7 Signs the Universe is Trying to Get Your Attention

Have you ever felt like the universe is sending you messages, but you're not sure what to look for? Maybe you've been seeing repeating numbers, hearing the same phrase over and over, or experiencing unexpected shake-ups in your life. These aren’t just coincidences—they're signs! The universe, your guides, and your higher self are always trying to communicate with you, nudging you toward alignment, clarity, and growth.

In this episode, I’ll break down seven powerful ways the universe might be trying to get your attention—and what you can do when you recognize these signs. From synchronicities to unexpected obstacles, this is your guide to understanding and trusting the messages coming your way.

✨ You’ll learn:
✔ How to recognize and interpret universal signs in your daily life
✔ Why certain numbers, symbols, and redirections keep showing up
✔ What to do when life throws you a sudden “shake-up”
✔ How to tune in and trust that the universe is working in your favor

💜Don’t ignore the signs—learn how to decode them and start aligning with the guidance meant for you!

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Episode Transcript

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Hey, beautiful souls, welcomeback, or welcome in for another
episode of spirit speakeasy ontoday's episode, I am gonna
share with you seven signs theuniverse is trying to get your
attention and what to do aboutit. Have you ever had a moment
where it felt like the universewas trying to get your

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attention? Maybe for you, you'vebeen asking the universe for
guidance, but maybe you'reuncertain about what you're
looking for as a response back.
Or maybe the universe has beentrying to get your attention,
but you've been missing all thesigns. I think there's so much
that we are worried about or arethinking about or are trying to
figure out in our own lives andcommunities, let alone the world

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as a whole, that sometimes we'refocused so many other places
that it can be really easy toeven forget that we asked for a
sign from the universe to guideus or help us along. Have you
ever had an experience where youkeep seeing the same numbers or
hearing the same phrases orexperiencing like a series of

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events that feel too connectedor specific to be just a
coincidence? These aren't randomoccurrences. They are messages
the universe, your guides, yourHigher Self are always
communicating, nudging youtowards your alignment, towards
clarity, towards growth. Thething is, signs don't always

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arrive as like a booming voicefrom the sky, don't we all wish,
or a flashing neon sign thatwakes us up in the middle of the
night, right? More often theycome in whispers, subtle
patterns, gentle or sometimesnot so gentle, redirections. If
you've been feeling stuck oreven just uncertain, searching

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for some guidance, you mightalready be receiving messages
you just need to notice them.
Let's dive into these sevenpowerful ways that the universe
might be trying to get yourattention and what you can do
when and if you recognize them.
I want to start with this quote.

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It's something I have heard allalong my development. Many of
you who've worked with me incourses or on workshops. Know
that I have been doing personaldevelopment, and back in the
day, we used to call it selfhelp for many years, probably
since I was about 14 years old.
And this phrase has come overand over, and I just never
really thought about perhaps,like, who originated it? So I

(03:17):
looked it up, and according tochatgpt, it's a widely
circulated phrase in spiritualand motivational communities,
but its exact origin is notclear. So have you ever heard
this? The Universe only hasthree answers, yes, not yet. Or
I have something better for you.

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I just want to float that outthere in case you haven't heard
it for me, this has alwaysreally helped me along my
journey to know that I amsupported, that even if
something that I think I want inthat moment is elusive or keeps
slipping through my grasp,somehow I remind myself of that
phrase, the universe only hasthree answers, yes, not yet, or

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I have something better for you,so I'm just going to put that,
put that out there as a littleseed for you. But let's go
through these seven signs. Thisfirst sign that the universe is
trying to get your attention, ishearing or seeing your name
repeatedly. This can be a firstname. This can be a nickname, or

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however you prefer to identifyyourself in the world. If you go
by a nickname, it could also belike your regular full name, if
that's not you know, if it'ssomething that, like only your
grandma used to call you thatname. For example, I actually
had this happen just this lastweek. I was at sort of like an
antiques Mall. If you've everbeen to something like that,

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it's they have little booths,and each booth is, like,
typically, not run by a personsitting there, but they just
have their stuff in there. Andyou can kind of wander through
and look at all the things. AndI was there with a friend, and
all of a sudden we were in thisone booth that someone had, and
they had these sort.
Sort of large, I want to say,like bigger than a coaster,

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probably like a quarter of asheet of paper size. Maybe
that's like four inches by fourinches square letters almost
looking like Scrabble tiles. Andas I turned around, the three
letters that they had standingup on their display was my name,
J, the O and the Y. I didn'teven realize they had other of

(05:24):
these tiles of letters until wewere kind of looking around
their little booth. But I wasjust like, I don't often.
Actually, was one of mycomplaints as a kiddo. My name
is, is not usually on stuff.
Like, when I was a kid, otherkids would get, like, the
bicycle license plate with theirname on it from the vacation or
the, you know, key chain withtheir name on it, or the pencils

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with their name on it. My namedidn't really come on stuff,
except at Christmas time, whichI found, like, even more
annoying somehow. So I'm nottypically used to seeing my name
outside of, like the Christmasstuff, if you will. So I just I
noticed it, and I was like, Oh,joy. Okay, there it is. Not 30
seconds later, I kid you notover the radio speaker of the

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entire place. And I didn't thinkthat they were playing a radio
station. There was no like, DJtype person that was coming on
periodically, but once in awhile there'd be like,
commercials chime in. And Idon't know if you guys are all
old enough to remember this. Butit started playing this like
candy jingle for that candyAlmond Joy. And it was, it was a
song, a very old commercial songthat I haven't heard in like, a

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really long time. It wasn't justa little short jingle of today,
but it was like a longer and Iheard my name in it, and then I
was like, oh, that's the AlmondJoy song. That's really weird. I
was still standing in that samebooth, actually, when I heard
it, and I just was like, Okay,so for me, I know okay. Universe
is trying to get my attention.

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I'm paying attention. Hello. Iacknowledge these signs, and
let's keep it pushing sosomething like that can happen
to you, and it can be just thatsimple, where it's like, you
know, you hear your name calledout from somewhere, and then
it's, it's not at you, but it'slike another person saying, Oh,
hi, that's me. So it can be lotsof ways that this might come to

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you, but just paying attentionfor hearing or seeing your name
repeatedly, why it happens, yourguides your higher self or the
universe trying to makesomething stand out to you. So
what you can do is kind of pauseand ask, like, what was I just
thinking about? What's coming upfor me? Like, is an emotion
coming up? Or were you just kindof thinking about something or

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asking a question? It can be ifyou're just dipping your toes
into your spiritual work orgetting more diligent in your
practice. If you're shiftingsomething in your spiritual
work, it can be the universejust letting you know, like
you're on the right track or orwe're in communication. But
often, I encourage people like,if there's something you were
just thinking about, or ifthere's something that's been on

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your heart, that you've beenkind of trying to make a choice
or wanting some guidance aboutit's letting you know you are
being supported. And back tothat original quote that I gave.
Maybe it's something that you'rewanting to happen right now and
it's not happening. So maybesome of that validation is the
universe saying, like I hear,that you're asking for this, but
not yet, right? So that's thefirst sign is hearing or seeing

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your name repeatedly. Signnumber two, that the universe is
trying to get your attention isrecurring numbers. Now I know
we've talked about recurringnumbers before. You guys know I
love numbers. I'm not justtalking about 1111, or 444, or
777,in this instance, because all of
those can be the universe tryingto get your attention. And if
you haven't done my free signs,mini course sign magnet. It's

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right on the homepage of thewebsite, joyful medium.com, and
I give you a cheat sheet inthose lessons for each you know
series of numbers, 1112222333,etc. And what those specifically
mean. But this is like, ifyou're not only seeing one of
those, like, if you see only444, all the time, that means
the 444, meaning if you'reseeing lots of recurring

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numbers, not not just one set,right? Maybe it's throughout the
day, and you're seeing differentrecurring numbers,
sometimes random, like, quote,unquote, random numbers that
keep appearing are a hello fromthe universe or the universe
trying to get your attention.
And this might show up in lotsof ways. It could be I think we

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all have a lot of digital clocksaround us these days, whether
it's on our computers, ourphones, our cars are often
digital now. So it could be on adigital clock. It could be on a
real clock, one of those aroundyou that still counts. It could
be on, like a receipt, licenseplates that you pass in the day,
a door code. Here in San Diego,a lot of our like building

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restrooms, will have like alittle code you have to punch
in, or, or, I used to have a carthat had like a little code you
punch in on the door, which.
I don't know if cars are likethat anymore, but codes and
things phone numbers, you mightsee a phone number call and you
might note keep noticingrecurring numbers in phone
numbers. So it's any way that itgets to you. It doesn't just

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have to be only one way. We comeacross lots of numbers in our
day.
Maybe you keep seeing, forexample, like 237,
everywhere, and then you realizeit relates to, like, an
important date or an address ora moment in your life. I have a
number like that that has beenkind of my whole life. A little
hello from the universe. I'm notgoing to share what it is. It's

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kind of personal, but it's atime. It's a, like a clock time.
And I see it often. I see itsometimes, like if I'm checking
into a hotel, it might be myhotel room number. For example,
if I get a, like, a dry cleaningticket, it might be on there.
And for me, because I have itset as, like a personal sign,

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which you can totally do, itlets me know, hello from the
universe, you're on the righttrack, or, like, a little wink
of like, okay, this is going tobe good. Like, a little finding
a four leaf clover is, is oftenhow I take it. And it has shown
up on hotel room doors and on,uh, tag numbers that I've had to
wear when I've been in like,groups of people, for example.

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So it's, like a badge type thingif you go to a seminar or that
kind of thing. So it shows up inall these really fun ways. But
what to do is just kind of keepa journal if you want, of these
repeating numbers, or you caneven track how they show up when
you're making decisions. Youcan, like we were talking about,
assign like a birth date or aspecific time, or even like a

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sports jersey number, forexample, things that you might
pick as like a lucky number. Youcan set it up as a sign with the
universe and say, like, okay,when I see I would avoid the
like, common, recurring ones,like, 777, but you could do it
like, say, your jersey numberwas 17. You could do it like,
Oh, when I see seventeens, or,like, 17, 1717,

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I'll take that as a sign fromthe universe. Maybe it's just
217 maybe it's a totallydifferent time. Maybe it's maybe
you had a kiddo that was born at842 and so that's your going to
be your sign 842so it can be any number that you
choose, but if you can'tidentify what it is, just start
kind of making some notes anddoing some noticing. The other
thing with the numbers, therecurring numbers. For me, I

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think I say this in that sign,course, but for me, if it's
like, I keep seeing ascendingnumbers, meaning, like,
234789123,it's my sign from the universe
that like you're on the righttrack. You're moving forward.
Because especially when it's aproject or something I'm working
on that I feel like, is maybe,like, not moving forward. Or I'm
like, is this still the rightdirection with this? Or, and I

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doesn't even have to be that Iformally, like, quote, unquote,
ask the universe. I can just bekind of thinking about it in my
own thoughts and musings. Andthen in the world, those things
will start showing up. And I'llknow, like, Okay, I have been
wondering if I'm on the righttrack with this thing, and now
I'm seeing these, you know,2345789,
1112, and I'll know, like, Okay,this is an indication that,

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like, Yes, I'm on the righttrack. I'm still moving forward
with this. I hope that makessense the way I'm explaining it.
So that is the recurring numbersas hellos from the universe
trying to get your attention.
Our third sign that the universeis trying to get your attention
is objects or symbols repeatingthemselves. So this is sort of
similar to what we just talkedabout with the numbers, but a

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little bit different. This canbe like a particular animal, a
word, a phrase, or even a symbolkeeps showing up in unexpected
places. A symbol could be like afeather a key.
Again, it could be a series ofnumbers, but this is more like
objects and symbols that we'retalking about here. For example,

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if you keep seeing butterfliesor a certain bird or a specific
tarot card keeps popping up whenyou're doing like readings for
yourself,you can know that this recurring
idea is a hello from theuniverse. And you know, I've
seen it. I've seen people getreally specific with this one.
Like, I I heard a story aboutsomeone who was would collect,

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found playing cards, like justregular cards that you would
play card game with on in theirtheir New York and I guess, I
guess it's like a weirdphenomena in New York that there
are these random playing cardsthat just kind of come across
your path around the city. Andso this person would find these
playing cards and know, like,that's a sign from the universe,

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saying hello to them, or or likethis little back and forth
volley from the universe. Itcould be anything you want, and
it doesn't. You could choose it,right? Because sometimes, I
think one of the challenges iswe think, like, oh, I asked for
a sign, but I don't know whatit's going to be. We'll just
pick something.
I knew someone else thatpostcards used to come across

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their path, but they were alwayspostcards that had, like,
tropical pictures on them. Itwas the weirdest thing. And I
know.
This is what's kind of a littletough about these mystical
experiences, even thesemomentary ones, is to explain it
to someone else. It might seemlike, Okay, well, so what you
findplaying cards or postcards come
across your path, like, whatdoes that mean? But when you
live it, and you start to seehow in odd ways, these things

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make their way to you, itbecomes a little bit more like,
oh, okay, that's really weird.
Like the playing card thing, forexample. I know sometimes they
would just like, get into thesubway or into a cab, and
there'd be like, a card on theseat, and it just, like things
that are just so weird thatyou're like, Okay, this is so
strange. I can't even, I can'teven deny it type of a thing. So

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sometimes it can be in signs andsymbols, and sometimes it can be
our loved ones, right, if youhave a certain sign with them,
or if you, for example, think oflike butterflies with your mom,
let's say, then thosebutterflies would be from her.
But you could take it to kind ofan extra level. So for me, what
I do with butterflies inparticular, I have a certain

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type of butterfly that that is ahello from a certain specific
person on the other side, who Ilove very much. But then I have
assigned the other not all ofthe colors, but a couple of the
other colors of butterflies tomean different things. So a
white butterfly means one thingto me. A yellow butterfly means
something else to me. An orangebutterfly means something else

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to me. And I don't use it in mywork as a medium when someone's
loved ones are communicatingwith me. I don't use like signs
and symbols. This is all justfor me, and I think it's just
adds this like layer of richnessto our life, to be able to have
these almost like more tangiblecommunications in the world. You
can do all of this through thesensing, but I think if you're

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in a place where you'reuncertain or questioning,
sometimes just sensingit can feel challenging to us.
So that's why I'm trying to givesome alternate, alternate ways.
Okay, so that third way? What doyou do? Like, if you're feel
like you keep seeing thisrecurring sign or symbol or
phrase or word in the world,well, you could consider doing a

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little research around thespiritual meaning. Like if, if
you keep having wolves comeacross your path, you could look
at what the spiritual meaning ofthat is. Or if it's like a tarot
card that keeps crossing yourreadings or keeps coming up for
you in readings you're watching,you can look up the meaning of
that card, but also trust whatthe symbol means to you. Science

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and symbols are often highlypersonal. It's why I don't use
them that way in my work as amedium, because a butterfly
might mean one thing to me, or arainbow is probably easier.
Rainbow might mean one thing tome personally, with my own loved
ones, but if I make it mean onlyone thing, it could mean 1000
things to different people'sloved ones. It could indicate a

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vacation they went on. It couldbe a song, it could be a sports
team, it could be a lot ofthings. So they're often so
highly personal, so it's okay tohave your own personal meanings,
and I would trust what it meansfor you. So say that you're
looking up the spiritual meaningand you see, like a bunch of
different meanings, just go withthe one that resonates with you

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the most, or that you feel mostdrawn to. And that's that's an
easy way to do it. But also, ifyou feel like, okay, I know.
I know that, for example, thePhoenix is the sign for like,
rising from the ashes, or, like,rebirth, regeneration. But for

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me, I feel like it's a sign thatI'm, like, winning or like going
to be on the right direction.
Take it as what it means to you.
I hope that makes sense the wayI'm explaining it. I just really
love signs. I think you guysknow I get so excited about
signs.
Okay, so the number four signthat spirit is trying to get

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your attention and communicatewith you is technology and
electronics acting up. Now Iwant to just preface this with
saying, if you are someone Iknow certain certain people,
that technology and electronicsact up around them 100% of the
time. So that could be their ownelectromagnetic field, their own

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energy. But if you're someonewho like technology works fine
for you, and it's like a glitchthat is a new thing. Glitches,
phones dropping calls, texts notsending, lights flickering when
you're having, like a deepconversation, or when you just
were thinking about something.
Some examples could be like yourmusic. Suddenly you have it on,

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like a shuffle, and you'rethinking about something, and
the perfect song comes on thatanswers the question that you
had, or that speaks to whateverthat was that you were just
thinking with or wrestling with,or, for example, like your phone
or yourTV or your system turns on like
all by itself, and it's notcontrolled by some kind of, like

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Alexa type device. I.
Um, so technology can be areally interesting sign from the
universe. It could be like,this, light always works, and
now it's not working. And I justtested the bulb, and it's fine.
And then you go away for alittle while and you're thinking
about something, and you comeback, and then it works. It's
like, okay, what was I justthinking about? What was I just
What is this trying to tell me?
You know what I mean, I am a bigbeliever for like, test the

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light bulb. Test the light makesure it's not just like lights
do actually break and lightbulbs do actually burn out,
right? So we want to test thosethings. Like, let's be real at
the same time, music is a bigone for me. I know it's not
technically, maybe technology,but it works through technology.
And I believe the universe, ourguides, our loved ones can kind
of, I don't love this word, butmanipulate or work with

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technology to get us signs. So Iknow for sure in my bones that
loved ones on the other sidehave put songs across my path,
personally and clients of mine,because it comes through
sometimes in readings. Butreally, the universe can
communicate with us throughthese little funky technological

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things. I even sometimes think,for example, where I live right
now, there's an elevator in thebuilding, and there are some
other little mechanical thingsthat need to work to like exit
the building, for example. Now,sometimes I've gone in something
like, the thing I'm thinking ofspecifically is we have this,
like, trash chute thing whereyou, like, push this button and

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and it opens and you put yourtrash in, and it goes to it goes
to the basement, down all thefloors. So sometimes that's
broken. And if I was to, like,take my trash and I'm leaving
and the thing is broken, thebuttons broken, and it's stuck
or whatever, I have to take mytrash back to my place and then
go to the elevator. Well, forme, I often think that like,
Okay, well, there's something inthe mix here that I just needed

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those extra two minutes or threeminutes of time that this is
going to add to me going downand leaving in my car. The
universe is trying to linethings up for me differently so,
and I think in that way, itdoesn't necessarily mean that
there's, like, a specificmessage that we're needing to
figure out and reduce to. It'sjust knowing Okay, these little
glitches are perhaps just tryingto line me up with other

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opportunities, someone's pathI'm supposed to cross, something
that's supposed to miss metoday. Maybe I'm not supposed to
run into this person at thestore and spirits trying to,
like, line that up for me, ordisalign. I don't know, whatever
the word is with that misalign.
So I think there's lots of waysthat technology and electronics

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and the way they act and reactcan be the universe trying to
communicate with us. So what todo if this is happening? Pay
attention again to what you'rethinking about, what you are
doing, but then also notice youremotional reaction. Do you get
really annoyed when somethingtechy happens? Do you get
panicked? Or do youcan you get to a place where you

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start to realize, like, oh,okay, probably this is working
on my behalf for some reasonthat I don't know, and I'm just
going to take I'm just going tosay thank you, and just take it
as you know, something that isin my benefit, right? So it's a
little bit of a rework, but Ithink often that could possibly
be in the potentials of what'shappening for us.

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Okay, so that is the number fourway that the universe might be
trying to communicate with youright now, the number five sign
that the universe is trying toget your attention is this idea
of obstacles or redirectionsthat you can't ignore. Now, what
do I mean by that? This can besomething like you have plans
and they fall apart. Andsometimes it can be this thing

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of like you keep trying to makea plan with someone, and every
time we have a plan, it doesn'twork out, either, you know,
someone gets sick or someone hasto travel unexpectedly, or every
time we try to make this plan,it keeps over and over again,
something comes up, things likedelays or things not working out
on the time timing that wethought they would like we
thought a contract was going towrap up by the end of the end of

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the month, and due to due todelays or other circumstances,
it's now going to take anothersix weeks. For example, these
types of things are often signsthat you're being rerouted. It's
sort of trailing into what wewere just talking about, where
universe spirit can kind ofnudge us or direct us a little

(24:23):
bit. It's not taking over ourfree will, but it's just an
effort to line us up with eithermeeting a person in like a
quote, unquote chance encounter.
I'm thinking I was I just got togo to Las Vegas recently and
record some podcasts withsomeone else on their podcast,
which was a great time. And Iended up shifting my flight to

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take a flight that was like twohours earlier, and I was on the
plane with this, like, wonderfulyoung woman and her gorgeous
little baby girl. And we weretalking, I was playing with the
baby, and we were talking, andshe had said, oh yeah.
I was supposed to be on a flightthis morning, and I ended up
changing it last minute to takethis later flight. And I just

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thought it was so funny, becauseshe changed her flight to go
later, I changed my flight to goearlier, and we ended up sitting
together. And I don't knowsomething just too serendipitous
about that, right? So I justthink it's really interesting
how sometimes, sometimes it'sour own choice and plan.
Sometimes it's like, maybe therewas a delayed flight, or you had
a delay yesterday, or somethingchanged in your schedule.

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I often have, like, this strangething happen, where I'll be
like, there'll be an odd spot onmy calendar. How do I want to
say this? Like, maybe it's aspot that no one's filling, like
an open appointment that noone's filling. I've even had it
where like, three appointmentsthat are on my calendar for
like, a Wednesday all seem toget canceled, and then that day

(25:52):
is suddenly open. When thathappens, I've really tracked us
over the years. This has been athing for me for many, many
years now, when that happens,when I just have, like, a big
gap in my calendar, or a daythat, like nothing seems to be
sticking to, I know that that isSpirit giving me a heads up of,
like, you're gonna need this dayfor something. And every single

(26:13):
time, it seems to be true thatsomething happens where I need
that day for something else.
Most recently, there was one inthe in the winter. I can't
exactly remember what it was,but I remember it was cold out,
or my daughter just wasn'tfeeling well and got sick, and I
needed, she lives like about 30,3040, minutes away. I needed to
go where she was and be withher. And it just so happened
that for like, a few weeks, likeon that one day, my calendar

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often books a few weeks ahead,just nothing was sticking to
that day I had, I might evenhave, like, a doctor's
appointment that got canceled,and then I opened different
clients, and clients werepopping on that day and then
rescheduling to a different day.
So I just think when things likethat happen, it's a Has that
ever happened to you? Am I theonly one that this specific,
like, weird little thing happenswhere your calendar will just

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have a clearing, you know,that's setting you up for
actually needing something thatday. So that sometimes happens
to me, but it can also just bedelays, rerouting, plans falling
apart, things not working out,that kind of a thing. So what to
do instead of resisting, which Ithink sometimes our human nature
is like, Oh, I'm trying to getthis thing done. Or like, this

(27:20):
is when this was supposed tohappen. So instead of resisting,
just see if you can, askyourself, Where is this
redirecting me? What's thebigger picture here? I have a
little mantra about this,actually, that I've been saying
for many, many years, delays arein my favor. Sometimes I'll say
delays are always in my favor,because I do really hang on to

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this idea that the universe,higher power, whatever word you
like in there, source knows thetimeline and is orienting
things. There are always thingsgoing on behind the scenes. On
my behalf, is another one I sayall the time. So delays are
always in my favor, because it'salways lining me up for this or
something better, right? For anot yet for I have something

(28:02):
better for you for a yes. Sowe've all put all of these
abraham hicks calls them rocketsof desire. We've all put these
thoughts, these ideas, thesedesires, into the universe just
by thinking about them. And partof aligning with those ideas is
not only our own energy, whichis some of it our free will
contribution to, you know, seizeopportunities, but it's timing.

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How often do we talk aboutdivine timing? And if we know,
if we can accept right? I'velong ago accepted that divine
timing is a thing in my life. Itis relevant to me, and I can
trust that when timing is inorder, things will roll out. So
delays are always in my favor.
So hopefully you cankind of take some of that on

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board or see how that fits foryou. I do also try to tend to
plan for delays. I like to plana little buffer. I mean, to be
quite honest, even though I onlylive a few miles from my office,
I try to go in an hour ahead ofmy first client, just to make
sure the temperature is rightand make sure, you know, in case
something has come up that Ineed to handle when I'm there or

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so I do. Also, just as who I amas a person, plan for delays and
plan for, you know, if I'mtraveling, I always have a
little snack and just be smartalso. But let me know what you
guys think about that ideadelays being in your favor, and
this idea of obstacles orredirections being a
communication from the universetrying to line you up with

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things that are for you and youdon't even need to know. And
often, I believe, we won't knowin that moment what that's
lining us up for. But later itmight become clear. It also
might not become clear. I thinkthis is one of the things that
in our life review, we get tosee where, where those threads
were twining together or pullingapart, and where it's like, oh,

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had I, you know, gone 30 minuteslater, I would have missed this.
Whole interaction, for example,right? So we might ultimately
understand, oh, that's crazy. Ithis happened, and this delay,
and this is what it led to. Butthere might be other times where
we just there's too manysynchronistic things going on
all at once, and we might notunderstand how all of them lined

(30:15):
up to create the perfect timing,the perfect ingredients for
whatever encounter or thingwe're supposed to experience. So
the sixth sign that the universeis trying to communicate with
you, trying to get yourattention, is abrupt life
shakeups. Now you've heard mesay, if you've been here for any

(30:36):
length of time, that we live ina chaotic world, that this earth
plane, this earth school hassome chaos. It has some
contrast. It has a lot going onhere. So sometimes things just
happen. But I also believe thatsometimes the universe shakes
things up in a way that feelssudden or even chaotic. This

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could be things like ending of arelationship, jobs being lost,
unexpected move kind of majordisruption in routine, and some
of this could be again, thatobstacles and redirections
trying to line us up with what'smost in alignment for what we're
wanting to experience. Theseevents can feel jarring, but

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they often serve as these likemini Wake Up Calls and push us
sometimes as a nudge, andsometimes it feels a little more
pushy than a nudge, to me, in mylife anyway, pushing us a little
closer to our right path, orkind of just back in the center
of our path, so to speak. And itmight be something we wouldn't

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have chosen otherwise, sometimesto stay comfortable, we allow
ourselves to become veryuncomfortable, little by little,
to avoid change.
The example I'm thinking of, I'mthinking of two, and I think
this can apply to any area ofour life. But I'm thinking of
someone I know that was in awork situation where there was

(32:02):
nowhere for them to grow in thisposition. It wasn't like they
were waiting for a promotion.
They had kind of gone as far asthey could in the department
they were in, but they it was anice salary, it was nice
benefits. They liked theschedule, they liked the drive.
So there was a lot of thingsgoing for it, but the the way
the department was going thedecisions that were being made
there was giving this person,like literal physical stomach

(32:24):
problems, from the stress, theanxiety this, the direction this
was going, felt out of alignmentfor them, out of integrity they
didn't like participating in, insome of the meetings and things
that they were being asked toparticipate in. There were some
personalities that felt likethey weren't honoring and
respecting their boundaries.

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They were feeling at times likeas time went on, they even
started feeling a little bitwell, more than a little bit
eventually, but bullied andoppressed and manipulated a
little bit. So over time, it waslike a couple year period that I
was working with this client.
And over time, things weregetting incrementally worse and

(33:06):
worse and worse, and policieswere tightening, and they didn't
even get their like proper timeoff and breaks anymore. And
there was all this pressure, andit was like a pressure cooker
getting worse and worse andworse and tighter and squeezing
them tighter and tighter. Butsometimes, whether it's a
challenging work situation or anunhealthy relationship or an

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unhealthy habit that we're doinglike by ourselves, for example,
things can layer in soincrementally that we just allow
ourselves to be more and moreand more squeezed or
uncomfortable because this ideaof change or going over this
hurdle of doing somethingdifferent or quitting our job or

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leaving our relationship andhaving to find a new place to
live and move, and all thethings feels so much so
overwhelming that our humannature sometimes is to stay
still, even though, if it waslike, from the outside looking
in, if it was someone else'ssituation, you could probably
pretty clearly say like, well, Idon't think this is healthy and
working for you anymore, butsometimes when it's our own

(34:11):
situation, we can allowourselves to become so
uncomfortable just to avoidchange. Has this ever happened
to you? It's certainly happenedto me, and I have a pretty high
tolerance, so I really sometimeslet things get to, it to, well,
I used to, I'm better now, to anunhealthy tipping point. But
this is this idea of theseabrupt life shakeups that can be

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this sixth sign that theuniverse is trying to get your
attention. I sometimes see thisone as almost like it acts like
a shaking the carpet, right?
Like, if you think of like, ifyou had, like an area rug and
you wanted to shake the dustout, you might, like grab it
from one end and just shake itlike a, like a wave, right?

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That's sort of how it feels whenit's happening in our life. It's
like.
One just shaking up your wholelife and and turning things
around, or things start comingto your awareness in ways that
you just can't ignore anymore.
You just start reallyrecognizing that this isn't the
space for you. So if this ishappening, this is, this is, I
think maybe the lesserpercentage of time that this

(35:18):
happens because these are oftenkind of big changes in our life.
So it's not something thathappens every single day, like,
like seeing a sign or asynchronicity in this and you
know the earlier examples, butthis is like a big shake up.
Often. It happened for me once,even with, like, a health a
health event, I wasn't listeningto the signs. I wasn't listening

(35:40):
to the smaller signs. I wasspreading myself too thin. I was
super stressed out. It was allthese things constricting at the
same time, and end up having ahealth event that kind of woke
me up, so to speak, and shockedme into
not quite being forced like Istill definitely had some free

(36:01):
will choice in there, but it'salmost like the choice is so
obvious and necessary that wecan't ignore it anymore, but we
still always have the choice.
It's why sometimes we probablyall have examples of people that
you know, that they know thatthis is not the right thing for
them, or that this is unhealthy,or that this is hurting them,
and it can be like in any areaof their life, but they're not

(36:23):
willing to make a differentchoice, and it keeps getting
worse and worse and worse. Sothese shakeups are often
clearing space or removingWhat's no longer serving us,
even if we don't realize it inthe moment. It's one of those
powerful aspects of looking inretrospect, right? We realize
like, oh my gosh, I I didn'tbecause, like, I was saying,

(36:44):
it's, it's so incremental, andwe keep adjusting ourselves to
try to, like, not have to move,to try to stay comfortable, and
we get used to that discomfort.
And it's only in retrospect thatwe might realize, like, my gosh,
that was really unhealthy, thatwas really bad. This gal that I
was talking about in that workexample, did ultimately end up

(37:06):
leaving that workplace, throughseries of events, got a
different job, settled in, andit was a much different culture
and environment in that newworkplace. And then many months
later, as we were working on theenergy, was able to look back
and say, like, wow, I wasreally, I was really struggling.
That was I didn't, I didn't evenrealize that the time, like, she

(37:26):
knew it was tough, but it was,like, even tougher than she had
realized. Have you? Have youever had that? I definitely
have. So instead of immediatelyreacting with frustration or
fear, like, what's this spaceclearing for? It's almost like,
just start asking yourself, whatis this clearing space for in my
life? What is this redirectingme towards or away from? Is this

(37:48):
something that I've been gettinggentle nudges or been really
avoiding or ignoring for a longtime? Often we get these
subtler, quieter signs for quitesome time before this big,
abrupt, quote, unquote, abruptlife shake up. It feels abrupt
when it's happening, but oftenit's like that thing that we

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know that we're supposed to bedoing to not hurt ourselves or
to strengthen our body, forexample, and we're not listening
and we're not doing it. It'sit's usually something that we
kind of knew wasn't working orwasn't healthy or needed to
shift, and we weren't willing todo it for ourselves. So it's
usually not comfortable when ithappens, but these are sometimes

(38:32):
saving grace moments, I believe,because had we continued down
that path, perhaps we would havemet something that really wasn't
meant for us, meant for us inthis lifetime. So even these
uncomfortable, abrupt, shockinglife shakeups really are to
remove What's no longer servingus, even if we don't realize it.

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And for us, the work is to trustthat something better is being
aligned for us. So a littlemantra in here, if you're going
through a big life shake upcould be this is happening for
me, not to me, and again. Oftenwe, you know, want what we want.
We can be kind of stubborn ashuman beings and we, we might

(39:18):
like, want our cake and eat ittoo. We might realize like,
Okay, this is the healthier pathfor me, but I'm not willing to
give up this other thing,person, scenario, whatever it
is. So be watching for thoseabrupt life shakeups. It's not
that we need to avoid them.
They're really uncomfortable,and if we would listen to the
nudges sooner, they wouldn'tneed to get so loud. So in a

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way, even these abrupt lifeshakeups are within our free
will control. Someone's gettingtheir life shaken up by a
motorcycle. They don't know ifyou guys can hear that car alarm
going off out there from a groupof motorcycles that just drove
by, but that's kind of how itfeels. Okay now this seventh
sign that.
And the universe is trying toget your attention. Has to do

(40:03):
with messengers in the world. Ithink we've all experienced this
one in some way or another. Haveyou ever had the experience
where it seems like you keephearing the same message
repeatedly in the world, likemirrored back to you? Maybe it's
through music, a song, maybeit's through a co worker. Maybe
it's through a reading that youreceive or watch, if you watch,

(40:24):
like, bi weekly readings orsomeone else's. Maybe it's
through a book or a podcast thatcomes across your path. Maybe
you're sitting on your commuteto work, and if you see a
billboard or like a sign in thesubway advertising, and there's
a phrase on there, but it'soften like through many
different vehicles or ways ofcommunication in the world, that

(40:45):
we're hearing different versionsof the same message. I can't
tell you how frequently I hearit in readings, when I give
guidance or when I become awareof an aspect, like of their
life, for example, and tell themsomething, not all the time.
It's so often people will say,Oh yeah, I was just having a
conversation about that, or ohyeah, I was just, I was just

(41:08):
thinking. I was just thinkingabout that, or Oh yeah. People
keep saying that to me. Peoplekeep saying that I should read
that book, or that I should workon that I've had this example
several times where, like,multiple different people, plus
podcasts, plus other talks I'vecome across are are all talking
about the same theory, orseveral people recommend the

(41:29):
same book, and it's like anolder book, like, not a brand
new book that everyone's talkingabout. So I think you know what
I'm saying. Where there can bethese different vehicles of
message that come to us throughthe world, typically, those are
pretty clear what they are. It'slike, read the book or look into
this topic, or look into thisthing, or sometimes it's like,
oh, you would really love thisplace, right? You would really

(41:51):
love this restaurant, thismuseum, this whatever show. And
if several people are saying itto you, chances are the universe
wants you to know there'ssomething there for you, some
grain of information, of anexperience, of a something that
will add to your life and toyour experience based on what
you're telling the universe youwant, or what your soul needs or

(42:16):
wants to experience towards itshighest and greatest good in
this lifetime. Sometimes thesecan be over a short period of
time, like it might be likeseveral people in the same week
period, you know, say the samething to you or recommend the
same thing to you. This can alsobe over many years. The first
this is funny, so for me, forexample, I have another one that

(42:40):
was over many, many years. Ithink a lot of you have heard
part of my story where my firstmentor that I met driving the
ice cream truck told me that Iwas psychic, but the other
things that she told me was thatI was a profound healer and that
I was meant to be a teacher andto teach many and some other
things in there as well. Now Iwas, Oh, geez. What year was

(43:04):
that? I want to say thoseprobably 2011 2012
somewhere in that vicinity. I'mnot the best with like number. I
can tell you like chronology oftime when things happened. But
I'm not always the bestremembering the year they
happened. The first time someonetold me I was meant to be a
healer, a profound enter, likehealer. I was eight years old.

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It's a long story with the CliffNotes. Version is we had some
friends that kind of lived outin the more open areas of
Massachusetts. I was from, like,the city, and my mom had some
friends. We were visiting them.
I used to go. They had this,like, almost like a jungle that
was like behind their house thatwas so cool. It was all these
just like a forest, a jungle.

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And I used to go back there andplay for hours and hours and
hours, and it was supposed to bepreserved land. And one of the
people that lived on thisproperty was an indigenous
person, and she was veryinvolved in her tribal
organization and leadership, andthey were digging up that land
back there. And so I was toldlike, you know, you can still

(44:08):
play out there, but be careful.
You know, there's some equipmentout there. Now there, it's like
a big fight. They're digging upthis land, and it's supposed to
be preserved. So I went outthere like usual for hours and
hours and just got lost in play.
I played alone a lot as a kiddo,so this was nothing new. And I
just had my own adventures outthere. And there was this stone
it was, it was about the sizeof, maybe, like a, like a date,

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or a fig, like, if you know whatthat is, like a half of a fig,
like a, like a, like a giantgrape, or trying to give, like,
different things, in case youdon't, I think most people know
what dates are now, right? So,like, the size of a date, a big
one, and it looked, it almostlooked like a dried berry to me
when I saw it in the ground, andI it just, I don't know how I

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saw it, because it's notsomething that would have been
very noticeable. It was kind oflike a reddish, deep red, almost
like a deep.
Blood red in color, but itwasn't something that was like,
shiny, or that would have stoodout, or I literally don't even
know how I found it. And Iremember standing there looking
at it for the longest time. Itkind of still half in the
ground, because I couldn't quitetell what it was. It was like,

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almost a little bit embedded inthe ground, but the reddish part
was on top. I thought it was adried berry of some kind, and I
knew, I knew I needed to be verycareful touching like fruits and
berries and herbs and things. Wecan have another conversation
about this on another episode,but there's a strong possibility
I was some kind of medicineperson in a past life, because,

(45:36):
like, from the time I was a kid,wanted to, like, get a pestle
and mortar and mix leaves andsticks and berries and stuff,
but I knew from experience thatI just had to be very careful
about what I touched. I hadgotten like poison ivy and
poison oak and all kinds ofthings from my adventures at
times. So I was, I already knewto be careful. And it was, I

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can't tell you because I waseight, how long it was, but it
felt like the longest time thatI was looking at this stone,
deciding if I should pick it upor not. But I wanted to pick it
up so bad. I wasn't sure it wasa rock, though. Like I said, I
thought it might be a berry. Andfinally I decided, Okay, I'm
gonna pick it up. I'm gonna, I'mgonna, I need to put that in my
pocket. And I picked it up, andit was, in fact, a stone. And I

(46:19):
was very excited, because Ithought it was a berry. And, you
know, a couple hours go by, I goback in, and I, I showed this
stone to the the ladies of thehouse and to my mom. And the
woman said, Oh my gosh, do youknow what this is? I can't
remember what type of stone itit is or it was, but she said,
this is a healer stone. Only themedicine Person of the tribe can

(46:42):
find and even touch and pick upthe stone. The stone hides
itself, I guess, is that the waythe story goes? So she said, so
I guess it wasn't such a cliffnotes version of my story. But
she said, you know, you'reyou're a healer, you're supposed
to be a healer. And I just stuckwith me, and I didn't, you know,
I was eight, so I was eight, soI kind of dismissed it, and
didn't know what that meant, andjust kind of went on about my

(47:04):
merry way, but stuck back therein my mind somewhere. And it
just was so fascinating when,you know, almost, almost 30
years later, probably 25 yearslater, here was some other
person saying, like, Oh no,you're a healer. You've been a
healer before. You're supposedto be a healer. So sometimes

(47:25):
these little messages in theworld, these messengers in the
world, can come to us over ashort period of time, a week or
a couple weeks period. Andsometimes it can be over our
whole life. Maybe there arethings that were said to you or
about you when you were young,or throughout your life, that
you're like, you know what? Ormy whole life, people have
always said that about me, oralways said that I should be a

(47:47):
therapist, or always said, Doyou know what I mean? So it
doesn't always mean it's in avery short period of time, but
just be paying attention to, ifyou're hearing the same thing
over and over in the world, howthese like messengers of the
universe are coming in theworld, and we can all be a
messenger of the universe too.
Have you ever said something tosomeone and they were like, You
know what? It's so weird.

(48:08):
Somebody else just said that tome, or somebody told me that
last week about myself. Or so wecan all be influenced and used,
or impressed upon by inspired bythe universe to be a messenger
to someone else as well. Theuniverse isn't totally random.
Like I said, there's chaos here.
So not everything happens for areason, but the universe isn't

(48:30):
totally random. Every signsynchronicity and redirection is
a reminder that you're beingguided, supported and called to
step into a greater version ofyourself for the experiences
that your soul wants for thislifetime. So just notice them.
I'm so curious to know what youthink about these seven signs

(48:51):
that the universe iscommunicating with you. How
many, when I was saying them,were you like, oh, yeah, I have
an example for that in my ownlife. Did you have you like
experienced all seven of these?
I would love to know, drop acomment wherever you're
listening to this. Or you caneven drop a comment on the
social media clips that I'mgoing to post of this. Sometimes

(49:13):
the signs are subtle, right,like repeating numbers or a song
lyric that sticks with us. Andother times, these signs really
shake things up, kind of pushingus out of our comfort zone,
where all the growth happensoutside there, so we can grow
and expand and express to a newlevel. The key isn't just to see
the signs, but to trust them.
We're not going to always knowwhat they mean immediately, but

(49:36):
just noticing and trusting andcontinuing to move with them is
really important. So whensomething keeps showing up for
you, don't just dismiss it.
Pause, listen. Ask, what is thisshowing up for me? Or what is
this showing me or pointing metowards? What am I being invited

(49:58):
to shift to embrace or to.
Release. Have I been needingsupport, and now I'm being shown
I'm not alone. Is this just ahello from the universe? The
universe isn't working againstyou. It's working for you. Even
delays, detours and shake upsare often rerouting you to
something greater. Stay open,stay curious, and most

(50:20):
importantly, trust yourselfalong the journey. Let me know
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(51:30):
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