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July 19, 2025 56 mins
Are you ready to manifest the Love of your Life? Have you been frustrated with dating apps
and you are ready for true love and marriage? Join Constance and her special guest Dr. Karen
Nelson. Dr. Nelson shares her miraculous story of how God supernaturally connected and manifested a marriage made in heaven. Your faith and hope will increase. Dr. Nelson is a 30 year plus Veteran in Education and she has numerous awards including a Certificate of
Completion from Harvard’s Institute for School Leadership/ Large Scale Improvement. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Law of Attraction Radio Network. International
success coach and noted author Constance Arnold delivers life changing
strategies through her own spiritual practices as well as with
best selling authors and experts that she interviews. Fink Believe
In manifest is specially designed to empower your mind and

(00:20):
words to work for you and to bring about a
life you've been dreaming of. And now here's Constance Arnold.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, hello, power from Manifesto, and welcome to the Law
of Attraction Radio Network. And of course some Constance are
the host of the Thing Believe In manifest talk show.
I am so grateful, so excited, so thankful that you
made a decision to join me from all over the

(00:49):
world today. And guess what. I believe that if you're
tuning in, that the great spirit of God on the
inside of you has attracted you here. Well, it's a
beautiful summer day here in the at L It has
been hot and human. But for that I am really grateful.

(01:10):
I have a great show for you today. I'm calling
all women. If you are fifty, I'm gonna start with forty.
If you a fordy, fifty, sixty, seventy and you want
to stay in faith and hope that while I can
attract love, God can miraculously send me the man of

(01:36):
my dreams. You better stay tuned because my very special
guess is doctor Karen Nelson, and she's gonna be talking
talking to you. I got that out about how God
miraculously send her. I'm gonna call it a mag mad
in Heaven. So you gotta stay tuned. And while I'm

(01:59):
thinking about it, I pre recorded that show, and doing
the show, I called her husband Lorenzo. I gave him
a new name, y'all, but his name is Alfonso, So
I'm excited about that. But I have some interesting news.
I wanted to let you know that this will be

(02:23):
my last month on the Law of Attraction Radio Network
after seventeen years. I am grateful. I am thankful to Jules,
grateful to the platform that has brought me exposure, that
has edited all of my shows over these seventeen years,

(02:45):
just putting me on platforms, and for that, I am
really grateful. And so God is calling me to new adventures,
a new ways of being and doing, and I just
wanted to make sure I thank you. You guys have

(03:09):
been my family. You have been there for me. All
of the emails, all of the likes, all of the
life changing experiences that you have shared with me. All
of you who have invited me to your state, to

(03:33):
your country, Australia. I'm going. I'm coming to see you.
All of you that have invited me into your homes,
into your car and your vehicles. All of my folks
in your who listen to me as you're going to
work in the morning. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

(03:56):
I am so radically grateful for you. Your love and
your support has shifted and changed me, and I am
grateful beyond words. So I wanted to let you know
that I will be doing my last show next week,

(04:17):
but I want you to follow me on social media.
You can certainly keep up with me there and see
what's going on. Follow me on TikTok, y'all. I go
live on TikTok at least twice a week, so I'm
there to answer your questions. So TikTok and Instagram is

(04:42):
law of Attraction, Constants, Facebook is Coach with Constants, and
of course my YouTube channel, So you can follow me
on those platforms and really see what's happening in my life.
See my expansion, see my experiences and the great adventure
that God has for me. While I'm thinking about it,

(05:04):
make sure you visit my website Fulfilling Yourpurpose dot com.
On there you can purchase my two books, Secrets of Success.
Y'all know that took me like three years to even write.
In part one, I have you to really deal with
your stuff. In part two, I have you to take

(05:25):
a look at where are you now? And then in
part three it's a work book. I'm a big proponent
in having people to write out. It's something about when
you write it out, you got to think it first,
then you write it. But then in part three, I
really teach you how to really manifest your dreams. You
guys know that I am a certified dream coach. And

(05:48):
then lastly my book on Attracting and Manifesting genuine Love.
We don't want fake love, y'all. We want the real deal,
like doctor Karen Netham is going to be talking about.
So you can get that book. And in that book,
what I did was I had you to really take

(06:11):
a look at your patterns. Why were you making the
same choices, taking a looking at that forgiving and releasing,
changing your beliefs about yourself, loving, adoring, and accepting yourself
just as you are. And then in other portions, I

(06:34):
really talk about really getting clear about what you are
what you desire, because you know what we always attract
who we are, not what we want. And then in
the last part, I give you some really powerful law
of attraction techniques like journaling and the making space for love.

(06:56):
So it is so powerful. So we already everybody, I
want to hear what doctor Karen has to say about
her matchmaid in Heaven. Now I know the story because
she is a friend of mine personally, and I'm so
honored to bring this to you as one of my

(07:19):
last shows because the two questions that I've gotten just
so many emails on is how can I attract love
in my life? You know, we're wired for it. You've
heard me say that how many times we're wired for love.
If you have a little baby, what do they want

(07:41):
to do? You pick up a little baby, They just
want to cuddle and just you know, lean into you.
We're wired for it neurologically. And if you got a
little dog. When I had Angel, I would pick her
up and she just wanted to cuddle with me. So
it is natural God wired you for love. But I

(08:03):
believe that this show is going to be so life
changing for you. So are we ready, everybody, Let's take
a deep breadth in let it out. We know breadth
is what spirit deep breadth. Then let it out. All right,
We're going to a quick commercial and then I'm going

(08:24):
to be right back with doctor Karen. This sole.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
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(08:48):
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Speaker 2 (09:23):
Well, everybody, I am back and I am really excited.
And I know what you're saying, Constance. You always excited.
But that's a good thing, right, So we're going to
be talking about relationships, how to manifest and attract love,
how to be open to receive a marriage that is

(09:43):
straight from God himself. So I want you to open
up your heart, open up your spirit. So let me
tell you who we have in the house today, Ladies
and genmen. We have a baller. She's a friend of mine.
But let me introduce her. You know, the Bible says
to give arnor to whom honor is due. I have
doctor Karen Nelson. She is a thirty year veteran in education.

(10:07):
She's worked in various positions from teaching, instructional specialists, assistant principal,
school principal, and she's currently serving as a leadership coach
slash mentor for novice principle. That's a brilliant idea. By
the way. Karen is passionate and a lifelong learner in

(10:30):
education with an emphasis on leadership development. And she's very
passionate and that passion is driven by her beliefs on
how leadership in a school culture can really impact, shift
and change the quality of teaching, learning, school culture, student achievement, etc.

(10:55):
Her curiosity and continue what's learning have really left her
earning two massive degrees. I didn't know that, as well
as earning a doctorate degree in educational leadership. These are
just a few of her honors, y'all. The Atlanta Family

(11:15):
Award for Excellence in Education, Georgia State University's Principal Centered
Leadership Award, Certificate of Completion from Harvard's Institute of School Leadership,
Large Scale Improvement, named as a State of Georgia High
Performance Principal. So y'all can see she's a bawler. Let

(11:38):
me tell you what I know about her. She is
the real deal. She's a dear friend. She is a
powerful faith field spiritual woman. She is a principal centered person,
and boy does she have a love story to share. So,

(11:59):
doctor Karen Nelson, welcome to the Law Attraction Radio Network.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
I thank you, constant. I'm so happy to be here
to spend this time with you and your audience.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, you know Karen. We go back. We've been through
some stuff together. We we know each other. I know
this woman, I know some things that she has experienced,
but you know, I'm the kind of person y'all. Went
to a Beyonce concert this week in the atl for

(12:31):
folks who are listening in Europe and all of Africa,
and I was telling doctor Karen that what everybody else
was up dancing, I was taking notes and trying to
open myself up to the spirit. And so with doctor Karen,
I've always watched her go through some not so easy

(12:54):
things in life, and I want her to share her
love story with us to give you incurag me in
that hope. So here we go, Doctor Careenry ready, Yes,
I'm ready. So let's talk about all the singer folks
right quick. So when you were single and wanted to

(13:15):
be married, I'm looking at all of my notes. When
you were single and wanted to be married? How did
you how did you not become frustrated doing that time?
What did you do.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
Well? First of all, I've always been a naturally happy
person and very driven and goal oriented.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
So even in.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
My singleness, I was happy. I was happy with that.
I always set goals. I had the desire to be married,
but I wasn't fixated on being married. So as a
single person, I traveled. I go to the movies, go
out to dinner, hang out with friends, do things alone
many times.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
But in that.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
Whole process, as I had goals before me that were
driving me towards that as well.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
But I was happy in my singleness.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
There that's a mic drop moment. You know, we're wired
for love, y'all. Neuroscientists say that we're wired for love.
And she was happy with her own life. And I
know she's very creative and does a lot of arts
and crafts and all of that, but she already had

(14:29):
a fulfilled life. And so just because you were singer caring,
that didn't mean you were feeling sad or God, where
are you? Is that what you're saying exactly?

Speaker 5 (14:41):
I was extremely happy and just doing me, so to speak,
and working on myself being the best version of myself,
self care, you know, setting goals because the things that
we desired or made, we must possess those qualities ourselves.
So I think that was part of that journey.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know. I love that great. Okay, And so Karen,
did you have a list. You know, a lot of
folk have a list. I want this, I want that,
and you and you just mentioned becoming the best version
of yourself. That did you have a list? Were you
praying to God for a husband? What was that?

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Yes? I did. I had some qualities that I wanted
in a mate, And as I stated, the main thing
is I needed to be that person myself, because no
one is going to come and just swoop you up
and make you happy and do all of those things.
You've got to do that yourself. And so yeah, I
was praying to God. I had some qualities that I

(15:46):
wanted in a mate. Of course, I didn't want anybody.
I wasn't desperate or anything, but I wanted a godly
make someone with similar beliefs that like I have, and so,
you know, and desires to do various things in life, traveling,
someone who's focused, someone who has their own happiness and
joy and things that.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
They're driven by.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
So yeah, I did have some qualities that I wanted
in my mate.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
And so we know that you had previous relationship, you've
been married before. How did you work through the healing
of that and forgive and release that so that you
could be open to receive this won to forgive that
God has for you.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
Yeah, that's an excellent point of concertence because we have
to figure out the pain that we've experienced and go
through your own healing process, because otherwise you would be
a bitter person and no one is attracted to a
better person. So, yeah, I did a lot of reading,
even talk to counselors and things like that to make

(16:56):
sure that I'm dealing with the pain that I felt
that the time. But it was a process to that.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
I always write down.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
The desires, the issues and problems that I'm dealing with,
and I had scriptures that I believed in and stood
on as I got through that process.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
When you know, I invited you to my home, remember that,
So guys, accordingly, I would have fifty people to come
to my house, all women, and it was like and
I would have two to three women to speak. And
Karen came one time to share how she because you

(17:41):
know that divorce and the way things were done, it
wasn't easy. It was hey, it was kind of low
down the way some stuff happened. And she came to
share her testimony and I watched you, Karen, move through
that trauma moved through that betrayal. Yes, And so for

(18:06):
somebody who's been betrayed and all of that, what would
you say to them?

Speaker 5 (18:13):
I would say, to make sure that you deal don't
get caught up on what actually happened to you as
opposed to how you're getting through it for your own benefit,
because if you get stuck on all of the things,
the hurt, the pain that you dealt with, it's difficult
to move forward. And you have to move forward in

(18:34):
life and work on the healing process for you first
and foremost.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
So did that make you lose hope? Did you? Were
you like some of my clients I'm talking to y'all
in Australia, you know who I'm talking to and in Africa?
Did that make you lose hope? Because you're very accomplished,
You're so smart. I don't have no other friends that
have a certificate from Harvard. I always kid her about that.

(19:06):
So did you lose hope or how did you keep
your safe after that betrayal?

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Well, my faith is what brought me through the betrayal,
because otherwise, if you try to handle are you focus
on or.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Fixate on what you went through?

Speaker 5 (19:23):
Then that's how the walls of bitterness or resentment build
up in you. And so it was my faith that
allowed me, that prevented me from being stuck in that pain.
And first and foremost, I'm just so grateful that I
still had love in my heart and to be open
to it, because I know many people who've been through

(19:45):
to hurt and the pain and they've closed the walls,
so to speak. And you had zooed that negativity, and
no one is going to be attracted to that. So
I knew it was important for me to work on
me first and foremost.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
You know, I love that, Karen, And I'm talking to
folk now because I made a decision, you know, some
stuff I've been through, Yes, and I made a decision
that I would not give my power away to what
did not work out in the relationship and close my

(20:22):
heart to love. Again, sounds like that's what.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
You did, exactly, stay open to love, because you if
you are loving and you want love, you can't be bitter.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
So yeah, I stay open to love.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
I was a hopeless romantic in a sense, you.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Know, I loved it. So y'all, Karen just not taught
the love of attraction. She said that that if you're
in love with yourself. She was in love with life.
She said she was a hopeless romantic. Okay, there's hope
and great expectation there. Her old her story was not

(21:00):
her old relationship. So if I'm talking to all the
meta physical folks, she was vibrating out love. I love myself,
I love God, I love my life, I love my work.
I'm happy I got goals. And that makes you very attractive. Yes,

(21:23):
So what would you say the folks who say, Okay, Karen,
that sounds really good. But I've been on dating apps
and these apps are crazy? What's your take on dating apps?
Should women or men be on apps? I know this
is just your own opinion. What's your thinking around that.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
I'n't frown upon it because I even tried dating apps,
and after I went through to all of the it
was just a lot involved with it. You don't know
who's serious or not. I went on a few days
and then I just decided that that was just not
for me. So I'm not against it because I know
several people who met and found love on the dating app.

(22:06):
So you just have to have something that motivates you
and drives you. If you have a lot of time
to sit on there and meet all of these different
people seeing hey tried it, but it just wasn't for me.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
After a while, I got so, what is your belief around?
I know God loves me, He's gonna give me the
desires of my heart. I'm just gonna be open. How
did you keep your faith at that level during times
when it didn't look like nothing was happening.

Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah, I because I know that faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of God. And I understand
that others have different beliefs. But for me, I do
a lot of journaling. I have books and stats of
books from years and years ago that I would write
things that I was believing as an act of my

(23:03):
faith and what it has happened. When I go back
and review many of those notes, I often see how
so many of those things that I had written am
now manifested at various phases of my life. So just
being disciplined in that regard and just constantly believing and
not giving up, and so I know it was in

(23:26):
due time, but not in my time. And one of
the things after having several bad relationship experiences, I remember
my last time that I capt not last time. But
one of the things that I said shortly before I
actually met my husband, I said, God, I've tried it
my way. I don't even trust my own instincts in

(23:49):
this area. So the next person that I meet, I'm
trusting you for that mate. And it was maybe two
weeks or so after that that I was reached out
on Facebook by my husband, my now husband.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Wow. And you know that's so powerful, Karen, because you
guys know my book How to Attract the Manifest Genuine Love.
The first sentence is God is the great matchmaker. Yes,
And so God was behind the scenes rearranging and shifting experiences,

(24:31):
shifting folk, shifting her husband, and designing a strategy. You know,
the Bible says who can phantom the ways of God?
So I think what Karen said was so profound that
you tried it your way, You've done everything you know

(24:52):
to do. You gotten dressed up and said we're gonna
go in here where the men are. But really she
went inside and she really did a declaration to God. Okay, God.
It was a form of surrender. Yeah, I've done it
my way. The next man I meet, I wanted to
be my husband. So for people who are listening. You

(25:15):
guys are too much in that physical realm, in that
three D ram trying to make things happen. And I'm
going to say, really, a surrender and trusting is a
powerful thing to do. What do you think about that, Karen? Oh?

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yes, I think you're absolutely on point with that surrendering
because at some point in time, you know, we do
have free will to do the things, make the decisions
that we make in life, and then at some point
you have to really surrender to something beyond or higher power,
beyond yourself and your all limited scope of thinking and ways.

(25:53):
So I highly believe in that, in that surrendering to
a being high your power.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
And so let's hear about this great God connection. I mean,
this story is just crazy, y'all. It's just amazing. So
set us up and tell us the story of how
you met your husband. What were you doing, what were
you feeling doing that time? Let's hear this.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Okay. So, as I stated previously, I'm all about setting
personal goals, always on to the next thing, want to
constantly improve myself. So I joined a group of people
who were dealing with spiritual so called three hundred and
sixty degree wellness type program from Spiritual Physical menu Planning.

(26:45):
So it was just a powerful group. But in order
to be a part of the group, I had to
have a Facebook account because that was how we communicated.
I'm not one who was big on Facebook or anything
like that, but I did joined Facebook to be a
part of the group. So almost immediately once I set

(27:06):
up my profile, I began receiving messages from this man.
And because I was not that familiar with Facebook, I
didn't even know how to respond to the person. He
was sending me pictures and he was in the Grand
Canyon somewhere that I was almost at the same point

(27:26):
a few months prior. He's a master of guitar, as
he was sending me videos of him playing his guitar,
and he was just trying to engage me in conversation.
So once I figured out how to respond to him,
we started communicating on the site and everything, and he
was asking me, where are you from Atlanta? Where are

(27:48):
you from Atlanta? And come to find out and as
you stayed the constant, what's so miraculous about this thing?
Once he asked me, we identified that we were both
from Atlanta. Then he asked, well, what area. Did you
grow up in? What high school did you attend? We
attended the same high school. Home rooms were across from

(28:09):
each other. I had never seen him a day in
my life until we met on Facebook. And even beyond that,
I knew his sister. Have always known the sister, but
never knew that she had brothers or any of that.
So that's what was so miraculous about it. We went
to the same high school. Not only did we attend

(28:32):
the same high school, we were in the same class.
We graduated together. How I've never seen this person prior
to our meeting is just a miraca. But when I
looked at my high school yearbook, my high school graduation program,
I was just dumbfounded because I just could not believe

(28:52):
that I'm meeting this person for the first time, and
we had so much in common. We had both attended
the church, the same church, and so I just have
to say we met when it was God's timing.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
So it was just a miracle.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
I want to unpack this because had Karen never felt led,
which was by the spirit, I'm gonna join this Facebook group.
She don't do Facebook. As a matter of fact, I
think that you didn't even know that you had to
have a picture out there, and so had she never

(29:35):
been led? See, y'all, it's a leading of the spirit.
Has she never been moved? It looked like a just
a regular ordinary day in her life, but she just
felt led. She felt something on the inside that said,
go here, do this, join this, become a part of that.
And then Lorenzo, he saw that beautiful picture. If you're

(29:59):
watching this, you how beautiful she is. He couldn't help hisself.
He was like, I got to reach out to her.
And just the synchronicities or the moving of the spirit
in that situation, it's so powerful.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
Define move with God.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
And so you guys met, and you know a lot
of people meet, but don't nothing happen after you meet.
So you met, and y'all got to know what y'all
tell us about the getting to know him phase? Was
he more than what you had believed for? Kind of
talk about that.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
Yes, it was just a slow because I'm sort of
hard to kind of break in that regard, and so
it had been a while before I had been in
a serious relationship. But the things that he began to do,
he was just very consistent, very thoughtful. Just what was
needed during that time, someone who not only says things

(31:07):
but follow up with that, a man of his word,
and just playing in all types of wonderful adventures to do,
and just just I think, just being a person who's
matching his words with his actions and just something that
I just had not experienced at that level. Just a

(31:29):
wonderful man and just real easy to talk to. Just
similar desires, similar lights. Everything we did, even if it
was a walk in the parkor going to the store,
going to a movie, just everything was just with Eve,
so authentic, just so calmon to my spirit, and it

(31:52):
was just amazing. It really was the thoughtfulness, kindness, generosity.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
When you know, I know Karen, and you know she
ain't moved easy. Now, y'all. You got to show her
some things and be consistent and diligent. So when she
called me, now we may talk maybe three times a year,
but when we talk it's about the spiritual. When we talk,
we may talk for two to three hours. She said, Constance,

(32:24):
I met somebody when she told me that, because I
know her, and I'm like, oh oh, and she begins
to tell me, and of course I don't know if
I was interviewing her interrogating her, I said, Karen, is
it beyond your wildest dreams? Is it more than you

(32:46):
could have believed? For you know, the Bible says God
would do exceedingly abundantly more than we able to ask
or think. So was it, Karen?

Speaker 5 (32:57):
Yes? And there's also a scripture that talked about how
he will restore the years that the cankerworms have stolen.
So although I had had several really really bad experiences,
once you encounter the right experience, you don't even think
about the bad experiences.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
So that was just a really really.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
That was something that stuck out in my mind the
most because you're just in the moment, you're enjoying all
of the goodness, the love, the kindness, the joy, all
of those great attributes that you just encountered, that you
didn't even think about the hurt that you dealt with
in other situations.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
That's a mic drop principle that you just shared. So
y'all know, let me give you a little quantum physical y'all.
Y'all know, love is the highest vibration. And I'm gonna
say that Karen was so enveloped and surrounded and saturated
and immersed in the love of her husband, that all

(34:05):
of the past stuff was gone. Yes, now that should
make somebody listen, that should give you some hope. Yes,
So Karen, tell us about the proposal, and then we're
gonna talk about what is it like to really be married.

(34:26):
I know all of your friends be asking you this.
So if you are fifty, sixty or seventy, and if
you've given up hope, I want you to share this.
Let's make this show go viral. If you got a coworker,
a sister, a mother, just a friend, share this this

(34:48):
show with people so they can see the hand of God,
the love of God, etc. So tell us about your
engagement and then your marriage.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
Okay, so the engagement, The day of the engagement just
started out as a normal day. He's always planning events
and everything.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
So we were going.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Down to this helicopter museum down in Hampton, Georgia, not
too far, and so he told me we were gonna
ride on a helicopter and just have a nice little
day and lunch and everything planning. So when we got
to the museum, the attendant was showing us the various helicopters,

(35:32):
telling us a little history about each of them, and
then he told us get inside, you can sit at
him and just look at the scenery. So when we
got inside of the helicopter, we were just following the
attendance little request. And so when I got proceeded to
get out of the helicopter, my husband was on his

(35:55):
knees proposing, and the attender obviously was in on it
because I was just literally taken aback. So that was
just a beautiful day and just so just a different,
unique way to do it, and it just and of
course I accept it. And so it was a wonderful

(36:17):
day and a wonderful opportunity. Of course, you wouldn't say
yes unless you really had seen things previously, consistency and
feeling that this person can take care of you as
their wife. So it was just a beautiful, unique opportunity
that day. And what else did you say to me?

Speaker 2 (36:38):
I want to talk, let me let me unpack that
a little bit. And I love what Karen said because
when she said, if a man can't take care of
you and love you. And Karen already, y'all, she lives
in a certain lifestyle, beautiful home, She does a lot
of stuff. So when Lorenzo came into her life, he

(37:00):
added to her, he took her to next level living,
next level love and all of that. And so, Karen,
I hear you saying that in this that you did
not compromise.

Speaker 5 (37:15):
That is correct. No desperation, no compromising knowing who you
are and your work as a person too.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
I loved that. I loved that. So the marriage. So
I'm talking to Karen and then she said, girl, we're
getting married. And she got married right across the street
from where I live. So tell us about the wedding
and what marriage every day living is really like.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
Okay, So, having been married previously, I really didn't particularly
care to have a wedding, so to speak. But he
was just insistent upon that, and he kept saying, but
this is something that the people that we love can
share with us. And that was his main thing when
we got married, choosing the venue and all of that.

(38:08):
He was a part of the entire process and he
didn't want to compromise on not sharing it with the
you know, with our friends, our special friends. And so
we had a wedding, a beautiful wedding.

Speaker 6 (38:22):
It was just wonderful.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
All of our guests enjoyed themselves and felt that they
were special and a part of it as well. And
so since we've been married, it has just been I mean,
I just don't even have the words to describe, just
pure joy, excitement every day, just traveling together, hanging out together,

(38:45):
simple things, big things, giving each other that personal respect
and space, because when you get married and you're older,
you've already established a lot of habits, a lot of
things that makes you you know what you did in
your singleness, and to give each other that personal space
to still be independent, and then to also make the

(39:09):
marriage a priority as well. So we always know things
that we're gonna do as a couple and maybe watching
a movie and be going out to dinner, going on
a trip, but we also give each other and respect
each other enough to give you that personal time. He's
a small business owner, so he has time to make

(39:30):
sure he's doing the things related to his business. Then
his personal hobby is playing is get taught, so he
has time to make his music. I have time to
do the things that I enjoy doing, while at the
same time not compromising and making each other a priority
in our marriage.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
And you know, the funny thing is sometimes I ask caring,
I said, okay, caring for all the people that I'm
coaching and helping. You know, people say it's a maor adjustment,
and I, as Karen said, no, and I think one
time we were saying, it is really when it's a god,
it's a flow of the spirit and in rhythm with

(40:16):
each other. Is that kind of how you guys are exactly.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
It's an ease, so to speak, is the term I
like to use. You know, brother is cooking, cleaning. We
just support each other. He always wants to know, Hey,
what can I do? How can I help? And it's
just a blessing because I'm when you're an independent woman,
you're used to just doing everything and to have that

(40:43):
true helpmate who makes things easier for you and look
and find joy and create. He'll notice things that I
may work on or something, and just he's paying attention
and he's always trying to make it easier for me.
So that's why I said, the adjustment is great because
you have someone who's really helping you in many, many

(41:06):
ways that you just didn't have.

Speaker 6 (41:09):
In the past, you know.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
And if I look at what you've said, Karen, it's
kind of like you were already happy. You have your
own life, You have your own goals. Your happiness didn't
depend on a man. That you worked through your own
forgiveness and healing from relationships that did not work out.

(41:36):
That you were deeply connected to God with prayer and faith,
that you kind of wrote down a description of what
you wanted. You wasn't just sitting at home and then
to God when you try something. You tried the app
and then you said, no, that don't work for me.

(41:58):
And when she surrendered, do y'all surrender is big? But
she was surrendering in faith when she surrendered and said,
uh uh, this is it God, I'm giving this to you,
and you stayed in Say that means she was still
doing her stuff. If you go of her house, she
got all kind of stuff craft. She's so smart and

(42:20):
goals and intensions and all of that. But when you surrender,
A one translation said that it's you in good expectation
that something is going to happen. That's kind of what
I see the principle that I see that happened in
your life.

Speaker 6 (42:39):
It was so on point with that consonant.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
And you did an exception a job or recapping all
of the things that I've shared with you. So yes,
that's exactly what happened. I stepped outsider myself and gave
it to a higher power.

Speaker 6 (42:54):
M that's when things happen. It really did.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
And so you're you're like the poster child for single
women who are over fifty. And a lot of your
friends have said, you really give us hope. Talk about that.

Speaker 5 (43:14):
Yes, As a matter of fact, one of my longest friends,
I've known her since I was four years old, and
her name is Karen as well, and she always reminds
me every time that we speak, you are our hope.
You are our poster child because you let us know
that there are still men out here who are over fifty,
sixty years old or more and they really want the

(43:39):
same thing that we think that women only want. And
so she always reminds me of that, and a lot
of my other friends, you know as well, they always say,
you've given us hope to know that you know we
It happened for you, it can happen for us, And so.

Speaker 6 (43:55):
That's just the truth of it.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
And I watch you. You're happy. It ain't fake, y'all.
You're happy. I don't sense any kind of I guess
scared me said every time I talked to constance. He's
interrogating me, but I wanted to tap into the flow
and the rhythm of that, and you still doing your consulting.

(44:20):
And so look, your husband was not at all intimidated
by the power of who you are, and you didn't
have to dim your life. Is that it's correct? Expound
on that a little bit.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
Yes, you're absolutely right in terms of that. It's as
if in the past I would meet guys and many
of them would say, Oh, it's nothing I could do
for you, or anything like that, And I don't know
how they would come to that conclusion, because a relationship
is totally different from a career aspiration or position that

(44:55):
you might have in a job that has nothing to
do for the average woman. They don't that job is
not fulfilling them in that regard in turns of love, support,
you know, just that kind of area. So he was
whatever makes me happy. He wants to just push you
even further to achieve your goals, and that was that's

(45:16):
what was different about this relationship than the previous ones.
It seems as if you did have to dim your
light a little bit to make him feel a little
more comfortable dealing with you. But that everything that he's
enhanced my life as opposed to dim my life. I
guess that would be the best way I could explain that.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
And you know, that's such an amazing gift because I
remember when you would teach doing the day and then
on some nights drive to Alabama to get your PhD.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
But that was when I was working on my leadership degree.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yes, and I was like, who wants to dim that
after all of that hard work? Yes? And I'm just
not realizing you have two masters. I did not know that.
And so, ladies, you want a man who really aren't

(46:18):
respects and values you. And I've heard you say how
much he adds value to you and life to you.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
Yes, that's true, and it just makes you. You know,
there's a scripture in the Bible that talks about the
wife being the glory of the husband. And I just
love the fact that he always compliments that. It compliments
me as a person and how proud he is of me.

(46:49):
And it's not about the accomplishments. It's about me as
an individual first and foremost. And to know that he
wants you looking good, he encouraged is that he buys
you things to make sure you're looking good and things
like that. It's just part of what we all deserve
as women who you know, prepared ourselves and men. Unfortunately,

(47:12):
I know so many of my friends are accomplished like
you are, Constance. They are well educated, they're beautiful women.
They would buy all standards Seed Dean. That's having it all.
But the one thing that most of them lack was
having that supported mate by their side, which really I
remember from the old movie Mahagan and What the Ability.

(47:34):
Williams stated success is nothing without someone you love to
share it with. And that's really a lot of truth
to that. You can have success individually, but do you
have wholeness in every aspect of your life? And I
think that that's what you know. Just to get a
little glimpse into that, to finally have that support system

(47:56):
from a mate, someone who's special to you, that's the
highlight of I think taking it to a different level
for me personally, a match.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Made in heaven? Would you say so?

Speaker 5 (48:10):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (48:11):
I would say.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
A match made in heaven and something that just stot
to my spirit. Karen. Karen knew who she was, She
honored and valued herself, and she realized I don't have
to look outside of myself in order to know who

(48:35):
I am and love and honor and value me instead
of I can't be happy until I get married. Yes,
I can't get happy. I'm so sad. And that's a
powerful universal principal, Karen, in which I believe that women,
and I'm talking to women today, should really live in

(48:57):
and tap into.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
Yes, I agree one, one hundred percent with that.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
So in closing, what would you like to say to
women all over the world, doctor Karen Nelson? What do
you want to leave with them? What would you say?

Speaker 5 (49:16):
Okay, so if I could share some things that I
figure worked out for me, I would say, first and foremost,
work on yourself. Be the best version of you that
you can be. Because confidence is attractive in itself. So
most men who are successful, they're not looking for someone

(49:39):
who's totally broken and looking for them to make them happen.
I would saying that, don't think that your potential mate
can make you happy.

Speaker 6 (49:48):
You have to do that.

Speaker 5 (49:50):
So that's one thing in particular. I would say, Also,
you want and now we women, we have our standards
about what we want or what we deem to be
a great.

Speaker 6 (50:02):
Mate, but and not that we shouldn't have those desires.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
But I'm saying, be those very things yourself. If you
want to be a good make you want to attract
a good mate, You be a good person, you have
good credit, you have you want people to just you
want to meet someone with money? Are you responsible enough?
Are you showing the fruits.

Speaker 6 (50:25):
Of your own labor?

Speaker 5 (50:27):
In other words, be all of those things first yourself,
and then the attraction from a mate would come later,
I would think, But you've got to be happy, You
got to be whole. You can't be looking for someone
to make all of that happen for you. You have. It
starts with you, and then you have to step outside

(50:50):
of you with your with If you have a faith,
most people believe in a god or some sort, but
you have to finally not think that all the answers
are within you and give that to your higher power.

Speaker 6 (51:05):
That you believe in.

Speaker 5 (51:07):
Hope, I'm not ramlingt constances and all together, and think
about those key things that I know made a difference
for me, And I say journal, write every single day.
Set goals for yourself, because if you can't hold yourself
to your own personal goals, you're not going to be
that way for anyone else. But I journal. I write

(51:29):
things down as an act of my faith, and you
would be surprised when you go back. It's just like
reading a book of things that you are. It tells
where you were at different places and phases in your life.
Sometimes I'll go back to a journal that I rolle
in five, six or more years ago, and you'll see

(51:50):
how much progress has been made. The things that you
once were dealing with, you're no longer dealing with them.
So but you wouldn't know that if you're not intentional.
And I say, always do uh some form of reflection,
and that's grounded in the fact that you are yourself
best teacher. You know.

Speaker 6 (52:09):
I always say there are very few things that I.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
Might would sound arrogant about, but the one thing that
I always would say that I am an expert at
is being me because that's what makes me who I am.
And I would never compromise that for anyone. Reflect on things,
you know, you all teach yourself.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
You know yourself. So those are just.

Speaker 5 (52:32):
A few nuggets that I know have worked for me
in life.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Oh c of course you're not rambling I you know
I I I'm just really saturated and just a maze
a at your wisdom and the way you h l
have lived your w life and the way you walk
this entire situation and process of love and marriage out

(53:03):
and I wanted to bring you on so that you
could share your experience and bring hope to the world. Amazing.

Speaker 3 (53:12):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
And I've met her husband. He just is kind and
sweet and lovable and I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 5 (53:21):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (53:23):
It's been a long time coming.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
But something delayed is not denied.

Speaker 6 (53:27):
Just always remember that.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
And Karen still has her goals. She's still mentoring. You know,
anybody who got a Harved certificate, they got it going on, y'all.
And I always kid her about that. But we're just believing,
Karen that when people hear this podcast, so when they
watch it on YouTube on other social media platforms, that

(53:52):
they would be encouraged, that they would know that God
loves them also and that God is really connected to us.
I said the other day, God's mind is full of you,
And somebody says God is mindful of you. He knows
a number of hairs on your head. So in your

(54:13):
lonely moments, in your in your what am I gonna
do moments. Doctor Carring Nelson is exhibited of how God
will I said, there was a divine interruption and intervention
when you felt led to join that group. Yeah, you

(54:34):
don't know how detached from the how. And I always say,
who can phantom the ways of God? And if God
has to get how many people in the world today's billions,
But if God has to go over and over ten
billion people to get to you what your desires are,

(54:55):
that will happen for you?

Speaker 5 (54:57):
Powerful?

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Okay, everybody, thank you so much. Caring everybody, let's make
this go viral. We know the number one question that
I get asked is not about money. Money is second,
but how can I attract love? Doctor Caroline Leaf, who's
a neuroscientist, said, we are wired for love. Just like

(55:18):
if you have a little baby, they just wanna lean
on you. If you got a little dog or cat,
they just wanna jump on you. So we're wired for it.
So it's normal. But let's just tap into the supernatural
rhythm of how God can bring this manifestation into your life.
All right, everybody, As I say every week, I want

(55:40):
you to remember that you are the creator, editor, scriptwriter,
producer of your own day. You choose. The Bible says
that choose you this day, who you're gonna serve. I'm
gonna say, choose you this day, what you're gonna think about,
what you're gonna believe, what you're gonna imagine, And I
want you to have a powerful week. Everybody, see you

(56:01):
next week.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Thank you for listening to Think, Believe, and manifest. Constance
Arnold will be back next week with another great show
just for you. For more information, please visit Fulfillingyourpurpose dot
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