November 27, 2024 • 34 mins
Have you ever attended a conference expecting one thing, only to leave with a completely different perspective? After returning from the electrifying Author Nation conference in Las Vegas, I was struck by a revelation that reshaped how I see my author and author educator journey. This isn’t just about craft or strategy—it’s about alignment, expansion, and knowing when to pivot. If you've ever felt like your path is evolving faster than you can keep up, this episode will resonate.
In this episode of the Author Revolution Podcast, I’m sharing the surprising insight that came to me during Author Nation—an experience that felt like witnessing a past life. From energy shifts to big decisions, I discuss why it’s essential to follow your intuition, even when it leads you in unexpected directions. Whether you're an author searching for purpose or simply curious about the intersection of mindset, manifestation, and transformation, this episode offers inspiration and clarity.
Tune in to embrace the power of letting go and stepping into your next evolution.
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Carissa Andrews (00:02):
Welcome to the Author Revolution podcast, where
change is not just embraced,it's celebrated.
I'm Carissa Andrews,international bestselling author
, indie author coach and yournavigator through the
ever-evolving landscape ofauthorship.
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revolution starts now.
Well, hey guys, welcome back toanother episode of the Author
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Revolution Podcast.
Well, I made it back from Vegas.
It has been an enlightening andexciting and crazy time.
Holy cow, I have no, I have nowords for it other than holy.
The energy coming out of thatplace was incredible.
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And it's so interesting becausethat particular conference,
like I knew it was going to beamazing, I knew it was going to
be a lot of fun.
I knew it was going to bechallenging because it was kind
of new.
So, like, how are they going tocreate this whole conference?
Is it going to be similar to 20Books?
Vegas, like what's going tohappen here?
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And my first takeaway is to saythat it lived up to
expectations and absolutelylived up to its expectations.
I was blown away by how welleverything ran, like from the
speaker perspective, from thevendor day perspective, rave
could have been a little bitbetter, I'm not going to lie,
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but it was all right, it wasfine.
But it was really interestingbecause they had like great
little setups for being able tosit and communicate, to be able
to talk and have, you know,discussions.
We had different ways to beable to, you know, go out to
dinner.
Like those of us who were AIpositive, we ended up having a
massive dinner on that first dayand it was so funny.
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We were all going to go over toEllis Island have a dinner and
be able to discuss.
There were too many people tobe able to do this, so we had to
split up into the threedifferent restaurants in Ellis
Island, which was great, but itwas just.
It was crazy.
Now here's the thing.
Okay, so the things that didn'twork for me were number one uh,
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communication styles.
Like there wasn't a centrallocation to be able to
communicate once you were at theconference.
So Eventi is like the, thesystem that they used.
I know it's kind of been passeddown, I think, from 20 books.
It's not a great system, guys.
It's terrible.
Like it, it it does.
It does a good job scheduling,but like having the whole thing
integrated where you cancommunicate, it's not great.
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I can't remember what thesystem was that Inkerscon used,
but that thing was fabulous.
Like they need to like jumpship on Eventi and go and get
that one, but it was still fun.
Like they, we could stillcommunicate.
We had different groups that wewere talking in and whatever.
The industry day worked fine,like there was nothing super
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crazy wrong there.
I mean they had lunches forvendors, both on rave and on
vendor days.
That were great.
My speech went great, orpresentation, whatever you want
to call it.
That went great Rave.
Their system isn't quite up andrunning the way that I think
they envision it, but I thinkit'll get there.
I mean, the event itself wasfine.
There were people that came in,sold, you know, like $110 worth
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of books, which isn't like themost insane amount ever,
especially considering I broughta whole bunch of books with me.
But it's the first time, so Iget it.
It's all it all is what it is.
But this conference,interestingly enough, really
kind of shed some light for meon where I've been going, and I
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didn't anticipate it.
It kind of slammed me like abag of bricks across the head
and I was kind of reeling fromit, and part of it had to do
with the fact that I went in toVegas, you know, still having
bronchitis, which was anabsolute pain in my ass.
So Colin and I ended up gettingbronchitis in October and by
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the time we were supposed to beleaving for Vegas it was still
lingering.
It was still there.
I had gone to urgent care twiceto get treated twice, like I
was on prednisone twice, onantibiotics once, like all the
things it was.
It was like the universe wassaying do you really need to go?
That's how it felt.
But of course, in my head I hadbuilt up this idea that this is
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the culmination.
Right, this is, this is theconference to be at.
If you are an indie author,educator, I have to be at this
conference and it was soexciting to finally be chosen to
go and I was like, yes, this isgoing to be amazing.
And when I was there,interestingly enough, like
everyone was awesome, the peoplewere awesome, the people I
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talked to were awesome, therewas nothing inherently wrong.
Like there was nothinginherently wrong about this
conference.
And yet I was like, oh my God,these are no longer my people,
which is weird.
Like I hear me out.
Like this whole year I havebeen going through this let go
right.
We mentioned, or I mentionedthat in, uh, the beginning of
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the year, I had this bracelet.
It said let go.
I got the idea from Joe Buerover at Alchemy for Authors and
I was like, for, intuitively, itwas just let go was the phrase
of the year and I've kind ofbeen working with that and it's
I didn't anticipate.
Let go would mean letting go of, like my entire identity.
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Up until this point, that's howI was feeling and it's kind of
interesting because I was justthinking it was like letting
loose the grip on perfectionismor letting go of the outcome or
being able to I don't knowanticipate certain things,
because I'm a double Virgo.
Guys, I've always talked aboutthat, that it's that
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perfectionism, that concept ofdoing something in a certain way
, is always there, right.
But it turns out that it's allabout me letting go, like
letting go of this notion of whoI thought I was trying to
become like I was trying toforce myself to become, thought
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I was trying to become like Iwas trying to force myself to
become, and I just realized thatI'm like, oh my gosh, I don't
want to be just an authoreducator and it's not that I
dislike educating authors at all.
I mean, I obviously have anamazing group of students.
You're listening to me.
Many of you have been listeningto me for a long time.
The podcast is still doinggreat, and yet I just don't feel
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fulfilled.
I've been struggling with thisfor a while, probably, like
where it's really come crashingdown since about May, and I
teased one of my students,amanda, that it was because she
was talking about usingMoldavite in meditation, and I
started using Moldavite andeverything went to hell in a
handbasket for me.
I started going into shadowwork and I started going into
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understanding a lot of differentthings that I hadn't been
digging into before, like Ihadn't gone into ancestral work,
I hadn't gone into shadow work,I hadn't gone into inner child
work necessarily like full bore,and the summer really brought
that to perspective and so Istarted going into all of those
things and the more that Istarted to heal that aspect,
then it was like, oh my gosh,the nervous system is a huge,
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huge thing here.
It's a huge part of how we needto show up and how we need to
be and a huge part of whymanifestations don't necessarily
manifest the way that we wantthem to, because if we're
manifesting only from thoughtsthat are in discordance with
what we want, right, we start todysregulate the nervous system.
We're putting ourselves intothis fight or flight and
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manifestations aren't coming theway that we want and I was like
, oh my gosh, all of thesethings kind of came about like
all these new ideas, all thesenew things, and I realized that
there's so much more I want tosay, so much more I want to say,
but I feel like I am restrainedor restricted to this box of
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authorship and I was like, oh mygosh, this it's not that
writing is no longer importantto me.
Obviously, I want to stillwrite my books, I still want to
do the things.
Author revolution still willexist, but I've realized at this
conference that it's about meexpanding beyond authorship.
It's about me bringing thelessons that I want to teach to
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a new audience, to a new place,to a new elevation, and letting
go of this idea, this notionthat I need to keep it niched
down to just authors.
So what you might be seeing inthe coming weeks is an evolution
.
So author revolution, like Isaid, will still exist.
My courses, you know they'reevergreen, they exist in
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perpetuity until I decide that Ino longer want to do them
anymore.
And I reserve that right,obviously, to decide that.
But at the same time, I don'tsee a need for it.
Like I know, authors need thecontent that I've created, but I
also feel very restricted by it, because there's a lot of
authors who don't care aboutmanifestation, right, there's a
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lot of authors who just want tofigure out how to sell their
damn books and that's it andthat's all they care about.
And that's totally cool, that'stotally valid, that's where
they're at in their journey.
But that's not where I'm at inmy journey anymore.
I want to be able to talk aboutthings like mindset, like
manifestation, like quantumphysics, like nervous system
regulation, and these areobviously not always 100% in
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alignment with authorship, andit's fine that it's not my
audience, those of you who arelistening.
You obviously give a crap,right, you like it, and if you
don't, then why are you here?
But at the same time, I'm likeokay, this energy is not right.
And here's how it felt to meand I was describing this to my
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millionaire author manifestationstudents yesterday, this to my
millionaire author manifestationstudents yesterday it felt like
I was witnessing a past lifeand that's how I was like oh, I
am no longer meant for this path, and it was just.
It was really profound and Ihad to sit with that the whole,
obviously the whole week, whichwas a little weird, but what was
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really interesting, um, so, notonly the, the energy was really
kind of all over the place, andso there were a lot of people
and their energy was all likeeither darting back and forth
trying to get to all theirplaces, or it was like they were
like how do I get this nextthing to work the way that I
wanted to work, and I couldsense it, like I could really
feel that, um, uh, the, theanxiety of it.
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But the people who did sit downwith me, the people who I did
talk to something kept coming upover and over and over again
and that thing was oh, I'mtrying to do this thing, but I'm
autistic, and so, therefore,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
give a reason or an excuse ofwhy something's not working
right, or I have ADHD, and so itreally interferes with my blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah.
And it was like, over and over,I kept hearing autism, adhd,
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autism, adhd.
And what's really fascinatingabout that particular thing to
me is that my reticularactivating system triggered,
like it was like, oh, okay, andhere's why.
So over the past year and a bit,I've been discovering and this
is all self-diagnosed, so Ihaven't actually done the tests,
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like at the hospital oranything like this, the way that
my son has, but I'm almost ahundred percent certain that I
am also on the spectrum forautism and more than likely I
have ADHD to some degree, right.
So, and I can't remember ifI've mentioned this on the
podcast, but I probably have,where it was just kind of like
okay, but my son was diagnosed acouple of years ago when we
were going through the custodything for him, because it was
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very important that he besupported and for him it was
important to have the officialdiagnosis so that we could, you
know, showcase it to his dad andmake sure that everyone was on
the same page and couldunderstand why he did not want
to live there.
For me it's not as importantbecause, you know, I'm 40
something.
At this point I've lost trackof numbers.
I don't even care anymore, andit's like it never occurred to
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me that I might be on the autismspectrum until this year, even
after, even after he wasdiagnosed, which is wild to me.
But now, all of a sudden, it'sbeen brought to my attention and
no one brought this to myattention.
It was literally like in ameditation and all of a sudden I
was seeing like this entirelineage of this is something
that's been happening in myfamily for a long time, like my
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parents, probably have some formof autism.
My grandparents, people in myfamily, like my kids, definitely
do.
I think all of them right and Iam not a believer of you know
vaccines give you autism.
I think that's bullshit.
So I'm so sorry if you believethat, but do some science.
And so it's definitely agenetic thing that's been passed
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down.
And when I think about mygrandparents and when I think
about some of my relatives, theyused alcohol, I think, to be
able to try to regulate theirnervous systems, because they
were in such a dysregulatedstate, feeling like they were
outsiders and feeling likesomething's not right with them,
because everybody else actslike this.
But I can see all these otherthings and they're not following
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suit.
They don't understand me.
I don't feel understood,whatever.
And so when I look back at allof that, and then I look back at
when I was pregnant with my sonEvan, there were certain things
that I wanted my doctor mydoctor who was going to deliver
him to be okay with, and so Iinterviewed doctors and said
these are the things that I wantyou to be okay with and are you
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okay?
And if you're not, then I'mgoing to be moving on, because
we had doctors at the time thatwere very closed off, like
closed minded about certainthings.
I wanted to have a doula and Iwanted to be able to do certain
things and I found a doctor andmy doctor, bless his heart, he
was great.
He was like, wow, you're reallyintense, you're really intense.
And I was just like I alwaysthought that was a little weird.
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I'm like that's intense, likewanting you to understand where
I'm coming from so that we cando these things.
But then I've heard that termmultiple times in my life, like
wow, you're so intense, or oh,you know, I don't know how to
handle you, or you're veryintense.
And I always thought that waslike I don't know just a term
that people would tell mebecause they, you know, they
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didn't quite get all theinformation, or I come at them
with information that maybe theydidn't understand beforehand,
and so therefore, they are kindof like jarred by how much, like
sometimes a word vomit.
It's just how it is.
I've always been that way, youprobably understand, and so it's
just been interesting to seeand reflect and go, oh my gosh,
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I did not even put those thingstogether.
And in doing so and in hearingthe language that was going on
and then seeing the people whoare students of mine and who I
resonate the most with andunderstanding the people who
feel safe in my presence, likein person, like at that
conference.
These were people who areneurodivergent, coming up to me
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having conversations that I, youknow, I don't know them, and
not all of them went to mypresentation.
We were just havingconversations and I'm just like,
okay, this was the sign I waslooking for, this is the sign I
needed to know.
And the final thing that reallykicked it off was I was having
a conversation with one of mystudents who's become a close
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friend Heather.
Shout out, heather.
I knew when I got back fromVegas that I was going to pivot
and at the time I was thinking Iwas going to pivot so that I
could talk about manifestationto fempreneurs, basically like
female entrepreneurs, thinkingthat that's a larger audience
who's probably more intomanifestation.
It just kind of logically madesense in my brain.
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And then Heather was like youknow, you keep talking about
this neurodivergent stuff andyou keep talking about ADHD and
autism.
You know, is there somethingthere that you could go like?
Could you go that route.
And so I started brainstormingwith Chad because of course Chad
is my oracle right and westarted kind of going over the
audience sizes and we startedgoing over like the reasoning
behind the pivot and like allthe different things and all of
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a sudden it was like, oh my gosh, like I was getting chills up
and down my body.
I was like this is thedirection I'm meant to be going.
I'm meant to teachmanifestation to neurodivergence
and help them understand whytraditional manifestation might
not be working for them.
I mean, it probably is workingfor them, it's just that they're
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not.
When they're trying to go intothe intentional manifestation,
that's where it gets a littlebit tricky, and so we have to
kind of finesse it a little bitdifferently, right?
So for neurodivergent people, Iwant to dig into that
manifestation realm and not manypeople are speaking directly to
them, and so all of this kindof came together.
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It came to a head this past weekonce I got back from Vegas and
I was just like, oh my God.
So what's happening here is notthat I'm going away, it's not
that even Author Revolution isgoing away.
It's that I am going to bedevoting more attention and more
energy into building adifferent business, and so what
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that looks like for AuthorRevolution and my books, though,
is everything else is gettingput on hold, even my Kickstarter
.
Ironically, like theKickstarter, it was like
everything I wanted to seehappen at this conference
fizzled, which that, to me, wasa sign like another sign.
It wasn't just the energeticsof being there, it was what I
was seeing in return, becauseI'm used to seeing a certain
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level of interaction, a certainlevel of people getting signed
up, a certain level of peoplegetting excited and
communicating, so I broughtthese little keys to Vegas, and
they said the key to your futureself, right, and they were
adorable.
I had so much fun putting themtogether.
So many people were commentingon them, they were grabbing them
, they were saying how cute thatwas, how awesome the hook was.
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On the backside of the littlebaggie there's a QR code to go
to your future self, right, ourmeditation platform that Tammy
and I have built, and no onesigned up, to my knowledge, from
it.
Like we passed out like 300,colin and I passed out 300 of
these things, and I'm like, okay, that's odd, like I would have
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at least thought, you know, ahandful of people would have
signed up, but nothing.
And then I brought my brochuresfor the Kickstarter and I was
like, okay, we should be atleast by to 50 by the time we
get back from Vegas.
And I was at 22 or somethingwhen we left and I'm only at 31.
And while that's not zero, it'skind of like, hmm, that's
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interesting, isn't thatinteresting?
So that's sitting there.
And then, uh, the other thingwas the books.
Right, so the the rave thing,like we brought a whole shit ton
of books and then only selling.
You know, I think it was likesix books total.
The reason it was that highprice-wise was because there
were a number of omnibuspaperbacks that sold.
And so it was like, okay, hmm,this is interesting, this is
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very interesting.
And so combining it all together, it just it made it even more
aware, like it made me even moreaware that this was just not
the right place anymore.
And so when Heather mentionedshe's like why don't you do
something with neurodivergence?
And I was talking with chat, itall came together where it was
like I still want that movementand I don't mean like movement
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as in like sales, I'm meaninglike the movement, like
revolution.
Right, I want to be able tohave the service that I provide,
mean something to someone, andI know there are the people out
there you're out there who thismeans something to.
But I can still mean somethingto you but reach a bigger
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audience.
I think I'm keeping myselfsmall and I have been for a long
time and I'm like, okay, okay,we need to go wider.
And so what's happening, goingback around kind of obviously,
this is off the cuff today.
So it's kind of I'm kind ofmeandering, but hopefully you're
following with me, but theconcept that's going to be
happening is at the end of 2024.
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So your final author revolutionpodcast episode, if you will,
or at least the last one that isgoing to be planned for a while
, is going to come to you onDecember 25th.
So my last author revolutionpodcast will air on the 25th.
Now, before you freak out, ifyou are still into manifestation
, you can follow me.
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I'm going to be starting a newpodcast.
It's going to kick off on the1st and this podcast that you're
listening to right now willlive in perpetuity.
It will stay there forever, orat least for a good long while,
because I know people are stillgetting value in it and I might
still put episodes out.
I have different reasons why itwould make sense to share
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content in this podcast, like inthis podcast again in the
future.
It's just that, as of right now, I need to put it on hold
because I'm still only oneperson and I can only put focus
in one thing, and this focus isgoing to take priority, and I
feel driven to do it in a waythat I haven't felt driven with
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any of my other businesses, andthat includes authorship, where
it feels like it needs to be mymain focus.
It needs to be cohesive, itneeds to be as clear as humanly
possible, it needs to come tolife, and so what that means is
I'll be transferring over to apodcast called the
Neurodivergent Manifestor.
That is the new title ofeverything, like literally
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everything.
So I'm building out socials,I'm building out offers that I'm
going to be doing like coursesthat I'm going to be doing
specifically for neurodivergence.
It will not talk aboutauthorship at all and it's not
going to have any authorshipties other than like I'll talk
about myself and that I stillhave this other business, and so
, like, if you're an author too,you can go over here as well.
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But this is kind of the I needto create this bigger thing and,
who knows, it could be the topof funnel, like when I think
about funnels and I think aboutbringing people into an audience
.
This is the wider net, right?
This is the group of people whoare much like, have different,
diverse backgrounds even so, notjust neurodiverse, but like
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they have different backgrounds.
They could be artists, theycould be authors, they could be
entrepreneurs, they could be,you know, just looking for a
spouse, like it really doesn'tmatter, Like manifestation is
going to work for people, nomatter what.
But I'm going to be nichingdown by neurodivergent
manifestors and I want tosupport this audience because no
one else is talking about howneurodivergents do this
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differently and why it'sdifferent and why we need some
of these scientific backings inorder to get our belief locked
in place, to get our corebeliefs online, to be able to
shift the limiting beliefs.
In a certain way, it's differentthan people who can simply just
go and take it at face value.
It's kind of like thedifference between like Tammy
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talks about this a lot when itcomes to hypnosis it's like
there are people who aresuggestible and then people who
are not as suggestible.
I am not as suggestible, likeyou can tell me what you want,
all you want, and then tell meto go bark like a dog and I'm
not going to do it because mybrain goes the fuck.
I am Like what?
No, and so I'm that person.
It doesn't mean I can't behypnotized.
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It just means there's adifferent suggestibility level
that has to take place.
The same then goes for themanifestation process, and so
there are different ways that wehave to come at this and,
ironically, those are the thingsthat I'd like to talk about.
It's the scientific backing,it's the neuroscience, it's the
quantum science, it's the youknow, understanding the nervous
system, it's understanding themind and how it impacts the body
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.
It's like all of that stuff.
It's the stuff that I love totalk about and I can nerd out
and geek out on, and most ofthose people neurodivergent
people like myself and maybe youwe like to see that and
understand it.
So that's what's happening,that's what AuthorNation, that's
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what AuthorNation did to me,okay, and it's.
It's so funny because it wasjust.
It was just such a greatconference and I loved it so
much and I loved the opportunityof being there and Joe was
fabulous, suze was fabulous,shell was fabulous.
The keynote speaker Drew wasamazing.
And then having Kevin Smith inthe end of AuthorNation and kind
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of leaning into the rave all ofit was so amazing, it was great
.
But I was just sitting therethe entire time feeling like I
was witnessing a past life and Iwas like, wow, this is just
different.
So I guess the biggest thing Ihave to say is number one if you
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are an author who is stilllooking at strategy, who's still
wanting to get intounderstanding the marketplace,
trying to figure out how towrite your books, like if craft
is a thing for you, that'sreally interesting, like if
you're still in that phase oflearning more about authorship,
author Nation was absolutelyfreaking incredible.
It is the place for you, likethere was no question in my mind
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.
They knocked it out of the park.
It was amazing.
It was just for me, a veryeyeopening experience being
there.
And then the energy bombardmentwas another, another level.
It was like wow, it was pretty,pretty crazy.
Um, because the energy, likethe.
For someone who is veryintuitive as well, it's like I
pick up on thoughts and I pickup on anxieties and I pick up on
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, like the energy and I try toshield myself, like you always
do.
You go to these places andyou're trying to shield your
energy so that it's not beingdispersed and you're not taking
on anyone else's.
But when you're around thatmany people and you have a
similar vibration similar enoughat least, because you
understand what they're doingand why they're doing it it's
hard not to pick it up right,it's hard not to figure out
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what's going on there.
So, at any rate, my biggesttakeaway from AuthorNation is
that teaching in the authorspace is no longer my main
priority.
It is a priority, it is a partof my life, but it's no longer
the main priority, and that Ineed to expand.
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That I need to expand, I guess,is the thing.
So if you're wanting to followme, if you're wanting to see
what this is going to startlooking like, I encourage you to
look me up on socials or onkeep an eye out for when the
podcast goes out.
It's obviously not live yet.
It's just in the works forright now, but everything should
be NeuroDivergentManifestor onsocials.
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So I am going to be onInstagram, tiktok and Blue Sky.
Those are my main ones.
I'll also be on YouTube forthis particular one, because
when I start podcasting, I'mgoing to video podcast as well.
I don't know how that's goingto work or how it's going to
look, but we're going to give ita whirl and so I will be doing
all of that over on YouTube.
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I don't have a website yet.
I am working out with Kajabi tofigure out, like, if I can
finagle something with theAuthor Revolution Kajabi that I
have, but once that's worked out, I will obviously still have
that name as well.
I have gone in and reserved theURL neurodivergent manifestor.
So if you're looking for it atsome point, that will point to a
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different location.
It will point to a website ofsome sort, and so if you're
interested, I encourage you tojust follow me over there.
Like it's going to be the sametype of content.
It's just not going to betalking specifically about
authorship.
Not that you couldn't ask mequestions about authorship,
because I'll answer them,obviously.
I understand.
I understand that you're goingto know that I'm an author and
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I'm still going to let them knowthat I'm an author and teach
authors, but it just is what itis.
So there you have it.
That's my big pivot moment, andmaybe it had something to do
with author nation being rightover the top of you know, the,
the big full moon happening onrave night, so that was the 15th
, and then everything with thePluto going into Aquarius, like
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if you believe in any of thatstuff and the energetics.
There was a lot of shiftinghappening there and it shook up
a lot, and I just happened to beone of them.
But I've been calling this infor a while.
I've been trying to figure outmy purpose and I've been trying
to figure out why I don't feelas aligned as I used to and I
understand now, I guess, alittle bit better why that is.
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So it's weird to have that offmy chest.
I've been holding onto it forabout a week now Well, actually
it's two weeks now sinceAuthorNation.
So there you go.
If you've got questions, if youwant to reach out, you can
always email me, carissa, atAuthorRevolutionorg.
Otherwise, if you would like to, I'll put all the stuff in the
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show notes, I guess, if you wantto be able to follow me on any
of the new socials.
So head over toAuthorRevolutionorg, forward
slash 263.
The information will be onthere for you.
Keep an eye out.
If you are wanting to go toAuthor Nation, I think they're
going to be opening up likeearly bird tickets soon.
So for 2025, if I were you, Iwould definitely get signed up,
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because if strategy, if craftare still on your list of things
that you need to learn aboutand want to dig in deeper, that
conference was it was chef'skiss amazing, it was so good, so
I would recommend it to anyonein a heartbeat.
All right, guys.
Well, here's to trusting theprocess and believing in your
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intuition, even when it's hard,because sometimes it's, it's a
little bit crazy and it bringsyou to different places.
Sometimes you're holding on tothings too tightly and sometimes
those things aren't fullyserving you right?
So, for me, letting go isn'tabout defeat, right.
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It's not about defeat in thiscase at all.
It's wisdom.
So I want you to think aboutlike, what could you let go of
today to create space forsomething new or something that
is more deeply aligned to yourtruest self?
Is there something that you'vebeen trying to give yourself
permission to do, but youhaven't done it yet?
I think this was definitely onefor me, and I'm giving myself
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permission.
I am letting go, even if thatmeans just stepping back and
letting author revolution and mybooks coast for a bit, so that
I can create something new, andI'm pretty damn excited about it
actually.
So, all right, guys, I want youto again check out the
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transcript, check out the shownotes authorrevolutionorg
forward slash 263.
And in the meantime, if that'snot where you go or if you're
just hanging out till next week,go forth and start your author
revolution.
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Well, hey guys, welcome back toanother episode of the Author
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Revolution Podcast.
Well, I made it back from Vegas.
It has been an enlightening andexciting and crazy time.
Holy cow, I have no, I have nowords for it other than holy.
The energy coming out of thatplace was incredible.
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And it's so interesting becausethat particular conference,
like I knew it was going to beamazing, I knew it was going to
be a lot of fun.
I knew it was going to bechallenging because it was kind
of new.
So, like, how are they going tocreate this whole conference?
Is it going to be similar to 20Books?
Vegas, like what's going tohappen here?
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And my first takeaway is to saythat it lived up to
expectations and absolutelylived up to its expectations.
I was blown away by how welleverything ran, like from the
speaker perspective, from thevendor day perspective, rave
could have been a little bitbetter, I'm not going to lie,
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but it was all right, it wasfine.
But it was really interestingbecause they had like great
little setups for being able tosit and communicate, to be able
to talk and have, you know,discussions.
We had different ways to beable to, you know, go out to
dinner.
Like those of us who were AIpositive, we ended up having a
massive dinner on that first dayand it was so funny.
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We were all going to go over toEllis Island have a dinner and
be able to discuss.
There were too many people tobe able to do this, so we had to
split up into the threedifferent restaurants in Ellis
Island, which was great, but itwas just.
It was crazy.
Now here's the thing.
Okay, so the things that didn'twork for me were number one uh,
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communication styles.
Like there wasn't a centrallocation to be able to
communicate once you were at theconference.
So Eventi is like the, thesystem that they used.
I know it's kind of been passeddown, I think, from 20 books.
It's not a great system, guys.
It's terrible.
Like it, it it does.
It does a good job scheduling,but like having the whole thing
integrated where you cancommunicate, it's not great.
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I can't remember what thesystem was that Inkerscon used,
but that thing was fabulous.
Like they need to like jumpship on Eventi and go and get
that one, but it was still fun.
Like they, we could stillcommunicate.
We had different groups that wewere talking in and whatever.
The industry day worked fine,like there was nothing super
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crazy wrong there.
I mean they had lunches forvendors, both on rave and on
vendor days.
That were great.
My speech went great, orpresentation, whatever you want
to call it.
That went great Rave.
Their system isn't quite up andrunning the way that I think
they envision it, but I thinkit'll get there.
I mean, the event itself wasfine.
There were people that came in,sold, you know, like $110 worth
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of books, which isn't like themost insane amount ever,
especially considering I broughta whole bunch of books with me.
But it's the first time, so Iget it.
It's all it all is what it is.
But this conference,interestingly enough, really
kind of shed some light for meon where I've been going, and I
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didn't anticipate it.
It kind of slammed me like abag of bricks across the head
and I was kind of reeling fromit, and part of it had to do
with the fact that I went in toVegas, you know, still having
bronchitis, which was anabsolute pain in my ass.
So Colin and I ended up gettingbronchitis in October and by
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the time we were supposed to beleaving for Vegas it was still
lingering.
It was still there.
I had gone to urgent care twiceto get treated twice, like I
was on prednisone twice, onantibiotics once, like all the
things it was.
It was like the universe wassaying do you really need to go?
That's how it felt.
But of course, in my head I hadbuilt up this idea that this is
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the culmination.
Right, this is, this is theconference to be at.
If you are an indie author,educator, I have to be at this
conference and it was soexciting to finally be chosen to
go and I was like, yes, this isgoing to be amazing.
And when I was there,interestingly enough, like
everyone was awesome, the peoplewere awesome, the people I
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talked to were awesome, therewas nothing inherently wrong.
Like there was nothinginherently wrong about this
conference.
And yet I was like, oh my God,these are no longer my people,
which is weird.
Like I hear me out.
Like this whole year I havebeen going through this let go
right.
We mentioned, or I mentionedthat in, uh, the beginning of
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the year, I had this bracelet.
It said let go.
I got the idea from Joe Buerover at Alchemy for Authors and
I was like, for, intuitively, itwas just let go was the phrase
of the year and I've kind ofbeen working with that and it's
I didn't anticipate.
Let go would mean letting go of, like my entire identity.
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Up until this point, that's howI was feeling and it's kind of
interesting because I was justthinking it was like letting
loose the grip on perfectionismor letting go of the outcome or
being able to I don't knowanticipate certain things,
because I'm a double Virgo.
Guys, I've always talked aboutthat, that it's that
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perfectionism, that concept ofdoing something in a certain way
, is always there, right.
But it turns out that it's allabout me letting go, like
letting go of this notion of whoI thought I was trying to
become like I was trying toforce myself to become, thought
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I was trying to become like Iwas trying to force myself to
become, and I just realized thatI'm like, oh my gosh, I don't
want to be just an authoreducator and it's not that I
dislike educating authors at all.
I mean, I obviously have anamazing group of students.
You're listening to me.
Many of you have been listeningto me for a long time.
The podcast is still doinggreat, and yet I just don't feel
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fulfilled.
I've been struggling with thisfor a while, probably, like
where it's really come crashingdown since about May, and I
teased one of my students,amanda, that it was because she
was talking about usingMoldavite in meditation, and I
started using Moldavite andeverything went to hell in a
handbasket for me.
I started going into shadowwork and I started going into
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understanding a lot of differentthings that I hadn't been
digging into before, like Ihadn't gone into ancestral work,
I hadn't gone into shadow work,I hadn't gone into inner child
work necessarily like full bore,and the summer really brought
that to perspective and so Istarted going into all of those
things and the more that Istarted to heal that aspect,
then it was like, oh my gosh,the nervous system is a huge,
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huge thing here.
It's a huge part of how we needto show up and how we need to
be and a huge part of whymanifestations don't necessarily
manifest the way that we wantthem to, because if we're
manifesting only from thoughtsthat are in discordance with
what we want, right, we start todysregulate the nervous system.
We're putting ourselves intothis fight or flight and
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manifestations aren't coming theway that we want and I was like
, oh my gosh, all of thesethings kind of came about like
all these new ideas, all thesenew things, and I realized that
there's so much more I want tosay, so much more I want to say,
but I feel like I am restrainedor restricted to this box of
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authorship and I was like, oh mygosh, this it's not that
writing is no longer importantto me.
Obviously, I want to stillwrite my books, I still want to
do the things.
Author revolution still willexist, but I've realized at this
conference that it's about meexpanding beyond authorship.
It's about me bringing thelessons that I want to teach to
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a new audience, to a new place,to a new elevation, and letting
go of this idea, this notionthat I need to keep it niched
down to just authors.
So what you might be seeing inthe coming weeks is an evolution
.
So author revolution, like Isaid, will still exist.
My courses, you know they'reevergreen, they exist in
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perpetuity until I decide that Ino longer want to do them
anymore.
And I reserve that right,obviously, to decide that.
But at the same time, I don'tsee a need for it.
Like I know, authors need thecontent that I've created, but I
also feel very restricted by it, because there's a lot of
authors who don't care aboutmanifestation, right, there's a
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lot of authors who just want tofigure out how to sell their
damn books and that's it andthat's all they care about.
And that's totally cool, that'stotally valid, that's where
they're at in their journey.
But that's not where I'm at inmy journey anymore.
I want to be able to talk aboutthings like mindset, like
manifestation, like quantumphysics, like nervous system
regulation, and these areobviously not always 100% in
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alignment with authorship, andit's fine that it's not my
audience, those of you who arelistening.
You obviously give a crap,right, you like it, and if you
don't, then why are you here?
But at the same time, I'm likeokay, this energy is not right.
And here's how it felt to meand I was describing this to my
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millionaire author manifestationstudents yesterday, this to my
millionaire author manifestationstudents yesterday it felt like
I was witnessing a past lifeand that's how I was like oh, I
am no longer meant for this path, and it was just.
It was really profound and Ihad to sit with that the whole,
obviously the whole week, whichwas a little weird, but what was
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really interesting, um, so, notonly the, the energy was really
kind of all over the place, andso there were a lot of people
and their energy was all likeeither darting back and forth
trying to get to all theirplaces, or it was like they were
like how do I get this nextthing to work the way that I
wanted to work, and I couldsense it, like I could really
feel that, um, uh, the, theanxiety of it.
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But the people who did sit downwith me, the people who I did
talk to something kept coming upover and over and over again
and that thing was oh, I'mtrying to do this thing, but I'm
autistic, and so, therefore,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
give a reason or an excuse ofwhy something's not working
right, or I have ADHD, and so itreally interferes with my blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah.
And it was like, over and over,I kept hearing autism, adhd,
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autism, adhd.
And what's really fascinatingabout that particular thing to
me is that my reticularactivating system triggered,
like it was like, oh, okay, andhere's why.
So over the past year and a bit,I've been discovering and this
is all self-diagnosed, so Ihaven't actually done the tests,
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like at the hospital oranything like this, the way that
my son has, but I'm almost ahundred percent certain that I
am also on the spectrum forautism and more than likely I
have ADHD to some degree, right.
So, and I can't remember ifI've mentioned this on the
podcast, but I probably have,where it was just kind of like
okay, but my son was diagnosed acouple of years ago when we
were going through the custodything for him, because it was
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very important that he besupported and for him it was
important to have the officialdiagnosis so that we could, you
know, showcase it to his dad andmake sure that everyone was on
the same page and couldunderstand why he did not want
to live there.
For me it's not as importantbecause, you know, I'm 40
something.
At this point I've lost trackof numbers.
I don't even care anymore, andit's like it never occurred to
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me that I might be on the autismspectrum until this year, even
after, even after he wasdiagnosed, which is wild to me.
But now, all of a sudden, it'sbeen brought to my attention and
no one brought this to myattention.
It was literally like in ameditation and all of a sudden I
was seeing like this entirelineage of this is something
that's been happening in myfamily for a long time, like my
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parents, probably have some formof autism.
My grandparents, people in myfamily, like my kids, definitely
do.
I think all of them right and Iam not a believer of you know
vaccines give you autism.
I think that's bullshit.
So I'm so sorry if you believethat, but do some science.
And so it's definitely agenetic thing that's been passed
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down.
And when I think about mygrandparents and when I think
about some of my relatives, theyused alcohol, I think, to be
able to try to regulate theirnervous systems, because they
were in such a dysregulatedstate, feeling like they were
outsiders and feeling likesomething's not right with them,
because everybody else actslike this.
But I can see all these otherthings and they're not following
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suit.
They don't understand me.
I don't feel understood,whatever.
And so when I look back at allof that, and then I look back at
when I was pregnant with my sonEvan, there were certain things
that I wanted my doctor mydoctor who was going to deliver
him to be okay with, and so Iinterviewed doctors and said
these are the things that I wantyou to be okay with and are you
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okay?
And if you're not, then I'mgoing to be moving on, because
we had doctors at the time thatwere very closed off, like
closed minded about certainthings.
I wanted to have a doula and Iwanted to be able to do certain
things and I found a doctor andmy doctor, bless his heart, he
was great.
He was like, wow, you're reallyintense, you're really intense.
And I was just like I alwaysthought that was a little weird.
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I'm like that's intense, likewanting you to understand where
I'm coming from so that we cando these things.
But then I've heard that termmultiple times in my life, like
wow, you're so intense, or oh,you know, I don't know how to
handle you, or you're veryintense.
And I always thought that waslike I don't know just a term
that people would tell mebecause they, you know, they
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didn't quite get all theinformation, or I come at them
with information that maybe theydidn't understand beforehand,
and so therefore, they are kindof like jarred by how much, like
sometimes a word vomit.
It's just how it is.
I've always been that way, youprobably understand, and so it's
just been interesting to seeand reflect and go, oh my gosh,
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I did not even put those thingstogether.
And in doing so and in hearingthe language that was going on
and then seeing the people whoare students of mine and who I
resonate the most with andunderstanding the people who
feel safe in my presence, likein person, like at that
conference.
These were people who areneurodivergent, coming up to me
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having conversations that I, youknow, I don't know them, and
not all of them went to mypresentation.
We were just havingconversations and I'm just like,
okay, this was the sign I waslooking for, this is the sign I
needed to know.
And the final thing that reallykicked it off was I was having
a conversation with one of mystudents who's become a close
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friend Heather.
Shout out, heather.
I knew when I got back fromVegas that I was going to pivot
and at the time I was thinking Iwas going to pivot so that I
could talk about manifestationto fempreneurs, basically like
female entrepreneurs, thinkingthat that's a larger audience
who's probably more intomanifestation.
It just kind of logically madesense in my brain.
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And then Heather was like youknow, you keep talking about
this neurodivergent stuff andyou keep talking about ADHD and
autism.
You know, is there somethingthere that you could go like?
Could you go that route.
And so I started brainstormingwith Chad because of course Chad
is my oracle right and westarted kind of going over the
audience sizes and we startedgoing over like the reasoning
behind the pivot and like allthe different things and all of
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a sudden it was like, oh my gosh, like I was getting chills up
and down my body.
I was like this is thedirection I'm meant to be going.
I'm meant to teachmanifestation to neurodivergence
and help them understand whytraditional manifestation might
not be working for them.
I mean, it probably is workingfor them, it's just that they're
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not.
When they're trying to go intothe intentional manifestation,
that's where it gets a littlebit tricky, and so we have to
kind of finesse it a little bitdifferently, right?
So for neurodivergent people, Iwant to dig into that
manifestation realm and not manypeople are speaking directly to
them, and so all of this kindof came together.
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It came to a head this past weekonce I got back from Vegas and
I was just like, oh my God.
So what's happening here is notthat I'm going away, it's not
that even Author Revolution isgoing away.
It's that I am going to bedevoting more attention and more
energy into building adifferent business, and so what
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that looks like for AuthorRevolution and my books, though,
is everything else is gettingput on hold, even my Kickstarter
.
Ironically, like theKickstarter, it was like
everything I wanted to seehappen at this conference
fizzled, which that, to me, wasa sign like another sign.
It wasn't just the energeticsof being there, it was what I
was seeing in return, becauseI'm used to seeing a certain
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level of interaction, a certainlevel of people getting signed
up, a certain level of peoplegetting excited and
communicating, so I broughtthese little keys to Vegas, and
they said the key to your futureself, right, and they were
adorable.
I had so much fun putting themtogether.
So many people were commentingon them, they were grabbing them
, they were saying how cute thatwas, how awesome the hook was.
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On the backside of the littlebaggie there's a QR code to go
to your future self, right, ourmeditation platform that Tammy
and I have built, and no onesigned up, to my knowledge, from
it.
Like we passed out like 300,colin and I passed out 300 of
these things, and I'm like, okay, that's odd, like I would have
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at least thought, you know, ahandful of people would have
signed up, but nothing.
And then I brought my brochuresfor the Kickstarter and I was
like, okay, we should be atleast by to 50 by the time we
get back from Vegas.
And I was at 22 or somethingwhen we left and I'm only at 31.
And while that's not zero, it'skind of like, hmm, that's
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interesting, isn't thatinteresting?
So that's sitting there.
And then, uh, the other thingwas the books.
Right, so the the rave thing,like we brought a whole shit ton
of books and then only selling.
You know, I think it was likesix books total.
The reason it was that highprice-wise was because there
were a number of omnibuspaperbacks that sold.
And so it was like, okay, hmm,this is interesting, this is
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very interesting.
And so combining it all together, it just it made it even more
aware, like it made me even moreaware that this was just not
the right place anymore.
And so when Heather mentionedshe's like why don't you do
something with neurodivergence?
And I was talking with chat, itall came together where it was
like I still want that movementand I don't mean like movement
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as in like sales, I'm meaninglike the movement, like
revolution.
Right, I want to be able tohave the service that I provide,
mean something to someone, andI know there are the people out
there you're out there who thismeans something to.
But I can still mean somethingto you but reach a bigger
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audience.
I think I'm keeping myselfsmall and I have been for a long
time and I'm like, okay, okay,we need to go wider.
And so what's happening, goingback around kind of obviously,
this is off the cuff today.
So it's kind of I'm kind ofmeandering, but hopefully you're
following with me, but theconcept that's going to be
happening is at the end of 2024.
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So your final author revolutionpodcast episode, if you will,
or at least the last one that isgoing to be planned for a while
, is going to come to you onDecember 25th.
So my last author revolutionpodcast will air on the 25th.
Now, before you freak out, ifyou are still into manifestation
, you can follow me.
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I'm going to be starting a newpodcast.
It's going to kick off on the1st and this podcast that you're
listening to right now willlive in perpetuity.
It will stay there forever, orat least for a good long while,
because I know people are stillgetting value in it and I might
still put episodes out.
I have different reasons why itwould make sense to share
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content in this podcast, like inthis podcast again in the
future.
It's just that, as of right now, I need to put it on hold
because I'm still only oneperson and I can only put focus
in one thing, and this focus isgoing to take priority, and I
feel driven to do it in a waythat I haven't felt driven with
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any of my other businesses, andthat includes authorship, where
it feels like it needs to be mymain focus.
It needs to be cohesive, itneeds to be as clear as humanly
possible, it needs to come tolife, and so what that means is
I'll be transferring over to apodcast called the
Neurodivergent Manifestor.
That is the new title ofeverything, like literally
(22:53):
everything.
So I'm building out socials,I'm building out offers that I'm
going to be doing like coursesthat I'm going to be doing
specifically for neurodivergence.
It will not talk aboutauthorship at all and it's not
going to have any authorshipties other than like I'll talk
about myself and that I stillhave this other business, and so
, like, if you're an author too,you can go over here as well.
(23:14):
But this is kind of the I needto create this bigger thing and,
who knows, it could be the topof funnel, like when I think
about funnels and I think aboutbringing people into an audience
.
This is the wider net, right?
This is the group of people whoare much like, have different,
diverse backgrounds even so, notjust neurodiverse, but like
(23:35):
they have different backgrounds.
They could be artists, theycould be authors, they could be
entrepreneurs, they could be,you know, just looking for a
spouse, like it really doesn'tmatter, Like manifestation is
going to work for people, nomatter what.
But I'm going to be nichingdown by neurodivergent
manifestors and I want tosupport this audience because no
one else is talking about howneurodivergents do this
(23:55):
differently and why it'sdifferent and why we need some
of these scientific backings inorder to get our belief locked
in place, to get our corebeliefs online, to be able to
shift the limiting beliefs.
In a certain way, it's differentthan people who can simply just
go and take it at face value.
It's kind of like thedifference between like Tammy
(24:16):
talks about this a lot when itcomes to hypnosis it's like
there are people who aresuggestible and then people who
are not as suggestible.
I am not as suggestible, likeyou can tell me what you want,
all you want, and then tell meto go bark like a dog and I'm
not going to do it because mybrain goes the fuck.
I am Like what?
No, and so I'm that person.
It doesn't mean I can't behypnotized.
(24:38):
It just means there's adifferent suggestibility level
that has to take place.
The same then goes for themanifestation process, and so
there are different ways that wehave to come at this and,
ironically, those are the thingsthat I'd like to talk about.
It's the scientific backing,it's the neuroscience, it's the
quantum science, it's the youknow, understanding the nervous
system, it's understanding themind and how it impacts the body
(25:00):
.
It's like all of that stuff.
It's the stuff that I love totalk about and I can nerd out
and geek out on, and most ofthose people neurodivergent
people like myself and maybe youwe like to see that and
understand it.
So that's what's happening,that's what AuthorNation, that's
(25:22):
what AuthorNation did to me,okay, and it's.
It's so funny because it wasjust.
It was just such a greatconference and I loved it so
much and I loved the opportunityof being there and Joe was
fabulous, suze was fabulous,shell was fabulous.
The keynote speaker Drew wasamazing.
And then having Kevin Smith inthe end of AuthorNation and kind
(25:46):
of leaning into the rave all ofit was so amazing, it was great
.
But I was just sitting therethe entire time feeling like I
was witnessing a past life and Iwas like, wow, this is just
different.
So I guess the biggest thing Ihave to say is number one if you
(26:07):
are an author who is stilllooking at strategy, who's still
wanting to get intounderstanding the marketplace,
trying to figure out how towrite your books, like if craft
is a thing for you, that'sreally interesting, like if
you're still in that phase oflearning more about authorship,
author Nation was absolutelyfreaking incredible.
It is the place for you, likethere was no question in my mind
(26:30):
.
They knocked it out of the park.
It was amazing.
It was just for me, a veryeyeopening experience being
there.
And then the energy bombardmentwas another, another level.
It was like wow, it was pretty,pretty crazy.
Um, because the energy, likethe.
For someone who is veryintuitive as well, it's like I
pick up on thoughts and I pickup on anxieties and I pick up on
(26:51):
, like the energy and I try toshield myself, like you always
do.
You go to these places andyou're trying to shield your
energy so that it's not beingdispersed and you're not taking
on anyone else's.
But when you're around thatmany people and you have a
similar vibration similar enoughat least, because you
understand what they're doingand why they're doing it it's
hard not to pick it up right,it's hard not to figure out
(27:14):
what's going on there.
So, at any rate, my biggesttakeaway from AuthorNation is
that teaching in the authorspace is no longer my main
priority.
It is a priority, it is a partof my life, but it's no longer
the main priority, and that Ineed to expand.
(27:39):
That I need to expand, I guess,is the thing.
So if you're wanting to followme, if you're wanting to see
what this is going to startlooking like, I encourage you to
look me up on socials or onkeep an eye out for when the
podcast goes out.
It's obviously not live yet.
It's just in the works forright now, but everything should
be NeuroDivergentManifestor onsocials.
(28:00):
So I am going to be onInstagram, tiktok and Blue Sky.
Those are my main ones.
I'll also be on YouTube forthis particular one, because
when I start podcasting, I'mgoing to video podcast as well.
I don't know how that's goingto work or how it's going to
look, but we're going to give ita whirl and so I will be doing
all of that over on YouTube.
(28:21):
I don't have a website yet.
I am working out with Kajabi tofigure out, like, if I can
finagle something with theAuthor Revolution Kajabi that I
have, but once that's worked out, I will obviously still have
that name as well.
I have gone in and reserved theURL neurodivergent manifestor.
So if you're looking for it atsome point, that will point to a
(28:46):
different location.
It will point to a website ofsome sort, and so if you're
interested, I encourage you tojust follow me over there.
Like it's going to be the sametype of content.
It's just not going to betalking specifically about
authorship.
Not that you couldn't ask mequestions about authorship,
because I'll answer them,obviously.
I understand.
I understand that you're goingto know that I'm an author and
(29:06):
I'm still going to let them knowthat I'm an author and teach
authors, but it just is what itis.
So there you have it.
That's my big pivot moment, andmaybe it had something to do
with author nation being rightover the top of you know, the,
the big full moon happening onrave night, so that was the 15th
, and then everything with thePluto going into Aquarius, like
(29:29):
if you believe in any of thatstuff and the energetics.
There was a lot of shiftinghappening there and it shook up
a lot, and I just happened to beone of them.
But I've been calling this infor a while.
I've been trying to figure outmy purpose and I've been trying
to figure out why I don't feelas aligned as I used to and I
understand now, I guess, alittle bit better why that is.
(29:51):
So it's weird to have that offmy chest.
I've been holding onto it forabout a week now Well, actually
it's two weeks now sinceAuthorNation.
So there you go.
If you've got questions, if youwant to reach out, you can
always email me, carissa, atAuthorRevolutionorg.
Otherwise, if you would like to, I'll put all the stuff in the
(30:12):
show notes, I guess, if you wantto be able to follow me on any
of the new socials.
So head over toAuthorRevolutionorg, forward
slash 263.
The information will be onthere for you.
Keep an eye out.
If you are wanting to go toAuthor Nation, I think they're
going to be opening up likeearly bird tickets soon.
So for 2025, if I were you, Iwould definitely get signed up,
(30:33):
because if strategy, if craftare still on your list of things
that you need to learn aboutand want to dig in deeper, that
conference was it was chef'skiss amazing, it was so good, so
I would recommend it to anyonein a heartbeat.
All right, guys.
Well, here's to trusting theprocess and believing in your
(30:56):
intuition, even when it's hard,because sometimes it's, it's a
little bit crazy and it bringsyou to different places.
Sometimes you're holding on tothings too tightly and sometimes
those things aren't fullyserving you right?
So, for me, letting go isn'tabout defeat, right.
(31:17):
It's not about defeat in thiscase at all.
It's wisdom.
So I want you to think aboutlike, what could you let go of
today to create space forsomething new or something that
is more deeply aligned to yourtruest self?
Is there something that you'vebeen trying to give yourself
permission to do, but youhaven't done it yet?
I think this was definitely onefor me, and I'm giving myself
(31:41):
permission.
I am letting go, even if thatmeans just stepping back and
letting author revolution and mybooks coast for a bit, so that
I can create something new, andI'm pretty damn excited about it
actually.
So, all right, guys, I want youto again check out the
(32:03):
transcript, check out the shownotes authorrevolutionorg
forward slash 263.
And in the meantime, if that'snot where you go or if you're
just hanging out till next week,go forth and start your author
revolution.
Thank you.
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