March 23, 2026 • 37 mins
Have you ever claimed something as part of who you are — and had your own intuition call you out on it?
That's exactly what happened to me at the end of 2025. I was sitting with three questions I think are some of the most important — and honestly, most uncomfortable — ones we can ask ourselves.
I’m sharing them in this episode because I think they might do the same thing for you that they did for me. What came up, including one little voice that stung more than I expected, sent me down a path that led to a 13-wish ritual, a jar with one wish left at the bottom, and somehow... three trips across two continents all falling into place within weeks. 🌏✈️
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Joy, hey, beautiful soul, welcome to spirit. Speak
Easy. I'm Joy Giovanni, joyfulmedium. I'm a working psychic
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Hey, beautiful soul. Welcome infor another episode of spirit
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speakeasy. This week, we'regonna do something a little
different. I do have some guestsfor us just around the corner,
but this week, it is just youand me, no formal lesson, but
I've got something that I'vebeen sitting with and some
questions that I want to leaveyou with by the end of this
episode, because I think that itmight do the same thing for you
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that these questions did for me.
At the end of 2025 I was doingsome real soul searching, which
I tend to do around the close ofthe year, as many of us do,
sitting with my intentions for2026 and I found myself asking a
series of internal questionsthat I do ask occasionally, and
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I think these are some of themost important questions that we
can ask ourselves, and as ithappens, also Some of the most
uncomfortable questions that wecan ask ourselves, if we're
being really honest andvulnerable within ourselves.
Here are the questions, and thenwe're going to really dive into
what happened for me. Thequestions are, who have I been
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like? Who have you been in yourlife, the past, versions of you
in this lifetime? Who am I rightnow, taking an honest stock and
evaluation of your life, all theareas, who you are, how you're
showing up. And finally, who amI living into next? And what
came up for me as I sat withthese questions, including one
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very specific thing my intuitionsaid to me, honestly, that stung
a little bit. Is what I want toshare with you today, because
here's what I believe, the lifeyou're living right now is
always, in some way, in someaspects, a reflection of who you
believe yourself to be. Andsometimes the most loving thing
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we can do for ourselves is toget honest about whether those
two things are actually matchingup who you are right now and who
you're living into with your dayto day choices. So grab a cup of
something good and let's getinto it. Okay, so as I
mentioned, towards the end of2025 probably November, ish, I
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was doing some soul searching,and I was setting my intentions
and thinking about the goals andwhat I wanted to focus on for
2026 obviously, we know we can'tfocus on all the things all the
time, so some prioritizing is inorder. And I was exploring
questions about myself like Ijust mentioned, who have I been?
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Who am I now? Who am I livinginto and still becoming in this
next phase? And while thinkingabout who I am, I noticed some
of the things that I do think ofmyself as, and one of those
things is a world traveler. Ithink of myself as a traveler,
an explorer, and that littlesmall voice of my intuition
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popped up into the back of mymind and kind of said, well, you
know, you can only call yourselfa world traveler if you're
actually traveling. And itreally just sat there, kind of
still in the air or in my heart.
And it actually stung a little,because the truth is, I've
always been a traveler, and itstarted making me question,
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well, okay, that's true, if I'mnot traveling, can I call myself
a traveler? I went down thislittle rabbit hole of thought
because I have memories of beinga little girl, probably about
six years old, big poofy, curlyhair and my tiny little suitcase
getting on an airplane all bymyself. I started traveling
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alone from Boston, traveling toPhilly or Jersey all by myself
by the time I was six years old,six years old, and I used to
meet the most interesting peopleon the plane. I'm thinking of
one time, there I was in mylittle summer shorts and my
little summer top I wouldtypically get shipped off on the
airplane within a couple days ofschool ending to my family for
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the summer. And this I knew Iwasn't really supposed to talk.
Strangers, but you're on anairplane and people make
conversation. It's unusual,especially in the 80s, early
80s, to see a little kid bythemselves on a plane, and one
day, there's this gentlemansitting next to me. I went to
Catholic school at the time, andso I recognized the priest
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caller that he had, and I waslike, Oh, that's a priest. I can
talk to him. And as I wastalking to this priest, little
six year old me on the airplanewhere my feet didn't even touch
the floor. And back then, theyused to give you the little pin,
the little pilot's pin, youcould peek in the cockpit. And
when I went back to my seat, Ilooked at this gentleman. I knew
he was a priest. And we werechatting a little bit. He was
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asking me a little bit aboutmyself, and I wasn't giving very
much information, because,again, still a stranger, and I
remember him saying, Do you knowhow to play poker?
That, of course, I did not, andthat was one of the many things
as a kiddo that I experienced onmy travels. As I on a plane,
learned to play poker from apriest when I was about six
years old. So I always justthought of myself as an
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adventurer, a traveler. It wassuch a part of my life I was,
you know, in a different state,getting moved around to
different members of my familyfor a few months every single
year. And even even after Istopped traveling to Philly at
about 13, by then, I startedvisiting Southern California for
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like, 14, 1516, into 17. And Ihave always loved the idea of
seeing different places, and Ieven got the chance when I was
working with WWE, to visit somany states in the United
States, and several trips toCanada. I went on two overseas
tours, Japan, Italy, Ireland,Wales, UK. I went so many
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places, and I was thinking aboutall of my travels and how
attached I am to that part ofmyself, to describing myself as
a traveler, to having that bepart of the descriptors I would
use about myself as a person.
And as I was thinking about it,I realized like, well, I guess I
haven't been traveling much inthe past few years. The year
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before covid, I was finallygetting back to spreading my
travel wings again. And in 2019I visited Portugal and England.
I got to go to Arthur FindlayCollege, and I traveled a little
bit around the US for differentmediumship demonstrations and
workshops. And I loved that Iwas getting back to traveling. I
even remember feeling that forme, it's a different kind of
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zesty energy in me when I'mtraveling, and there's a
different level of independencethat I feel within myself and
about myself, and I was thinkingabout those trips, and, you
know, the details of thosetrips, and all of a sudden I was
like, Oh my gosh, I can'tbelieve that that was all before
covid. And of course, life getsbusy and cost is a factor,
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especially when my kids wereyounger and at home and as a
single mom for many years, itmade sense to me during that
time that like, Yeah, I had toput that part of myself to the
side. But it was never theintention of like, oh, I don't
do this anymore, or oh, I'm nolonger a traveler. I'm no longer
a person who explores placesaround the world. I just kind of
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thought of it as like putting apause on that for a time being
and when I was getting back toit pre covid, I was so excited.
And I mean, the truth is, I'vetaken a couple little trips, as
I was thinking about it, in thelast few years. I've been to
Vegas to see my bestie andVirginia to visit my son, who's
there right now. And nothingreally felt like that sort of
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travel that like satisfies thathunger for far away places and
new experiences and differentculture, and that immersion and
something in me felt like as Iwas thinking about all this, as
I was considering, who am Iliving into still, and as I was
hearing that little smallniggle, that annoying little
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voice that sometimes ourintuition comes in kind of
plucking that string inside ofme of like you're not a
traveler, if you're nottraveling. I really felt
something inside me rise up likethis was a decision point. Do I
want to be a traveler in thisphase of my life? Or not, either
answers fine, and this is how Iusually approach things that I'm
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questioning inside of myself. DoI want to do this or don't?
Either? Either answer is fine,but we got to be honest with
ourselves here, and if we're atraveler, where's the travel
right? So what had been brewingin the background is a friend, a
close girlfriend and I have beentalking since kind of late 2024
maybe, about scheduling a tripoverseas, and we had set it out
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as spring of 2026 because in2024 both of us felt like, okay,
that feels like a comfortabledistance away that we can really
think about it and take our timesave a little money for.
Trip, and I really startedthinking that it's important
that we make that trip areality. We had said we're going
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to do it, and I really meant it,and I believe she really meant
it. And so, like I said, thatwas kind of at the close of the
year. And why I think this isperfect parallel timing is that
as you're listening to this, oras it's released, it's going to
be released on Monday, which Ibelieve is like the 22nd of
March. We're the previousweekend, stepping into the
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astrological new year. So I wasdoing all of this around the
time of the calendar new yearjust before, and now we're
talking about this right at thetime of the astrological new
year, which I don't believe weneed a big marker like that to
do this type of assessment orwork, but since it's here, might
as well talk about it. So forme, because this was the end of
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the year, sometimes for funsies,I like to do some version of
like a spiritual ritual. I'lleither often do it around, like
the solstice, sometimes I'll doit at the Spring Equinox or in
the summer. Sometimes I'll do itaround the New Year. I'll often
do something around my birthday,which sometimes coincides just
around Lunar New Year. So thisyear, I was called to something
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interesting that I haven't donefor a long time. So the other
thing to know about me when itcomes to these spiritual rituals
and things I know some people, Ido have my own personal
spiritual practice that I dovery regularly and diligently as
a part of my normal schedule.
But these special rituals, Ireally feel like we can do them
in a way that feels fun andlight and easy and delicious and
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playful for us, I don't like todo them if they feel too heavy,
or if some people get realsuperstitious about certain
things, like you have to do it acertain way, or I just like it
to be playful and fun. So thisyear, the ritual that was
calling to me was a really funone. It was a 13 wishes ritual.
And the premise is, in anutshell, for this specific
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thing, you start in December,and you write down on individual
little pieces of paper, one at atime, 13 wishes. So there I am.
You put them in a jar. There Ihave with my mason jar. And over
several weeks, I would, when Ifelt inspired, I'd go get my
little pen, my little, tinypiece of paper, I'd write out
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the wish, and then you fold itup nice and tight and drop it in
the jar. And you do that untilyou've got 13 wishes. Now, most
of you know I'm a little extraand so I wanted to make sure,
because you're not supposed toopen the wishes again, I wanted
to make sure I wouldn't have anyway to identify which paper was
which. It's all supposed to berandom. So I even used a marker.
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It's like a, if you've ever usedthose metallic Sharpies, it's
like a gold Sharpie, and it'skind of running out. So even the
ink itself came out reallylight. I tried to fold all the,
you know, I cut the littlescraps of paper about the same
size. I tried to fold them allthe same size. And then there I
am with my clear mason jar withthese 13 little pieces of paper
folded in. And then when you'vegot your 13, you don't open them
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again. Remember, around thesolstice, you start one at a
time, between the solstice andinto the beginning of the new
year, you take out one of thesepieces of paper, quote, unquote,
at random. So you're not likelooking at which one you're
going to take out. You're just Ishake the jar, I shake it, I
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twirl it about, I reach in andswirl them, and then I pluck out
just one. And between thesolstice and the new year, you
burn one of these wishes eachday. You do not look at it. You
don't have to do this ritual,but it is a really fun one. So
you don't look at it. You burneach of 12 wishes. And the
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intention is that you arereleasing this wish to the
energy of the universe, and theuniverse is going to work on 12
of these wishes for you. Andthen there's one remaining, the
13th wish. And this wish is forthe practitioner, in this case,
a me, to gently peel back andunfold and open. And this 13th
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wish is for you, for me, in thiscase, to take action on and the
universe is supposed to rise upand meet your free will, action
and intention, and also helpwith those other 12 so I was
down to my last wish. It was thelast little piece of paper in
the jar, and I was nervous andexcited, and I could reach all
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the way inside my wide mouthmason jar with my hand and
plucked out this last wish andgently unfolded my little piece
of paper. I could barely readthe gold Sharpie ink, because my
marker is running out, but Icould see it. And what do you
think was my one wish remainingat the bottom of this glass
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mason jar?
It was travel and experience. Iwished to have travel and
experience because I.
I'm a world traveler. I'm aworld traveler. So I wanted to
have travel and experience. AndI as I unfolded this little
wish, and saw that it was mywish for travel and experience,
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I was so excited. I did notexpect it to be that one at all.
I thought it was going to besomething much more arduous and
much less fun and playful. And Iwas so excited, I might have
even screeched out loud in myapartment. So to seal the deal
and part of my free will action,because I did this just after
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the new year, just at that time,this luggage that I had been
scoping out, remember, I toldyou, in 2024 my friend and I
decided we were going to thinkabout a trip in 2026 that gave
us plenty of time to, like,check our passport expiration
dates and check our luggage. Andof course, me, being the nerdy
researcher that I am, did manydeep dives on all different
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types of rolling carry onluggage and regular carry on
luggage, and I watched YouTubevideos and did lots of research
and double check themeasurements with some of these
different airlines that we mightbe on, because they have
different requirements. And sothis one, there was two. I was
down to two pieces of luggage,and I kept kind of checking them
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through the holiday sales.
Neither of them was on sale, andthey're reasonably pricey pieces
of luggage, because they'rereally good and they fit most of
the very strange airplane sizingof international flights. So
after the new year, this pieceof luggage that I had been
really eyeing, that I knew wasone of my two perfect choices,
went on sale. It was 50% off,friends, that's right. So I
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decided, Oh, this is going to bemy first free will action. This
is going to be my first sealingthe deal with the universe about
these travel and experiences.
And I decided this will be mybirthday gift for myself,
because my birthday is inJanuary. Anyway, after all, and
I needed to be ready for thetravel because I was trusting
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that the universe was going tosomehow bring this into my year,
right? So flash forward, Iordered the luggage and waited.
Flash forward to about midJanuary, and I received an email
request inquiry to ask if I'd beinterested in doing an autograph
signing at a wrestlingconvention type event in New
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York in the end of March. Andthe truth is, I have been asked
to do this event in the past.
I've been asked many years in arow to do this specific event
and lots of other wrestlingsigning conventions. And for any
of you who are wrestling fansout there, you will know that I
almost never show up at any ofthese conventions. Why? Because
I live in Southern California,and most of these invent
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conventions are in the theNortheast or in the south,
right? So for me to leave fromSouthern California, it's it's a
day of travel on either end. Sothat's two days. It's the day of
the event, then I'm exhausted.
So it doesn't always make sense.
Obviously, a promoter that'sgoing to bring me and pay me to
come to an event like this, theyneed to recoup their money, too.
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If you do know anything aboutwrestling, you will know that
while I was there in what iscalled the Golden Age, or the
golden era, I contributed in myown way, but there certainly are
people that are much moreskilled and talented and famous
and athletic and renowned thanme from my time in WWE so I'm
maybe not the biggest personthat they could bill as an
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exciting person to come see atthe events. So it usually just
doesn't make sense for me to gobased on the offer. But I was
like, for some reason, somethingin me moved, and I was like, You
know what? Sometimes I ignorethese offers, but I'm going to
just kind of half heartedlyreply, explaining to them that,
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you know, this needs to makesense for both of us. No
offense, but could they pleasesend all of the details so I
could really consider if theyhad a real offer? And the truth
is, I'm gonna be real honestwith you, I assumed that I was
gonna get back what I usuallyget, which is some kind of
lowball offer that doesn't evencover me missing one day with my
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clients or my work, so I sent itoff. Just didn't think much more
about it, because truthfully,most of the time, like I said,
it doesn't work out. Sonot long, like a day or so
later, this person sent me backall of the offer, all of the
details, right? And it actuallywasn't a bad offer. It made
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sense. I was like, Okay, this ismaybe not what I would ideally,
what like, what I would ask for,but this is we could work with
this. This is within reason. Andthe offer was okay. So I was
like, Okay, now I need to sitwith and consider if i.
Really I'm willing to go,because a lot of times I could
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just easily say, oh, it's notenough. You know, the offer is
not enough for me to consider. Idon't even have to think about
this. But now that the offer wasmaybe worth considering, I had
to really look inside myself andassess, like, Am I willing to
go? I'm one of those strangefolks that gets to be
introverted and extroverted allat the same time. So while some
aspects of me are are anextrovert, other aspects of me
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are an introvert, and there aresome amazing wrestling fans out
there that I think areincredible people, and are just
so sweet and kind and generous.
And then, as you might imagine,there are others who make it
less fun to go to these things.
So I had to really consider if Iwas willing to go. And as I was
sitting with this offer andtrying to decide whether I was
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going to accept it, what rose upfor me was my time in the WWE
and I was picturing myselfrolling my at the time I had a
Samsonite, I was rolling myluggage through the Texas
airport, which the DFW airportwas my hub most of the time,
traveling from California toeverywhere else in the country.
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And I used to always park atthis one gate segment, right?
Because usually, if you'reflying from the east to the
west, the connection area iskind of similar. There's a
Cinnabon in that part of the DFWairport. Shout out to Cinnabon.
They used to know me over there,back when I used to eat gluten.
That'd be my one cheat for theweek. And what I remembered was
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not just the delicious, warm,gooey, cinnamony roll with the
cream cheese frosting that Ican't have anymore because I am
gluten free. What I rememberedwas that feeling inside of
myself when I used to fly acrossthe country every week, this
feeling of excitement andindependence and freedom. And
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then what I remembered as partof that feeling, and part of
that visual memory that I washaving of those road seats at
the gate across from Cinnabon isI remembered I used to always
really wish that when I wastraveling with WWE, that I could
add on a day or two to explorethe cities that we went to,
because the way it worked in mylife and my contract, my kids
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were very small back then, whenI was actually working with WWE,
I think they were three andfive, and so I would fly out on
Monday, work on Tuesday, flyhome on Wednesday. So they
really only didn't see me forone day, because I saw them on
Monday before I flew out, and Isaw them on Wednesday when I got
home, it was usually in themiddle of the day. The time
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difference works in your favorwhen you live in California and
you're traveling from the EastCoast, so I was always rushing
home to my babies. I didn't wantto be away from them. I didn't
want them to be away from me. Soeven though part of me wished,
like I wish I could stay hereand see this really cool tension
bridge that they have in thistown, or see, you know, this St
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Louis barbecue, or see thedifferent museums that they have
in different places or differentwonders to see and experience. I
didn't get to do that because Iwas always rushing home to the
kiddos. And the other truth thatI don't often share is that my
ex husband definitely would nothave allowed me to stay an extra
day anywhere. That would nothave been okay. So now flash
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forward to 2025, 2026my kids are grown, and I was
thinking, as I'm processing allthis is all moving very fast
inside me, I'm thinking, okay,in theory, I could stay an extra
day or two in the city, in NewYork. I have really been wanting
to go to New York, and Iactually even have a girlfriend
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that we she's been a few times.
I've been a few times. I'vemostly been for work, so I
haven't gotten to do a lot ofthe like sightseeing stuff and
wonderful things that New Yorkhas to offer. So it's funny
because last year we in 2025 herand I really were talking about
she went twice last year to NewYork. And I was like, Yeah, we
got to go together. We have to,like, make a girls trip, and we
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have so much fun. And so, like,it was almost like a cartoon
light bulb went off in the backof my mind, Bing. And I was
like, Oh my gosh. I could staythese couple extra days. I could
go to New York and explore. Ihave really wanting to be able
to see it. I really want to goto the Met. I really want to go
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to MOMA. These are art museums.
I've really been wanting tovisit New York City. I love the
vibe of a city. And New York, aswe know, is one of the most
incredible cities on earth.
AndI agreed. So I agreed to do the
signing. Actually, I amrecording this just before the
weekend. I'm leaving on Fridaymorning to go to New York, and I
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will be doing the signing onSaturday, which is, I think, the
21st so maybe the episode isreleasing on the Monday, the
23rd at the time this episode.
Leases, if you're listening, theday it's released, I will be
currently in New York City, sobe sure to check my social media
for that. And a couple weekslater, as I was thinking about
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it, I reached out to mygirlfriend, and I was like, Hey,
we've been talking about this,and I had this opportunity, and
I'm planning on staying a coupleextra days in New York. Do you
want to come with me? And shewas able to make it work, too.
So we're going to New York, andI'm so excited. And I was
thinking, like, oh my gosh, thisis so serendipitous. I already
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bought this luggage. This isamazing. And I also got myself a
new travel backpack, which I'm abackpack girlie. So I was so
excited. And I was like, Oh mygosh, this is amazing. I'm going
to go to New York. Wonderful.
Well, within a couple days, Ireceive a different email about
a different WWE related signingthat is supposed to happen in
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Las Vegas over WrestleManiaweekend, and which is at the end
of April. And I couldn't helpbut thinking like, Hmm, travel
and experiences. I actually havedone this April event in Las
Vegas once before, a coupleyears ago, and I flew in and out
on the same day. But after theevent, was able to hang out with
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my bestie, who lives in Vegas orthe outer Greater Las Vegas
area, and we were able to grabdinner before I had to hop back
on a flight. And I thought,Okay, well, if this thing in New
York is working out in March,why couldn't I tag on a couple
extra days in April? And so Ithought like, oh, instead of
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dinner, we could have a wholeweekend together. And I checked
with bestie, and it worked forher schedule too. So in the end
of April, I'll be doing anautograph signing and having
some fun in Vegas with mybestie. And around that time, so
we're still in January as allthis is happening, I had a
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meeting set up like a Hangoutwith my friend that we had
talked about in 2024 doing a bigtrip in spring of 2026
and we've kind of been back andforth on it, to be honest with
you, in the fall, we had talkedabout it, and both of us kind of
felt like, I don't know, I don'tknow where in the world we'll be
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good to go. Both of us kind offelt like maybe something was
brewing in the energy, maybesomething was going to pop off
that we just didn't haveinformation about yet. So we're
like, let's wait and let'sreconvene in the beginning of
the year, sit down, look at theenergy, then see how we feel,
see if we both feel like wesaved enough money to take a
trip. And so we had our meeting,my friend and I, and again, we
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had been chatting aboutdestinations. And one of the
things that I haven't sharedabout me, that I do as like a
little private tool, is when Iam stressed or overwhelmed or
having a little bit of theblues, right, a little
depressed, I will do researchonline. And so for the last year
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or so, what I have beenresearching when I'm a little
bummed or down or somethinghappens in my world that I'm
kind of just a littledisappointed over is I throw
myself into something positive,which in this case is research.
So by the time that my friendand I had this meeting, I had
spent a lot of time researchingseveral different itineraries
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for three different places inItaly, a place in France and
Bali, which is one of the placesthat we had talked about. So by
the time we sat down, we had somuch to talk about. We looked at
some flights, we looked at allthe different destinations. We
really talked about it, and wekind of felt like the timing
maybe wasn't quite right yet,both her and I kind of had just
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a little bit of an unsettledfeeling about it. So it was the
very beginning of the year, solet's put a pin in this. Come
back in a few weeks, and we'rekind of towards the end of
January, meeting again, andwe're like, oh my gosh, spring
of 2026. Is almost here. This iscrazy. Time is flying. We need
to make a choice and lock downsome plans if this is gonna
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happen. So again, over the pastcouple years, I had been working
out all of these itineraries, soI had really done a lot of
research, not just about likehow to get there, but like,
which layover airport is themost fun, which is the easiest
to go through security, which isthe best route to go. I mean,
really deep dive research. Forthose of you nerdy researchers
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out there or planners out there,you know what I'm talking about.
So by the time we sat down, wereally had some information to
consider, and by the end of ourmeeting time, we had decided
that we were going to make atrip to Bali. And just after
Valentine's Day, about a monthago, a little more, we sat down,
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we both felt movement in theend.
Energy, we both felt like, Okay,we're gonna choose Bali. We're
not gonna choose Europe, and wegotta lock these tickets in
right now. You know, sometimesit's like that in the energy
where it's like, wait, wait,wait, okay, all of a sudden, go.
Have you ever experienced that?
That's how this felt. So welocked in our plane tickets, and
within a couple weeks, we alsodecided to lock in our hotels
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and have a loose itinerary ofwhich places we're going to go
first, and kind of the routearound the island that we're
going to make. And we havealready scheduled with a couple
of traditional Balinese healers.
And I am so excited to have thisexperience in Bali, and that
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will be in late May, into June.
We're going to be gone about twoweeks total. And of course, I am
thinking of you guys along theway, because I'm so excited not
only to be able to share thesetrips with you via social media,
but I also am very excited tolearn some new healing
techniques in Bali to experiencesome different energy. I'm sure
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I'm going to have some versionof mystical experience at these
temples. It's my intention totry to record some thoughts and
definitely some guidedmeditations for you while I'm
there that I'll be able toshare. So I'm really excited to
beable to bring a lot of this back
and to real time be reporting toyou guys my pod squad. So that
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is where I am, a girl who hasbeen always a traveler,
remembering that about herselfand deciding to actually live it
again. And I'm sharing all ofthis today, not because my story
is special in any way, butbecause I think you have a
version of this for you in yourheart of hearts, too, there's
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something in you that you knowyourself to be, a version of
yourself that maybe you had toput to the side for a time,
maybe had to take a back seatwhile you were focusing on other
important parts of your life.
But there's a version ofyourself you've been meaning to
grow into, a thing that's beencalling you from inside
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yourself, that your soul wantsto experience and that deserves
a second look, especially ifit's something that you had to
pause or put a pin in at onetime. So here's the question I
would love you to sit with thisweek, not overthink, not give
yourself a hard time or grillyourself or be down on yourself
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about but just sit with Who areyou becoming? Who are you living
into next, and maybe moreimportantly is how you spend
your days, your energy, yourchoices. Is it actually
reflecting who you're wanting tolive into next? Because I
believe, I really deeplybelieve, that our intuition is
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always nudging us towards themost alive, most expanded
versions of ourselves. It's notalways loud. Sometimes it's just
a little small annoying voicesaying, Well, are you though?
Listen for it. It's alwaysthere. And I'll be reporting
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back from New York this weekendor into this week. So if you're
listening to this on the Mondayor Tuesday when it's released,
or even right after that, checkmy socials. I'll have lots of
interesting things on there, andI'll be reporting in and of
course, from Vegas, and ofcourse, from Bali, and even from
Singapore, where our wonderfullayover will be and one
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more thing before you go, ifthis episode has stirred
something in you or gotten youthinking, looking over your life
a little bit, looking over whoyou have been, what you've left
behind, who you are. Now youmight even notice, like me that
your intuition is already movingyou that direction. I already
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was researching travel. Ialready was picking up
what's those little compressionbags that you pack in and
special reusable plastic bagsfor your shoes. And I bought a
new bathing suit. And so Ialready was doing these little
bits of collecting thebreadcrumbs, even before I
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realized that this was going tobe the next thing I was
continuing to live into.
If this stirred something in youlike that, around your identity,
around being honest withyourself, around who you're
wanting to become, I reallywould love it if you would share
it with someone that you cantalk about these things with, or
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that is an honest, open friend.
And the other last little thingI want to leave you with before
I go is I have something specialcoming up again. I'm always
thinking about you guys that Ihaven't formally announced yet,
that will.
Be announced any day now. It isa master class. It's going to be
free. It's going to be right inthe beginning of April. Keep an
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eye on your inbox. If you are inmy VIP email community, it's
totally free to join, by theway, you just go to the homepage
of my website, joyfulmedium.com, if you scroll down a
little bit, there's a free minicourse, and also watch my
socials. Listen to the pod.
There will be announcementsabout it. I don't want you to
miss it. Everyone has beentelling me that they need tools
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desperately, but that it's toomuch. It feels too much to do,
even if it's free to do, like aseveral day workshop. So I'm
condensing it down into a powerpacked hour and a half or so of
a master class for you guys. AndI'm gonna squeak it right in
between these trips, I'vealready been working on the
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outline and pouring my heartinto it, and I would love it if
you would come and keep an eyebecause I'm creating this just
for you based on what everyonehas been telling me they need,
and the current and upcomingenergies. So keep an eye on that
inbox and on my social media forall the details coming very
soon. And I plan to play somefun little games with you guys
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via my socials when we're onthese trips. So at joyful medium
on Facebook and Instagram andTiktok, and I think blue sky
too, honestly, but I don'treally post there. And Joy
Giovanni, psychic medium, forthose of you that like to watch
it on the YouTube, you can alsoget all of the pods on my
website. Joyful medium.com inthe blog section. Okay, guys,
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I'm so excited for this travel.
I can't even wait to step backinto this world traveler version
of myself and I want to knowplease tell me in the comments
or respond to me by email or onmy socials, what is it that you
are living into next? What areyou living into next? Okay, pod
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squad, thank you for being here.
Thank you for listening asalways. Big hugs, lots of love.
Bye for now from inside spiritspeakeasy, you.
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Hey, beautiful soul. Welcome infor another episode of spirit
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speakeasy. This week, we'regonna do something a little
different. I do have some guestsfor us just around the corner,
but this week, it is just youand me, no formal lesson, but
I've got something that I'vebeen sitting with and some
questions that I want to leaveyou with by the end of this
episode, because I think that itmight do the same thing for you
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that these questions did for me.
At the end of 2025 I was doingsome real soul searching, which
I tend to do around the close ofthe year, as many of us do,
sitting with my intentions for2026 and I found myself asking a
series of internal questionsthat I do ask occasionally, and
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I think these are some of themost important questions that we
can ask ourselves, and as ithappens, also Some of the most
uncomfortable questions that wecan ask ourselves, if we're
being really honest andvulnerable within ourselves.
Here are the questions, and thenwe're going to really dive into
what happened for me. Thequestions are, who have I been
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like? Who have you been in yourlife, the past, versions of you
in this lifetime? Who am I rightnow, taking an honest stock and
evaluation of your life, all theareas, who you are, how you're
showing up. And finally, who amI living into next? And what
came up for me as I sat withthese questions, including one
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very specific thing my intuitionsaid to me, honestly, that stung
a little bit. Is what I want toshare with you today, because
here's what I believe, the lifeyou're living right now is
always, in some way, in someaspects, a reflection of who you
believe yourself to be. Andsometimes the most loving thing
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we can do for ourselves is toget honest about whether those
two things are actually matchingup who you are right now and who
you're living into with your dayto day choices. So grab a cup of
something good and let's getinto it. Okay, so as I
mentioned, towards the end of2025 probably November, ish, I
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was doing some soul searching,and I was setting my intentions
and thinking about the goals andwhat I wanted to focus on for
2026 obviously, we know we can'tfocus on all the things all the
time, so some prioritizing is inorder. And I was exploring
questions about myself like Ijust mentioned, who have I been?
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Who am I now? Who am I livinginto and still becoming in this
next phase? And while thinkingabout who I am, I noticed some
of the things that I do think ofmyself as, and one of those
things is a world traveler. Ithink of myself as a traveler,
an explorer, and that littlesmall voice of my intuition
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popped up into the back of mymind and kind of said, well, you
know, you can only call yourselfa world traveler if you're
actually traveling. And itreally just sat there, kind of
still in the air or in my heart.
And it actually stung a little,because the truth is, I've
always been a traveler, and itstarted making me question,
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well, okay, that's true, if I'mnot traveling, can I call myself
a traveler? I went down thislittle rabbit hole of thought
because I have memories of beinga little girl, probably about
six years old, big poofy, curlyhair and my tiny little suitcase
getting on an airplane all bymyself. I started traveling
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alone from Boston, traveling toPhilly or Jersey all by myself
by the time I was six years old,six years old, and I used to
meet the most interesting peopleon the plane. I'm thinking of
one time, there I was in mylittle summer shorts and my
little summer top I wouldtypically get shipped off on the
airplane within a couple days ofschool ending to my family for
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the summer. And this I knew Iwasn't really supposed to talk.
Strangers, but you're on anairplane and people make
conversation. It's unusual,especially in the 80s, early
80s, to see a little kid bythemselves on a plane, and one
day, there's this gentlemansitting next to me. I went to
Catholic school at the time, andso I recognized the priest
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caller that he had, and I waslike, Oh, that's a priest. I can
talk to him. And as I wastalking to this priest, little
six year old me on the airplanewhere my feet didn't even touch
the floor. And back then, theyused to give you the little pin,
the little pilot's pin, youcould peek in the cockpit. And
when I went back to my seat, Ilooked at this gentleman. I knew
he was a priest. And we werechatting a little bit. He was
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asking me a little bit aboutmyself, and I wasn't giving very
much information, because,again, still a stranger, and I
remember him saying, Do you knowhow to play poker?
That, of course, I did not, andthat was one of the many things
as a kiddo that I experienced onmy travels. As I on a plane,
learned to play poker from apriest when I was about six
years old. So I always justthought of myself as an
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adventurer, a traveler. It wassuch a part of my life I was,
you know, in a different state,getting moved around to
different members of my familyfor a few months every single
year. And even even after Istopped traveling to Philly at
about 13, by then, I startedvisiting Southern California for
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like, 14, 1516, into 17. And Ihave always loved the idea of
seeing different places, and Ieven got the chance when I was
working with WWE, to visit somany states in the United
States, and several trips toCanada. I went on two overseas
tours, Japan, Italy, Ireland,Wales, UK. I went so many
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places, and I was thinking aboutall of my travels and how
attached I am to that part ofmyself, to describing myself as
a traveler, to having that bepart of the descriptors I would
use about myself as a person.
And as I was thinking about it,I realized like, well, I guess I
haven't been traveling much inthe past few years. The year
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before covid, I was finallygetting back to spreading my
travel wings again. And in 2019I visited Portugal and England.
I got to go to Arthur FindlayCollege, and I traveled a little
bit around the US for differentmediumship demonstrations and
workshops. And I loved that Iwas getting back to traveling. I
even remember feeling that forme, it's a different kind of
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zesty energy in me when I'mtraveling, and there's a
different level of independencethat I feel within myself and
about myself, and I was thinkingabout those trips, and, you
know, the details of thosetrips, and all of a sudden I was
like, Oh my gosh, I can'tbelieve that that was all before
covid. And of course, life getsbusy and cost is a factor,
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especially when my kids wereyounger and at home and as a
single mom for many years, itmade sense to me during that
time that like, Yeah, I had toput that part of myself to the
side. But it was never theintention of like, oh, I don't
do this anymore, or oh, I'm nolonger a traveler. I'm no longer
a person who explores placesaround the world. I just kind of
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thought of it as like putting apause on that for a time being
and when I was getting back toit pre covid, I was so excited.
And I mean, the truth is, I'vetaken a couple little trips, as
I was thinking about it, in thelast few years. I've been to
Vegas to see my bestie andVirginia to visit my son, who's
there right now. And nothingreally felt like that sort of
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travel that like satisfies thathunger for far away places and
new experiences and differentculture, and that immersion and
something in me felt like as Iwas thinking about all this, as
I was considering, who am Iliving into still, and as I was
hearing that little smallniggle, that annoying little
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voice that sometimes ourintuition comes in kind of
plucking that string inside ofme of like you're not a
traveler, if you're nottraveling. I really felt
something inside me rise up likethis was a decision point. Do I
want to be a traveler in thisphase of my life? Or not, either
answers fine, and this is how Iusually approach things that I'm
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questioning inside of myself. DoI want to do this or don't?
Either? Either answer is fine,but we got to be honest with
ourselves here, and if we're atraveler, where's the travel
right? So what had been brewingin the background is a friend, a
close girlfriend and I have beentalking since kind of late 2024
maybe, about scheduling a tripoverseas, and we had set it out
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as spring of 2026 because in2024 both of us felt like, okay,
that feels like a comfortabledistance away that we can really
think about it and take our timesave a little money for.
Trip, and I really startedthinking that it's important
that we make that trip areality. We had said we're going
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to do it, and I really meant it,and I believe she really meant
it. And so, like I said, thatwas kind of at the close of the
year. And why I think this isperfect parallel timing is that
as you're listening to this, oras it's released, it's going to
be released on Monday, which Ibelieve is like the 22nd of
March. We're the previousweekend, stepping into the
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astrological new year. So I wasdoing all of this around the
time of the calendar new yearjust before, and now we're
talking about this right at thetime of the astrological new
year, which I don't believe weneed a big marker like that to
do this type of assessment orwork, but since it's here, might
as well talk about it. So forme, because this was the end of
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the year, sometimes for funsies,I like to do some version of
like a spiritual ritual. I'lleither often do it around, like
the solstice, sometimes I'll doit at the Spring Equinox or in
the summer. Sometimes I'll do itaround the New Year. I'll often
do something around my birthday,which sometimes coincides just
around Lunar New Year. So thisyear, I was called to something
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interesting that I haven't donefor a long time. So the other
thing to know about me when itcomes to these spiritual rituals
and things I know some people, Ido have my own personal
spiritual practice that I dovery regularly and diligently as
a part of my normal schedule.
But these special rituals, Ireally feel like we can do them
in a way that feels fun andlight and easy and delicious and
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playful for us, I don't like todo them if they feel too heavy,
or if some people get realsuperstitious about certain
things, like you have to do it acertain way, or I just like it
to be playful and fun. So thisyear, the ritual that was
calling to me was a really funone. It was a 13 wishes ritual.
And the premise is, in anutshell, for this specific
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thing, you start in December,and you write down on individual
little pieces of paper, one at atime, 13 wishes. So there I am.
You put them in a jar. There Ihave with my mason jar. And over
several weeks, I would, when Ifelt inspired, I'd go get my
little pen, my little, tinypiece of paper, I'd write out
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the wish, and then you fold itup nice and tight and drop it in
the jar. And you do that untilyou've got 13 wishes. Now, most
of you know I'm a little extraand so I wanted to make sure,
because you're not supposed toopen the wishes again, I wanted
to make sure I wouldn't have anyway to identify which paper was
which. It's all supposed to berandom. So I even used a marker.
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It's like a, if you've ever usedthose metallic Sharpies, it's
like a gold Sharpie, and it'skind of running out. So even the
ink itself came out reallylight. I tried to fold all the,
you know, I cut the littlescraps of paper about the same
size. I tried to fold them allthe same size. And then there I
am with my clear mason jar withthese 13 little pieces of paper
folded in. And then when you'vegot your 13, you don't open them
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again. Remember, around thesolstice, you start one at a
time, between the solstice andinto the beginning of the new
year, you take out one of thesepieces of paper, quote, unquote,
at random. So you're not likelooking at which one you're
going to take out. You're just Ishake the jar, I shake it, I
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twirl it about, I reach in andswirl them, and then I pluck out
just one. And between thesolstice and the new year, you
burn one of these wishes eachday. You do not look at it. You
don't have to do this ritual,but it is a really fun one. So
you don't look at it. You burneach of 12 wishes. And the
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intention is that you arereleasing this wish to the
energy of the universe, and theuniverse is going to work on 12
of these wishes for you. Andthen there's one remaining, the
13th wish. And this wish is forthe practitioner, in this case,
a me, to gently peel back andunfold and open. And this 13th
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wish is for you, for me, in thiscase, to take action on and the
universe is supposed to rise upand meet your free will, action
and intention, and also helpwith those other 12 so I was
down to my last wish. It was thelast little piece of paper in
the jar, and I was nervous andexcited, and I could reach all
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the way inside my wide mouthmason jar with my hand and
plucked out this last wish andgently unfolded my little piece
of paper. I could barely readthe gold Sharpie ink, because my
marker is running out, but Icould see it. And what do you
think was my one wish remainingat the bottom of this glass
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mason jar?
It was travel and experience. Iwished to have travel and
experience because I.
I'm a world traveler. I'm aworld traveler. So I wanted to
have travel and experience. AndI as I unfolded this little
wish, and saw that it was mywish for travel and experience,
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I was so excited. I did notexpect it to be that one at all.
I thought it was going to besomething much more arduous and
much less fun and playful. And Iwas so excited, I might have
even screeched out loud in myapartment. So to seal the deal
and part of my free will action,because I did this just after
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the new year, just at that time,this luggage that I had been
scoping out, remember, I toldyou, in 2024 my friend and I
decided we were going to thinkabout a trip in 2026 that gave
us plenty of time to, like,check our passport expiration
dates and check our luggage. Andof course, me, being the nerdy
researcher that I am, did manydeep dives on all different
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types of rolling carry onluggage and regular carry on
luggage, and I watched YouTubevideos and did lots of research
and double check themeasurements with some of these
different airlines that we mightbe on, because they have
different requirements. And sothis one, there was two. I was
down to two pieces of luggage,and I kept kind of checking them
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through the holiday sales.
Neither of them was on sale, andthey're reasonably pricey pieces
of luggage, because they'rereally good and they fit most of
the very strange airplane sizingof international flights. So
after the new year, this pieceof luggage that I had been
really eyeing, that I knew wasone of my two perfect choices,
went on sale. It was 50% off,friends, that's right. So I
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decided, Oh, this is going to bemy first free will action. This
is going to be my first sealingthe deal with the universe about
these travel and experiences.
And I decided this will be mybirthday gift for myself,
because my birthday is inJanuary. Anyway, after all, and
I needed to be ready for thetravel because I was trusting
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that the universe was going tosomehow bring this into my year,
right? So flash forward, Iordered the luggage and waited.
Flash forward to about midJanuary, and I received an email
request inquiry to ask if I'd beinterested in doing an autograph
signing at a wrestlingconvention type event in New
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York in the end of March. Andthe truth is, I have been asked
to do this event in the past.
I've been asked many years in arow to do this specific event
and lots of other wrestlingsigning conventions. And for any
of you who are wrestling fansout there, you will know that I
almost never show up at any ofthese conventions. Why? Because
I live in Southern California,and most of these invent
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conventions are in the theNortheast or in the south,
right? So for me to leave fromSouthern California, it's it's a
day of travel on either end. Sothat's two days. It's the day of
the event, then I'm exhausted.
So it doesn't always make sense.
Obviously, a promoter that'sgoing to bring me and pay me to
come to an event like this, theyneed to recoup their money, too.
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If you do know anything aboutwrestling, you will know that
while I was there in what iscalled the Golden Age, or the
golden era, I contributed in myown way, but there certainly are
people that are much moreskilled and talented and famous
and athletic and renowned thanme from my time in WWE so I'm
maybe not the biggest personthat they could bill as an
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exciting person to come see atthe events. So it usually just
doesn't make sense for me to gobased on the offer. But I was
like, for some reason, somethingin me moved, and I was like, You
know what? Sometimes I ignorethese offers, but I'm going to
just kind of half heartedlyreply, explaining to them that,
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you know, this needs to makesense for both of us. No
offense, but could they pleasesend all of the details so I
could really consider if theyhad a real offer? And the truth
is, I'm gonna be real honestwith you, I assumed that I was
gonna get back what I usuallyget, which is some kind of
lowball offer that doesn't evencover me missing one day with my
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clients or my work, so I sent itoff. Just didn't think much more
about it, because truthfully,most of the time, like I said,
it doesn't work out. Sonot long, like a day or so
later, this person sent me backall of the offer, all of the
details, right? And it actuallywasn't a bad offer. It made
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sense. I was like, Okay, this ismaybe not what I would ideally,
what like, what I would ask for,but this is we could work with
this. This is within reason. Andthe offer was okay. So I was
like, Okay, now I need to sitwith and consider if i.
Really I'm willing to go,because a lot of times I could
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just easily say, oh, it's notenough. You know, the offer is
not enough for me to consider. Idon't even have to think about
this. But now that the offer wasmaybe worth considering, I had
to really look inside myself andassess, like, Am I willing to
go? I'm one of those strangefolks that gets to be
introverted and extroverted allat the same time. So while some
aspects of me are are anextrovert, other aspects of me
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are an introvert, and there aresome amazing wrestling fans out
there that I think areincredible people, and are just
so sweet and kind and generous.
And then, as you might imagine,there are others who make it
less fun to go to these things.
So I had to really consider if Iwas willing to go. And as I was
sitting with this offer andtrying to decide whether I was
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going to accept it, what rose upfor me was my time in the WWE
and I was picturing myselfrolling my at the time I had a
Samsonite, I was rolling myluggage through the Texas
airport, which the DFW airportwas my hub most of the time,
traveling from California toeverywhere else in the country.
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And I used to always park atthis one gate segment, right?
Because usually, if you'reflying from the east to the
west, the connection area iskind of similar. There's a
Cinnabon in that part of the DFWairport. Shout out to Cinnabon.
They used to know me over there,back when I used to eat gluten.
That'd be my one cheat for theweek. And what I remembered was
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not just the delicious, warm,gooey, cinnamony roll with the
cream cheese frosting that Ican't have anymore because I am
gluten free. What I rememberedwas that feeling inside of
myself when I used to fly acrossthe country every week, this
feeling of excitement andindependence and freedom. And
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then what I remembered as partof that feeling, and part of
that visual memory that I washaving of those road seats at
the gate across from Cinnabon isI remembered I used to always
really wish that when I wastraveling with WWE, that I could
add on a day or two to explorethe cities that we went to,
because the way it worked in mylife and my contract, my kids
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were very small back then, whenI was actually working with WWE,
I think they were three andfive, and so I would fly out on
Monday, work on Tuesday, flyhome on Wednesday. So they
really only didn't see me forone day, because I saw them on
Monday before I flew out, and Isaw them on Wednesday when I got
home, it was usually in themiddle of the day. The time
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difference works in your favorwhen you live in California and
you're traveling from the EastCoast, so I was always rushing
home to my babies. I didn't wantto be away from them. I didn't
want them to be away from me. Soeven though part of me wished,
like I wish I could stay hereand see this really cool tension
bridge that they have in thistown, or see, you know, this St
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Louis barbecue, or see thedifferent museums that they have
in different places or differentwonders to see and experience. I
didn't get to do that because Iwas always rushing home to the
kiddos. And the other truth thatI don't often share is that my
ex husband definitely would nothave allowed me to stay an extra
day anywhere. That would nothave been okay. So now flash
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forward to 2025, 2026my kids are grown, and I was
thinking, as I'm processing allthis is all moving very fast
inside me, I'm thinking, okay,in theory, I could stay an extra
day or two in the city, in NewYork. I have really been wanting
to go to New York, and Iactually even have a girlfriend
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that we she's been a few times.
I've been a few times. I'vemostly been for work, so I
haven't gotten to do a lot ofthe like sightseeing stuff and
wonderful things that New Yorkhas to offer. So it's funny
because last year we in 2025 herand I really were talking about
she went twice last year to NewYork. And I was like, Yeah, we
got to go together. We have to,like, make a girls trip, and we
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have so much fun. And so, like,it was almost like a cartoon
light bulb went off in the backof my mind, Bing. And I was
like, Oh my gosh. I could staythese couple extra days. I could
go to New York and explore. Ihave really wanting to be able
to see it. I really want to goto the Met. I really want to go
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to MOMA. These are art museums.
I've really been wanting tovisit New York City. I love the
vibe of a city. And New York, aswe know, is one of the most
incredible cities on earth.
AndI agreed. So I agreed to do the
signing. Actually, I amrecording this just before the
weekend. I'm leaving on Fridaymorning to go to New York, and I
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will be doing the signing onSaturday, which is, I think, the
21st so maybe the episode isreleasing on the Monday, the
23rd at the time this episode.
Leases, if you're listening, theday it's released, I will be
currently in New York City, sobe sure to check my social media
for that. And a couple weekslater, as I was thinking about
(25:10):
it, I reached out to mygirlfriend, and I was like, Hey,
we've been talking about this,and I had this opportunity, and
I'm planning on staying a coupleextra days in New York. Do you
want to come with me? And shewas able to make it work, too.
So we're going to New York, andI'm so excited. And I was
thinking, like, oh my gosh, thisis so serendipitous. I already
(25:31):
bought this luggage. This isamazing. And I also got myself a
new travel backpack, which I'm abackpack girlie. So I was so
excited. And I was like, Oh mygosh, this is amazing. I'm going
to go to New York. Wonderful.
Well, within a couple days, Ireceive a different email about
a different WWE related signingthat is supposed to happen in
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Las Vegas over WrestleManiaweekend, and which is at the end
of April. And I couldn't helpbut thinking like, Hmm, travel
and experiences. I actually havedone this April event in Las
Vegas once before, a coupleyears ago, and I flew in and out
on the same day. But after theevent, was able to hang out with
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my bestie, who lives in Vegas orthe outer Greater Las Vegas
area, and we were able to grabdinner before I had to hop back
on a flight. And I thought,Okay, well, if this thing in New
York is working out in March,why couldn't I tag on a couple
extra days in April? And so Ithought like, oh, instead of
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dinner, we could have a wholeweekend together. And I checked
with bestie, and it worked forher schedule too. So in the end
of April, I'll be doing anautograph signing and having
some fun in Vegas with mybestie. And around that time, so
we're still in January as allthis is happening, I had a
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meeting set up like a Hangoutwith my friend that we had
talked about in 2024 doing a bigtrip in spring of 2026
and we've kind of been back andforth on it, to be honest with
you, in the fall, we had talkedabout it, and both of us kind of
felt like, I don't know, I don'tknow where in the world we'll be
(27:18):
good to go. Both of us kind offelt like maybe something was
brewing in the energy, maybesomething was going to pop off
that we just didn't haveinformation about yet. So we're
like, let's wait and let'sreconvene in the beginning of
the year, sit down, look at theenergy, then see how we feel,
see if we both feel like wesaved enough money to take a
trip. And so we had our meeting,my friend and I, and again, we
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had been chatting aboutdestinations. And one of the
things that I haven't sharedabout me, that I do as like a
little private tool, is when Iam stressed or overwhelmed or
having a little bit of theblues, right, a little
depressed, I will do researchonline. And so for the last year
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or so, what I have beenresearching when I'm a little
bummed or down or somethinghappens in my world that I'm
kind of just a littledisappointed over is I throw
myself into something positive,which in this case is research.
So by the time that my friendand I had this meeting, I had
spent a lot of time researchingseveral different itineraries
(28:26):
for three different places inItaly, a place in France and
Bali, which is one of the placesthat we had talked about. So by
the time we sat down, we had somuch to talk about. We looked at
some flights, we looked at allthe different destinations. We
really talked about it, and wekind of felt like the timing
maybe wasn't quite right yet,both her and I kind of had just
(28:48):
a little bit of an unsettledfeeling about it. So it was the
very beginning of the year, solet's put a pin in this. Come
back in a few weeks, and we'rekind of towards the end of
January, meeting again, andwe're like, oh my gosh, spring
of 2026. Is almost here. This iscrazy. Time is flying. We need
to make a choice and lock downsome plans if this is gonna
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happen. So again, over the pastcouple years, I had been working
out all of these itineraries, soI had really done a lot of
research, not just about likehow to get there, but like,
which layover airport is themost fun, which is the easiest
to go through security, which isthe best route to go. I mean,
really deep dive research. Forthose of you nerdy researchers
(29:34):
out there or planners out there,you know what I'm talking about.
So by the time we sat down, wereally had some information to
consider, and by the end of ourmeeting time, we had decided
that we were going to make atrip to Bali. And just after
Valentine's Day, about a monthago, a little more, we sat down,
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we both felt movement in theend.
Energy, we both felt like, Okay,we're gonna choose Bali. We're
not gonna choose Europe, and wegotta lock these tickets in
right now. You know, sometimesit's like that in the energy
where it's like, wait, wait,wait, okay, all of a sudden, go.
Have you ever experienced that?
That's how this felt. So welocked in our plane tickets, and
within a couple weeks, we alsodecided to lock in our hotels
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and have a loose itinerary ofwhich places we're going to go
first, and kind of the routearound the island that we're
going to make. And we havealready scheduled with a couple
of traditional Balinese healers.
And I am so excited to have thisexperience in Bali, and that
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will be in late May, into June.
We're going to be gone about twoweeks total. And of course, I am
thinking of you guys along theway, because I'm so excited not
only to be able to share thesetrips with you via social media,
but I also am very excited tolearn some new healing
techniques in Bali to experiencesome different energy. I'm sure
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I'm going to have some versionof mystical experience at these
temples. It's my intention totry to record some thoughts and
definitely some guidedmeditations for you while I'm
there that I'll be able toshare. So I'm really excited to
beable to bring a lot of this back
and to real time be reporting toyou guys my pod squad. So that
(31:29):
is where I am, a girl who hasbeen always a traveler,
remembering that about herselfand deciding to actually live it
again. And I'm sharing all ofthis today, not because my story
is special in any way, butbecause I think you have a
version of this for you in yourheart of hearts, too, there's
(31:53):
something in you that you knowyourself to be, a version of
yourself that maybe you had toput to the side for a time,
maybe had to take a back seatwhile you were focusing on other
important parts of your life.
But there's a version ofyourself you've been meaning to
grow into, a thing that's beencalling you from inside
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yourself, that your soul wantsto experience and that deserves
a second look, especially ifit's something that you had to
pause or put a pin in at onetime. So here's the question I
would love you to sit with thisweek, not overthink, not give
yourself a hard time or grillyourself or be down on yourself
(32:36):
about but just sit with Who areyou becoming? Who are you living
into next, and maybe moreimportantly is how you spend
your days, your energy, yourchoices. Is it actually
reflecting who you're wanting tolive into next? Because I
believe, I really deeplybelieve, that our intuition is
(32:59):
always nudging us towards themost alive, most expanded
versions of ourselves. It's notalways loud. Sometimes it's just
a little small annoying voicesaying, Well, are you though?
Listen for it. It's alwaysthere. And I'll be reporting
(33:20):
back from New York this weekendor into this week. So if you're
listening to this on the Mondayor Tuesday when it's released,
or even right after that, checkmy socials. I'll have lots of
interesting things on there, andI'll be reporting in and of
course, from Vegas, and ofcourse, from Bali, and even from
Singapore, where our wonderfullayover will be and one
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more thing before you go, ifthis episode has stirred
something in you or gotten youthinking, looking over your life
a little bit, looking over whoyou have been, what you've left
behind, who you are. Now youmight even notice, like me that
your intuition is already movingyou that direction. I already
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was researching travel. Ialready was picking up
what's those little compressionbags that you pack in and
special reusable plastic bagsfor your shoes. And I bought a
new bathing suit. And so Ialready was doing these little
bits of collecting thebreadcrumbs, even before I
(34:24):
realized that this was going tobe the next thing I was
continuing to live into.
If this stirred something in youlike that, around your identity,
around being honest withyourself, around who you're
wanting to become, I reallywould love it if you would share
it with someone that you cantalk about these things with, or
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that is an honest, open friend.
And the other last little thingI want to leave you with before
I go is I have something specialcoming up again. I'm always
thinking about you guys that Ihaven't formally announced yet,
that will.
Be announced any day now. It isa master class. It's going to be
free. It's going to be right inthe beginning of April. Keep an
(35:09):
eye on your inbox. If you are inmy VIP email community, it's
totally free to join, by theway, you just go to the homepage
of my website, joyfulmedium.com, if you scroll down a
little bit, there's a free minicourse, and also watch my
socials. Listen to the pod.
There will be announcementsabout it. I don't want you to
miss it. Everyone has beentelling me that they need tools
(35:29):
desperately, but that it's toomuch. It feels too much to do,
even if it's free to do, like aseveral day workshop. So I'm
condensing it down into a powerpacked hour and a half or so of
a master class for you guys. AndI'm gonna squeak it right in
between these trips, I'vealready been working on the
(35:49):
outline and pouring my heartinto it, and I would love it if
you would come and keep an eyebecause I'm creating this just
for you based on what everyonehas been telling me they need,
and the current and upcomingenergies. So keep an eye on that
inbox and on my social media forall the details coming very
soon. And I plan to play somefun little games with you guys
(36:11):
via my socials when we're onthese trips. So at joyful medium
on Facebook and Instagram andTiktok, and I think blue sky
too, honestly, but I don'treally post there. And Joy
Giovanni, psychic medium, forthose of you that like to watch
it on the YouTube, you can alsoget all of the pods on my
website. Joyful medium.com inthe blog section. Okay, guys,
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I'm so excited for this travel.
I can't even wait to step backinto this world traveler version
of myself and I want to knowplease tell me in the comments
or respond to me by email or onmy socials, what is it that you
are living into next? What areyou living into next? Okay, pod
(36:55):
squad, thank you for being here.
Thank you for listening asalways. Big hugs, lots of love.
Bye for now from inside spiritspeakeasy, you.
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