March 27, 2024 • 33 mins
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Have you ever felt that silent whisper guiding you towards a decision, only to second-guess yourself moments later? Our esteemed guest Sierra, a business consultant with a twist of intuitive mediumship, shares her riveting journey of self-discovery and how she leverages her unique gifts to mentor clients in personal and business growth. Embark with us on a narrative adventure that begins in Sierra's childhood, wanders through her years of self-doubt, and culminates in the transformative power of intuition she now embraces to steer both her life and her clients’ ventures toward success.
The line between our intuitive hunches and the skeptical voice of our critical mind can often seem blurred. In a thought-provoking discussion, Sierra and I uncover how to trust those joyful nudges and separate them from the clutches of fear and self-sabotage. We traverse personal anecdotes that reaffirm the potency of intuition and delve into the cosmic dance of astrological influences that might be subtly shaping your destiny. It's a chapter of exploration that promises to offer valuable insights for recognizing and harnessing the quieter voice within you.
Finally, Sierra and I touch upon the emotional rollercoaster of spiritual healing, acknowledging the discomfort that often precedes growth. We converse about the power of emotional purging in fostering breakthroughs, stressing that while the path to self-awareness might be fraught with challenges, it need not be a perpetual battlefield. Our episode wraps up with an inspiring note, aiming to leave you equipped and motivated to navigate your own journey of spiritual and professional evolution with a newfound appreciation for the role emotions play in our growth.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey Sierra, hi Prue, how are you today?
Yeah, I'm great.
It was so good to connect withyou last week and I was really
excited about what you do.
I just wanted to share yourstory and how you help people to
my audience, because it'spretty incredible Actually.
(00:23):
How would you explain what youdo?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hmm, that's probably a good question.
I think I explain itdifferently to different people
all the time, but what I reallydo is deeply understand that,
whether we're a business owneror not, owner or not, whatever
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it is we're doing in life is adirect product and deeply
influenced by whatever is goingon with us.
And so for me, even though I amand have been a traditional
business consultant for 20 years, the truth of the matter is
that I can't help somebody intheir business without helping
them in whatever it is that'sgoing on and coming up for them
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in their personal life and theiremotions and their beliefs,
whatever that looks like able toconnect to a spirit, their
higher self, whatever languagesomebody likes to use around
that, and know reallyspecifically what is going on
(01:30):
with them and how do we fix it.
And then how do we fix andadjust whatever needs to happen
in somebody's business.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, I love that, and that's similar to the type
of coaching I do.
Although I'm not an intuitivemedium, I am intuitive but, yeah
, I truly believe that abusiness can't outgrow its owner
, and so if there's blockageshappening within them, then it's
going to affect what'shappening on the outside as well
.
So I'm curious, how did youactually, you know, discover
(02:03):
that and then apply it tobusiness?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, you know I mean , obviously, I was born an
intuitive medium I always knewthings that I wasn't supposed to
know.
As a kid, I had informationabout what was happening in
adults' lives and the peoplethat were around me.
I, as a child, saw and hearddead people, even though I
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didn't know that they weren'tthere, that nobody else could
see or hear them, and because ofthat, in the way that I grew up
the structure that I grew up,the framework that I had growing
up, that was not something thatanybody understood, and so it
got me into a lot of trouble,and it really, I guess, in some
ways kind of scarred me,honestly, so I'd shut so much of
(02:54):
that down, and I just neverreally understood it.
What came to be, though, wasthat in life, in random
circumstances, and in mytraditional business consulting
roles, I would often know thesethings.
That just seemed completelyillogical.
So it was happening for me, andI was getting that information
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in bits and pieces all the time,even long before I ever
understood it, and people wouldbe freaked out out, as one might
expect them to be, you know,sitting next to me on an
airplane and they're making chitchat, and I start telling them.
Well, yeah, that's because thishappened to you when you were a
child.
And da, da, da and they theywould be like you know who are
(03:37):
you?
How do you know this about me?
So it was always showing up.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And was there a moment in time when it kind of
got to a point where kind oflike an awakening, where you had
to really step in and startowning that because it was a
part of your path?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, I mean, I think there was two really pivotal
things that started that came in.
I had already startedmeditating on my own.
I had gone back to school forholistic health and counseling
and as a part of that coursestudy, I was exposed to
meditation and started doingthat on my own.
So I was now hearing voices inmy head and at one point I was a
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single mom in my head and atone point I was a single mom.
And so here I was, thinkingthat I had lost my mind because
it was happening outside of whenI was meditating.
I would have these spells whereI could, like hear audibly all
these voices and people sayingthings, and I thought for sure
(04:45):
that I had lost my mind, that Iwas, you know, schizophrenic,
probably, um, and that I, youknow, went into panic around.
What the heck am I going to do?
I'm, I'm taking care of mydaughter.
I have to support her.
I'm gonna have to go checkmyself in.
It should have been a clue to methat I was like, so rational
and logical about what was goingto need to happen and something
(05:09):
in me I was literally praying.
I was praying like, please helpme to figure out what to do,
and the voices stopped, not nottoo long after that, I had a
(05:30):
chance encounter with someonewho I didn't know and it turns
out that she is anotherintuitive and came to me and
told me that I had this gift andI was meant to use it to help
people.
And you know that we all havethis gift, but some of us have
it extra, and I frankly didn'tthink she was nuts but I was
(05:54):
like, yeah, I don't think Ireally want all this extra
responsibility.
I already have all kinds ofresponsibilities and I'm already
helping all kinds of peoplebesides myself and all this
pressure.
So I really kind of resisted ithonestly for a little while, um
and I.
It just evolved then that Iended up.
I did go back to her.
(06:15):
She was deeply religious, sheis she's, she's still here and
I'm still connected to her andshe's deeply religious.
Um, she actually is like supercatholic and and had her own
personal struggle withunderstanding her spiritual
gifts, worrying, um, that withinthe religion we're kind of
taught that can be sacrilegiousor it's, you know, some
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potentially evil, and thatthere's all these things that
we're not supposed to be able todo per se in the religion
container.
And so she struggled with thatand just really helped me to
understand it more deeply, howto work with it and use it, and
then then it was kind of likethe floodgates opened up in a
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lot of ways so when you hadthose voices, you actually ended
up shutting them down becauseyou felt like you were going
crazy, like how long was thatperiod of time?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
because I've definitely felt like that before
as well.
I'm like, oh my god, what isgoing on?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I feel crazy yeah, um , I had several bouts of it,
wasn't like it, like it lastedevery day, all day, for weeks or
anything like that.
I think, probably over thecourse of maybe about six months
, though I would have like maybeonce a week.
I would have this spell and itwould be kind of dizzying and,
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like I said, I would hear allthese these voices and things A
lot of times it was everybodykind of talking at once over top
of each other, so it justsounded like being in a loud
room, but it was like this veryaudible um experience.
Like I said, it was literallylike they were all in the room
with me and I was alone and forme, I've come to learn now that
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we do have control over it, thatwe can I don't want to
experience this that way and wecan decide how we are
communicated with, because weall do have the gifts.
Every single one of us is adivine soul, a divine energy,
and so we always have thatconnection.
(08:24):
We're never actually reallyseparated.
It's just about learning torecognize it and learning to
trust it.
But, like I said, some of usjust um I always say some people
are really great at sports orreally great at math or really
great at art.
We can all learn to do thosethings, but some of us just have
like a heavier dose, naturally.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, yeah, I guess it's what we're naturally drawn
to and yeah, it's going to come,come and hit you in the face if
you don't listen to that littlewhisper as well.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, and we all have those experiences right In our
life where there's times whereyou're like I knew in that
moment I should have done thisor I shouldn't have done that,
or I should have trusted thisperson or I shouldn't have
trusted that person.
We can always look back and see, and a lot of times it is our
intuition, it is, you know, ourgut.
Some people call it um, that istelling us something, but we're
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we're always being guided andwe're always connected.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I know that to be true so I with being guided and
listening to your gut intuition,because sometimes we get these
whispers and it's like okay,this is.
You kind of get this feelinglike, oh, I want to go and study
that, or I want to justrandomly go to that coffee shop
today, but then then your braincomes in and goes no, but you
(09:46):
shouldn't do that because youneed to get back to that email
or you need to do that job, oryou've got to do this, and why
would you go and study that?
And so I've been in points inmy life where I've gone which
one's my you know my head andwhich one's my intuition, and
how to differentiate that.
Do you have any tips aroundthat?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Sure, I mean once you start to practice with it,
cause it is a muscle.
So once we start to practicewith it, you do recognize that
it almost comes from a differentpart of your brain that you
know the the critical brain isusually.
For me it's always up front.
That's the self-story, that'sthe ego part of myself that's
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giving me some kind of direction, whereas the intuitive, the
spiritual part of me feels likeit comes from more, like behind
me.
It's more so sometimes peoplecan recognize that it actually
is coming from a different place.
Another thing that I often sayto people is recognize how a
different place.
Another reason, another thingthat I they I often say people
is recognize how your body feels, because a lot of us are not
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particularly in tune with ouremotions and so you can often be
able to actually feel it inyour body.
So if you're hearing yourselfsay, no, I need to get back to
the house, and you're likebringing your shoulders up or
there's like a constrictedfeeling in your body, then you
typically know that is the storyin your head.
(11:13):
That's the ego, that's yourrational mind that is telling
you that and not necessarilyyour intuition.
Your intuition will always feellight in your body and more
expansive, however it is, thatthat looks um.
The other thing I think isalways too, is that your
intuition, your divine self andthose that information that
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comes through to you is, in myexperience, is never critical.
It's never judgmental, it'snever telling you what you
should do, it's simply givingyou a joyful nudge.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Okay, so if there's a should attached, it's usually
the ego or the critical mind.
Absolutely, that could almostbe a checkpoint.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah.
Anytime that we are feelingthat we should do something,
it's usually out of some senseof a belief pattern or a sense
of responsibility.
It's almost always picking upon something that somebody else
is that we're carrying as ourown.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So then, because you've got this skill so
sharpened, so when it comes foryou to make decisions, do you
ever make wrong decisionsanymore because you're so tapped
into your intuition?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, you know, um, it certainly and and I joke
about this a lot and inparticular when I was first
learning to really understandand harness it all for myself, I
would argue I would like getstuff in meditation.
I would, I would get nudges andI would rationalize it and
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think, no, I don't really wantto do that and oh, that's
probably my imagination.
That's usually another clue towhen something seems like a
really spontaneous, randomthought and we want to write it
off as our imagination.
The imagination really is acreative force.
It really is our creativeenergy which in, in my
understanding, is the same thingas your divine knowledge and
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your divine guidance.
So anytime that we want to writesomething off in a as being,
well, that's just crazy, or Idon't know why I even thought
about that, or I don't knowwhere that came from.
I don't have time for that.
Those are usually thoseindications.
But I absolutely argued I wouldrationalize.
I'm so rationalized and I stilldo it to a certain degree.
(13:41):
It's just that I catch myselffaster now, instead of going all
the way down the path.
Anymore I pretty much recognizealmost straight away.
Okay, wait a minute.
I think I'm dismissingsomething here.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I think I'm rationalizing something away
it's so interesting because,yeah, I get those downloads.
Meditating, um, like a like amonth ago, two months ago, I was
meditating and I had this ideacome in and go, you need to
connect to that videographer anddo a higher beautiful house for
the day and do thiscollaborative shoot.
And I just, I actually justtrusted it and went with it and
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it worked out perfectly.
We booked out within 24 hours,so it was like that natural
nudge that I listened to andthere is.
I have to make a decision todayabout something quite big um,
which is leaving the countrynext week for a week to go do
something and I'm like fightingmyself so badly because last
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year I was like, oh, I reallywant to go and do that thing.
And now the opportunity's comeup, going, well, you should go
and do that thing.
But then my brain's going, yeah, but every time you go and do
these things you come back andthen you're like have no money,
and you're stressed out and andthen I'm just caught.
I'm like, oh, what's going on?
And then lots of fear andsabotage is coming up, and so I
(15:01):
get it almost.
Because I don't make thedecision quick enough, I get
intertwined and in this liketight little mess, mm, hmm.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
What do you do?
And so I would say, and soproof, given what I just told
you about the signs and how toknow what's intuitive and what's
not, if you're feeling allintertwined and knotted up about
the rational side of it, that'sthe part that's your ego mind.
I can tell.
I mean, if you really want toknow, I can tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're supposed to go , do it I would say you are
supposed to go do it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
The thing what's really interesting, though, is
they said as soon as you startedtalking about it, I was like
yeah, she's supposed to go,there's no question about it.
The important thing for you toremember is to change the story
you tell yourself.
You know you said that yourrational mind is telling you
every time you go do this, Icome back and then I have no
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money and there's all that.
Tell yourself that this is adifferent experience.
This time you will go back andyou'll have a different
experience when you come home.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Okay, yeah, because it's a very powerful time, with
these solar eclipses happeningat the moment and I'm a Libra
with Aries rising, so I'm likein the middle of it and I'm an.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Aries, I would say, and I'm an Aries with two
planets in libra, so I'm thesame oh, you're feeling it too,
feeling a bit insane.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, it's a very powerful time it is and I just I
feel like a lot of shadows fromlast year that I thought I'd
really cleared out, just comingup again.
It's like, hey, I thought wealready looked at this and let
it go what are?
You doing yeah, that's how the?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
lunar eclipse.
I would say astrology is notsuper my thing, but because this
lands so squarely into what mychart looks like, I've done a
really healthy amount ofresearch around it and I will
say that the lunar eclipse thatjust passed um was all about
endings and completions.
So it really is the last and alot of karmic clearing.
(17:11):
For a lot of people.
It really is kind of like thelast shreds of what has been
your patterns and your beliefsand your wounds finally, finally
leaving, leaving Well.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I hope so.
I feel like they say that everymoon, but I think this one's
like a 12-year cycle orsomething, so it is stuff from a
really long time, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And especially, like I said, if you like you said, if
it's you're in the Libra Ariesaccess, these are extra extra
intense for us, right?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
now access.
These are extra, extra intensefor us right now, and so this
trip is actually going to thenumber one place on earth, from
nasa um, to view the solareclipse.
Oh, on the 8th that soundssuper exciting it's a very
intense.
It's a um expedition withinsider expeditions, and I'll be
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going and doing photos of umcapturing the event, but also
portraits of the musicians andthe people that are going to be
there.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
So, yeah, it's um I don't know why you would say no
to this.
I know it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I think because I've been feeling a bit anxious and
just like yucky stuff coming upwith this moon that it has felt
a bit sabotaging myself, to behonest.
Yeah, I'm curious, when youlike, just then, when you tapped
into guides Now, are they myguides or are they your guides?
(18:46):
How does that work?
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
in my belief, they're the same.
Okay, because we all are one,it is all you know.
It's that whole idea that weare all just drops of the same
ocean.
So in a lot of ways, my guidesare your guides.
Um, it's, we do have ones thatwe more directly connect with on
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an individual basis.
I would say that, because of myabilities and where I am, I
would more likely tap into onesthat are more directly connected
to you than they are directlyconnected to me, and yet, like
you said, they're also kind ofthe same yeah, and do they come
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in through?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
so when I imagine you're talking to your guides
and I have I did a meditationthe other day to call in your
guides, because it's somethingthat I do want to develop more I
imagine them as like thesephysical little ghosts kind of
behind you, but is it more justvoices?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
that kind of download well, I mean, we can all
experience them however we want.
Honestly, you get to.
It's just like I said you getto decide, you get to choose
what you want that experience tobe.
Um, for me personally, I alwaysexplain it as it's like reading
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a book.
For me, so you know, when youread a book and you read a part
that has conversation in it, youhear the conversation in your
head and yet you know it's notyour own thoughts, it's coming
from this other place, right,when I read a book, I can see
the scene as it's beingdescribed and painted out to me,
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and yet I'm not really seeinganything.
That's how I also get kind ofthe vision For me personally.
I also can have a very strongsensation.
I can sometimes be overwhelmedby a feeling.
Sometimes it's a really aphysical sensation in the body,
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and yet it's not actuallyhappening.
I would say I know this soundssuper weird.
I don't even know how else toexplain it, um, but yeah, I get
it in all different kinds ofways, though it's not literal,
um, and also when I do like aguided meditation for myself and
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I'm I meet a guide, or I meetan angel or an ascended master,
they all can have sort of avisual quality about them, as
I'm, you know, in that spacewith them.
But typically when, when I'm,when I'm working with somebody
and like when you just asked me,I don't, I don't see anything.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Okay, and do you know anything about?
You know, just before someonehas a big breakthrough,
sometimes a lot of fear can comeup, or they have this kind of
cleanse or anything.
Do you know much about that?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, sure I mean the biggest part of it is that our
fears, our beliefs, our emotions, the things that come up, is
always something trying to getyour attention to be released.
So, before we go through a bigtransformation in our lives, as
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we are trying because a lot ofus try to do healing and up
level ourselves and our livesand our understanding and our
connection to them it's going toculminate and bring up all
these things.
Like I said, whether it'sbeliefs, whether it's fears,
whether it's emotions, sometimesit's experiences that are all
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coming up that are really justpointing you to whatever it is
that needs to be released.
So it absolutely makes sensethat the bigger you are going to
take a jump.
If you do the work, if youactually allow yourself to go
through it rather than suppressit or repress it, if you go
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through it, it will clear itaway so that it no longer is an
issue for you.
But I know like a few minutesago, you had said about you know
, you felt like you had clearedthese things.
It is like an onion, yeah, butall that means when we and we
can be really self-critical andbe in a lot of comparison and
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self-judgment, and so we feellike I already did this.
I thought I cleared this, Ithought I healed this.
I went to therapy, I thought Ihad forgiven them.
Whatever those stories are thatwe tell you, but all it really
means is that you are just nowat a different level you now are
at a deeper part and you'rebeing asked to move again and so
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it has to resurface.
Do you hit a point where it'scompletely cleared out and it
will be gone?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
yes, with some things , thank god, yeah yeah, uh,
because it's interesting, likethe stuff that's coming up for
me is it's sabotaging, going anddoing this trip and there's a
part of me it's like I just stayhome, like I just stay safe,
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take care of things that need tobe taken care of, and that
actually feels a bit calming forme.
I'm like oh, that feels, thatfeels better then yeah, the
niggles, there it's like yeah,but what if?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You know, the thing with that is that it is cliche.
And yet it's cliche for areason.
It's because it's true.
We are feeling more safe andmore comfortable in the places
that we've always been Right,right, so they're like the whole
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truth around.
you know why you continuouslyattract in a particular part of
you that recognizes that there'sa part of you that is familiar,
and so it gives you a sense ofcertainty, because you know what
that dynamic looks like, and sothat's true with any area of
our lives are in the same space.
The level that we're at, theoperating place that we're at,
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will feel certain andcomfortable.
But you have to just askyourself but do I like it?
Am I okay where I am, or arethere things that I want to
change?
And the answer, if it, if it isthat there are things that I
want to change, there are thingsthat I want to do differently
well then you're going to haveto get uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Interesting, and is that something that you help
people work through as well?
Oh, for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I was going to say I don't even know.
I think for many people,believe it or not, don't have
necessarily a really deepspiritual framework or
experience.
Some of them don't even havehardly any personal development
experience, and so coming to meand working with me alone is
usually uncomfortable, and it isalways because it's what I
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asked for in my work.
When I, when I work withsomebody and when I work with
spirit to help someone, is toshow me the things that need to
be shaken loose, to show me thethings that they need to release
, that they need to reprogram,that they need to process, that
they haven't processed, thatthey've suppressed or they've
been unaware of, and so, yeah,it's uncomfortable, it's
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uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That is so good to know and I'm sure people
listening to this will totallyresonate with all of that and
I'm so glad that someone likeyou exists to help them through
that and, with you know, helpingthem connect to their higher
self and be guided and learn totrust that intuition more as
well.
It's super important.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
A lot of times people say to me oh, I've been
thinking about that or I alwayswanted to do that, like we.
Again, and that's the one thingI would leave in everybody with
is that you really are beingguided all the time, whether you
work with someone like me ornot.
We really are, and so you know.
Trust that when something feelspersistent and kind of out of
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the blue, that it really is itsway of guiding you, just as
repeating patterns and seeingourselves cycle back into the
same dynamic or making the samemistake again is just another
way that you're being shown andguided and pushed to make
changes and to deal withsomething and move and do it
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differently.
Even though it's going to bescary sometimes, it can be.
It can be.
It can be all kinds of thingsthat are unpleasant.
I'm not even gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I never lie about it I never lie about it that's
something that they don't tellyou as a kid.
It's like, yeah, follow yourdreams, but it's going to be
scary.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
It's going to be hard , you're going to have to do
some work, but the highs willoutweigh the the lows yeah, if
people people don't tell youthat about personal development
or spiritual development either,they make it all sound like, oh
, you have this big awakeningand then all of a sudden you
have this inner peace and no,you gotta dig up a lot of crap
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there's got.
There's a lot of purging and alot of crying and a lot of
things that have to come through.
Now does it have to be gnashingof the teeth for 10 years?
No, it doesn't.
But it's not all like rainbowsand fairies and connecting to
angels all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Well, thank you so much for your time.
It was really awesome chattingwith you and, yeah, I think the
listeners got to experience alittle bit about what you do as
well, so thank you.
Thank you so much for having meand I'll leave some um links in
the show notes of how peoplecan connect with you as well,
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okay.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Thank you again, bye-bye.
Hey Sierra, hi Prue, how are you today?
Yeah, I'm great.
It was so good to connect withyou last week and I was really
excited about what you do.
I just wanted to share yourstory and how you help people to
my audience, because it'spretty incredible Actually.
(00:23):
How would you explain what youdo?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hmm, that's probably a good question.
I think I explain itdifferently to different people
all the time, but what I reallydo is deeply understand that,
whether we're a business owneror not, owner or not, whatever
(00:49):
it is we're doing in life is adirect product and deeply
influenced by whatever is goingon with us.
And so for me, even though I amand have been a traditional
business consultant for 20 years, the truth of the matter is
that I can't help somebody intheir business without helping
them in whatever it is that'sgoing on and coming up for them
(01:10):
in their personal life and theiremotions and their beliefs,
whatever that looks like able toconnect to a spirit, their
higher self, whatever languagesomebody likes to use around
that, and know reallyspecifically what is going on
(01:30):
with them and how do we fix it.
And then how do we fix andadjust whatever needs to happen
in somebody's business.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, I love that, and that's similar to the type
of coaching I do.
Although I'm not an intuitivemedium, I am intuitive but, yeah
, I truly believe that abusiness can't outgrow its owner
, and so if there's blockageshappening within them, then it's
going to affect what'shappening on the outside as well
.
So I'm curious, how did youactually, you know, discover
(02:03):
that and then apply it tobusiness?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, you know I mean , obviously, I was born an
intuitive medium I always knewthings that I wasn't supposed to
know.
As a kid, I had informationabout what was happening in
adults' lives and the peoplethat were around me.
I, as a child, saw and hearddead people, even though I
(02:30):
didn't know that they weren'tthere, that nobody else could
see or hear them, and because ofthat, in the way that I grew up
the structure that I grew up,the framework that I had growing
up, that was not something thatanybody understood, and so it
got me into a lot of trouble,and it really, I guess, in some
ways kind of scarred me,honestly, so I'd shut so much of
(02:54):
that down, and I just neverreally understood it.
What came to be, though, wasthat in life, in random
circumstances, and in mytraditional business consulting
roles, I would often know thesethings.
That just seemed completelyillogical.
So it was happening for me, andI was getting that information
(03:16):
in bits and pieces all the time,even long before I ever
understood it, and people wouldbe freaked out out, as one might
expect them to be, you know,sitting next to me on an
airplane and they're making chitchat, and I start telling them.
Well, yeah, that's because thishappened to you when you were a
child.
And da, da, da and they theywould be like you know who are
(03:37):
you?
How do you know this about me?
So it was always showing up.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And was there a moment in time when it kind of
got to a point where kind oflike an awakening, where you had
to really step in and startowning that because it was a
part of your path?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, I mean, I think there was two really pivotal
things that started that came in.
I had already startedmeditating on my own.
I had gone back to school forholistic health and counseling
and as a part of that coursestudy, I was exposed to
meditation and started doingthat on my own.
So I was now hearing voices inmy head and at one point I was a
(04:24):
single mom in my head and atone point I was a single mom.
And so here I was, thinkingthat I had lost my mind because
it was happening outside of whenI was meditating.
I would have these spells whereI could, like hear audibly all
these voices and people sayingthings, and I thought for sure
(04:45):
that I had lost my mind, that Iwas, you know, schizophrenic,
probably, um, and that I, youknow, went into panic around.
What the heck am I going to do?
I'm, I'm taking care of mydaughter.
I have to support her.
I'm gonna have to go checkmyself in.
It should have been a clue to methat I was like, so rational
and logical about what was goingto need to happen and something
(05:09):
in me I was literally praying.
I was praying like, please helpme to figure out what to do,
and the voices stopped, not nottoo long after that, I had a
(05:30):
chance encounter with someonewho I didn't know and it turns
out that she is anotherintuitive and came to me and
told me that I had this gift andI was meant to use it to help
people.
And you know that we all havethis gift, but some of us have
it extra, and I frankly didn'tthink she was nuts but I was
(05:54):
like, yeah, I don't think Ireally want all this extra
responsibility.
I already have all kinds ofresponsibilities and I'm already
helping all kinds of peoplebesides myself and all this
pressure.
So I really kind of resisted ithonestly for a little while, um
and I.
It just evolved then that Iended up.
I did go back to her.
(06:15):
She was deeply religious, sheis she's, she's still here and
I'm still connected to her andshe's deeply religious.
Um, she actually is like supercatholic and and had her own
personal struggle withunderstanding her spiritual
gifts, worrying, um, that withinthe religion we're kind of
taught that can be sacrilegiousor it's, you know, some
(06:39):
potentially evil, and thatthere's all these things that
we're not supposed to be able todo per se in the religion
container.
And so she struggled with thatand just really helped me to
understand it more deeply, howto work with it and use it, and
then then it was kind of likethe floodgates opened up in a
(07:01):
lot of ways so when you hadthose voices, you actually ended
up shutting them down becauseyou felt like you were going
crazy, like how long was thatperiod of time?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
because I've definitely felt like that before
as well.
I'm like, oh my god, what isgoing on?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I feel crazy yeah, um , I had several bouts of it,
wasn't like it, like it lastedevery day, all day, for weeks or
anything like that.
I think, probably over thecourse of maybe about six months
, though I would have like maybeonce a week.
I would have this spell and itwould be kind of dizzying and,
(07:36):
like I said, I would hear allthese these voices and things A
lot of times it was everybodykind of talking at once over top
of each other, so it justsounded like being in a loud
room, but it was like this veryaudible um experience.
Like I said, it was literallylike they were all in the room
with me and I was alone and forme, I've come to learn now that
(08:02):
we do have control over it, thatwe can I don't want to
experience this that way and wecan decide how we are
communicated with, because weall do have the gifts.
Every single one of us is adivine soul, a divine energy,
and so we always have thatconnection.
(08:24):
We're never actually reallyseparated.
It's just about learning torecognize it and learning to
trust it.
But, like I said, some of usjust um I always say some people
are really great at sports orreally great at math or really
great at art.
We can all learn to do thosethings, but some of us just have
like a heavier dose, naturally.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, yeah, I guess it's what we're naturally drawn
to and yeah, it's going to come,come and hit you in the face if
you don't listen to that littlewhisper as well.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, and we all have those experiences right In our
life where there's times whereyou're like I knew in that
moment I should have done thisor I shouldn't have done that,
or I should have trusted thisperson or I shouldn't have
trusted that person.
We can always look back and see, and a lot of times it is our
intuition, it is, you know, ourgut.
Some people call it um, that istelling us something, but we're
(09:21):
we're always being guided andwe're always connected.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I know that to be true so I with being guided and
listening to your gut intuition,because sometimes we get these
whispers and it's like okay,this is.
You kind of get this feelinglike, oh, I want to go and study
that, or I want to justrandomly go to that coffee shop
today, but then then your braincomes in and goes no, but you
(09:46):
shouldn't do that because youneed to get back to that email
or you need to do that job, oryou've got to do this, and why
would you go and study that?
And so I've been in points inmy life where I've gone which
one's my you know my head andwhich one's my intuition, and
how to differentiate that.
Do you have any tips aroundthat?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Sure, I mean once you start to practice with it,
cause it is a muscle.
So once we start to practicewith it, you do recognize that
it almost comes from a differentpart of your brain that you
know the the critical brain isusually.
For me it's always up front.
That's the self-story, that'sthe ego part of myself that's
(10:28):
giving me some kind of direction, whereas the intuitive, the
spiritual part of me feels likeit comes from more, like behind
me.
It's more so sometimes peoplecan recognize that it actually
is coming from a different place.
Another thing that I often sayto people is recognize how a
different place.
Another reason, another thingthat I they I often say people
is recognize how your body feels, because a lot of us are not
(10:52):
particularly in tune with ouremotions and so you can often be
able to actually feel it inyour body.
So if you're hearing yourselfsay, no, I need to get back to
the house, and you're likebringing your shoulders up or
there's like a constrictedfeeling in your body, then you
typically know that is the storyin your head.
(11:13):
That's the ego, that's yourrational mind that is telling
you that and not necessarilyyour intuition.
Your intuition will always feellight in your body and more
expansive, however it is, thatthat looks um.
The other thing I think isalways too, is that your
intuition, your divine self andthose that information that
(11:36):
comes through to you is, in myexperience, is never critical.
It's never judgmental, it'snever telling you what you
should do, it's simply givingyou a joyful nudge.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Okay, so if there's a should attached, it's usually
the ego or the critical mind.
Absolutely, that could almostbe a checkpoint.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, yeah.
Anytime that we are feelingthat we should do something,
it's usually out of some senseof a belief pattern or a sense
of responsibility.
It's almost always picking upon something that somebody else
is that we're carrying as ourown.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
So then, because you've got this skill so
sharpened, so when it comes foryou to make decisions, do you
ever make wrong decisionsanymore because you're so tapped
into your intuition?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, you know, um, it certainly and and I joke
about this a lot and inparticular when I was first
learning to really understandand harness it all for myself, I
would argue I would like getstuff in meditation.
I would, I would get nudges andI would rationalize it and
(12:54):
think, no, I don't really wantto do that and oh, that's
probably my imagination.
That's usually another clue towhen something seems like a
really spontaneous, randomthought and we want to write it
off as our imagination.
The imagination really is acreative force.
It really is our creativeenergy which in, in my
understanding, is the same thingas your divine knowledge and
(13:17):
your divine guidance.
So anytime that we want to writesomething off in a as being,
well, that's just crazy, or Idon't know why I even thought
about that, or I don't knowwhere that came from.
I don't have time for that.
Those are usually thoseindications.
But I absolutely argued I wouldrationalize.
I'm so rationalized and I stilldo it to a certain degree.
(13:41):
It's just that I catch myselffaster now, instead of going all
the way down the path.
Anymore I pretty much recognizealmost straight away.
Okay, wait a minute.
I think I'm dismissingsomething here.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I think I'm rationalizing something away
it's so interesting because,yeah, I get those downloads.
Meditating, um, like a like amonth ago, two months ago, I was
meditating and I had this ideacome in and go, you need to
connect to that videographer anddo a higher beautiful house for
the day and do thiscollaborative shoot.
And I just, I actually justtrusted it and went with it and
(14:17):
it worked out perfectly.
We booked out within 24 hours,so it was like that natural
nudge that I listened to andthere is.
I have to make a decision todayabout something quite big um,
which is leaving the countrynext week for a week to go do
something and I'm like fightingmyself so badly because last
(14:39):
year I was like, oh, I reallywant to go and do that thing.
And now the opportunity's comeup, going, well, you should go
and do that thing.
But then my brain's going, yeah, but every time you go and do
these things you come back andthen you're like have no money,
and you're stressed out and andthen I'm just caught.
I'm like, oh, what's going on?
And then lots of fear andsabotage is coming up, and so I
(15:01):
get it almost.
Because I don't make thedecision quick enough, I get
intertwined and in this liketight little mess, mm, hmm.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
What do you do?
And so I would say, and soproof, given what I just told
you about the signs and how toknow what's intuitive and what's
not, if you're feeling allintertwined and knotted up about
the rational side of it, that'sthe part that's your ego mind.
I can tell.
I mean, if you really want toknow, I can tell you.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You're supposed to go , do it I would say you are
supposed to go do it.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
The thing what's really interesting, though, is
they said as soon as you startedtalking about it, I was like
yeah, she's supposed to go,there's no question about it.
The important thing for you toremember is to change the story
you tell yourself.
You know you said that yourrational mind is telling you
every time you go do this, Icome back and then I have no
(15:59):
money and there's all that.
Tell yourself that this is adifferent experience.
This time you will go back andyou'll have a different
experience when you come home.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Okay, yeah, because it's a very powerful time, with
these solar eclipses happeningat the moment and I'm a Libra
with Aries rising, so I'm likein the middle of it and I'm an.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Aries, I would say, and I'm an Aries with two
planets in libra, so I'm thesame oh, you're feeling it too,
feeling a bit insane.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, it's a very powerful time it is and I just I
feel like a lot of shadows fromlast year that I thought I'd
really cleared out, just comingup again.
It's like, hey, I thought wealready looked at this and let
it go what are?
You doing yeah, that's how the?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
lunar eclipse.
I would say astrology is notsuper my thing, but because this
lands so squarely into what mychart looks like, I've done a
really healthy amount ofresearch around it and I will
say that the lunar eclipse thatjust passed um was all about
endings and completions.
So it really is the last and alot of karmic clearing.
(17:11):
For a lot of people.
It really is kind of like thelast shreds of what has been
your patterns and your beliefsand your wounds finally, finally
leaving, leaving Well.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I hope so.
I feel like they say that everymoon, but I think this one's
like a 12-year cycle orsomething, so it is stuff from a
really long time, yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And especially, like I said, if you like you said, if
it's you're in the Libra Ariesaccess, these are extra extra
intense for us, right?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
now access.
These are extra, extra intensefor us right now, and so this
trip is actually going to thenumber one place on earth, from
nasa um, to view the solareclipse.
Oh, on the 8th that soundssuper exciting it's a very
intense.
It's a um expedition withinsider expeditions, and I'll be
(18:08):
going and doing photos of umcapturing the event, but also
portraits of the musicians andthe people that are going to be
there.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
So, yeah, it's um I don't know why you would say no
to this.
I know it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I think because I've been feeling a bit anxious and
just like yucky stuff coming upwith this moon that it has felt
a bit sabotaging myself, to behonest.
Yeah, I'm curious, when youlike, just then, when you tapped
into guides Now, are they myguides or are they your guides?
(18:46):
How does that work?
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
in my belief, they're the same.
Okay, because we all are one,it is all you know.
It's that whole idea that weare all just drops of the same
ocean.
So in a lot of ways, my guidesare your guides.
Um, it's, we do have ones thatwe more directly connect with on
(19:14):
an individual basis.
I would say that, because of myabilities and where I am, I
would more likely tap into onesthat are more directly connected
to you than they are directlyconnected to me, and yet, like
you said, they're also kind ofthe same yeah, and do they come
(19:39):
in through?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
so when I imagine you're talking to your guides
and I have I did a meditationthe other day to call in your
guides, because it's somethingthat I do want to develop more I
imagine them as like thesephysical little ghosts kind of
behind you, but is it more justvoices?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
that kind of download well, I mean, we can all
experience them however we want.
Honestly, you get to.
It's just like I said you getto decide, you get to choose
what you want that experience tobe.
Um, for me personally, I alwaysexplain it as it's like reading
(20:16):
a book.
For me, so you know, when youread a book and you read a part
that has conversation in it, youhear the conversation in your
head and yet you know it's notyour own thoughts, it's coming
from this other place, right,when I read a book, I can see
the scene as it's beingdescribed and painted out to me,
(20:39):
and yet I'm not really seeinganything.
That's how I also get kind ofthe vision For me personally.
I also can have a very strongsensation.
I can sometimes be overwhelmedby a feeling.
Sometimes it's a really aphysical sensation in the body,
(20:59):
and yet it's not actuallyhappening.
I would say I know this soundssuper weird.
I don't even know how else toexplain it, um, but yeah, I get
it in all different kinds ofways, though it's not literal,
um, and also when I do like aguided meditation for myself and
(21:19):
I'm I meet a guide, or I meetan angel or an ascended master,
they all can have sort of avisual quality about them, as
I'm, you know, in that spacewith them.
But typically when, when I'm,when I'm working with somebody
and like when you just asked me,I don't, I don't see anything.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Okay, and do you know anything about?
You know, just before someonehas a big breakthrough,
sometimes a lot of fear can comeup, or they have this kind of
cleanse or anything.
Do you know much about that?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, sure I mean the biggest part of it is that our
fears, our beliefs, our emotions, the things that come up, is
always something trying to getyour attention to be released.
So, before we go through a bigtransformation in our lives, as
(22:17):
we are trying because a lot ofus try to do healing and up
level ourselves and our livesand our understanding and our
connection to them it's going toculminate and bring up all
these things.
Like I said, whether it'sbeliefs, whether it's fears,
whether it's emotions, sometimesit's experiences that are all
(22:39):
coming up that are really justpointing you to whatever it is
that needs to be released.
So it absolutely makes sensethat the bigger you are going to
take a jump.
If you do the work, if youactually allow yourself to go
through it rather than suppressit or repress it, if you go
(23:00):
through it, it will clear itaway so that it no longer is an
issue for you.
But I know like a few minutesago, you had said about you know
, you felt like you had clearedthese things.
It is like an onion, yeah, butall that means when we and we
can be really self-critical andbe in a lot of comparison and
(23:21):
self-judgment, and so we feellike I already did this.
I thought I cleared this, Ithought I healed this.
I went to therapy, I thought Ihad forgiven them.
Whatever those stories are thatwe tell you, but all it really
means is that you are just nowat a different level you now are
at a deeper part and you'rebeing asked to move again and so
(23:44):
it has to resurface.
Do you hit a point where it'scompletely cleared out and it
will be gone?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
yes, with some things , thank god, yeah yeah, uh,
because it's interesting, likethe stuff that's coming up for
me is it's sabotaging, going anddoing this trip and there's a
part of me it's like I just stayhome, like I just stay safe,
(24:14):
take care of things that need tobe taken care of, and that
actually feels a bit calming forme.
I'm like oh, that feels, thatfeels better then yeah, the
niggles, there it's like yeah,but what if?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You know, the thing with that is that it is cliche.
And yet it's cliche for areason.
It's because it's true.
We are feeling more safe andmore comfortable in the places
that we've always been Right,right, so they're like the whole
(25:08):
truth around.
you know why you continuouslyattract in a particular part of
you that recognizes that there'sa part of you that is familiar,
and so it gives you a sense ofcertainty, because you know what
that dynamic looks like, and sothat's true with any area of
our lives are in the same space.
The level that we're at, theoperating place that we're at,
(25:32):
will feel certain andcomfortable.
But you have to just askyourself but do I like it?
Am I okay where I am, or arethere things that I want to
change?
And the answer, if it, if it isthat there are things that I
want to change, there are thingsthat I want to do differently
well then you're going to haveto get uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Interesting, and is that something that you help
people work through as well?
Oh, for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I was going to say I don't even know.
I think for many people,believe it or not, don't have
necessarily a really deepspiritual framework or
experience.
Some of them don't even havehardly any personal development
experience, and so coming to meand working with me alone is
usually uncomfortable, and it isalways because it's what I
(26:28):
asked for in my work.
When I, when I work withsomebody and when I work with
spirit to help someone, is toshow me the things that need to
be shaken loose, to show me thethings that they need to release
, that they need to reprogram,that they need to process, that
they haven't processed, thatthey've suppressed or they've
been unaware of, and so, yeah,it's uncomfortable, it's
(26:53):
uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That is so good to know and I'm sure people
listening to this will totallyresonate with all of that and
I'm so glad that someone likeyou exists to help them through
that and, with you know, helpingthem connect to their higher
self and be guided and learn totrust that intuition more as
well.
It's super important.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
A lot of times people say to me oh, I've been
thinking about that or I alwayswanted to do that, like we.
Again, and that's the one thingI would leave in everybody with
is that you really are beingguided all the time, whether you
work with someone like me ornot.
We really are, and so you know.
Trust that when something feelspersistent and kind of out of
(27:43):
the blue, that it really is itsway of guiding you, just as
repeating patterns and seeingourselves cycle back into the
same dynamic or making the samemistake again is just another
way that you're being shown andguided and pushed to make
changes and to deal withsomething and move and do it
(28:05):
differently.
Even though it's going to bescary sometimes, it can be.
It can be.
It can be all kinds of thingsthat are unpleasant.
I'm not even gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
I never lie about it I never lie about it that's
something that they don't tellyou as a kid.
It's like, yeah, follow yourdreams, but it's going to be
scary.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
It's going to be hard , you're going to have to do
some work, but the highs willoutweigh the the lows yeah, if
people people don't tell youthat about personal development
or spiritual development either,they make it all sound like, oh
, you have this big awakeningand then all of a sudden you
have this inner peace and no,you gotta dig up a lot of crap
(28:44):
there's got.
There's a lot of purging and alot of crying and a lot of
things that have to come through.
Now does it have to be gnashingof the teeth for 10 years?
No, it doesn't.
But it's not all like rainbowsand fairies and connecting to
angels all the time.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Well, thank you so much for your time.
It was really awesome chattingwith you and, yeah, I think the
listeners got to experience alittle bit about what you do as
well, so thank you.
Thank you so much for having meand I'll leave some um links in
the show notes of how peoplecan connect with you as well,
(29:23):
okay.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Thank you again, bye-bye.
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