March 10, 2024 • 31 mins
Hosts Elvira V. Hopper and Eleanor Hayward talk with coach Akosua Joy Brown about a new book on self-healing and inner power for teenagers. Akosua also talks about her own personal transformation.
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And welcome to the Love Your Vibe show.
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It's a revolution of evolution.
We are Alvira Hopper and Eleanor Hayward.
And we are so happy to partner with Skyward TV and Hopeful Radio because we are truly
on board with their mission to help the world have better mental wellness through the spiritual
path.
We are purveyors of a unique personal evolution solution that we truly believe in.
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And it is for heart centered humans.
And we are excited to bring on our show today one of the purveyors and facilitators of this
beautiful personal evolution solution, Akasava Brown.
So let us do a round of applause for our beautiful Akasava.
Welcome.
How are you doing?
Thank you.
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Thank you so much for inviting me to the show.
And I'm doing well because I'm in your presence.
So of course I'd be doing well.
So thank you so much.
I'm very, very good.
Thank you.
Fantastic.
And thank you.
We'll have some blue wave right now.
We'll have some girls do that now like that as well.
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So Akasava, we want to learn about you.
We want to learn about not just what you do, but why you do it.
Okay.
So we're just going to ask you a few questions and about, you know, the what's your story,
your business as a coach, a book coach and a publisher.
And we're also going to ask you a little bit about becoming a Miracle Mindset Mentor.
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Not too long ago, you're about to start on your very first data flight of clients that
are working with you and could not be more happy.
Your trainer here is thrilled and founder here is extremely happy.
So we're going to talk about that as well.
So before we get started, tell us a little bit about your story and why you do what you
do, Akasava.
Lovely.
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So my business is called What's Your Story?
Author Services, because it's about your story.
And then I serve people in whatever services they need as an author to get that story out
in front of as many people as possible.
So I've been working in publishing for all my adult life.
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And so although, you know, I look so young, you are just listening.
You won't be able to get this.
But you know, I have been doing this for over 25 years, even though I only look 28.
You started at two.
Okay.
I started at two.
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Yes.
I kind of bought all my knowledge through the embryonic fluid and the post-sense.
Yeah, I've been working on, I knew when I was age seven that I wanted to do something
within books.
I knew and when I was too young to understand what a publisher was, I was telling my neighbor
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who did know what a publisher was, that I wanted to be one.
And he said something like, you don't choose to become a publisher, you end up as one.
That was the way he put it.
I remember him saying, I might have been nine or 10 years old.
And I remember my neighbor saying that to my parents when I expressed that's what I
wanted to do.
So yeah, so because my parents wanted, you know, child of immigrants, so they didn't
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know what a publisher was.
And so they made sure that I was actually schooled enough so that I'd become a doctor
or something like that instead.
Hello.
I do have a master's in sciences and environmental chemistry in fact.
I totally forgot that part of your story.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah, I always kind of steered my way back towards story because my first jobs even with
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a master's were around how to make more complex information simpler for the audience, like
how to gear stories towards whichever audience was listening or needed the information.
So whether it was someone who is a specialist and you use the type of language that helped
them to get into it, or if you were explaining specialist information to the lay person.
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And one of my first jobs was with a United Nations Environment Program Collaborating
Center where we put out the environmental data report, which was all the information
UN collects from all of its different agencies like food and agriculture, environment program,
of course, and World Health Organization.
And they wanted a way to get this information to everyone who's paid for it, which means
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this is so we produce this kind of environmental data report for everybody.
So that's how I started.
And yeah, and so even when I thought I'd move from that back to science, it always ended
up that I was telling the stories for of science for others.
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So it just naturally ended up that first I was working in science in educational field,
like in for Nelson education.
And after I worked for the University of London and other places in England, then when I came
back and I was working in publishing, I worked in educational publishing, I worked on history
books for kids, science books for kids.
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And then I worked with a literary agency.
And that's when I really got involved with fiction.
So I have done it all. And I what I love about it is that I get to speak with different people
pretty much every day and get them connected to the best way to share their voice, to share
their stories.
And so yeah, so whether it's a children's book, which is so fascinating to do, because
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it's often people who are around kids who then figure out, oh, wow, wow, I've got especially
new parents and they're telling their kids new stories.
And so they want to then find ways of sharing them wider.
And they get in touch with their creativity because of themselves because of being parents.
But a lot of business people too, who want to share their magic, you know, their message,
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their magic, their stories through writing a book.
And so that's that I'm very blessed to be living in story every day.
Oh, that's so beautiful.
And it reminds me of when I was a little girl, I think I was in grade one.
I actually wrote my first book and they put it in the library and I fell in love with
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books and I my happy place was in the bookmobile that would would, you know, show up on my
street and I would just lose myself in these books and the smell of the books and Beatrix
Potter and oh my God, so many beautiful memories are coming back.
But but yeah, I just love what what you do.
Yeah, yeah.
You're awesome and you you're writing a book with across the world.
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Yes.
Thank you.
Right.
Let's let's just talk about that for a second.
Yeah.
So what excites you about the project that we're doing a cost of up with MJ?
I might add.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I've learned so much through doing the Love Your Vibe Transformation program.
It helped me learn to love myself in a way I'd never loved myself before.
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It was transformative to me.
And as a result of that, like a way of marking that occasion, I felt like a new person.
So I changed my name.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's how strong what I got from the program was like the tools that allow you to I mean
as a words person that they have such really cool acronyms and stuff like that really helped
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me your angel of evolution that that they were just so the words themselves were powerful.
So they stuck in my mind and I was able to I am able to recall them and use them in the
situations as you need them.
And of course, being immersed in the program immersed in the community means that that
you're always reminded and using them as you need them.
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And so I'm so pleased that soon I'll be able to serve these others through the program
so that they'll get what I want.
So the reason I'm so excited about doing this book is that, hey, I'm 50 something.
I'm like and and that I was like I'm 58 now.
And I guess I first got in I guess it was three years or years ago that we started.
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Right.
So so imagine if I got this when I was a teenager how different I would be.
And so that's what's so exciting that we're bringing the program to people so that they
don't have to wait till their magical 50s to gain this these these tools that we're
raising a full generation of people who understand the power of energy and heal and healing and
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how to use that harness their own inner power to change their world.
So that's what's so exciting about creating this book for teenagers so that we can make
them unbullyable.
Yes.
I'm so comfortable.
I took your day yesterday.
Oh, right.
I totally forgot.
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Oh my God.
Okay.
Yeah.
But bullying.
Yes.
Or lack thereof.
But the yeah.
But the fact is that our our modality is different than most modalities out there.
Most modalities work on don't bully.
Be nice.
You know and do all the right things, which is important for sure.
But here's the thing.
You're dependent on others to be nice to you versus you showing up in a way that you don't
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have a kick me sign on your back.
So guess what?
People don't kick you when you don't have a kick me sign on your back.
Right.
And that's what we want to teach kids is that, you know, if you have a sign, tear it off
your back.
If you don't have a sign, know that this is how you keep a sign off your back.
Right.
This is about teaching these ways of being for kids to realize that they don't have to
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give their power away to a bully.
They get to just sign, you know, sidestep and hang out with the kids that, you know,
are the ones that align with them that, you know, aren't, you know, like trying to get
them to do things they don't want to do.
Right.
A lot of the bullies, the mean girls, the mean boys, they just want you to do what they
want you to do.
But kids that are heart centered like us don't have to get sucked into that.
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And and they can learn to love their vibe and be miracle magnets instead attract good
things, good people.
And yeah, can you imagine kids getting these things like I've taught this to eight year
old girls and they understand it.
They understand that they can choose to be a crap magnet or they can choose to be a miracle
magnet.
They have the power.
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Right.
So, oh, yes.
So excited.
As you see that it's changing the way schools are treating kids as it is or teaching kids
in that I've seen online where kids in detention are doing meditation rather than writing lines
and stuff like that.
So it certainly is part of a shift in consciousness.
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And so I think we can really help the leaders of that by producing this book, which will
be an aid to those who really want to change the mindsets of kids from now.
So they grow up and create the, you know, heaven on earth and change society.
Because my gosh, it seems with all these things happening right now, gosh, sometimes it feels
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like we're at the end of times and we do need a big shift in order to to it.
We need it.
It's clear we need to shake things up.
Yeah.
And this book is certainly our way of doing that.
And we can do it because we only need what is the percentage of people that we need.
Eleanor, do you remember?
I've heard it's three percent to make critical mass.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
So just three percent of humanity to do this.
Right.
And we are the people that are on the front lines doing this.
We are the light and shadow workers.
We are the ones that are helping humanity to evolve.
And you know, I can't think of a better way to live, you know, and we get to do it together.
You know, none of us is doing it on our own.
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You know, that would be really lonely and just three percent.
So so thank you.
So do you have a question that's coming up for you?
Oh, my goodness.
Well, we heard from across the world, like how transformative the Love Your Vibe transformation
was for you.
Would you care to share with us like a little story, a little snippet of how you were a
crap magnet and how it turned around for you as a miracle magnet?
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Yes, yes.
I know, like as I mentioned that phrase, angel of evolution, it was one of the strongest
ones for me.
And when I first met Alvira, I was really attracted to everything she was doing.
And I knew I wanted to be part of whatever she was doing.
And I didn't really understand it until I actually did the course.
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So the course, six months of what how do you describe it?
Rain soaked or gentle rain soaked.
Yeah.
First you do the course online and then you do the six month program.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Which meetings are every other week, which allows you to actually implement some of the
stuff.
And so I remember in particular learning about that phrase, angel of evolution.
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And in the meeting itself, I was coming to understand some of the or I was starting to
agree a previous bad relationship.
And in the meeting, I kept saying, oh my God, he's such an asshole.
He's such an asshole.
And stuff like that.
And I was really realizing in saying that, that I, you know, that I've started to examine
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it more.
And the teaching was when you're blaming something, pointing at someone, there's three fingers
pointing back at you.
And so that was part of that.
Yeah.
Of that, of that particular lesson.
And so, and also understanding that he, that that person was an angel of evolution for
me that had that not occurred, I wouldn't have stopped and evaluated my, my behavior
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and made the changes that made me the incredible person you see before you or you're here before
you to be seen in the video.
So definitely.
So that, I mean, there's so many stories and that is a big one of them that just, you know,
having a chance to like spend that time in community and reevaluating and like examining
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your own behavior and thoughts where you have someone, you know, skilled as Eleanor and
who's passed her skills and training over to me so that I'm able to do it for a few
people.
I'm choking as I say that because who can, I mean, I'm not choking a few as well as Eleanor.
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Let's have a little, a little mug break here.
Yes.
But definitely I can, I've lost my train of thought a bit because just imagining, because
I just know how much I valued what I learned from Eleanor, I did the program twice with
Eleanor so far, so far because that's the thing, right?
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You go through it as long as, as much as you want in order for you to feel comfortable
because I don't want to push people out of the nest too early before they're ready.
They need to say they're ready, right?
So when you join, you know, our pool of miracle mindset mentor apprentices, you get to go
through it as often as you need to for no extra price, as long as you need to.
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And you get to apprentice and watch her do her magic with, with her people.
And, and then you can, you know, well, it's not write the exam, but it's, it's a, it's
a video to let everyone know that you're ready to go and, and you're ready to go.
You're on our website and you're about to start soon.
I'm so excited for you.
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Yay.
So, so that's, that's fantastic.
I want to, I'm really curious, Akasua, just because, you know, you're on this amazing
show, you know, it's on Amazon and Roku and, and, you know, you've got a big global platform
that sees you and, and is, is, you know, absolutely in love with you, I'm sure by now, you know,
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tell us about the person you love to serve as a book coach and a publisher.
Who have you really enjoyed working with?
Oh, wow.
There's so, there's several.
And the first two people that came to mind are one woman who was our name, her book is
Little Sarah of Tehran and someone, and that book is finished and out there available for
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purchase and another one, Robert, who I'm working with right now.
Those are the first people who came to mind.
I guess why Sarah came to mind is she came thinking, oh, I just want a quick book done
to serve my life coaching practice and thinking that in six months, but there was deeper work
to be done.
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And so in, you know, in this, this week we dug deep and we really examined what her story
was compared to how, what she thought it was when, when we first started.
And through this, the parallels between her work as a life coach and this kind of stuff
that her mother did before there was anything called life coaching and in Iran, she was
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doing this, you know, at a time where she was being ridiculed by people, she was still
leading people through a program of self discovery and self understanding.
And so through this book, it became a testimony to her mother, this book, it really changed
its focus and it's through that deep work, which I think I'll be able to do even better
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having gone through the Love Your Vibe Transformation program and learning so much more about, you
know, mindset and miracles and, and just noticing them and the connections.
So it's, so the Love Your Vibe Transformation has made me even a better book coach.
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I truly, truly loved working with Sarah through, you know, working through her story and her
understanding of herself and in the end creating a much stronger legacy book than she would
have had.
She just thought, oh, I'm just going to produce this light surface story that will set me
up as, you know, as a leader just because I have a book.
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Instead, we, we were together and she got this incredible story.
And with Robert now, he, what I'm enjoying about working with Robert, he is actually
from Brooklyn, he was a 60s hippie, was a drummer in a rock band, had a cool life, ended
up becoming a yoga aficionado, I don't know, you know, anyway, enthusiast and expert and,
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and a marathon runner.
And he had created a business which is called Younger Than Last Year because that's what
working with him does.
It makes you feel younger than last year.
And through his work and his, and just, he's so fascinating and the many facets of his
personality which includes his love of making models, like model for Halloween.
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But that's another story.
But generally, just through his, his understanding of how to create a fit body, he realized that
when you turn 50, you have different needs than people before.
So he kind of created a program on how to create the strongest body, both the most flexible
body to improve your mind and meditation and all that.
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So that when you're in your 50s and older, how you do you create this new program so
that you can create the body that will last, you know, for the, for the 50 more years that
you have.
Because it's almost like it when you're a bit younger, you can, you don't have to, maybe
you don't have to be as conscious as you need to be when you're a bit older and you start
feeling a few aches and pains.
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So in working, he's been working on this book for years and years.
We come together and through conversations, through understanding his why, through understanding
what he wanted to do for people, we were able to create a program so that he actually can
finish it.
And this is a book that's really going to help people and that's helped me.
I often feel that the universe brings me the people I need to talk to so that I can learn
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as I work as well.
So these are two of the people that I've worked with recently that I, I mean, I'm so blessed
in that virtually all I could tell a story about virtually all of my clients I've been
working with, including the ones who bring to me incredible children's books that were
like I'm working with this amazing woman and who's now started with one book and now we're
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on our fourth together because she's just so she's retired and she just so loves expressing
herself through creative nonfiction.
She wrote one book about how a community of Canadians served a Syrian family.
She's a retired lawyer who continues to help refugees in this area that I now call home
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in the Hamilton area.
And she's working on so many other books that are both help her become a better writer.
It's so cool to see her develop her skills as a writer as she creates these books that
both showcase Canadians.
I think it's her book when we came and started with one amazing.
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I just enjoy that each of my clients bring so much to my life.
Oh yeah.
Yay.
And I met a bunch of your authors and they're amazing people.
So yeah, so I just want to encourage anyone that's listening, watching this, if there's
a book in you to do, if there's, don't die with that book still inside you.
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As I like to say, don't die with your real music still in you.
Like sadly my father did.
He never got the opportunity to live his highest self.
He never got the opportunity to be self-actualized as a musician because he was a world-class
musician who never had the courage to do it.
And sadly he died with his, you know, real music still in him with two types of cancer,
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mental health struggles and a marriage in shambles, which to me is the sign, um, not
the sign it's the price people pay for living out of alignment when they're, when they're
not doing what they were brought here to do.
Like let's say there's a book in you, right?
Like don't die with that book in you because you know what?
Your body keeps score and your body can get sick for me.
I lived out of alignment and it wasn't my body.
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It was my mind that got sick.
I had depression, anxiety, panic attacks, bipolar, my marriage nearly ended.
Um, so, you know, these are signs from the universe that you've got to get into alignment
and be fully self-expressed, you know, get that book out of you because the world needs
it.
If it's in you, it's in you for a reason and don't let it burn holding your soul, right?
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Let that book come out of you because the world needs it.
Am I right?
Do you resonate?
I sure do because not only do you need it in terms of working through that, your story
to create so that you understand it, but also so that you can serve others through it.
So I definitely believe that writing a story is a benefit for you.
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And you know, and often there's, you know, you can hear the same things 50 times and
it's the way someone says it.
One person says it where you finally get the message and you think, Oh my gosh, it's that
light bulb moment where it clicks.
And because of your connection with one way of hearing the story with one person, perhaps
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who shares more in common with you than, than others who've said the same thing.
So you can actually hear that message.
So that's why everybody's story matters because so many times I'll work with someone and they
will say, if I help just one person, then all this will be worth it.
And it's so amazing.
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It's so amazing when they get that feedback that that's in fact what they've done, you
know, and then they see that, Hey, it's not one person they're helping, but it's so many
more that you get to connect your voice with so many more people through a book.
Because like a book is one way of sharing your content.
And from that, it might be that you create a course.
I mean, in this case we're creating, you guys created a course and now we're doing a book.
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But sometimes the book first, then the course.
Cause there's so many ways to involve someone in your story and help them.
Yeah.
Like we need to have a conversation across the walk.
Cause I've got a graphic novel series like, Oh, you can around, but it seems like it's
so big that I get afraid of it.
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And then I duck my head again, but I feel like meaning to come through, but I just need
to kind of organize it in a way that, cause I think that's it is like that sometimes our
own message can scare us because it's part of my brain.
My ego says it's all been done before, but clearly it has been through, right?
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But not through me.
Exactly.
And yeah,
Shakespeare had Cleopatra say that in the 1500s, there's nothing new beneath the visiting
moon.
Oh my God.
In the 1500s?
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Yeah.
In the 50s.
Yeah.
In that play, Cleopatra, that's one of her lines.
And certainly sometimes people say there's only eight plots, but it's what you make of
it.
It's your vision.
It's your way of sharing a story.
So that's common for people to think, Oh, what can I add to it?
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But my gosh, your message matters.
Your story matters.
Your way of connecting with people, your way of interpreting the world, you know, is important.
So yeah, let's have that talk.
Cause I know sometimes it's almost like, how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time?
And I hope you to figure out the steps of creating that story and getting it out there.
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Love that.
Love that.
And we have another book that we need to do called, you know, three shit shows I started
and the wisdom bombs gleaned for you because I really believe that all of my stories didn't
happen to me.
They happened for me because now I get to help others with the wisdom.
Like, you know, in a book I do it in my coaching.
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Like when I bring out a story that I feel intuitively a client needs to hear, it's like,
it can be totally transformational because they feel less alone.
Right?
That's what our stories do.
Right?
People don't have to feel alone and they go, Oh my God, you've gone through it.
Well, I can get through it too.
Right?
So you give them hits with your, your story message and magic gives others hits, hope,
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inspiration and tools.
Right?
That's what a good book I'm sure can do.
Right?
Oh, wow.
Another one of your incredible acronyms.
So definitely, I mean, you've just got such a great way with words that you got to share.
So definitely you've got to share your hits and, and, and the way that you help people
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with the world, cause you'll, that's the way of bringing them into in closer.
It kind of goes far out and brings them in closer to you.
Yeah.
So, oh, I love it.
And as we get that, as I get that, that those stories out, I think I'm going to heal at
a deeper level too, because now they're out in the world.
They're serving.
My pain was not in vain.
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I went through all of those shit shows because I was meant to help humanity.
Right?
Sorry.
That just gets me emotional.
And that's what we're all here to do.
Right?
Absolutely.
And I'm curious for the benefit of our, of our listeners.
Yeah.
What would be like three things to help them focus on their story?
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How would they articulate?
Yeah.
So three things to help you focus on your story is to kind of think about those transformations
because it's almost like, um, you'll have all these things that happen to you and then
you'll notice how they took you from one place to another.
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That's that can, I mean, that reminds me so much of the angel of a, of a, of a, of a,
of a revolution that you, that you talk about.
And then you'll, you'll, it'll connect you to your why.
You'll learn more about why you want to share your voice, why you want to tell your story
and not so much connected to what you, you know, developing an understanding of what
your purpose might be.
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And then as you develop each story, you'll know how they, what part they play in terms
of, of saving, serving your why.
Because it's often you've got several stories.
And so those are the three things I think you should be looking at, you know, your transformation,
your whys, as well as, you know, some of the, the, um, I've forgotten what the third one
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was.
I don't have a cool way of explaining it, except that, um, it kind of like, I, I've
totally forgotten what I meant to say with that.
Your purpose, your purpose.
That's kind of your why.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You've got a purpose.
And so two will have to do if, cause I can't remember exactly how.
Exactly.
But two is good.
Yeah, two's great.
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Keep it simple, silly.
I think it's keep it simple, sweetheart.
But silly's fun too.
It works.
Well, Acasua, this has been absolutely delightful being able to chat with you.
We need to wrap up now, but, um, I just want to say, how can people contact you if they
resonate with your vibe and they know you're the person that's going to lead them through
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getting their book done and out into the world to make a difference?
Um, what's the best way?
Wow.
Well, thank you so much, Elvira, for inviting me to share that with people.
And the best way, um, you can get in touch with me is through my website, which it's
quite a long URL.
What's your story?
Author services.com.
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And you can also get in touch with me through Instagram, which might be a bit easier because
it's what's your story.books.
So either way you'll find me.
My email address is on both of those locations, both on my website.
And you can always connect with me by direct message, by email through the contact form
on my website.
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And you could just make an appointment, straight up, make an appointment and we can have our
first chat.
Awesome.
You don't charge for that.
You do complimentary chats.
Oh no.
Yeah.
Awesome.
And we'll put her information in the show notes as well.
Okay.
Fabulous.
Fabulous.
How great has this been?
Yay.
A round of applause for Acasua.
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Thank you so much for joining us Acasua.
You are such a shining star on our team.
We love you so much and, um, we look forward to seeing you again on another episode of
the Love Your Vibe Show, a revolution of evolution.
And thank you Acasua.
Keep doing the amazing work that you're doing in the world.
We just honor you so much.
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Thank you.
Oh wow.
Thank you so much.
Bye everyone.
See you next time.
And welcome to the Love Your Vibe show.
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It's a revolution of evolution.
We are Alvira Hopper and Eleanor Hayward.
And we are so happy to partner with Skyward TV and Hopeful Radio because we are truly
on board with their mission to help the world have better mental wellness through the spiritual
path.
We are purveyors of a unique personal evolution solution that we truly believe in.
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And it is for heart centered humans.
And we are excited to bring on our show today one of the purveyors and facilitators of this
beautiful personal evolution solution, Akasava Brown.
So let us do a round of applause for our beautiful Akasava.
Welcome.
How are you doing?
Thank you.
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Thank you so much for inviting me to the show.
And I'm doing well because I'm in your presence.
So of course I'd be doing well.
So thank you so much.
I'm very, very good.
Thank you.
Fantastic.
And thank you.
We'll have some blue wave right now.
We'll have some girls do that now like that as well.
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So Akasava, we want to learn about you.
We want to learn about not just what you do, but why you do it.
Okay.
So we're just going to ask you a few questions and about, you know, the what's your story,
your business as a coach, a book coach and a publisher.
And we're also going to ask you a little bit about becoming a Miracle Mindset Mentor.
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Not too long ago, you're about to start on your very first data flight of clients that
are working with you and could not be more happy.
Your trainer here is thrilled and founder here is extremely happy.
So we're going to talk about that as well.
So before we get started, tell us a little bit about your story and why you do what you
do, Akasava.
Lovely.
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So my business is called What's Your Story?
Author Services, because it's about your story.
And then I serve people in whatever services they need as an author to get that story out
in front of as many people as possible.
So I've been working in publishing for all my adult life.
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And so although, you know, I look so young, you are just listening.
You won't be able to get this.
But you know, I have been doing this for over 25 years, even though I only look 28.
You started at two.
Okay.
I started at two.
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Yes.
I kind of bought all my knowledge through the embryonic fluid and the post-sense.
Yeah, I've been working on, I knew when I was age seven that I wanted to do something
within books.
I knew and when I was too young to understand what a publisher was, I was telling my neighbor
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who did know what a publisher was, that I wanted to be one.
And he said something like, you don't choose to become a publisher, you end up as one.
That was the way he put it.
I remember him saying, I might have been nine or 10 years old.
And I remember my neighbor saying that to my parents when I expressed that's what I
wanted to do.
So yeah, so because my parents wanted, you know, child of immigrants, so they didn't
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know what a publisher was.
And so they made sure that I was actually schooled enough so that I'd become a doctor
or something like that instead.
Hello.
I do have a master's in sciences and environmental chemistry in fact.
I totally forgot that part of your story.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah, I always kind of steered my way back towards story because my first jobs even with
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a master's were around how to make more complex information simpler for the audience, like
how to gear stories towards whichever audience was listening or needed the information.
So whether it was someone who is a specialist and you use the type of language that helped
them to get into it, or if you were explaining specialist information to the lay person.
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And one of my first jobs was with a United Nations Environment Program Collaborating
Center where we put out the environmental data report, which was all the information
UN collects from all of its different agencies like food and agriculture, environment program,
of course, and World Health Organization.
And they wanted a way to get this information to everyone who's paid for it, which means
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this is so we produce this kind of environmental data report for everybody.
So that's how I started.
And yeah, and so even when I thought I'd move from that back to science, it always ended
up that I was telling the stories for of science for others.
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So it just naturally ended up that first I was working in science in educational field,
like in for Nelson education.
And after I worked for the University of London and other places in England, then when I came
back and I was working in publishing, I worked in educational publishing, I worked on history
books for kids, science books for kids.
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And then I worked with a literary agency.
And that's when I really got involved with fiction.
So I have done it all. And I what I love about it is that I get to speak with different people
pretty much every day and get them connected to the best way to share their voice, to share
their stories.
And so yeah, so whether it's a children's book, which is so fascinating to do, because
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it's often people who are around kids who then figure out, oh, wow, wow, I've got especially
new parents and they're telling their kids new stories.
And so they want to then find ways of sharing them wider.
And they get in touch with their creativity because of themselves because of being parents.
But a lot of business people too, who want to share their magic, you know, their message,
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their magic, their stories through writing a book.
And so that's that I'm very blessed to be living in story every day.
Oh, that's so beautiful.
And it reminds me of when I was a little girl, I think I was in grade one.
I actually wrote my first book and they put it in the library and I fell in love with
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books and I my happy place was in the bookmobile that would would, you know, show up on my
street and I would just lose myself in these books and the smell of the books and Beatrix
Potter and oh my God, so many beautiful memories are coming back.
But but yeah, I just love what what you do.
Yeah, yeah.
You're awesome and you you're writing a book with across the world.
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Yes.
Thank you.
Right.
Let's let's just talk about that for a second.
Yeah.
So what excites you about the project that we're doing a cost of up with MJ?
I might add.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I've learned so much through doing the Love Your Vibe Transformation program.
It helped me learn to love myself in a way I'd never loved myself before.
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It was transformative to me.
And as a result of that, like a way of marking that occasion, I felt like a new person.
So I changed my name.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's how strong what I got from the program was like the tools that allow you to I mean
as a words person that they have such really cool acronyms and stuff like that really helped
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me your angel of evolution that that they were just so the words themselves were powerful.
So they stuck in my mind and I was able to I am able to recall them and use them in the
situations as you need them.
And of course, being immersed in the program immersed in the community means that that
you're always reminded and using them as you need them.
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And so I'm so pleased that soon I'll be able to serve these others through the program
so that they'll get what I want.
So the reason I'm so excited about doing this book is that, hey, I'm 50 something.
I'm like and and that I was like I'm 58 now.
And I guess I first got in I guess it was three years or years ago that we started.
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Right.
So so imagine if I got this when I was a teenager how different I would be.
And so that's what's so exciting that we're bringing the program to people so that they
don't have to wait till their magical 50s to gain this these these tools that we're
raising a full generation of people who understand the power of energy and heal and healing and
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how to use that harness their own inner power to change their world.
So that's what's so exciting about creating this book for teenagers so that we can make
them unbullyable.
Yes.
I'm so comfortable.
I took your day yesterday.
Oh, right.
I totally forgot.
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Oh my God.
Okay.
Yeah.
But bullying.
Yes.
Or lack thereof.
But the yeah.
But the fact is that our our modality is different than most modalities out there.
Most modalities work on don't bully.
Be nice.
You know and do all the right things, which is important for sure.
But here's the thing.
You're dependent on others to be nice to you versus you showing up in a way that you don't
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have a kick me sign on your back.
So guess what?
People don't kick you when you don't have a kick me sign on your back.
Right.
And that's what we want to teach kids is that, you know, if you have a sign, tear it off
your back.
If you don't have a sign, know that this is how you keep a sign off your back.
Right.
This is about teaching these ways of being for kids to realize that they don't have to
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give their power away to a bully.
They get to just sign, you know, sidestep and hang out with the kids that, you know,
are the ones that align with them that, you know, aren't, you know, like trying to get
them to do things they don't want to do.
Right.
A lot of the bullies, the mean girls, the mean boys, they just want you to do what they
want you to do.
But kids that are heart centered like us don't have to get sucked into that.
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And and they can learn to love their vibe and be miracle magnets instead attract good
things, good people.
And yeah, can you imagine kids getting these things like I've taught this to eight year
old girls and they understand it.
They understand that they can choose to be a crap magnet or they can choose to be a miracle
magnet.
They have the power.
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Right.
So, oh, yes.
So excited.
As you see that it's changing the way schools are treating kids as it is or teaching kids
in that I've seen online where kids in detention are doing meditation rather than writing lines
and stuff like that.
So it certainly is part of a shift in consciousness.
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And so I think we can really help the leaders of that by producing this book, which will
be an aid to those who really want to change the mindsets of kids from now.
So they grow up and create the, you know, heaven on earth and change society.
Because my gosh, it seems with all these things happening right now, gosh, sometimes it feels
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like we're at the end of times and we do need a big shift in order to to it.
We need it.
It's clear we need to shake things up.
Yeah.
And this book is certainly our way of doing that.
And we can do it because we only need what is the percentage of people that we need.
Eleanor, do you remember?
I've heard it's three percent to make critical mass.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
So just three percent of humanity to do this.
Right.
And we are the people that are on the front lines doing this.
We are the light and shadow workers.
We are the ones that are helping humanity to evolve.
And you know, I can't think of a better way to live, you know, and we get to do it together.
You know, none of us is doing it on our own.
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You know, that would be really lonely and just three percent.
So so thank you.
So do you have a question that's coming up for you?
Oh, my goodness.
Well, we heard from across the world, like how transformative the Love Your Vibe transformation
was for you.
Would you care to share with us like a little story, a little snippet of how you were a
crap magnet and how it turned around for you as a miracle magnet?
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Yes, yes.
I know, like as I mentioned that phrase, angel of evolution, it was one of the strongest
ones for me.
And when I first met Alvira, I was really attracted to everything she was doing.
And I knew I wanted to be part of whatever she was doing.
And I didn't really understand it until I actually did the course.
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So the course, six months of what how do you describe it?
Rain soaked or gentle rain soaked.
Yeah.
First you do the course online and then you do the six month program.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Which meetings are every other week, which allows you to actually implement some of the
stuff.
And so I remember in particular learning about that phrase, angel of evolution.
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And in the meeting itself, I was coming to understand some of the or I was starting to
agree a previous bad relationship.
And in the meeting, I kept saying, oh my God, he's such an asshole.
He's such an asshole.
And stuff like that.
And I was really realizing in saying that, that I, you know, that I've started to examine
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it more.
And the teaching was when you're blaming something, pointing at someone, there's three fingers
pointing back at you.
And so that was part of that.
Yeah.
Of that, of that particular lesson.
And so, and also understanding that he, that that person was an angel of evolution for
me that had that not occurred, I wouldn't have stopped and evaluated my, my behavior
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and made the changes that made me the incredible person you see before you or you're here before
you to be seen in the video.
So definitely.
So that, I mean, there's so many stories and that is a big one of them that just, you know,
having a chance to like spend that time in community and reevaluating and like examining
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your own behavior and thoughts where you have someone, you know, skilled as Eleanor and
who's passed her skills and training over to me so that I'm able to do it for a few
people.
I'm choking as I say that because who can, I mean, I'm not choking a few as well as Eleanor.
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Let's have a little, a little mug break here.
Yes.
But definitely I can, I've lost my train of thought a bit because just imagining, because
I just know how much I valued what I learned from Eleanor, I did the program twice with
Eleanor so far, so far because that's the thing, right?
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You go through it as long as, as much as you want in order for you to feel comfortable
because I don't want to push people out of the nest too early before they're ready.
They need to say they're ready, right?
So when you join, you know, our pool of miracle mindset mentor apprentices, you get to go
through it as often as you need to for no extra price, as long as you need to.
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And you get to apprentice and watch her do her magic with, with her people.
And, and then you can, you know, well, it's not write the exam, but it's, it's a, it's
a video to let everyone know that you're ready to go and, and you're ready to go.
You're on our website and you're about to start soon.
I'm so excited for you.
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Yay.
So, so that's, that's fantastic.
I want to, I'm really curious, Akasua, just because, you know, you're on this amazing
show, you know, it's on Amazon and Roku and, and, you know, you've got a big global platform
that sees you and, and is, is, you know, absolutely in love with you, I'm sure by now, you know,
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tell us about the person you love to serve as a book coach and a publisher.
Who have you really enjoyed working with?
Oh, wow.
There's so, there's several.
And the first two people that came to mind are one woman who was our name, her book is
Little Sarah of Tehran and someone, and that book is finished and out there available for
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purchase and another one, Robert, who I'm working with right now.
Those are the first people who came to mind.
I guess why Sarah came to mind is she came thinking, oh, I just want a quick book done
to serve my life coaching practice and thinking that in six months, but there was deeper work
to be done.
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And so in, you know, in this, this week we dug deep and we really examined what her story
was compared to how, what she thought it was when, when we first started.
And through this, the parallels between her work as a life coach and this kind of stuff
that her mother did before there was anything called life coaching and in Iran, she was
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doing this, you know, at a time where she was being ridiculed by people, she was still
leading people through a program of self discovery and self understanding.
And so through this book, it became a testimony to her mother, this book, it really changed
its focus and it's through that deep work, which I think I'll be able to do even better
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having gone through the Love Your Vibe Transformation program and learning so much more about, you
know, mindset and miracles and, and just noticing them and the connections.
So it's, so the Love Your Vibe Transformation has made me even a better book coach.
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I truly, truly loved working with Sarah through, you know, working through her story and her
understanding of herself and in the end creating a much stronger legacy book than she would
have had.
She just thought, oh, I'm just going to produce this light surface story that will set me
up as, you know, as a leader just because I have a book.
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Instead, we, we were together and she got this incredible story.
And with Robert now, he, what I'm enjoying about working with Robert, he is actually
from Brooklyn, he was a 60s hippie, was a drummer in a rock band, had a cool life, ended
up becoming a yoga aficionado, I don't know, you know, anyway, enthusiast and expert and,
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and a marathon runner.
And he had created a business which is called Younger Than Last Year because that's what
working with him does.
It makes you feel younger than last year.
And through his work and his, and just, he's so fascinating and the many facets of his
personality which includes his love of making models, like model for Halloween.
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But that's another story.
But generally, just through his, his understanding of how to create a fit body, he realized that
when you turn 50, you have different needs than people before.
So he kind of created a program on how to create the strongest body, both the most flexible
body to improve your mind and meditation and all that.
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So that when you're in your 50s and older, how you do you create this new program so
that you can create the body that will last, you know, for the, for the 50 more years that
you have.
Because it's almost like it when you're a bit younger, you can, you don't have to, maybe
you don't have to be as conscious as you need to be when you're a bit older and you start
feeling a few aches and pains.
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So in working, he's been working on this book for years and years.
We come together and through conversations, through understanding his why, through understanding
what he wanted to do for people, we were able to create a program so that he actually can
finish it.
And this is a book that's really going to help people and that's helped me.
I often feel that the universe brings me the people I need to talk to so that I can learn
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as I work as well.
So these are two of the people that I've worked with recently that I, I mean, I'm so blessed
in that virtually all I could tell a story about virtually all of my clients I've been
working with, including the ones who bring to me incredible children's books that were
like I'm working with this amazing woman and who's now started with one book and now we're
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on our fourth together because she's just so she's retired and she just so loves expressing
herself through creative nonfiction.
She wrote one book about how a community of Canadians served a Syrian family.
She's a retired lawyer who continues to help refugees in this area that I now call home
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in the Hamilton area.
And she's working on so many other books that are both help her become a better writer.
It's so cool to see her develop her skills as a writer as she creates these books that
both showcase Canadians.
I think it's her book when we came and started with one amazing.
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I just enjoy that each of my clients bring so much to my life.
Oh yeah.
Yay.
And I met a bunch of your authors and they're amazing people.
So yeah, so I just want to encourage anyone that's listening, watching this, if there's
a book in you to do, if there's, don't die with that book still inside you.
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As I like to say, don't die with your real music still in you.
Like sadly my father did.
He never got the opportunity to live his highest self.
He never got the opportunity to be self-actualized as a musician because he was a world-class
musician who never had the courage to do it.
And sadly he died with his, you know, real music still in him with two types of cancer,
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mental health struggles and a marriage in shambles, which to me is the sign, um, not
the sign it's the price people pay for living out of alignment when they're, when they're
not doing what they were brought here to do.
Like let's say there's a book in you, right?
Like don't die with that book in you because you know what?
Your body keeps score and your body can get sick for me.
I lived out of alignment and it wasn't my body.
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It was my mind that got sick.
I had depression, anxiety, panic attacks, bipolar, my marriage nearly ended.
Um, so, you know, these are signs from the universe that you've got to get into alignment
and be fully self-expressed, you know, get that book out of you because the world needs
it.
If it's in you, it's in you for a reason and don't let it burn holding your soul, right?
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Let that book come out of you because the world needs it.
Am I right?
Do you resonate?
I sure do because not only do you need it in terms of working through that, your story
to create so that you understand it, but also so that you can serve others through it.
So I definitely believe that writing a story is a benefit for you.
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And you know, and often there's, you know, you can hear the same things 50 times and
it's the way someone says it.
One person says it where you finally get the message and you think, Oh my gosh, it's that
light bulb moment where it clicks.
And because of your connection with one way of hearing the story with one person, perhaps
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who shares more in common with you than, than others who've said the same thing.
So you can actually hear that message.
So that's why everybody's story matters because so many times I'll work with someone and they
will say, if I help just one person, then all this will be worth it.
And it's so amazing.
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It's so amazing when they get that feedback that that's in fact what they've done, you
know, and then they see that, Hey, it's not one person they're helping, but it's so many
more that you get to connect your voice with so many more people through a book.
Because like a book is one way of sharing your content.
And from that, it might be that you create a course.
I mean, in this case we're creating, you guys created a course and now we're doing a book.
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But sometimes the book first, then the course.
Cause there's so many ways to involve someone in your story and help them.
Yeah.
Like we need to have a conversation across the walk.
Cause I've got a graphic novel series like, Oh, you can around, but it seems like it's
so big that I get afraid of it.
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And then I duck my head again, but I feel like meaning to come through, but I just need
to kind of organize it in a way that, cause I think that's it is like that sometimes our
own message can scare us because it's part of my brain.
My ego says it's all been done before, but clearly it has been through, right?
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But not through me.
Exactly.
And yeah,
Shakespeare had Cleopatra say that in the 1500s, there's nothing new beneath the visiting
moon.
Oh my God.
In the 1500s?
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Yeah.
In the 50s.
Yeah.
In that play, Cleopatra, that's one of her lines.
And certainly sometimes people say there's only eight plots, but it's what you make of
it.
It's your vision.
It's your way of sharing a story.
So that's common for people to think, Oh, what can I add to it?
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But my gosh, your message matters.
Your story matters.
Your way of connecting with people, your way of interpreting the world, you know, is important.
So yeah, let's have that talk.
Cause I know sometimes it's almost like, how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time?
And I hope you to figure out the steps of creating that story and getting it out there.
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Love that.
Love that.
And we have another book that we need to do called, you know, three shit shows I started
and the wisdom bombs gleaned for you because I really believe that all of my stories didn't
happen to me.
They happened for me because now I get to help others with the wisdom.
Like, you know, in a book I do it in my coaching.
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Like when I bring out a story that I feel intuitively a client needs to hear, it's like,
it can be totally transformational because they feel less alone.
Right?
That's what our stories do.
Right?
People don't have to feel alone and they go, Oh my God, you've gone through it.
Well, I can get through it too.
Right?
So you give them hits with your, your story message and magic gives others hits, hope,
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inspiration and tools.
Right?
That's what a good book I'm sure can do.
Right?
Oh, wow.
Another one of your incredible acronyms.
So definitely, I mean, you've just got such a great way with words that you got to share.
So definitely you've got to share your hits and, and, and the way that you help people
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with the world, cause you'll, that's the way of bringing them into in closer.
It kind of goes far out and brings them in closer to you.
Yeah.
So, oh, I love it.
And as we get that, as I get that, that those stories out, I think I'm going to heal at
a deeper level too, because now they're out in the world.
They're serving.
My pain was not in vain.
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I went through all of those shit shows because I was meant to help humanity.
Right?
Sorry.
That just gets me emotional.
And that's what we're all here to do.
Right?
Absolutely.
And I'm curious for the benefit of our, of our listeners.
Yeah.
What would be like three things to help them focus on their story?
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How would they articulate?
Yeah.
So three things to help you focus on your story is to kind of think about those transformations
because it's almost like, um, you'll have all these things that happen to you and then
you'll notice how they took you from one place to another.
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That's that can, I mean, that reminds me so much of the angel of a, of a, of a, of a,
of a revolution that you, that you talk about.
And then you'll, you'll, it'll connect you to your why.
You'll learn more about why you want to share your voice, why you want to tell your story
and not so much connected to what you, you know, developing an understanding of what
your purpose might be.
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And then as you develop each story, you'll know how they, what part they play in terms
of, of saving, serving your why.
Because it's often you've got several stories.
And so those are the three things I think you should be looking at, you know, your transformation,
your whys, as well as, you know, some of the, the, um, I've forgotten what the third one
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was.
I don't have a cool way of explaining it, except that, um, it kind of like, I, I've
totally forgotten what I meant to say with that.
Your purpose, your purpose.
That's kind of your why.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You've got a purpose.
And so two will have to do if, cause I can't remember exactly how.
Exactly.
But two is good.
Yeah, two's great.
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Keep it simple, silly.
I think it's keep it simple, sweetheart.
But silly's fun too.
It works.
Well, Acasua, this has been absolutely delightful being able to chat with you.
We need to wrap up now, but, um, I just want to say, how can people contact you if they
resonate with your vibe and they know you're the person that's going to lead them through
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getting their book done and out into the world to make a difference?
Um, what's the best way?
Wow.
Well, thank you so much, Elvira, for inviting me to share that with people.
And the best way, um, you can get in touch with me is through my website, which it's
quite a long URL.
What's your story?
Author services.com.
(30:31):
And you can also get in touch with me through Instagram, which might be a bit easier because
it's what's your story.books.
So either way you'll find me.
My email address is on both of those locations, both on my website.
And you can always connect with me by direct message, by email through the contact form
on my website.
(30:52):
And you could just make an appointment, straight up, make an appointment and we can have our
first chat.
Awesome.
You don't charge for that.
You do complimentary chats.
Oh no.
Yeah.
Awesome.
And we'll put her information in the show notes as well.
Okay.
Fabulous.
Fabulous.
How great has this been?
Yay.
A round of applause for Acasua.
(31:14):
Thank you so much for joining us Acasua.
You are such a shining star on our team.
We love you so much and, um, we look forward to seeing you again on another episode of
the Love Your Vibe Show, a revolution of evolution.
And thank you Acasua.
Keep doing the amazing work that you're doing in the world.
We just honor you so much.
(31:35):
Thank you.
Oh wow.
Thank you so much.
Bye everyone.
See you next time.
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