Mahara Wayman [00:00:00]:
Welcome to the art of badassery, the podcast that explores the extraordinary lives of individuals who have chosen a path less traveled. I'm your host, Mahara WehmWaymanann, and today I'm so excited to welcome a true badass and an adventurer, Joe Davis. Now Joe is a force to be reckoned with. born in the seventies as a military brat and raised in an era where kids were allowed to run wild. But Joe's story is far from conventional. It was Love at first sight when she met her husband, skydiving almost 14 years ago, and their shared thirst for adventure has taken them on an incredible journey. Joe and her husband made a bold decision in the past year. They shed most of their possessions, packed their suitcases and embarked on a thrilling chapter of their lives. they're currently exploring the vibrant landscapes of Mexico, immersing themselves in its rich culture and mastering the art of speaking Spanish. but Joe's adventurous spirit doesn't stop there. She is a number 1 international bestselling author, a gifted intuitive, a death doula a Reiki master teacher. Through her organization lift a sister up, Joe passionately believes in empowering women to pursue their personal and professional dreams. With over 150,000 followers and students, Joe has helped countless individuals tap into their intuitive superpowers, guiding them from big mess to big magic. through her one on one sessions and transformative course. Today, Joe joins us to share her incredible journey. The highs, the lows and everything in between. So buckle up peeps and get ready to be inspired as we delve into the world of a true adventurer, intuitive healer, and artistic genius. Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Davis.
Jo Davis [00:01:50]:
Girl, you make me sound good.
Mahara Wayman [00:01:54]:
Our good girlfriend. So exciting to have you on the program. And, you know, earlier, we were chitchatting, and we have a lot of similar therapies. and we're gonna touch on that a little bit later, but can we just open up with why you have How come you're in Mexico? and not in Texas?
Jo Davis [00:02:13]:
Well, have you seen how hot it is in Texas? That would be the first answer. And I think Texas has lost its mind a little bit recently. as as have some other states in our in our US, but the biggest thing for us was and and you probably have stories that can relate to this as well. I definitely feel like you have an adventurous heart. You're definitely a badass, Mohara, but I knew so many people that retired and then drop dead. I knew so many people that retired from working 40 some years And 2 weeks after their retirement party, they were diagnosed with the terminal disease. And between David and I, we knew too many people. like that. And after COVID, because we were able to work remote and we're able to do all these things, and we're like, do we really need to leave the house? Can we work from anywhere? that's when we decided to travel abroad and really see the world. We had a lot of Mexican friends, and fell in love with this managed culture. And, you know, honestly, when I moved from Oklahoma to Texas, the Mexican community scooped me up. and my Hispanic friends scoop me up. And they were like, half the time, I didn't understand what we were talking about. but they had such love in their heart and they made me feel so welcome and accepted for Thanksgiving and Christmas Easter and family holidays and birthday parties. I just I wasn't hammered by how they connected with each other like a village, like a community, and they all showed up for each other, and they all chipped in, and they all looked each other, and everybody had everything they needed because everybody was, you know, aware, and they kind of had their head on a swivel. like where are you short? What are you missing? How can I help you? Oh, I have this. You need this. And it just seemed like a very different culture than how I had been raised in primarily these, you know, white communities. And so you know, growing up a military brat, I had that diversity and all that connection, and on a military base, everyone's kinda looking out for each other. but since kind of going out on my own as an adult, I really had missed that. And I'd missed that diversity and and going into someone's home and smelling like different smells and and different textiles and different fabrics and different cultural experiences and the way they ceremoniously honor experiences like even death, they look at death very differently. And yeah. So I was just like, I wanna know more about this community, and I'm curious about everything. But The love that they showed me when I moved to Texas was just I was enamored by it. So yeah, so we were like, look, we can work from anywhere. Let's go. So we pretty much got rid of
Mahara Wayman [00:05:09]:
99.99
Jo Davis [00:05:10]:
percent of everything we owned and packed the bag and explored a few places here in Mexico and found a little town that we love. And we're basically traveling abroad for a year, but I mean, our home base is still in Texas, our our businesses are still in Texas, but we're just exploring.
Mahara Wayman [00:05:29]:
How did that take? because I won't, you know, it's easy to say, Oh, let's just go on a holiday, let's go on a trip, but to actually acknowledge your needs aren't being met where you are at. Many of us go for life and we never acknowledge that. But to actually acknowledge that something is missing, and to have the courage to go look for it. I think it's quite amazing and to have 2 of you be on the same page, let's talk about that. Was that sometimes?
Jo Davis [00:05:59]:
No, I mean not at all, we've had a very effortless relationship. And I think I'm always surprised when people are like they talk about their relationships as if there's this big struggle, and I'm always surprised by that. because I'm like, I don't know. That sounds like a lot of work. Life is short. That sounds like too much work. I'm out. But no, we really work fluidly together. All I can say is been relatively effortless. The most difficult thing of all of this was I would say that downsizing should come with a support group that that moving to another country where you don't really speak hardly any of the language. Should have a support group. And and, you know, we were talking about this early, Mara. We were talking about how something seem terrifying to some people and other things seem terrifying to other people. And for me, I have hundreds of skydives. And that's nothing compared to contributing a chapter to a book. That's nothing compared to moving to a foreign country. That's nothing compared to I mean, I can remember attending PTA meetings where I thought I was gonna vomit because I was just like, oh, this is such an uncomfortable experience. Just looking around the room like these are not my people, but I need to be here for my kiddo. So for me, a PTA meeting was is probably was scarier than jumping out of a plane. So when people are, like, measuring up, how am I a badass? I'm like, how do you do at a PTA meeting? because I'm guaranteeing you do better than me.
Mahara Wayman [00:07:38]:
in my call. What a great example, but really what I'm hearing is, first of all, for individuality, we all have things that we connect And today's conversation is not gonna go into any other plane of existence because that's not what today's topic is. but there's a lot it doesn't matter what the reasons are. We all have challenges that we agree to take on in this lifetime. what I find interesting is, to your point, there are things in my garage that I cannot get rid of. My husband's like, why do we have that? But you can't.
Mahara Wayman [00:08:14]:
Like, there's something -- The baby's first dress.
Mahara Wayman [00:08:17]:
And he's like, who gives a shit? And I'm like, what I can like, it's so pretty. It's so cute. So downsizing, you know, downsizing is one thing, but getting rid of stuff. because you just, you know, it just doesn't have a connection. There's no energy connected to it anymore. That's a whole different story. And, you know, I immigrated from Jamaica and my family hit everything up and it got shipped up on a container to Canada, well, to England first and then you know, again, 2 years later, my dad didn't like it, so we moved to Canada. And everything was packed up and shipped in a container, and I have I still have toys that I play with as the little girl in Jamaica. Now I'm in my late fifties, so these toys are like, you know, fifty years old or plus or more. And I absolutely cannot get rid of them. So Kudos to you for doing that, and I fully agree PTA meetings, man, they're scary.
Jo Davis [00:09:08]:
Those women Man, they should serve wine. I'm not much of a drinker but man, I do not miss those days.
Mahara Wayman [00:09:16]:
So let's talk about actually saying to your community in Texas and your family and friends, how did that conversation go and how was it met?
Jo Davis [00:09:29]:
You know what's interesting is other people are often uncomfortable with our change. This last I was in the creative life book 1, I have a couple books here that I've been in, but I was in the creative life book 1, and then the second one's getting ready to come out, and the topic is radical self love. And in my topic in this chapter I talk about how other people around you, it's an inconvenience. I grew up with People Blazer. I was a caregiver archetype. I was like the chubby girl that was just lucky to get invited and I'll be the designated driver for eternity. I didn't know my worth, I didn't know but I was kind of a badass bitch. I didn't know how strong I was and gifted, like intuitively gifted. These like superpowers which so many of us have and we don't even know it. And so I love this chapter because it talks about how when you're a people pleaser, it's an inconvenience the people around you when you blossom. It's an inconvenience to the people around you also when you step into your badassery. When you step into a new season of your life, they're like, wait a minute. I remember David had one friend. This is so crazy to me, and he messaged and he actually said, I need to understand why you're doing this. He said, I need to understand. We need to have a conversation. I need to understand why you're doing this. And we're both like okay. Next. Be because it's uncomfortable to other people. when they're in a in a state of complacency, and I'm not saying everyone needs to go do something crazy. There's lots of people that have gone off the rails and made big changes in their life they had no business making them because they weren't in the right space, the right head space, the right heart space, and it was for the wrong reasons. Not everybody should go do that, but my gosh, to be able to celebrate each other and at least get a good seat in the theater to watch them and cheer them on. Like, I did a post a while back on my Facebook lift assist her up page and it said, What was it? It was something like cheer me on or sit down. It was like cheer me on or sit down and be quiet. like we don't need any of that. So yeah, it was very uncomfortable for several people including my mother. My mother really still doesn't under she's like, I still don't understand what you're doing. I'm like, we're traveling abroad. Because life is short, we're traveling abroad because that's okay for her to kinda digest because it's scary for her, but I think for a lot of people, you know, look at you in this podcast. Like, you're doing this thing, and some of your friends aren't doing that thing. And some of them that are very comfortable where they're at and they don't wanna be challenged, they don't wanna stretch, they just aren't a season of their life to, like, exercise that bad assery muscle that they all have. They're just not there. They just need a little peace, a little moment. You doing this thing is gonna confuse them. It's it might ruffle them a little bit. It might upset them. They might be like looking for holes to poke in it because it's a threat or what is it? Our bright light irritates other people's demons.
Mahara Wayman [00:12:55]:
I love that saying. And I think, you know, how I equate to what I what I was feeling when you were talking, and thank you for sharing, by the way, was that it's almost as if when we choose to elevate in any respect. It highlights those around us. What either where they are at or where they want to be.
Jo Davis [00:13:21]:
Or what they know they should be doing because life is freaking short,
Mahara Wayman [00:13:25]:
but they're resistant to it. Not only they're resistant, but they may also not even have the language because sometimes when I speak to people and this has happened quite a bit, 2 years since I've now I'm doing what I'm doing is I feel like they look at me as that they don't understand the words I'm saying even though I'm speaking English. because they just don't know that language. We have all been conditioned for most of our lives to live the way you're supposed to live as a privileged upper middle class white or slightly brown person. I'm a person of privilege. I'm Jamaican not your average looking Canadian? Well, actually that's not true. I probably am. But you know, we have societal structures that we agree to fit into. But when those structures are questioned or challenged or changed, many people they just don't know the word like, I don't even I don't know the word to I I don't know this I don't know this language. I can't I can't can I can't be part of this conversation. because I either don't know the language, I don't like the language, or I just this is just I just don't understand it. So I just wanna say hats off to you because it's not always easy to forge your own way. Now I also will say and I mentioned this to her earlier peeps. I am terrified of heights. So when she told me that she would jump out of a plane way before, you know, hard it easier to do that than, you know, pressing going to a certain meeting or pressing publish on a on a book, I was flabbergasted because, you know, I was hyperventilating just picturing it. However, really, the the bulk of our conversations on this podcast are recognizing that part of being badass is being authentic. And there is nothing wrong with authentically wanting to stay put and do your stuff and marry your child's partner. If that's you, that's great. But if there's part of you that's wondering what's on the other side? How would Spanish sound coming out of my mouth? How would I look as a blonde? How would it be if I, you know, if you feel the need to question, that's awesome. That's badass. So it's not that you need to jump out of a plane to be a badass because if that were the case, people, I would not ever be badass because I ain't never jumped in out of a plane. unless I have to, like to save my life. But being bad ass really is listening to your needs and I just wanna go back to something you said earlier. think it's really I think it's very powerful that you said that you went back to the feeling that you had as child, which was one of inclusivity, an experiment, an unconditional love and support. It may have been missing in your adult years for a time. but you found it again or dare I say it found you. It's interesting that we can circle back to what we need if we know what it is that we need and we recognize it when it when it hits us over the head. Does that make sense?
Jo Davis [00:16:26]:
Yeah. And I also think people go through a midlife crisis, and I'm like, I don't know if that's a midlife crisis. I might call it something else, but I feel like we go through these chunks and seasons repeatedly in our life. Like, it happens more than once. It's just sometimes it just gets really loud, and sometimes it will bring you to your knees if you don't pay attention to it. But it's the season of unbecoming, the thing that you never were to begin with, or you're sort of shedding things because, look, You know, the year the years that we grew up, we were feral like our parents threw us outside and they were like come back at dark and they throw snacks out the window, like we were feral. how we didn't get kidnapped in that white kidnapper van. I have no idea. We were definitely protected by something. but I think that we grew up in a season where we heard our parents voices. And the things that they said to us now sound strange to me, but because I've grown out of it, but they said things to us like be seen not heard. They said, we were praised for being a helper. We were praised for helping around the house. We were praised for being these soft, delicate, sweet, accommodating fluffy young women. And I don't think that's what the world needs right now. I think you know, we need sharp tongues and loud voices especially for the for the voices that are always shushed and for groups of people that have been alienated and marginalized. I think it's our time to be fucking loud and loving and kind and inclusive and you know, understanding about other other cultures that are on the planet and beliefs and religions and all the things. Like, it's a big world. but we go through these waves and seasons of unbecoming. And if we pay attention to them when we're younger, we get the and we get the amazing people in our life, and we get all the good stuff. But when we don't wanna pay attention to it, it's like we're go it's like this us, you know, rolling that boulder up the hill. And every day, the boulder comes back down, and he's cursed to just every day rolling that boulder up the hill. And every day, it comes back down. And if we can really hone in on that letting go of things that don't serve us and letting go of ideas that other people implanted in our brain Because look, girl, when we're kids, we love everybody. We love Susie's house, you know, that has the weird food and the culture and the different smells and the different music and the different musical instruments in their house. And then we love Bobby, you know, who's who wears a Jarmica, and we love, like, we love all these different cultures because we're never told any anything different. So I think these seasons of unbecoming what we're not are badass and it can be in little choices like you're saying. It doesn't have to be some grandiose thing. It can just be accepting an invitation to your friends, you know, priests coming and blessing their house because you're curious about that culture. It can be holding space for someone that's going through a season of their life that you don't relate to, but you can just shut up and sit there and listen. These are all bad ass things.
Mahara Wayman [00:19:53]:
so much goodness in everything that you said, and I kept I kept thinking, oh my gosh. She just said what I was thinking. Oh, she just said what I was thinking. You know what I do for a living. Right? Well, to be for a living. But what I think you know, one one word that I didn't hear you say, but I think is worth bringing up. is it plays right into this understanding or this idea of becoming, learning to let go of judgment. You know, we
Jo Davis [00:20:21]:
and it's a hard one. Right? Like, you can feel it hit your body.
Mahara Wayman [00:20:24]:
Oh, like, I just felt that. Yeah, I told the story on another podcast, so I won't go into it here, but I've become very recently, in the last few years, I've become very aware of just how judgmental I am. And I was so filled with judgment about that that I I had to just stop and okay, give your head a shake. And now that I've forgiven myself, I actually enough fun with it, but really it's one of the things that I talk a lot about to my clients or they talk to me about is they don't realize we, as a society, often don't realize just how judgmental we are. And there was a reason it came about, and that's another podcast. But for those of you that have never experienced the freedom of letting go of judgment, it is absolutely magical. You know the way that you described it, Joe, of being a kid. Children are so close to their so sore. Yeah. To their spirituality, they don't know they may not well, they may not even be speaking at this point. but they just feel everything. And they come from a place of love and they feel love and they express it. I remember saying, to someone recently, oh my god. Kids, they are so excited about everything. Like, I remember my children coming up to me going, look, mommy, mommy, look, and I'm am I looking at? I drew. I drew. And I'm like, in my mind, holy, what the hell is that? But to her, it was a castle. Right? I often say we need to work really hard to get back to the truest, the one that isn't frightened of the neighbor, the one that doesn't assume she's bad, the one that doesn't assume she's raised, the one that doesn't look in the mirror for mistakes or flaws or pimples or an extra role of fat. you know, that girl or that boy is just dying to come out again, like come out and play. And that's really the crux of being bad ass. It's giving yourself permission to be that little kid again because guess what? You're amazing. You're amazing. Okay. So I wanna go back to something you said. We don't have a lot of time, but what did you do for a living? And what do you do for a living?
Jo Davis [00:22:46]:
So I always kinda worked in the corporate world. My last job was about 10 years. The corporate world working as an image consultant, a managing director, I dealt with, other MS consultants, doctors, all these things. And as I was working in that job, I would do these consultations with clients in this, like, small room, and I didn't realize at the time I had all these gift, but I would be sitting in the room with like a husband and wife, and I would know things. There was no way I could know. I would be sitting in the room with them and I would be like, wow, he like is verbally abusive to her. He is this or he is that or, oh, she's saving money up to leave him. Like, I would just sit there and be like, And I was like and it became a source of anxiety for me, and it almost felt like cheating because I was in sales too. And then I know all of this stuff about it felt like it felt like I don't know. It didn't feel like an integrity filled space towards the end because I was like, I feel like I'm cheating the system. And I would make predictions and they would come true and especially about people's health as far as their illnesses and things like that. Things I would know, there was no way I could know. And it just got more intense and more intense and more intense. It became a big source of anxiety. I was having chest pain every day. And finally, I was let go for my job, which was the greatest blessing ever. And so in shifting from that work to the work I do now, I was like, you know what? everything's been pulled out from under me. Everything's been pulled out from under me. I can create this moment I don't have to worry about being liked because everyone's gone. You know, all the people I was a workaholic and all my people I work with were like later. And so they just sort of all disappeared. And I had this clean slate that I could finally be honest, and real about, okay, why am I here? I had these gifts. I can't I can't explain. There were just too many things that had happened. I mean, dozens and dozens and dozens dozens of crazy stories. And I knew I needed to honor it, and I think that's badass. I think that most people I have so many clients that like right now I have a client that has these amazing intuitive gifts that I'm like, she doesn't even know. she doesn't even know that she's sitting on god stuff. She's sitting on, like, divine connections and serendipitous information and I mean, she's got a whole team working on her behalf with these gifts and she's like a realtor or something. I mean, so it's really amazing to me. So now the work I do is is one on one sessions. I also put on retreats. I have a bunch of guests coming today for a 1 week retreat here in in Mexico and I do intuitive single sessions, but the main thing I do, girl that I'm super passionate about is my big mess, the big magic course. because it's teaching other women primarily, I have female clients mostly women, it's teaching them how to tap into their gifts. I'm like, you don't need me. Like I'll teach you how to listen to your gut. I'll teach you how to listen to your intuition. I'll teach you how to clear up that muddied staticky phone line to god, your higher power, your angels, your guides, whatever. I don't care. Whatever you call it. I don't think he or she cares either. but that's what I'm passionate about teaching empaths how to unplug because you know there's all these people that talk about social anxiety They're anxious. They're empathic. They're sensitive. They feel everybody else's stuff. And then I start working with them, and I'm like, you know there's nothing wrong with you. and they're like, but I'm anxious all the time. I'm like, you're fine. You're an empath. You're absorbing everyone else's shit show, and you think it's yours. You're rattling because you have abandoned yourself. You're rattling because everything is getting in there, because you're not honoring your sacred space. If we're this dense solid bright white light, things can't get in there that don't serve us because we're just exuding it. It's like bug repellent for the non nasty. don't have to put up walls or boundaries or shielding. I'm just like, and anything that doesn't match that frequency is physically uncomfortable in my presence. And it's not because I'm making them uncomfortable, it's because they're like, I can't get to that bed frequency, I can't get to that that vibration. So I'm just gonna stand back here and watch, which is fine, which is fine, but if we teach other empaths how to unplug, all of a sudden it gets real quiet And all of a sudden, their intuition is like boom. Boom. Boom. I mean, everything crazy from, like, lottery numbers to pick an all horse at the horse race. I mean, just just or knowing what phone call to answer and what email not to return and people that are in your life that everybody thinks it's fabulous, but they something's a little off about them so you stand back and then you find out later they weren't good people, but you listen to your gut. So you start building, you know, yourself esteem entrusting yourself, these little steps. So I love working with people and teaching them how to do that because, man, we got we got especially women, we got some gifts.
Mahara Wayman [00:27:58]:
and it's so needed. I love love love and I'm not gonna show it on screen but a really dear friend of mine and I are talking about our spiritual our second gifts and I have ignored mine for years And she's like, you need to stop. And I'm like, well, I don't know why. You know, I got these cards because I thought they were pretty. I got my daughter to buy me a set of baro cards for fun. And but I don't you know, too much too much work to learn how to do tarot. And, you know, I spent an hour yesterday on doing tarot cards with her, and I'm like, well, there you go. Now I'm doing it. Now I'm doing But what I love about this idea or what you're saying, Joe, is really we are incredibly beautiful, perfect human beings. We were we are children of the universe, and every single one of us is here for a reason. We're not here just to shoot and shit and get the crap feet out of us or to be spit on or to feel badly, or any of that stuff. We may be in that place today, but that's not we don't have to stay there. Being comfortable with ourselves, whether we are empath or not, whether we are outgoing or not. is everything because we are worthy of happiness. And if we travel to find it right, it's our birthright.
Jo Davis [00:29:16]:
our birthright, our joy, our gifts, our badassery, it's our birthright, we just forgot.
Mahara Wayman [00:29:22]:
We do forget, and some of us may never have you know, it may be a brand new conversation with words that don't make sense to you. But these conversations may ring a bell in somebody's head and that's what that's my goal. My goal is for every person, not our woman, to understand that they are special and they bring something to the world. And One of the best ways to do that is to just admit that you want to be part of the world and admit that you deserve to be here. And that's a lot of the work that I do with my clients is to help them see how beautiful they are and how much they matter and how we're made of star stuff. Like, we're literally
Jo Davis [00:30:08]:
made of the same stuff that stars are made out of. Like, I mean, I just mean, even science confirms how magical we are. Even science confirms that that energy and intuition and predictive predicting things and feeling into things, it's measurable. Even yogurt gives off energy if you hook up you know, electrodes to to yogurt, it it gives off measurable frequency and energy. Tesla knew it. And so I love that we're in beautiful season where you and I are having conversations like this, and it's normal. It's normal, and we're not being kept in a kitchen, and we're not just here, go fold some laundry. And, I mean, women were really gosh. We're just living in the best time. We're just living in the best time we got stuff to do. Let's go.
Mahara Wayman [00:30:54]:
Our time okay. We've only got a few minutes left, unfortunately. But what are some of the things that you would recommend to our listeners or just share with us some a couple things that you may do on a regular basis that remind you of your glory or your badassery.
Jo Davis [00:31:10]:
Okay. 2 things really quick. Obsessive. Like I'm obsessive about these 2 things. One of them is gratitude. I obsess on gratitude. I obsess on gratitude like it is my cocaine. Like, like, I really don't drink. I don't do drugs. But, dude, I mean, gratitude would be my crack. comfortable. But, like, seriously -- -- gratitude is my brag. I love it. Like, I'm I'm addicted to gratitude. But when people obsess in that space, it raises our frequency and it just starts the universe goes, oh, she wants more things to be grateful for. That's what it hears. The universe starts sending us oh, let's and then if also you're obsessing on gratitude, naturally, which is the work I do is teaching women how to effortlessly let the stories that we hoard in our heart about our past why they happened, who did us wrong, or our ex, whatever bull crap we believe in our heart, real things that happen, but the work in this gratitude space allows them to kind of just softly spill off to the sides. They don't we don't have to dig in our heels with those stories because we're in gratitude. We can even be in gratitude for an ex. I mean, thank god, look at the things he taught me. He taught me to find my voice. He taught me to step on my own and take care of myself and provide for my family. Make heavens. So gratitude. The second thing is this, The first thing in the morning when my feet hit the floor, I obsess on this, and actually my best friend taught me this one day. She learned it at a class or something, and I've been telling everyone and teaching everyone and it's this mantra or prayer, nothing shall enter the sacred space that doesn't serve my highest good. And when I say nothing shot under the sacred space that doesn't that doesn't serve my highest good, like, nothing's allowed in the space that doesn't match up to that frequency and and bring me to good stuff, healing, health, prosperity, loving amazing people, learning and maybe not such painful ways, but that higher frequency is where it needs to meet me, then basically what I'm saying is I'm sending out a message or a prayer to God, my angels Mother Mary, whatever it is that someone believes it doesn't matter. But I'm sending that message out and I'm saying, hey, y'all have been waiting on the sidelines for me to finally figure out I'm not in control of everything as a control freak woman that we all are. I'm not in control and I need you all to get to work. I need you all to come on up to the front line and I need you to sort through these interactions over here and sort through this opportunity over here. And I need you to handle my safety, and I need you to handle my good people that are meant to find me in this lifetime, but you're saying nothing's shot under the sacred space that doesn't serve my highest good. you're giving this command out or this prayer or request to let all these other entities, you know, God, Jesus, Buddha. I don't care. You're putting them all to work, and you're staying in this light. And and that's what I do. First thing in the morning when my feet hit the floor, and all day long like when I walk through a doorway of a store, nothing's shown under the sacred space, it doesn't serve my highest good and I'm just imagining being in this light that's exploding out of me and protecting me and loving me and guiding me and curating every interaction coming towards me, and I don't need to worry about any of it. I'm protected. I'm good. I'm good. I'm lit up like a Christmas tree, and I'm drawn in all the good shit and all the amazing people. And I've been blessed that I people show up in my life, Mari, and they're like, how can I help you today? Hey, do you wanna be a part of this book? hey. Do you wanna do this? Do you wanna and I'm like, whee. So it's like it's like this ride. But those are the two things. My mantra and then being in gratitude as if my life depends on it. Okay.
Mahara Wayman [00:34:54]:
Joe, I can't thank you enough for this conversation. It was short but I think it was well, it was pretty powerful, jam packed with lots of great things. Just to recap, you are in Mexico, living the life. I can't I did hear you say that you've got people arriving today for a treat, so God bless you. for agree on the day that you've you're starting to retreat. But two things that you shared with us that are super powerful, and everyone, please check the show notes because I'm gonna drop lots of goodies. on how to connect with her. I'm going to write out that mantra because I think it's beautiful. But the two things of real importance that have helped you to become this badass that you are today is living a life of gratitude and to say in a mantra first thing in the morning that really just reminds the universe that you're here and you're ready to rock and roll. And for those of you that have never heard this before, the universe has our back. The universe has our back. The universe has our back. But we do have to be careful what we ask for. because if we focus on the negative and all the stuff that we don't want more of, they'll just give it to us. You explained that beautifully earlier. So so much so much laughter in this in this in this conversation today, Joe. I wanna thank you so much for for sharing some time with me. We are going to do this again. Those of you that joined us today, thank you for joining me on The Art of Bad Astry, the podcast where we talk to real women about real challenges and real things that they do that we do to feel badass every day. My name is Mahara, and I will see you next week.
