Today I talk with Jennifer Longmore, Leading Authority on Soul Purpose, and Elite Business Coach to enlightenedentrepreneurs, is a sought-after media personality, 3-time best selling author, is world-renowned for her laser-like clarity in seeing into the depths of your soul and bridging your connection to universal consciousness.
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[00:00:00] In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with media personality, best selling author and elite business coach Jennifer Longmore. Key points addressed were Jennifer's books regarding her rhetoric and knowledge on identifying and realigning one's to one's purpose professionally, personally and spiritually. We also discussed some of the reflections and thoughts Jennifer's had as she has launched a massive effort to help individuals traverse the Kovik 19 pandemic and begin future visioning again. Stay tuned for my fascinating talk with Jennifer. Long more.
[00:00:38] Hi, my name is Patricia Kathleen, and this podcast series contains interviews I conduct with women. Female identified and non binary individuals regarding their professional stories and personal narrative. This podcast is designed to hold a space for all individuals to learn from their counterparts regardless of age status for industry. We aim to contribute to the evolving global dialog surrounding underrepresented figures in all industries across the USA and abroad. If you're enjoying this podcast, be sure to check out our subsequent series that dove deep into specific areas such as Vegan life, fasting and roundtable topics. They can be found via our Web site. Patricia Kathleen dot COM, where you can also join our newsletter. You can also subscribe to all of our series on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Pod Bean and YouTube. Thanks for listening. Now let's start the conversation. Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I'm your host, Patricia.
[00:01:38] And today I am sitting down with Jennifer Longmore. She is a media personality, best selling author and elite business coach. You can find out more about her endeavors and all of the work that she's involved in in w w w dot soul journeys dot ca.
[00:01:54] Welcome, Jennifer.
[00:01:56] Thank you. I'm excited to be here. We're going to have a great chat today. We are. I can't wait. I've really climbed through a lot of what you've done, and I'm excited to ask you so many questions regarding your work and your future endeavors.
[00:02:09] For everyone listening, I will read a quick bio on Jennifer. But before I get to that, a roadmap for today's podcast. For those of you are longtime listeners, it will follow the trajectory that we always follow for this series. Namely, we will look at Jennifer's academic background and early professional history leading to right now. Then we'll look at unpacking soul journeys. We'll get into the logistics of who, what, when, where, funding growth, client base. And then we're get to some of the more specifics of the ethos and the philosophy behind the work that she's doing there. And we'll also address some of the at least a few of the plethora of books that she has written over the past decade. And we'll then turn our efforts towards asking Jennifer about any goals that she may have for her businesses and her her own personage for the next one to three years. That's an area that's changing for a lot of us given the recent Cauvin 19 pandemic. And we'll wrap everything up with advice that she has for those of you who are possibly looking to get involved with what she's doing. Ask her for some of her services or maybe emulate some of her success. A quick bio on Jennifer before I pepper her with questions. Jennifer Longmore and leading authority on sole purpose in elite business coach to enlighten entrepreneurs is a sought after media personality. Three time bestselling author is world renowned for her laser like clarity in seeing into the depths of your soul and bridging your connection to universal consciousness. For more than 15 years, she has served clients in permanently shifting the limiting beliefs and patterns that prevent them from being who they really are so that they can live their most abundant, aligned and accelerated soul's journey with over thirty thousand sole purpose sessions, including the Who's Who of actors, professional athletes, CEOs of leading companies and other influential influential luminaries. Jennifer continues to offer these high level sessions to souls who are really committed to shine their light. And again, her website is w w w dot. Soul Journeys Dossier.
[00:04:11] Now, Jennifer, it's this three time bestselling author. But I think I saw five somewhere on another one of your bios lost your beloved author.
[00:04:21] And I love that because I think it somehow it becomes it's more than just a body of work and something that you've you've clearly honed the skill of. But it also becomes very relatable to the way you communicate your information. It's not just this business coach, one on one person to person verbal. It becomes written. And it's a different form of, you know, a pedagogical lens of an instructional lens, which I, I adore. And I kind of get into the minutia of a little bit too much. But before we get to all of that, I was hoping that you could dress like a narrative of your academic background and early professional life prior to starting the soul journeys.
[00:04:59] Yeah, I'd love to. I love that you point that out about the books, because when I did my master's thesis, I just dillydally on that thing like my my professor contacted me and she said, you realize that you've got about six months to write this and hand it in before you have to redo your entire masters. Like, I really it's OK if you don't want to do your thesis, but you're going to have to pick a lane now. Right. Because it just felt so daunting to me having so much material. And it's so funny to me that I've published 10 books. Now, like, that's just because I really thought I was done with writing. After I finished my thesis, I was like, I am never writing another book again. That was, you know, like total birthing process. Here I am.
[00:05:41] So when I was younger, my parents decided that my mom would stay home with me because they would actually was more financially advantageous for them, for her to stay home than go to work and pay a babysitter. So she stayed at home with me and my mom, I think secretly always wanted to be a teacher. So she taught me and I was reading and writing and, you know, basically at a grade five level, by the time I got to kindergarten and I was asked to constantly sit in front of a class and read to the class, which as a shy kid was actually really painful, to sit on a chair above my other peers and read a story to them, like a teacher would read and people would come in and gawk at me and they would bring in people from the school board. And let's look at this. This girl, they wanted to skip me ahead to grade for my mom was like, no, that's not going to happen because she's going to miss all of those social things that she needs. So I was in gifted classes for a long time and I didn't view myself that way. In fact, it was really embarrassing and it made me other. And I really because I was already very spiritual and wew and very intuitive, I already felt like an outsider and I was doing my best to fit in. So every time I got taken out of a class to go to a special class, it just was it was super uncomfortable for me. So I feel like I spent a great chunk of my time in school trying to figure out who people needed me to be so I could fit in because I felt like a really old school. I got along way better with adults and I felt like kids. My own age groups were kind of annoying. It was refreshing to me when I would finally find a kid that could have deep conversations with me. So I ended up in grade 11 having a call up and I went into a class for developmental services and all of these parents asked me to be their private worker for their kids. So these kids had Down's syndrome or autism or, you know, various things. And so I, I got hired by all these parents and I ended up working like forty hours a week doing these one to one contracts after school. And then I got approached by other agencies who want me to come and work in group homes and stuff.
[00:07:50] So then they all wanted me to go and get a developmental service worker diploma at college and my parents had a meltdown there, like, you know, you're going to university.
[00:08:01] You're the first kid in our family that's gonna go to university. That's how it's going to be. But up until then, I always thought I'd be a teacher. And then I ended up going through social work and I specialized in forensic social work and went into forensics for many years investigating crimes against children, which I know you've you've read about my history. Yeah. And so that was an intense job. And fast forward to what's going on in the world right now. I was a crisis worker. I just responded to crises all the time. I got promoted into management positions, director positions, and and then I knew how to lead other leaders through crises. And I never thought I'd repeat that. Right. It's just funny how life has these ideas of throwing things at us. And in hindsight, how our skills for Paris for this. So. So I worked in that for many years. And then I just couldn't my adrenals just couldn't handle that anymore. So I went to work in corporate for two years and did sexual harassment investigations and I ran. Or maybe not. Ironically, that's probably not the right word. But to my surprise, I was shocked that textbook sexual harassment cases were still happening at that time. It was really shocking to me. Yeah. And I know they still happened to this day, but comparatively, the stress that I had in forensics was far different. You know, I maybe got one case every six months of sexual harassment, which was too many, of course. Right. But like from a scale perspective, I was used to investigating hundreds of cases a week of child abuse, too. You know, once every six months. Sexual harassment. That gave me the gift of working a true nine to five. So every night I can or not every night, but most nights I can go to business networking events because I kept feeling that I needed to start my own business. But I thought that everyone was speaking alien. I really didn't understand this language of entrepreneurs. It freaked me out. I. I didn't even know it was a possibility for me. But I knew I needed to get into more of the woo side of things, which is what I do now. And. And so sure enough, I would go at night and I realized, oh, I do have I do have what it takes. And that was a great gift for me to still be getting a paycheck while determining whether I really could do this thing. And so after about two years of working in corporate, I left that. I took the leap and trusted that that would catch me. And it did. And I was busy pretty much right away and became I was referral based and I had a waiting list because all of the same things people were dealing with when I worked in forensics, I was now dealing with them as adults, all of the long term effects of sexual abuse and and gaslighting and, you know, cycles of violence and being parenticide and all the things that were happening that I was seeing. So actually is I'm way more prepared than I realize. And but then I thought, well, I'm gonna go get my masters and I'm going to be able to claim my services under extended health benefits. OK. So I only wanted my masters because I wanted to appease the insurance companies. I was interested. Don't get me wrong, I, I liked academics to a certain degree. But like anything, you know, there's kind of pros and cons, in my opinion and always at academics and. So I went off and did my master's in education because I just needed something, I was already registered with my body, like my associations. So I just needed to have a masters really in anything. But by the time I got my masters, I realized I didn't actually like to work with clients that only wanted to come and do the work when their insurance would cover it. And when their insurance would run out. And sometimes it would be nine months they would instead of just, you know, continually investing in themselves, they only wanted to come if someone else was paying for it. And it's not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that for me, I like to work with people that are constantly moving forward and not finding obstacles to do that. So anyway, so I did my Masters and realized that I didn't need it after all. But still great. Oh, that I did it. And now, 16 years later, here I got that book.
[00:12:10] That was your Everest. Yeah.
[00:12:16] I'm curious, do you believe that the.
[00:12:18] I'm wondering if you, in hindsight, do attribute your immediate success and waiting list and things like that from your you kind of quickly dropped that you had done this business networking and, you know, in nights and weekends when you went corporate. Do you attribute some of the success to that or have you passed any of those pieces out as to why it's so very fluidly took up for you?
[00:12:42] That's a great question.
[00:12:44] I think that job, probably an aspect of that, eliminated some of my learning curve because when we first start a business, there's such a steep learning curve and people will always say, well, I don't know what I'm doing. And I say, well, that's amazing. None of us know what we're doing, which is part of the exciting journey that we get to split test and we get to throw spaghetti against the wall. I'm not saying that that's a long term strategy, but if we go into the energy of on wonder in our first year of business and say, OK, well, I wonder what's going to happen if I join that networking group for a year. And I wonder what's going to happen if I knock on these doors that I don't think we're going to open for me. And I wonder what's going to happen if I take a leap in this way. I kind of call it business yoga. Right. We're really stretching ourselves and kind of developing these muscles and getting more comfortable. But I think that because I really could empathize with people and have a understanding of the psychology of abuse and why they'd be experiencing what they did and people feeling safe enough to come to me and now that I could hold space for them and I wasn't going to make it about me and my discomfort in hearing their story, that I had the actual capacity to hold space for them and let them talk about anything without being judged or without making them feel like they needed to tend to my emotions from like Chris trauma or any of those things that might have happened. They were able to talk about anything. And believe me, I I heard a lot of stuff. I had seen a lot of things. And I still see it. And of course, to this day now, I just know that nothing really surprises me.
[00:14:22] But I I think to the other thing that happened then, which is also happening right now for me in my business in light of the pandemic, is that I didn't focus on the money at all.
[00:14:32] I just focused on. On serving people. And I was so grateful that I got to make my own living.
[00:14:39] I didn't know what I was doing, but I was so grateful that I got to create life on my terms and just help people. And that's all I focused on, was getting myself out there and helping people. And that's what I've been focusing on the last several weeks. And I didn't do it for this reason. But I I've generated a lot of income, unexpectedly, generated a lot of income over these last few months, because my focus really has been on all. My goodness. I've got to get into crisis mode again. I'm going to help people not freeze. And the trauma helped them work through the trauma that was already there before this and then all the trauma buttons that are being pressed through this. And let's get you to the other side. We don't know what the other side's going to look like, but let's find a way to have you feel a semblance of being able to be in the moment or the moment being. So panic and anxiety. Rhythm.
[00:15:29] Yeah. At which it can ebb and flow. I don't think it was just in the beginning. There's a lot of different societal trends with that. And I've been to that end. I want to kind of start unpacking for people.
[00:15:39] And I'm not certain about this current work that you've done because I haven't been able to research any of that. But I do want to start our audience off with them once you approach your Web site. One of the first taglines that I was struck with as a researcher was it's the number one training school for Akashic Records. And I don't know if I'm saying that word right, but I defined I looked up that word in the dictionary and a very general and accepted definition for that is a supposed universal spiric field in which a record of past events is imprinted.
[00:16:13] And that's Akasha.
[00:16:15] So and you and you have this tagline of the number one training school for Akashic Records. So my assumption in looking into it and then going forward with your books is that you're you're kind of engaging this philosophy and this this paradigm in order to help your clients heal on different levels. And indeed, your books envelop everything from spiritual, emotional, financial, you know, in this very they're all interconnected moment. But you kind of pass out each of these things and speak to those through the feminine, you know, energies and things to all the way up to the financial discord and how we have financial DNA and things of that nature within us. And I'm hoping you can break some of it down. I may have just murky at all of it. And I do apologize, but that was kind of my my bird's eye view with all of it. And I wanted to bring that particular term forward because you put it right out there for your audience to hit right when you get to your landing page on your Web site. So I'm hoping you can break some of that down. Pass it out, make it bite sized for people listening and then talk about how you're implementing it.
[00:17:22] Yeah, I love that. And I forgot that was on my Web site because, you know, Web sites change every few years.
[00:17:30] So I sometime I should, you know, go back in and see what's on there because. Yeah, we change all the time and I change my business. I don't just kind of stay in one niche or like have one central offer that I have consistently through the years, although Akashic Records are one of them. I actually follow the pulse of my clients and then say, OK, well, do I feel qualified to offer this? I just have a firm belief that I don't want to offer anything that I don't have a semblance of mastery over. I'm not talking about being a master of or being perfect at.
[00:18:04] But I do feel that my knowledge of certain areas needs to be beyond satisfactory for me to feel good and feel and integrity about, you know, giving people information or holding space for people in a certain way. So, for example, I didn't talk about money until I felt that I'd done enough internal work and done enough outer staff with money to feel like I can guide people. Of course, I'm not a billionaire and I don't pretend to be a billionaire. And a billionaire is probably not going to hire me to help them with their money story. But I can help people that, you know, are still navigating that. And the reason I focused on money was because in doing all the sole purpose work, which is ultimately what I'm doing right, it's all about consciousness, the consciousness of our soul, the consciousness of money, the consciousness of our business. All of these things have an energy or an intelligence to them. And I'm helping people tap into these different areas to live their life with. So many people were saying to me time and time again, I don't know what my purpose is like after eight sessions with me when we keep talking or your purpose. I know there's a question behind the question, which is why are you living your purpose? You know what your purpose is? And people were throwing money, money under the bus all the time. And I say that obviously you don't play by play, but people with money becomes an easy thing to hold us back. And there's a lot of things we don't do in the future because we decide we're already not going to have the money. Well, what I've learned is money is just a neutral energy and it becomes whatever we project onto it based on what we've been taught about money, based on what society tells us, vote money, based on what happens when we have money and how other people respond to us when we don't have money or how they respond to us when we don't have money. There's so much that influences that. And if we can untangle ourselves from all the projections and just see money as a clean source, as a tool that helps fuel our dreams, then we actually have more freedom. Doesn't matter how much money we have, as long as we have peace of mind and freedom around money, that actually is true financial freedom.
[00:20:01] Yeah, and that's interesting. So one of my questions was going to be your diagnostic tool set.
[00:20:07] And I don't know if it's a questionnaire or when you have a new client intake. Let's say one on one, because I know you offer a few different services on your Web site. And I always wonder when someone like you with this this vast array of education and this growing tool kit, if you will, knowledge base, how you correctly ascertain which prognosis and implementation or activities or techniques is appropriate per each client. Do you have a set kind of rule list or intake thing that you do with every client or does it sounds like it varies. You said you follow the pulse of your clients. And so what does that mean in reality, like realistic, tangible terms?
[00:20:55] Well, I'm glad you asked that because I think it is important understand our process. I am very intuitive so I can always tell whether someone is asking me the things that they really want to know. And it's not because they're trying to mislead me. It's just because we have so much wrapped end around even asking. Right. You've been told to be seen and not heard or we get in trouble when we ask questions or we're afraid of looking stupid. There's all kinds of reasons why we don't just directly ask for support or directly ask questions. So I can tell whether someone's question is really in service to them or whether there's something underneath that. And I'll always reflect it back. I'm not going to decide for them. You know, here's here's the truth and you're going to receive it. But we have a conversation. And what I'm looking for is synergy and I'm looking for a dissonance. So when someone tells me that they want to create certain things, I'm I'm checking into the pulse of that to see if that's actually in alignment with what they truly want with their soul truly wants. And I'm also looking for a dissonance that they may or may not be telling me meaning, whereas their incongruence between what they say they want or what they're telling me they want versus what they're actually doing in their life. And then I kind of work probably counterintuitively to what maybe people would think I should do. But I want to know what what's the worst case scenario? You want to have a seven figure business or you want to, you know, find a soul mate or you want to do whatever it is people are telling me they want. Tell me what the worst case scenario is of you having that and it stops people and it snaps them out of whatever neural pathways they're into, open them up to what the actual fear is. Because the reason why we don't do things in life is because we have fears. Usually they're unconscious. So once we eliminate what that actually with that fear actually is, then we can heal and reframe and create perspective and also receive perhaps intuitive guidance around.
[00:22:49] OK, well, how do we help you create that? So that fear is no longer an obstacle, though?
[00:22:55] A common fear would be, you know, fear of being attacked. Right. If I have it all, then I'm hot.
[00:23:03] PICKENS Basically for other people to criticize me and take me down. So people are already expecting to be taken down. When they succeed, they're going to respond as though they're already being taken down. They're going to dramatically slow down their progress with their goals because they're just trying to keep themselves safe. So we find a way to help people see that they're safe in being successful, for example, then they can take that path more easily. Because what happens is when people don't know why they're responding in fear, they then beat themselves up. Oh, I'm stupid. I'm not capable. I'm not enough of X or I'm too much of Y. And they instantly make themselves wrong because we learn that at a very young age that when in doubt it must be my fault. So if we're not moving forward in whatever goal we have, we instantly start beating ourselves up. And then that's a that's a vicious cycle. We just are on a hamster on a wheel. Then we just have our time moving forward because it's really hard to get motivated when we're also telling ourselves that we're stupid or incapable or unqualified or whatever, you know, things we're telling ourselves.
[00:24:07] Yeah. And you talk a lot. Not a lot in the book that I did read.
[00:24:12] And I should clarify for everyone listening, I read Quantum Leap for the Soul Manifesting Miracles Through the Power of Concretion, which was written a number of years ago, I believe, two thousand fourteen thousand fifteen, maybe earlier, I can't remember. And then I also had to look at Helier money story, but not incompletion. And so I'm speaking, namely about quantum leap for the soul. You start off in this introduction of the feminine divine, you know, and this this feminine power. And I'm kind of defining it. And even for myself, who had heard the term and indeed done some studying around it, it clarified and demystified some attributes that I had wrongly associated with it. And. And then you talk it, you pass it out through all of the different metrics that it's represented in our life and different areas. You give examples of things like that, and it's in order to apply it to this. This manifestation process, you know, of of miracles in this creation of one's own path and destiny. And I'm wondering how much of that looking at your library of books that you've produced that I haven't had the privilege yet of reading. How much of those kinds of principles are applied and intertwined with one another as someone who's coming into your work and really trying to apply some of your core tenants? Is there a similarity or do you feel like everything is kind of a separate journey, a stepping stone, if you will, into the path?
[00:25:38] That's a great question.
[00:25:40] I think it's important to look at feminine energy. But I would say that overall my general philosophy is around oneness. And I recognize that as humans, we have this innate need to get it. Get out our label maker, 3000 thousand. And I know you'll appreciate this because we both grew up in the same time frame.
[00:25:59] Right. We just are so attached to putting labels on everything.
[00:26:04] And I remember being young and. Really just thinking, why can't we all just be one? Not that we have to be the same. But why do we have to use. He, she, B, B and all kinds of things like why do we have to identify? There's nothing wrong with identifying that. But every time we create separation by way of labels, we.
[00:26:28] We know how we do one thing is how we do others, and so we start to see separate. I mean, we're seeing it right now in the pandemic. Holy cow. Week by week, it changes that. There's a lot of polarity and there's a benefit to polarity for sure. But I think that the ultimate goal is to have unity conscious as where we're really just all operating from our heart center and our hearts are what speaks truth as opposed to all of the other things. And of course, intellect is important and our physicality is important and so on. It shapes who we are. But I want to help people understand how. How does all this stuff shape who you are? And then who are you beyond that? At the core of who you really are? Yes, of course. You know, I am white. I was born in North America. I had working middle class parents. Of course, my my viewpoint of the world and my experience in the world and how other people treat me is predicated on all of that stuff that shaped who I am as I'm not rejecting it. But I also want to move beyond that at some point. And so that is part of, I think, the work that I do. And the soul's journey with folks is is allowing ourselves to constantly evolve and releasing attachment to who we were or who we thought we were. And being in the moment of who we are now and that I would say to with what's going on the world is it is a gift. I know that the way it's being delivered, it doesn't feel like a gift. But if we're going to look at silver linings in this, it's that we have an awareness and we're coming to various degrees of this awareness that who we were before just isn't coming back. And there's a level of almost ceremony that we need to have around saying goodbye to the aspects of us that were just we can grace and bless them. Thank you for bringing me to this point in my life. But what matters now in a lot of ways is so different than what was mattering twelve weeks ago, for example. And and so how do we live beyond labels and and connect to the truth of our identity on a soul level, which is that we're infinite and expansive and creative beings that are here to string together a bunch of moments and make every moment count?
[00:28:47] Yeah, absolutely.
[00:28:48] And I think that the reminder of our return to humanity. I have a personal belief that we are all born with an infinite capacity to love. And these types of situations bring about a lot of fear that can manifest in both negative and positive ways, depending on the person who is experiencing it. But I do believe that a reminder of our camaraderie as a civilization, you know, is at the epicenter of every good thing that ever happened. And so I think there's a key moment to be done with that. I'm wondering, given the Cauvin 19 and you talked about briefly earlier on, you mentioned working with people and things of that nature. Can you kind of speak to some of your observations when you've I don't know what work you've endeavored in recently, but since the pandemic hit? Can you kind of speak to some of your observations in what's happening or what's potentially possible to happen that could be of benefit or the ways that you're helping people during this particular crisis?
[00:29:55] Yeah, I've noticed that people overall are having an existential crisis. So people like me are busier right now because people want to know what's the meaning of life. Did my sense of the meaning of life actually match up with what the meaning of life is? What is my purpose? Now how can I express my purpose more? Part of the reason why I got into business coaching years ago was not because I want to be a business coach. I never envisioned that. It still kind of shocking to me today. But it's a way of me helping people get out of their own way and spread more light and help more people. So I had a massive deepening of conviction of purpose when this all went down. When I really when we had that moment, because I don't know what it's like in other parts of the world. But here in Canada, it was kind of this thing that was happening somewhere else. It was really, really downplayed it. And we went from literally one day it was being downplayed to the next day. You're all in lockdown and we're like, what's happening? Right. And it was in that moment that I had a lot of the things happen. One of them was what's called almost like a solar feminin rising where we just get this like fire in us. Right. And I thought, oh, I instantly thought, you know, I could see it all playing out almost in like a 30 second movie of the decimation of small and medium sized businesses. What it was the amount of people that were going to be without jobs, the massive financial hit. We had no we still had no idea that time with the virus was going to be or not be. But just the follow it. I could see it. And I had this feeling of I need to help humanity this deep, like primal mother energy almost come over me. And I've talked to a lot of women who had a similar feeling. So I've been busier than ever because everyone is initially it was presented as, hey, everyone now at your home for two weeks, why don't you learn some things? But that was never the angle I took, because I can see that the long term cause and effect was already bigger than what we were being told.
[00:31:59] And and so I really started promoting much more of the spiritual trainings that I had creating spiritual community, finding affordable ways for people to have access to me so that they could take the edge off and have some clarity, because I'm well known for speaking truth. And a lot of people came back from years ago saying I needed the truth and I knew I knew exactly who I needed to come to. So I always tried to deliver it with love, of course. But the truth, there's nothing really convenient about the truth, you know, uncomfortable.
[00:32:31] But a lot of times we're not ready to hear it.
[00:32:33] So people still know they needed it. So I've been spending a lot of time guiding people. Towards what their purpose is and what their purpose is now, and like I said, having almost like a ceremony of greeting the aspects of our lives and the aspects of ourselves that are not they're just not going to be able to come with us. But also really celebrating and honoring and honing the aspects of ourselves and our skills that are needed more now than ever. I think one of the things people are noticing, especially in my community, is that they were made for this time. They really have gone to see with 20/20 vision that, oh, my goodness, my whole life has prepared me for this moment. And that's certainly how I felt when you know what I shared with you about all the crisis work that I used to do. So that's a piece of it, the existential piece. And then the other piece is really keep, you know, people live from trauma anyways. They don't know they are.
[00:33:30] But something like this that really pokes a lot of trauma buttons and there's so many layers of trauma. If we don't deal with that, we just freeze. And there's a lot of people that are frozen and then they're making themselves wrong because they're frozen and they know they need to move, but they just can't move. I think we've all had that experience when we wake up in bed and we're just lying there and we like we're sinking deeper and deeper into the bed. A lot of people are feeling that they're living life that way right now. And so they feel guilty that they're not out there helping, but they can't bring themselves to. Everything feels like an effort because they got adrenal fatigue, brushing their teeth feels like an effort. Getting groceries feels like an effort, right? That's all. Those are all signs of adrenal fatigue. And so how do we keep folks out of their own way so that they can get to do the things that they know they're feeling called to do? So there is no playbook for this. It's it's complex and flavored. It's it's profound. And there's a lot of GIFs on this and there's a lot of suffering and tragedy in this, too. And. It's and then you put social media on top about. Yeah, and the fact that Freddie Prekop, that we had fake accounts and A.I. that were purposely yeary information to us, people that run Vickki accounts to try and guide the narrative and get us for leadings things. And so we're seeing that now with just the ways that. And then you've got people that are scrolling or hypnotized and they're scrolling. They're highly susceptible because they're in a more have not state. And they're reading headlines on one camera. The other does even matter. And they're taking it as truth because they're not at that level of a sermon because they're in their theater brainwaves. Right. Essentially being hypnotized by the alone. So they're taking and things to be true. That may not be true. I'm not saying they're not true. And then if they're getting news from there scrolling that would suggest that they should be more afraid, then the fear is giving more and more magnified. Which means the adrenals are getting more and more burnt out, which means that they're more and more frozen and then making themselves more and more wrong for not getting out and doing the work. So it's there's a lot of getting off. Like I said, that there's there's a lot of fallout. And I decided last week. When talking with my guides that this conversation isn't coming to an end. You know, we we know that although we'll go through stages of this beyond the virus, even when the virus finally runs its course. All of the aftermath, we'll be we'll be going through stages with that, just like organizational change. Right. Having worked in corporations, I know that changes really slow. And there's many layers of it or phases of it. And so we can probably expect to be dealing with the fallout of this for at least two years. Like the immediate fallout. Right. And trying to recalibrate to some semblance of life as we knew it, although most people are saying we won't ever see that changing economies, that actual currency is going to change. There's a ton of people that are gonna be jobless. And then they have to decide what they're going to do or are they gonna start a business or are they going to farm what you know, what are they going to do with their lives and knowing that this conversation isn't going away. But we don't want to be living and immersed in this conversation. What do we do? So I decided last week this will be the week and I need the announcement to my community that we're going to start future visioning again. Well, you know, gas is going to look different. Yes, our marketing message needs to look different. Yes. The way we serve people and how we present our services to people needs to be different. And we can't be tone deaf. But we do have to get back into visioning the future instead of literally being in a holding pattern waiting for more news. I remember in 9/11. Being so addicted to the news for weeks because we kept waiting for when's the next attack and when is anthrax going to be on my doorstep, and it just became very consuming for a long period of time. And then I eventually had to pull myself out about and I know many other people did, because otherwise you just kind of drive yourself crazy, right?
[00:37:46] I just. Of what's going on. Yeah. And it's a state of suspended animation.
[00:37:51] You know, there's a moment to car calmly sit, reflect, marinate in the potential outcomes, you know, as as every good, you know, wonderfully logic or imaginative mind should and ought to. But after that, you need to maintain that sense of suspended, you know, outcome is it's treacherous on the human mind. Right. It's it's a form of torture. It's the best way to brainwash someone to never let them know when or what something is coming. So and I agree with what you're saying. I'm really interested in talking about the future visioning again and that you're pushing people to do. But before we get to that, I was dying to know, after all of my research, I always ask myself, what is the number one thing that you yourself, Patricia, just cannot reach? Ask Jennifer.
[00:38:37] And one of them was and I had about five. I never get justice done. But now my top one was.
[00:38:44] Do you yourself have a mentor or a guide? I'm very fascinated with these prophetic symbols in people in our life, people who are coaches, guides, presidents, mothers, fathers who they look to for advice. And I'm wondering you yourself, do you have guide or mentors or teachers that you draw upon still?
[00:39:09] Absolutely, I. I never want to be in a position where I think I know it all or I've come to realize at all. And I feel that being a student and a teacher at the same time, although it may look different, is important for our growth. That's just my perspective. And so, yes, just before all of this happened, I hired one of my long term friends who's a financial adviser. He's very woo like me.
[00:39:35] And we were building the company to sell it and. And creating a plan and getting ready to buy some apartment buildings and turn them into affordable housing. And we had all these big plans. And then this hit. And I know that happened to many people, by the way, where it's almost like the universe gave us the nudge to make the move. And we thought the move was about one thing, but it was really about another thing. Yeah. And like, I was guided to sell all my rental properties. And I thought it was because I was retiring my husband. It's really because I need to get out of the rental market right now. Right. With everything that's happening and the government telling people they don't have to pay rent and that kind of stuff. Right. Like, it's it ends up being costly.
[00:40:17] But that's a story for another day.
[00:40:20] Anyways, I am I a pretty discerning now about who I let into my life, because I think that even the most clean energy and people, they still will bring their own filters to us. Right. Just as I do with my clients. I don't mean to it's just going to happen. And so I have to get really clear myself. What do I want to be creating? And then who is the best person to help me create that? Sometimes I know, sometimes I don't. But I can. I think to all the people I've listened to over the years, I'm so grateful for people like Oprah. You know, she was a huge part of my journey. I don't know what it was twenty five years ago or so when she was introducing us to all those self-help worker, her authors, I should say, and that and even just who she was and what she stood for, the energy that she held. Right. Showing us what's possible as women. And so that's just an example. There's all kinds of people I haven't personally hired that I look to. I appreciate someone like Shirley MacLaine, who took a lot of leaps of faith by talking about some pretty loose stuff in an environment and at the time in an era where was very much on the down low. And boy, Louise Hay starting her own publishing house. Think about how much energy and what a mountain she had declined to create that type of a publishing house at a time that she did. So there's a lot of people I admire. There's a lot of people I'm grateful for anything. Aside from being grateful for my parents, for Amy onto this planet, regardless of what our relationship was, I think I'm most grateful to myself, honestly. And I and I would invite people to look at that for themselves because. We've all been through some stuff, but in hindsight, you know, we got to look at it differently. But at the time we've been Coleco. Like what? You know, why am I going through this?
[00:42:17] And and so I'm grateful that I have dedicated myself to grow so that I can move more and more towards the person that I want to meet when I'm not in a body anymore. When I when I greet that version of me, when I'm out of a body, I want to look at her in the eyes and I want her to look at me in the eyes and say, Good job, champ.
[00:42:40] You did a good job. You did what you came there to do.
[00:42:42] I love that. I love that analogy. I can see it like dancing before me. You know, that that example is so epic to talk about who you want to be when you're no longer in a body anymore and run into. So normally I talk about goals that you have for your future business endeavors and things, but because you dropped a little nugget, I'd like to pick it up and ask you just a little bit with whatever little time we have left. And you said you wanted to start future visioning again. And and you wanted to start putting that out there and implementing this kind of what sounds to be action item based or at least this cohesive vision of the future. Can you explain to the audience what that means and how that that will take like implementation or even theoretical form?
[00:43:29] I'm I'm grateful that you asked that and I kind of have to hold myself accountable by saying this out loud.
[00:43:35] So it was an early you said you just decided and I was like, oh, hot off the press.
[00:43:42] Yeah. You know, I am I've moved towards having my own TV show for a while and things happen and it interrupts it. And I was I was on course to do that this year. And again, Koban hit. So I know I'm meant to be visible in the hilarity of that is I'm actually a very quiet kind of private person. I was very shy as a kid. If you told me that, I'd be on stage speaking to people or beyond podcasts or anything like that, I would have probably cried myself to sleep like the thought of that would have been so horrendous for me. And yet here I am. But I. In light of what's going on in the world and in light of how important I think it is to have. Have certain people's work showcased. I was already looking at this, but I'm going to be creating a platform for Lightworkers than censorship free platform for people to speak the truth. And that'll include more of these collaborative books. My clients will often say to me all I totally some of that. Were you having your own publishing house? I did. Well, it's kind of more than that.
[00:44:49] I want to be able to have a platform for people to have podcasts. And when we can finally get back to being in person stages for people to speak on and just find a variety of ways for people to use their voice in a way where they don't have to be censored. No, I'm not talking about inviting in rude and crude and violating the sort of things I'm talking about a platform for Lightworkers where they can speak truth and not worry about, you know, coming back to Facebook, for example, and seeing their video taken down or, you know, having to to pray to the YouTube gods and things like that. We hear about this. So don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for those platforms.
[00:45:26] But I do think where we're going in society, we need to have, you know, just safe places for people that speak their truth and help build.
[00:45:37] So I've always wanted to be a resource for people. And so I really like collaborating. I like having I'm.
[00:45:46] I have this in my Facebook group. I'll transition this onto my Web site, where I have an astrologer that provides weekly forecasts for people and a tarot card reader. And I'm numerologist and shway expert and these kind of folks just to add some light into people's life.
[00:45:59] I don't feel like I have to be the source of everyone's information. And, you know, I like introducing my community to other people. So it'll be kind of like bad not a psychic hotline by any means, but something where people can also have sessions with people that they resonate with. It makes sense, you know, for what they're wanting to create. And and then I will be buying up some companies, you know, to sort of recreate the wheel, just buying companies that can kind of come under that umbrella of overall helping people evolve their soul. And instead, again, instead of me spending a ton of time creating something that someone else Saari created for those people that are ready to step out of it, they're just not interested in having it anymore. But I can renumerated them for their sweat equity, basically. Then I'll bring those those companies into the fall this fall.
[00:46:49] And that's exciting. That's a powerful umbrella, you know, of like. It sounds like in a collaborative effort, the voices sound like they'll be fascinating. And it's a really exciting goal. And it's so it's I just got it first. I scooped and talked to him. That's exciting. I'm wondering as we wrap up today. I always ask and I've kind of changed this scenario a little bit because of the pandemic.
[00:47:17] But I'm curious if you yourself were advising yourself back after you had just left corporate and you were beginning this entire journey. Not one book was written.
[00:47:29] You were just starting everything out. What are the top three pieces of advice you would give that person knowing what you know now?
[00:47:39] I love that you ask that there's very little I would change about that, but I would definitely hire a mentor. I was five years into my business before I then hired a mentor. And anyone I talked to that successful says that that's their biggest regret. There has yet to be a single person I've spoken to that didn't. Because mentors really, first of all, remind you what your goals are and hold you accountable to them. But they also they they shorten your learning curve because presumably you're hiring people that have already created what you want to create. So I. I would have done that. There was a point in the beginning where I was kind of swimming in fear and fear became like Groundhog Day. I got so bored with it that I eventually just said, okay, well, fear is boring me now. So I'm just going to put myself out there. What do I have to lose? So I guess I wouldn't say it's a regret that I. I couldn't easily. Allowed myself more speed, and I also, as I mentioned, went into a place of all I'm wondering the beginning. So instead of deciding people were going to say yes or no, I just decided I was in control of the doors. So I decided that I was in the driver's seat rather than other people were inviting me to their table. I had my table that I was going to invite people to. That makes any sense. Yeah. So I, I, I definitely knocked on doors and some doors flew open up that surprised me and other doors that I thought would open didn't open. And so I needed to learn how to be unattached to the whether the door is open or not. But I definitely could have been way more relentless about the doors that I knocked on and really just created an abundance of opportunities. And then I also would have hired someone more quickly, meaning like an assistant. I got really bottlenecked and it stagnated my growth and I just didn't know how to hire an extension of me.
[00:49:26] And then I realized I don't need an extension of me, I need to be me, and I need to hire someone that knows what to take off my plate. It wasn't my job to know what they could take off. My my it was they worked out what they could take off my plate.
[00:49:40] So my my growth definitely slowed down because like I said, I was the admin and the janitor and the bathroom cleaner and the chance of something wrong with those things.
[00:49:52] But at some point I became problematic because I was too busy, so.
[00:49:57] All right. That's it sounds.
[00:49:59] And to that last point, I find it I speak primarily for those who are familiar with my work. I speak largely with women, female identified, non binary individuals and children. So I can't speak with great authority to this end. But what I do know about women is that they are bred to do that. They are bred not to outsource. You know, you are mother, breadwinner, wife. All of us, daughter, caregiver, all of those things. And I've never spoken to a woman from any culture that I've visited and I globe trot regularly that isn't brought up with that idea and also takes great pleasure in it. It's not always this, you know, horrible cross to bear. But I will say that most female entrepreneurs and founders of the highest echelon are still saying, I really should have hired someone long before I did. And as it's a common theme. But just you realist's what I heard is hire a mentor. And number two, allow more speed. Don't let fear roadblock you let off and wonder. Open the doors, invite people to the table and hire an assistant quickly.
[00:51:08] I love those. That's like a that's an incredible outline. There's your next book.
[00:51:12] From Me to Get an Assignment.
[00:51:17] I really appreciate your time today, Jennifer. We are out of time, but I could talk forever. And I just want to say I really, really appreciate you sharing your voice and your wisdom with us.
[00:51:27] Well, thank you. It was a great honor to be here. I really appreciate you inviting me on today.
[00:51:32] Absolutely. And for everyone listening, we've been talking with Jennifer long more. You can hear more about what she's doing and contact her on w w w dot soul journeys, dot CAA. And thank you for listening to our show today.
[00:51:47] I hope you all stay well, stay in love, stay in peace and remember to always bet on yourself.
