed your life to be the practicing grounds for it? You know? And so that's what I mean by a modern day priestess is that it's, I'm not separate from the world. I'm absolutely, my work is to bring it into the world, to bring all the ancient knowing from thousands of years ago.

Elizabeth Brett [00:18:27]:

And this is what a priestess is from thousands of years ago, pre patriarchy pre like the, the Uber masculine way of moving through our days. There was a sacred feminine wisdom that was acknowledged. We were the wisdom keepers. Women were the ones that were the storytellers. We were the Oracle. So people would go to Kings and leaders would go to before making their next move. Right. We were the ones that truly held so much of the leadership in a very feminine way.

Elizabeth Brett [00:19:00]:

And a modern day priestess to me is a woman who can hold space, create a sacred space for you to step into, to remember the parts of yourself that you may forget in your modern day life, because it's not the way that our lives are set up these days, but it brings you back to who you truly are. It ignites those parts of you that maybe have been set aside or ignored because it was easier that way. So again, not the easy path, but a priestess also is willing to walk through the fire with you. And it's different than coaching because I would never say, Lisa, here's what you need to do next. I would say, Lisa, what do you know you need to do next? Right. And so it's really about you being able to strengthen your internal tuning fork and trust your soul wisdom above all

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:20:02]:

else. Beautiful. I love how you talk about bringing the practices into our everyday lives. Because even from, if we just look at things from a very spiritual perspective, like we have our meditation practice or our prayer practice, we have to remember we're practicing so we can be present with our children, so we can interact with people in traffic or at the grocery store, and that we can remember the sacred in every day that it's not different. It's not like these are two different things and I'm different people. It's like we do the practices so we can build the muscle, which we then use throughout our life. And I think it's always important to remember that.

Elizabeth Brett [00:20:42]:

Yes. And that's exactly the work. Right? The point for me of ceremony is to create a space where we can invite those parts of us to come out and play that maybe have been tucked away. And then once we meet them again in ceremony and we figure out what they're trying to tell us now or what the invitation is now for us to bring that part back into our life. It doesn't really work unless we're willing to then throughout our days say, okay, how can I bring more of the muse energy into every day? Like, what does it look like to be more playful? You know, for me, I remember the first time I went through the muse archetype to give you an example. And I showed up to pick my kids up one day and I had on one of my daughter's unicorn horns and I had a wand. And as they got in the car, I booped them both on the head and said we were going to a magical place. And we went and got ice cream with sprinkles, you know, and I was like just bringing it in and allowing it to be playful and allowing it to be fun and really making it like a, like a grand experiment.

Elizabeth Brett [00:21:48]:

You know? Okay. There's a piece of me that I have been told, like, I'm an adult now. I don't get to be playful. But what happens if all of that isn't true and I get to be as playful as I choose? What would I choose then? And what would that look like? And let me play with these different ways that it could look.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:22:07]:

Yeah. Oh, I love that. That sounds so much fun. I can just picture you with your, the unicorn and your little magic wand. That sounds like so much fun. And I think it's a really good point. In my community, we also work with archetypes a lot. And I think sometimes when we're working with archetypes, we can think of it as a very cerebral process.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:22:25]:

Like I can read about them. I can write about them. I can journal about them, but that you have to embody them. You have to kind of become them. And that's kind of where the creation and the play and the embodiment comes from. And that's like, that's the important part.

Elizabeth Brett [00:22:39]:

Well, and that's the fun part. And I remember when I first read about whatever course I was going to be doing and it was set embodiment, I was like, oh, does that mean dancing? I didn't even know what embodiment was. And I was really so disconnected from my body. That part of getting back into the embodiment and really owning all parts of myself was this understanding of what does it even feel like to me? You know, not what is portrayed on my page or what I can read about, but like, let me take this concept of an archetype, everything that even my mentor is saying, and my mentor's mentor says whatever, and then bring it into my body and see how it wants to show up in my life. Like how does it shape me and how do I shape it? Because I guarantee that my version, just to go back to that example of the muse is going to be different than yours and different than our listeners. And that's, what's so beautiful about it is we get to read about these concepts. We have, such a wealth of knowledge of these beautiful archetypes, but then it doesn't become ours until we actually get to sit with it and say, okay, but I would never run through the grocery store with a tutu on giving out Hershey's Kisses, or maybe that's what I wanna do every Friday. Right.

Elizabeth Brett [00:24:03]:

We get to like, feel into where we sit with these archetypes and how we want to practice with them.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:24:11]:

Yeah. I think that's important that there is no right way. They're going to manifest differently in all of us. And that's the creative part. That's the exploratory part.

Elizabeth Brett [00:24:20]:

Yeah. And that's what I feel like really brings it home because it's one thing to have a concept or to see how you do it. But it's another thing for me to practice it with my kids. And, and honestly, my kids have been some of the best learning grounds for me. You know, we'll hold different ceremonies or we'll do different things and they're so fun and they're so open and they're so willing to experiment and it's such a great reminder. And, you know, for me, I feel like for the first two years that I was in this work, I very much kept it. I was very closeted. I very much kept it to myself and it wasn't until year three or maybe even four that I really brought my kids in.

Elizabeth Brett [00:25:01]:

And it has been so amazing to see how they show me. They teach me about these archetypes and about these ceremonies, these little rituals that I bring into our lives. They have brilliant ideas. They're so close to it all. Like it's not that much of a stretch for them. And so I've loved letting them be my teachers as well.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:25:22]:

Oh, that's fantastic. Oh, that reminds me, my daughter was looking at prom dresses this season. She's a senior and I don't know. I just wasn't feeling that she was, she, there was kind of all over the place. I'm like, well, what is the archetype that you want to embody? And I gave her a list of like, like just things I made up, like these playful, promy archetypes. She's like, I love this. Where did you get this list? I'm like, honey, this is what I do for a living. I love that,

Elizabeth Brett [00:25:44]:

but what a fun way to shop for a prom dress.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:25:47]:

It's like, no. Yeah. Like, well, what do we wanna embody? How do we want to feel? Let's think of that first before we go into this.

Elizabeth Brett [00:25:54]:

It's so beautiful and fun to feel how these really do get to make our lives richer. And that is the real work here. Like everything I do has created such a richer experience of my day to day life. And that's really why I wanna share it with everybody because there's, it's an access point to so much wisdom and so much wild fulfillment. That's the juicy stuff. Like that's why I'm like, yes, every woman needs this.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:26:26]:

Every woman does need this because, you know, I would say you might have one or two of your go to archetypes based on what you went through as a child, what you needed to survive. And you are so much more, there's so much there more to explore as well. And that's really what this whole process is about is like, what else is there? What have I suppressed or repressed? Cause it wasn't appropriate at the time and what wants to start to come out, come out now so I can live creatively, wildly, mythically.

Elizabeth Brett [00:26:54]:

Oh, yes, exactly. Yes.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:26:56]:

So I also wanted to talk to you about sovereignty and I know just you we've previously talked about the word sovereignty and modern sovereignty. Can you tell me a little bit about like how you define sovereignty and why you believe that it's so important for women right now?

Elizabeth Brett [00:27:13]:

Yes. Where do I begin? So I would say, you know, a lot of people think of sovereignty as something that is like in our modern world, kings and queens. Right? That it's very few people have it, and it's something that's given to them because of whatever family they're born into. But, again, if we go back to the ancient understanding, I wanna really clarify one thing right off the bat. Sovereignty and power are two different things. So power in our modern world has also been taken over by this kind of toxic masculine version, which says the power needs to be dominant, and it's a force. And it's something that is conditional, that it can be given or taken, that it is external to us. Right? There's this striving.

Elizabeth Brett [00:28:02]:

There's this proving that happens with power. There's this, ability to tell people how to do something. But if we go back to the ancient feminine version, what we find is authentic power is not able to be given or taken. It is something that comes from within us. And that kind of power, just knowing it comes from knowing who we are. It comes from knowing what integrity means to us. It comes from knowing on a cellular level what it feels like to turn on our power and turn it all the way up and not be afraid of the most powerful version of us. And for me, as I have been in this exploration and inquiry of bringing all of these ancient practices that I've learned about in the sacred feminine, through the archetypes and through inner alchemy and all of this beautiful work into my life.

Elizabeth Brett [00:29:03]:

The one thing that has really become clear is sovereignty is the way that we hold that power, the way that we live with that power. So power can often feel like something we can turn on and off internally. But sovereignty is like, let's say power is the flame. Sovereignty is the way you tend that flame, how you're nourishing that flame, how you're making sure that it's not burning anymore. Right? Sovereignty is the way that you are embodying your integrity on a daily basis. And to me, sovereignty isn't just like this cool spiritual buzzword because it's pretty hot right now, but it's a way of life. And it means being able to live on your own terms, which is not selfish. It is actually just incredibly, courageously honest, knowing who you are, knowing what you actually want to be your biggest priorities in your life, knowing how integrity looks and feels to you, and being willing to not just play by rules that were handed to you.

Elizabeth Brett [00:30:17]:

Being willing to say those rules worked for me for a long time, or I thought they did. And now it's time to create my own that actually work even better. Again, not the easy way just to circle back to that, but that is what sovereignty is to me. And I say modern sovereignty, because again, it is not that theme that we play within ceremony or this concept that we read about. It is like living it in our daily lives. And especially right now when there is so much noise politically, economically, like there's just been since, I mean, since 2020, especially there has just been chaos and so much noise around us that I feel like it's the most important conversation we can be having is how do we root into our inner wisdom? And it starts with really knowing ourselves first, because unless we truly know ourselves in a deep and sacred way, and we have owned all parts of ourselves, we cannot create a life that is authentically and truly in our sovereignty.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:31:35]:

Well, that's beautiful. It's interesting. I sovereignty, for some reason, when I initially hear that word, it always strikes me as a form of hyper independence. And this is just my interpretation. It's not even how it's defined or anything. It's just for some reason, that's what it brings up to me. And sovereignty is hyper independence, and that's not what it is. But could you maybe even talk about, like, how do you see sovereignty relate to having a husband, having children, having so many people in your life that you are interconnected? Because I think it's also, you can't just take off whenever you want and decide, you know, I'm gonna spend a couple of months in Costa Rica and focus on me.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:32:16]:

So that's not sovereignty. I know, but that's, there's still always a part of me that thinks it's almost like complete freedom and independence. But what is your kind of interpretation of sovereignty in the very practical sense of there's a lot of people that depend on me too.

Elizabeth Brett [00:32:29]:

I love that we're bringing it into this realm. And I love that you're bringing this up because I do think that for a lot of people, they, they hear okay, on your own terms. And that feels very much like you're gonna escape for three months and go to Bali. Right. And that is not at all the point. So I would say sovereignty more means whole unto myself, whole unto yourself. So what that means is you're not dependent on external factors to make you happy to, you know, you're not looking for experts to tell you how to live or, you know, it's it's a much more inner resourced but very well resourced person. I will tell you that one of the biggest game changers in my marriage has happened in the last nine months.

Elizabeth Brett [00:33:19]:

And it was when I brought all of these principles of sovereignty fully into my partnership. And let me just give you this example so that we can root into it because it does sound like sovereignty is very selfish and very much like insular. Right? It's very hyper independent. But I would say knowing who you are being whole unto yourself actually gives you such a beautiful place to come to in relating to any other human, Because I no longer need my husband to tell me I'm a great mom or, you know, it's like, I'm not looking at him to validate. I'm not looking at him to fix anything. Right? And and of course, we're all human. And of course, there are days where where, you know, we are going to not be perfectly in our sovereignty. I'm not saying that we are.

Elizabeth Brett [00:34:20]:

But what happened about nine months ago is I realized somehow this this seems to be a recurring theme in my life and in many women I know where we will do all this inner work. It will show up first in ourselves, then we'll kind of move into different circles. So we'll start, you know, with the outer circle. And then it's the relationships that are closest to us that offer us, I think, the biggest initiations and the biggest opportunities for us to really explore our spirituality and and and our practices. And I looked at my relationship with him, which by all external factors would have been like, oh, it's great. It's on, you know, and yet I knew it could be juicier. We could be more connected. I knew that there was a whole other level that we could take our relationship to.

Elizabeth Brett [00:35:05]:

And so I went through a couple of months where I very methodically and strategically looked at all the principles I'd learned about sovereignty and implemented them into our marriage and into our relationship. And and what I did was I said, okay. If I trust my own sovereignty as much as I know I do now, can I also trust his that much? Can I look at him as a sovereign being and every choice he makes as a choice in his own sovereignty? Can I look at our relationship as also having sovereignty in and of itself? Right. So it's a third factor. Right. So there's him, there's me. And then there's a relationship. And in doing that, and in bringing in a lot of the practices and the ways that I really embody sovereignty in my own life.

Elizabeth Brett [00:35:59]:

And I root into my own wisdom doing that with him and his wisdom, rooting into his wisdom, honoring that wisdom, honoring the wisdom of our relationship, the timing of our relationship, where we were in the relationship, it allowed us to be having this whole other conversation and this whole other level of connection. Again, I just hosted a summit and I had 14 women that I spoke to about modern sovereignty. And some of the initiations with these women were I'm going to meet them in their sovereignty and how they're showing up for the summit. And I had some beautiful experiences of really truly honoring each woman's sovereignty or honoring another woman's sovereignty and saying, I see you in your sovereignty. I'm in mine as well. Let's figure out where to go from here. Right. And so it's not at all isolated.

Elizabeth Brett [00:36:49]:

It actually is just very empowered.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:36:52]:

I love that. I love your example. Thank you for sharing that with your husband about how sovereignty could work. And that really makes a lot of sense because I think the reason so many relationships, particularly romantic, but really all of them start to crumble is when we're expecting someone else to fill our inner need. We want them to make us feel better about ourselves. And then when they don't do that, there becomes a rift in the relationship. So when you're sovereign, it's you don't need that. You get to decide how the relationship goes as opposed to having a graspiness towards it.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:37:24]:

One question for you, if you don't mind sharing. I'm curious, like, as you were doing this with your husband, did he even know about it or was this just kind of an energy that you were bringing to the relationship?

Elizabeth Brett [00:37:35]:

He didn't, but you know that meme that's up right now, I actually like, I I'm gonna re record a podcast episode on this because I think this is so great, but there's a meme that has been kind of floating around that says, you won't I won't tell you I've won the lottery, but there will be signs.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:37:49]:

Have you ever seen that?

Elizabeth Brett [00:37:51]:

And there's, like, these elaborate, like, a bed made out of amethyst crystals in her bedroom and things like that. Right? Well, this is sort of how it was when I brought this into the relationship because I didn't say, hey, babe. I'm gonna try to experiment right now. For the next eight weeks, I'm gonna do this experimenting. I just started doing things differently, and I started playing with it on my own. But what's amazing is there were signs. One of the things I loved in the beginning of our relationship is he used to leave me these little sticky notes, like, after a date or, you know, if he was leaving to go on a trip or anything, he would like, even when we were engaged, he would leave me these little sticky notes. And, you know, we've been married for thirteen years.

Elizabeth Brett [00:38:28]:

It's you know? And and so we've had a we've had kids. A lot's happened. Those notes kinda went away for a long time. But, like, just last week, he left me a note on top of my, I may, I have a coffee ritual every morning that I live by and he left the cup out for me and he left a note on top of the coffee cup. And it's just a little sticky note and I just held. So there there are these signs that started to come back that showed me that he was noticing. Even if he didn't know what the hell I was doing, he was noticing a difference. And then he would say things to me.

Elizabeth Brett [00:39:02]:

At the point at which I knew we were getting somewhere really juicy, he said to me, it almost feels like we're newlyweds again. Oh, wow. You know? And I was like, oh, yeah. Right? He's like, it's like before kids. Like, this feels like this is so fun. And that's the thing. I feel like when when you're really in your sovereignty with another human, like who also you're honoring their sovereignty and they're in it, it gets to be really fun and really freeing and light and playful. And I mean, isn't that what we want? At least that's what I wanted.

Elizabeth Brett [00:39:36]:

And so I was I was thrilled with these outcomes. So, yeah, to to just, you know, give you some examples, it wasn't it was never something I stated or I told him I was doing this experiment, but there were definitely signs.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:39:51]:

Yeah. Well, and I ask, and I, I think it's really interesting that, you know, he didn't even know about it. Cause I think it just shows the power of feminine alchemy. And when we start to change how we show up, it also it has such a profound effect on how others show up. And often we think that we need to tell of, like, you need to be leaving more notes and you need to be doing this more, which never works. Right? That does not create any chemistry or intimacy. It just creates hard feelings. But when you start to show up differently, it's like you can alchemize the relationships.

Elizabeth Brett [00:40:19]:

So I

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:40:20]:

think that's just such a beautiful example that we have enough power to change things.

Elizabeth Brett [00:40:25]:

Absolutely. And not just in our romantic relationships, but in everything. In our friendships, with our children, with our parents, whatever relationship is happening in your life. You know, there's an opportunity there. And that's where I really think and that's one of the reasons that I truly think sovereignty is the key because it's sort of the foundation of all of it, especially just the beautiful way you get to know yourself through it. Because then, of course, you're gonna show up differently. And then when you show up differently, as you said, other people are given an opportunity to show up differently as well.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:41:01]:

So important to remember too. It's like, I think we're always sometimes looking at like what others need to do, but it's like, well, what do I need to do as well? How do I need to show up? So now I know there's probably so many women that are listening right now saying like, I wanna be more sovereign. I have to be more, how do they begin? Like, what would be one of your tips to like, how do you start to access more of this? Like one unto oneself failing?

Elizabeth Brett [00:41:27]:

Yeah. Well, I feel like a really good way to begin is just to slow down. I feel like so much of modern life is sped up. We're shoving as much into our calendars as we possibly can. We're blazing through days and weeks and months. And one way to begin to have this relationship with your sovereignty is to slow down enough on a regular basis to hear your own inner wisdom. And I actually I just led I would love to share this with your audience. I just led a beautiful ceremony last Saturday on power and sovereignty, where I take people into this idea of really turning on their power and really allowing them to feel what what sovereignty is in their body.

Elizabeth Brett [00:42:24]:

And on a very basic level, we can get to that by giving ourselves as much space as possible enough space to really leave all our roles and everything we're carrying on a daily basis outside the door, shut the door even for five minutes and just drop in and listen and really get in communion with that deeper part of us. But on an accelerated scale, you know, I would say this is really about being in relationship with how you have related to your own power and how you're maybe afraid of it or you've denied it or you've turned it on in a way that you've been taught power was supposed to look and getting really aware of what you want power to feel like in its full authenticity and playing with that in your life, playing with how then you mother from that place, how you are a partner from that place, how you run a business or go to work and be in a friendship from that place.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:43:37]:

Oh, that sounds so amazing. And yes, I'm sure my listeners would love that. So thank you. I'll put the link there in the show notes.

Elizabeth Brett [00:43:46]:

Beautiful. Yeah. I'd love to share that with them.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:43:49]:

Yeah. What else do you have going on? Is there anything else that you would like to share with folks today or how can, how can people find you? And I will put all of that in the show notes as well. What's the best way?

Elizabeth Brett [00:43:59]:

Yes. Oh, I have this beautiful, juicy quiz that I'll tell you about quickly. It's called the Soul Code quiz. And it's really about bringing us back to who we were before the world told us who to be. And again, this is such a beautiful journey because it taps back into releasing all the noise, releasing everything that's that's happening, and really getting into that inner knowing because that to me is such a beautiful place to start. You had the soul code, you came in with it. Like, what if we reignite that? What does your life get to look like if we wake up that archetype and I built five beautiful archetypes in it. They're so fun.

Elizabeth Brett [00:44:48]:

And so even just going through the quiz, people adore it. People have, like, printed out the results pages and posted them places in their homes. And, like, they got so much so much amazing feedback from that. So I would love if anybody feels inclined to find out what their soul code is to offer that as well. And, yeah, you can find me on Instagram. I love getting messages from people in my DMs. So come find me. I'm Elizabeth s Brett, and I'll definitely make sure you have that for your show notes as well.

Elizabeth Brett [00:45:18]:

You can find me on my website, elizabethbrett.com and yeah, all the things.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:45:23]:

Fantastic. Oh, I love the idea of that quiz because I have so many women that always say to me, I just wanna remember who I was and cause you're right. We're born with it. We're born with this vital spark of creativity and interest and curiosity. And then sometimes life gets challenging. Our attention gets diverted, but it's still there. We just have to get back to

Elizabeth Brett [00:45:45]:

it. Yeah. And I feel like that's the work, you know, for the first thirty or whatever, forty years of our lives, it's like, we're adding all this. We're learning, we're becoming. And then I feel like there's this part of us that that recognizes that we get to strip it all away and go back to what we knew all along. And that's really the work that I feel like I do as a priestess is reminding women who they truly are. And that so often is about taking away. It's it's not about adding more.

Elizabeth Brett [00:46:16]:

It's about releasing us from stories and patterns that never actually served us anyway, releasing us from, you know, the expectations of how we're supposed to show up or, you know, these societal norms of what our lives are supposed to look like and saying, but what do we actually want? What would be the most fun? What would be the most wildly fulfilling?

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:46:39]:

I love that. And it is taking away. It's like what personas no longer serve me, right? That I have build, whether it's the good girl or the ever tending daughter or the complacent, whatever, but how can I let those go and come back to who I truly am? Exactly. Exactly. So beautiful. Thank you so much for your time today. I loved this conversation. I can't wait to share it with all of my listeners.

Elizabeth Brett [00:47:04]:

Thank you so much for having me, Lisa.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:47:06]:

You're very welcome. Thanks for tuning in to The Goddess School podcast. I hope today's episode inspired you to reclaim your feminine magic. Now, don't forget to subscribe show. And if you've enjoyed the podcast, please leave us a review on Apple. If you wanna dive deeper into divine feminine archetypes and reconnect with your power, check out my book, The Goddess Solution. It's packed with ancient goddess wisdom for the modern woman. You can find the book on Amazon, and the link is in the show notes.

Lisa Marie Rankin [00:47:37]:

And if you are ready to embrace these practices alongside a global sisterhood, I invite you to join my Divine Feminine Mystery School, Enlivened. It's a supportive space to embody these teachings with a fantastic community of like minded women. You'll find the link in the show notes. Remember, the Goddess isn't a deity outside of you. She's an aspect of your highest self. You are the Goddess. Until next time, my friend.