August 29, 2025 • 41 mins
In today's hyper-connected world, finding that peaceful state of mind has become increasingly difficult. The 24-hour news cycle, addictive social media platforms, and constant digital stimulation have created unprecedented mental burdens. Many motorcyclists find themselves wondering: can we ever reclaim that pure, carefree joy we once knew on two wheels?
Author and Mindfulness expert Elysia Skye believes we absolutely can. With remarkable insight, she explains how motorcycling naturally cultivates mindfulness—the practice of being fully present in the moment. When we ride, we must focus intently on our surroundings, creating a natural state of presence that counteracts the mindless scrolling that dominates modern life. This presence, combined with the sensory experience of riding, creates perfect conditions for reconnecting with our authentic selves.
Eylisa shares fascinating perspectives on how technology affects us on multiple levels—from the content we consume to the actual frequencies embedded in our devices and social media platforms. She offers practical strategies for grounding ourselves through simple acts like touching trees, feeling the earth beneath our feet, or embracing the vibrations of our motorcycles. These physical connections help reset our overwhelmed nervous systems and return us to a state of calm awareness.
Perhaps most powerfully, Elysia and Ron discuss how motorcycling can become a gateway to greater purpose and connection with others. When we experience the peace that comes through mindful riding, we naturally feel more gratitude and compassion, which often manifests as generosity toward others—whether stopping to help a stranded motorist or simply offering a genuine smile to someone in need.
Ready to transform your rides into journeys of mindfulness and purpose? Listen now to discover how motorcycle therapy might be exactly what your soul has been craving. Then share your own experiences finding peace on two wheels in the comments or on social media—we'd love to hear how riding has helped you reconnect with your happy place.
Resources for reaching Elysia:
- elysiaskye.com
- elysiaskye.com/podcast
- patreon.com/thebrilliancemethod.com
- https://www.instagram.com/elysiaskye
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/elysiaskye/
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
In this podcast we talk a lot about the joy of
riding a motorcycle, the freedom, the relaxation, the peace of
mind that some of us find outthere on the bike.
Any number of times I've triedto describe how I felt riding a
motorcycle when I was a littlebitty kid.
Actually, it was a mini bike,right, got it when I was 11
(00:27):
years old.
Three and a half horsepowersyeah, it was massive to an
11-year-old, unbeknownst to mymom.
I rode that little bike formiles away from our house down
country roads.
As an 11-year-old I can'timagine that now, out there on
those lonely dirt roads, just asit is today, I find my happy
(00:49):
place.
I honestly think that everyonce in a while we here on earth
get a glimpse of heaven, andthat was it for me as a kid, and
sometimes out on my bike.
Today, I feel like I'm gettinganother glimpse just every once
in a while.
But these days, 50 years laterfor me from getting my first
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bike, the loads of life can getpretty heavy, can't they?
The 24-hour news cycle iscertainly a cause, I think, for
that heavy load.
That makes us all feeloverwhelmed sometimes.
So there's a question Is itpossible to get that feeling
back again the feeling when wedidn't have these heavy loads,
(01:31):
when we just rode without a carein the world.
Can we find our happy placeagain?
Well, my friends, it may beobvious I don't have all the
answers, I really don't, but Iknow some amazing people who
have some pretty good answers,really good answers, good
(01:53):
suggestions.
It's my privilege today to havethe opportunity to introduce you
to Alicia Sky.
Alicia is an author and aspeaker and the creator of the
Brilliance Method.
Alicia is an author and aspeaker and the creator of the
Brilliance Method.
She's also the host of her ownpodcast, where she helps people
find clarity and purpose intheir lives.
And for us she has specificrecommendations for helping us
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to find once again that happyplace through the practice of
mindfulness and gratitude whilewe're out on the bike.
From beating cancer to buildinga beautiful marriage, to
helping others find their ownsolutions, their own brilliance.
Alicia's story is one ofresilience and very much of
inspiration.
(02:44):
This is a deep conversation.
We'll be talking aboutmindfulness, spirituality and
even how vulnerability is a truesuperpower.
Interesting A lot of goodinformation here to carry in our
hearts on our next motorcycleride.
I know that you're going toenjoy this conversation as much
as I did.
Thanks for tuning in.
(03:05):
Stay tuned Well here on thePeace Love Moto podcast.
It is just such a privilege tomeet people and have the
opportunity to meet people.
You know I love ridingmotorcycles, most certainly, but
(03:26):
you can ask my wife.
I love to meet people.
Sometimes I have more funmeeting people I have not met
before meeting strangers andbecoming friends than I do with
my own friends.
Maybe that's a problem, buttoday I'm so excited to have
Alicia Skye on the Peace LoveMoto podcast, alicia welcome.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Thank you, ron.
What a joy.
And I mean it is amazing.
I emailed you I said I loveyour show and I'm not even a
motorcyclist, but I just lovethe presence you bring in the
conversation.
And here we are, the way thatyou just jump in, you say yes,
you have an adventurous spirit,not just on the road but on your
show and it is so fun to be apart of already.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, I thank you very much for that and, I must
admit, so I get it.
You know, I'll get emails everyonce in a while of folks who
want to be on the show and Icheck them out first to make
sure they're not some kind ofnut.
And you're not a nut.
I've had some of those like, oh, thank you, but no, thanks but
(04:27):
no.
I saw your information, readfrom your website, saw the
videos and your podcast and Ithought, oh, my goodness, this
is someone I most definitelywant to talk with.
So again, thank you so much forjoining us today.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, I got to tell you, alicia, I love your name,
alicia Sky.
That is a great combination ofa name.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I just have to tell you that, yeah, I mean, my
mother wanted to name me Alicia,which she told me when she
looked it up means joyful,blissful happiness.
Yeah, like that's pretty cool.
And then she wanted to name meAlicia Heaven, and my dad felt
like it was a bit too much, sothey compromised on Sky and
(05:14):
that's where we landed.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, that's wonderful, that's just wonderful
.
So, beyond that, though, I justfeel like that your name fits
to what you do, so we're onvideo together here, and behind
you is the Brilliance Method.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh well, the Brilliance Method is my—it was
originally started as amethodology when people were
asking me how did you createyour life?
You know I beat cancer when Iwas 24 years old.
I turned 44 on Thursday, so,knock on wood, I'm still clear
and will be forever.
So when you look at, thank youand when.
(05:52):
When you look at, well, how didyou beat it and how did you?
And I listened to my intuition.
That's how I even knew that Ihad cancer in the first place.
My doctors told me I didn't,but I knew I did.
So I saved my own life with myintuition.
And we could talk a little bitabout intuition on the show
today too, and it's something Italk about a lot on my show.
But people were asking me.
You know, I met I was in my midthirties at the time and they
(06:12):
were saying things like wow, youhave this cool career and I've
worked in the entertainmentindustry and I'm married to my
soulmate and I have the mostamazing, beautiful marriage.
It's one of the things I'm mostproud of in my whole life and
you know, you're happily marriedand it takes work, but it's
also like the biggest blessingwhen everything else can
sometimes seem chaotic, likewe've got each other.
(06:34):
And it's who I've become in mymarriage, not just like as a
human being but as a partner,how I've given my husband so
much more grace over the yearsto just be himself and have his
moments and not try to fix andcontrol and you know it's a big
part of what I do.
So long story longer.
I was asked how'd you do it?
How do you live in your dreamhouse, married your husband,
(06:55):
you're healthy, you've got thisgreat career?
How'd you do it?
Because I used to be a hot messand so I had to stop and go.
How did I do it?
That's a great question.
So I took a step back and I usedto work in entertainment and I
segued into working in theeducational aspect of
entertainment, producing coursesfor major universities and huge
(07:16):
brands and you know brandedcontent where they're teaching
curriculums and things like that.
And I used my own experienceand I created a course.
I mapped out I actually didpost-it notes on my wall of what
did I do, order by order.
How did I do it?
And it started with number oneI listened to my intuition.
Number two I went all in on myspiritual practice and
(07:38):
understood the differencebetween what my soul is telling
me as the truth, which is love,and choosing to listen to that
voice versus the ego, which isfear.
And the ego has a great purpose.
It's here to keep us alive.
Our ego is the one that says,hey, don't jump off that cliff
right.
The ego says, hey, turn leftbefore the cliff, because maybe
you won't.
It might be a short drop, butit's here to keep us safe,
(08:01):
because the ego cannot survivewithout a body, but the soul is
eternal.
So we're going to have aspiritual conversation today by
the way, I love it.
And then I looked at well then,what did I do?
I honed in on what we call ourzone of genius, and if you're
(08:21):
not familiar with that term,there's a gentleman named Gay
Hendricks.
He wrote a book called the BigLeap.
I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I watched the interview with him.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, it's so good.
Yes, if you go to theBrilliance Method podcast, you
can watch my interview with GayHendricks, and this is someone
I've looked up to for years andyears and years and he was like
such a big get for me to be onmy show because he's such a hero
of mine, and that's anotherpart of it, right, how do I
manifest everything that Idesire in my life?
And so people are asking me allthis stuff.
(08:49):
So I mapped it out and Ithought I need to teach this.
So I created an online coursecalled the Brilliance Method and
then people wanted to work withme in groups and privately, to
work through their own barriersand limiting beliefs and fears
and doubts and to really tapinto what is the clarity they
have on their unique purpose intheir life and how can they
trust themselves more.
(09:10):
I started working withdifferent corporations leading
mindfulness and I was actuallydoing that before that and then
the podcast happened.
It just kind of happened, ron,like you said, like I can't find
a podcast on this, I shouldstart a podcast on this and for
anyone who listens to Ron's showand might choose to listen to
(09:32):
mine, you know if you have amessage inside of you and you
think, oh, someone else isalready doing it, or maybe
they're doing it better.
They're not you.
You have your own gifted waythat you see the world that is
so sacred and so special and youshould at least just try, just
(09:52):
try.
Whether you want to do apodcast or do a speech or go on
someone else's show, just try,just ask, because you never know
if you're going to help andinspire one person and that
could change that one person'slife, and that one person whose
life you changed or saved, couldchange or save a hundred other
lives.
It's a domino effect.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Oh, oh, absolutely.
You and I talked just a coupleof minutes before we started
recording and I shared with youwhere the idea for this podcast
came from.
Generally, it's associated.
We both are familiar with theMovember Foundation.
People know about it as noShave November Foundation,
people know about it as no ShaveNovember, and my wife and I got
(10:29):
involved as participants andride leaders for what's called
the Distinguished Gentleman'sRide, which happens once a year
on the same day around the world, starts in Australia and goes
around, and anyway, it's thisturned in today.
It's this gigantic fundraiserfor the Movember Foundation,
focused on two different areas,so prostate cancer research and
awareness, and then suicideprevention.
(10:50):
And so it was just after Karen,my wife Karen, and I got
involved with that.
I wanted to find a podcast onthat topic and I found a lot of
motorcycling-based podcastsabout going to Sturgis, lot of
motorcycling-based podcastsabout going to Sturgis, racing
and adventure riding, which I domyself.
(11:10):
But I was really looking forlike this why does this make us
happy and what good can we do inthe world?
And I couldn't find one.
So it was my wife's idea whydon't you just?
She said you've got this voice,let's start.
Just do it, just do it yourself.
And I want to tell you too I'mjust kind of filling in blanks
maybe here too.
So growing up, my dad worked ata machine shop full-time, very,
(11:31):
very, very busy.
But he also worked as apart-time minister.
So when the pastor of a churchwas leaving and there were
between pastors or whatever theywould call dad and dad would
come and fill in for a while.
Then he got into jail ministryand jail education programs, to
working, working with prisoners,you know, to help them out from
(11:53):
a spiritual standpoint.
Then, as it grew, from aneducational standpoint and other
things.
Well, I share with people thatI never felt the personal call
to ministry myself.
I didn't.
So I went into the computerindustry because it was supposed
to be a hot thing, right, andI've been in it ever since.
But what I have found myself,though, with this podcast, with
(12:18):
these quite a number of episodesso far and the feedback that
I've gotten, I feel like I'mslipping into ministry a little
bit.
So far, and the feedback thatI've gotten, I feel like I'm
slipping into ministry a littlebit.
But at the same time, you know,I, you know, I don't know,
maybe I should edit this out,but I don't want to beat people
over the head with the Bibleeither.
You know I appreciate and lovepeople of many, many faiths and
people who don't have a faith atall.
(12:39):
I understand and I reallyappreciate that.
But the thing that I've come tounderstand, I think, trying to
put all the pieces together thething that I've come to
understand, especially throughthe efforts of the Movember
Foundation and the fundraisingefforts for the Distinguished
Gentleman's Right, it's a very,very hurting world.
There are a lot of, lot ofpeople suffering through all
(13:05):
sorts of distresses depression,despair, all that.
And here's another piece of ittoo.
I work in technology, right,and our company is very, very
involved in AI.
So AI and associated automationwith that.
Honestly and I tell my team thistoo I'm very honest I see this
just gigantic wave of despairand depression because so many
(13:28):
knowledge worker jobs aregetting affected, yeah, and it's
a big, big, big deal and I'mvery, very concerned about that.
So, all that being said, I feellike that you and I are very
much on the same page, that wefeel like that maybe we have a
talent for something and acalling to that those of us who
(13:48):
can speak up and do somethingwe've got to, so I should take a
breath there, sorry, I think Iit's so relevant what you're
saying for everyone because,look, your audience spends time
on the road and what a beautifulthing you know, and maybe
you're listening to music, ormaybe you're just being present
(14:08):
and feeling the wind on yourchest, or whatever you might be
doing.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But how much time, ron, do you spend thinking about
your life and memories and likeyou're just doing one thing and
you're focusing on it so youdon't die?
You have to be very careful andcautious and it is a
mindfulness practice and when weare so present with ourself, we
cannot avoid looking at purposeand wanting to be purposeful,
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wanting to be significant,wanting to make an impact and
for things to have meaning.
We want to mean something andyou're doing it.
And for all of us who arelistening to the show right now,
you have a purpose and aheartbeat within you that
motivates you to do better, bebetter, give back, even if it's
not your full-time job, likewhat you and your wife do with
(15:01):
Movember and with your ride, andministry means something
different to everybody.
It doesn't have to look likestanding in front of a podium
preaching, like what you do onthis show, as you said, is your
own form of ministry and you doit in your own way and I
wouldn't edit out the Biblecomment because, truly, the
(15:21):
people and you heard me saybefore we even started recording
I love everyone of allspiritual walks of life and
anyone who's beating anyone overthe head with their specific
belief system and not being opento love, which is what all the
great masters of any religionwere truly teaching they're not
the ones who are probablylistening to your show because
(15:42):
you're an open-minded dude witha big heart who does accept and
want other people's perspectiveson things.
So no, in fact, I think when wespeak to a specific audience,
they can hear us.
And for people who are incommunities that you don't feel
like, those are necessarily yourpeople.
And you're finding Ron, andyou're finding me and you're
(16:02):
like, yeah, I want to hang outwith more people that are like
open-minded and accepting andcan preach in their own way.
That's loving.
Then here we are, we found eachother and my ministry really
came in officiating weddings andI wouldn't be surprised, ron,
if someone at some point asksyou to preside over their
wedding or maybe even a lovedone's funeral.
(16:23):
I've officiated over a thousandweddings.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh my goodness, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, it's one of my fun facts.
On the bottom of my resume and,living in Los Angeles, I've done
a lot of celebrity weddings androck star weddings and
entertainment industry weddingsand you know, what's so cool is
not the names of the people whoI've married, but just to see
that everybody is human andeverybody has a moment of
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vulnerability and that is theirsuperhero connection.
Like the new Superman movie justcame out there came out earlier
this summer and what I loveabout the Superman story is his
vulnerability, that he's likejust a klutz over Lois Lane and
that he can be killed bykryptonite.
(17:12):
And that was a big thing in thenew movie.
I don't want to spoil it foranyone, but they put a big
emphasis on the kryptonite stuff.
And if we are not vulnerable,if we don't scrape our knees on
the road and fumble and cry infront of a group once in a while
and be willing to do somethingfor a good cause and tell the
truth and take care of andprotect people in our industries
and want to shine a light onthose who are fantastic like
(17:35):
you've invited me onto your showand I want you to come onto
mine then how are we going to berelatable to other people we
have to be vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah, I'd mentioned about the whole A and
automation thing, and then again, that's the industry that I'm
in.
But, as you know too, and I'veuh, we're very much like-minded,
as I've found as I've listenedto you um, about the political
mess that we're in.
Now, I never go down that pathon this podcast, but you can say
(18:06):
this I mean, it's just as clearas day.
There's so much hatred, oh, mygoodness, yeah, hatred, uh and
uh, pride, and there's just this, the whole list, I guess,
getting back to the biblicalthing of of sins, they're just
yelling at us that out there allthe time, just screaming like
this shouldn't be done, thisshouldn't be done, this
shouldn't be done and thisshouldn't be done, this
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shouldn't be done and so forth.
And it's this 24-hour newscycle too that people are so
easily becoming addicted to,addicted to Instagram.
You know, one violent act afteranother.
And scrolling through andscrolling through, I just feel
like that people like you and Iand others, we just have to be
almost as loud in a positive way.
(18:48):
We just have to be almost asloud in a positive way.
You know, what I haveexperienced in my as a tour
guide very part-time tour guidein Rocky Mountain National Park
is that when we get people, someof our favorite visitors are
from the big city, chicago, la,new York or whatever.
Those are going to be winners,winning tours.
Because we take out about adozen people at a time, because
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so many of them have no ideawhat wilderness is and they the
way I put it they've never had aconversation with their mom and
I I use that expression mothernature.
They haven't had theconversation and I've shared
this a few times, but I wantedto share this with you too, and
I appreciate your thoughts.
So I had, i've've done wellover 300 tours in the National
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Park.
It's with Green Jeep Tours.
Nikki Schultz is the owner,female owner.
She's wonderful.
We usually take about a dozenpeople into the mountains at a
time in these Jeeps and thingsand we narrate.
I took a gentleman and hisfamily into the mountains and we
went out to this mountainmeadow.
That was just.
It's just beautiful.
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It's completely surrounded bymountain peaks and snow on the
mountains all year round.
And after a lot of training, Iguess, or experience, I learned
to stop talking so much.
I could talk for the wholethree-hour tour and rattle
things off, but I stoppedtalking so much.
So here's my point, as we getout to this place called Elk
Meadow and I described thingsoff, but I stopped talking so
much.
So here's where my point is weget out to this place called Elk
Meadow and I described thepeaks, the name of the peaks,
their altitude, and I stoppedtalking.
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And then the father of the groupcame and stood up, stood
shoulder to shoulder with me, tomy right, and he said Ron, I
feel the presence of God here,and he's from Chicago and they
had never seen anything likethis before.
And that opened the door for me.
And I said yes, sir, I do too.
And I went on to say I rememberwhat I said somehow.
(20:39):
I said maybe all of this wascreated for me and you right now
to realize how small we are andhow big God is and how
wonderful mother nature is.
Maybe it's just created for usright now.
And he cried, and he gave me ahug and then I cried you know,
but.
But I guess where I'm going withthis is.
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I think that there's so manypeople buried in their phone and
watching the news continuouslyand upset about what the
president saying or others aresaying and all this stuff, and
rightfully so upset.
But we can only take so much,right, Isn't it destructive up
here?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It is.
And if we spent more timefocusing on those magical
moments like you had with thatdad.
Even in our own backyard, evenin a big city, there's so many
beautiful things that have beencreated.
And hey, if it's noisy outsideand the buildings are tall, just
look straight up at the sky andjust be fascinated.
You know, we're not fascinatedanymore, ron.
(21:41):
We've got everything on demand.
Remember when we were youngerand we had to, like, wait a
whole year to watch yourfavorite movie on Christmas and
all that you know.
And people don't get to do thatanymore and we can choose to.
We can choose to be fascinatedand we get to be in awe.
And the opposite of that ismindlessness, not mindfulness.
(22:02):
And when we have that lowvibrational frequency of terror
and pain and look at all of thiscrime and sadness in the world
and hey, look over here, lookover here, look over here, then
we're not looking inside, we'renot looking around our immediate
circle.
And I read a statistic recently.
I don't know if it's quite astatistic, but human beings were
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never meant to know the news ofthe world.
Human beings were never meantto know the news of the world
that we are a tribal people andmaybe our communities were
supposed to be 100, maybe 150people big and that's it.
You knew what was going on inthe tribe next door, maybe a few
communities down, you know theriver where you might fish or
whatnot, like we weren't meantto know about wars and other
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countries and things.
And now we get to and we cancontribute and donate and pray
and do good with it, but not toyour point, to not be inundated
with the pain of it all the time.
And I tell people I'm likeplease don't post horrible stuff
or send me things of shootingsand animals and things that make
me sad.
Just tell me who to donate toor tell me what to share.
(23:14):
You know, tell me where, likewhen to venmo you or what to
venmo you.
But I am too sensitive and Ihave no qualms about it to see
that stuff all the time and itit lowers our frequency yeah,
yeah, I, yeah, I have.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I experienced something weird.
I don't.
Maybe you can tell me whathappened to me.
So I commute three days a weekinto downtown Denver and I
choose to take the bus, whichtakes me twice as long.
But I like sitting on the busand I listen to music and I
listen to podcasts such as yoursnow.
And anyway, I remember thisinstant and it freaked me out.
(23:50):
So I was on the bus from Denverback to Loveland, where I live,
and it's a 55-minute routeincluding two stops.
Before I stop here, I startedlooking at Instagram with my
headphones on and scrollingbefore the bus left Denver Union
Station.
I didn't look up until I heardLoveland Station 55 minutes
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later, and I had been scrollingthat whole time and I felt dizzy
.
It freaked me out.
I was mindless.
I guess that I wrote down thatword that you mentioned.
I went mindless and did I learnanything?
I probably laughed a lot andsaid, wow, look at this, or
whatever, but I went mindlessfor 55 minutes and I felt
(24:39):
terrible about that.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You felt physically terrible, or you just felt like
shame, like you wasted your timeA little bit of both.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I felt a little dizzy from it.
It was weird, but I think itwas mainly the realization that
I was hooked, at least for that55 minutes.
I was absolutely hooked in thescrolling.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah Well, first of all, you can set a timer on your
Instagram, and I have mine setto 30 minutes a day and you can
just use it a minute at a time,here and there throughout the
day, and it'll tell you when youhave five minutes left and I
have mine doing that, and youcould click ignore limit for
today, but it's a mindfulreminder to just not be on your
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phone so much.
So that's one tip that I thinkcan help everybody.
And what happened?
You said maybe I could tell youwhat happened.
So there's a couple things thathappened.
(25:45):
Number one when we're doneworking, our brain has almost
run out of message units.
Which message units are and howwell we ate.
We have a certain amount ofmessage units and if you slept
like crap, you ate crap, you hada stressful day, you start your
next day with a lot lessmessage units.
So if you're you know they usedto have a commercial about that
2.30 feeling like now I needcaffeine or something like that,
(26:05):
right, that happens becausewe've just run out.
Right, there's just too muchthinking, too much doing, not
enough being.
We've depleted our messageunits in our brain.
So when we've done that, it'sactually hard to accomplish
anything else because you'rejust a little bit sluggish and
caffeine only takes you so far.
What you really need to do isrest or do something peaceful
that resets your nervous systemor helps you just relax.
(26:26):
So the bus is a greatopportunity to do that, as you
said, because you can listen topodcasts and read or whatnot.
And it's okay that you justdecided to check out.
You just checked the F out.
I just need this little mentalvacancy, okay.
So that's okay to do once in awhile.
So if there's shame there, youget to just release that guilt
(26:47):
or shame and just let go, sothat I understand.
And then now you're presentenough and you'll remember this
conversation.
So next time you're 10 minutesin and you're like, oh, I feel
this pull to just be stuck onInstagram and I'm watching funny
videos and I'm watching cuteanimal videos or laughing a lot,
like there's nothing wrong withthat.
But check out your posture, makesure you're breathing, make
(27:07):
sure you're drinking water, makesure you're paying attention to
where you're going, so youdon't wind up having to Uber
back right.
And there's another thing,though in our devices, in our
physical devices, first of all,there's the energy of Wi-Fi,
there's the electromagneticfrequencies.
There's the radiation of Wi-Fiall around us and Bluetooth, if
you're listening on Bluetooth,right, so there's all this stuff
(27:28):
that's messing with our ownbiology on a level of frequency,
and that is stress to the body.
It might, for some, consider ita microstress, some consider it
a macrostress, but it's stresson the body to engage with
electronics even now, the waythat we're doing.
And then the other thing isthere are literal, audible
frequencies in, not just inInstagram and TikTok and
(27:52):
anything else, but also inmodern day music that are
programmed in there to make usfeel more addicted to them.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Really.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
There are, and it happened close to 100 years ago
in the music industry.
They started putting it inclassical music and playing at a
different frequency.
It's not really a conspiracytheory, it's just the truth.
Like, if you speak my husband'sin the music industry, you can
speak to anyone who works inaudio engineering and they'll
tell you oh yeah, we used to doeverything at this hertz and now
we do everything at this hertzfor pop music because it sells
(28:20):
better, right?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So it's not your fault, ok.
And like TikTok, I cannot stayon TikTok for more than five
minutes because I feel dizzy,because I'm so sensitive to it.
So that feeling you got onInstagram after 30, I'm kind of
the same way.
Or you've had it for an hour.
I kind of get out at 30.
Tiktok, I cap out at fiveminutes.
It's such a strong wave.
Whatever they're doing in thereand you know, look, everything
(28:49):
that happens in this country isto sell us something, whether we
like it or not, and they'rejust trying to sell us stuff and
they're paying attention towhat we're clicking on and what
we're scrolling on, and thenthey're feeding us these, this
information, and our brain istired.
So if anyone is like, yeah,that happens to me sometimes,
just put it down.
(29:10):
Sometimes I'll text myself thelink if I really want to come
back or read an article or lookat somebody's page and just give
yourself a break and go outsideand stick your feet in the
ground.
Or if it's snowing, you know,don't, but go like I will
physically, and this, you know,sounds very hippy-d dippy, but I
will go and put my hands ontrees and I will just walk
(29:31):
outside, like walking up to mydoor.
You get out of your car.
Long day of work, it takes 30seconds.
People walk up.
Just put your hands on thetrees and feel the grounding
energy and just breathe andimagine roots and leaves coming
from your own feet down into theearth.
Like Ron was saying, we're likeare we disconnected from our
mother?
Do we miss our mother?
Right, you can heal thatfeeling of anxiety, which is
(29:57):
what you described, ron, aboutbeing on Instagram for an hour.
Right, it's a feeling ofanxiety.
Just go touch something natural, even just hug your own dog
when you walk in the door.
Don't just pet her on the headand give her a treat.
Sit on the floor and hold herand feel her heartbeat on yours.
That is how we ground in, andhumans too.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I love that.
I so love that Right now I'm inbare feet and my feet are on a
grounding pad.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yay, I have one too.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
My wife both on to that and, uh, she sleeps with a
grounding pad at her feet.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I don't do that, I'm too restless of a sleeper, but
we, we have really gotten intothat and I sleep better when I'm
using and you know what's crazyis because the grounding sheet
plugs into the one.
I don't know the science behindit, but when you have an outlet
there's the circle on thebottom, it plugs into that, and
that only If my phone is pluggedin and I'm on my phone in bed
(30:56):
and I have the grounding sheeton me.
It actually sends me a littleelectric shocks, which they say
don't use electronics, don't beholding electronics when you're
grounding.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh, interesting Something to it oh interesting
Something to it, so yeah, Iwanted to ask you one other
thing in regard to this podcastthat I'm trying to figure out
what it's all about.
I think I'm getting closer, butthe minute I get closer I think
, oh wait, I'm not real sureI've used here's where the name
(31:30):
came from.
We haven't talked about this.
But peace is peace of mind,because I've mentioned any
number of times, when I go for amotorcycle ride and I don't
ride in traffic unfortunately Idon't have to where we live I
can go and be traffic free rightaway, which is wonderful, and
go up in the mountains, be ondirt roads and stuff like that.
(31:50):
But the peace of mind piece forme is that at 63 now, I
transport myself back to my11-year-old self when I put my
helmet on and start the bike.
It takes a few minutes, but itdoesn't take that long, and it's
just all of a sudden the samelittle vibration that I felt on
(32:12):
that tiny little mini bike whenI was a little bitty kid riding
out through the woods and allthese old dirt roads.
It comes back to me and everyonce in a while I get feedback
from a listener and it's me too.
Me too, I remember that.
And so again kind of aroundback to my our sense of urgency
around.
There's just a lot of hurtingpeople out there who just need
(32:36):
some relief from without or fromwithin, wherever they can come
from, and my hope with thepodcast is that they will
eventually love through thesecond word, love that you got
to learn to love yourself first,I believe, and then you got to
love other people.
You absolutely have to, whetherit's that little over the top
(32:58):
tip for a barista, a littleconversation, extra smile to a
kid who's looking at you throughthe window of their car car or
pulling off the road to say, youknow, seeing someone who's on
the side of the road and say,are you okay?
You know, and sometimes they'llsay no, I'm not, and that's
happened to me a few times and Ijust absolutely convinced that,
(33:19):
yes, we need to be pouring intoourselves, most certainly, but
I think a big part of that'sjust pouring out to other people
, because there's always someoneout there who's really having a
bad, bad day or their life hasjust been ruined for some reason
, and they need somebody likeyou who's willing to come out
and just say a kind word andgive a hug to a stranger or
(33:41):
whatever.
So that's, I guess that circlesback to what I'm trying to
figure out with this podcast,cause I don't see, I just don't
hear anybody else talkingspecifically about that.
I think we're doing a reallygood job as motorcycle riders
talking about the whole freedomthing, and you know the party
and our brotherhoods andsisterhoods we do a really good
job at that.
(34:02):
But I think the minute, too,that we face out and realize
that, wow, are we blessed I'lluse that word strongly, you know
, blessed because we have thefinances to own one or more
motorcycles For one thing, theyare not cheap and we have the
physical capability to do it,we've got the mental capability
to do it.
So that's, you know, threereally good things to live for
(34:24):
and be thankful for.
So we've got that going for usas a motorcycling family.
So with that, you just got toturn it around.
You just don't know whatsomebody else may be going
through, or there's just, as youmentioned too, there's just
some wonderful charities thatare already out there that we
can be giving to.
So, all that being said, I'dlike to ask you, maybe, as we
(34:47):
begin to wrap up, what can ourlisteners do to learn more from
you, the people that you workwith your organizations that you
support.
What can they do to take thenext steps in realizing how
blessed they are and howwonderful it is to show love in
some way to another person?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Wow, so beautiful, Ron.
And as I begin to answer that,I just want to reflect back to
you the idea of generosity,because that's the theme in
everything that you just said.
And if anyone feels in any wayawkward or embarrassed to make
eye contact with someone or givethem a compliment and I know
that's, you know, can be riskynowadays in an environment where
people are offended or scared,right, but when you come from a
(35:36):
place of kindness and you justlet that moment happen and it's
just true generosity.
Like you said, giving a littleextra tip, holding a door open,
you know, saying a kind thing tosomeone you just can do it.
Just to do it, just to makesomebody happy, and that's why
you created this show is tobring happiness.
That's why I created my showand with the brilliance method,
(36:00):
if you liked this conversationand you're interested in hearing
more of these types ofconversations when it comes to
mindfulness and trustingyourself and being a better
human and connecting to yourpurpose, having clarity and
reason for being, then come tomy show.
It's available on every podcastplatform.
I do video and audio.
I have a YouTube channel.
(36:20):
I'm putting YouTube shortsnippets out now and I've
created a Patreon which ispatreoncom, forward.
Slash the brilliance method andthat's community.
That is a place to get involvedin co-creating episodes with me
.
We do a monthly spiritual thinktank where we talk about these
ideas and sometimes I answerquestions for people from an
(36:43):
intuitive perspective.
Or, you know, we do a littlecoaching back and forth and it's
a good time.
Or we do a little coaching backand forth and it's a good time.
Other than that, aliciaskycom,my name is spelled E-L-Y-S-I-A
and there's an E on the end ofsky S-K-Y-Ecom.
My website is set up primarilyfor me as a speaker.
(37:04):
I love to do motivational andmindset speaking with different
corporations, events, workshopsof all shapes and sizes.
I do a lot of panel speakingtoo, and it's all focused on
mindfulness, stress reductionand compassionate communication.
How can we just be a healthier,happier human, kinder to others
and ourselves, and it's mygreatest joy.
So if there's a space for me tocome and speak at your event
(37:25):
and your organization, or if youwant to co-create and put
something together, like Ron andI might be doing, then hit me
up, reach out and yeah, again, Ithink the word blessed is very
appropriate.
I am so blessed and so blessedthat you said yes, and here we
are, and this is just thebeginning.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well, it just really made my day.
This has been the last couple ofweeks been kind of tough on the
corporate side that I work on,these days Been a little tough,
but just talking with someonelike you who I feel like is very
much a kindred spirit, that werealize how blessed we are and
(38:05):
we know there's wonderful peopleout there to connect with and
there's also a lot of people wecan help in one way or another,
and thank you for your spiritand all that you do.
And I think I've alreadymentioned on this podcast before
, but I work for a littlecompany.
I shouldn't mention its name,but its initials are IBM.
Well, I want to be indiscreetthere.
(38:26):
I won't mention the name, butinitials are IBM.
And we have mindfulness at IBM,which I've had the opportunity
to speak a couple of times on,and I feel certain that my
colleagues who run that podcastand that event would love to
have you.
So that's something I've justmade a note of.
If you may be interested intalking with the corporate world
(38:47):
there, we would love to haveyou.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I would love to, and I went to an AI for marketing
convention in Cleveland, Ohio,last year and we talked a lot
about ethics with AI andpeople's jobs changing and a lot
of times corporations willbring me in.
This happened with BananaRepublic when they did a mass
(39:10):
layoff that's public informationnow, but they had to do a
pretty big layoff and they said,Alicia, can you just make
everybody feel better?
Can you talk about purpose andmaybe what's next for them?
And especially with AI, as youmentioned, there might be some
jobs in every industry beingreplaced, some of those
knowledge-based jobs and thingslike that.
And I will say, if anyone isworried, I want to give you some
(39:35):
hope that this is anopportunity and this is
something I learned at this AIconvention this technology boom.
Yes, there's going to be a lotof difficult times ahead, but
this is a time for us to becomemasters at our craft and go all
in on what we're passionateabout, Because those people who
love what they do and they do itbetter than anyone else they're
(39:57):
going to rise up above theirmiddlemen jobs that they haven't
been in love with, because theyknow there's something greater
for them.
So I encourage everyone toreally commit to their own
brilliance right now and shineand you will thrive.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
So encouraging, so encouraging and for the
listeners.
I will have all the details onyour contact information in the
show notes.
And, alicia, thank you, it wasa pleasure to meet you.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Oh, my pleasure.
Thank you, ron, and thank youto everyone listening today.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Just like you, I find myself discouraged sometimes by
the weight of the world, theendless news cycle and so forth,
but then you hear someone whotells you about hope, and that's
what we heard today from AliciaSky.
Alicia, thank you so much forbeing with us today, for your
specific suggestions that speakvery much to our motorcycling
(40:55):
community.
Alicia's information will be inthe show notes.
Feel free to reach out to her,and thank you so much for
joining us on this podcast.
I appreciate your support.
I appreciate your support Ifyou would like to write a review
for this podcast hopefully apositive one and do that, I
think, especially through ApplePodcasts.
That's quite effective inhelping get the news out about
(41:18):
the podcast if you like it.
So if you wouldn't mind doingthat, that would be awesome.
Really appreciate any reviews,as always.
Thank you so much for listening.
I wish you peace and I wish youlove.
(41:56):
Thank you.
In this podcast we talk a lot about the joy of
riding a motorcycle, the freedom, the relaxation, the peace of
mind that some of us find outthere on the bike.
Any number of times I've triedto describe how I felt riding a
motorcycle when I was a littlebitty kid.
Actually, it was a mini bike,right, got it when I was 11
(00:27):
years old.
Three and a half horsepowersyeah, it was massive to an
11-year-old, unbeknownst to mymom.
I rode that little bike formiles away from our house down
country roads.
As an 11-year-old I can'timagine that now, out there on
those lonely dirt roads, just asit is today, I find my happy
(00:49):
place.
I honestly think that everyonce in a while we here on earth
get a glimpse of heaven, andthat was it for me as a kid, and
sometimes out on my bike.
Today, I feel like I'm gettinganother glimpse just every once
in a while.
But these days, 50 years laterfor me from getting my first
(01:09):
bike, the loads of life can getpretty heavy, can't they?
The 24-hour news cycle iscertainly a cause, I think, for
that heavy load.
That makes us all feeloverwhelmed sometimes.
So there's a question Is itpossible to get that feeling
back again the feeling when wedidn't have these heavy loads,
(01:31):
when we just rode without a carein the world.
Can we find our happy placeagain?
Well, my friends, it may beobvious I don't have all the
answers, I really don't, but Iknow some amazing people who
have some pretty good answers,really good answers, good
(01:53):
suggestions.
It's my privilege today to havethe opportunity to introduce you
to Alicia Sky.
Alicia is an author and aspeaker and the creator of the
Brilliance Method.
Alicia is an author and aspeaker and the creator of the
Brilliance Method.
She's also the host of her ownpodcast, where she helps people
find clarity and purpose intheir lives.
And for us she has specificrecommendations for helping us
(02:21):
to find once again that happyplace through the practice of
mindfulness and gratitude whilewe're out on the bike.
From beating cancer to buildinga beautiful marriage, to
helping others find their ownsolutions, their own brilliance.
Alicia's story is one ofresilience and very much of
inspiration.
(02:44):
This is a deep conversation.
We'll be talking aboutmindfulness, spirituality and
even how vulnerability is a truesuperpower.
Interesting A lot of goodinformation here to carry in our
hearts on our next motorcycleride.
I know that you're going toenjoy this conversation as much
as I did.
Thanks for tuning in.
(03:05):
Stay tuned Well here on thePeace Love Moto podcast.
It is just such a privilege tomeet people and have the
opportunity to meet people.
You know I love ridingmotorcycles, most certainly, but
(03:26):
you can ask my wife.
I love to meet people.
Sometimes I have more funmeeting people I have not met
before meeting strangers andbecoming friends than I do with
my own friends.
Maybe that's a problem, buttoday I'm so excited to have
Alicia Skye on the Peace LoveMoto podcast, alicia welcome.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Thank you, ron.
What a joy.
And I mean it is amazing.
I emailed you I said I loveyour show and I'm not even a
motorcyclist, but I just lovethe presence you bring in the
conversation.
And here we are, the way thatyou just jump in, you say yes,
you have an adventurous spirit,not just on the road but on your
show and it is so fun to be apart of already.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, I thank you very much for that and, I must
admit, so I get it.
You know, I'll get emails everyonce in a while of folks who
want to be on the show and Icheck them out first to make
sure they're not some kind ofnut.
And you're not a nut.
I've had some of those like, oh, thank you, but no, thanks but
(04:27):
no.
I saw your information, readfrom your website, saw the
videos and your podcast and Ithought, oh, my goodness, this
is someone I most definitelywant to talk with.
So again, thank you so much forjoining us today.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
My pleasure.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, I got to tell you, alicia, I love your name,
alicia Sky.
That is a great combination ofa name.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I just have to tell you that, yeah, I mean, my
mother wanted to name me Alicia,which she told me when she
looked it up means joyful,blissful happiness.
Yeah, like that's pretty cool.
And then she wanted to name meAlicia Heaven, and my dad felt
like it was a bit too much, sothey compromised on Sky and
(05:14):
that's where we landed.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, that's wonderful, that's just wonderful
.
So, beyond that, though, I justfeel like that your name fits
to what you do, so we're onvideo together here, and behind
you is the Brilliance Method.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh well, the Brilliance Method is my—it was
originally started as amethodology when people were
asking me how did you createyour life?
You know I beat cancer when Iwas 24 years old.
I turned 44 on Thursday, so,knock on wood, I'm still clear
and will be forever.
So when you look at, thank youand when.
(05:52):
When you look at, well, how didyou beat it and how did you?
And I listened to my intuition.
That's how I even knew that Ihad cancer in the first place.
My doctors told me I didn't,but I knew I did.
So I saved my own life with myintuition.
And we could talk a little bitabout intuition on the show
today too, and it's something Italk about a lot on my show.
But people were asking me.
You know, I met I was in my midthirties at the time and they
(06:12):
were saying things like wow, youhave this cool career and I've
worked in the entertainmentindustry and I'm married to my
soulmate and I have the mostamazing, beautiful marriage.
It's one of the things I'm mostproud of in my whole life and
you know, you're happily marriedand it takes work, but it's
also like the biggest blessingwhen everything else can
sometimes seem chaotic, likewe've got each other.
(06:34):
And it's who I've become in mymarriage, not just like as a
human being but as a partner,how I've given my husband so
much more grace over the yearsto just be himself and have his
moments and not try to fix andcontrol and you know it's a big
part of what I do.
So long story longer.
I was asked how'd you do it?
How do you live in your dreamhouse, married your husband,
(06:55):
you're healthy, you've got thisgreat career?
How'd you do it?
Because I used to be a hot messand so I had to stop and go.
How did I do it?
That's a great question.
So I took a step back and I usedto work in entertainment and I
segued into working in theeducational aspect of
entertainment, producing coursesfor major universities and huge
(07:16):
brands and you know brandedcontent where they're teaching
curriculums and things like that.
And I used my own experienceand I created a course.
I mapped out I actually didpost-it notes on my wall of what
did I do, order by order.
How did I do it?
And it started with number oneI listened to my intuition.
Number two I went all in on myspiritual practice and
(07:38):
understood the differencebetween what my soul is telling
me as the truth, which is love,and choosing to listen to that
voice versus the ego, which isfear.
And the ego has a great purpose.
It's here to keep us alive.
Our ego is the one that says,hey, don't jump off that cliff
right.
The ego says, hey, turn leftbefore the cliff, because maybe
you won't.
It might be a short drop, butit's here to keep us safe,
(08:01):
because the ego cannot survivewithout a body, but the soul is
eternal.
So we're going to have aspiritual conversation today by
the way, I love it.
And then I looked at well then,what did I do?
I honed in on what we call ourzone of genius, and if you're
(08:21):
not familiar with that term,there's a gentleman named Gay
Hendricks.
He wrote a book called the BigLeap.
I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
I watched the interview with him.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, it's so good.
Yes, if you go to theBrilliance Method podcast, you
can watch my interview with GayHendricks, and this is someone
I've looked up to for years andyears and years and he was like
such a big get for me to be onmy show because he's such a hero
of mine, and that's anotherpart of it, right, how do I
manifest everything that Idesire in my life?
And so people are asking me allthis stuff.
(08:49):
So I mapped it out and Ithought I need to teach this.
So I created an online coursecalled the Brilliance Method and
then people wanted to work withme in groups and privately, to
work through their own barriersand limiting beliefs and fears
and doubts and to really tapinto what is the clarity they
have on their unique purpose intheir life and how can they
trust themselves more.
(09:10):
I started working withdifferent corporations leading
mindfulness and I was actuallydoing that before that and then
the podcast happened.
It just kind of happened, ron,like you said, like I can't find
a podcast on this, I shouldstart a podcast on this and for
anyone who listens to Ron's showand might choose to listen to
(09:32):
mine, you know if you have amessage inside of you and you
think, oh, someone else isalready doing it, or maybe
they're doing it better.
They're not you.
You have your own gifted waythat you see the world that is
so sacred and so special and youshould at least just try, just
(09:52):
try.
Whether you want to do apodcast or do a speech or go on
someone else's show, just try,just ask, because you never know
if you're going to help andinspire one person and that
could change that one person'slife, and that one person whose
life you changed or saved, couldchange or save a hundred other
lives.
It's a domino effect.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Oh, oh, absolutely.
You and I talked just a coupleof minutes before we started
recording and I shared with youwhere the idea for this podcast
came from.
Generally, it's associated.
We both are familiar with theMovember Foundation.
People know about it as noShave November Foundation,
people know about it as no ShaveNovember, and my wife and I got
(10:29):
involved as participants andride leaders for what's called
the Distinguished Gentleman'sRide, which happens once a year
on the same day around the world, starts in Australia and goes
around, and anyway, it's thisturned in today.
It's this gigantic fundraiserfor the Movember Foundation,
focused on two different areas,so prostate cancer research and
awareness, and then suicideprevention.
(10:50):
And so it was just after Karen,my wife Karen, and I got
involved with that.
I wanted to find a podcast onthat topic and I found a lot of
motorcycling-based podcastsabout going to Sturgis, lot of
motorcycling-based podcastsabout going to Sturgis, racing
and adventure riding, which I domyself.
(11:10):
But I was really looking forlike this why does this make us
happy and what good can we do inthe world?
And I couldn't find one.
So it was my wife's idea whydon't you just?
She said you've got this voice,let's start.
Just do it, just do it yourself.
And I want to tell you too I'mjust kind of filling in blanks
maybe here too.
So growing up, my dad worked ata machine shop full-time, very,
(11:31):
very, very busy.
But he also worked as apart-time minister.
So when the pastor of a churchwas leaving and there were
between pastors or whatever theywould call dad and dad would
come and fill in for a while.
Then he got into jail ministryand jail education programs, to
working, working with prisoners,you know, to help them out from
(11:53):
a spiritual standpoint.
Then, as it grew, from aneducational standpoint and other
things.
Well, I share with people thatI never felt the personal call
to ministry myself.
I didn't.
So I went into the computerindustry because it was supposed
to be a hot thing, right, andI've been in it ever since.
But what I have found myself,though, with this podcast, with
(12:18):
these quite a number of episodesso far and the feedback that
I've gotten, I feel like I'mslipping into ministry a little
bit.
So far, and the feedback thatI've gotten, I feel like I'm
slipping into ministry a littlebit.
But at the same time, you know,I, you know, I don't know,
maybe I should edit this out,but I don't want to beat people
over the head with the Bibleeither.
You know I appreciate and lovepeople of many, many faiths and
people who don't have a faith atall.
(12:39):
I understand and I reallyappreciate that.
But the thing that I've come tounderstand, I think, trying to
put all the pieces together thething that I've come to
understand, especially throughthe efforts of the Movember
Foundation and the fundraisingefforts for the Distinguished
Gentleman's Right, it's a very,very hurting world.
There are a lot of, lot ofpeople suffering through all
(13:05):
sorts of distresses depression,despair, all that.
And here's another piece of ittoo.
I work in technology, right,and our company is very, very
involved in AI.
So AI and associated automationwith that.
Honestly and I tell my team thistoo I'm very honest I see this
just gigantic wave of despairand depression because so many
(13:28):
knowledge worker jobs aregetting affected, yeah, and it's
a big, big, big deal and I'mvery, very concerned about that.
So, all that being said, I feellike that you and I are very
much on the same page, that wefeel like that maybe we have a
talent for something and acalling to that those of us who
(13:48):
can speak up and do somethingwe've got to, so I should take a
breath there, sorry, I think Iit's so relevant what you're
saying for everyone because,look, your audience spends time
on the road and what a beautifulthing you know, and maybe
you're listening to music, ormaybe you're just being present
(14:08):
and feeling the wind on yourchest, or whatever you might be
doing.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
But how much time, ron, do you spend thinking about
your life and memories and likeyou're just doing one thing and
you're focusing on it so youdon't die?
You have to be very careful andcautious and it is a
mindfulness practice and when weare so present with ourself, we
cannot avoid looking at purposeand wanting to be purposeful,
(14:37):
wanting to be significant,wanting to make an impact and
for things to have meaning.
We want to mean something andyou're doing it.
And for all of us who arelistening to the show right now,
you have a purpose and aheartbeat within you that
motivates you to do better, bebetter, give back, even if it's
not your full-time job, likewhat you and your wife do with
(15:01):
Movember and with your ride, andministry means something
different to everybody.
It doesn't have to look likestanding in front of a podium
preaching, like what you do onthis show, as you said, is your
own form of ministry and you doit in your own way and I
wouldn't edit out the Biblecomment because, truly, the
(15:21):
people and you heard me saybefore we even started recording
I love everyone of allspiritual walks of life and
anyone who's beating anyone overthe head with their specific
belief system and not being opento love, which is what all the
great masters of any religionwere truly teaching they're not
the ones who are probablylistening to your show because
(15:42):
you're an open-minded dude witha big heart who does accept and
want other people's perspectiveson things.
So no, in fact, I think when wespeak to a specific audience,
they can hear us.
And for people who are incommunities that you don't feel
like, those are necessarily yourpeople.
And you're finding Ron, andyou're finding me and you're
(16:02):
like, yeah, I want to hang outwith more people that are like
open-minded and accepting andcan preach in their own way.
That's loving.
Then here we are, we found eachother and my ministry really
came in officiating weddings andI wouldn't be surprised, ron,
if someone at some point asksyou to preside over their
wedding or maybe even a lovedone's funeral.
(16:23):
I've officiated over a thousandweddings.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh my goodness, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah, it's one of my fun facts.
On the bottom of my resume and,living in Los Angeles, I've done
a lot of celebrity weddings androck star weddings and
entertainment industry weddingsand you know, what's so cool is
not the names of the people whoI've married, but just to see
that everybody is human andeverybody has a moment of
(16:52):
vulnerability and that is theirsuperhero connection.
Like the new Superman movie justcame out there came out earlier
this summer and what I loveabout the Superman story is his
vulnerability, that he's likejust a klutz over Lois Lane and
that he can be killed bykryptonite.
(17:12):
And that was a big thing in thenew movie.
I don't want to spoil it foranyone, but they put a big
emphasis on the kryptonite stuff.
And if we are not vulnerable,if we don't scrape our knees on
the road and fumble and cry infront of a group once in a while
and be willing to do somethingfor a good cause and tell the
truth and take care of andprotect people in our industries
and want to shine a light onthose who are fantastic like
(17:35):
you've invited me onto your showand I want you to come onto
mine then how are we going to berelatable to other people we
have to be vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah, I'd mentioned about the whole A and
automation thing, and then again, that's the industry that I'm
in.
But, as you know too, and I'veuh, we're very much like-minded,
as I've found as I've listenedto you um, about the political
mess that we're in.
Now, I never go down that pathon this podcast, but you can say
(18:06):
this I mean, it's just as clearas day.
There's so much hatred, oh, mygoodness, yeah, hatred, uh and
uh, pride, and there's just this, the whole list, I guess,
getting back to the biblicalthing of of sins, they're just
yelling at us that out there allthe time, just screaming like
this shouldn't be done, thisshouldn't be done, this
shouldn't be done and thisshouldn't be done, this
(18:26):
shouldn't be done and so forth.
And it's this 24-hour newscycle too that people are so
easily becoming addicted to,addicted to Instagram.
You know, one violent act afteranother.
And scrolling through andscrolling through, I just feel
like that people like you and Iand others, we just have to be
almost as loud in a positive way.
(18:48):
We just have to be almost asloud in a positive way.
You know, what I haveexperienced in my as a tour
guide very part-time tour guidein Rocky Mountain National Park
is that when we get people, someof our favorite visitors are
from the big city, chicago, la,new York or whatever.
Those are going to be winners,winning tours.
Because we take out about adozen people at a time, because
(19:08):
so many of them have no ideawhat wilderness is and they the
way I put it they've never had aconversation with their mom and
I I use that expression mothernature.
They haven't had theconversation and I've shared
this a few times, but I wantedto share this with you too, and
I appreciate your thoughts.
So I had, i've've done wellover 300 tours in the National
(19:30):
Park.
It's with Green Jeep Tours.
Nikki Schultz is the owner,female owner.
She's wonderful.
We usually take about a dozenpeople into the mountains at a
time in these Jeeps and thingsand we narrate.
I took a gentleman and hisfamily into the mountains and we
went out to this mountainmeadow.
That was just.
It's just beautiful.
(19:55):
It's completely surrounded bymountain peaks and snow on the
mountains all year round.
And after a lot of training, Iguess, or experience, I learned
to stop talking so much.
I could talk for the wholethree-hour tour and rattle
things off, but I stoppedtalking so much.
So here's my point, as we getout to this place called Elk
Meadow and I described thingsoff, but I stopped talking so
much.
So here's where my point is weget out to this place called Elk
Meadow and I described thepeaks, the name of the peaks,
their altitude, and I stoppedtalking.
(20:16):
And then the father of the groupcame and stood up, stood
shoulder to shoulder with me, tomy right, and he said Ron, I
feel the presence of God here,and he's from Chicago and they
had never seen anything likethis before.
And that opened the door for me.
And I said yes, sir, I do too.
And I went on to say I rememberwhat I said somehow.
(20:39):
I said maybe all of this wascreated for me and you right now
to realize how small we are andhow big God is and how
wonderful mother nature is.
Maybe it's just created for usright now.
And he cried, and he gave me ahug and then I cried you know,
but.
But I guess where I'm going withthis is.
(20:59):
I think that there's so manypeople buried in their phone and
watching the news continuouslyand upset about what the
president saying or others aresaying and all this stuff, and
rightfully so upset.
But we can only take so much,right, Isn't it destructive up
here?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It is.
And if we spent more timefocusing on those magical
moments like you had with thatdad.
Even in our own backyard, evenin a big city, there's so many
beautiful things that have beencreated.
And hey, if it's noisy outsideand the buildings are tall, just
look straight up at the sky andjust be fascinated.
You know, we're not fascinatedanymore, ron.
(21:41):
We've got everything on demand.
Remember when we were youngerand we had to, like, wait a
whole year to watch yourfavorite movie on Christmas and
all that you know.
And people don't get to do thatanymore and we can choose to.
We can choose to be fascinatedand we get to be in awe.
And the opposite of that ismindlessness, not mindfulness.
(22:02):
And when we have that lowvibrational frequency of terror
and pain and look at all of thiscrime and sadness in the world
and hey, look over here, lookover here, look over here, then
we're not looking inside, we'renot looking around our immediate
circle.
And I read a statistic recently.
I don't know if it's quite astatistic, but human beings were
(22:25):
never meant to know the news ofthe world.
Human beings were never meantto know the news of the world
that we are a tribal people andmaybe our communities were
supposed to be 100, maybe 150people big and that's it.
You knew what was going on inthe tribe next door, maybe a few
communities down, you know theriver where you might fish or
whatnot, like we weren't meantto know about wars and other
(22:51):
countries and things.
And now we get to and we cancontribute and donate and pray
and do good with it, but not toyour point, to not be inundated
with the pain of it all the time.
And I tell people I'm likeplease don't post horrible stuff
or send me things of shootingsand animals and things that make
me sad.
Just tell me who to donate toor tell me what to share.
(23:14):
You know, tell me where, likewhen to venmo you or what to
venmo you.
But I am too sensitive and Ihave no qualms about it to see
that stuff all the time and itit lowers our frequency yeah,
yeah, I, yeah, I have.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I experienced something weird.
I don't.
Maybe you can tell me whathappened to me.
So I commute three days a weekinto downtown Denver and I
choose to take the bus, whichtakes me twice as long.
But I like sitting on the busand I listen to music and I
listen to podcasts such as yoursnow.
And anyway, I remember thisinstant and it freaked me out.
(23:50):
So I was on the bus from Denverback to Loveland, where I live,
and it's a 55-minute routeincluding two stops.
Before I stop here, I startedlooking at Instagram with my
headphones on and scrollingbefore the bus left Denver Union
Station.
I didn't look up until I heardLoveland Station 55 minutes
(24:15):
later, and I had been scrollingthat whole time and I felt dizzy
.
It freaked me out.
I was mindless.
I guess that I wrote down thatword that you mentioned.
I went mindless and did I learnanything?
I probably laughed a lot andsaid, wow, look at this, or
whatever, but I went mindlessfor 55 minutes and I felt
(24:39):
terrible about that.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You felt physically terrible, or you just felt like
shame, like you wasted your timeA little bit of both.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I felt a little dizzy from it.
It was weird, but I think itwas mainly the realization that
I was hooked, at least for that55 minutes.
I was absolutely hooked in thescrolling.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah Well, first of all, you can set a timer on your
Instagram, and I have mine setto 30 minutes a day and you can
just use it a minute at a time,here and there throughout the
day, and it'll tell you when youhave five minutes left and I
have mine doing that, and youcould click ignore limit for
today, but it's a mindfulreminder to just not be on your
(25:18):
phone so much.
So that's one tip that I thinkcan help everybody.
And what happened?
You said maybe I could tell youwhat happened.
So there's a couple things thathappened.
(25:45):
Number one when we're doneworking, our brain has almost
run out of message units.
Which message units are and howwell we ate.
We have a certain amount ofmessage units and if you slept
like crap, you ate crap, you hada stressful day, you start your
next day with a lot lessmessage units.
So if you're you know they usedto have a commercial about that
2.30 feeling like now I needcaffeine or something like that,
(26:05):
right, that happens becausewe've just run out.
Right, there's just too muchthinking, too much doing, not
enough being.
We've depleted our messageunits in our brain.
So when we've done that, it'sactually hard to accomplish
anything else because you'rejust a little bit sluggish and
caffeine only takes you so far.
What you really need to do isrest or do something peaceful
that resets your nervous systemor helps you just relax.
(26:26):
So the bus is a greatopportunity to do that, as you
said, because you can listen topodcasts and read or whatnot.
And it's okay that you justdecided to check out.
You just checked the F out.
I just need this little mentalvacancy, okay.
So that's okay to do once in awhile.
So if there's shame there, youget to just release that guilt
(26:47):
or shame and just let go, sothat I understand.
And then now you're presentenough and you'll remember this
conversation.
So next time you're 10 minutesin and you're like, oh, I feel
this pull to just be stuck onInstagram and I'm watching funny
videos and I'm watching cuteanimal videos or laughing a lot,
like there's nothing wrong withthat.
But check out your posture, makesure you're breathing, make
(27:07):
sure you're drinking water, makesure you're paying attention to
where you're going, so youdon't wind up having to Uber
back right.
And there's another thing,though in our devices, in our
physical devices, first of all,there's the energy of Wi-Fi,
there's the electromagneticfrequencies.
There's the radiation of Wi-Fiall around us and Bluetooth, if
you're listening on Bluetooth,right, so there's all this stuff
(27:28):
that's messing with our ownbiology on a level of frequency,
and that is stress to the body.
It might, for some, consider ita microstress, some consider it
a macrostress, but it's stresson the body to engage with
electronics even now, the waythat we're doing.
And then the other thing isthere are literal, audible
frequencies in, not just inInstagram and TikTok and
(27:52):
anything else, but also inmodern day music that are
programmed in there to make usfeel more addicted to them.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Really.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
There are, and it happened close to 100 years ago
in the music industry.
They started putting it inclassical music and playing at a
different frequency.
It's not really a conspiracytheory, it's just the truth.
Like, if you speak my husband'sin the music industry, you can
speak to anyone who works inaudio engineering and they'll
tell you oh yeah, we used to doeverything at this hertz and now
we do everything at this hertzfor pop music because it sells
(28:20):
better, right?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So it's not your fault, ok.
And like TikTok, I cannot stayon TikTok for more than five
minutes because I feel dizzy,because I'm so sensitive to it.
So that feeling you got onInstagram after 30, I'm kind of
the same way.
Or you've had it for an hour.
I kind of get out at 30.
Tiktok, I cap out at fiveminutes.
It's such a strong wave.
Whatever they're doing in thereand you know, look, everything
(28:49):
that happens in this country isto sell us something, whether we
like it or not, and they'rejust trying to sell us stuff and
they're paying attention towhat we're clicking on and what
we're scrolling on, and thenthey're feeding us these, this
information, and our brain istired.
So if anyone is like, yeah,that happens to me sometimes,
just put it down.
(29:10):
Sometimes I'll text myself thelink if I really want to come
back or read an article or lookat somebody's page and just give
yourself a break and go outsideand stick your feet in the
ground.
Or if it's snowing, you know,don't, but go like I will
physically, and this, you know,sounds very hippy-d dippy, but I
will go and put my hands ontrees and I will just walk
(29:31):
outside, like walking up to mydoor.
You get out of your car.
Long day of work, it takes 30seconds.
People walk up.
Just put your hands on thetrees and feel the grounding
energy and just breathe andimagine roots and leaves coming
from your own feet down into theearth.
Like Ron was saying, we're likeare we disconnected from our
mother?
Do we miss our mother?
Right, you can heal thatfeeling of anxiety, which is
(29:57):
what you described, ron, aboutbeing on Instagram for an hour.
Right, it's a feeling ofanxiety.
Just go touch something natural, even just hug your own dog
when you walk in the door.
Don't just pet her on the headand give her a treat.
Sit on the floor and hold herand feel her heartbeat on yours.
That is how we ground in, andhumans too.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I love that.
I so love that Right now I'm inbare feet and my feet are on a
grounding pad.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yay, I have one too.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
My wife both on to that and, uh, she sleeps with a
grounding pad at her feet.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I don't do that, I'm too restless of a sleeper, but
we, we have really gotten intothat and I sleep better when I'm
using and you know what's crazyis because the grounding sheet
plugs into the one.
I don't know the science behindit, but when you have an outlet
there's the circle on thebottom, it plugs into that, and
that only If my phone is pluggedin and I'm on my phone in bed
(30:56):
and I have the grounding sheeton me.
It actually sends me a littleelectric shocks, which they say
don't use electronics, don't beholding electronics when you're
grounding.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Oh, interesting Something to it oh interesting
Something to it, so yeah, Iwanted to ask you one other
thing in regard to this podcastthat I'm trying to figure out
what it's all about.
I think I'm getting closer, butthe minute I get closer I think
, oh wait, I'm not real sureI've used here's where the name
(31:30):
came from.
We haven't talked about this.
But peace is peace of mind,because I've mentioned any
number of times, when I go for amotorcycle ride and I don't
ride in traffic unfortunately Idon't have to where we live I
can go and be traffic free rightaway, which is wonderful, and
go up in the mountains, be ondirt roads and stuff like that.
(31:50):
But the peace of mind piece forme is that at 63 now, I
transport myself back to my11-year-old self when I put my
helmet on and start the bike.
It takes a few minutes, but itdoesn't take that long, and it's
just all of a sudden the samelittle vibration that I felt on
(32:12):
that tiny little mini bike whenI was a little bitty kid riding
out through the woods and allthese old dirt roads.
It comes back to me and everyonce in a while I get feedback
from a listener and it's me too.
Me too, I remember that.
And so again kind of aroundback to my our sense of urgency
around.
There's just a lot of hurtingpeople out there who just need
(32:36):
some relief from without or fromwithin, wherever they can come
from, and my hope with thepodcast is that they will
eventually love through thesecond word, love that you got
to learn to love yourself first,I believe, and then you got to
love other people.
You absolutely have to, whetherit's that little over the top
(32:58):
tip for a barista, a littleconversation, extra smile to a
kid who's looking at you throughthe window of their car car or
pulling off the road to say, youknow, seeing someone who's on
the side of the road and say,are you okay?
You know, and sometimes they'llsay no, I'm not, and that's
happened to me a few times and Ijust absolutely convinced that,
(33:19):
yes, we need to be pouring intoourselves, most certainly, but
I think a big part of that'sjust pouring out to other people
, because there's always someoneout there who's really having a
bad, bad day or their life hasjust been ruined for some reason
, and they need somebody likeyou who's willing to come out
and just say a kind word andgive a hug to a stranger or
(33:41):
whatever.
So that's, I guess that circlesback to what I'm trying to
figure out with this podcast,cause I don't see, I just don't
hear anybody else talkingspecifically about that.
I think we're doing a reallygood job as motorcycle riders
talking about the whole freedomthing, and you know the party
and our brotherhoods andsisterhoods we do a really good
job at that.
(34:02):
But I think the minute, too,that we face out and realize
that, wow, are we blessed I'lluse that word strongly, you know
, blessed because we have thefinances to own one or more
motorcycles For one thing, theyare not cheap and we have the
physical capability to do it,we've got the mental capability
to do it.
So that's, you know, threereally good things to live for
(34:24):
and be thankful for.
So we've got that going for usas a motorcycling family.
So with that, you just got toturn it around.
You just don't know whatsomebody else may be going
through, or there's just, as youmentioned too, there's just
some wonderful charities thatare already out there that we
can be giving to.
So, all that being said, I'dlike to ask you, maybe, as we
(34:47):
begin to wrap up, what can ourlisteners do to learn more from
you, the people that you workwith your organizations that you
support.
What can they do to take thenext steps in realizing how
blessed they are and howwonderful it is to show love in
some way to another person?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Wow, so beautiful, Ron.
And as I begin to answer that,I just want to reflect back to
you the idea of generosity,because that's the theme in
everything that you just said.
And if anyone feels in any wayawkward or embarrassed to make
eye contact with someone or givethem a compliment and I know
that's, you know, can be riskynowadays in an environment where
people are offended or scared,right, but when you come from a
(35:36):
place of kindness and you justlet that moment happen and it's
just true generosity.
Like you said, giving a littleextra tip, holding a door open,
you know, saying a kind thing tosomeone you just can do it.
Just to do it, just to makesomebody happy, and that's why
you created this show is tobring happiness.
That's why I created my showand with the brilliance method,
(36:00):
if you liked this conversationand you're interested in hearing
more of these types ofconversations when it comes to
mindfulness and trustingyourself and being a better
human and connecting to yourpurpose, having clarity and
reason for being, then come tomy show.
It's available on every podcastplatform.
I do video and audio.
I have a YouTube channel.
(36:20):
I'm putting YouTube shortsnippets out now and I've
created a Patreon which ispatreoncom, forward.
Slash the brilliance method andthat's community.
That is a place to get involvedin co-creating episodes with me
.
We do a monthly spiritual thinktank where we talk about these
ideas and sometimes I answerquestions for people from an
(36:43):
intuitive perspective.
Or, you know, we do a littlecoaching back and forth and it's
a good time.
Or we do a little coaching backand forth and it's a good time.
Other than that, aliciaskycom,my name is spelled E-L-Y-S-I-A
and there's an E on the end ofsky S-K-Y-Ecom.
My website is set up primarilyfor me as a speaker.
(37:04):
I love to do motivational andmindset speaking with different
corporations, events, workshopsof all shapes and sizes.
I do a lot of panel speakingtoo, and it's all focused on
mindfulness, stress reductionand compassionate communication.
How can we just be a healthier,happier human, kinder to others
and ourselves, and it's mygreatest joy.
So if there's a space for me tocome and speak at your event
(37:25):
and your organization, or if youwant to co-create and put
something together, like Ron andI might be doing, then hit me
up, reach out and yeah, again, Ithink the word blessed is very
appropriate.
I am so blessed and so blessedthat you said yes, and here we
are, and this is just thebeginning.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well, it just really made my day.
This has been the last couple ofweeks been kind of tough on the
corporate side that I work on,these days Been a little tough,
but just talking with someonelike you who I feel like is very
much a kindred spirit, that werealize how blessed we are and
(38:05):
we know there's wonderful peopleout there to connect with and
there's also a lot of people wecan help in one way or another,
and thank you for your spiritand all that you do.
And I think I've alreadymentioned on this podcast before
, but I work for a littlecompany.
I shouldn't mention its name,but its initials are IBM.
Well, I want to be indiscreetthere.
(38:26):
I won't mention the name, butinitials are IBM.
And we have mindfulness at IBM,which I've had the opportunity
to speak a couple of times on,and I feel certain that my
colleagues who run that podcastand that event would love to
have you.
So that's something I've justmade a note of.
If you may be interested intalking with the corporate world
(38:47):
there, we would love to haveyou.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
I would love to, and I went to an AI for marketing
convention in Cleveland, Ohio,last year and we talked a lot
about ethics with AI andpeople's jobs changing and a lot
of times corporations willbring me in.
This happened with BananaRepublic when they did a mass
(39:10):
layoff that's public informationnow, but they had to do a
pretty big layoff and they said,Alicia, can you just make
everybody feel better?
Can you talk about purpose andmaybe what's next for them?
And especially with AI, as youmentioned, there might be some
jobs in every industry beingreplaced, some of those
knowledge-based jobs and thingslike that.
And I will say, if anyone isworried, I want to give you some
(39:35):
hope that this is anopportunity and this is
something I learned at this AIconvention this technology boom.
Yes, there's going to be a lotof difficult times ahead, but
this is a time for us to becomemasters at our craft and go all
in on what we're passionateabout, Because those people who
love what they do and they do itbetter than anyone else they're
(39:57):
going to rise up above theirmiddlemen jobs that they haven't
been in love with, because theyknow there's something greater
for them.
So I encourage everyone toreally commit to their own
brilliance right now and shineand you will thrive.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
So encouraging, so encouraging and for the
listeners.
I will have all the details onyour contact information in the
show notes.
And, alicia, thank you, it wasa pleasure to meet you.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Oh, my pleasure.
Thank you, ron, and thank youto everyone listening today.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Just like you, I find myself discouraged sometimes by
the weight of the world, theendless news cycle and so forth,
but then you hear someone whotells you about hope, and that's
what we heard today from AliciaSky.
Alicia, thank you so much forbeing with us today, for your
specific suggestions that speakvery much to our motorcycling
(40:55):
community.
Alicia's information will be inthe show notes.
Feel free to reach out to her,and thank you so much for
joining us on this podcast.
I appreciate your support.
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