January 17, 2024 • 39 mins
Have you ever found yourself at a crossroads, seeking a path to your truest self and a life filled with more purpose? Terri Britt, the transformative force behind the Women Leaders of Love Global Community, joined us to reveal the power of authenticity and spiritual alignment. From the glitz of Miss USA to the depths of spiritual coaching, Terri's own metamorphosis is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Her tales of personal milestones, beating back the shadows of childhood to cultivate a life of self-love and divine connection, offer a roadmap to anyone yearning for enlightenment.
Terri doesn't just inspire, she equips. Throughout our conversation, she peeled back layers of the human spirit, challenging the confines of religious dogma and societal fears that stifle our intuitive natures. She unpacked the transformative journey from a life of control to one of trust and surrender. Her insight into our collective 'witch wound' spotlights the deep-seated trepidation that holds many back from owning their spiritual gifts, and she earnestly shares how she confronted these fears head-on, leading to a profound personal and professional breakthrough.
Finally, Terri extends a beacon of hope for those grappling with their worthiness quotient and those entrapped by poverty consciousness. She outlines a path toward prosperity consciousness that transcends mere wealth, encompassing authenticity, alignment, and abundance. Each chapter of our discussion with Terri is woven with wisdom, encouraging listeners to break free of shame and guilt, to rise into their potential, and to embrace the abundance that awaits when we step into our power. Join us for this transformational journey; it just might be the catalyst for your own profound awakening.
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Megan Mary (00:00):
Welcome.
Today we have Terri Britt,former Miss USA, a spiritual
coach, intuitive healer, TedXspeaker and founder of the Women
Leaders of Love GlobalCommunity.
She is the author of severalbooks, including the
award-winning the EnlightenedMom A Mother's Guide for
Bringing Peace, love and Lightto your Family's Life.
(00:21):
Terri is a wife, mom, stepmom,nana and former TV host of Movie
Time, now known as E-Channel.
Terri's mission is to guidewomen off the hamster wheel of
competition, stress andemotional chaos, helping them
thrive so their families canwatch them and learn.
Welcome, Terri.
Terri Britt (00:43):
Thank you.
Every time I hear that I think,gosh, you know, it just kind of
settles into your mission alittle bit more.
You just feel it a little bitdeeper every time you hear yes,
that is my mission.
Megan Mary (00:55):
Yes, I know what you mean.
It's like.
Yes, that's right Fabulous.
Well, my first question that Iask everyone is what does
enlightenment mean to you?
Terri Britt (01:08):
It means being in alignment.
It means choosing to honor andlove the way you were created
and aligning with God.
Megan Mary (01:17):
Yes, alignment is so important.
And when we do find that ourtrue purpose, our authentic self
, and we really allow ourselvesto embody and align with that,
that, I feel, is when theuniverse befriends us in a way
and that starts yeah, we startto work with it instead of
(01:39):
against it right.
Terri Britt (01:41):
Yeah, you know, what I have found over the years
is that as I have walked a pathof enlightenment and I have
moments where I'm reallyenlightened and other moments
where I'm not I think we're allthat way, but as I have chosen
to walk that path, it has beenso beautiful to make choices
that are from the soul ratherthan from ego.
(02:02):
And even with my husband.
I'm married now to my husband,charlie.
We got married 15 years ago.
We were both widows and he cameinto my life right after my
husband died, and so we gotmarried.
But at our wedding we committedto being an enlightened family,
an enlightened couple, becausewe had kids that we had to blend
(02:23):
in high school.
So it was that commitment thatwe were walking a path of
choosing to learn, to grow, toexpand instead of being in blame
with each other, to choose tohonor each other in how we were
created and, if we got triggered, to love ourselves, you know,
and go in and heal, so that wemoved deeper into enlightenment.
(02:46):
So my company, my actualcompany, my community, is called
Women Leaders of Love, but mycompany is called Enlightened
Family Institute, and it reallyis, with the mission of seeing
our families as a soul group sothat we can learn from each
other and move into alignment,so that we it's almost like
husband and wife it doesn'tmatter which side, but okay,
(03:07):
husband and wife.
But for us it's as we move intoalignment and become or stand
in our truth not become, becausewe already are, but as we take
off the layers, that we it'salmost like you create a
triangle.
It's like we come in toalignment and oneness with God.
And it has been magical.
I did this with my late husband.
We were married for 17 years.
(03:28):
We didn't start out that way,but as I started to shift my
life, he followed suit.
And then, when he died after 17years of marriage, charlie
showed up.
I didn't know if he would bewilling to take this ride with
me, but as he saw how healthy itwas and how healthy the
relationships were with my kids,he wanted part of it.
(03:49):
So it's been a magical ride.
It's been over, I guess, 30years of really working towards
that connectedness.
Megan Mary (04:01):
It's wonderful to bring it into the family realm,
because so often we go off onthese journeys by ourselves and
we don't really have supportaround us because we don't have
other people that are goingthrough it necessarily at the
same time, or all of our divinetiming is different, and so it's
(04:21):
wonderful to incorporate thatin your teachings.
Tell the audience a little bitmore about your spiritual
enlightenment journey, yourjourney to awakening, kind of if
there was a pivotal moment orjust key spots along the way and
if the world of dreams playedin that.
Terri Britt (04:43):
So I guess I mean there are a lot of little spots.
Miss USA comes into thisbecause I had always been on the
hamster wheel of trying toprove my worth, trying to win
love, which I saw in my family.
My mom and dad did it.
They denied themselves, theytried to be the best parents and
they my dad became an alcoholic.
(05:06):
Okay.
So it kind of tells you itdoesn't work.
My mother was depressed so Ididn't understand it back then.
But I said, well, I want to belike my dad.
At least he's not depressed.
And this was before he becamean alcoholic.
So I started, you know, workingreally hard, being out in the
world, trying to win, be thebest.
I was miserable.
I went to school on ascholarship in college and at
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the second semester of mysophomore year I just said I
can't do this anymore.
I left school and, on a whim, afew months later, entered into
Miss Arkansas.
Well, I won.
Two weeks after that I get sentto Miss USA.
No training, no nothing.
Short brown hair, and I get onstage and make the top 12.
And Bob Barker says what areyou doing, cabot, arkansas, on a
(05:50):
Saturday night?
And I said well, bob, in thewinter we stay at home.
I was in a Southern accent andin the summer we go down to the
tasty freeze, sit on the back ofmy friend's truck.
He plays the banjo and the guysdrink a little beer and dip a
little skool.
It's a real good time.
And I won.
So that was a huge, pivotalpoint because I learned
something from that.
(06:10):
It would take a long time.
It was like a seed that wasplanted but it took a long time
to germinate.
But it said that when youlisten to your heart and stand
in your truth, miracles show up.
I left school.
I didn't do like everyone elsewas doing and I listened to my
heart.
I stood in my truth on thatstage, talked about drinking
beer and dipping skool, and thena miracle showed up.
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I won.
But I didn't really understandit.
I didn't understand it untilyears later, when I became a
wife and mom and I was miserable.
I started denying myself andtrying to be the best mom I
could be and I knew I wasperpetuating a cycle for my
family.
Well, a big awakening happenedwhen my dad died in 95.
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And through those years he hadbecome an alcoholic.
He had lost everything inbankruptcy, really drank himself
, and not to death becausecancer is what killed him, but
lung cancer, but it pretty muchkilled him.
He had been a hermit the last10 years of his life and I
remember in the moment that itwasn't.
It was few days before he died.
(07:16):
I remember he dropped a glassand just sank to a chair.
I knew we were coming to theend and I looked at him and I
said, daddy, you can't leave,you can't leave.
You've always been my buddy, myally.
I mean, there's all theseemotions coming out and he
(07:37):
looked at me as if he were inshock.
It was like his eyes bugged outand I was like he didn't even
know that he was loved.
He had buried himself in somuch judgment and failure and
feelings of like he had hadgreat success and then lost
everything.
I mean, it was just, it wasawful.
(07:59):
So I knew right then that I hadto make a shift.
I had to do somethingdifferently, because I was not
going to be an alcoholic,because I would have never
allowed myself to go there.
But my children were going towatch me, just like I had
watched my dad, and I wanted tobe something different for them.
I didn't want to be angry.
I was always angry.
So I got into meditation and ata healing school and my whole
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world opened up.
I mean, it was my therapist.
I've been in therapy.
She said you need to get intomeditation.
Well, all of a sudden, as soonas I made that decision, my
world opened up.
I was invited to a psychicschool.
The first night.
In class, just running energy,learning how to meditate, I see
a spirit go across the room andI'm like you know, I just got
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like cracked me open, and sothat was the beginning of the
journey.
But I'll never forget I hadgone on a spiritual retreat in
San Francisco and I came homeand I started losing everything
that I had been connected tothere.
I mean, I felt so connected tospirit, I felt so just just, I
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don't know.
It was amazing.
I came home and I was graduallylosing it.
Well, I had a dream one nightand the dream was that I was in
a building it was almost like acommunity center and there was a
guy standing at a podium and hecalls my name.
He said you're going with Solto San Francisco.
(09:32):
Well, san Francisco is justwhere I'd returned from right.
I was so excited that I wasgoing on this adventure.
Then I turned around and I seemy mother.
I knew in that moment Icouldn't go on that adventure,
that I had this picture in mymind, that I couldn't go.
So when I woke up I was likewhat does this mean?
(09:55):
Well, san Francisco was thatspiritual journey, right, soul
was.
It was like S-O-U-L in my mindin the dream.
It was S-O-L, you know, likesoul, and it was telling me that
I was not allowing myself to goon the adventure because of the
mother wound, of not lovingmyself, because of what I
(10:18):
thought a mother should be.
So I made a decision in thatmoment.
I meditated and one of thethings that I had learned this
was many years ago.
This was back in the 90s, Iguess, late 90s, early 2000,.
I can't remember the dates, butI had taken a class in San
Francisco with Cheryl Richardson, who had a big book at that
(10:40):
time called Make Time for yourLife.
So I sat down in meditationafter that dream and said what
do I want?
What are the top five thingsthat are most important to me?
And I made a list.
Well, what was interesting thatwasn't on the list was that I
had a business that I sublettedfrom this woman that I could go
(11:03):
in and do spiritual counseling.
I just rented her space part ofthe week and she did it.
It was not on the list and Ithought, hmm, I've got a
contract, what do I do?
I called her that day, megan,and said this is what's happened
for me and I'm wondering if Ican get out of the lease.
(11:23):
She says, oh, you're not goingto believe this.
Someone just called todaywanting to sublet.
So I got out of the lease thatday.
I quit doing my spiritualcounseling at that time and two
weeks later I was meditating onunconditional love when all of a
sudden little Terri, the littlegirl inside of me, showed up
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and I had never seen her inmeditation, never done anything.
And as I'm sitting there crying, I hear in my ear get up and
write this this is the beginningof your book.
So I got up and that was thebeginning of my first book,
Message Sent, and it was ajournal.
It's really it's not writing,it's just a journal that I ended
(12:08):
up taking the dates off andputting names on each story,
almost like a chicken soup forthe soul.
But that is where I've allowedmyself to go through the years
is to allow my intuition, mydreams and to continue my
journey of helping women healand love themselves so that they
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break the cycle of lack, stressand struggle for their families
.
Megan Mary (12:39):
That's an amazing story and there's so many
parallels too.
I want to say first at the verybeginning about the Miss USA
story the reason I feel that youwere recognized in that moment
is authenticity.
And you weren't saying what youwere supposed to say, the
(13:05):
typical platform speech, thepolitically correct thing.
You just were being yourself,unabashingly.
And I feel like that is whatwas so different, right, so
unusual.
And that's really what we'recalled to do here is find what
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our authentic self is andembrace it without fear.
And meditation has been a hugevehicle for me in that way as
well.
And it's so intertwined withthe dream world because of the
Theta state, and it does allowus to strip that ego away and
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surrender to receive direction.
And when we start to allow thatdirection, then the universe
starts rearranging itself sothat we can continue on that
path.
So your trajectory from whereyou were to where you are and
(14:20):
how you got there, it's abeautiful example of how
wonderful the universe can kindof contrive to help us when we
actually say OK, I know I'm notgoing to be what I thought I was
supposed to be, what everyoneelse thinks I'm supposed to be,
I'm going to allow for thatinformation to flow down to me
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about what I'm really here forand see where it takes me.
Terri Britt (14:48):
Yes, absolutely.
You know, I remember as alittle girl standing out in my
driveway I was in elementaryschool probably second or third
grade, I don't know and Iremember feeling like someone
was up in the sky looking downon me, watching me, but I didn't
know how to access that.
It felt like a group of peopleand I didn't know how to access
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them.
And then it was around the sametime.
I had gone over to myneighbor's house because back
then they'd let you run acrossthe street and you didn't worry
about anything.
So I went over to my neighbor'shouse to play.
Nobody was home.
I just remember there was nocars on the street, there were
no birds, it was just dead quiet.
And I sat on my neighbor's yardand can remember saying to
(15:36):
myself I'm all alone in thisworld.
And I made a decision in thatmoment that became my filter I
am all alone.
So one of the things that Irecognize over the years in my
living on the hamster wheel andtrying to do it like my dad did
and always trying to be the best, was I did not want to be alone
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, I wanted to feel loved, Iwanted to feel connected, but I
always did it alone.
I had my defenses up, I hadwalls around me and it was
through when I startedmeditating and then started
studying energy that those wallsbegan to come down.
And I can even remember feelinglike I had a wall around me and
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recognizing it and saying, oh,I have the power to shift that.
And visualized a button andpushing the button so the wall
could come down, and made that apractice that anytime I felt
like my defenses were up, mywalls were up, I would just
intentionally see that buttonand push it and bring them down
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and let myself relax.
That was a huge turning pointfor me.
But here was another one.
So I was raised not heavily inthe church but in a religious, a
strong faith, but I never feltI could have a connection with
God.
It was scary to me.
This beautiful I mean back thenit was a man on a throne when I
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was a kid.
So through this process oflearning to love myself and
really what I call raising myworthiness quotient, treating
myself as if I er madder,treating myself as if I was
worthy of being seen, heard andvalued, that I started to feel a
deeper connection.
But before all that happened,right after I started doing
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energy work.
I think I was trying toremember the timing on this.
The other day I had a dream, andit was my daughter, who's now
32, she was maybe four or fiveand she had come into the
bedroom.
This is actually what happened.
She came into my bedroom tryingto get in bed and I'm like no,
I'm going to take you back toyour bedroom.
So I walked her back to herbedroom, but I crawled in bed
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with her and I fell asleep.
Well, in my state of sleep, Ihad a dream where I had gone
back to my bedroom and I had.
We had a little marble thresholdthat separated our bedroom from
the hallway, and in my dream Ifell over the threshold.
Now we had a mass, we had a7000 square foot home, and so
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our bedroom suite was 1200square feet.
So it was this massive bedroomand when you walk into the door,
on there were it was Frenchwindow, fireplace, french window
, another French window, frenchdoors that went out, and so it
was all this glass.
When I fall over the threshold,I look in the corner and there
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is a Christmas tree that is notdecorated and underneath it is
red felt okay, like a redChristmas tree felt, and
underneath that it's moving andit scares me.
In my dream I run to my bed andall of a sudden it's dark, but
there's just a light coming downand out from under that red
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felt comes a man running at meand he looks like Dick Tracy.
He's got on the trench coat,he's got on the fedora hat, you
know the fedora hat.
And I'm looking at him and thenI see him in his face and I
went oh, it's you.
And there's this familiarity.
So I thought, well, maybethat's my.
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My at that time was Michaelthat I was working with.
Well, he then goes over to theglass in my dream and the
curtains, opens them up.
Well, not only does the thoughthose windows open up, but it
was all the way around, and eventhe fireplace disappeared.
And as I looked out, there was acarnival bright, you know, fun,
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bright, festive carnival.
And he said to me, as he'sopening up the windows, I'm here
to tell you about Jesus.
And I'm like what?
Because I had pulled so faraway from the church and the
dogma that I had been raised inHellfire and Brimstone right.
And so I looked at it and I waslike what?
(20:02):
I woke up and I was like.
What was that about?
You know, I don't reallyunderstand this, and what it was
was that, over the years, whatI learned to understand is that
the Christ consciousness is islike a carnival it is fun, it is
playful, it is alive, it is.
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There's no emotional chaos,it's I don't know if you like
carnivals, but if you likecarnivals you know what I'm
talking about.
It's being childlike withwonder, and so I didn't
understand it back then.
But over the years, what I'vecome to understand is, I feel
now, the presence of all ofthese guides I see I'll be
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journaling every day and Christcomes in and he says dear sister
, mother Mary comes in, dearchild Michael.
The archangel comes in, youknow, my sweet friend, or
whatever, because they all havea way of talking to me and I'm
so grateful that, one, Icommitted to loving myself
unconditionally and two, I'velearned about energy and
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creating a connection.
And three, that I've let myfamily be my guide, that when
I've reacted to them, especiallymy kids, you know, when you're
trying to control them or tryingto do anything, you know that
there's something hurting insideof you, that you're out of
alignment.
So I use them as an opportunityto say well, if I'm reacting or
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controlling you, then I need togo within and see what's
hurting the little girl insideof me.
I need to ask little Terriwhat's hurting and become the
divine parent to her.
Well, as I did that, then Ifelt worthy.
I raised my worthiness quotientand so this connection has
deepened so that life is not ahamster will anymore.
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I know that I can take my time,I can go into meditation, I can
ask for guidance, andinformation is going to come
through.
If it doesn't come throughright in that moment, it's
probably because it's not divinetiming.
So what's happened for me overthe years on this journey where
I used to be a control freak, isI live for most of the time now
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in a state of trust, and so youasked at the beginning you know
what is my idea ofenlightenment?
I guess the ultimate word wouldbe trust.
It would be in a state ofsurrender and trust, allowing
the universe to support me, tobe connected, to feel loved and
nurtured, no matter what's goingon in the world around me.
Megan Mary (22:36):
Yes, that's wonderful, and I think there's
so many ways that we can tapinto the spirit, guides and our
own higher self and theuniversal mind that ourselves
and I think that I've had thisconversation other times on this
podcast about the religiousdogma and that really is.
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You can't get there from here.
There has to be a conduit, youhave to work through someone
else who's approved to be ableto access that, and I think that
kind of dulls our ability totap into our intuition, it
squelches our agency to feelourselves as spiritual beings
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and our capability and it reallyjust limits us spiritually when
we get trapped in that.
And so to look at the largerimplications of our existence
and allow there to be otherpossibilities and allow there to
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be other ways to connect isreally where we become so much
more in alignment, so much morein abundance and so much more in
harmony, versus working againstit, and I mean easier said than
done, but I think that's reallyfor me, dreams are so filled
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with guidance and so mysteriousbut yet personal in a way, that
it's really why I want to helpother women tap into that,
because it's there for you andit's everybody has that ability
to access that higher knowledgethemselves.
Terri Britt (24:34):
Yeah, you know one of my favorite dreams.
So one of the things that cameup for me as I started walking
this path is being burned at thestake.
In a past life I mean it waswhen I was in my training in the
90s I was at a psychic school.
We were learning to read otherpeople when, all of the sudden,
my teachers yelling at me getout of the picture.
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And when I came out of thepicture, I was like this I mean,
I was reliving being burned atthe stake.
It was awful and that triggeredsomething inside of me that was
very scary for me to share,that I was an intuitive, that I
was a healer, living in SouthernCalifornia for years.
It was, it was okay.
And then I moved back to thesouth, where I had been raised,
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and it was scary because Ithought there's a lot of,
there's a lot of judgment, youknow, around those, those
abilities, those gifts.
It was scary for me.
I found myself shutting down.
I mean I literally blockedabundance from coming in because
of that.
It was like I was chiseling atit, chiseling at it, chiseling
at it, and I'll never forget, asI had really made some headway,
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this was back in like 2017.
I was asking okay, so what'snext?
Well, I had a dream and I wokeup in the morning and I had had
this vision.
It was a.
It was a picture on the wall.
It had a frame around it and itsaid seven radio show.
So seven to me was about trust.
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And then the radio show was.
I looked it up and it was likeokay, can be your voice, giving
yourself a voice, or it can beactually doing a radio show.
And I thought to myself well, Iwould be interested in doing a
radio show.
I used to be a news anchor forwhat's now the E Channel and
that's really right up my forte.
So cool, I can do that.
(26:23):
Well, I started looking aroundthat day and, well, the first
thing was, before I did that, Ilooked at the frame, because I'm
always looking at each littleaspect of things.
I'm like what is that frame?
And the frame was telling methat I had.
I had limits.
I was not, I was limitingmyself.
What were the limits?
So I checked in with myself andit was religious programming.
(26:44):
Again, afraid of beingpersecuted, I had a real fear of
being killed in this lifetime.
That sounds ludicrous.
No, I did.
You know I did.
I just was, oh my gosh.
And so, anyway, I'm justlooking on the internet that day
and looking at different radioshows, didn't reach out to
anyone, didn't sign up foranything, and that I had zeroed
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in in my mind If I were going todo one, I would do it on this
network.
Well, that evening I get anemail from the owner of that
network, who I've never met,didn't have any connection with
any, said have you everconsidered doing a radio show?
So that was my cosmic two byfour, yes, and so it was a
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podcast, but you know, andcalled it a radio show, but
anyway.
So I ended up doing it for twoyears, had amazing guests on,
loved every minute of it andreally found myself following
the guidance of giving myselfmore of a voice every time and
sharing more of who I am.
Sharing that I was an intuitive, you know, just doing that.
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So it was a way for me to startreally breaking the ice and
even though I'd been teachingfor years, this was on a bigger
scale.
Okay, this wasn't just in agroup that somebody had me come
in and speak.
This was like okay, anybody canlisten to this.
This is on the internet.
Okay, somebody out there may beready with that torch.
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You know, I didn't know.
So it was a big shift for me.
So, again, there was anotherdream that was giving me
guidance on what was next.
And as soon as I listened to itand what was interesting, I
forgot to tell you this part.
The frame, you know, wasreligious stuff.
That day, on social media, Ihad written something and
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somebody started blasting meabout working with the devil,
and I just looked at it and Isaid thank you for the gift,
because I didn't get triggered.
I was like, yes, I can do this.
And then that's.
And so the frame was gone offof the picture on the wall.
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And that's when, that night,that's when the guy reached out
to me to do the show, and atfirst I ham hauled and he said I
had already told him when hereached out to me.
And then we got on the phone.
I told him about the dream.
So I was kind of ham hauling,do I really want to commit to
this or whatever?
And he says you're gonna getham haul.
And you had that dream, Are youcrazy?
I'm like you're right, let's dothis.
You know so.
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But yeah, it was a game changerfor me.
It really helped me open up toshare my voice and my truth on a
deeper level.
Megan Mary (29:26):
Yes, absolutely, and I've had that same experience.
But I've never even listened topodcasts before creating my own
, if you can believe that.
And when I was called by spiritto do it, I was kind of like no
way you know because.
I don't even know the firstthing about it and I'm not about
to tell my truth.
And who do I know to come onand just everything was.
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I thought no way.
And you are not the firstperson that I've had on that has
the quote unquote, witch woundI think we all do.
I feel like everybody that'scalled to this path has it,
because it's not their first goaround and they have brought
with them that fear and thatcaution, knowing well, there's a
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reason we're keeping this quietand we better be careful.
And yeah, well, it's not justconjecture, you know, as you
were saying.
I mean, there's still some lawson the books, there's still
parts of the country or theworld where it's not okay, and
so it's not just in our minds,but it is important that we all
come together and support eachother to really transmute that.
Terri Britt (30:38):
Well and I also you know I've done a lot of reading
on it too is that, whetherwe've been in a past life there,
it was part of our culture andthat's why they say now
somebody's going on a witch hunt, right?
I mean because it is soprevalent in our culture.
Now, this is interesting.
Okay, this happened the otherday, because this has been a
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chipping away over the years andI've actually seen the past
life.
I've seen the people.
I've forgiven them.
I mean, it was huge.
But I was at Barnes Noble thiswas during my birthday recently
and my husband and I werecamping.
So we went over to Barnes Noblebecause it was raining, sitting
there having a hot chocolate,and I look across if you've ever
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been to one of their theirbookstores they have a coffee
house right in the bookstore.
So I look across and there's anend cap and the book is called
the Killing of the Witches.
I think is what it was calledby Bill O'Reilly, who is a big
newscaster and journalist here,and I'm like, oh my gosh, what
is that about?
So I get my hot chocolate and Igo over there and I start
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plowing through this book andthe essence of it was this,
which was really fascinatingwhat it was saying in the Salem
witch trials here in the Statesand that's not where I was
killed, but that's what happenedin the States.
The gift that came from it wasthat it created the first
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amendment in our constitutionwhich said you could have
freedom of religion, freedom ofspeech.
And so you know, we often lookat, well, those things were so
horrific and they were horrific.
But when we can look at, okay,if that person was in spiritual
agreement to help evolvehumanity, then what they did is
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they helped us evolve intofreedom of religion in our
country.
And this is the essence of whatthe book was saying I thought,
holy cow, because I'm alwaysasking, no matter how bad
something is, what's the gift init?
I was molested in high school.
I can now say what was the giftin it, what was the spiritual
agreement, and really learn fromit and feel empowered in it.
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So why would that be anydifferent?
So when we look at it and we go, okay, so that helped bring the
first amendment here in theUnited States.
So what is it that we as womenwho, whether we had a past life
in it or we have it, justcarried through the women and
our family down through thegenerations, because it was
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scary.
Right, you don't do anything,you might be burned at the stake
.
That's scary.
What if now, in our own way,instead of the persecution,
we're showing a different way,that we have a different way,
that we are in our truths, weare in our enlightenment, so
that, as I was saying earlier,that we break the cycle?
We break the cycle for ourfamilies.
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And it's so interesting becauseI just had an experience I come
from a line of which is none ofthem own it, but my mother's
intuitive, my grandmother wasintuitive, my cousins are
intuitive.
I mean everybody is intuitive,they're all healers but no one
really honors it.
But I was sitting with my mom,my aunt, my cousin and myself
and I started looking at this,going holy crap, these women
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have never had permission to bein their gifts right, because
that's what our culture says andto be able to look at it and
see how much it's needed.
Because, at the core, I thinkmost of us as women have our
intuitive abilities.
I believe we all do, but I thinkmost women.
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If we would take the time tolove ourselves and nurture
ourselves and really move intoalignment and walk an
enlightened path.
We change everything.
We change it for our I mean.
I know I've watched both of myhusbands my late husband and my
husband now as I have healed andtapped into my intuition.
They both shifted and walkedand stepped onto a spiritual
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path.
So I believe this is the powerwe have as women.
So whether you call it being awitch or you just call it being
a healer and an intuitive, itdoesn't matter.
We have this gift and we justneed to all claim it.
Megan Mary (35:01):
Yes, I couldn't agree more, and I'm so glad to
have this conversation with youtoday because I feel it's so
important for everyone to hearagain and again, and again, so
that they feel empowered to dothe same.
Terri Britt (35:19):
Yeah, don't you find, megan, that a lot of
people are afraid becausethey're afraid they're gonna
lose their family's love?
And at least this is what I see, because this is my journey
that women oftentimes are afraidto stand in their truths and be
in that intuitive wisdombecause it might be different
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than the family, they're notgonna conform anymore.
I just you know, I see that,and if I you know, what I try to
tell them is listen.
When you stand in your truthand your wisdom and you listen
to your intuition and you listento that as inspired guidance
which is from spirit right, andyou move into a place of truth
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and alignment, for me, that'sputting God first.
That's putting this beautiful,all loving essence of God that
we are all a part of.
We all make up the body of God.
That that is putting God first.
God is love, and so for so manypeople who were brought up in
religion, they think thatputting God first is putting
yourself last, especially withyour family, and so they won't
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tap into these gifts, they won'tlisten to their dreams, they
won't listen to their intuition.
But if they can see, okay.
But if I do this, I am tappinginto the miracles, I'm tapping
into that God essence and thatis the greatest gift I can give
my family.
That's the greatest gift I cangive my children, my spouse,
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even my parents, my mother towatch her watch me is so cool.
She's 81 years old, but I knowshe's watching me and I know
she's learning because I see itand I see her starting to evolve
a little bit more and talk alittle bit more and I think, wow
, if I can give her that giftbefore she dies, probably in the
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next 10 or 15 years, I don'tknow what a gift.
Huh, breaking the cycle.
Megan Mary (37:17):
Yes, yeah, yes.
Terri Britt (37:19):
Wonderful.
Megan Mary (37:21):
Well, I want you to speak really quickly about the
worthiness quotient frequentthat we're going to offer the
listeners, so tell them just alittle bit about that, and the
link will be in the show notes.
Terri Britt (37:34):
Sure.
So the worthiness quotient, asI mentioned earlier, is about
how open you are to receivinglove, nurturing and support
simply for being you.
That means walking a path ofenlightenment, no more
performing, and it's based inyour vibration.
So a lot of times we think,well, I've owned my worth, but
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yet our outer world is tellingus otherwise.
It makes us feel like, okay,well, I'm not being heard, I'm
not being seen, I'm not beingvalued.
And maybe there are differentareas.
Maybe in your work world youfeel good, but at home, in your
relationship, it's not workingat all.
So the quiz is broken down intoeight sections, and it covers
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your passions, it covers yourhealth, it covers miracles, it
covers all of it.
For you to really tap in andsay how do I feel about this?
What is you know?
Am I really living in my truthhere?
And then, at the end, what wedo is we send you a personalized
report that tells you abouteach of those sections and then
your overall worthiness quotient, and so it gives you a reading
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of am I open to receiving?
Am I treating myself as if I'mworthy?
Have I given myself a voice?
Am I still living by beliefsthat tell me I have to perform
for love, or am I truly puttingGod first by listening here and
by doing that, and then we givesome steps to start raising your
worthiness quotient?
And it's pretty much everythingthat I've been doing through
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the years about really lovingmyself, shifting, paying
attention to the signs, lovingthat, being the divine parent to
that little girl inside of me.
So it's funny because I havepeople tell me oh my gosh, I
took it.
And some will say I was soexcited to see how good it was.
And then others might say, oh,I've got a lot of work to do.
(39:21):
But what's really interestingis when they come back,
oftentimes after they've takenmy worthiness quotient course or
whatever.
They'll come back six monthslater and go oh my gosh, I took
the quiz again and my worthinessquotient is shot up, which is
so cool because then they'regetting to see their outer world
mirror, their inner abundance.
And that's really what it is.
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It's just really making shifts,letting go of shame and guilt
around so many different areasof our life which keep us at a
lower worthiness quotient, whichkeep us in punishment, energy
and poverty consciousness.
So my goal through this is toget them into prosperity
consciousness.
Megan Mary (39:58):
Perfect.
Well, we will have thatprovided in the show notes and
it's a perfect compliment to myprogram of the three pillars of
authenticity and alignmentabundance.
So, really just wrap that alltogether nicely and thank you so
much for your conversationtoday.
I really appreciate you beinghere and sharing your life story
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, as well as all of yourinsights, to the listeners.
Thank you so much, megan.
Thank you guys for listening.
Welcome.
Today we have Terri Britt,former Miss USA, a spiritual
coach, intuitive healer, TedXspeaker and founder of the Women
Leaders of Love GlobalCommunity.
She is the author of severalbooks, including the
award-winning the EnlightenedMom A Mother's Guide for
Bringing Peace, love and Lightto your Family's Life.
(00:21):
Terri is a wife, mom, stepmom,nana and former TV host of Movie
Time, now known as E-Channel.
Terri's mission is to guidewomen off the hamster wheel of
competition, stress andemotional chaos, helping them
thrive so their families canwatch them and learn.
Welcome, Terri.
Terri Britt (00:43):
Thank you.
Every time I hear that I think,gosh, you know, it just kind of
settles into your mission alittle bit more.
You just feel it a little bitdeeper every time you hear yes,
that is my mission.
Megan Mary (00:55):
Yes, I know what you mean.
It's like.
Yes, that's right Fabulous.
Well, my first question that Iask everyone is what does
enlightenment mean to you?
Terri Britt (01:08):
It means being in alignment.
It means choosing to honor andlove the way you were created
and aligning with God.
Megan Mary (01:17):
Yes, alignment is so important.
And when we do find that ourtrue purpose, our authentic self
, and we really allow ourselvesto embody and align with that,
that, I feel, is when theuniverse befriends us in a way
and that starts yeah, we startto work with it instead of
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against it right.
Terri Britt (01:41):
Yeah, you know, what I have found over the years
is that as I have walked a pathof enlightenment and I have
moments where I'm reallyenlightened and other moments
where I'm not I think we're allthat way, but as I have chosen
to walk that path, it has beenso beautiful to make choices
that are from the soul ratherthan from ego.
(02:02):
And even with my husband.
I'm married now to my husband,charlie.
We got married 15 years ago.
We were both widows and he cameinto my life right after my
husband died, and so we gotmarried.
But at our wedding we committedto being an enlightened family,
an enlightened couple, becausewe had kids that we had to blend
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in high school.
So it was that commitment thatwe were walking a path of
choosing to learn, to grow, toexpand instead of being in blame
with each other, to choose tohonor each other in how we were
created and, if we got triggered, to love ourselves, you know,
and go in and heal, so that wemoved deeper into enlightenment.
(02:46):
So my company, my actualcompany, my community, is called
Women Leaders of Love, but mycompany is called Enlightened
Family Institute, and it reallyis, with the mission of seeing
our families as a soul group sothat we can learn from each
other and move into alignment,so that we it's almost like
husband and wife it doesn'tmatter which side, but okay,
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husband and wife.
But for us it's as we move intoalignment and become or stand
in our truth not become, becausewe already are, but as we take
off the layers, that we it'salmost like you create a
triangle.
It's like we come in toalignment and oneness with God.
And it has been magical.
I did this with my late husband.
We were married for 17 years.
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We didn't start out that way,but as I started to shift my
life, he followed suit.
And then, when he died after 17years of marriage, charlie
showed up.
I didn't know if he would bewilling to take this ride with
me, but as he saw how healthy itwas and how healthy the
relationships were with my kids,he wanted part of it.
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So it's been a magical ride.
It's been over, I guess, 30years of really working towards
that connectedness.
Megan Mary (04:01):
It's wonderful to bring it into the family realm,
because so often we go off onthese journeys by ourselves and
we don't really have supportaround us because we don't have
other people that are goingthrough it necessarily at the
same time, or all of our divinetiming is different, and so it's
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wonderful to incorporate thatin your teachings.
Tell the audience a little bitmore about your spiritual
enlightenment journey, yourjourney to awakening, kind of if
there was a pivotal moment orjust key spots along the way and
if the world of dreams playedin that.
Terri Britt (04:43):
So I guess I mean there are a lot of little spots.
Miss USA comes into thisbecause I had always been on the
hamster wheel of trying toprove my worth, trying to win
love, which I saw in my family.
My mom and dad did it.
They denied themselves, theytried to be the best parents and
they my dad became an alcoholic.
(05:06):
Okay.
So it kind of tells you itdoesn't work.
My mother was depressed so Ididn't understand it back then.
But I said, well, I want to belike my dad.
At least he's not depressed.
And this was before he becamean alcoholic.
So I started, you know, workingreally hard, being out in the
world, trying to win, be thebest.
I was miserable.
I went to school on ascholarship in college and at
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the second semester of mysophomore year I just said I
can't do this anymore.
I left school and, on a whim, afew months later, entered into
Miss Arkansas.
Well, I won.
Two weeks after that I get sentto Miss USA.
No training, no nothing.
Short brown hair, and I get onstage and make the top 12.
And Bob Barker says what areyou doing, cabot, arkansas, on a
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Saturday night?
And I said well, bob, in thewinter we stay at home.
I was in a Southern accent andin the summer we go down to the
tasty freeze, sit on the back ofmy friend's truck.
He plays the banjo and the guysdrink a little beer and dip a
little skool.
It's a real good time.
And I won.
So that was a huge, pivotalpoint because I learned
something from that.
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It would take a long time.
It was like a seed that wasplanted but it took a long time
to germinate.
But it said that when youlisten to your heart and stand
in your truth, miracles show up.
I left school.
I didn't do like everyone elsewas doing and I listened to my
heart.
I stood in my truth on thatstage, talked about drinking
beer and dipping skool, and thena miracle showed up.
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I won.
But I didn't really understandit.
I didn't understand it untilyears later, when I became a
wife and mom and I was miserable.
I started denying myself andtrying to be the best mom I
could be and I knew I wasperpetuating a cycle for my
family.
Well, a big awakening happenedwhen my dad died in 95.
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And through those years he hadbecome an alcoholic.
He had lost everything inbankruptcy, really drank himself
, and not to death becausecancer is what killed him, but
lung cancer, but it pretty muchkilled him.
He had been a hermit the last10 years of his life and I
remember in the moment that itwasn't.
It was few days before he died.
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I remember he dropped a glassand just sank to a chair.
I knew we were coming to theend and I looked at him and I
said, daddy, you can't leave,you can't leave.
You've always been my buddy, myally.
I mean, there's all theseemotions coming out and he
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looked at me as if he were inshock.
It was like his eyes bugged outand I was like he didn't even
know that he was loved.
He had buried himself in somuch judgment and failure and
feelings of like he had hadgreat success and then lost
everything.
I mean, it was just, it wasawful.
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So I knew right then that I hadto make a shift.
I had to do somethingdifferently, because I was not
going to be an alcoholic,because I would have never
allowed myself to go there.
But my children were going towatch me, just like I had
watched my dad, and I wanted tobe something different for them.
I didn't want to be angry.
I was always angry.
So I got into meditation and ata healing school and my whole
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world opened up.
I mean, it was my therapist.
I've been in therapy.
She said you need to get intomeditation.
Well, all of a sudden, as soonas I made that decision, my
world opened up.
I was invited to a psychicschool.
The first night.
In class, just running energy,learning how to meditate, I see
a spirit go across the room andI'm like you know, I just got
(08:45):
like cracked me open, and sothat was the beginning of the
journey.
But I'll never forget I hadgone on a spiritual retreat in
San Francisco and I came homeand I started losing everything
that I had been connected tothere.
I mean, I felt so connected tospirit, I felt so just just, I
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don't know.
It was amazing.
I came home and I was graduallylosing it.
Well, I had a dream one nightand the dream was that I was in
a building it was almost like acommunity center and there was a
guy standing at a podium and hecalls my name.
He said you're going with Solto San Francisco.
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Well, san Francisco is justwhere I'd returned from right.
I was so excited that I wasgoing on this adventure.
Then I turned around and I seemy mother.
I knew in that moment Icouldn't go on that adventure,
that I had this picture in mymind, that I couldn't go.
So when I woke up I was likewhat does this mean?
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Well, san Francisco was thatspiritual journey, right, soul
was.
It was like S-O-U-L in my mindin the dream.
It was S-O-L, you know, likesoul, and it was telling me that
I was not allowing myself to goon the adventure because of the
mother wound, of not lovingmyself, because of what I
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thought a mother should be.
So I made a decision in thatmoment.
I meditated and one of thethings that I had learned this
was many years ago.
This was back in the 90s, Iguess, late 90s, early 2000,.
I can't remember the dates, butI had taken a class in San
Francisco with Cheryl Richardson, who had a big book at that
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time called Make Time for yourLife.
So I sat down in meditationafter that dream and said what
do I want?
What are the top five thingsthat are most important to me?
And I made a list.
Well, what was interesting thatwasn't on the list was that I
had a business that I sublettedfrom this woman that I could go
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in and do spiritual counseling.
I just rented her space part ofthe week and she did it.
It was not on the list and Ithought, hmm, I've got a
contract, what do I do?
I called her that day, megan,and said this is what's happened
for me and I'm wondering if Ican get out of the lease.
(11:23):
She says, oh, you're not goingto believe this.
Someone just called todaywanting to sublet.
So I got out of the lease thatday.
I quit doing my spiritualcounseling at that time and two
weeks later I was meditating onunconditional love when all of a
sudden little Terri, the littlegirl inside of me, showed up
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and I had never seen her inmeditation, never done anything.
And as I'm sitting there crying, I hear in my ear get up and
write this this is the beginningof your book.
So I got up and that was thebeginning of my first book,
Message Sent, and it was ajournal.
It's really it's not writing,it's just a journal that I ended
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up taking the dates off andputting names on each story,
almost like a chicken soup forthe soul.
But that is where I've allowedmyself to go through the years
is to allow my intuition, mydreams and to continue my
journey of helping women healand love themselves so that they
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break the cycle of lack, stressand struggle for their families
.
Megan Mary (12:39):
That's an amazing story and there's so many
parallels too.
I want to say first at the verybeginning about the Miss USA
story the reason I feel that youwere recognized in that moment
is authenticity.
And you weren't saying what youwere supposed to say, the
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typical platform speech, thepolitically correct thing.
You just were being yourself,unabashingly.
And I feel like that is whatwas so different, right, so
unusual.
And that's really what we'recalled to do here is find what
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our authentic self is andembrace it without fear.
And meditation has been a hugevehicle for me in that way as
well.
And it's so intertwined withthe dream world because of the
Theta state, and it does allowus to strip that ego away and
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surrender to receive direction.
And when we start to allow thatdirection, then the universe
starts rearranging itself sothat we can continue on that
path.
So your trajectory from whereyou were to where you are and
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how you got there, it's abeautiful example of how
wonderful the universe can kindof contrive to help us when we
actually say OK, I know I'm notgoing to be what I thought I was
supposed to be, what everyoneelse thinks I'm supposed to be,
I'm going to allow for thatinformation to flow down to me
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about what I'm really here forand see where it takes me.
Terri Britt (14:48):
Yes, absolutely.
You know, I remember as alittle girl standing out in my
driveway I was in elementaryschool probably second or third
grade, I don't know and Iremember feeling like someone
was up in the sky looking downon me, watching me, but I didn't
know how to access that.
It felt like a group of peopleand I didn't know how to access
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them.
And then it was around the sametime.
I had gone over to myneighbor's house because back
then they'd let you run acrossthe street and you didn't worry
about anything.
So I went over to my neighbor'shouse to play.
Nobody was home.
I just remember there was nocars on the street, there were
no birds, it was just dead quiet.
And I sat on my neighbor's yardand can remember saying to
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myself I'm all alone in thisworld.
And I made a decision in thatmoment that became my filter I
am all alone.
So one of the things that Irecognize over the years in my
living on the hamster wheel andtrying to do it like my dad did
and always trying to be the best, was I did not want to be alone
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, I wanted to feel loved, Iwanted to feel connected, but I
always did it alone.
I had my defenses up, I hadwalls around me and it was
through when I startedmeditating and then started
studying energy that those wallsbegan to come down.
And I can even remember feelinglike I had a wall around me and
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recognizing it and saying, oh,I have the power to shift that.
And visualized a button andpushing the button so the wall
could come down, and made that apractice that anytime I felt
like my defenses were up, mywalls were up, I would just
intentionally see that buttonand push it and bring them down
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and let myself relax.
That was a huge turning pointfor me.
But here was another one.
So I was raised not heavily inthe church but in a religious, a
strong faith, but I never feltI could have a connection with
God.
It was scary to me.
This beautiful I mean back thenit was a man on a throne when I
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was a kid.
So through this process oflearning to love myself and
really what I call raising myworthiness quotient, treating
myself as if I er madder,treating myself as if I was
worthy of being seen, heard andvalued, that I started to feel a
deeper connection.
But before all that happened,right after I started doing
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energy work.
I think I was trying toremember the timing on this.
The other day I had a dream, andit was my daughter, who's now
32, she was maybe four or fiveand she had come into the
bedroom.
This is actually what happened.
She came into my bedroom tryingto get in bed and I'm like no,
I'm going to take you back toyour bedroom.
So I walked her back to herbedroom, but I crawled in bed
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with her and I fell asleep.
Well, in my state of sleep, Ihad a dream where I had gone
back to my bedroom and I had.
We had a little marble thresholdthat separated our bedroom from
the hallway, and in my dream Ifell over the threshold.
Now we had a mass, we had a7000 square foot home, and so
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our bedroom suite was 1200square feet.
So it was this massive bedroomand when you walk into the door,
on there were it was Frenchwindow, fireplace, french window
, another French window, frenchdoors that went out, and so it
was all this glass.
When I fall over the threshold,I look in the corner and there
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is a Christmas tree that is notdecorated and underneath it is
red felt okay, like a redChristmas tree felt, and
underneath that it's moving andit scares me.
In my dream I run to my bed andall of a sudden it's dark, but
there's just a light coming downand out from under that red
(18:55):
felt comes a man running at meand he looks like Dick Tracy.
He's got on the trench coat,he's got on the fedora hat, you
know the fedora hat.
And I'm looking at him and thenI see him in his face and I
went oh, it's you.
And there's this familiarity.
So I thought, well, maybethat's my.
(19:15):
My at that time was Michaelthat I was working with.
Well, he then goes over to theglass in my dream and the
curtains, opens them up.
Well, not only does the thoughthose windows open up, but it
was all the way around, and eventhe fireplace disappeared.
And as I looked out, there was acarnival bright, you know, fun,
(19:41):
bright, festive carnival.
And he said to me, as he'sopening up the windows, I'm here
to tell you about Jesus.
And I'm like what?
Because I had pulled so faraway from the church and the
dogma that I had been raised inHellfire and Brimstone right.
And so I looked at it and I waslike what?
(20:02):
I woke up and I was like.
What was that about?
You know, I don't reallyunderstand this, and what it was
was that, over the years, whatI learned to understand is that
the Christ consciousness is islike a carnival it is fun, it is
playful, it is alive, it is.
(20:25):
There's no emotional chaos,it's I don't know if you like
carnivals, but if you likecarnivals you know what I'm
talking about.
It's being childlike withwonder, and so I didn't
understand it back then.
But over the years, what I'vecome to understand is, I feel
now, the presence of all ofthese guides I see I'll be
(20:48):
journaling every day and Christcomes in and he says dear sister
, mother Mary comes in, dearchild Michael.
The archangel comes in, youknow, my sweet friend, or
whatever, because they all havea way of talking to me and I'm
so grateful that, one, Icommitted to loving myself
unconditionally and two, I'velearned about energy and
(21:10):
creating a connection.
And three, that I've let myfamily be my guide, that when
I've reacted to them, especiallymy kids, you know, when you're
trying to control them or tryingto do anything, you know that
there's something hurting insideof you, that you're out of
alignment.
So I use them as an opportunityto say well, if I'm reacting or
(21:30):
controlling you, then I need togo within and see what's
hurting the little girl insideof me.
I need to ask little Terriwhat's hurting and become the
divine parent to her.
Well, as I did that, then Ifelt worthy.
I raised my worthiness quotientand so this connection has
deepened so that life is not ahamster will anymore.
(21:51):
I know that I can take my time,I can go into meditation, I can
ask for guidance, andinformation is going to come
through.
If it doesn't come throughright in that moment, it's
probably because it's not divinetiming.
So what's happened for me overthe years on this journey where
I used to be a control freak, isI live for most of the time now
(22:13):
in a state of trust, and so youasked at the beginning you know
what is my idea ofenlightenment?
I guess the ultimate word wouldbe trust.
It would be in a state ofsurrender and trust, allowing
the universe to support me, tobe connected, to feel loved and
nurtured, no matter what's goingon in the world around me.
Megan Mary (22:36):
Yes, that's wonderful, and I think there's
so many ways that we can tapinto the spirit, guides and our
own higher self and theuniversal mind that ourselves
and I think that I've had thisconversation other times on this
podcast about the religiousdogma and that really is.
(22:57):
You can't get there from here.
There has to be a conduit, youhave to work through someone
else who's approved to be ableto access that, and I think that
kind of dulls our ability totap into our intuition, it
squelches our agency to feelourselves as spiritual beings
(23:22):
and our capability and it reallyjust limits us spiritually when
we get trapped in that.
And so to look at the largerimplications of our existence
and allow there to be otherpossibilities and allow there to
(23:44):
be other ways to connect isreally where we become so much
more in alignment, so much morein abundance and so much more in
harmony, versus working againstit, and I mean easier said than
done, but I think that's reallyfor me, dreams are so filled
(24:09):
with guidance and so mysteriousbut yet personal in a way, that
it's really why I want to helpother women tap into that,
because it's there for you andit's everybody has that ability
to access that higher knowledgethemselves.
Terri Britt (24:34):
Yeah, you know one of my favorite dreams.
So one of the things that cameup for me as I started walking
this path is being burned at thestake.
In a past life I mean it waswhen I was in my training in the
90s I was at a psychic school.
We were learning to read otherpeople when, all of the sudden,
my teachers yelling at me getout of the picture.
(24:55):
And when I came out of thepicture, I was like this I mean,
I was reliving being burned atthe stake.
It was awful and that triggeredsomething inside of me that was
very scary for me to share,that I was an intuitive, that I
was a healer, living in SouthernCalifornia for years.
It was, it was okay.
And then I moved back to thesouth, where I had been raised,
(25:18):
and it was scary because Ithought there's a lot of,
there's a lot of judgment, youknow, around those, those
abilities, those gifts.
It was scary for me.
I found myself shutting down.
I mean I literally blockedabundance from coming in because
of that.
It was like I was chiseling atit, chiseling at it, chiseling
at it, and I'll never forget, asI had really made some headway,
(25:39):
this was back in like 2017.
I was asking okay, so what'snext?
Well, I had a dream and I wokeup in the morning and I had had
this vision.
It was a.
It was a picture on the wall.
It had a frame around it and itsaid seven radio show.
So seven to me was about trust.
(26:01):
And then the radio show was.
I looked it up and it was likeokay, can be your voice, giving
yourself a voice, or it can beactually doing a radio show.
And I thought to myself well, Iwould be interested in doing a
radio show.
I used to be a news anchor forwhat's now the E Channel and
that's really right up my forte.
So cool, I can do that.
(26:23):
Well, I started looking aroundthat day and, well, the first
thing was, before I did that, Ilooked at the frame, because I'm
always looking at each littleaspect of things.
I'm like what is that frame?
And the frame was telling methat I had.
I had limits.
I was not, I was limitingmyself.
What were the limits?
So I checked in with myself andit was religious programming.
(26:44):
Again, afraid of beingpersecuted, I had a real fear of
being killed in this lifetime.
That sounds ludicrous.
No, I did.
You know I did.
I just was, oh my gosh.
And so, anyway, I'm justlooking on the internet that day
and looking at different radioshows, didn't reach out to
anyone, didn't sign up foranything, and that I had zeroed
(27:05):
in in my mind If I were going todo one, I would do it on this
network.
Well, that evening I get anemail from the owner of that
network, who I've never met,didn't have any connection with
any, said have you everconsidered doing a radio show?
So that was my cosmic two byfour, yes, and so it was a
(27:26):
podcast, but you know, andcalled it a radio show, but
anyway.
So I ended up doing it for twoyears, had amazing guests on,
loved every minute of it andreally found myself following
the guidance of giving myselfmore of a voice every time and
sharing more of who I am.
Sharing that I was an intuitive, you know, just doing that.
(27:47):
So it was a way for me to startreally breaking the ice and
even though I'd been teachingfor years, this was on a bigger
scale.
Okay, this wasn't just in agroup that somebody had me come
in and speak.
This was like okay, anybody canlisten to this.
This is on the internet.
Okay, somebody out there may beready with that torch.
(28:09):
You know, I didn't know.
So it was a big shift for me.
So, again, there was anotherdream that was giving me
guidance on what was next.
And as soon as I listened to itand what was interesting, I
forgot to tell you this part.
The frame, you know, wasreligious stuff.
That day, on social media, Ihad written something and
(28:31):
somebody started blasting meabout working with the devil,
and I just looked at it and Isaid thank you for the gift,
because I didn't get triggered.
I was like, yes, I can do this.
And then that's.
And so the frame was gone offof the picture on the wall.
(28:56):
And that's when, that night,that's when the guy reached out
to me to do the show, and atfirst I ham hauled and he said I
had already told him when hereached out to me.
And then we got on the phone.
I told him about the dream.
So I was kind of ham hauling,do I really want to commit to
this or whatever?
And he says you're gonna getham haul.
And you had that dream, Are youcrazy?
I'm like you're right, let's dothis.
You know so.
(29:18):
But yeah, it was a game changerfor me.
It really helped me open up toshare my voice and my truth on a
deeper level.
Megan Mary (29:26):
Yes, absolutely, and I've had that same experience.
But I've never even listened topodcasts before creating my own
, if you can believe that.
And when I was called by spiritto do it, I was kind of like no
way you know because.
I don't even know the firstthing about it and I'm not about
to tell my truth.
And who do I know to come onand just everything was.
(29:48):
I thought no way.
And you are not the firstperson that I've had on that has
the quote unquote, witch woundI think we all do.
I feel like everybody that'scalled to this path has it,
because it's not their first goaround and they have brought
with them that fear and thatcaution, knowing well, there's a
(30:13):
reason we're keeping this quietand we better be careful.
And yeah, well, it's not justconjecture, you know, as you
were saying.
I mean, there's still some lawson the books, there's still
parts of the country or theworld where it's not okay, and
so it's not just in our minds,but it is important that we all
come together and support eachother to really transmute that.
Terri Britt (30:38):
Well and I also you know I've done a lot of reading
on it too is that, whetherwe've been in a past life there,
it was part of our culture andthat's why they say now
somebody's going on a witch hunt, right?
I mean because it is soprevalent in our culture.
Now, this is interesting.
Okay, this happened the otherday, because this has been a
(30:59):
chipping away over the years andI've actually seen the past
life.
I've seen the people.
I've forgiven them.
I mean, it was huge.
But I was at Barnes Noble thiswas during my birthday recently
and my husband and I werecamping.
So we went over to Barnes Noblebecause it was raining, sitting
there having a hot chocolate,and I look across if you've ever
(31:22):
been to one of their theirbookstores they have a coffee
house right in the bookstore.
So I look across and there's anend cap and the book is called
the Killing of the Witches.
I think is what it was calledby Bill O'Reilly, who is a big
newscaster and journalist here,and I'm like, oh my gosh, what
is that about?
So I get my hot chocolate and Igo over there and I start
(31:47):
plowing through this book andthe essence of it was this,
which was really fascinatingwhat it was saying in the Salem
witch trials here in the Statesand that's not where I was
killed, but that's what happenedin the States.
The gift that came from it wasthat it created the first
(32:09):
amendment in our constitutionwhich said you could have
freedom of religion, freedom ofspeech.
And so you know, we often lookat, well, those things were so
horrific and they were horrific.
But when we can look at, okay,if that person was in spiritual
agreement to help evolvehumanity, then what they did is
(32:32):
they helped us evolve intofreedom of religion in our
country.
And this is the essence of whatthe book was saying I thought,
holy cow, because I'm alwaysasking, no matter how bad
something is, what's the gift init?
I was molested in high school.
I can now say what was the giftin it, what was the spiritual
agreement, and really learn fromit and feel empowered in it.
(32:54):
So why would that be anydifferent?
So when we look at it and we go, okay, so that helped bring the
first amendment here in theUnited States.
So what is it that we as womenwho, whether we had a past life
in it or we have it, justcarried through the women and
our family down through thegenerations, because it was
(33:17):
scary.
Right, you don't do anything,you might be burned at the stake
.
That's scary.
What if now, in our own way,instead of the persecution,
we're showing a different way,that we have a different way,
that we are in our truths, weare in our enlightenment, so
that, as I was saying earlier,that we break the cycle?
We break the cycle for ourfamilies.
(33:37):
And it's so interesting becauseI just had an experience I come
from a line of which is none ofthem own it, but my mother's
intuitive, my grandmother wasintuitive, my cousins are
intuitive.
I mean everybody is intuitive,they're all healers but no one
really honors it.
But I was sitting with my mom,my aunt, my cousin and myself
and I started looking at this,going holy crap, these women
(34:04):
have never had permission to bein their gifts right, because
that's what our culture says andto be able to look at it and
see how much it's needed.
Because, at the core, I thinkmost of us as women have our
intuitive abilities.
I believe we all do, but I thinkmost women.
(34:26):
If we would take the time tolove ourselves and nurture
ourselves and really move intoalignment and walk an
enlightened path.
We change everything.
We change it for our I mean.
I know I've watched both of myhusbands my late husband and my
husband now as I have healed andtapped into my intuition.
They both shifted and walkedand stepped onto a spiritual
(34:48):
path.
So I believe this is the powerwe have as women.
So whether you call it being awitch or you just call it being
a healer and an intuitive, itdoesn't matter.
We have this gift and we justneed to all claim it.
Megan Mary (35:01):
Yes, I couldn't agree more, and I'm so glad to
have this conversation with youtoday because I feel it's so
important for everyone to hearagain and again, and again, so
that they feel empowered to dothe same.
Terri Britt (35:19):
Yeah, don't you find, megan, that a lot of
people are afraid becausethey're afraid they're gonna
lose their family's love?
And at least this is what I see, because this is my journey
that women oftentimes are afraidto stand in their truths and be
in that intuitive wisdombecause it might be different
(35:39):
than the family, they're notgonna conform anymore.
I just you know, I see that,and if I you know, what I try to
tell them is listen.
When you stand in your truthand your wisdom and you listen
to your intuition and you listento that as inspired guidance
which is from spirit right, andyou move into a place of truth
(36:03):
and alignment, for me, that'sputting God first.
That's putting this beautiful,all loving essence of God that
we are all a part of.
We all make up the body of God.
That that is putting God first.
God is love, and so for so manypeople who were brought up in
religion, they think thatputting God first is putting
yourself last, especially withyour family, and so they won't
(36:26):
tap into these gifts, they won'tlisten to their dreams, they
won't listen to their intuition.
But if they can see, okay.
But if I do this, I am tappinginto the miracles, I'm tapping
into that God essence and thatis the greatest gift I can give
my family.
That's the greatest gift I cangive my children, my spouse,
(36:47):
even my parents, my mother towatch her watch me is so cool.
She's 81 years old, but I knowshe's watching me and I know
she's learning because I see itand I see her starting to evolve
a little bit more and talk alittle bit more and I think, wow
, if I can give her that giftbefore she dies, probably in the
(37:10):
next 10 or 15 years, I don'tknow what a gift.
Huh, breaking the cycle.
Megan Mary (37:17):
Yes, yeah, yes.
Terri Britt (37:19):
Wonderful.
Megan Mary (37:21):
Well, I want you to speak really quickly about the
worthiness quotient frequentthat we're going to offer the
listeners, so tell them just alittle bit about that, and the
link will be in the show notes.
Terri Britt (37:34):
Sure.
So the worthiness quotient, asI mentioned earlier, is about
how open you are to receivinglove, nurturing and support
simply for being you.
That means walking a path ofenlightenment, no more
performing, and it's based inyour vibration.
So a lot of times we think,well, I've owned my worth, but
(37:54):
yet our outer world is tellingus otherwise.
It makes us feel like, okay,well, I'm not being heard, I'm
not being seen, I'm not beingvalued.
And maybe there are differentareas.
Maybe in your work world youfeel good, but at home, in your
relationship, it's not workingat all.
So the quiz is broken down intoeight sections, and it covers
(38:15):
your passions, it covers yourhealth, it covers miracles, it
covers all of it.
For you to really tap in andsay how do I feel about this?
What is you know?
Am I really living in my truthhere?
And then, at the end, what wedo is we send you a personalized
report that tells you abouteach of those sections and then
your overall worthiness quotient, and so it gives you a reading
(38:39):
of am I open to receiving?
Am I treating myself as if I'mworthy?
Have I given myself a voice?
Am I still living by beliefsthat tell me I have to perform
for love, or am I truly puttingGod first by listening here and
by doing that, and then we givesome steps to start raising your
worthiness quotient?
And it's pretty much everythingthat I've been doing through
(39:01):
the years about really lovingmyself, shifting, paying
attention to the signs, lovingthat, being the divine parent to
that little girl inside of me.
So it's funny because I havepeople tell me oh my gosh, I
took it.
And some will say I was soexcited to see how good it was.
And then others might say, oh,I've got a lot of work to do.
(39:21):
But what's really interestingis when they come back,
oftentimes after they've takenmy worthiness quotient course or
whatever.
They'll come back six monthslater and go oh my gosh, I took
the quiz again and my worthinessquotient is shot up, which is
so cool because then they'regetting to see their outer world
mirror, their inner abundance.
And that's really what it is.
(39:41):
It's just really making shifts,letting go of shame and guilt
around so many different areasof our life which keep us at a
lower worthiness quotient, whichkeep us in punishment, energy
and poverty consciousness.
So my goal through this is toget them into prosperity
consciousness.
Megan Mary (39:58):
Perfect.
Well, we will have thatprovided in the show notes and
it's a perfect compliment to myprogram of the three pillars of
authenticity and alignmentabundance.
So, really just wrap that alltogether nicely and thank you so
much for your conversationtoday.
I really appreciate you beinghere and sharing your life story
(40:20):
, as well as all of yourinsights, to the listeners.
Thank you so much, megan.
Thank you guys for listening.
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