September 18, 2024 • 25 mins
One day, you will not be here. One day, everything and nothing will matter. One day, the pictures become painfully precious. One day, hindsight will show you the life you could have lived.
Right now, you are here.
Right now, everything and nothing matters. Right now, the pictures are painfully precious. Your hindsight is available to you now. Your life is available to you now.
Live that life now.
Whatever it is- connect to yourself and love yourself today. If you don’t know where to start, look to your pictures. They will tell you. They know.
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it shows me that this work is literally a matter of life and death.
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.9This work of creating and being tethered to your life.
life force.
.333333333This is not like, you know, ooh, my art, oh my, you know, just the thing I like to do, that thing that reminds you that you're alive and makes you forget about all of the bullshit in your life. 5 00:00:52,333.333333333 --> 00:01:03,233.333333333 Stay close to that and whatever gets created from that, that is your archive. 6 00:01:03,493.333333333 --> 00:01:04,643.333333333 That is your legacy. 7 00:01:04,773.333333333 --> 00:01:11,633.333333333 That is your gift to your loved ones and humanity. 8 00:01:11,633.433333333 --> 00:01:18,453.333333333 It reverberates beyond lifetimes. 9 00:01:20,765.333333333 --> 00:01:23,255.333333333 But the making Of that archive. 10 00:01:24,675.333333333 --> 00:01:30,35.333333333 The practice of one thing at a time. 11 00:01:31,885.333333333 --> 00:01:33,645.332333333 One picture at a time. 12 00:01:35,925.333333333 --> 00:01:37,185.333333333 One painting at a time. 13 00:01:39,795.332333333 --> 00:01:41,565.33233333 One line at a time. 14 00:01:43,725.33333333 --> 00:01:44,965.33333333 That is for you. 15 00:01:48,535.33333333 --> 00:01:49,905.33333333 That is yours. 16 00:01:56,415.33333333 --> 00:01:58,985.33233333 That is for no purpose. 17 00:02:00,115.33333333 --> 00:02:12,919.57823129 And every purpose, the highest purpose, life and death. 18 00:02:22,619.57823129 --> 00:02:26,599.57823129 Help Me See is a podcast dedicated to the art of seeing. 19 00:02:27,239.57823129 --> 00:02:33,929.57823129 It's a space for the restless visionary with an insatiable desire to create the life and work you're meant for. 20 00:02:34,904.57823129 --> 00:02:44,24.57823129 My name is Bianca Lea Mora, and I'm a photographic artist, a mother, and a coach who's transformed my fear of loss into power, art, and philosophy. 21 00:02:44,294.57823129 --> 00:02:57,454.57823129 One of the scariest quotes I never want to say is, I wish I knew at the time, but I truly believe that we have the innate ability to bring our wise 2020 hindsight to our now. 22 00:02:58,354.57823129 --> 00:03:05,594.57723129 You can deeply experience your nostalgia now, while it's actually happening, with no regrets. 23 00:03:06,694.57823129 --> 00:03:08,24.57823129 All you have to do is see. 24 00:03:09,124.57823129 --> 00:03:24,974.57823129 In this show, we laugh, we cry, we get inspired, we overshare, we have life changing conversations around making meaning, self discovery, and shedding all the BS layers in order to reconnect to our own sacred vision. 25 00:03:25,784.57823129 --> 00:03:29,444.57823129 Seeing yourself is an essential key to living powerfully. 26 00:03:29,854.57823129 --> 00:03:34,664.57823129 You are the vessel, the lens that filters absolutely everything in your life. 27 00:03:35,624.57723129 --> 00:03:57,179.57823129 What are you filtering for? Whether it be conversations with fellow artists and visionaries, or my solo audio journal style introspective ramblings, each episode is meant to feel like an exhale, an unraveling of truth, a moment for you to be able to put your finger on something that you haven't been able to for far too long. 28 00:03:58,739.57723129 --> 00:04:00,809.57723129 Come exactly as you are. 29 00:04:01,99.57723129 --> 00:04:01,959.57723129 It's perfect. 30 00:04:02,669.57723129 --> 00:04:04,189.57723129 Honor your instincts. 31 00:04:04,249.57723129 --> 00:04:09,869.57723129 Let's uncover some of the most important things in our lives which all too often can slip out from our view. 32 00:04:11,194.57823129 --> 00:04:18,74.57823129 Let's commit to seeing and consciously creating what only you can in your one and only life. 33 00:04:19,214.57823129 --> 00:04:19,884.57823129 Let's dive in. 34 00:04:25,202.91156463 --> 00:04:27,2.91156463 One day, you will not be here. 35 00:04:28,952.91156463 --> 00:04:32,122.91156463 One day, everything and nothing will matter. 36 00:04:34,82.91156463 --> 00:04:37,772.91156463 One day, the pictures become painfully precious. 37 00:04:39,502.91056463 --> 00:04:43,282.91156463 One day, hindsight will show you the life you could have lived. 38 00:04:47,262.91156463 --> 00:04:49,112.91056463 Right now, you are here. 39 00:04:50,942.91056463 --> 00:04:54,602.91056463 Right now, everything and nothing matters. 40 00:04:56,602.91056463 --> 00:05:00,852.91156463 Right now, the pictures are painfully precious. 41 00:05:03,292.91156463 --> 00:05:06,462.91156463 Your hindsight is available to you now. 42 00:05:08,182.91056463 --> 00:05:08,842.91156463 Your life. 43 00:05:10,712.91156463 --> 00:05:12,342.91156463 is available to you now. 44 00:05:14,462.91156463 --> 00:05:17,392.91156463 Live that life now. 45 00:05:25,405.48263183 --> 00:05:57,242.1492985 There's a, an amazing woman, that's part of, uh, one of the communities I'm part of and she passed a few days ago and witnessing her life, and I wasn't, I didn't personally know her. 46 00:05:57,482.1492985 --> 00:06:27,982.1492985 I wasn't close with her, but I knew her work and knowing her work made me feel her, made me feel her life, made me feel her love, made me understand. 47 00:06:34,942.1492985 --> 00:06:40,522.1492985 And I think about what's left behind for the people that love her. 48 00:06:45,182.1492985 --> 00:06:53,562.1492985 And the people whose lives she's impacted with the art she's made and just her essence as a human being. 49 00:06:59,172.1492985 --> 00:07:11,112.1492985 And it shows me that this work is literally a matter of life and death. 50 00:07:16,62.1492985 --> 00:07:22,397.0492985 This work of creating and being tethered to your life. 51 00:07:23,237.1492985 --> 00:07:24,407.1492985 life force. 52 00:07:25,877.1492985 --> 00:07:52,220.48263183 This is not like, you know, ooh, my art, oh my, you know, just the thing I like to do, that thing that reminds you that you're alive and makes you forget about all of the bullshit in your life. 53 00:07:56,745.48263183 --> 00:08:07,645.48263183 Stay close to that and whatever gets created from that, that is your archive. 54 00:08:07,905.48263183 --> 00:08:09,55.48263183 That is your legacy. 55 00:08:09,185.48263183 --> 00:08:16,45.48263183 That is your gift to your loved ones and humanity. 56 00:08:16,45.58263183 --> 00:08:22,865.48263183 It reverberates beyond lifetimes. 57 00:08:33,295.48263183 --> 00:08:35,785.48263183 But the making Of that archive. 58 00:08:37,205.48263183 --> 00:08:42,565.48263183 The practice of one thing at a time. 59 00:08:44,415.48263183 --> 00:08:46,175.48163183 One picture at a time. 60 00:08:48,455.48263183 --> 00:08:49,715.48263183 One painting at a time. 61 00:08:52,325.48163183 --> 00:08:54,95.48163183 One line at a time. 62 00:08:56,255.48263183 --> 00:08:57,495.48263183 That is for you. 63 00:09:01,65.48263183 --> 00:09:02,435.48263183 That is yours. 64 00:09:08,945.48263183 --> 00:09:11,515.48163183 That is for no purpose. 65 00:09:12,645.48263183 --> 00:09:25,449.72752979 And every purpose, the highest purpose, life and death. 66 00:09:34,799.72752979 --> 00:09:57,649.72752979 Because if this work isn't a matter of life and death, isn't taken as seriously as your need to drink water, your need to eat food, then you're living your life having already gone. 67 00:10:15,862.74565722 --> 00:10:20,732.74565722 I was going to a doctor's appointment the other day, and I had to wake up really early. 68 00:10:21,572.74565722 --> 00:10:22,602.74565722 I had to get an MRI. 69 00:10:22,992.74565722 --> 00:10:46,322.74565722 I had to be downtown at an early hour, and um, I thought about how wow, like, that feeling of like, waking up, getting your shit together, Getting, like, getting dressed and leaving the house, like, going to work, like, every day. 70 00:10:46,512.74565722 --> 00:10:57,562.74565722 Wake up, get dressed, go to work, be on time, blah, blah, blah, get, you know, get everything ready, get the kids, this, this, blah, blah, blah, like, that was every single day. 71 00:10:58,72.74465722 --> 00:11:16,287.74565722 If you haven't, in office job, that way of life, get up early, get this done, get dressed, Shove, uh, to go cup of coffee in your car, drive to work, be there, drive home, make dinner. 72 00:11:16,417.74565722 --> 00:11:28,527.74565722 Like that was every single day and still is for some people when I'm talking about my experience. 73 00:11:28,527.84565722 --> 00:11:44,167.74565722 After COVID, all of a sudden it's a complete norm for work from home or hybrid roles or, you know, going to the office. 74 00:11:44,537.74565722 --> 00:11:46,947.74565722 It's only a day or two a week or whatever it is. 75 00:11:47,857.74565722 --> 00:12:07,547.74465722 And now, only now, after a horrific pandemic, has the world been open to seeing things different? Society has been open to seeing things differently. 76 00:12:07,987.74565722 --> 00:12:16,447.74565722 And now people are resistant to take full time in office jobs and they want that flexibility. 77 00:12:16,947.74565722 --> 00:12:18,687.74565722 And only now is there flexibility. 78 00:12:20,782.74565722 --> 00:12:48,2.74565722 This leg to stand on with feeling like we have the right to expect that but what about Decades and decades before I think about how it was never even this is what makes me sick It was never even a thought from for most of just societally spoken widely Of course, like there's a million billions different people. 79 00:12:48,362.74565722 --> 00:12:56,937.74565722 I'm not speaking for every experience of every human being but From a general perspective, it wasn't questioned. 80 00:12:57,777.74565722 --> 00:12:58,767.74565722 This is just life. 81 00:12:58,977.74565722 --> 00:13:00,327.74565722 This is how you live your life. 82 00:13:00,717.74565722 --> 00:13:02,157.74565722 This is just what has to be done. 83 00:13:05,327.74565722 --> 00:13:09,487.74565722 It is all bullshit. 84 00:13:13,57.74465722 --> 00:13:31,707.64565722 It is all these imaginary rules that, yes, have real impact in our lives, but it's like they're designed in the hopes that we will forget it. 85 00:13:31,707.84565722 --> 00:13:39,667.74565722 It's our own power and the preciousness of our fucking one and only life on this planet. 86 00:13:50,300.27325131 --> 00:13:57,980.27325131 This is why the pictures are so fucking important. 87 00:14:00,490.27325131 --> 00:14:04,500.27225131 Pick up your camera, pick up your phone to take a picture. 88 00:14:05,390.27225131 --> 00:14:12,610.27225131 When something inspires you, when something impacts you, when something, that magical power. 89 00:14:13,25.27325131 --> 00:14:15,145.27325131 subconscious thing goes through your body. 90 00:14:15,145.27325131 --> 00:14:18,125.27325131 And before you know it, you're taking a picture before it's even a cognitive thought. 91 00:14:20,845.27325131 --> 00:14:22,635.27325131 Look at those pictures. 92 00:14:25,245.27325131 --> 00:14:27,425.27325131 Stay close to that. 93 00:14:27,435.27325131 --> 00:14:38,75.27325131 You're you that those pictures, and I'm not talking about capital a art, even though it is, I'm talking about your iCloud photo scroll. 94 00:14:38,105.27325131 --> 00:14:45,945.27225131 I'm talking about the normal, whatever, not visually striking. 95 00:14:46,690.27325131 --> 00:14:55,60.27325131 Or, or in addition to that, whatever I'm talking about every time, not, there's not one version that's more worthy than the other. 96 00:14:55,600.27325131 --> 00:15:04,576.93891797 Like your lowliest snapshot, grainy, blurry, that is a dog ear on a memory you had that is so beautiful in your soul. 97 00:15:04,826.93991797 --> 00:15:09,16.93991797 And like an image that carefully crafted, they are the same. 98 00:15:10,746.93991797 --> 00:15:11,606.93991797 It is you. 99 00:15:15,506.93991797 --> 00:15:20,946.93991797 These are mirrors for you trying to tell yourself, Hi. 100 00:15:22,751.93991797 --> 00:15:24,111.93991797 This is my life. 101 00:15:25,241.93991797 --> 00:15:26,21.93991797 This is me. 102 00:15:27,411.93991797 --> 00:15:29,901.93991797 I love, or I'm impacted by this. 103 00:15:29,941.93991797 --> 00:15:30,941.93991797 This is important. 104 00:15:31,51.93991797 --> 00:15:31,691.93991797 This resonates. 105 00:15:31,692.03991797 --> 00:15:39,281.93991797 These photographs are breadcrumbs. 106 00:15:39,321.93891797 --> 00:15:42,1.93991797 They are our internal GPS system. 107 00:15:42,111.93891797 --> 00:15:43,861.93991797 They are our cheat codes. 108 00:15:44,1.93991797 --> 00:15:57,461.93991797 They are a map for when we feel like we are so far from anything we can touch on land. 109 00:16:14,461.93991797 --> 00:16:19,471.93991797 You can only see what is already inside of you. 110 00:16:20,581.93991797 --> 00:16:22,81.93991797 You can only see. 111 00:16:24,896.93991797 --> 00:16:33,656.93991797 Accept, process, respond to what you are available to see. 112 00:16:37,76.93991797 --> 00:16:46,306.939918 We are always looking for evidence of our beliefs, of our deepest subconscious everything. 113 00:16:46,346.938918 --> 00:16:52,636.939918 That is what's going on under the water of the iceberg. 114 00:16:52,986.939918 --> 00:16:54,446.939918 Like that is what's always happening. 115 00:16:54,956.939918 --> 00:17:01,126.939918 And sometimes what we see above water is confusing and like, well, how does that relate? Or, or we belittle it. 116 00:17:01,791.939918 --> 00:17:02,871.939918 So much. 117 00:17:02,891.939918 --> 00:17:04,971.939918 Like, oh, this is just, this is a little thing. 118 00:17:04,981.939918 --> 00:17:05,631.939918 I think it's cute. 119 00:17:05,631.939918 --> 00:17:07,441.939918 Like it's not that serious. 120 00:17:07,701.939918 --> 00:17:10,131.939918 No, it is fucking serious. 121 00:17:10,221.939918 --> 00:17:11,411.939918 This is your life. 122 00:17:16,71.938918 --> 00:17:25,191.939918 If you're someone that's obsessed with like these little creepy videos of these tiny miniature mice cooking dinner pasta in a bowl, like my sister is. 123 00:17:25,735.0691697 --> 00:17:29,884.6735383 and you tell her she's a freak because she is? Like, that is something to take seriously. 124 00:17:30,84.6735383 --> 00:17:34,394.6735383 Immerse yourself in the things that remind you of the truth. 125 00:17:34,394.6735383 --> 00:17:49,554.6735383 Because the truth is, only you know when you're alive in your life. 126 00:17:50,29.6735383 --> 00:17:51,529.6735383 And that can look like everything. 127 00:17:51,539.6735383 --> 00:17:55,649.6735383 You can be alive in your life when you're in spreadsheets because you love it. 128 00:17:55,879.6735383 --> 00:17:57,499.6735383 And that's fucking amazing. 129 00:17:57,779.6735383 --> 00:18:02,973.0058716 You can be someone that loves going and having an office and having that separation in your day. 130 00:18:03,693.0078716 --> 00:18:04,683.0058716 That is amazing. 131 00:18:04,963.0058716 --> 00:18:05,983.0068716 If that is you. 132 00:18:07,63.0068716 --> 00:18:17,919.0269679 If you're someone that is highly sensitive and cries at a leaf, that's, don't hide that. 133 00:18:20,149.0269679 --> 00:19:07,249.0269679 Do you know what a superpower it is that you could cut through the noise of life? Do you understand how hard it is to taste the undercurrent of life with everything that's thrown at us? You have everything you need to make the most of your time here on earth, to make the most of your experience on earth. 134 00:19:07,559.0269679 --> 00:19:08,899.0269679 And when I say make the most. 135 00:19:09,399.0269679 --> 00:19:16,469.0269679 I don't mean literally make the most, like, I'm panicked, I need to write a book, I need to do this, I need to do that. 136 00:19:17,189.0269679 --> 00:19:39,179.0259679 I mean, it is urgent for you to, every single day of your life, hold your life, get your hands in the clay, be in the things, the experiences that you love. 137 00:19:40,829.0259679 --> 00:19:42,509.0269679 That is your number one priority. 138 00:19:43,849.0269679 --> 00:19:48,359.0269679 And when you live like that, it's like, you're immune. 139 00:19:50,179.0269679 --> 00:20:03,559.0269679 To even the most horrific things not immune as in they can't happen to you But immune as in like you didn't waste your time. 140 00:20:09,129.0269679 --> 00:20:48,564.0269679 You can live a full life every single day I have this felt like someone's shaking my shoulders was sick with grief over learning about this Incredible fucking woman and I look at her pictures The pictures of her the pictures of her art Her children. 141 00:20:49,24.0269679 --> 00:20:52,654.0269679 I'm like, oh, that's a life. 142 00:20:58,614.0269679 --> 00:20:59,444.0269679 That's a life. 143 00:21:07,814.0269679 --> 00:21:08,994.0269679 That's a legacy. 144 00:21:21,194.894359 --> 00:21:25,184.0259679 Life feels very complicated, but it is very fucking simple. 145 00:21:31,227.1878492 --> 00:21:31,567.1878492 Love. 146 00:21:33,267.1878492 --> 00:21:35,627.1878492 Stay close to love. 147 00:21:36,627.1868492 --> 00:21:42,167.1868492 Stay close to the things that click that instinct in you. 148 00:21:42,167.2868492 --> 00:21:49,17.1878492 Build your life around that. 149 00:21:51,637.1878492 --> 00:22:03,67.1878492 Build your life around your love and the most valuable thing you have, which is your time. 150 00:22:03,747.1878492 --> 00:22:12,467.1868492 Spend the majority of your time feeling alive, whatever that means for you. 151 00:22:34,447.1868492 --> 00:22:37,37.1868492 You don't need permission from anyone. 152 00:22:43,657.1868492 --> 00:22:45,467.1878492 You are your highest authority. 153 00:22:47,657.1878492 --> 00:22:50,967.1878492 You are the sun, the moon, the stars. 154 00:22:58,977.1878492 --> 00:23:24,897.1878492 When you get grounded and centered in the life that you would live if you knew that it was fleeting, if you knew, like we know, but we pretend or we forget, live your life like that. 155 00:23:36,217.1878492 --> 00:24:03,147.1878492 Take your picture seriously, take your joy seriously, take your laughter seriously, treat yourself like the absolute, precious, sacred being that you are. 156 00:24:03,747.1878492 --> 00:24:05,706.7570102 Treat yourself like yourself. 157 00:24:07,536.7570102 --> 00:24:10,446.7570102 Treat yourself, like you treat your children. 158 00:24:12,6.7570102 --> 00:24:12,696.7570102 Fit yourself. 159 00:24:12,936.7570102 --> 00:24:13,176.7570102 Thank you. 160 00:24:13,206.7570102 --> 00:24:14,106.7570102 Treat your partner. 161 00:24:14,766.7570102 --> 00:24:17,406.7570102 Treat yourself, like you treat your most beloved. 162 00:24:17,856.7570102 --> 00:24:18,126.7570102 At. 163 00:24:24,936.7570102 --> 00:24:26,946.7570102 Gives it yourself, the gift of loving yourself. 164 00:24:28,776.7570102 --> 00:24:29,526.7570102 In this lifetime. 165 00:24:33,66.7570102 --> 00:24:34,356.7570102 Love yourself into life. 166 00:24:35,586.7570102 --> 00:24:36,126.7570102 Today. 167 00:24:38,556.7570102 --> 00:24:39,516.7570102 Do something. 168 00:24:40,716.7570102 --> 00:24:41,286.7570102 Anything. 169 00:24:44,706.7570102 --> 00:24:46,326.7570102 That is loving yourself. 170 00:24:46,716.7570102 --> 00:24:49,626.7570102 Deeply, whether that's slowly. 171 00:24:49,986.7570102 --> 00:24:50,796.7570102 Delicately. 172 00:24:51,276.7570102 --> 00:24:53,796.7570102 Making yourself a cup of tea. 173 00:24:56,496.7570102 --> 00:24:58,26.7570102 Walking outside barefoot. 174 00:25:02,226.7570102 --> 00:25:03,486.7570102 Crying in a pillow. 175 00:25:06,996.7570102 --> 00:25:07,446.7570102 I don't know. 176 00:25:08,286.7570102 --> 00:25:09,156.7570102 Whatever it is. 177 00:25:09,756.7570102 --> 00:25:11,376.7570102 Connect to yourself and love yourself. 178 00:25:29,436.7570102 --> 00:25:30,246.7570102 This feels like. 179 00:25:31,926.7570102 --> 00:25:35,286.7570102 The most urgent conversation we could be having. 180 00:25:42,66.7570102 --> 00:25:42,456.7570102 Love you. 181 00:25:42,786.7570102 --> 00:25:44,106.7570102 And I will see you next week. 182 00:25:46,920.4304796 --> 00:25:50,140.4304796 This has been an Awkward Sage Production.
it shows me that this work is literally a matter of life and death.
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.9This work of creating and being tethered to your life.
life force.
.333333333This is not like, you know, ooh, my art, oh my, you know, just the thing I like to do, that thing that reminds you that you're alive and makes you forget about all of the bullshit in your life. 5 00:00:52,333.333333333 --> 00:01:03,233.333333333 Stay close to that and whatever gets created from that, that is your archive. 6 00:01:03,493.333333333 --> 00:01:04,643.333333333 That is your legacy. 7 00:01:04,773.333333333 --> 00:01:11,633.333333333 That is your gift to your loved ones and humanity. 8 00:01:11,633.433333333 --> 00:01:18,453.333333333 It reverberates beyond lifetimes. 9 00:01:20,765.333333333 --> 00:01:23,255.333333333 But the making Of that archive. 10 00:01:24,675.333333333 --> 00:01:30,35.333333333 The practice of one thing at a time. 11 00:01:31,885.333333333 --> 00:01:33,645.332333333 One picture at a time. 12 00:01:35,925.333333333 --> 00:01:37,185.333333333 One painting at a time. 13 00:01:39,795.332333333 --> 00:01:41,565.33233333 One line at a time. 14 00:01:43,725.33333333 --> 00:01:44,965.33333333 That is for you. 15 00:01:48,535.33333333 --> 00:01:49,905.33333333 That is yours. 16 00:01:56,415.33333333 --> 00:01:58,985.33233333 That is for no purpose. 17 00:02:00,115.33333333 --> 00:02:12,919.57823129 And every purpose, the highest purpose, life and death. 18 00:02:22,619.57823129 --> 00:02:26,599.57823129 Help Me See is a podcast dedicated to the art of seeing. 19 00:02:27,239.57823129 --> 00:02:33,929.57823129 It's a space for the restless visionary with an insatiable desire to create the life and work you're meant for. 20 00:02:34,904.57823129 --> 00:02:44,24.57823129 My name is Bianca Lea Mora, and I'm a photographic artist, a mother, and a coach who's transformed my fear of loss into power, art, and philosophy. 21 00:02:44,294.57823129 --> 00:02:57,454.57823129 One of the scariest quotes I never want to say is, I wish I knew at the time, but I truly believe that we have the innate ability to bring our wise 2020 hindsight to our now. 22 00:02:58,354.57823129 --> 00:03:05,594.57723129 You can deeply experience your nostalgia now, while it's actually happening, with no regrets. 23 00:03:06,694.57823129 --> 00:03:08,24.57823129 All you have to do is see. 24 00:03:09,124.57823129 --> 00:03:24,974.57823129 In this show, we laugh, we cry, we get inspired, we overshare, we have life changing conversations around making meaning, self discovery, and shedding all the BS layers in order to reconnect to our own sacred vision. 25 00:03:25,784.57823129 --> 00:03:29,444.57823129 Seeing yourself is an essential key to living powerfully. 26 00:03:29,854.57823129 --> 00:03:34,664.57823129 You are the vessel, the lens that filters absolutely everything in your life. 27 00:03:35,624.57723129 --> 00:03:57,179.57823129 What are you filtering for? Whether it be conversations with fellow artists and visionaries, or my solo audio journal style introspective ramblings, each episode is meant to feel like an exhale, an unraveling of truth, a moment for you to be able to put your finger on something that you haven't been able to for far too long. 28 00:03:58,739.57723129 --> 00:04:00,809.57723129 Come exactly as you are. 29 00:04:01,99.57723129 --> 00:04:01,959.57723129 It's perfect. 30 00:04:02,669.57723129 --> 00:04:04,189.57723129 Honor your instincts. 31 00:04:04,249.57723129 --> 00:04:09,869.57723129 Let's uncover some of the most important things in our lives which all too often can slip out from our view. 32 00:04:11,194.57823129 --> 00:04:18,74.57823129 Let's commit to seeing and consciously creating what only you can in your one and only life. 33 00:04:19,214.57823129 --> 00:04:19,884.57823129 Let's dive in. 34 00:04:25,202.91156463 --> 00:04:27,2.91156463 One day, you will not be here. 35 00:04:28,952.91156463 --> 00:04:32,122.91156463 One day, everything and nothing will matter. 36 00:04:34,82.91156463 --> 00:04:37,772.91156463 One day, the pictures become painfully precious. 37 00:04:39,502.91056463 --> 00:04:43,282.91156463 One day, hindsight will show you the life you could have lived. 38 00:04:47,262.91156463 --> 00:04:49,112.91056463 Right now, you are here. 39 00:04:50,942.91056463 --> 00:04:54,602.91056463 Right now, everything and nothing matters. 40 00:04:56,602.91056463 --> 00:05:00,852.91156463 Right now, the pictures are painfully precious. 41 00:05:03,292.91156463 --> 00:05:06,462.91156463 Your hindsight is available to you now. 42 00:05:08,182.91056463 --> 00:05:08,842.91156463 Your life. 43 00:05:10,712.91156463 --> 00:05:12,342.91156463 is available to you now. 44 00:05:14,462.91156463 --> 00:05:17,392.91156463 Live that life now. 45 00:05:25,405.48263183 --> 00:05:57,242.1492985 There's a, an amazing woman, that's part of, uh, one of the communities I'm part of and she passed a few days ago and witnessing her life, and I wasn't, I didn't personally know her. 46 00:05:57,482.1492985 --> 00:06:27,982.1492985 I wasn't close with her, but I knew her work and knowing her work made me feel her, made me feel her life, made me feel her love, made me understand. 47 00:06:34,942.1492985 --> 00:06:40,522.1492985 And I think about what's left behind for the people that love her. 48 00:06:45,182.1492985 --> 00:06:53,562.1492985 And the people whose lives she's impacted with the art she's made and just her essence as a human being. 49 00:06:59,172.1492985 --> 00:07:11,112.1492985 And it shows me that this work is literally a matter of life and death. 50 00:07:16,62.1492985 --> 00:07:22,397.0492985 This work of creating and being tethered to your life. 51 00:07:23,237.1492985 --> 00:07:24,407.1492985 life force. 52 00:07:25,877.1492985 --> 00:07:52,220.48263183 This is not like, you know, ooh, my art, oh my, you know, just the thing I like to do, that thing that reminds you that you're alive and makes you forget about all of the bullshit in your life. 53 00:07:56,745.48263183 --> 00:08:07,645.48263183 Stay close to that and whatever gets created from that, that is your archive. 54 00:08:07,905.48263183 --> 00:08:09,55.48263183 That is your legacy. 55 00:08:09,185.48263183 --> 00:08:16,45.48263183 That is your gift to your loved ones and humanity. 56 00:08:16,45.58263183 --> 00:08:22,865.48263183 It reverberates beyond lifetimes. 57 00:08:33,295.48263183 --> 00:08:35,785.48263183 But the making Of that archive. 58 00:08:37,205.48263183 --> 00:08:42,565.48263183 The practice of one thing at a time. 59 00:08:44,415.48263183 --> 00:08:46,175.48163183 One picture at a time. 60 00:08:48,455.48263183 --> 00:08:49,715.48263183 One painting at a time. 61 00:08:52,325.48163183 --> 00:08:54,95.48163183 One line at a time. 62 00:08:56,255.48263183 --> 00:08:57,495.48263183 That is for you. 63 00:09:01,65.48263183 --> 00:09:02,435.48263183 That is yours. 64 00:09:08,945.48263183 --> 00:09:11,515.48163183 That is for no purpose. 65 00:09:12,645.48263183 --> 00:09:25,449.72752979 And every purpose, the highest purpose, life and death. 66 00:09:34,799.72752979 --> 00:09:57,649.72752979 Because if this work isn't a matter of life and death, isn't taken as seriously as your need to drink water, your need to eat food, then you're living your life having already gone. 67 00:10:15,862.74565722 --> 00:10:20,732.74565722 I was going to a doctor's appointment the other day, and I had to wake up really early. 68 00:10:21,572.74565722 --> 00:10:22,602.74565722 I had to get an MRI. 69 00:10:22,992.74565722 --> 00:10:46,322.74565722 I had to be downtown at an early hour, and um, I thought about how wow, like, that feeling of like, waking up, getting your shit together, Getting, like, getting dressed and leaving the house, like, going to work, like, every day. 70 00:10:46,512.74565722 --> 00:10:57,562.74565722 Wake up, get dressed, go to work, be on time, blah, blah, blah, get, you know, get everything ready, get the kids, this, this, blah, blah, blah, like, that was every single day. 71 00:10:58,72.74465722 --> 00:11:16,287.74565722 If you haven't, in office job, that way of life, get up early, get this done, get dressed, Shove, uh, to go cup of coffee in your car, drive to work, be there, drive home, make dinner. 72 00:11:16,417.74565722 --> 00:11:28,527.74565722 Like that was every single day and still is for some people when I'm talking about my experience. 73 00:11:28,527.84565722 --> 00:11:44,167.74565722 After COVID, all of a sudden it's a complete norm for work from home or hybrid roles or, you know, going to the office. 74 00:11:44,537.74565722 --> 00:11:46,947.74565722 It's only a day or two a week or whatever it is. 75 00:11:47,857.74565722 --> 00:12:07,547.74465722 And now, only now, after a horrific pandemic, has the world been open to seeing things different? Society has been open to seeing things differently. 76 00:12:07,987.74565722 --> 00:12:16,447.74565722 And now people are resistant to take full time in office jobs and they want that flexibility. 77 00:12:16,947.74565722 --> 00:12:18,687.74565722 And only now is there flexibility. 78 00:12:20,782.74565722 --> 00:12:48,2.74565722 This leg to stand on with feeling like we have the right to expect that but what about Decades and decades before I think about how it was never even this is what makes me sick It was never even a thought from for most of just societally spoken widely Of course, like there's a million billions different people. 79 00:12:48,362.74565722 --> 00:12:56,937.74565722 I'm not speaking for every experience of every human being but From a general perspective, it wasn't questioned. 80 00:12:57,777.74565722 --> 00:12:58,767.74565722 This is just life. 81 00:12:58,977.74565722 --> 00:13:00,327.74565722 This is how you live your life. 82 00:13:00,717.74565722 --> 00:13:02,157.74565722 This is just what has to be done. 83 00:13:05,327.74565722 --> 00:13:09,487.74565722 It is all bullshit. 84 00:13:13,57.74465722 --> 00:13:31,707.64565722 It is all these imaginary rules that, yes, have real impact in our lives, but it's like they're designed in the hopes that we will forget it. 85 00:13:31,707.84565722 --> 00:13:39,667.74565722 It's our own power and the preciousness of our fucking one and only life on this planet. 86 00:13:50,300.27325131 --> 00:13:57,980.27325131 This is why the pictures are so fucking important. 87 00:14:00,490.27325131 --> 00:14:04,500.27225131 Pick up your camera, pick up your phone to take a picture. 88 00:14:05,390.27225131 --> 00:14:12,610.27225131 When something inspires you, when something impacts you, when something, that magical power. 89 00:14:13,25.27325131 --> 00:14:15,145.27325131 subconscious thing goes through your body. 90 00:14:15,145.27325131 --> 00:14:18,125.27325131 And before you know it, you're taking a picture before it's even a cognitive thought. 91 00:14:20,845.27325131 --> 00:14:22,635.27325131 Look at those pictures. 92 00:14:25,245.27325131 --> 00:14:27,425.27325131 Stay close to that. 93 00:14:27,435.27325131 --> 00:14:38,75.27325131 You're you that those pictures, and I'm not talking about capital a art, even though it is, I'm talking about your iCloud photo scroll. 94 00:14:38,105.27325131 --> 00:14:45,945.27225131 I'm talking about the normal, whatever, not visually striking. 95 00:14:46,690.27325131 --> 00:14:55,60.27325131 Or, or in addition to that, whatever I'm talking about every time, not, there's not one version that's more worthy than the other. 96 00:14:55,600.27325131 --> 00:15:04,576.93891797 Like your lowliest snapshot, grainy, blurry, that is a dog ear on a memory you had that is so beautiful in your soul. 97 00:15:04,826.93991797 --> 00:15:09,16.93991797 And like an image that carefully crafted, they are the same. 98 00:15:10,746.93991797 --> 00:15:11,606.93991797 It is you. 99 00:15:15,506.93991797 --> 00:15:20,946.93991797 These are mirrors for you trying to tell yourself, Hi. 100 00:15:22,751.93991797 --> 00:15:24,111.93991797 This is my life. 101 00:15:25,241.93991797 --> 00:15:26,21.93991797 This is me. 102 00:15:27,411.93991797 --> 00:15:29,901.93991797 I love, or I'm impacted by this. 103 00:15:29,941.93991797 --> 00:15:30,941.93991797 This is important. 104 00:15:31,51.93991797 --> 00:15:31,691.93991797 This resonates. 105 00:15:31,692.03991797 --> 00:15:39,281.93991797 These photographs are breadcrumbs. 106 00:15:39,321.93891797 --> 00:15:42,1.93991797 They are our internal GPS system. 107 00:15:42,111.93891797 --> 00:15:43,861.93991797 They are our cheat codes. 108 00:15:44,1.93991797 --> 00:15:57,461.93991797 They are a map for when we feel like we are so far from anything we can touch on land. 109 00:16:14,461.93991797 --> 00:16:19,471.93991797 You can only see what is already inside of you. 110 00:16:20,581.93991797 --> 00:16:22,81.93991797 You can only see. 111 00:16:24,896.93991797 --> 00:16:33,656.93991797 Accept, process, respond to what you are available to see. 112 00:16:37,76.93991797 --> 00:16:46,306.939918 We are always looking for evidence of our beliefs, of our deepest subconscious everything. 113 00:16:46,346.938918 --> 00:16:52,636.939918 That is what's going on under the water of the iceberg. 114 00:16:52,986.939918 --> 00:16:54,446.939918 Like that is what's always happening. 115 00:16:54,956.939918 --> 00:17:01,126.939918 And sometimes what we see above water is confusing and like, well, how does that relate? Or, or we belittle it. 116 00:17:01,791.939918 --> 00:17:02,871.939918 So much. 117 00:17:02,891.939918 --> 00:17:04,971.939918 Like, oh, this is just, this is a little thing. 118 00:17:04,981.939918 --> 00:17:05,631.939918 I think it's cute. 119 00:17:05,631.939918 --> 00:17:07,441.939918 Like it's not that serious. 120 00:17:07,701.939918 --> 00:17:10,131.939918 No, it is fucking serious. 121 00:17:10,221.939918 --> 00:17:11,411.939918 This is your life. 122 00:17:16,71.938918 --> 00:17:25,191.939918 If you're someone that's obsessed with like these little creepy videos of these tiny miniature mice cooking dinner pasta in a bowl, like my sister is. 123 00:17:25,735.0691697 --> 00:17:29,884.6735383 and you tell her she's a freak because she is? Like, that is something to take seriously. 124 00:17:30,84.6735383 --> 00:17:34,394.6735383 Immerse yourself in the things that remind you of the truth. 125 00:17:34,394.6735383 --> 00:17:49,554.6735383 Because the truth is, only you know when you're alive in your life. 126 00:17:50,29.6735383 --> 00:17:51,529.6735383 And that can look like everything. 127 00:17:51,539.6735383 --> 00:17:55,649.6735383 You can be alive in your life when you're in spreadsheets because you love it. 128 00:17:55,879.6735383 --> 00:17:57,499.6735383 And that's fucking amazing. 129 00:17:57,779.6735383 --> 00:18:02,973.0058716 You can be someone that loves going and having an office and having that separation in your day. 130 00:18:03,693.0078716 --> 00:18:04,683.0058716 That is amazing. 131 00:18:04,963.0058716 --> 00:18:05,983.0068716 If that is you. 132 00:18:07,63.0068716 --> 00:18:17,919.0269679 If you're someone that is highly sensitive and cries at a leaf, that's, don't hide that. 133 00:18:20,149.0269679 --> 00:19:07,249.0269679 Do you know what a superpower it is that you could cut through the noise of life? Do you understand how hard it is to taste the undercurrent of life with everything that's thrown at us? You have everything you need to make the most of your time here on earth, to make the most of your experience on earth. 134 00:19:07,559.0269679 --> 00:19:08,899.0269679 And when I say make the most. 135 00:19:09,399.0269679 --> 00:19:16,469.0269679 I don't mean literally make the most, like, I'm panicked, I need to write a book, I need to do this, I need to do that. 136 00:19:17,189.0269679 --> 00:19:39,179.0259679 I mean, it is urgent for you to, every single day of your life, hold your life, get your hands in the clay, be in the things, the experiences that you love. 137 00:19:40,829.0259679 --> 00:19:42,509.0269679 That is your number one priority. 138 00:19:43,849.0269679 --> 00:19:48,359.0269679 And when you live like that, it's like, you're immune. 139 00:19:50,179.0269679 --> 00:20:03,559.0269679 To even the most horrific things not immune as in they can't happen to you But immune as in like you didn't waste your time. 140 00:20:09,129.0269679 --> 00:20:48,564.0269679 You can live a full life every single day I have this felt like someone's shaking my shoulders was sick with grief over learning about this Incredible fucking woman and I look at her pictures The pictures of her the pictures of her art Her children. 141 00:20:49,24.0269679 --> 00:20:52,654.0269679 I'm like, oh, that's a life. 142 00:20:58,614.0269679 --> 00:20:59,444.0269679 That's a life. 143 00:21:07,814.0269679 --> 00:21:08,994.0269679 That's a legacy. 144 00:21:21,194.894359 --> 00:21:25,184.0259679 Life feels very complicated, but it is very fucking simple. 145 00:21:31,227.1878492 --> 00:21:31,567.1878492 Love. 146 00:21:33,267.1878492 --> 00:21:35,627.1878492 Stay close to love. 147 00:21:36,627.1868492 --> 00:21:42,167.1868492 Stay close to the things that click that instinct in you. 148 00:21:42,167.2868492 --> 00:21:49,17.1878492 Build your life around that. 149 00:21:51,637.1878492 --> 00:22:03,67.1878492 Build your life around your love and the most valuable thing you have, which is your time. 150 00:22:03,747.1878492 --> 00:22:12,467.1868492 Spend the majority of your time feeling alive, whatever that means for you. 151 00:22:34,447.1868492 --> 00:22:37,37.1868492 You don't need permission from anyone. 152 00:22:43,657.1868492 --> 00:22:45,467.1878492 You are your highest authority. 153 00:22:47,657.1878492 --> 00:22:50,967.1878492 You are the sun, the moon, the stars. 154 00:22:58,977.1878492 --> 00:23:24,897.1878492 When you get grounded and centered in the life that you would live if you knew that it was fleeting, if you knew, like we know, but we pretend or we forget, live your life like that. 155 00:23:36,217.1878492 --> 00:24:03,147.1878492 Take your picture seriously, take your joy seriously, take your laughter seriously, treat yourself like the absolute, precious, sacred being that you are. 156 00:24:03,747.1878492 --> 00:24:05,706.7570102 Treat yourself like yourself. 157 00:24:07,536.7570102 --> 00:24:10,446.7570102 Treat yourself, like you treat your children. 158 00:24:12,6.7570102 --> 00:24:12,696.7570102 Fit yourself. 159 00:24:12,936.7570102 --> 00:24:13,176.7570102 Thank you. 160 00:24:13,206.7570102 --> 00:24:14,106.7570102 Treat your partner. 161 00:24:14,766.7570102 --> 00:24:17,406.7570102 Treat yourself, like you treat your most beloved. 162 00:24:17,856.7570102 --> 00:24:18,126.7570102 At. 163 00:24:24,936.7570102 --> 00:24:26,946.7570102 Gives it yourself, the gift of loving yourself. 164 00:24:28,776.7570102 --> 00:24:29,526.7570102 In this lifetime. 165 00:24:33,66.7570102 --> 00:24:34,356.7570102 Love yourself into life. 166 00:24:35,586.7570102 --> 00:24:36,126.7570102 Today. 167 00:24:38,556.7570102 --> 00:24:39,516.7570102 Do something. 168 00:24:40,716.7570102 --> 00:24:41,286.7570102 Anything. 169 00:24:44,706.7570102 --> 00:24:46,326.7570102 That is loving yourself. 170 00:24:46,716.7570102 --> 00:24:49,626.7570102 Deeply, whether that's slowly. 171 00:24:49,986.7570102 --> 00:24:50,796.7570102 Delicately. 172 00:24:51,276.7570102 --> 00:24:53,796.7570102 Making yourself a cup of tea. 173 00:24:56,496.7570102 --> 00:24:58,26.7570102 Walking outside barefoot. 174 00:25:02,226.7570102 --> 00:25:03,486.7570102 Crying in a pillow. 175 00:25:06,996.7570102 --> 00:25:07,446.7570102 I don't know. 176 00:25:08,286.7570102 --> 00:25:09,156.7570102 Whatever it is. 177 00:25:09,756.7570102 --> 00:25:11,376.7570102 Connect to yourself and love yourself. 178 00:25:29,436.7570102 --> 00:25:30,246.7570102 This feels like. 179 00:25:31,926.7570102 --> 00:25:35,286.7570102 The most urgent conversation we could be having. 180 00:25:42,66.7570102 --> 00:25:42,456.7570102 Love you. 181 00:25:42,786.7570102 --> 00:25:44,106.7570102 And I will see you next week. 182 00:25:46,920.4304796 --> 00:25:50,140.4304796 This has been an Awkward Sage Production.
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