Good morning, Mel. Good morning, Beth. We're just sat here

going through the motions, just having a whole

giggle about what we're going to do today.

Life is full of synchronicities, and when we take that

inspired action, the universe just

delivers again and again. Yeah,

absolutely. We're going to continue from the theme of last

week's episode, and we're going to talk more about synchronicities

today. If you remember, last week, we were talking about.

We talked a lot about flying last week. And

following that podcast episode, both myself and

Mel had synchronicities linked to flying.

So we're going to talk about more of that today or not. All of these

things that are kind of in our life path, whether it's people or experiences

or situations that happened, that maybe take us down a different path

or start to align, and it's. We don't realize until after an event. That's

why that thing happened the way it did, or people stepped in

and helped us at times of need and things like that. So let's

continue with the theme of synchronicities. I've

got so much to say. Let's start with the synchronicities. So,

on last week's

call that we actually recorded yesterday. And

why is this significant? Because yesterday I pulled a card

while we were on the podcast, but it was just

sitting here. And then yesterday I had one of my coaching

calls, and I pulled the same

card. And then this morning, I had the cards in my

hand, and I'm giving them a good shuffle. Pull the same

card, and this card is this beautiful

angel with six wings. And you think that yesterday,

in last week's episode, we were talking about flying and

wings and the winged ones and birds and the rainbow colours, and this

card is all of that. So it's Seraphim's

gateway from the gateway of light activation,

oracle by Kyle gray. And it's like,

literally rainbow wings. So then I go to

yoga, and my teacher, who

has never once in the three or

more years that I've been going, starts, gets us to do

this thing. And she's, it's, imagine that you're flying. And I

giggled and then messaged Beth as soon as I

finished, I'm like, my teacher's talking about flying. What's going on?

And then Beth messaged me and has

a. So I do readings every Monday, Wednesday, Friday

inside my membership group. And yesterday morning,

the card that came out was the bat card, which is the bat of, it's

about consciousness, or rebirth of consciousness and flying and freedom and

realigning to that consciousness to be who you want to be, to feel

free. And so we'd got the beautiful bat card

had arrived. So I messaged that back to

Mel. And then not only has Mel

pulled her card this morning, I pulled a card which, if you

look. So this is from the unicorn, the oracle of the unicorns. So

there's different kinds of unicorns, got big wings and some have got small wings,

but this is quite magnificent unicorn with similar

colours to your card, actually, it's got the rainbow back. Yeah.

And then these giant big wings, and it says, leap into the

unknown. Have faith and move forward. Believe that you will

fly. So when we joined today's call, we were like, this

is definitely what we're supposed to be talking, talking about

today. So I'm here for it. But I would say

that whenever we connect, like, this whole

podcast is called soul inspired you, because it is about

us fully having faith and belief in whatever comes up and through. And

that we talk about is exactly what we're supposed to be talking about. It's completely

unscripted, and I think sometimes we forget that that's the premise of the

show. But there's been so many synchronicities that just me and you have had

just even, like, what we were wearing yesterday with the black, today we're

wearing our hair up. I never wear my hair up. I've got my hair up

and I've got. You've got your shawl, and I've got, like, a nice Shirley type

cardigan on. And there's always synchronicities. There's always things that

seem to align. And I think this is

true for everybody, and I think it's just having that awareness of that and

noticing some of those things. So

let's talk about that. It's more than that, because I think

the synchronicities happen, and should you be open to

them? I think the difference between. I don't believe in coincidence, but

I think the difference between a coincidence and a

is that the synchronicity, for me, is like a

confirmation that you've done something, that you've taken the

right step, that you're on the right path. Because

if you think about what a synchronicity is and what is

involved in a synchronicity, so let's say it is that you and

I both turn up wearing the same

outfit, right? If you think about what that would take

from a divine orchestration point of view, like, it's

mad, because I would have to think about.

I don't know, I'd have to feel a certain way in order to pick a

certain outfit out of my wardrobe and think that it's a

certain color. And we don't live in the same part of the country as well.

So the weather's going to have an implication on that,

too. And it would have had to have

been washed, and it would have had to. Whatever it is. There's all of these

steps that need to happen in order for

me to make a decision and you to make a decision, and

for that to be. Just to be the decision. On the day

that we are meeting up, like so much the

birds in the. In last week's episode that just

landed on that, I have never seen it, like, for the bird to take

that step for whatever reason, and maybe it was because

somebody or something put something in their garden or

I. Whatever, but I had to be there at the right time, looking at that

point out my window. Like, when we think about that and the

steps that need to happen in order for a synchronicity

to come about, it blows your mind.

But what that tells me is if that is the case, if it is

some divine orchestration that our job

is to listen to that intuition, to

listen to that even instinct, to take

the action, to show up, to make a move.

Because without the move, you'd just be sitting in your room and we wouldn't know

that we're wearing the same outfit, for example. And

it, for me, it's this confirmation that, yes, you've done it. You've done the

right thing. You've listened to your intuition. Because otherwise I would have gone that way

and not that way, and I would have completely missed the whole thing. Yeah,

I think it's that easy. It comes back that easy and hard feeling that we've

talked about, we've spoken about before. It's that. It's that

alignment. It is a confirmation that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be

right now, on my path. And hurry, you're here. You're doing exactly what you're

supposed to be doing. Because I think there's so much talk around, I haven't done

this. I'm so far behind, or it's not meant for me, or I should have

done this ages ago, or we're never going to make it,

whatever. There is no cosmic alarm clock that's about to

go off. We are exactly where we're supposed to be.

So have you got examples? I've got a few examples from, like, my life and

when things have aligned, that

we can maybe talk about. But I would say. I would say, like everything, if

you pan out all the way out on your life, like everything's

aligned, right? Everything's happened exactly when it was supposed to happen. But when you're in

the moment, when you're there, or when the outcome to something isn't how

you would have wanted it to be, then when you don't necessarily

give yourself that grace to go, oh, hang on a minute, something better is coming

for me. This all. Which

isn't always easy in the moment. It isn't. It is this

or better. So if it's the case that synchronicities show up when you're

on your path, does that mean that you can have a wrong

path? No, I think we're all heading to the

theme destination or the version of our

destination. It's about how. It's about when

you choose to bring yourself back to in alignment with the

true essence of you. I think that's where we're being who we want to

be. I did that post last week because I've been having

a difficult year, but I've been goofing around in the last couple of weeks and

it's felt more aligned to who I am. And I think sometimes we forget to

be who we are, or we try to prescribe

to professional, professional male

or to strategic beth or strategic mel. And I think in doing

that, we forget who we are. And then it just

gets easier. When I had so much fun last week,

and that really benefited my business more

than any sales post or some kind

of launch strategy, just being me, just being fun.

Like, it doesn't detract away

from what you're trying to achieve, as long as you be new and you're doing

you and you feel comfortable being you. And that's sometimes

the hard part, isn't it? The feeling

comfortable being ourselves. Because a lot of the time we're

thinking about what other people are thinking about us and all of these things. But

we're going off on a tangent there. I'm literally going off the path.

For me, that's the journey, is the knowing yourself.

And those synchronicities that we see and feel

are confirmation that we're doing it. When we're not getting a

lot of synchronicity is coming up. Does that mean that we've

gone off path? It doesn't mean we've gone off path. It just means

that we've taken the detour. It means that we've gone the longer

way rounds. And for some, that is the scenic route and that's beautiful and that's

fine. And we're taking a break from, from this

journey, taking a little vacation. And for some,

that path is the arduous walk

up the hike up the mountain, and

both will have benefit. Sometimes you need to rest and

recharge. Sometimes you need to really push yourself. What I'm

learning more and more is the more that I

take action before the universe starts squeezing

me. Yeah. The

more, like, now, the thing with that is it does take.

Courageous and it does take, oh, God, am I going to be rocking

the boat? And do I really want to do this? And

what are the consequences of this? Because things are nice and

comfy over here and I've worked so hard to get here. Something comes

and you're like, I'm going to stretch it before I

get the real push and shove, like before. It

necessarily has to become not so much from a free will

option just. As you're talking about that,

because I've experienced that where the universe squeezes

you. And that's not always

the. If you've left that for a long period of time, that's not always a

good place to be. But it's like that door is always

going to. On that path, that door that you're wanting to step through is always

going to be available for you to step through. It's always going to open

regardless of whether you're taking

action or whether the universe is going to have to kick you to the backside

to get you through that door. So taking action in any form,

however small, we've talked about the baby steps before, is going to

build that momentum so that the passage through that door is a

lot, is. Feels a lot flowier and easier

than if you were like two steps away from the door. But the

door keeps you pulling it, and then you're not pulling it or whatever. You're putting

your foot in, your foot out, you're doing the hooky cookie, whatever. So you're going

to step through the door regardless. So why not give yourself the best chance of

flowing through the door rather. Than

if you find that the door is just there and you want to come

and move through it, but it's like you've got this bungee rope pulling you back,

then those are the challenges and the opportunities

that we have to really know ourselves more. Because I think that's what

it always comes down to. Like these, if you want to call them lessons from

the universe or tests or challenges or whatever they are, which

I don't think they're imposed on us I think they become part of our

growth and part of how we stretch ourselves,

how we resource ourselves so that when we move through the door that we

have the resources that we need. Like we were talking

about the computer game, so

now I know how to jump and collect a mushroom, or now

I know how to whatever it is, or I've collected

that item that's now going to go in my inventory, which

I needed before I went in. And when we start

to, just like in a computer game, if you know you're going the right

way, especially on the. On these platform games where you can actually

go anywhere, you know you're on the right path when the little golden

rings come up or the. Whatever it is. And I think that the universe is

the same like that. It gives you these little rewards, it gives you these time

stamps, it gives you these fancy golden

mushrooms or not, or fungi of choice

to. To reassure you, to fuel

you to go, yep, this is good. You're not going down some

deep, dark thing, but sometimes we go down the deep, dark thing in the game

and we find ourselves in a. One of those green pipes

in Mario, and then you're. And then you're in this whole other world, which you

never would have experienced had you have just stuck on the

path. Is there a wrong or right way? No.

I think our job is what brings me joy. What do I

love? What is my passion? That's one

thing following that. The other thing is, where am I

restricted? Where do I doubt myself? Where have I created

patterns, programs, beliefs that aren't in

alignment to who I know

myself to be and going and facing that,

too. That's not the wrong path. This is not necessarily an easy path,

but it's so rewarding and so

healing and so that then we can move into these new versions of us

that we all seem to be craving. I really love the,

the game analogy because there's different kinds of

games. Like with the Mario one or the Sonic the Hedgehog

one, for example. You know, that there's. It's very linear. There's a

direct path, there's a. You can go down or you can go up, or you

can go around the loops, whatever, but there's a. There's an end. Or especially the

games that we used to play, the original Marion. It's very different now,

like the Sims or Call of Duty, where you've got more control

over who you be and the conversations that you have

and the battles that you choose, that kind of thing. And I

think that's why sometimes we forget, because

we live in this world where we get to make choices and we get to

choose and we get to go down different paths and we get to go backwards

or forwards or left or right or whatever and wear whatever we want to wear,

we forget that there is an end, there's a

flag, there's a Mario jump at the end kind of thing for

us to experience, and I think we get caught up in that

sometimes. But like you say, like the games,

like, where you get to have conversations and meet people and jam and

make decisions that are different and can take you down different

routes, there's. For me, and this is an interesting thought as

well, is like, there's far more reward in that, right?

Especially if. And even though it's incredibly frustrating if you feel

like you've been banging on the same door, like, for ten years

because you haven't fully integrated that

shadow side or learned that lesson, and the lesson gets harder and

harder, but when you finally do receive all of

the goodness from that lesson, that is even more powerful. That

had you walk through that door the very first time,

it's nice to go through the door. Easy peasy.

It's nice to, like, oh, I've experienced this situation a couple of times, so I'm

going to do it differently now and walk through that door. But then the

tricky one, the harder one or the one where we go around the house, there's

so many times and we feel the pain and we feel all the. Feels like

multiple times and it feels difficult, or we might get into the victim

mentality or, like, why is this happening to me? Whatever. All of those different things.

And then when we finally go through that door, that reward is

not only massive for us, but the ability

to share that with other people who are also going through

that is so much more powerful. Like, you could have

gone through the door the first time or the second time. It was like an

easy ish lesson, and you might be able to share that story with

somebody. When we've been through really tricky, difficult times,

then we get to shine our light on a whole other level.

So it's an odd dichotomy, isn't it? Like, we would. We would

like life to be easy all the time and to always be flowy, but

there is real magic that comes from the

difficulties and the challenges and the obstacles. And I'm not saying that to be some

kind of seder, whatever the word is, like, enjoying the

pain, but there is great rewards that come from that.

It's the same with the game. Like, you, if

you got a new game, and you did

the first level and you alert. That was easy. And then the

second level was exactly the same as the first level, and you were like, that

was easy. Like, how long would you continue on that game before you're like, oh,

my God, this is so boring. But what happens in the

game is we do a level and there's a level of

challenge, and then we get through it, like, amazing, and then we

do another, and then we do another when we get to a point and

we have to master it. And that's what makes the game good

fun. That's what if I think back to when

I. When I was a teen or and used to do that, it was those

games like Tomb Raider, where you really had to collect the

things and get that jump and defeat that

whatever that really engaged

you and you enjoyed, like, the ones

that were just. Even someone like Tetris, who

doesn't love Tetris, it was always just that really

slow dunk, dunk. You

just stop playing it. But as it gets harder, as it gets more

challenging, and that makes it so interesting,

and I think that's the same

as life. And if we can look at it like, okay, this is a

challenge that I'm moving through, and this is. Look at

that feeling that I've got coming up. Look at that emotion that I've got coming

up. Look at this difficulty, look at this support, look at this trigger, look at

this discomfort, and, like,

we do need to feel it. And, of course, nobody wants to do it. And

I hope for everyone that they have a really nice, easy life.

But a lot of the challenges, this is what I want to say. A lot

of the challenges that we go through are

there to help us move and grow. Yeah.

And if we can zoom out on the everyday

challenges, if we can zoom out from them and go, okay, what is this

lesson that I'm. If there is a lesson here, what am I learning and

what can I grow from this, and how can this help me in the future?

If we just ask those questions? It just makes

things less

daunting. You could almost say, this is another thought. We'll see

where this goes. You could almost say, so, like, when we're talking about synchronicities and

coincidences, which, again, I agree that there's no such thing as a coincidence. It's

like just two things coexisted at the same time, you know, as

they are supposed to do. You can almost say that challenges are obstacles, and

life lessons that repeat themselves are synchronicities

or coincidences. But they are. They're further apart, so you can't

actually see them if you. Because I think we think about time as

linear and going in one direction, but actually, when

we zoom out and we think, take that time, construct away the

lessons, you could. I don't know if this is true. It's just what's coming

through at the minute is. Could be a synchronicity, but yet there's

bigger space between them, so we don't necessarily see the

synchronicity. Does that make sense? So it's a

repeating instance that we haven't yet

mastered. Right. But it's. I

don't know, are they one of the same or are they completely different? I think

it's. I don't know. It just dropped in. I don't know the answer to that.

But I think it's an interesting concept because they are things that repeat themselves.

Yeah. And do they need to

repeat themselves? Maybe they need to keep on going until you.

Until you've mastered it. Maybe they do keep getting harder

or they get more challenging and then you've got more, and so therefore they get

easier in some way, but they're still just as

frustrating, or they're just as whatever. But our goal, if we

stick with this video game thing, our goal is to get through the door at

the end of the thing. And you know what? I think, just like in a

game, sometimes the door isn't the door leads us to the world that we don't

even need to go and master it. It's just here's

a fun little underground world that you can go and explore if you

want to, but it's not part of the main game. You know

what? I don't think life was ever meant to be easy. I think

that life is meant to be filled with joy and filled

with emotion and filled with this, with

connection. But I think it always comes back down

to know thyself. Like, I will have any conversation in the

whole world, and it will always come back to know thyself.

What brings you joy? What's fueling you? What are you

overcoming? What is it that you want to achieve? What is it that you want

to receive? What is it that you want to give? What is it that's fueled,

fueling you and inspiring you? And the more we

follow that, the more fuel we have, because then our soul is

guiding, like, our purpose is guiding us. Our

reason for being here is guiding us. And then as we're being

pulled along that path, then those challenges, which is

also part of our path, that we need to overcome the

okay. Do you know what? I've realized that I hold a lot of judgment

around something. I hold a lot of shame around something. I hold

a lot of separation around something. As you're being pulled

forward into your purpose, those things come up like little knots in your

bungee rope. And then our job and our

path, that's the obstacle. That is the okay. Now,

how do I go into that and learn the moves that I need

to make and what resources that I need to have and what

allies I need to have to come and help me to help to

untangle those? Not necessarily snip them off, but

untangle those. So then you've got more slack, and then you're moving along, and then

bang, it comes up again in. And those

synchronicities that happen along the way hold

messages and they hold information. Like that magpie

that showed up in. In the first episode of

season two. He showed up

for so many reasons. And it wasn't just,

oh, there's a confirmation. It was like, okay, there's something there

about the beauty and the blackness. There's something there about

what our eyes see and what's really there is something different. There's

something there about going for the shiny object

syndrome. And all of those themes came up for me yesterday

in other different ways. And so that magpie was representing

it. So as those synchronicities come up, it's okay. How

is this resourcing me where it's like a signpost? Where is it

guiding me to what thoughts,

musings, actions are coming

in that now I need to take in order

to enjoy that

path for another 24 hours.

Till next time. Have you seen him today, mister

Magpie? I've not seen Mister Magpie today,

no. He's probably in some warm nest

somewhere going, oh, it's all wet and dampendeze. Probably somewhere

else with somebody else who's doing a podcast, and they're going to get infused with

his wisdom tomorrow. Be funny if he showed

up now. Yeah. So just talking about synchronicities, then. So, as you were talking.

So I muted myself because I needed to cough. And as I muted myself, I'd

forgotten to take the WhatsApp off my desktop, and I got a message that went

ding dong, which would have obviously have been on the podcast had I not

muted myself at that exact moment. So

there you go. Sync. It's saying that it's probably going to get another one in

a minute, and. You could have repressed, suppressed

that call, because that's

the thing we do we're like, no, that's not pretty. I'm going

to hold that in and then it becomes even more a

problem. And that's the thing. That is the thing with life. I don't think

we always have to take every action. Come on. It'd be exhausting. If every

time we have something then, well, I would, I better do this. But the more

we can act and have that courage, so this courage for me comes

from, I know the soul is guiding me. I know that everything is

happening as it needs to happen in the moment. And so if

that's true, then that means that

my body, my thoughts, my inspiration are

all assisting me and how can

I use it? That golden ring is there for a reason.

And actually as I jump to go and get it, I'm like, oh, look, there's

a shortcut or a long cut or a extra

whatever that I can reach. Or you can go swing on

past it and then you'll be like, why do I not have enough rings to

beat this? I've got to go back and go and get it.

I've got a strange urge to play Sonic the Hedgehog. I don't think

I've got Sonic the Hedgehog or maybe they're in the loft or something, but I've

got this urge to play it. But old times coming

out. I've not seen any of the movies. They're quite good. They

are there. And there's a new movie coming out because I went to go and

see Beetlejuice, which was ridiculously hilarious.

I've seen such mixed reviews about it, but I think I will enjoy

it. It is ridiculous. Like it's Tim

Burton. I like that though. Yeah, ridiculous. Don't go there expecting

some deep philosophical and the storyline is

obvious and but for me, like seeing

Winona Ryder when I was a teen, she was like my hero.

I'm like, yeah, I love Emojd and

what's Jenna Ortega and Catherine O'Hara is just like one of my

favorite actresses. She is just so extra and she was

so extra in the movie. If you've seen Schitt's Creek,

have you ever watched that? I love that. And she's

extra like that. So yeah, I enjoyed it. My

twelve year old was like what is this? What was that? What

is going on, mummy? And we saw the sonic

advertising. He's like, can we go and see that next time? I'm like, yes,

we can. I love that, though. Had you not been to see Beetlejuice, I'm sure

he would have come across the Sonic the hedgehog movie, maybe he wouldn't have realized

that it was. We may not have known. And we might go there and we

might see something, or they might be like, do you always take these, like, deep

philosophy, whatever? Even in Beetlejuice, I can find some deep

philosophical discussions to start to have, let alone how much I

connected with Lydia, who's a psychic medium in the

movie. And the kids are like, oh, God, mum.

And I, like, is that what my kids think of me? Don't tell them what

mummy does at school. They all know. So, yeah, it's a fun

game. And those synchronicities are. If we can

think of those synchronicities as the rings or the

mushrooms or the resources that we need to move forward,

and there's these little signposts and we're like, okay, why might I need

that? What might. How might that come in useful at some

point? Is this something for me, then, that will

help us live this more inspired life?