November 22, 2022 • 36 mins
The "Gift of Giving" is a powerful act of kindness. When we can shift the energy to giving with no agenda, we have cracked the code and opened the spiritual bank for all.The more we share the more we receive and this is the ultimate CIRCUITRY. http://www.ignitecircuitry.com
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Fortune (00:04):
Welcome all to circuitry. It's time to ignite
your life. Join
Jean (00:09):
us as we explore this episode's thought provoking
topic and what it means to usthrough everyday life challenges
and practical spiritual tools.
Fortune (00:16):
So let's start sharing Hello, darling. Hello, darling.
How are you?
Jean (00:29):
Great. Are you?
Fortune (00:31):
Oh, with this rainy next day, right?
Unknown (00:35):
It's a blustery day is who would say yes, its luster
days.
Fortune (00:40):
It's watering, something's giving grow. It's
giving. And that's what ourpodcast is about today the gift
of giving.
Jean (00:51):
So great wine with that cheese.
Fortune (00:55):
The rain is giving it is giving
Unknown (00:57):
them well, that's, you know, that's a positive effect
of giving. Yes, it is, you knowthat there are some negative
effects of giving, which by theway, that's what our episode is
about? Is giving the gift ofgiving jinx me a coke. Okay, so
there's negative? Well, youknow, I always like to I don't
know, it seems to be I never didthis before. But it seems to be
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the I like to start out talkingabout what the opposite is
almost like what we were talkingabout, unless upset about the
duality of something. So if youcan determine what it's not, it
almost helps you understand whatit actually is. Yeah, that's
good. So yeah, there's somenegative effects of giving, you
know, or it can it can givenegative sides and and effects.
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You know, it's not always apositive experience. For for the
giver, right? Or the receiver?
Yes,yes. Yes. And if you're doing it
correctly, it shouldn't be sopositive. It shouldn't. You
should take something from you.
Yeah. You know, you should bereally giving up something of
yourself. Yes, you can havegenerosity,
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you know, what anxiety level isthere? You know, and they say
that the closer you are to therecipient, like if you're the
giver, yeah. The more anxietythere is because you really want
that person to be happy. And tolove, to love to love
that's looking for anexpectation. Well, absolutely.
Absolutely. And so what is someof the negative
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Oh, Kimber, if you can buy thewrong gift that can cause
frustration and disappointmentand the person that's receiving
it? Right, right, you know, oreven embarrassment? Yeah. Have
you ever given a gift thatsomebody's embarrassed by it? Or
like, Oh, what did you get thisfor me for?
Right now? You know, but yeah,you know, it takes a minute, and
then they're happy for later.
Yeah.
Jean (02:41):
Here's one. Nobody talks about what?
Fortune (02:44):
I can't wait to hear what is it you can
Unknown (02:46):
perceive the recipient as being a difficult person to
buy for?
Oh, that's you? That's you. Yes.
Well, why is that? I guess,because you're so complex. And
like, I never, you know,sometimes, you know, like, if I
catch something, but then it'slike, oh, I don't know, you
know, she's really gonna likethis, you know, some things I'll
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go, Oh, she's gonna love this.
And then you, you're like, oh,you know, people do that. When
you give them something, theygo, Oh, thank you. You know,
shoot. Yeah. That was that. Whatwas that when you have and then
you had like right now and beingreally cautious and listening to
the kids like, what they wantfor crit, you know, I don't want
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to get them too many things. ButI want them to get something
that's really going to beimpactful. You know what I mean?
So I'm listening to like, stuffthat they're really engaging
with that I know will excitethem.
So what makes a good gift?
Besides, we said, the negativeSo now what's the positive? What
makes a good gift?
What makes a good gift? Well,actually, if it's coming from
love, no matter what it is, acreative gift is always good.
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Yeah, you know, something thatyou make or something that you,
you know, that person would havenever thought of in a million
years that they needed, but theyreally needed it or, yeah,
that's, that's definitelyone of the things Yeah, and, you
know, like, something fromsomebody's personal history
sometimes makes a good gift.
Like if somebody was in themilitary or somebody loved
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fishing their whole life fora really good gift giver. That's
something that you have a reallygood quality about, like you
really because you you're thesearcher, you'd like to research
people, and you know, well, it'strue, it's true. It's very true.
You know, you'd like to researchand really come up with
something good so if you want toknow what the by somebody asked
me,I actually used to have friends
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that would call me up everyChristmas. Give me their list of
people. And just off the top ofmy head. I will get your father
this. Oh my
Fortune (04:43):
God, I didn't never thought he would love me.
Unknown (04:47):
Anyway. But I don't know where that comes from. But
well, I do enjoy gift giving.
Yes, me too. Me too. I lovebeing a gift giver. I love
giving. I love giving And I lovemaking people happy. You know,
even if it's giving food, ifit's giving, I don't know
telling a story or anything, youknow, really anything. I love to
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do any of those things. I meanthat really, I will take the
time. You know, I remember whenthe the kids would come home for
the holidays. Can you makeeggplant parmesan? I'll be like,
Oh, God, but you know what? Iknew that they were gonna love
it. So I was making thateggplant parmesan. Because love,
there's no there's a lot ofsteps to that. It's a lot of
work. But, um, but it'sdelicious. Yes, it is delicious.
Jean (05:33):
Could you make me so many forms?
Fortune (05:34):
You're gonna say that now I'm stuck.
Unknown (05:38):
Because it's delicious.
She's a good cook. Um, allright. So those are some of
like, the, like, the practicalthings about gift giving,
because we are in the seasonwe're about we're hitting Yes.
That's why we're doing this.
Yeah. Right. That's why we'redoing this. Because it's it's a
time where there is a lot ofanxiety about gift giving,
whether it's, I don't haveenough money, there's extra
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money around this time of year,or I don't know what to buy that
person.
Okay, well, what do you do ifyou don't have a lot of money?
So is that about your ego, like,well, I don't have enough money
this year, because things are alittle tight to buy an
extravagant gift.
You know, everybody always goesto the craft thing. But
Fortune (06:18):
when they don't have money,
Unknown (06:20):
when they don't have money, and I'm not saying that
that's bad, but knit yoursweater. You know, sometimes
gifts can be things that are,you know, the gift, the actual
gift may not be the gift. Right?
Like there was a study done andpeople said, like what was like
when you remember somebodygiving you a gift that you
really loved? You know, what wasthat about? Like? What was that
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experience? And sometimes, itwas about the time and effort
that the person put into makingthe experience of receiving the
gift whether it was the wrappingpaper when they gave it to them,
or they took them somewherespecial?
Yeah, absolutely. That's a gamechanger in the gift. If it's
just like a gift card that theygot into the store on the card,
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throw it to you like, you'reappreciative of it. That's not
the same. Yeah, not the same aswhen you really put some thought
into it. And you really putyour, your time, your effort,
all that into it, make itspecial. Like I
know, when I was a kid, one ofthe things that we loved we
looked forward to every year isthat we started a tradition
where the kids were allowed toopen one present, they could
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pick anything under the tree onChristmas Eve on Christmas Eve,
let's be an Italian thing. Andwe couldn't wait for that.
Right? We couldn't wait for theIt wasn't even about what I
can't even tell you, Oh, well, Igot this great gift. It wasn't
about getting whatever that giftwas was, it was just like a
special thing. Like we wereallowed to do that. You know,
right. Yeah. You know, so it cansometimes be the environment, or
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it can be an experience you givesomebody or who you're sharing
it with, it could be not thatanything special, you know, I
mean, it's just you're sharingit with somebody, you know, that
you love, and it makes all thedifference, you know, but some
people don't know how to bethey're a little bit stingy.
They don't like to be generous.
And no, this was a big practice.
I was reading about, um, a lotof religious prophets. Um, yeah,
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they generosity and hospitalitywas a big thing back in the day,
you know? And when the prophetswould like, really look down on
my Zuri, you know, if somebodywas holding on to they're
holding on to their everythingthat they owned and didn't want
to share, it was a big thing.
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You know, they would teach themthat they needed to share,
because that's how you open yourheart. And that's how you, you
know, accept miracles into yourlife. Yeah. You know, so some
people have some difficulty, andit could be from past lives or
whatever, where, you know, theydidn't have anything, so they're
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really holding on to everything,you know,
do you know that there's somereligious religious practices?
That actually will give a meterof how much you should give? Oh,
yes, tithing, but do you knowthat there's actually a matter
of how much you shouldn't goabove a certain point? Because
guess why? Why? If you give toomuch, you're in danger of
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becoming in need of that charityat some point. Wow. So that's
being almost respectful.
We now have right we go back tothe balance. Yeah, it has to be
it's not about giving andgiving and giving and giving and
giving. Right. It's about like,okay, let's talk about charity.
We just brought this up. Okay.
So charity is a form of giving?
Yes. All right. So I think oneof the things that happens with
people is they get the slot intheir head. I'm going to do some
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active charity, right? And thenthey get overwhelmed by it. Like
they almost want to be soimpactful or grandiose about it,
that they almost like talkthemselves out of it. You know,
it doesn't have to be I gavethis amount of my paycheck every
week, or I did this or I didthat you could just drop off
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some canned goods at right atthe food bank.
Yes, yes. Yes. You know, somepeople have an issue with like
getting recognition from doingit. Oh, that's a big thing. You
know, that is? That's where yougot to really be careful with
that too. Well, because thenyou're, you know, it's not
really being truly generous.
Well,that's, that's that when that's
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going into a different part ofcharity. Okay. Right. Which is
altruism. Right? And is thatpossible?
Fortune (10:36):
Is what possible? Give without?
Unknown (10:40):
No, not recognition to selflessness? Is it possible to
ever truly give somethingwithout some part of you
attached to it? There's, there'sthere. It is,
it is a connective action Iimagined. But um, I know that. A
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lot of teaching say that tochange the focus from being a
generous act to a generousperson, you know, not just doing
acts of generosity, but actuallybecoming a generous person. And
taking on that mindset.
Jean (11:18):
Well, the creator is a giver.
Fortune (11:20):
Yes. Right. So that's right, exactly. So
Unknown (11:22):
if the ultimate exam, the ultimate goal is to be like
the Creator, that's how we'reultimately transforming our
nature. Right? Right. Right.
Right, then it has to beselfless, it has to be, you
know, it, we have to completelytake our ego out of it. And that
is that is not easy to know, wegot, we just talked about all
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the things like how can I givethe perfect gift? And what does
that person want? And how can Ido it? And how impressed and how
allthat stuff is wrapped up in it.
But I have some examples on howto do that. So doing something
to help another person with noexpectation or reward. Okay,
focus on that I'm interested forgoing things that may bring
personal benefits if they createa cost for others. All right,
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helping someone despite yourpersonal cost or risk. Like,
let's say you're a firefighter,I mean, taken on that job. You
know what I mean? Like you'retaking a risk every day to help
people. Yeah, you know what Imean? And you really have to
have a mindset for that. Yes.
You know what I mean? Thank you,firefighters. Yes, sharing
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resources, even in the face ofscarcity, even when you don't
have it, you still can givework. That's the only time that
true transformation is possible.
It's not just about giving aright if you don't have some
area of sacrifice oruncomfortableness, pain, it
impacts you in some way whereit's it's an effort to do it
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right. than it really is. Andyou're not transforming. Right,
right. Right. I have one moreshowing concern for someone
else's well being. So all theseexamples help us to do to create
an altruism persona. Yes,whatever. However you want to
put that? Yes. But, but it does,there's a lot of good things,
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you have better health, you havebetter mental well, being from
doing all these actions, andbeing able to do them, you can
have a better romanticrelationship when you learn how
to do this, because a romanticrelationship and you just sent
me that thing this morning wasso funny, you know, it's about
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being kind and it's about, youknow, having like, the guy was
saying peace with that person.
And finding all these theseactions that you can give to
your person, your person, youknow what I mean? And it makes a
big difference in therelationship. And you know, you
think, Oh, I do all that. No,you don't. You're not if you
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look back, you don't so we'regonna list those things.
Yeah, well, just because likepeople say, there are certain,
you know, psychological studiesthat have been done and
philosophers and that altruismis actually impossible. They say
it's impossible. But, butnothing is impossible. Right?
Jean (14:13):
Right now we are.
Unknown (14:15):
Try. Okay. So yeah, you gotta give it a try. Like, if
the goal is to transform ournature. That's why it's hard.
Yes, yes. So that's why weshould be doing it even more,
right. Karen Berg said, youknow, Karen, she she just breaks
it down. So she said, and I'mgoing to read it because it's,
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you know, I don't want toparaphrase Karen. Whatever we
want to receive from the Lightof the Creator, is what we need
to extend to others. If we wantthe light to be open and giving
with us, then we need to be openand giving with others right if
we need kindness, then we needto show kindness if we want love
then we need to bestow love,right? If we need to be
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fulfilled, then we need to seeHow we can feel fulfill others,
the universe is a mirrorreflecting back to us. And what
we put out there returns, right,which
also has to do with money to me.
That's yeah, I mean, it's a it'sa flow with an energy wave, you
put it out, it comesout. That's what we that's kind
of what we say, you know, Imean, I know that it's not. I
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don't like to repeat. But youknow, sometimes there is a,
there is a core, there is acore, what's the word? I'm
looking for? commonality. Okay.
And I think what we've beenlearning since we've been doing
this, like creating all thesocial media, and really looking
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over spiritual studies thatwe've done, it started circuitry
and talking about Yeah, and Istarted that, you know, we
really became caught we weren'tjust talking about okay, oh, I
heard this great lecture, andlet's talk about it. Right, we
were really trying to hone in onwhat circuitry was right. And I
think, tell me if I'm wrong, butI think one of the things we
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agreed on was, whatever energyyou put out to the world, is a
combat is going to come back toyou. But it's also going to
impact the world. Yes. And howpowerful is that it is
so powerful, and so powerful.
That's why, too, we say igniteyour light, because it's like,
wait, you know, but get thatgoing, get that fire and get it
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going. So this way, you know,you can share it with everyone
else, and everyone will share itright back. Because sometimes,
you know, I always say that withthe kids, you know, be a be a
role model, you know, and soit's kind of like the same kind
of thing, you know, you put itout there, someone else is gonna
see it and go, Wow, I reallyliked like this one lady. Every
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time I dropped the kids offevery morning, they have music
playing, she is just jamming itout every morning. And I'm like,
I want to meet this woman. She'sso full of happiness, you know
what I mean? And that's, she's,she's giving she don't even
know, she's giving, she's makingmy morning and he's putting that
energy out. I'm getting thatenergy. And I'm like, wow, yes,
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you know, I just this woman isjust amazing. So you don't
realize who you touch, no, youknow, you can be giving and you
don't even know it. And youdon't even know it, you don't
even know, that's changing theworld.
That's the whole thing. Likewe're talking about gift giving.
But it's not just about giftgiving, it's about you know,
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you're you've just had a reallytough day at work. And the kids
are going to bed and you're justgoing thank goodness, because I
need to I need some downtime.
And the kids want an extra storyor they you know, want to
Fortune (17:41):
write write, write,
Unknown (17:41):
which happens, you know, all the time. And
sometimes that's the, that'sthe, that's the moment that you
can reallywrite when you give that other
story. And you're like, Wow,alright, you know, I mean, I can
go beyond how I'm feeling. Andjust to give to that just to
giveto them, or like you're cooking
dinner and a friend calls in,right, and they really are
having a crisis or they justneed somebody to listen and you
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can just stop and say they needsome emotional support board,
right? And just okay, let me putan end really to like, not just
go through the motions to putthe spoon dab to sit down and
say, Okay, I'm listening. Yeah,what's up? What's going on? That
is giving that I've had somebodydo that for me. And, and it's
like,you can't put a price on it. You
can't you can't put a price onit. It's just amazing. And I
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love it. I love when we can gobeyond our nature, you know, and
transform our nature, likeyou're saying with the altruism
that it's difficult, but we cando it it is tenable.
All right, I got one more quotebecause I love this. And last
time you were the quote lady, soI'm, I'm going to be the quote
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lady a little bit. All right.
Any person who delivers kindnessstays with us forever. Robin s
Sharma said that. And I have totell you that, you know, when we
think of our ancestors, goingback to our parents or
grandparents, again, it's likegiving the gift or or what you
know, sometimes it's not thegift, but it's the atmosphere
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around the receiving or givingthe sharing. So isn't it the
moments where it's like, God, mygrandmother was
so kind I was just gonna tell agrandmother story. Listen, and I
know my kids and their kids andlike, passes on or whatever. My
grandmother used to tickle myarm or tickle my back. And that
would be like worth a milliondollars. A million dollars.
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Yeah, it was just amazing was socalming. And I just felt like I
was, you know, just the mostimportant thing to her, you
know? And it was my grandmother.
Yes. Not my mother. Yeah,my grandmother used to, like rub
my arm like, you know, just theside of my arm and it's the
weirdest thing my daughter doescoming to me.
Fortune (19:50):
Yeah. And oh, I know.
You mentioned Grandma Grandma.
Unknown (19:55):
But but but when my grandma was almost nonverbal
when she her Alzheimer's and shewas at the end, one of the last
thing she did was lift her handand put it on mine and just rub
my arm. And that was like,you know, it's okay. She's okay.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
It's so powerful. So thekindness that someone extends to
you, the moments of connectingit, that is, you will never
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forget it. No, even if you don'tremember it, you'll never forget
it.
No, no, it's beautiful. It'sbeautiful. And it's something to
take with you through your life.
You know what I mean? And also,wait a minute, it teaches you to
do that action? Yes. Like, I didit with my kids. Because I know
even the, you know, the boyslove that, you know, can you rub
my back? You know? So, it'salso, you know, you're you're
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teaching someone how to give?
Yes, you know?
Okay, one of the things aboutgiving? Yeah, that I think we
both learned that's importantis, you know, a lot of time like
you, you started this off, butwe really didn't deep dive into
it. So I'm gonna circle back alittle bit. You talked about no
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ego and doing it without anycredit. You know, it's really
not about like, if you like, ifyou do hard work, you don't need
an award at work. You have totrust that you've put it out
there. And the energy is goingto come back. Yes. You don't
need a parade. You don't needsomebody to even say thank you.
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The connection is, should be
Fortune (21:30):
right. Well, this is a thing we
Unknown (21:32):
not with our ego needs.
Right? Yeah, get out of our ownway. And the more we connect
with the Creator, the more wehave that opening for blessings
to come. Right. And sometimesone of the most powerful lessons
that I think we ever heard wastalking about how when you do
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give, yes. To what the spark,there's a spark of some of life
of soul. And everything, even inthis cup. Yeah, this microphone
right? Here, right? Yes,everything has been touched,
right? By that energy, the Lightof the Creator. So if we can
take that. And remember, and putthat spark when we give to
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someone we're not giving thecreator is
right, where is coming from?
Right, it's coming from a higherfree
higher place. And because it'scoming from the higher
frequency, that dollar that mayhave just bought somebody a cup
of coffee may turn into themaybe then when they buy that
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cup of coffee, they meetsomebody in line, and they offer
him a job, right? We know, yeah,but the energy is there and are
way bigger, that was way biggerthan what we could understand.
Right? It's way bigger than weunderstand. But if we can just
get a, you know, a little bit ofthat. And remember, every time
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that you are giving, that youhave that also have that
intention, you know, this is notfrom me. Yeah, you know, this is
from the light this is from theuniverse. And that's how I'm
able to do it. You know, it'sbeautiful, beautiful, beautiful,
but you know, you're talkingabout working, going to work.
Yes. And I was reading aboutphilanthropy, and how, you know,
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just in awe of a lot of peoplethat, you know, want to change
the world. You know, there's alot out there, yeah, they have
the money, they want to do it,they want to change some social
situations. You know, there's,you know, cities or towns that
don't have water, they want tobring water, they want to just,
you know, schools, Carnegie,donated 2500 Library's I mean,
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there's just so many, you know,things or whatever. But going
back to the company, a companythat gives the employees it's
just a whole different feelingin the company, you know, the
employees feel it, becausethey're working for someone who
is generous, you know, whenthere's generosity and accompany
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it changes the whole chain ofyou know, what comes out of that
company and how it works. Youknow, it's very positive, very
positive work, atmosphere,when you feel like going to a
job, but you're, especially likecompanies that will set it up
that if you do this, then we'llgive this much to bat. Right,
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right. Then you feel like, oh, Idon't have the money. You're
part of the solution. I can putmy effort into something right.
And I can make I can impactsomething, something that I
couldn't have done just on myown right right now together. We
can change somethingright and people will look back
consciousness will actuallytreat their employees
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differently. Yes, because theyhave that consciousness of
generosity. Now, of course, somepeople get tax breaks and that
kind of thing. That's a wholenother Well, that's,
that's not that's between themand the creator, right. And I
think that's where people getlike sidetracked, like,
sometimes people will go, oh,well, I'm not going to give this
dollar to this homeless person,because what are they going to
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spend it on?
Fortune (25:25):
Oh, I know, oh, I know, I know, my business. They're
gonna go
Unknown (25:29):
buy alcohol, because they need something. They need
it. They're asking, give it? Doyou know that there are? There
are times there were, again,religious practices that will
say at this day on this day? I'mnot going to be I'm not going to
show discretion. I'm not goingto have a meter, I'm not going
to have a percentage. Right? Ifsomeone sticks out their hand
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and asked me for something, I amalmost required to give it
right. And and the energy onthat day is they may be asking,
and, and you may be giving. Butwould you have given just like
we talked about with what KarenBerg was saying? That's coming
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back to you from the Creator.
Right. And that's the energy ofthat day. Yeah. million dollar
check. Absolutely. Absolutely.
And that's cracking the code,cracking the code is getting out
of the way, right? Of all ofthis gobbledygook in our heads
of what is the other persongoing to think? How are they
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going to perceive me? Are theygoing to like it? Should I even
be spending this amount ofmoney? Should I be doing this?
Should I be doing that? Right?
To justand remember, give what you can
sometimes, it's not easy to askeither. Oh, that's, that's
tough. Yeah, asking forsomething, you're like, you need
something to ask for it. That'sa lot. So if someone's asking
you for it, maybe they reallyneed it.
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That's what I'm saying. Ifsomebody's actually actually is
asking you for it. And I thinkwe all have different levels of
comfortableness. With with withthe act of asking, right? Yes,
yes, yes, yes. But when somebodydoes ask, it was a, probably a
grappling point inside of themat some point. Am I comfortable
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with asking this right? And do Ireally need it?
And then you have the salesman,like, you know who? The ABC guy
that's always asking becausehe's, he's not afraid to always
be closing, always be closing.
He's not afraid to be asking forit. And guess what he's getting
up there. Because he's not hedoesn't. He's putting the ego
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but then he has that he has theopposite part of that he has the
opposite. He needs to be workingon giving back. So we all have
different areas of we can neverdetermine. Right? And we
shouldn't be that's not our jobto go out. Well, you need to be
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working on this or I need I amgood at this. But you're bad at
that. And it should just beshare what you can write when
you can write as often as youcan. And don't, don't overthink
it.
Well, it's about again, goingback to being a generous person.
But also, I was reading abouthaving an inspiration for this
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because you would think youwould need it but you do. You do
need an inspiration. Orinspirations to I guess, like
volunteering, things like that,like you, you. If you get in
Samina catalyst Academy. Yes.
Yeah. So you need to be inspiredto go and do those things. You
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know what I mean? And, you know,you see the change that it's
making, so then you're like,wow, I want to be a part of that
change. You know, volunteering,is, you know, that's a lot. Some
people, that's all they do isvolunteer, they love to
volunteer, I like to volunteerputs me out of my comfort zone
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most of the time. So that's whyI like to do that. But some
people are like, so againstvolunteering. Yeah, you know,
it's like, now, I don't want todo that. Right. I don't want to
do that. Yeah. And so they needan they need to be inspired to
do something that they justwon't do it. Like say, we need
your help to, you know, I don'tknow, a fundraiser or something
(29:33):
like that, or whatever. Andthey're like, Nah, you know, but
like, if they get inspired bysomething, then all of a sudden
they're right there helping.
Yes. It's not like they don'twant to do it, but just it's
what it looks like.
We're usually behind inspirationas well. There is something
personal going on there. Youknow, something from your past
or something you're currentlyexperiencing, or that has
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touched your heart in some way.
And that when you find a Anopportunity where you can heal
that wound, change the course ofthat person's life and that
maybe something happened to you.
You can actually, again, useamazing reward again, you can
make that impact. Yes. And maybeyou didn't have the tools to do
it singularly. On your ownright, but Right, right, but the
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inspiration, or as you said, thecatalyst to jump in there and be
a part of something bigger thanyourself. Right?
Yeah, that's, that's what that'swhere that's really where it
lives. Yeah. And, you know, someof the ways to inspire yourself
is to practice empathy. Becausebelieve it or not, some people
are not empathetic. Yeah, Imean,
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well, there's all levels ofgenerosity, empathy, love,
kindness, that's, you know,we're all at a different place.
So, yes, to practice empathy, nomatter where you're at with it.
Well, it helpsyou to feel for that other
person. You know, that's aboutfeeling for that other person.
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So if you look at that, likeyou're saying, like, the guy on
the street asking you for $1, orwhatever, you know, that's
really where that comes from, isthe feeling for that person and
saying, you know, what, if thatwas me,
exactly. What if so, that's,that's what I was saying before,
it's like, stop, stop saying,Well, what are they going to
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spend it on? Or how are theygoing to utilize that? Or can I
afford if you can give itgiving? Right, right. And we
have a, here's an idea, we havea few of them. And we didn't
even realize that we made a fewof them random act of crime,
random act of kindness. So like,you can never can never practice
that enough. Yeah. random act ofkindness, you know, like paying
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for somebody behind you, or?
Yeah, whatever. Anything? No,and that became a thing
there for a while where peoplewere like, okay, like, I'll do
this. And all I'm asking inreturn is that you find some way
to pay it forward.
Right. But it changes things. Itchanges things. It's like, the
energy circuitry. Yeah.
(32:05):
Okay, we have received so much.
Okay. So much knowledge. Yes.
Generosity from teachers fromlectures from books we've read
and from our mistake from ourmistakes from Yeah, you know,
from our family interaction fromrelationships, from our life.
(32:26):
Adventures. Yes. So to take thatand try and connect, not even
with each other on this on thesemicrophones right now. But, but
we're trying to connect with theworld. And, and this is the
starting point. But the but thestep next is share back with us.
Fortune (32:46):
Right, right. Right.
That is
Unknown (32:48):
we, you know, everything we're doing all we
do.
Together, we want you to sharewith us. Every time
somebody reaches out and saysthis, I have this experience,
and I wanted to share it withyou. Just when you said that it
made me think about this, and Iwanted to take it to the next
level and give you this angle ofit. Or can you help me with
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this? Or you feelthe circuitry that it's feeling?
Wow, wow, holy? Yes.
So, yes. Yes. Sharing this, likelistening to us here. That's,
that's great. We love that youlisten, right? But what makes us
the most happy,right most Sherry's gift you
could give us right? Right is toshare back
(33:30):
anything? Yes. Yes. Anything?
Even if it's mean, we can takeor take on the tough, tough guy.
I'm
Jean (33:39):
not tough featured.
Fortune (33:41):
tough girl from the tough girl. Yeah,
Unknown (33:43):
so I guess, you know, we're kind of running out of
time here. I'm gonna ask you,maybe it's a quick question.
Maybe it's a long question.
What's, what's the greatest giftyou've ever received?
I would say, I can't, I can'tsay the greatest gift, I guess.
The greatest gift that I havereceived is to understand my
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connection with my higher self.
Because that I can share witheverybody you know, like I can
say, oh, having my children or,you know, getting married or you
know, I don't know, graduating,you know, I don't know, some
kind of accomplishment orwhatever. But now I think it's
really being connected with myhighest self is the greatest
gift to have that understanding.
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Because that I can do everythingwith that is my that is my
shine. That is how I can shineis knowing that I have that
connection. That's awesome. Andthat's what I want to do. I want
to shine that's me want to shinemy light and all of my gifts and
what about you? You're notgetting away from his
gift. We're at a random time. Socan we agree? Yes, for the
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moment we can agree that weunderstand some of the concepts
of Giving and, and we hope thatthis has, you know, been some
food for thought as we go intothe season of giving.
Fortune (35:06):
Yes, the holiday season has begun. It has
Unknown (35:09):
begun so and that is all. So I think that we were we
do we know what next week'sepisode is going to be about?
Yes, we do. And we're gonnaannounce it. Sure, go ahead.
certainty in these uncertaintimes, yes, because we need this
you need some certainty and so
Fortune (35:30):
we're gonna bring it to you. We're gonna bring it to
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us as we explore this episode's thought provoking
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and practical spiritual tools.
Fortune (00:16):
So let's start sharing Hello, darling. Hello, darling.
How are you?
Jean (00:29):
Great. Are you?
Fortune (00:31):
Oh, with this rainy next day, right?
Unknown (00:35):
It's a blustery day is who would say yes, its luster
days.
Fortune (00:40):
It's watering, something's giving grow. It's
giving. And that's what ourpodcast is about today the gift
of giving.
Jean (00:51):
So great wine with that cheese.
Fortune (00:55):
The rain is giving it is giving
Unknown (00:57):
them well, that's, you know, that's a positive effect
of giving. Yes, it is, you knowthat there are some negative
effects of giving, which by theway, that's what our episode is
about? Is giving the gift ofgiving jinx me a coke. Okay, so
there's negative? Well, youknow, I always like to I don't
know, it seems to be I never didthis before. But it seems to be
(01:20):
the I like to start out talkingabout what the opposite is
almost like what we were talkingabout, unless upset about the
duality of something. So if youcan determine what it's not, it
almost helps you understand whatit actually is. Yeah, that's
good. So yeah, there's somenegative effects of giving, you
know, or it can it can givenegative sides and and effects.
(01:42):
You know, it's not always apositive experience. For for the
giver, right? Or the receiver?
Yes,yes. Yes. And if you're doing it
correctly, it shouldn't be sopositive. It shouldn't. You
should take something from you.
Yeah. You know, you should bereally giving up something of
yourself. Yes, you can havegenerosity,
(02:02):
you know, what anxiety level isthere? You know, and they say
that the closer you are to therecipient, like if you're the
giver, yeah. The more anxietythere is because you really want
that person to be happy. And tolove, to love to love
that's looking for anexpectation. Well, absolutely.
Absolutely. And so what is someof the negative
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Oh, Kimber, if you can buy thewrong gift that can cause
frustration and disappointmentand the person that's receiving
it? Right, right, you know, oreven embarrassment? Yeah. Have
you ever given a gift thatsomebody's embarrassed by it? Or
like, Oh, what did you get thisfor me for?
Right now? You know, but yeah,you know, it takes a minute, and
then they're happy for later.
Yeah.
Jean (02:41):
Here's one. Nobody talks about what?
Fortune (02:44):
I can't wait to hear what is it you can
Unknown (02:46):
perceive the recipient as being a difficult person to
buy for?
Oh, that's you? That's you. Yes.
Well, why is that? I guess,because you're so complex. And
like, I never, you know,sometimes, you know, like, if I
catch something, but then it'slike, oh, I don't know, you
know, she's really gonna likethis, you know, some things I'll
(03:09):
go, Oh, she's gonna love this.
And then you, you're like, oh,you know, people do that. When
you give them something, theygo, Oh, thank you. You know,
shoot. Yeah. That was that. Whatwas that when you have and then
you had like right now and beingreally cautious and listening to
the kids like, what they wantfor crit, you know, I don't want
(03:30):
to get them too many things. ButI want them to get something
that's really going to beimpactful. You know what I mean?
So I'm listening to like, stuffthat they're really engaging
with that I know will excitethem.
So what makes a good gift?
Besides, we said, the negativeSo now what's the positive? What
makes a good gift?
What makes a good gift? Well,actually, if it's coming from
love, no matter what it is, acreative gift is always good.
(03:54):
Yeah, you know, something thatyou make or something that you,
you know, that person would havenever thought of in a million
years that they needed, but theyreally needed it or, yeah,
that's, that's definitelyone of the things Yeah, and, you
know, like, something fromsomebody's personal history
sometimes makes a good gift.
Like if somebody was in themilitary or somebody loved
(04:14):
fishing their whole life fora really good gift giver. That's
something that you have a reallygood quality about, like you
really because you you're thesearcher, you'd like to research
people, and you know, well, it'strue, it's true. It's very true.
You know, you'd like to researchand really come up with
something good so if you want toknow what the by somebody asked
me,I actually used to have friends
(04:35):
that would call me up everyChristmas. Give me their list of
people. And just off the top ofmy head. I will get your father
this. Oh my
Fortune (04:43):
God, I didn't never thought he would love me.
Unknown (04:47):
Anyway. But I don't know where that comes from. But
well, I do enjoy gift giving.
Yes, me too. Me too. I lovebeing a gift giver. I love
giving. I love giving And I lovemaking people happy. You know,
even if it's giving food, ifit's giving, I don't know
telling a story or anything, youknow, really anything. I love to
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do any of those things. I meanthat really, I will take the
time. You know, I remember whenthe the kids would come home for
the holidays. Can you makeeggplant parmesan? I'll be like,
Oh, God, but you know what? Iknew that they were gonna love
it. So I was making thateggplant parmesan. Because love,
there's no there's a lot ofsteps to that. It's a lot of
work. But, um, but it'sdelicious. Yes, it is delicious.
Jean (05:33):
Could you make me so many forms?
Fortune (05:34):
You're gonna say that now I'm stuck.
Unknown (05:38):
Because it's delicious.
She's a good cook. Um, allright. So those are some of
like, the, like, the practicalthings about gift giving,
because we are in the seasonwe're about we're hitting Yes.
That's why we're doing this.
Yeah. Right. That's why we'redoing this. Because it's it's a
time where there is a lot ofanxiety about gift giving,
whether it's, I don't haveenough money, there's extra
(05:58):
money around this time of year,or I don't know what to buy that
person.
Okay, well, what do you do ifyou don't have a lot of money?
So is that about your ego, like,well, I don't have enough money
this year, because things are alittle tight to buy an
extravagant gift.
You know, everybody always goesto the craft thing. But
Fortune (06:18):
when they don't have money,
Unknown (06:20):
when they don't have money, and I'm not saying that
that's bad, but knit yoursweater. You know, sometimes
gifts can be things that are,you know, the gift, the actual
gift may not be the gift. Right?
Like there was a study done andpeople said, like what was like
when you remember somebodygiving you a gift that you
really loved? You know, what wasthat about? Like? What was that
(06:42):
experience? And sometimes, itwas about the time and effort
that the person put into makingthe experience of receiving the
gift whether it was the wrappingpaper when they gave it to them,
or they took them somewherespecial?
Yeah, absolutely. That's a gamechanger in the gift. If it's
just like a gift card that theygot into the store on the card,
(07:05):
throw it to you like, you'reappreciative of it. That's not
the same. Yeah, not the same aswhen you really put some thought
into it. And you really putyour, your time, your effort,
all that into it, make itspecial. Like I
know, when I was a kid, one ofthe things that we loved we
looked forward to every year isthat we started a tradition
where the kids were allowed toopen one present, they could
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pick anything under the tree onChristmas Eve on Christmas Eve,
let's be an Italian thing. Andwe couldn't wait for that.
Right? We couldn't wait for theIt wasn't even about what I
can't even tell you, Oh, well, Igot this great gift. It wasn't
about getting whatever that giftwas was, it was just like a
special thing. Like we wereallowed to do that. You know,
right. Yeah. You know, so it cansometimes be the environment, or
(07:52):
it can be an experience you givesomebody or who you're sharing
it with, it could be not thatanything special, you know, I
mean, it's just you're sharingit with somebody, you know, that
you love, and it makes all thedifference, you know, but some
people don't know how to bethey're a little bit stingy.
They don't like to be generous.
And no, this was a big practice.
I was reading about, um, a lotof religious prophets. Um, yeah,
(08:17):
they generosity and hospitalitywas a big thing back in the day,
you know? And when the prophetswould like, really look down on
my Zuri, you know, if somebodywas holding on to they're
holding on to their everythingthat they owned and didn't want
to share, it was a big thing.
(08:39):
You know, they would teach themthat they needed to share,
because that's how you open yourheart. And that's how you, you
know, accept miracles into yourlife. Yeah. You know, so some
people have some difficulty, andit could be from past lives or
whatever, where, you know, theydidn't have anything, so they're
(08:59):
really holding on to everything,you know,
do you know that there's somereligious religious practices?
That actually will give a meterof how much you should give? Oh,
yes, tithing, but do you knowthat there's actually a matter
of how much you shouldn't goabove a certain point? Because
guess why? Why? If you give toomuch, you're in danger of
(09:19):
becoming in need of that charityat some point. Wow. So that's
being almost respectful.
We now have right we go back tothe balance. Yeah, it has to be
it's not about giving andgiving and giving and giving and
giving. Right. It's about like,okay, let's talk about charity.
We just brought this up. Okay.
So charity is a form of giving?
Yes. All right. So I think oneof the things that happens with
people is they get the slot intheir head. I'm going to do some
(09:43):
active charity, right? And thenthey get overwhelmed by it. Like
they almost want to be soimpactful or grandiose about it,
that they almost like talkthemselves out of it. You know,
it doesn't have to be I gavethis amount of my paycheck every
week, or I did this or I didthat you could just drop off
(10:03):
some canned goods at right atthe food bank.
Yes, yes. Yes. You know, somepeople have an issue with like
getting recognition from doingit. Oh, that's a big thing. You
know, that is? That's where yougot to really be careful with
that too. Well, because thenyou're, you know, it's not
really being truly generous.
Well,that's, that's that when that's
(10:23):
going into a different part ofcharity. Okay. Right. Which is
altruism. Right? And is thatpossible?
Fortune (10:36):
Is what possible? Give without?
Unknown (10:40):
No, not recognition to selflessness? Is it possible to
ever truly give somethingwithout some part of you
attached to it? There's, there'sthere. It is,
it is a connective action Iimagined. But um, I know that. A
(11:01):
lot of teaching say that tochange the focus from being a
generous act to a generousperson, you know, not just doing
acts of generosity, but actuallybecoming a generous person. And
taking on that mindset.
Jean (11:18):
Well, the creator is a giver.
Fortune (11:20):
Yes. Right. So that's right, exactly. So
Unknown (11:22):
if the ultimate exam, the ultimate goal is to be like
the Creator, that's how we'reultimately transforming our
nature. Right? Right. Right.
Right, then it has to beselfless, it has to be, you
know, it, we have to completelytake our ego out of it. And that
is that is not easy to know, wegot, we just talked about all
(11:44):
the things like how can I givethe perfect gift? And what does
that person want? And how can Ido it? And how impressed and how
allthat stuff is wrapped up in it.
But I have some examples on howto do that. So doing something
to help another person with noexpectation or reward. Okay,
focus on that I'm interested forgoing things that may bring
personal benefits if they createa cost for others. All right,
(12:05):
helping someone despite yourpersonal cost or risk. Like,
let's say you're a firefighter,I mean, taken on that job. You
know what I mean? Like you'retaking a risk every day to help
people. Yeah, you know what Imean? And you really have to
have a mindset for that. Yes.
You know what I mean? Thank you,firefighters. Yes, sharing
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resources, even in the face ofscarcity, even when you don't
have it, you still can givework. That's the only time that
true transformation is possible.
It's not just about giving aright if you don't have some
area of sacrifice oruncomfortableness, pain, it
impacts you in some way whereit's it's an effort to do it
(12:49):
right. than it really is. Andyou're not transforming. Right,
right. Right. I have one moreshowing concern for someone
else's well being. So all theseexamples help us to do to create
an altruism persona. Yes,whatever. However you want to
put that? Yes. But, but it does,there's a lot of good things,
(13:13):
you have better health, you havebetter mental well, being from
doing all these actions, andbeing able to do them, you can
have a better romanticrelationship when you learn how
to do this, because a romanticrelationship and you just sent
me that thing this morning wasso funny, you know, it's about
(13:34):
being kind and it's about, youknow, having like, the guy was
saying peace with that person.
And finding all these theseactions that you can give to
your person, your person, youknow what I mean? And it makes a
big difference in therelationship. And you know, you
think, Oh, I do all that. No,you don't. You're not if you
(13:54):
look back, you don't so we'regonna list those things.
Yeah, well, just because likepeople say, there are certain,
you know, psychological studiesthat have been done and
philosophers and that altruismis actually impossible. They say
it's impossible. But, butnothing is impossible. Right?
Jean (14:13):
Right now we are.
Unknown (14:15):
Try. Okay. So yeah, you gotta give it a try. Like, if
the goal is to transform ournature. That's why it's hard.
Yes, yes. So that's why weshould be doing it even more,
right. Karen Berg said, youknow, Karen, she she just breaks
it down. So she said, and I'mgoing to read it because it's,
(14:36):
you know, I don't want toparaphrase Karen. Whatever we
want to receive from the Lightof the Creator, is what we need
to extend to others. If we wantthe light to be open and giving
with us, then we need to be openand giving with others right if
we need kindness, then we needto show kindness if we want love
then we need to bestow love,right? If we need to be
(14:57):
fulfilled, then we need to seeHow we can feel fulfill others,
the universe is a mirrorreflecting back to us. And what
we put out there returns, right,which
also has to do with money to me.
That's yeah, I mean, it's a it'sa flow with an energy wave, you
put it out, it comesout. That's what we that's kind
of what we say, you know, Imean, I know that it's not. I
(15:19):
don't like to repeat. But youknow, sometimes there is a,
there is a core, there is acore, what's the word? I'm
looking for? commonality. Okay.
And I think what we've beenlearning since we've been doing
this, like creating all thesocial media, and really looking
(15:41):
over spiritual studies thatwe've done, it started circuitry
and talking about Yeah, and Istarted that, you know, we
really became caught we weren'tjust talking about okay, oh, I
heard this great lecture, andlet's talk about it. Right, we
were really trying to hone in onwhat circuitry was right. And I
think, tell me if I'm wrong, butI think one of the things we
(16:02):
agreed on was, whatever energyyou put out to the world, is a
combat is going to come back toyou. But it's also going to
impact the world. Yes. And howpowerful is that it is
so powerful, and so powerful.
That's why, too, we say igniteyour light, because it's like,
wait, you know, but get thatgoing, get that fire and get it
(16:23):
going. So this way, you know,you can share it with everyone
else, and everyone will share itright back. Because sometimes,
you know, I always say that withthe kids, you know, be a be a
role model, you know, and soit's kind of like the same kind
of thing, you know, you put itout there, someone else is gonna
see it and go, Wow, I reallyliked like this one lady. Every
(16:45):
time I dropped the kids offevery morning, they have music
playing, she is just jamming itout every morning. And I'm like,
I want to meet this woman. She'sso full of happiness, you know
what I mean? And that's, she's,she's giving she don't even
know, she's giving, she's makingmy morning and he's putting that
energy out. I'm getting thatenergy. And I'm like, wow, yes,
(17:06):
you know, I just this woman isjust amazing. So you don't
realize who you touch, no, youknow, you can be giving and you
don't even know it. And youdon't even know it, you don't
even know, that's changing theworld.
That's the whole thing. Likewe're talking about gift giving.
But it's not just about giftgiving, it's about you know,
(17:26):
you're you've just had a reallytough day at work. And the kids
are going to bed and you're justgoing thank goodness, because I
need to I need some downtime.
And the kids want an extra storyor they you know, want to
Fortune (17:41):
write write, write,
Unknown (17:41):
which happens, you know, all the time. And
sometimes that's the, that'sthe, that's the moment that you
can reallywrite when you give that other
story. And you're like, Wow,alright, you know, I mean, I can
go beyond how I'm feeling. Andjust to give to that just to
giveto them, or like you're cooking
dinner and a friend calls in,right, and they really are
having a crisis or they justneed somebody to listen and you
(18:03):
can just stop and say they needsome emotional support board,
right? And just okay, let me putan end really to like, not just
go through the motions to putthe spoon dab to sit down and
say, Okay, I'm listening. Yeah,what's up? What's going on? That
is giving that I've had somebodydo that for me. And, and it's
like,you can't put a price on it. You
can't you can't put a price onit. It's just amazing. And I
(18:25):
love it. I love when we can gobeyond our nature, you know, and
transform our nature, likeyou're saying with the altruism
that it's difficult, but we cando it it is tenable.
All right, I got one more quotebecause I love this. And last
time you were the quote lady, soI'm, I'm going to be the quote
(18:45):
lady a little bit. All right.
Any person who delivers kindnessstays with us forever. Robin s
Sharma said that. And I have totell you that, you know, when we
think of our ancestors, goingback to our parents or
grandparents, again, it's likegiving the gift or or what you
know, sometimes it's not thegift, but it's the atmosphere
(19:08):
around the receiving or givingthe sharing. So isn't it the
moments where it's like, God, mygrandmother was
so kind I was just gonna tell agrandmother story. Listen, and I
know my kids and their kids andlike, passes on or whatever. My
grandmother used to tickle myarm or tickle my back. And that
would be like worth a milliondollars. A million dollars.
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Yeah, it was just amazing was socalming. And I just felt like I
was, you know, just the mostimportant thing to her, you
know? And it was my grandmother.
Yes. Not my mother. Yeah,my grandmother used to, like rub
my arm like, you know, just theside of my arm and it's the
weirdest thing my daughter doescoming to me.
Fortune (19:50):
Yeah. And oh, I know.
You mentioned Grandma Grandma.
Unknown (19:55):
But but but when my grandma was almost nonverbal
when she her Alzheimer's and shewas at the end, one of the last
thing she did was lift her handand put it on mine and just rub
my arm. And that was like,you know, it's okay. She's okay.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
It's so powerful. So thekindness that someone extends to
you, the moments of connectingit, that is, you will never
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forget it. No, even if you don'tremember it, you'll never forget
it.
No, no, it's beautiful. It'sbeautiful. And it's something to
take with you through your life.
You know what I mean? And also,wait a minute, it teaches you to
do that action? Yes. Like, I didit with my kids. Because I know
even the, you know, the boyslove that, you know, can you rub
my back? You know? So, it'salso, you know, you're you're
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teaching someone how to give?
Yes, you know?
Okay, one of the things aboutgiving? Yeah, that I think we
both learned that's importantis, you know, a lot of time like
you, you started this off, butwe really didn't deep dive into
it. So I'm gonna circle back alittle bit. You talked about no
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ego and doing it without anycredit. You know, it's really
not about like, if you like, ifyou do hard work, you don't need
an award at work. You have totrust that you've put it out
there. And the energy is goingto come back. Yes. You don't
need a parade. You don't needsomebody to even say thank you.
(21:27):
The connection is, should be
Fortune (21:30):
right. Well, this is a thing we
Unknown (21:32):
not with our ego needs.
Right? Yeah, get out of our ownway. And the more we connect
with the Creator, the more wehave that opening for blessings
to come. Right. And sometimesone of the most powerful lessons
that I think we ever heard wastalking about how when you do
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give, yes. To what the spark,there's a spark of some of life
of soul. And everything, even inthis cup. Yeah, this microphone
right? Here, right? Yes,everything has been touched,
right? By that energy, the Lightof the Creator. So if we can
take that. And remember, and putthat spark when we give to
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someone we're not giving thecreator is
right, where is coming from?
Right, it's coming from a higherfree
higher place. And because it'scoming from the higher
frequency, that dollar that mayhave just bought somebody a cup
of coffee may turn into themaybe then when they buy that
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cup of coffee, they meetsomebody in line, and they offer
him a job, right? We know, yeah,but the energy is there and are
way bigger, that was way biggerthan what we could understand.
Right? It's way bigger than weunderstand. But if we can just
get a, you know, a little bit ofthat. And remember, every time
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that you are giving, that youhave that also have that
intention, you know, this is notfrom me. Yeah, you know, this is
from the light this is from theuniverse. And that's how I'm
able to do it. You know, it'sbeautiful, beautiful, beautiful,
but you know, you're talkingabout working, going to work.
Yes. And I was reading aboutphilanthropy, and how, you know,
(23:30):
just in awe of a lot of peoplethat, you know, want to change
the world. You know, there's alot out there, yeah, they have
the money, they want to do it,they want to change some social
situations. You know, there's,you know, cities or towns that
don't have water, they want tobring water, they want to just,
you know, schools, Carnegie,donated 2500 Library's I mean,
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there's just so many, you know,things or whatever. But going
back to the company, a companythat gives the employees it's
just a whole different feelingin the company, you know, the
employees feel it, becausethey're working for someone who
is generous, you know, whenthere's generosity and accompany
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it changes the whole chain ofyou know, what comes out of that
company and how it works. Youknow, it's very positive, very
positive work, atmosphere,when you feel like going to a
job, but you're, especially likecompanies that will set it up
that if you do this, then we'llgive this much to bat. Right,
(24:40):
right. Then you feel like, oh, Idon't have the money. You're
part of the solution. I can putmy effort into something right.
And I can make I can impactsomething, something that I
couldn't have done just on myown right right now together. We
can change somethingright and people will look back
consciousness will actuallytreat their employees
(25:03):
differently. Yes, because theyhave that consciousness of
generosity. Now, of course, somepeople get tax breaks and that
kind of thing. That's a wholenother Well, that's,
that's not that's between themand the creator, right. And I
think that's where people getlike sidetracked, like,
sometimes people will go, oh,well, I'm not going to give this
dollar to this homeless person,because what are they going to
(25:24):
spend it on?
Fortune (25:25):
Oh, I know, oh, I know, I know, my business. They're
gonna go
Unknown (25:29):
buy alcohol, because they need something. They need
it. They're asking, give it? Doyou know that there are? There
are times there were, again,religious practices that will
say at this day on this day? I'mnot going to be I'm not going to
show discretion. I'm not goingto have a meter, I'm not going
to have a percentage. Right? Ifsomeone sticks out their hand
(25:56):
and asked me for something, I amalmost required to give it
right. And and the energy onthat day is they may be asking,
and, and you may be giving. Butwould you have given just like
we talked about with what KarenBerg was saying? That's coming
(26:17):
back to you from the Creator.
Right. And that's the energy ofthat day. Yeah. million dollar
check. Absolutely. Absolutely.
And that's cracking the code,cracking the code is getting out
of the way, right? Of all ofthis gobbledygook in our heads
of what is the other persongoing to think? How are they
(26:38):
going to perceive me? Are theygoing to like it? Should I even
be spending this amount ofmoney? Should I be doing this?
Should I be doing that? Right?
To justand remember, give what you can
sometimes, it's not easy to askeither. Oh, that's, that's
tough. Yeah, asking forsomething, you're like, you need
something to ask for it. That'sa lot. So if someone's asking
you for it, maybe they reallyneed it.
(27:02):
That's what I'm saying. Ifsomebody's actually actually is
asking you for it. And I thinkwe all have different levels of
comfortableness. With with withthe act of asking, right? Yes,
yes, yes, yes. But when somebodydoes ask, it was a, probably a
grappling point inside of themat some point. Am I comfortable
(27:23):
with asking this right? And do Ireally need it?
And then you have the salesman,like, you know who? The ABC guy
that's always asking becausehe's, he's not afraid to always
be closing, always be closing.
He's not afraid to be asking forit. And guess what he's getting
up there. Because he's not hedoesn't. He's putting the ego
(27:43):
but then he has that he has theopposite part of that he has the
opposite. He needs to be workingon giving back. So we all have
different areas of we can neverdetermine. Right? And we
shouldn't be that's not our jobto go out. Well, you need to be
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working on this or I need I amgood at this. But you're bad at
that. And it should just beshare what you can write when
you can write as often as youcan. And don't, don't overthink
it.
Well, it's about again, goingback to being a generous person.
But also, I was reading abouthaving an inspiration for this
(28:30):
because you would think youwould need it but you do. You do
need an inspiration. Orinspirations to I guess, like
volunteering, things like that,like you, you. If you get in
Samina catalyst Academy. Yes.
Yeah. So you need to be inspiredto go and do those things. You
(28:51):
know what I mean? And, you know,you see the change that it's
making, so then you're like,wow, I want to be a part of that
change. You know, volunteering,is, you know, that's a lot. Some
people, that's all they do isvolunteer, they love to
volunteer, I like to volunteerputs me out of my comfort zone
(29:12):
most of the time. So that's whyI like to do that. But some
people are like, so againstvolunteering. Yeah, you know,
it's like, now, I don't want todo that. Right. I don't want to
do that. Yeah. And so they needan they need to be inspired to
do something that they justwon't do it. Like say, we need
your help to, you know, I don'tknow, a fundraiser or something
(29:33):
like that, or whatever. Andthey're like, Nah, you know, but
like, if they get inspired bysomething, then all of a sudden
they're right there helping.
Yes. It's not like they don'twant to do it, but just it's
what it looks like.
We're usually behind inspirationas well. There is something
personal going on there. Youknow, something from your past
or something you're currentlyexperiencing, or that has
(29:56):
touched your heart in some way.
And that when you find a Anopportunity where you can heal
that wound, change the course ofthat person's life and that
maybe something happened to you.
You can actually, again, useamazing reward again, you can
make that impact. Yes. And maybeyou didn't have the tools to do
it singularly. On your ownright, but Right, right, but the
(30:21):
inspiration, or as you said, thecatalyst to jump in there and be
a part of something bigger thanyourself. Right?
Yeah, that's, that's what that'swhere that's really where it
lives. Yeah. And, you know, someof the ways to inspire yourself
is to practice empathy. Becausebelieve it or not, some people
are not empathetic. Yeah, Imean,
(30:42):
well, there's all levels ofgenerosity, empathy, love,
kindness, that's, you know,we're all at a different place.
So, yes, to practice empathy, nomatter where you're at with it.
Well, it helpsyou to feel for that other
person. You know, that's aboutfeeling for that other person.
(31:02):
So if you look at that, likeyou're saying, like, the guy on
the street asking you for $1, orwhatever, you know, that's
really where that comes from, isthe feeling for that person and
saying, you know, what, if thatwas me,
exactly. What if so, that's,that's what I was saying before,
it's like, stop, stop saying,Well, what are they going to
(31:23):
spend it on? Or how are theygoing to utilize that? Or can I
afford if you can give itgiving? Right, right. And we
have a, here's an idea, we havea few of them. And we didn't
even realize that we made a fewof them random act of crime,
random act of kindness. So like,you can never can never practice
that enough. Yeah. random act ofkindness, you know, like paying
(31:44):
for somebody behind you, or?
Yeah, whatever. Anything? No,and that became a thing
there for a while where peoplewere like, okay, like, I'll do
this. And all I'm asking inreturn is that you find some way
to pay it forward.
Right. But it changes things. Itchanges things. It's like, the
energy circuitry. Yeah.
(32:05):
Okay, we have received so much.
Okay. So much knowledge. Yes.
Generosity from teachers fromlectures from books we've read
and from our mistake from ourmistakes from Yeah, you know,
from our family interaction fromrelationships, from our life.
(32:26):
Adventures. Yes. So to take thatand try and connect, not even
with each other on this on thesemicrophones right now. But, but
we're trying to connect with theworld. And, and this is the
starting point. But the but thestep next is share back with us.
Fortune (32:46):
Right, right. Right.
That is
Unknown (32:48):
we, you know, everything we're doing all we
do.
Together, we want you to sharewith us. Every time
somebody reaches out and saysthis, I have this experience,
and I wanted to share it withyou. Just when you said that it
made me think about this, and Iwanted to take it to the next
level and give you this angle ofit. Or can you help me with
(33:10):
this? Or you feelthe circuitry that it's feeling?
Wow, wow, holy? Yes.
So, yes. Yes. Sharing this, likelistening to us here. That's,
that's great. We love that youlisten, right? But what makes us
the most happy,right most Sherry's gift you
could give us right? Right is toshare back
(33:30):
anything? Yes. Yes. Anything?
Even if it's mean, we can takeor take on the tough, tough guy.
I'm
Jean (33:39):
not tough featured.
Fortune (33:41):
tough girl from the tough girl. Yeah,
Unknown (33:43):
so I guess, you know, we're kind of running out of
time here. I'm gonna ask you,maybe it's a quick question.
Maybe it's a long question.
What's, what's the greatest giftyou've ever received?
I would say, I can't, I can'tsay the greatest gift, I guess.
The greatest gift that I havereceived is to understand my
(34:08):
connection with my higher self.
Because that I can share witheverybody you know, like I can
say, oh, having my children or,you know, getting married or you
know, I don't know, graduating,you know, I don't know, some
kind of accomplishment orwhatever. But now I think it's
really being connected with myhighest self is the greatest
gift to have that understanding.
(34:32):
Because that I can do everythingwith that is my that is my
shine. That is how I can shineis knowing that I have that
connection. That's awesome. Andthat's what I want to do. I want
to shine that's me want to shinemy light and all of my gifts and
what about you? You're notgetting away from his
gift. We're at a random time. Socan we agree? Yes, for the
(34:55):
moment we can agree that weunderstand some of the concepts
of Giving and, and we hope thatthis has, you know, been some
food for thought as we go intothe season of giving.
Fortune (35:06):
Yes, the holiday season has begun. It has
Unknown (35:09):
begun so and that is all. So I think that we were we
do we know what next week'sepisode is going to be about?
Yes, we do. And we're gonnaannounce it. Sure, go ahead.
certainty in these uncertaintimes, yes, because we need this
you need some certainty and so
Fortune (35:30):
we're gonna bring it to you. We're gonna bring it to
you.
Unknown (35:32):
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