February 24, 2025 • 43 mins
This episode explores the transformative power of miracles in our lives as our host recounts her personal journey through challenges, including a near-drowning incident and a life-threatening heart attack. We discuss how these experiences shaped her perspective and inspired her podcast, encouraging listeners to embrace change and recognize the miracles surrounding them.
• Journey to Pawleys Island and the significance of community
• Personal reflection on childhood challenges shaping resilience
• Miraculous rescue by her daughter during a beach vacation
• Life-altering heart attack and the healing journey that followed
• The importance of vulnerability, authenticity, and connection
• Starting a podcast as a means of sharing stories of transformation
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to this special episode of Transform
your Life.
Just Count Me In.
I wanted to thank you so muchfor joining today.
In this episode, I'm sharingsome of the miracles that shaped
my life and led me to thismoment, coming off of a really
awesome weekend.
My husband and I just movedhere about a year ago to Pawleys
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Island, south Carolina, and itwas a dream of ours for five
years before we actuallyrealized it, and we both had our
birthdays last week.
So I was a little bit nervousabout being here for the first
year without our families andwithout friends, and we left
Colorado after 28 years, sothat's leaving a lot.
And this weekend we were soblessed that we had people to go
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out with today that wanted togo out with us, and friends that
came over last night to wish usa happy birthday, and I just
feel like I'm in such a happyplace.
I wanted to go ahead and recordthis now.
So I was interviewed by TracyKing from Soulfully Unscripted.
She has a podcast about peoplewho have had transformational
experiences, and it was the veryfirst time I had ever been
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interviewed, and that's whatthis episode is.
So my journey has shown mebasically that even in my
greatest challenges, there'sextraordinary opportunities for
transformation.
These experiences inspired mypodcast Transform your Life Just
Count Me In and my upcomingmasterclass this spring.
A powerful experience that'sdesigned to help you embrace
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change, clear the clutter out ofyour life, align with your
purpose, recognize the miraclesthat are unfolding for you.
It was once said, and I used toquote, there's two ways to live
your life.
One is though everything is amiracle and one is though
nothing is a miracle.
Well, while I know everythingis a miracle, there are miracles
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all around me I think most ofus honestly don't just live two
ways.
I think a lot of us live in thegray.
Sometimes, when we're in themiddle of the muck, we don't
exactly see the miracle of inthe situation.
I'm not there yet.
I hope to be someday.
So if you've ever facedobstacles that seem kind of
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insurmountable, this episode isfor you.
Get ready, shift yourperspective, embrace possibility
and step into thetransformation that is waiting
for you.
Your journey from tragedy tomiracles.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Hi and welcome back to Soulfully Unscripted.
I am so excited you are heretoday and tuning into this
episode Today.
I'm so excited to have Sariwith me, so excited to have Sari
with me, and so we're justgoing to get into it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'll let you tell everybody what you feel
comfortable talking about.
Well, I'm a pretty open book,so if there's anything that
comes up, then you just go forit and ask me.
So I have a story.
Definitely everybody does, andbasically my life has been a
series of miracles and I feelvery blessed.
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Every single challenge thatI've had has given me such
lessons and such an opportunityto grow and then to share with
others that that is the way thatI go through life, and I've
come to realize that instead ofthings happening to me, they're
definitely happening for me andfor me to share, and through me.
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So I was a miracle.
To start with, my parents weretold that they couldn't get
pregnant, they couldn't have anymore kids.
And here I am.
And then, six months into thepregnancy, she fell in the
bathtub and her water broke.
And back then they couldn'tsave a baby at that age, and so
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the doctor basically told my dadhe didn't know how to.
They didn't ever tell my mom,but she knew it was serious.
He said well, you're going tolose the baby.
We just don't know when.
Just let's just put her on bedrest and then let nature take
its course, but the baby's notgoing to be able to live through
this.
And so my dad knew that.
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My mom didn't know that, shejust knew that she had to be on
bed rest and she dug in and shecalled my grandma to come and
stay, because I had an oldersister, five years older, and
she stayed on bed rest and thedoctor would come to the house
every single week and every weekhe would say I can't believe
this, but she's still, you know,baby's still healthy,
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everything's fine.
We got one more week but we'restill not out of the woods yet.
And then I guess at about 37weeks, they told my dad it was
three weeks before I was born.
Actually they said we couldprobably save her or the baby,
because they didn't know boy orgirl if the baby came now, but
still probably going to be verydamaged because there's no water
in there and there's supposedto be water.
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So he was prepared that if Iwas born alive I was just going
to be a complete mess.
And I came out almost ninepounds, 8, 15, and my mom was
tiny, five foot two, she said itabout took her out to give
birth to me.
But I came out out on time, notlate, not early, big, healthy
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fat, you know and fine, like Igot a good score on my APGAR and
I was deliriously happy.
And the joke in the family wasI was so happy that they took me
to a pediatrician for mythree-month checkup and said
that they thought I was mentallydisabled because I was
ridiculously happy.
I would talk to my fingers andI would laugh all the time.
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I hardly ever cried.
They thought something waswrong with me.
I'd be in my crib just talkingto things in the morning, not
screaming for them, and so theydidn't know what to do with it.
So that was pretty funny.
And then after that I think Ihad a pretty normal childhood.
I mean, we had things in ourhouse going on that molded me to
who I am now.
My mom was depressed.
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She suffered from depression.
She actually just was in thewrong marriage.
But I was made to beresponsible for things at a very
young age and I've had to workvery hard to overcome that
feeling that I have toconstantly be responsible.
Everybody's got to be okay forme to be okay.
So I worked through a lot ofcodependency issues.
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But I also took out of that anamazing amount of self-reliance
and I know I'm a person that canbe counted on.
I know I can count on me.
I know other people can counton me.
I keep a really calm head whenthose about me are losing it.
I get very calm in the eye ofthe storm.
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So there were definitelyblessings in that.
And I had the second miracle.
That was huge when we were on avacation.
So fast forward, my daughterwas almost 20.
So this is years after that Ona vacation in Cozumel.
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We wanted to find a beachwithout coral, because all the
beaches have coral, and we gotthat.
We went to a Walmart and gotthe shoes and everything They'd
have that there, but still itwasn't as fun as like.
I like to swim barefoot in theocean.
I like the feel of the sand,and so we felt we heard there
was a beach where they hadimported sand.
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So we rented a Jeep, took twotrips to get everybody in there,
because it was a whole familyvacation my son and his family,
my daughter and her boyfriend,my husband and myself and we
went to the beach and my husbanddropped us off first.
My daughter's name is ava andshe had grown up watching
baywatch and it was.
We just used to joke about itbecause the person's name was
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like ava, save a lot.
We just were kidding aroundabout it on the way there.
So we get there and we'reswimming and my husband went off
to pick up the rest of thefamily and bring them and then
we got not too far out.
I grew up on the ocean so I'mpretty comfortable.
I'm not an Olympic swimmer byany means, but you know, a
healthy reservation for swimmingat night, you know a healthy
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reservation for swimming atnight, but definitely no fear of
it.
I have respect for it.
And I was just out theretreading, you know, just maybe
it was my chin level, but whenthe waves came it would be
deeper.
And all of a sudden I put myfoot down and there was nothing.
And then I felt this likevortex, this like pulling, which
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they later found out was ariptide, pulling my leg down
into it, and I had never feltthat before and I grew up on the
ocean so I just tried to pullmy leg out of it.
I couldn't pull my leg out ofit and meanwhile I'm going under
with every wave instead ofriding above every wave.
And I looked at Ava and I saidI'm not kidding, I can't get out
.
And she just looked at me andlike sheer terror, right,
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because we've always swam, okay.
And she said something cameover ground and she carried me
through the waves to the beachand I am bigger than her, okay,
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and so that I mean to me that'sher miracle equally, yes, it's
my miracle that I lived, butdefinitely her miracle.
And this day we're not surewhich angels, which guides
helped her.
But she said she just thoughtof Ava Sable, which we had just
been joking about.
It was funny.
And she scooped and carried meand her feet did not touch, she
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didn't even swim, she waswalking in the water, on the
water, like wow, I havegoosebumps right now, like that
is amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We definitely don't give our guides and the angels
the credit that they deserve.
You know, we always think, oh,because we can't see them with
our human eyes, that they're notthere.
But then you hear stories likethat and it's just like wow,
they're so there, yeah there,yeah, yeah, and I go back in.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I was very shaken up but I did go back in and swim
later that day because I wantedto break that.
I didn't want to have that fear.
You know, that's right.
I had to.
I am, I am of the water.
I mean I just feel it and, um,yeah, maybe a mermaid another
lifetime, I don't know.
But but I'm most at home whenI'm in the ocean, in the salt
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water, with that sun, and, yeah,I feel really at peace there.
So it's a home for me.
So I had to make it that it wasokay for me to go back in.
But to me that was a miracle,because if it had been anybody
else, I don't know that it wouldhave happened and I would have
to tell you the truth, I wouldhave gone out that far by myself
if she didn't want to go rightaway, and that would have been
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it.
She would have thought I wasjust treading water out there,
and so I was very, very gratefuland I thought, wow, when I was
just getting ready to start mymaster's program, I mean, I was
at a really good point in mylife and that's the other point
that I think is significant forme.
A lot of people have miraclesand have these things happen
when they're at the bottom, whenthey've hit the ground, when
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they're at the dark night of thesoul.
They call it Now, when they'reat a breaking point.
My miracles have happened whenI was at a high point in my life
, and I don't know why I don'teven pretend to know why but I
just know that it's differentfor me because things are going
really well and something likethat will happen almost like
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validation or something you knowlike.
So have you always been on thespiritual path yes, I actually
and I tell this in my podcasttrailer too, or the first
episode when I was 10 or 11, Istarted wanting to go to
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different churches and Ivacillated between wanting to
have 12 children and wanting tobecome a nun, like literally,
those were the two things that Iwanted.
My mom was like I'm not sureabout either of them.
My dad just watched his handson me for a while.
So my mom said, okay, we'lltake you.
She was more so an ethicalculture is more of a spiritual
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type person and she had a lot ofthe spiritual.
My dad was, for the social andcultural aspects, jewish, and so
I went there.
I had nothing against it, but Ididn't feel that connected to
that.
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Some of the traditions weregreat and it was a family thing,
but he didn't have a spiritualpiece to go with it.
He had a very strong socialconnection and that was good.
I mean he was great in thatcommunity.
For me, I didn't really need todo something that way.
I wanted a spiritual connection, even though I was young.
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So my mom took me to differentchurches and I mean I went to
Quaker meetings.
I went all over and some ofthem I felt at home with and
some of them I would feel athome with, and then I would hear
, maybe, that they were sayingsomething negative about other
religions or saying that theirway was the only way, and that
would make me feel sad because Iwould think, was my dad can go
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to hell.
I mean, he doesn't go to thischurch.
You know, I didn't know.
I was hoping they weren't righton that point and I didn't want
to go.
I knew what I didn't want atthat point.
I didn't want to be anywherewhere they thought that other
people were going to becondemned if they didn't follow
that path and that kind ofturned me off to some religions,
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even though I do believe thateverybody wants the best and
we're all finding our way home.
It's just different paths.
To that way, I think we shouldrespect each other's heads
definitely, and I so.
I did end up getting involvedin researching a little bit
about buddhism when I was 12because I became very interested
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in that and that was somethingthat caught my.
I'm still very much a part ofthat feel.
I still love those teachings.
I also resonate with a lot ofJesus' teachings.
I also like a lot of theteachings of the Kabbalah from
the Jewish Testament.
So I take from a lot of things,but I've been spiritual in the
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way that I could feel that I wasin touch with something from
the time that I was very little.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Luckily, kids growing up now have more.
The parents understand it morethan when we were small.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
My major work has been with children since I was
little.
They would come to my house ifthey needed help in school and
it was just there.
I coach them and I tutor themand when I coach them they
coached so quickly it's so thetransformation is exponential.
As as far as like how fast Iwould change or how and I like
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change and I love being coachedI'm really open to it.
But it's probably like five toten sessions worth of progress
in one session when I coach achild.
It's that fast.
It's that fast that they cangrasp things and they can go
right in because they haven'tbuilt those walls of resistance.
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But I'm very, very mindful andI do make sure I have good
communication with the parents.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You know, make sure I have good communication with
the parents, because we don'trealize when we say something to
a kid on what what they'retaking in or or what they're
embodying, what they'reintegrating into themselves yeah
, like even you know, as I'vestarted going on my healing
journey and started um releasingall the traumas and things I
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always say, like everybody'struth is their own truth and you
don't have to have the sametruth.
And again, I think it's comingback to trusting ourselves and
trusting like our opinions canchange too as we evolve.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The third big miracle , I guess, was in 2021.
Everything was going really,really well for me and I had
left the school district.
I didn't wait for retirement,but I was very scared, but I did
it anyway and I left andstarted my own coaching and
tutoring business and alsotaught yoga, which is what I'm
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doing now.
And I did not.
I mean, I was frightenedbecause of financial reasons and
security reasons, but we did itand then COVID happened, so it
actually worked because I coulddo virtual, which never occurred
to me before, and so I washappy.
I was a new grandma againbecause I had other
grandchildren.
Then my daughter had a baby.
I was just my feet weren'ttouching the ground.
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I was a new grandma againbecause I had other
grandchildren.
Then my daughter had a baby.
I was just my feet weren'ttouching the ground.
I was so happy and so happywith my life and happy with my
husband and woke up every dayhappy and my pretty pretty much
my natural state, took reallygood care of my body.
And then I had a massive heartattack and almost died and that
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it came out of nowhere and I hadjust had a physical two months
earlier, where the doctor saidto me and he was 40, he was
younger than me.
He said I wish I could swap labresults with you.
You've got much better labsthan I do.
He said what are you doing?
You're so healthy, you're notyour biological age at all.
So I told him what I was doingand it's not like I thought I
was immune to anything goingwrong with me.
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My mom was healthy and she diedwhen she was 52, but you know,
but I did take really good careof myself, so I'm like good, the
things I'm doing are working.
That's awesome, you know, andthey're still not sure why.
I'm part of a group that'sbeing studied because there was
about 25 of us between Denverand Boston in the two cardiology
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clinics that my cardiologist inDenver had that showed up with
this exact heart attack betweenJanuary and mid-April and mine
was April 10th of that year andthey were completely atypical
heart attacks where there waslittle to no plaque and a huge
blood clot and there was nohistory.
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There was no, there were noproblems.
So anyway, so I didn't know Iwas having it and I meditated in
the morning.
I just thought I had really badpains like in my stomach and I
asked for guidance and I askedfor I should have asked for more
guidance and less strength.
I asked for strength to do thework I'm supposed to be doing
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and I got it.
I got what I asked for and Itutored a kid and then taught
two yoga classes and then camehome and by the time I got to
the hospital my LAD was 100%blocked and they said it was a
miracle that I lived and that Isat on a widow maker heart
attack.
I didn't mean to sit on it, Ididn't know I was having a heart
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attack and lived and that therewas a lot of damage.
But a lot of damage can gethealed.
And then they didn't go into anyother detail and I was.
You know, I'm telling mydaughter it's probably going to
be two weeks before I can, youknow, give you a break and watch
Teddy again.
And she's like let's just seehow you feel, mom.
You had a heart attack and I'mlike but it's okay, I'm okay,
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nothing's changed.
And boy, did I eat those words.
Everything friggin' changed forme.
And I can't even begin to gointo like the emotional agony
that that was and, I guess, theconfidence that I lost and I was
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asking why, like, why?
Why now, like, what did I do,you know?
And I didn't get an answer, andso I started asking well, then
you know what?
Show me why I'm here then,because maybe I just shouldn't
be here.
I mean, I felt awful, I feltlike my family, I felt like I
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let everybody down and it washorrible, probably the worst
thing that I've gone through andit was the best thing that
could have happened, because itopened me up to a whole new form
of compassion and I thought Iwas compassionate, I could, I
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could be so much morecompassionate and I thought I
was loving and I could love somuch more and I thought I was
really appreciative of life.
I lived that.
And now, holy cow, it's a wholedifferent ballgame and it did
something to me and it's.
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It opened up so many places inmy brain and in my heart that I
probably would never have goneto.
I've met people I never wouldhave met.
I'm very humbled by the wholeexperience and the miracle that
came out of it.
Not only that I lived was that?
Three months into it I was.
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I had to take drugs for thewhole year.
I was on seven, eightprescriptions.
It was.
I felt awful from all the drugs.
But they said this was we haveto make sure that we are just
taking care of the heart,keeping everything very, very
chill for this first year, andthen we can maybe come off some
of the medicines.
Well, I was able to get offeverything except for aspirin
After a year and a half.
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It took me, but that was stillpretty good.
But in three months I went backand I had an electrocardiogram
and I had not a stress test butjust an echo test where they
could see everything.
And the cardiologist brought meand my husband out and I
figured well, we're going to getgood news.
I'm sure more healing happenedbecause I'd been doing this and
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working with my coach and sheliterally was calling.
She said I'm not going tocharge you, I'm going to call
you every day and if you'restrong enough, we're going to
talk, or I'm just going to sendyou energy and we're going to
heal this.
And I listened to that type ofmusic.
I couldn't do much else.
I did tutor still, because Iloved doing what I did, but then
it knocked me out.
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That was about all I could doand I have this belief that I
have a healthy heart.
I do have a really healthy heartand that's what I kept saying
in the hospital.
I know that this happened, butI have a really healthy heart, I
have a really strong heart andI believe that.
And when I went in for thethree-month checkup, he brought
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up the films and he looked atthem with us and my husband was
there and he got tears in hiseyes and he said you have a
beautiful heart.
He said your heart is allhealed and he had never seen in
15 years so much damage heal100% and he'd never seen that
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much healing in three months.
So I feel like it was God's way, or the universe's way, of
saying you can heal this, butyou need to take it and share it
and you need to help others andyou need to reach more people.
And that's why I'm doing thisand I tell people about it.
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I didn't want to tell anybodyabout it for a long time and I
was like no, no, don't do that,because this happened for a
reason and you don't want todeny that.
You don't want to deny a giftthat you've been given.
So I do, and I know one person,actually his dad, a child that
I tutored.
His dad was having really badindigestion that they thought
was indigestion and they saidbecause of what happened to me.
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They brought him to thehospital and it turned out he
was having heart attack.
He was only 44 years old.
So I mean, I feel like it, youknow, maybe it helped save his
life in some strange way.
It can happen to Sari.
She's really healthy, sari'slike super healthy.
It can definitely happen to me,you know.
So I try to help people with itand encourage people that when
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they're going through somethingor something that they feel like
has just taken them right downto their knees at a time when
they're doing well in their life, that there's always a reason
and it's always happening foryou.
And I still.
I'm not going to say that Idon't have a hard time with it.
I mean, I just got choked uptalking to you about it, but
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I've worked through so muchsince it and I don't mess around
.
I'll tell you what myrelationships I.
You know it's got to be real.
I thought I only had authenticrelationships before.
It's to a whole new level nowand I tell people how I feel, if
they're interested in knowing,and I tell people I always told
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people I love them, but boy, Isure make sure that I tell
people extra, because you neverknow Something could happen to
them.
You never know, you just don'tknow.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I think that's the thing.
You never know.
You just don't know.
I think that's the thing.
Things can change so quicklybut we get so caught up in our
everyday life and in ourproblems that we kind of forget
how quickly life can change andhow precious and amazing and
miraculous being here, eventhough sometimes we might not
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feel like, oh, this is ablessing, or feel like this is a
miracle that we are sittinghere, especially you know the
way the world is going at themoment.
We can sometimes feel so heavyand dark, but actually, at the
end of the day, every personwho's who is here, it's a
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miracle and there is a reason.
We all have a specific person,a specific reason that we are
here, going through and dealingwith what we are dealing with.
Yes, absolutely.
Have you always wanted to do apodcast?
Or how did you get into doingthe?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
podcast.
Parents have been asking me todo something like a blog or
something for a long time andbut I wouldn't.
I just didn't feel that and Ididn't feel like people would
want to hear what I have to say,I guess, and I just didn't feel
like it was the right time, Iguess, for me.
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But a part of me at the sametime felt like and my husband
felt it and coaches at schoolfelt it, and my life coach felt
it she was like you've gotsomething bigger.
I feel like you need to go tosomething bigger than what
you're doing.
Keep doing what you're doingbecause you love it and you can
love it bigger.
And I didn't know what thatwould look like.
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And this summer my daughter wasvisiting and or actually she
came in early summer and thenshe was going to a retreat the
Kathy Heller retreat, I think itwas in June and so I asked her
how was that retreat thing thatyou went on?
I didn't know who she went withor anything and she said it was
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amazing, mom.
And I said who was in charge ofit, because I know we follow
some of the same people and shetold me and she was like you
should be here, let me send yousomething.
Let me send you her podcast.
I'm like, okay, didn't listento her podcast before and I know
I'm one of the dark ages hereand I loved it.
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And she started talking aboutdoing this thing like a free
workshop on podcasting.
And I'm like you know, I'm justgoing to do it.
It's free, what do I have tolose?
I'll just do it while I'm.
You know, I'm just going to doit.
It's free, what do I have tolose?
I'll just do it while I'm.
You know, podcasts are greatbecause you can just listen to
them while you're cleaning yourhouse or you know gardening,
whatever you're doing, you canput the podcast on.
And I really liked her a lot.
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So I said, well, I'll just dothat podcast thing.
And then it came down to it andI thought maybe I should do this
podcast thing.
And I talked to Stan.
He said I think definitely youshould do this podcast thing.
I thought, but what am I goingto talk about?
He's like how many times dopeople get off the phone with
you and say we should haverecorded the conversation?
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And I was like actually a lot.
And so I thought you know what?
I'm just going to go for it.
And then I thought, no,immediately stuff started
happening like I hadn't had aproblem.
And then I had a small problemwith health.
It's tiny, not big, but alittle blip, you know.
And I was like, okay, so that's.
I don't think I could do it,you know.
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And one thing, one little thingwould come up.
Well, I really can't do it.
And then I thought, if I ampushing away from this so
quickly when I was so excited,what would that tell me if one
of my clients was doing that?
I'm a coach, my coach needs tobe able to call me out on my own
stuff.
So I kind of was my own coachon this.
(29:35):
I was like you are full of it,you're looking for an excuse to
get out because you're justafraid.
It's like what are you afraidof?
So I started to ask, I kind ofcoached myself a little bit, and
then I thought, well, I thinkI'm still not going to do it.
And then I got on the phone withJen and she said, maybe?
She said do you get excitedwhen you think about it?
(29:57):
I said, very, I feel a pull,and when I feel a pull, I act on
it.
Like I felt a pull.
I moved cross country by myselfwhen I was 18.
I felt a pull for SouthCarolina.
That's where I'm sitting rightnow.
My husband and I moved hereLike it took five years to get
here, but still, when I feel apull, I know it's right.
(30:17):
And so I said I feel a pulltowards this, but I'm also
actually very like avoiding itin some way.
I'm looking for a reason to notdo it.
And she said, well, maybe thisis the year that you learn how
to do something messy and be a Cstudent.
And I thought, hmm, and neitherone of those hit me very well,
(30:39):
and so I thought, since I'm notcomfortable with that, maybe I
need to lean into the discomfortas Igor, my acupuncture saint
Buddhist.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
He's like.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
He's like my teach, my big teacher.
He's an amazing person.
He always says did you?
He's from Poland.
He's like did you lean into it,sari?
And I was like I'd be like I'mhaving anxiety about the heart
about this, about that.
He's like have you ever triedjust leaning in, just lean in a
little bit instead of, you know,trying to get away from it?
And so I thought I'm going tolean into it.
(31:11):
So, and as soon as I mentionedit, people seemed supportive,
like they thought that it was agood idea, and the guidance that
I'm getting is it's about time.
Those three words came to melike it's about time.
Those three words came to meLike it's about time.
So I don't know who's sayingthat to me.
Maybe it's my mom on the otherside, maybe it's my dad, but
(31:33):
they always thought I could domore than what I thought I could
do too.
My husband has always hadbigger visions for me than I
have, and so I think that that'swhere it came from.
But no, this is new.
I can't say I've always wantedto be a podcaster or always
wanted to do this.
No, no, Very excited, and Ithink I'm loving it, but also
still very difficult, verydifficult.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, I think it brings out a lot of things that
we didn't quite realize weneeded to still work on, things
that we didn't quite realize weneeded to still work on, because
it's brought up so much likefears of being in the spotlight
and that fear of being seen andbeing heard.
And it's actually funny becauseI've spoken to so many people
(32:16):
who have started doing thepodcast and everyone's story is
pretty much the same, like Ithought I'd done the healing and
then I signed up for this and Irealized there's still so much
healing that so much.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
There's always another layer.
That's what my my teacher wouldexplain it to me that you
because I'd be like really thisagain, like you're kidding me I
thought I cleared this, Ithought I've done like the work
inside and the path of theregression stuff and energy
clearing and Reiki.
I had back surgery, so I triedto avoid that for two years.
(32:50):
So during that process, I gotRolfed, I got Reiki, I got
acupuncture, I got energy work,I had crystal work, which I'm
into, all that stuff, but Itried so many different things
and I ended up still needingsurgery, but I'm sure they work
for some people.
I needed to go through thatexperience, though, and I just
couldn't.
(33:10):
I couldn't believe it that thesame dang thing was coming up
about trusting myself.
And then she said to me it'slike onions, like you peel and I
don't like onions.
You peel a layer off and youthink you're good, and then
there's another layer, and thenthere's another layer, and she
would say to me you weren'tready to process it at that
(33:30):
level of energy.
And sometimes we like if I comeout of a long period of being
anxious, it was just my energylevel was shifting, and my
energy level shifted big time.
My calibration went up so muchafter the heart attack and, um,
it just changed, and every timeit's changed.
(33:51):
Even without the heart attack Ihave felt very unearthed while
it was going on, I guess becauseyou're not really having an
earthly experience.
You're having an organic bodyexperience and then I just
assimilate to the new energythat I'm vibrating at and I'm
good again.
So that could be the answer tothe podcast thing too.
Whenever you're taking a stepin growth, you're ready to and
(34:13):
you're at a pretty good levelnow you're ready to process that
trauma or that wound at thatlevel and that much deeper and
share it with those people,because you're usually in a
different crowd a little bit too.
You're swimming in differentwaters by that time.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
So yeah, and yeah, that's actually true, because
one of my coaches always saysthat about the onions as well
and it's like it's like a onionand it's like you have to take
it off layer after layer andanother one is like another
level, another devil, and I'mlike, oh yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I feel that too my yoga teacher used to say afgo.
She didn't say frigging, but Iwill, because I don't curse
another frigging growthopportunity but she called it
something else.
So when something came up,she'd be afgo growth opportunity
, and I say that to my kids too.
I let them know that that'swhat it is when they're going
(35:13):
through something.
So, yeah, it's been a lot.
So I'm excited to be doing itand I'm feeling in a flow
sometimes with it.
The best times for me are notalways when I can record the
flow that's coming through me,so I have to kind of work with
that, but I I really love itwhen I'm doing it.
(35:37):
I always ask for guidancebefore and I'm just hoping that
I can reach some more people andstart connecting with people
and then use it as a platform to, you know, maybe start teaching
some classes or doing someworkshops, or maybe doing more
coaching, doing more individualcoaching, which I love to do
with adults too.
(35:57):
Or maybe I might even meet somemore children through there,
because I do the virtual withkids and so I'm pretty excited
about that chapter.
It's new still, I mean I onlyhave three episodes out, but
everything inspires me and Ialways used to say there's a
teacher in everything you knowthere is, and so I'll just get
(36:19):
inspired about something, andthen I'll think, and that's
connected to that, and here's anepisode.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So you know like you just get so excited about life.
Yeah, that's actually true.
I also often I get off callsand my friends and they're like
you know, this could have beenan episode on your podcast and
I'm like it's so true, like howthe conversations when you're in
this space, the conversationsthat you have, are so profound
and so deep and there's so manyrealizations you know, just from
(36:54):
listening to other people'sstories and hearing things from
their perspective sometimes cankind of trigger something in you
to see things in a differentway.
And then it's like, oh, wow,like, and then that's why we all
grow together and I think likeit's all about of coming more of
(37:28):
people get coming together ascommunities rather than
competition and trying to bebetter than each other.
It's like, no, actually we geta lot further when we are
working together as a team andlike rising together absolutely.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I.
I love the way that's whatpeople say.
You know, there's a lot of thisin the world.
There's a lot.
I see so much beauty and somuch goodness in this world and
the kids that are coming up nowhave so many gifts and people
that are older are realizingtheir gifts.
These conversations arebecoming more they're they're
(38:09):
mainstream conversations.
What we're talking about energy, work and angels if that's what
you're into and just the, theoneness, the consciousness of
oneness.
I feel like we're coming so farin so many ways and that's where
I keep my focus, because wheremy mind goes is where my energy
goes to, and I keep my focus onthose things.
(38:30):
I don't watch news.
I don't get involved in any ofthat, because I work with
children and I can't come fromthat place and also because I
don't want to come from thatplace.
I want all my energy to befocused on the greatest good and
the good for the collectiveright now, and there's a lot of
things to be happy about, a lotof things to be grateful for in
(38:52):
life and the way we are unifyingwith each other now.
Even this, like I'm not asocial media person, it has
forced me to get on social mediaand I'm grateful for it,
because I wouldn't be doing thiswith you right now if we hadn't
met that way.
And I'm grateful that I can dothe tutoring virtually, because
my kids are in Colorado, I'm inSouth Carolina, I'm ready for
(39:14):
some clients to come here, butwe're new, so I haven't started
with any kids here yet.
So, thank goodness for allthose things that I used to say,
oh, it's mucking up my life orit takes away the human
connection, it doesn't.
You really can't close a dooron anything.
You know, I think these aregreat times that we live in
right now.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
They're exciting and, yes, there are some things
going on that we need to dig inand work even harder to bring
about the light, because lighteradicates dark period yeah, and
I think that personally, andyou know, uh, when I look at
what's going on, it's like themore that the light shines, the
(39:55):
more it's gonna shine onto thedarkness so that the darkness
can crumble and, you know, bereleased.
But it's, like you, it's notgoing to just disappear
overnight, like the light has tobe shown on to the darkness,
and and I think that it's suchexciting times that we are here.
(40:16):
When you look at it from thatperspective, there's we have so
many, so much betteropportunities than any of the
generations before us had, and Ithink that is like really
exciting.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I wake up every day and it started when I had the
heart attack, because I startedasking why am I here?
And then I would say show mewhy I'm here today.
And I was at a sad point, Justlike then.
Show me why.
And the signs would come.
Somebody would text me,Somebody would say I need
tutoring for my child, Somebodywould tell me that they love me
(40:53):
and they were thinking of me.
I would hear a song thatresonated with me and every day
now still, I wake up and whenI'm meditating I ask please,
show me, Please show me why I'mhere today.
And I'm always shown, I alwaysget signs of why I'm here and I
love it.
I love it Because I know I'mhere for a reason.
But it's nice to get thatconfirmation.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So if you want to just let everyone know where
they can find your podcast, Iwill also have your podcast
listed in the description sothat they can click on it to
find it thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
My podcast name is just count me in and you can
find me there.
I also have a Facebook page.
Just count me in, sari Stone.
It's S-A-R-I-S-T-O-N-E.
And then I'm also on Instagram.
Just count me in and I thinkthat's Sari Stone, 2025, but
they can find me.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
I'm connected on that , so, and on X, yes, and on X
too, so I'm on all of it and Ihave all of your links listed
below you as well, so you canjust go and click below the
podcast and go find you on allthe platforms.
And is your podcast on Spotifyand Apple?
(42:08):
It's on everything.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Amazon, spotify, apple and some places I've never
heard of.
I'll put it out into theuniverse.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Thank you so much for coming on to my show today
thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
It has been delightful.
I just love being in yourpresence.
You have such bright, shiny,like bubbly kind of energy.
You're really a gift to bearound.
I'm very sensitive to people'senergy, so I can tell you it's
it always it's.
I've only talked to you acouple times and it just uplifts
me.
Whenever I talk to you, I getsuch a good, happy, happy
(42:47):
feeling in my heart.
So I I'm glad that you're doingwhat you're doing.
I am listening to your podcastnow and it's and it's a bright
spot in the world, and keepshining your light.
Thank you so much for joiningme today.
If you like this episode,please let me know.
Stop by at social media, onInstagram or my Facebook page.
(43:07):
Just count me in and pleaseleave a comment.
If there's anybody that youthink could benefit from this
episode, please forward it tothem, and I look forward to
seeing you next time.
We're all in this together.
Welcome to this special episode of Transform
your Life.
Just Count Me In.
I wanted to thank you so muchfor joining today.
In this episode, I'm sharingsome of the miracles that shaped
my life and led me to thismoment, coming off of a really
awesome weekend.
My husband and I just movedhere about a year ago to Pawleys
(00:24):
Island, south Carolina, and itwas a dream of ours for five
years before we actuallyrealized it, and we both had our
birthdays last week.
So I was a little bit nervousabout being here for the first
year without our families andwithout friends, and we left
Colorado after 28 years, sothat's leaving a lot.
And this weekend we were soblessed that we had people to go
(00:48):
out with today that wanted togo out with us, and friends that
came over last night to wish usa happy birthday, and I just
feel like I'm in such a happyplace.
I wanted to go ahead and recordthis now.
So I was interviewed by TracyKing from Soulfully Unscripted.
She has a podcast about peoplewho have had transformational
experiences, and it was the veryfirst time I had ever been
(01:11):
interviewed, and that's whatthis episode is.
So my journey has shown mebasically that even in my
greatest challenges, there'sextraordinary opportunities for
transformation.
These experiences inspired mypodcast Transform your Life Just
Count Me In and my upcomingmasterclass this spring.
A powerful experience that'sdesigned to help you embrace
(01:34):
change, clear the clutter out ofyour life, align with your
purpose, recognize the miraclesthat are unfolding for you.
It was once said, and I used toquote, there's two ways to live
your life.
One is though everything is amiracle and one is though
nothing is a miracle.
Well, while I know everythingis a miracle, there are miracles
(01:55):
all around me I think most ofus honestly don't just live two
ways.
I think a lot of us live in thegray.
Sometimes, when we're in themiddle of the muck, we don't
exactly see the miracle of inthe situation.
I'm not there yet.
I hope to be someday.
So if you've ever facedobstacles that seem kind of
(02:16):
insurmountable, this episode isfor you.
Get ready, shift yourperspective, embrace possibility
and step into thetransformation that is waiting
for you.
Your journey from tragedy tomiracles.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Hi and welcome back to Soulfully Unscripted.
I am so excited you are heretoday and tuning into this
episode Today.
I'm so excited to have Sariwith me, so excited to have Sari
with me, and so we're justgoing to get into it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'll let you tell everybody what you feel
comfortable talking about.
Well, I'm a pretty open book,so if there's anything that
comes up, then you just go forit and ask me.
So I have a story.
Definitely everybody does, andbasically my life has been a
series of miracles and I feelvery blessed.
(03:11):
Every single challenge thatI've had has given me such
lessons and such an opportunityto grow and then to share with
others that that is the way thatI go through life, and I've
come to realize that instead ofthings happening to me, they're
definitely happening for me andfor me to share, and through me.
(03:34):
So I was a miracle.
To start with, my parents weretold that they couldn't get
pregnant, they couldn't have anymore kids.
And here I am.
And then, six months into thepregnancy, she fell in the
bathtub and her water broke.
And back then they couldn'tsave a baby at that age, and so
(03:58):
the doctor basically told my dadhe didn't know how to.
They didn't ever tell my mom,but she knew it was serious.
He said well, you're going tolose the baby.
We just don't know when.
Just let's just put her on bedrest and then let nature take
its course, but the baby's notgoing to be able to live through
this.
And so my dad knew that.
(04:20):
My mom didn't know that, shejust knew that she had to be on
bed rest and she dug in and shecalled my grandma to come and
stay, because I had an oldersister, five years older, and
she stayed on bed rest and thedoctor would come to the house
every single week and every weekhe would say I can't believe
this, but she's still, you know,baby's still healthy,
(04:42):
everything's fine.
We got one more week but we'restill not out of the woods yet.
And then I guess at about 37weeks, they told my dad it was
three weeks before I was born.
Actually they said we couldprobably save her or the baby,
because they didn't know boy orgirl if the baby came now, but
still probably going to be verydamaged because there's no water
in there and there's supposedto be water.
(05:04):
So he was prepared that if Iwas born alive I was just going
to be a complete mess.
And I came out almost ninepounds, 8, 15, and my mom was
tiny, five foot two, she said itabout took her out to give
birth to me.
But I came out out on time, notlate, not early, big, healthy
(05:26):
fat, you know and fine, like Igot a good score on my APGAR and
I was deliriously happy.
And the joke in the family wasI was so happy that they took me
to a pediatrician for mythree-month checkup and said
that they thought I was mentallydisabled because I was
ridiculously happy.
I would talk to my fingers andI would laugh all the time.
(05:50):
I hardly ever cried.
They thought something waswrong with me.
I'd be in my crib just talkingto things in the morning, not
screaming for them, and so theydidn't know what to do with it.
So that was pretty funny.
And then after that I think Ihad a pretty normal childhood.
I mean, we had things in ourhouse going on that molded me to
who I am now.
My mom was depressed.
(06:13):
She suffered from depression.
She actually just was in thewrong marriage.
But I was made to beresponsible for things at a very
young age and I've had to workvery hard to overcome that
feeling that I have toconstantly be responsible.
Everybody's got to be okay forme to be okay.
So I worked through a lot ofcodependency issues.
(06:36):
But I also took out of that anamazing amount of self-reliance
and I know I'm a person that canbe counted on.
I know I can count on me.
I know other people can counton me.
I keep a really calm head whenthose about me are losing it.
I get very calm in the eye ofthe storm.
(06:58):
So there were definitelyblessings in that.
And I had the second miracle.
That was huge when we were on avacation.
So fast forward, my daughterwas almost 20.
So this is years after that Ona vacation in Cozumel.
(07:18):
We wanted to find a beachwithout coral, because all the
beaches have coral, and we gotthat.
We went to a Walmart and gotthe shoes and everything They'd
have that there, but still itwasn't as fun as like.
I like to swim barefoot in theocean.
I like the feel of the sand,and so we felt we heard there
was a beach where they hadimported sand.
(07:39):
So we rented a Jeep, took twotrips to get everybody in there,
because it was a whole familyvacation my son and his family,
my daughter and her boyfriend,my husband and myself and we
went to the beach and my husbanddropped us off first.
My daughter's name is ava andshe had grown up watching
baywatch and it was.
We just used to joke about itbecause the person's name was
(08:01):
like ava, save a lot.
We just were kidding aroundabout it on the way there.
So we get there and we'reswimming and my husband went off
to pick up the rest of thefamily and bring them and then
we got not too far out.
I grew up on the ocean so I'mpretty comfortable.
I'm not an Olympic swimmer byany means, but you know, a
healthy reservation for swimmingat night, you know a healthy
(08:23):
reservation for swimming atnight, but definitely no fear of
it.
I have respect for it.
And I was just out theretreading, you know, just maybe
it was my chin level, but whenthe waves came it would be
deeper.
And all of a sudden I put myfoot down and there was nothing.
And then I felt this likevortex, this like pulling, which
(08:51):
they later found out was ariptide, pulling my leg down
into it, and I had never feltthat before and I grew up on the
ocean so I just tried to pullmy leg out of it.
I couldn't pull my leg out ofit and meanwhile I'm going under
with every wave instead ofriding above every wave.
And I looked at Ava and I saidI'm not kidding, I can't get out
.
And she just looked at me andlike sheer terror, right,
(09:11):
because we've always swam, okay.
And she said something cameover ground and she carried me
through the waves to the beachand I am bigger than her, okay,
(09:36):
and so that I mean to me that'sher miracle equally, yes, it's
my miracle that I lived, butdefinitely her miracle.
And this day we're not surewhich angels, which guides
helped her.
But she said she just thoughtof Ava Sable, which we had just
been joking about.
It was funny.
And she scooped and carried meand her feet did not touch, she
(10:01):
didn't even swim, she waswalking in the water, on the
water, like wow, I havegoosebumps right now, like that
is amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
We definitely don't give our guides and the angels
the credit that they deserve.
You know, we always think, oh,because we can't see them with
our human eyes, that they're notthere.
But then you hear stories likethat and it's just like wow,
they're so there, yeah there,yeah, yeah, and I go back in.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I was very shaken up but I did go back in and swim
later that day because I wantedto break that.
I didn't want to have that fear.
You know, that's right.
I had to.
I am, I am of the water.
I mean I just feel it and, um,yeah, maybe a mermaid another
lifetime, I don't know.
But but I'm most at home whenI'm in the ocean, in the salt
(11:00):
water, with that sun, and, yeah,I feel really at peace there.
So it's a home for me.
So I had to make it that it wasokay for me to go back in.
But to me that was a miracle,because if it had been anybody
else, I don't know that it wouldhave happened and I would have
to tell you the truth, I wouldhave gone out that far by myself
if she didn't want to go rightaway, and that would have been
(11:21):
it.
She would have thought I wasjust treading water out there,
and so I was very, very gratefuland I thought, wow, when I was
just getting ready to start mymaster's program, I mean, I was
at a really good point in mylife and that's the other point
that I think is significant forme.
A lot of people have miraclesand have these things happen
when they're at the bottom, whenthey've hit the ground, when
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they're at the dark night of thesoul.
They call it Now, when they'reat a breaking point.
My miracles have happened whenI was at a high point in my life
, and I don't know why I don'teven pretend to know why but I
just know that it's differentfor me because things are going
really well and something likethat will happen almost like
(12:08):
validation or something you knowlike.
So have you always been on thespiritual path yes, I actually
and I tell this in my podcasttrailer too, or the first
episode when I was 10 or 11, Istarted wanting to go to
(12:30):
different churches and Ivacillated between wanting to
have 12 children and wanting tobecome a nun, like literally,
those were the two things that Iwanted.
My mom was like I'm not sureabout either of them.
My dad just watched his handson me for a while.
So my mom said, okay, we'lltake you.
She was more so an ethicalculture is more of a spiritual
(12:53):
type person and she had a lot ofthe spiritual.
My dad was, for the social andcultural aspects, jewish, and so
I went there.
I had nothing against it, but Ididn't feel that connected to
that.
(13:13):
Some of the traditions weregreat and it was a family thing,
but he didn't have a spiritualpiece to go with it.
He had a very strong socialconnection and that was good.
I mean he was great in thatcommunity.
For me, I didn't really need todo something that way.
I wanted a spiritual connection, even though I was young.
(13:34):
So my mom took me to differentchurches and I mean I went to
Quaker meetings.
I went all over and some ofthem I felt at home with and
some of them I would feel athome with, and then I would hear
, maybe, that they were sayingsomething negative about other
religions or saying that theirway was the only way, and that
would make me feel sad because Iwould think, was my dad can go
(13:56):
to hell.
I mean, he doesn't go to thischurch.
You know, I didn't know.
I was hoping they weren't righton that point and I didn't want
to go.
I knew what I didn't want atthat point.
I didn't want to be anywherewhere they thought that other
people were going to becondemned if they didn't follow
that path and that kind ofturned me off to some religions,
(14:17):
even though I do believe thateverybody wants the best and
we're all finding our way home.
It's just different paths.
To that way, I think we shouldrespect each other's heads
definitely, and I so.
I did end up getting involvedin researching a little bit
about buddhism when I was 12because I became very interested
(14:39):
in that and that was somethingthat caught my.
I'm still very much a part ofthat feel.
I still love those teachings.
I also resonate with a lot ofJesus' teachings.
I also like a lot of theteachings of the Kabbalah from
the Jewish Testament.
So I take from a lot of things,but I've been spiritual in the
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way that I could feel that I wasin touch with something from
the time that I was very little.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Luckily, kids growing up now have more.
The parents understand it morethan when we were small.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
My major work has been with children since I was
little.
They would come to my house ifthey needed help in school and
it was just there.
I coach them and I tutor themand when I coach them they
coached so quickly it's so thetransformation is exponential.
As as far as like how fast Iwould change or how and I like
(15:38):
change and I love being coachedI'm really open to it.
But it's probably like five toten sessions worth of progress
in one session when I coach achild.
It's that fast.
It's that fast that they cangrasp things and they can go
right in because they haven'tbuilt those walls of resistance.
(15:59):
But I'm very, very mindful andI do make sure I have good
communication with the parents.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You know, make sure I have good communication with
the parents, because we don'trealize when we say something to
a kid on what what they'retaking in or or what they're
embodying, what they'reintegrating into themselves yeah
, like even you know, as I'vestarted going on my healing
journey and started um releasingall the traumas and things I
(16:29):
always say, like everybody'struth is their own truth and you
don't have to have the sametruth.
And again, I think it's comingback to trusting ourselves and
trusting like our opinions canchange too as we evolve.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
The third big miracle , I guess, was in 2021.
Everything was going really,really well for me and I had
left the school district.
I didn't wait for retirement,but I was very scared, but I did
it anyway and I left andstarted my own coaching and
tutoring business and alsotaught yoga, which is what I'm
(17:06):
doing now.
And I did not.
I mean, I was frightenedbecause of financial reasons and
security reasons, but we did itand then COVID happened, so it
actually worked because I coulddo virtual, which never occurred
to me before, and so I washappy.
I was a new grandma againbecause I had other
grandchildren.
Then my daughter had a baby.
I was just my feet weren'ttouching the ground.
(17:27):
I was a new grandma againbecause I had other
grandchildren.
Then my daughter had a baby.
I was just my feet weren'ttouching the ground.
I was so happy and so happywith my life and happy with my
husband and woke up every dayhappy and my pretty pretty much
my natural state, took reallygood care of my body.
And then I had a massive heartattack and almost died and that
(17:49):
it came out of nowhere and I hadjust had a physical two months
earlier, where the doctor saidto me and he was 40, he was
younger than me.
He said I wish I could swap labresults with you.
You've got much better labsthan I do.
He said what are you doing?
You're so healthy, you're notyour biological age at all.
So I told him what I was doingand it's not like I thought I
was immune to anything goingwrong with me.
(18:10):
My mom was healthy and she diedwhen she was 52, but you know,
but I did take really good careof myself, so I'm like good, the
things I'm doing are working.
That's awesome, you know, andthey're still not sure why.
I'm part of a group that'sbeing studied because there was
about 25 of us between Denverand Boston in the two cardiology
(18:32):
clinics that my cardiologist inDenver had that showed up with
this exact heart attack betweenJanuary and mid-April and mine
was April 10th of that year andthey were completely atypical
heart attacks where there waslittle to no plaque and a huge
blood clot and there was nohistory.
(18:54):
There was no, there were noproblems.
So anyway, so I didn't know Iwas having it and I meditated in
the morning.
I just thought I had really badpains like in my stomach and I
asked for guidance and I askedfor I should have asked for more
guidance and less strength.
I asked for strength to do thework I'm supposed to be doing
(19:15):
and I got it.
I got what I asked for and Itutored a kid and then taught
two yoga classes and then camehome and by the time I got to
the hospital my LAD was 100%blocked and they said it was a
miracle that I lived and that Isat on a widow maker heart
attack.
I didn't mean to sit on it, Ididn't know I was having a heart
(19:37):
attack and lived and that therewas a lot of damage.
But a lot of damage can gethealed.
And then they didn't go into anyother detail and I was.
You know, I'm telling mydaughter it's probably going to
be two weeks before I can, youknow, give you a break and watch
Teddy again.
And she's like let's just seehow you feel, mom.
You had a heart attack and I'mlike but it's okay, I'm okay,
(20:00):
nothing's changed.
And boy, did I eat those words.
Everything friggin' changed forme.
And I can't even begin to gointo like the emotional agony
that that was and, I guess, theconfidence that I lost and I was
(20:26):
asking why, like, why?
Why now, like, what did I do,you know?
And I didn't get an answer, andso I started asking well, then
you know what?
Show me why I'm here then,because maybe I just shouldn't
be here.
I mean, I felt awful, I feltlike my family, I felt like I
(20:48):
let everybody down and it washorrible, probably the worst
thing that I've gone through andit was the best thing that
could have happened, because itopened me up to a whole new form
of compassion and I thought Iwas compassionate, I could, I
(21:09):
could be so much morecompassionate and I thought I
was loving and I could love somuch more and I thought I was
really appreciative of life.
I lived that.
And now, holy cow, it's a wholedifferent ballgame and it did
something to me and it's.
(21:30):
It opened up so many places inmy brain and in my heart that I
probably would never have goneto.
I've met people I never wouldhave met.
I'm very humbled by the wholeexperience and the miracle that
came out of it.
Not only that I lived was that?
Three months into it I was.
(21:51):
I had to take drugs for thewhole year.
I was on seven, eightprescriptions.
It was.
I felt awful from all the drugs.
But they said this was we haveto make sure that we are just
taking care of the heart,keeping everything very, very
chill for this first year, andthen we can maybe come off some
of the medicines.
Well, I was able to get offeverything except for aspirin
After a year and a half.
(22:12):
It took me, but that was stillpretty good.
But in three months I went backand I had an electrocardiogram
and I had not a stress test butjust an echo test where they
could see everything.
And the cardiologist brought meand my husband out and I
figured well, we're going to getgood news.
I'm sure more healing happenedbecause I'd been doing this and
(22:32):
working with my coach and sheliterally was calling.
She said I'm not going tocharge you, I'm going to call
you every day and if you'restrong enough, we're going to
talk, or I'm just going to sendyou energy and we're going to
heal this.
And I listened to that type ofmusic.
I couldn't do much else.
I did tutor still, because Iloved doing what I did, but then
it knocked me out.
(22:53):
That was about all I could doand I have this belief that I
have a healthy heart.
I do have a really healthy heartand that's what I kept saying
in the hospital.
I know that this happened, butI have a really healthy heart, I
have a really strong heart andI believe that.
And when I went in for thethree-month checkup, he brought
(23:15):
up the films and he looked atthem with us and my husband was
there and he got tears in hiseyes and he said you have a
beautiful heart.
He said your heart is allhealed and he had never seen in
15 years so much damage heal100% and he'd never seen that
(23:38):
much healing in three months.
So I feel like it was God's way, or the universe's way, of
saying you can heal this, butyou need to take it and share it
and you need to help others andyou need to reach more people.
And that's why I'm doing thisand I tell people about it.
(24:00):
I didn't want to tell anybodyabout it for a long time and I
was like no, no, don't do that,because this happened for a
reason and you don't want todeny that.
You don't want to deny a giftthat you've been given.
So I do, and I know one person,actually his dad, a child that
I tutored.
His dad was having really badindigestion that they thought
was indigestion and they saidbecause of what happened to me.
(24:24):
They brought him to thehospital and it turned out he
was having heart attack.
He was only 44 years old.
So I mean, I feel like it, youknow, maybe it helped save his
life in some strange way.
It can happen to Sari.
She's really healthy, sari'slike super healthy.
It can definitely happen to me,you know.
So I try to help people with itand encourage people that when
(24:47):
they're going through somethingor something that they feel like
has just taken them right downto their knees at a time when
they're doing well in their life, that there's always a reason
and it's always happening foryou.
And I still.
I'm not going to say that Idon't have a hard time with it.
I mean, I just got choked uptalking to you about it, but
(25:08):
I've worked through so muchsince it and I don't mess around
.
I'll tell you what myrelationships I.
You know it's got to be real.
I thought I only had authenticrelationships before.
It's to a whole new level nowand I tell people how I feel, if
they're interested in knowing,and I tell people I always told
(25:31):
people I love them, but boy, Isure make sure that I tell
people extra, because you neverknow Something could happen to
them.
You never know, you just don'tknow.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I think that's the thing.
You never know.
You just don't know.
I think that's the thing.
Things can change so quicklybut we get so caught up in our
everyday life and in ourproblems that we kind of forget
how quickly life can change andhow precious and amazing and
miraculous being here, eventhough sometimes we might not
(26:05):
feel like, oh, this is ablessing, or feel like this is a
miracle that we are sittinghere, especially you know the
way the world is going at themoment.
We can sometimes feel so heavyand dark, but actually, at the
end of the day, every personwho's who is here, it's a
(26:26):
miracle and there is a reason.
We all have a specific person,a specific reason that we are
here, going through and dealingwith what we are dealing with.
Yes, absolutely.
Have you always wanted to do apodcast?
Or how did you get into doingthe?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
podcast.
Parents have been asking me todo something like a blog or
something for a long time andbut I wouldn't.
I just didn't feel that and Ididn't feel like people would
want to hear what I have to say,I guess, and I just didn't feel
like it was the right time, Iguess, for me.
(27:07):
But a part of me at the sametime felt like and my husband
felt it and coaches at schoolfelt it, and my life coach felt
it she was like you've gotsomething bigger.
I feel like you need to go tosomething bigger than what
you're doing.
Keep doing what you're doingbecause you love it and you can
love it bigger.
And I didn't know what thatwould look like.
(27:29):
And this summer my daughter wasvisiting and or actually she
came in early summer and thenshe was going to a retreat the
Kathy Heller retreat, I think itwas in June and so I asked her
how was that retreat thing thatyou went on?
I didn't know who she went withor anything and she said it was
(27:50):
amazing, mom.
And I said who was in charge ofit, because I know we follow
some of the same people and shetold me and she was like you
should be here, let me send yousomething.
Let me send you her podcast.
I'm like, okay, didn't listento her podcast before and I know
I'm one of the dark ages hereand I loved it.
(28:11):
And she started talking aboutdoing this thing like a free
workshop on podcasting.
And I'm like you know, I'm justgoing to do it.
It's free, what do I have tolose?
I'll just do it while I'm.
You know, I'm just going to doit.
It's free, what do I have tolose?
I'll just do it while I'm.
You know, podcasts are greatbecause you can just listen to
them while you're cleaning yourhouse or you know gardening,
whatever you're doing, you canput the podcast on.
And I really liked her a lot.
(28:33):
So I said, well, I'll just dothat podcast thing.
And then it came down to it andI thought maybe I should do this
podcast thing.
And I talked to Stan.
He said I think definitely youshould do this podcast thing.
I thought, but what am I goingto talk about?
He's like how many times dopeople get off the phone with
you and say we should haverecorded the conversation?
(28:53):
And I was like actually a lot.
And so I thought you know what?
I'm just going to go for it.
And then I thought, no,immediately stuff started
happening like I hadn't had aproblem.
And then I had a small problemwith health.
It's tiny, not big, but alittle blip, you know.
And I was like, okay, so that's.
I don't think I could do it,you know.
(29:15):
And one thing, one little thingwould come up.
Well, I really can't do it.
And then I thought, if I ampushing away from this so
quickly when I was so excited,what would that tell me if one
of my clients was doing that?
I'm a coach, my coach needs tobe able to call me out on my own
stuff.
So I kind of was my own coachon this.
(29:35):
I was like you are full of it,you're looking for an excuse to
get out because you're justafraid.
It's like what are you afraidof?
So I started to ask, I kind ofcoached myself a little bit, and
then I thought, well, I thinkI'm still not going to do it.
And then I got on the phone withJen and she said, maybe?
She said do you get excitedwhen you think about it?
(29:57):
I said, very, I feel a pull,and when I feel a pull, I act on
it.
Like I felt a pull.
I moved cross country by myselfwhen I was 18.
I felt a pull for SouthCarolina.
That's where I'm sitting rightnow.
My husband and I moved hereLike it took five years to get
here, but still, when I feel apull, I know it's right.
(30:17):
And so I said I feel a pulltowards this, but I'm also
actually very like avoiding itin some way.
I'm looking for a reason to notdo it.
And she said, well, maybe thisis the year that you learn how
to do something messy and be a Cstudent.
And I thought, hmm, and neitherone of those hit me very well,
(30:39):
and so I thought, since I'm notcomfortable with that, maybe I
need to lean into the discomfortas Igor, my acupuncture saint
Buddhist.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
He's like.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
He's like my teach, my big teacher.
He's an amazing person.
He always says did you?
He's from Poland.
He's like did you lean into it,sari?
And I was like I'd be like I'mhaving anxiety about the heart
about this, about that.
He's like have you ever triedjust leaning in, just lean in a
little bit instead of, you know,trying to get away from it?
And so I thought I'm going tolean into it.
(31:11):
So, and as soon as I mentionedit, people seemed supportive,
like they thought that it was agood idea, and the guidance that
I'm getting is it's about time.
Those three words came to melike it's about time.
Those three words came to meLike it's about time.
So I don't know who's sayingthat to me.
Maybe it's my mom on the otherside, maybe it's my dad, but
(31:33):
they always thought I could domore than what I thought I could
do too.
My husband has always hadbigger visions for me than I
have, and so I think that that'swhere it came from.
But no, this is new.
I can't say I've always wantedto be a podcaster or always
wanted to do this.
No, no, Very excited, and Ithink I'm loving it, but also
still very difficult, verydifficult.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, I think it brings out a lot of things that
we didn't quite realize weneeded to still work on, things
that we didn't quite realize weneeded to still work on, because
it's brought up so much likefears of being in the spotlight
and that fear of being seen andbeing heard.
And it's actually funny becauseI've spoken to so many people
(32:16):
who have started doing thepodcast and everyone's story is
pretty much the same, like Ithought I'd done the healing and
then I signed up for this and Irealized there's still so much
healing that so much.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
There's always another layer.
That's what my my teacher wouldexplain it to me that you
because I'd be like really thisagain, like you're kidding me I
thought I cleared this, Ithought I've done like the work
inside and the path of theregression stuff and energy
clearing and Reiki.
I had back surgery, so I triedto avoid that for two years.
(32:50):
So during that process, I gotRolfed, I got Reiki, I got
acupuncture, I got energy work,I had crystal work, which I'm
into, all that stuff, but Itried so many different things
and I ended up still needingsurgery, but I'm sure they work
for some people.
I needed to go through thatexperience, though, and I just
couldn't.
(33:10):
I couldn't believe it that thesame dang thing was coming up
about trusting myself.
And then she said to me it'slike onions, like you peel and I
don't like onions.
You peel a layer off and youthink you're good, and then
there's another layer, and thenthere's another layer, and she
would say to me you weren'tready to process it at that
(33:30):
level of energy.
And sometimes we like if I comeout of a long period of being
anxious, it was just my energylevel was shifting, and my
energy level shifted big time.
My calibration went up so muchafter the heart attack and, um,
it just changed, and every timeit's changed.
(33:51):
Even without the heart attack Ihave felt very unearthed while
it was going on, I guess becauseyou're not really having an
earthly experience.
You're having an organic bodyexperience and then I just
assimilate to the new energythat I'm vibrating at and I'm
good again.
So that could be the answer tothe podcast thing too.
Whenever you're taking a stepin growth, you're ready to and
(34:13):
you're at a pretty good levelnow you're ready to process that
trauma or that wound at thatlevel and that much deeper and
share it with those people,because you're usually in a
different crowd a little bit too.
You're swimming in differentwaters by that time.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
So yeah, and yeah, that's actually true, because
one of my coaches always saysthat about the onions as well
and it's like it's like a onionand it's like you have to take
it off layer after layer andanother one is like another
level, another devil, and I'mlike, oh yeah, that is.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I feel that too my yoga teacher used to say afgo.
She didn't say frigging, but Iwill, because I don't curse
another frigging growthopportunity but she called it
something else.
So when something came up,she'd be afgo growth opportunity
, and I say that to my kids too.
I let them know that that'swhat it is when they're going
(35:13):
through something.
So, yeah, it's been a lot.
So I'm excited to be doing itand I'm feeling in a flow
sometimes with it.
The best times for me are notalways when I can record the
flow that's coming through me,so I have to kind of work with
that, but I I really love itwhen I'm doing it.
(35:37):
I always ask for guidancebefore and I'm just hoping that
I can reach some more people andstart connecting with people
and then use it as a platform to, you know, maybe start teaching
some classes or doing someworkshops, or maybe doing more
coaching, doing more individualcoaching, which I love to do
with adults too.
(35:57):
Or maybe I might even meet somemore children through there,
because I do the virtual withkids and so I'm pretty excited
about that chapter.
It's new still, I mean I onlyhave three episodes out, but
everything inspires me and Ialways used to say there's a
teacher in everything you knowthere is, and so I'll just get
(36:19):
inspired about something, andthen I'll think, and that's
connected to that, and here's anepisode.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
So you know like you just get so excited about life.
Yeah, that's actually true.
I also often I get off callsand my friends and they're like
you know, this could have beenan episode on your podcast and
I'm like it's so true, like howthe conversations when you're in
this space, the conversationsthat you have, are so profound
and so deep and there's so manyrealizations you know, just from
(36:54):
listening to other people'sstories and hearing things from
their perspective sometimes cankind of trigger something in you
to see things in a differentway.
And then it's like, oh, wow,like, and then that's why we all
grow together and I think likeit's all about of coming more of
(37:28):
people get coming together ascommunities rather than
competition and trying to bebetter than each other.
It's like, no, actually we geta lot further when we are
working together as a team andlike rising together absolutely.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I.
I love the way that's whatpeople say.
You know, there's a lot of thisin the world.
There's a lot.
I see so much beauty and somuch goodness in this world and
the kids that are coming up nowhave so many gifts and people
that are older are realizingtheir gifts.
These conversations arebecoming more they're they're
(38:09):
mainstream conversations.
What we're talking about energy, work and angels if that's what
you're into and just the, theoneness, the consciousness of
oneness.
I feel like we're coming so farin so many ways and that's where
I keep my focus, because wheremy mind goes is where my energy
goes to, and I keep my focus onthose things.
(38:30):
I don't watch news.
I don't get involved in any ofthat, because I work with
children and I can't come fromthat place and also because I
don't want to come from thatplace.
I want all my energy to befocused on the greatest good and
the good for the collectiveright now, and there's a lot of
things to be happy about, a lotof things to be grateful for in
(38:52):
life and the way we are unifyingwith each other now.
Even this, like I'm not asocial media person, it has
forced me to get on social mediaand I'm grateful for it,
because I wouldn't be doing thiswith you right now if we hadn't
met that way.
And I'm grateful that I can dothe tutoring virtually, because
my kids are in Colorado, I'm inSouth Carolina, I'm ready for
(39:14):
some clients to come here, butwe're new, so I haven't started
with any kids here yet.
So, thank goodness for allthose things that I used to say,
oh, it's mucking up my life orit takes away the human
connection, it doesn't.
You really can't close a dooron anything.
You know, I think these aregreat times that we live in
right now.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
They're exciting and, yes, there are some things
going on that we need to dig inand work even harder to bring
about the light, because lighteradicates dark period yeah, and
I think that personally, andyou know, uh, when I look at
what's going on, it's like themore that the light shines, the
(39:55):
more it's gonna shine onto thedarkness so that the darkness
can crumble and, you know, bereleased.
But it's, like you, it's notgoing to just disappear
overnight, like the light has tobe shown on to the darkness,
and and I think that it's suchexciting times that we are here.
(40:16):
When you look at it from thatperspective, there's we have so
many, so much betteropportunities than any of the
generations before us had, and Ithink that is like really
exciting.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I wake up every day and it started when I had the
heart attack, because I startedasking why am I here?
And then I would say show mewhy I'm here today.
And I was at a sad point, Justlike then.
Show me why.
And the signs would come.
Somebody would text me,Somebody would say I need
tutoring for my child, Somebodywould tell me that they love me
(40:53):
and they were thinking of me.
I would hear a song thatresonated with me and every day
now still, I wake up and whenI'm meditating I ask please,
show me, Please show me why I'mhere today.
And I'm always shown, I alwaysget signs of why I'm here and I
love it.
I love it Because I know I'mhere for a reason.
But it's nice to get thatconfirmation.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
So if you want to just let everyone know where
they can find your podcast, Iwill also have your podcast
listed in the description sothat they can click on it to
find it thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
My podcast name is just count me in and you can
find me there.
I also have a Facebook page.
Just count me in, sari Stone.
It's S-A-R-I-S-T-O-N-E.
And then I'm also on Instagram.
Just count me in and I thinkthat's Sari Stone, 2025, but
they can find me.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
I'm connected on that , so, and on X, yes, and on X
too, so I'm on all of it and Ihave all of your links listed
below you as well, so you canjust go and click below the
podcast and go find you on allthe platforms.
And is your podcast on Spotifyand Apple?
(42:08):
It's on everything.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Amazon, spotify, apple and some places I've never
heard of.
I'll put it out into theuniverse.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Thank you so much for coming on to my show today
thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
It has been delightful.
I just love being in yourpresence.
You have such bright, shiny,like bubbly kind of energy.
You're really a gift to bearound.
I'm very sensitive to people'senergy, so I can tell you it's
it always it's.
I've only talked to you acouple times and it just uplifts
me.
Whenever I talk to you, I getsuch a good, happy, happy
(42:47):
feeling in my heart.
So I I'm glad that you're doingwhat you're doing.
I am listening to your podcastnow and it's and it's a bright
spot in the world, and keepshining your light.
Thank you so much for joiningme today.
If you like this episode,please let me know.
Stop by at social media, onInstagram or my Facebook page.
(43:07):
Just count me in and pleaseleave a comment.
If there's anybody that youthink could benefit from this
episode, please forward it tothem, and I look forward to
seeing you next time.
We're all in this together.
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