May 30, 2025 • 37 mins
This week on the Spirit Journey Collective, I'm joined by Alicia Hurtt — life coach, doula, and founder of a women's center dedicated to supporting women through every phase of life. In this powerful conversation, we dive into topics like spiritual surrender, imposter syndrome, and the deep work of reclaiming your power as a woman. Alicia shares her insights on how to navigate infertility with grace, and even how to energetically call in a child when the journey feels impossible. Her story is one of resilience, faith, and trusting the unseen — and her wisdom is a beautiful reminder that you're not alone on the path.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Spirit Journey Collective. I'm your host, Sarah Tai.
Get ready for compelling conversations with guests of all walks
of life who believe they have found their purpose. Together,
we will uncover unique backstories, hearing the raw experiences that
led them to the work they're doing today. Let's expand
our minds together with the captivating stories and inspiration that awaits.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you so much for joining me for another episode
of Spirit Journey Collective. I have a really great guest today.
Her name is Alisha Hurt. She's a servant leader, which
covers doula, minister, holistic wellness coach. She's a mom, wears
a lot of hats. We're going to focus a lot
more on the holistic wellness coaching today. Thank you so
much for being here today, Alicia.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, thank you for joining me. Would you maybe take
a moment to explain what it means to you to
be a servant leader and everything that you offer?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Absolutely, just knowing that and all I do, I'm serving God.
So it's as a doula, as a mother, as a minister,
or as a life coach. Guess what I am serving
God and serving you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh my gosh, it's so beautiful. What brought you into
this work? Have you always been a doula, always been
a hold of sic onest coach or is it something
that you stumbled on?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well, it was my life's journey. And as I said,
I serving all I do. I mean I've been serving
since I've been in grade school. That is just a
part of me and I thank God for it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It fulfills me.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Like with gift giving, I like to be the one
giving because I like to see the expressions and it
just gratifies me. So just in that same vein me
going through infertility, being married almost ten years and not
being successful and just how I felt alone, I said
to myself, Lord, I want to give back, and so
I put it in a book. But lo and behold,
(01:51):
putting it in a book started my journey in helping
in this lane, in this work and navigating helping women.
So we've developed a nonprofit call I See My Baby,
and literally my journey is the program.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
How we set it up so if you're.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Navigating infertility, whether it's physical infertility or spiritual meaning you're
bearing or you're trying to birth something and you cannot,
We're there to support you. If you have a lack
of faith, We're there to help you build your faith,
help you to understand what it means to have God
as your source and as your strength, and to uplift you.
(02:28):
If you're battling depression and mental health issues, which I
did and on my journey, we give you those tools
and support you in that as well. And so that
is what brought me to becoming a doula because I
want to breath those babies, and then also becoming a
certified life coach because of course you got to have
credentials so people understand you know what you're talking about.
But it also aligns with the program that we have.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I love that story and I see it over and
over again. It's this you know, pain to purpose right
where you take what you had to learn and now
you're able to help those that you know or in
a place where maybe you wish you had that kind
of help back when you were going through it. I
would love to ask as far as the infertility journey,
you mentioned that your mom was that something that you
(03:11):
were able to overcome?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Thank God for Jesus. Yes, I did, though have a
long journey. So, like I said, we were married almost
ten years and everyone's asking you what's going on?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And then you're looking at your husband like is it you?
Is it me? I mean?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Then a friend of mine at work was like, you know,
try and vitro. It worked for me because I was
in a very vulnerable state, you know, and we tried it.
We got pregnant twice, but the baby did not choose
to stay. And so even in that, I had to
go through lost time and time again.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And then we pondered on adoption.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
We pondered on all different type of avenues, but that
just wasn't for us. And so I was like, Lord,
I have a desire to be a mother, what should
I do? I went back to the doctor because if
anybody knows me, I don't give up at all, Like, no,
just me's not right now. I don't give up. And
so in that he sent me to a specialist and
she opened my uterus lining a little more and I
(04:09):
went back to him like, well what's next, and he's like, well,
there's nothing else we can do other than in vitra. Well,
when I stopped trying because my husband was like, what
you went through and what we went through, we're not
doing it again and we just it just was a no,
and I needed his consent to move forward, you know,
with his his goods.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So we didn't try it.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
But lo and behold, God spoke to my husband, you know,
And that's for all the ladies out there, like you
definitely have to have your mate, your better half, because
when I was battling depression, when I felt a lack
of faith, God spoke to him to uplift me. And
God told him we needed to move closer to my
family because we were going to have a baby. And
so when he told me that, I was like, well,
(04:50):
if God told you that, I guess that's him talking,
because I'm mad at him. He's not listening to me.
He's not, you know, doing what my heart desires. And
we did move, and indeed we got pregnant, and so
I have three kids now. I have three girls and
one beautiful baby boy. And that literally was the desires
in my heart. And so I talk to women day
and the day out to say, you know, like it
(05:10):
says in the Word, the prayer of the righteous avail
it much. And so if you envision it, if you
manifest it, and you believe it, I'm telling you it
will come to pass.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It may not be.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Your time, and for me it took almost ten years, right,
but then God started blessing me in abundance.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You said a couple of things that I just so
appreciate when you said, you know, no just means not
right now. And that's powerful, that's understanding that you know,
it's there's a bigger time frame right we're only we
can only see what we're able to see here. But
then there's the bird's eye view of you know, higher power,
(05:47):
who has you can know what's going to happen, who
knows what you know when the right time is. And
that really leans into a lot of surrender too, because
at that point when you said that, it was basically
when you you when you stopped was when it was
when the door opened. And and there's it which reminds
me there's a saying of like going against least resistance.
(06:10):
It's like you kind of just stopped resisting and just
was like, Okay, whatever is meant to be, let it be.
And it sounds like that's when the door finally opened
for you. But you had to go through that experience
of loss, which I'm so sorry for that experience. I
know that that's it's it's a really difficult one, especially
when you're just when you want to be a mom.
It's it's so hard to be in that space. So
(06:31):
I mean, I want to first honor that experience that
you went through, but it does sound like it was
what you you learned along the way to help you
get to the place where you were finally ready.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Amen. It shaped me, It mowed me.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
And when the baby came and I remember my mom
would say, God rest her. So like, when that baby
gets here and that baby's acting up and carrying on,
you bet and not say nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You bet it. Enjoy every moment because you cried, you
wanted this. You pray.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And my husband tells me that now when I'm like,
He's like, no, you pray for it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You export you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You know, And you know, parent it is a whole
other journey too, right. I think I've learned so much
about myself and my spirituality being a parent, you know,
just learning about like how I was parented and how
I don't want a parent that way. And you know,
there's like a whole other slow of learning themes with
the other side of that too.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Like I'm parenting right now as we're doing his podcast,
We're at the park. He's crying, so I'm just rubbing
his head, like, let mommy be professional, So in full transparency,
that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You got him all.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hats.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, maybe he'll be fine. He's a boy, he's tough, yes, ma'am.
But it's happen.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah. I would love to ask. So you have like
a women's center right where you were. You actually have
a location for people to come and get the support
that they need. Do you want to Can you share
a little bit more about what it took to create
that and how it come to pass.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Absolutely, the key word is what you said originally surrender.
My mom transition June seventh, twenty twenty three, and I
literally said to my husband when she does transition, I
don't want to be where we are anymore, which was
in Maryland, been there all my life. I want to transition.
(08:32):
I want to be somewhere warm and just start over.
And my husband literally was like, all right, let's do it.
And I was like, oh yeah, and I'm quitting my
job because I felt in my heart if my mom
passed before the age of sixty and did not enjoy
her retirement.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I don't want that to be my lot. I want
to live.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I want to be able to live, and also not
just work so hard to achieve, but enjoy it while
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And we did that, and we moved to a place
where we didn't know.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We don't know anyone right in Bainbridge, Georgia, Southwest Georgia.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It was a faith walk. It was a true test
of our faith.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But I was ready, and we've been here almost a
year now, and I was driving down the street because listen,
I'm on my grieving journey, right so I'm just taking
it easy. In my mind, I had the concept of
the Wellness Center, but I was actually going to go
back and forth to Maryland to do it. Don't know
why I thought that, but I was driving in town
(09:28):
and I saw a sign and the rest was history.
And when I tell you, the process was so smooth.
That's how I know it was God. That's how I
knew it was divine timing. And we have been able
to impact so many women's lives since we've been here.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
We've only been open since January.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And when I tell you, God has truly shown me
above and beyond what I could even imagine how we're
able to really help women break down barriers, start to
open up discussions about what we really go through. That
a lot of times it's especially in the Southern culture,
it's frowned upon. You don't really talk about some of
(10:06):
the things you suffer in silence, you know, as women,
because that's something you don't really want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You gotta be discreet, right, And so we're opening up.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Those discussions and we're giving tools and resources. Man, could
you see us next year, like in God is going
to move miraculously, Like I just feel it in my bones.
But we provide Yoni steaming, which is something that helps
women from puberty age all the way to postmenopause. We
also provide dueler services. We provide life coaching, empowerments. I
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have written over forty nine books and have ghosts writed
over five books so far, and so we provide those
services as well. So the biggest part of what we do,
if you remember it in a nutshell, is that we
empower women.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So no matter where you.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Are on your journey, we have the resources for you.
And recently we have started a men's program because a
lot of men have reached out to me saying, I
love what you're doing for the women, but.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
We need help too.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
We suffer as well in silence with mental health issues.
How to be a father because it is different from
nineteen sixty five to twenty twenty five, it looks very different.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We need to we need resources, we need fellowship, we need.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Devotion, and so we've brought on our program director, mister Reid.
He's supporting with that. We're mentoring in the schools. We
have also established a food program. Our goal is to
feed a thousand this year, and our first feeding we
did one hundred and twenty nine. So that's just a
little bit about what we're doing. And we're evolving. But
(11:39):
I am here living in my purpose and even though
it is hard work, but I'm serving and it feels good.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh my gosh, that's amazing. I mean, truly, it sounds
like you really are like listening to your calling and
you're you're taking those steps one day at a time.
And I mean, and I love what you're offering because
it's outside of the thinking. It's it's more like energy healing,
and which I think is you know, it doesn't get
(12:07):
as much attention as it should because a lot of
our blocks are mental and energetic. That's why disease is disase.
It's it's in the soul, right, And so it sounds
like you guys offer that. But I really really love
how you're speaking about men too, because that's one thing
I've noticed doing my podcast is that I feel like
I feel like a lot of women are getting this
(12:29):
support which we've needed and we need more of it,
and you know, I love that so much. But in
order for the men to catch up, they need it too,
and so like that's one hundred percent, like they need
to have that safe space where they can work on
their healing. And it's it's like it has to go
hand in hand for all of us, like you said, fellowship,
(12:50):
like all of us to raise together instead of like one,
you know, there's that imbalance. So I mean, it just
sounds like you're doing really beautiful things. I mean, the
feeding of thousand people, It sounds like you might even
reach that before the end of the year. I mean,
that's just that's incredible. And so my next question, which
you did kind of already touch on, you know, do
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you feel like you've found what you're meant to be
doing here? Like this is your calling.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I do, but I know that there's more, Like in
my spirit, I don't feel like I'm empty.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I don't know, like ask me that in six months
or a year.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
But at this moment, I don't feel like I've hit
it like the tart, like I'm almost there. But I
feel like God is doing And lately I have just
been saying Okay, yes, Lord, thank you Lord, because I
don't see it all and I know if you've done
this from January to.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Now, and I just trust you.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
And when people start to call my phone or they
send me an email, like we just had a mobile clinic,
clinic reach out to us and say we want to
come and serve once a month there, you know, and
support your city, your town, and they've never been here,
I said, Lord, it's you.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I receive you. I'm open. And when you say that,
just be ready to receive.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
That's for that woman out there that is longing and
they're seeking. When you put it out there and you
tell God I surrender, I will do and you can
use me how you want. I'm telling you it's gonna
happen because you're handling God and he's going to work
with you. I'm telling you, and he's going to intercede
and he's going to give you your heart's desire, and
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that's what we're receiving. So I know that there's more.
We're definitely making an impact, but God is getting ready
to do more miraculous things here in Bainbridge, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Just ask me in six months or a year.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So I love that answer because I mean, I personally
believe that that our when we're living in our purpose,
our guests, it evolves, right, So like it sounds like
you're in the season of I am the vessel and
I'm going to be what you need me to be.
And and you're obviously like in your gifts, right, You're
in your skill sets while you're doing this work, and
(15:07):
so those skill sets might evolve the work you're doing
might It's kind of like when you go from being
like the one on one counselor to the book writer
who's now reaching more people because you went from the
one on one to Okay, now I want to reach
a community. So I mean, yeah, it just sounds like
you're you're really like living day to day and what
lights you up and you know you're giving back to
(15:28):
the world at the same time, which is my definition
of purpose is that it's it's that both and right.
You do what you love and it's making an impact
in some way a man. So what when it comes
to infertility and not just some particular but you know,
like women empowerment because you know you kind of work
on it. Sounds like you work with a lot of mothers,
but it's not. You also work with women too, just
(15:49):
in general. What is one common struggle that you kind
of see across the board that you see people, you know,
women struggling with, And then what's advice you'd give for
that struggle?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It is in I'm scratching my head because I'm talking
to myself too, right, it's imposter syndrome.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's like am I good enough? Can I really do that? No?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Not me?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
And to this date I have to get over that
and say no, I can do all things through christis strength?
Is me?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Like? Why not? Alicia Hurt, Like, yes that is you.
Yes you are doing it now.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Of course, stay humble, stay humble, stay in that place
of humility, but also recognize what God is doing, what
He can do through you and in your life. Get
past that, start journaling, get it out your mind. Why
are you feeling like this? Why do you think that
you're not good enough?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
What are some things that you want to see?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Put it on paper and then put your barriers down.
Why you think you can't do it? And then put
on there? How you can maybe even search description?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Google it. It's so easy now you don't have to
just flip the pages of a bible.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Right, google it? How can I get past this? I
want to write a book? How can I get past this?
What are some easy steps in order for me to
write that book?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Steps that I can take? Right?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I want to open a business? What are some steps
that I can do? As you're writing it, write it down.
I'm telling you it'll encourage you and take little steps.
You don't have to say all right, I heard Relisha
said and I'm going to open up a whole salon. No,
I'm not saying that, because you have to be wise, right,
So you take the steps. Maybe it's researching the name
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that I'm considering. Is it available? What are the steps
to get registered in my state? What are some of
the supplies that I need? What are some research? Is
it feasible to open it in this area versus another area.
What is the market research saying, right, take those steps
and believe that you can do it. Are three words
that we use that very impactful. Is to envision it,
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It's to manifest it, and it's to believe it. Quick
story with me wanting to have children. A friend of
mine's at work had a dream and God gives people
visions for you, and you gotta desert and make sure
it's for you as well, like that's the caveat. But
she said, I saw you in a orange dress and
you had your baby, she said, and I want you
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to go out and buy clothes and put it in
the closet for your baby. And I had my mother
to sew me a orange night clothes, just how she
told me in a vision. And I went and I
bought those clothes and I hung it in the closet.
And someone just thinking carnal minded, they'll say, that's crazy.
You don't have the baby. Why are you doing that?
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And it's because I am calling my baby to my womb.
I am trusting, I am envisioning, I am manifesting, and
I'm believing that I'm gonna have that baby and that
baby's gonna wear this outfit that baby's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
In my arms. I'm gonna soothe that baby.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
And I'm telling you I'm a living testimony even after
all of those miscourages, all of those losses that we
went through, I have four and I had to have
my tooth ligated because the floodgates were open. So that's
my little wisdom and tidbit and advice, like don't let
imposter syndrome hold you back.
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Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, that's that's a big one. I think I think
everyone struggles without on some level. It's just this idea
that you know what, we've been taught in condition to
not own our power. We've been taught in condition to
play small. And it's like learning how no, I am powerful,
I am here to make a difference, especially when you
have that vision, having that belief in yourself to follow through.
(20:25):
And I do like your your suggestion to write it down,
because it when we write it down, it takes it.
When it's in our head, it's just it's just floating around.
There's no like anchor. When you put it down, you're
actually making something. You're putting it in reality. Even if
it's just on paper, it's it's being created at least
by writing it down on something tangible. And then your
(20:47):
your suggestion to just kind of focus on, well, what
what does it take, because it's that it takes away
the oh, I can't do it, there's too many obstacles
to Now you're focusing on Okay, what's the solution, what's
the answer, versus what's the problem, and it changes the
focus and I really really appreciate that. I think that's
(21:08):
really beautiful advice. And then your story, I mean it
comes back to also your belief, not just in yourself,
because that's part of imposter syndrome, is believing in yourself,
but also that's surrender, right, because we're a lot of
us are programmed to see to believe. Once we see it,
then we can believe it. But when it comes to faith, right,
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you have to believe it to see it.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
So it's hard. It's so hard to wrap your head
around that when you feel like you don't have what
you need, when you feel like it's empty and you're like, well,
I don't have it, but it's like again, yeah, that
surrender and that belief and knowing that we're all powerful
beings in our own right, so being able to harness
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that and trust it. So I just I love that's
that advice, and also just it's so relatable. Everyone knows
what imposter syndrome is and what it feels like to
not be enough, and that's something I think again we
all struggle with. But there is ways around it. There
is ways healing not shifting it. What is one lesson
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that you've learned on this journey, and I know you'd
been like a ten year journey from the beginning to
now as a whole. But what's one learned lesson that
you've learned that you would love to pass on to
someone else who maybe hasn't learned that yet, that you
think could be really helpful.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
If my husband's listening, he's going to be like, yep,
I tolder years ago, but it is talk less and
listen more. Seems so simple, but it's so hard talk less,
and that could be two individuals that could be even
to God. God knows your heart. You put your petition out, listen,
and he's going to talk to you through dreams, through visions,
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through situations, through through experiences.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Talk less, listen more.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
The answers are gonna come, and when they come, you're
gonna be like, oh my god, that's all I had
to do.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But it's so hot.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, No, that's a that's a good one. That's a
really good one. I mean even even just comparing it.
So you know, I'm not I'm not personally Christian, but
my I'm like very op like I guess I'm more
just spiritual as a whole. I believe in higher power,
all of that guides whatever. But it's like it's the
same thing when you meditate, when you're you have to
be open to receiving, and even when your thoughts, like
(23:34):
sometimes when you're meditating, you're just thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking,
Where's where's the space to just hear, just perceive it
whether and it could come. I mean, you could be
in meditation asking for answers and then go out in
the world and then just be so focused on everything
else and not like the things that are actually coming
to kind of like that joke, what is it the
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guy in the and who was drowning in the in
the ocean. A boat came no way forgot to say me.
A helicopter came no way forgot to say me. He dies,
goes to heaven and God's like, what are you doing here?
Like that's He's like, well, you are supposed to say me.
I set you a boat, I sent you a helicopter.
It's kind of that same thing as being able to
slow down enough to receive, whether it's actual words or
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you know, messages. You know, so I just yeah, no,
that's that's really great advice and very very helpful from here,
And I feel like your story as a whole is
like one giant synchronicity, which is really cool, just you know,
moving and then finding the building, and then things just
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taking off the way they have. I mean, that's just
you following the bread crumbs, right, the spiritual bread crumbs.
I mean, all of that is just one giant, beautiful synchronicity.
But like so I love synchronicity story time because it's
like talking about real life magic, right, It's when you
get to know, Okay, there's obviously something bigger going on here, right.
Do you have any other stories could share where things
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just like mind up how they have been in a
lot of what you've already shared, But do you have
anything else you can add to that?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Well, my whole life, like even to choosing my husband,
right even to I mean I could talk about boyfriends,
like I remember growing up, I had a boyfriend. He
would answer my phone call and I was like, well,
what's going on? And then I dreamt that he like
went up to the steps of this house. I could
tell him what the girl looked like, and he swore
up and down his best friend told on him, and
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I was like, no, God told me and see I
didn't even know. From then God had my back. I
would hang out with the wrong crowd. Everybody else would
get away with it, but who got caught me right
because God had a purpose.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
He had a plan for me. And it just works
like that, when I tell you, it works.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Like that, even from my husband, and God was like,
you gotta make a choice, because of course, you know,
I thought I was a little player, you know, And
he was like, nope, you gotta make a choice. And
I was like, oh, I could choose, you know, And
I did it right. And God bless you with a
man that he literally covers me. He's my helpmate. Didn't
see that early on because I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Like, I'm woman. Hear me rare.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
But when I said, you know what, I am going
to surrender. I'm going to be submissive, I'm going to
be humble. I'm going to work through my husband, specially
in this move navigating uncharted territory. My mom left, you know,
she went over Yanna to complete her work and just.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
My whole life.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Man, God has just been even when I went wayward,
he just had a way to bring me on back,
Bring me on back, bring me on back, and just
continue ordering and then always reassuring me through someone saying something,
through an opportunity, just in all so many different ways,
especially when I'm at the water. That's my place, that's
my place of healing solitude, that's my place of purging
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and creativity. He just going back to what I said initially,
like you just have to listen and be in tuned.
I love when you're talking about the breadcrumbs though, sual
Baar crumbs, because it's so true because when you look
back at you like, oh, you have a funny.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Way of working with me the valley. Yeah, you just
have to be in tune and be connected. You really do.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, it is funny. Like anyone who tells me they've
never had a synchronicity, I always say, look backwards, look
at how doors opened even when it seemed like nothing
was available, you know. And I love how you even
mentioned even when you were like going your going wayward
and making poor decisions, things were bringing you back, you know,
and so like obviously in the moment you probably were like, oh,
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you know, but it was what you needed and it
was where you needed to be. And the story with
your ACX and having that like premonition basically like you,
you know, you're a very intuitive person who was given given,
you know, information that ended up being true, you know,
which helped you get out of that relationship. And so,
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you know, which is I love stories like that because
it's like you had the confirmation, like it wasn't just
a dream you were just like being paranoid, it was
it was actually something to it, and you were able
to go, oh oh okay, yeah yeah. So certainly like that,
I always kind of get chills because it's like, you know,
you can't beat that confirmation. Once you have that, you're like, well,
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it obviously is what it is, you know when it
was a message to get you back kind of on
the right track with the right people, you know. And
so and I also mentioned what I like what you
said about you and your husband, because I think that
there's like, okay, so I am. I guess if I
were to lean towards feminism, I am towards it just
because of the women empowerment thing. But there's part of
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feminism that's very masculine, which is that I am a woman,
hear me, roar and all, and that's great, but I
think that it's just another program in the masculine narrative
versus you know, there's also this this feminine that hasn't
been getting a lot of attention, that softness, that leaning in.
And I feel like when you're when you're in a relationship,
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that's that's healthy. You can lean into your divine feminine
and be safe and be in that masculine And so
it's it is that beautiful balance of you know, you're
still in your power, You're not giving your power away
to be in your feminine. You're just you know, it's
it's just you're able to soften versus needing to be
that warrior, which is definitely more of a masculine energy.
(29:26):
And so I just I love that you you touched
on that a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Too, absolutely, and it's so free. I'm like, so all
these years I could have just let go. I could
have let him, even though sometimes it takes.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Longer, right, but it gets done.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
You know, I could have just closed my eyes and say, yep,
I guess I just wait till tomorrow and took that
stress off of me. I should have did this a
long time ago.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Well that's part of the learning though, right, because we
and the society really does teach the pull yourself up
by the bootstrap no matter what, and there's a time
and place for that. But there's also you know, a
lot of us women I think we really need to
learn how to how to find that balance and so
that it was just so beautiful that you touched on that.
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The final question I always love to ask is it's
about legacy. What legacy are you wanting to leave behind
for future generations with the work that you're doing.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I want generations to come to understand, first off, the
bar is high, so no mediocracy at all. I want
you to do your best, and whatever your best is,
I want you to do it.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I don't want you to give your circumstance.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
An excuse for not striving and doing what you're supposed
to do.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And also to live out loud.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I want them to say, my great great grandmother, she
was a ball of fire. She was authentically herself, no
matter what right. And I also want them to understand
that their I'm on my shoulders, on my mother's shoulders,
on my grandmother's shoulders, on my great grandmother's shoulders. So
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honor that, honor that in the way you carry yourself
and the decisions that you make. Know that you're not perfect,
but we are rooting for you. We are rooting for
you above and beyond. We have prayed for you, we
are interceded for you. We've laid the foundation. The other
part is that what my mom instilled in me is
you have to have a relationship with God for yourself.
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It's great to have community, to go to church, synagogue wherever, however, pray, meditate,
but when you have a connection for yourself, that connection
for yourself, it means a lot more because in your
time of distress, like for me, my mom is not here,
so I can't go to her now and say Mom,
can you intercede or this is what's going on.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
No, I have to go to God for myself.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I have to draw strength from a higher power for myself.
And if she didn't lay that foundation, there would I be.
And as we can see looking right and looking left,
we're in a society in a place where there are
a lot of people that lack faith, They lack that
spiritual maturity and they're wayward.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
They're wayward, they can't take on a lot of stress.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
They lean towards maybe drugs or alcoholism, or maybe even
put that power into a man that may be abusive, right,
I want my generations to know that, No, you have
a relationship with the High Power for yourself and that
will keep you grounded, that will keep you safe, be yourself,
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and the bar has been set.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I love that. That's I mean, acot, everything you mentioned
is just beautiful because it's like, well, first, you know,
honoring where we're coming from, right, is important to see
how far you're going, how far where you're at now
is because of ancestors, right, that led you there. But
you're living out loud and not settling for just meteorocracy,
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like you said, I mean, And the thing is, we
all have different versions of what that looks like. You know,
it doesn't mean you everyone has to go out and
do podcasts and you know do that. But but it's
when you're living authentically to you know, truly like every
day to your best, you know, just every day striving
to be your best version of yourself. However that looks
for you. I mean, that's that's basically that you're you're
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going in knowing that you already are worthy of that
however it's supposed to look for you, and and even
mentioning how we all need connection with our higher power
that that is one hundred percent Like for me, when
I found my spiritual awakening and I found that connection,
that's the first time I started realizing that so many
people are I kind of call I call it sleepwalking.
(33:52):
They're just like, there's just And that's one of the
reasons I love this podcast because it's bringing in different
perspectives and encouraging people who maybe don't feel like they
have that spiritual connection. Well, what does that look like
for you? Because for me personally, I had to go
like on my own journey because I did grow up
very Christian, but for me, it just kind of always
felt like a shoe that wouldn't fit. And I tried
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many different times, and then I tried different religions, and
for me personally, it's just like I think all religions
are right to a point, and it's just like that's
just how I see it. It's just all encompassing. That's
my personal journey. But I had to find it. I
had to plug into what resonated with me. And so
whatever resonates, whether you know, whatever it is, so long
as it's in love and it gives you that support
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and you feel like you're you know, you have that
higher power support when you need it, and you're you know,
being your best self. I mean like that's that's where
that connection comes in. And so I just I love
so much that you mentioned that because it's where faithes,
it's where that trust is, that's where you learn how
to believe before you see it. I mean, it's it's all.
(34:57):
That's where manifestation comes from, all the things, right, So
it's just like that. I feel like that's such a
good important message too. So I love everything you mentioned.
This was This was really just a beautiful conversation. I'm
so glad we were able to connect and have you
on well some of your services, so I know you
also have like the facility that's in person. But do
you some of your coaching is it also remote as well? Yes?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
So, because I'm from the DMV area and I have
since COVID been doing coaching and supporting women. Most of
my clients are virtual, so we do virtual and we
also do in person. Of course, I am in a
community which I love. We love each other, we want
to see each other, so we have the facility for that,
but definitely anywhere nationwide.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm a traveler. We do virtual as well.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Okay, perfect. So if listeners want to connect with you
as a coach, whether they're local or you know they
actually they're not local, but they want to still work
with you, how can they find you?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Absolutely so you can google me. That's very easy, Alisha
Hurt with two teeths. You can also look up I
See my Baby, I seembaby dot org.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
We are the only ones with that.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Name, so we will pop up and you can book
a call with me a session.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
You can also follow us. We have a plethora of
classes on event bright.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
So if you go to our website, scroll all the
way down, you'll see that we're on all the social
media platform. I'm tiktoking with my daughter, my oldest daughter.
We're having a good time empowering and educating women on
the topic of Yoni's seaming and the benefits of it.
So yeah, check us out. But like I said, we're
all over social media. You plug us in, you'll see.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Us all right, wonderful. I will make sure to put
those links in the show notes so listeners can find
you if they want to work with you, and y'all
can thank you for taking the time to connect to
be here, share your wisdom. I really enjoyed our conversation today.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Thank you for joining me on another inspiring episode. Remember
your purpose. This is a unique and unfolding path. I
hope these conversations have ignited a spark within you. Until
next time, keep exploring, growing, and embracing the beautiful adventure
of connecting with your purpose. Stay tuned for more meaningful conversations.
(37:16):
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Welcome to Spirit Journey Collective. I'm your host, Sarah Tai.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you so much for joining me for another episode
of Spirit Journey Collective. I have a really great guest today.
Her name is Alisha Hurt. She's a servant leader, which
covers doula, minister, holistic wellness coach. She's a mom, wears
a lot of hats. We're going to focus a lot
more on the holistic wellness coaching today. Thank you so
much for being here today, Alicia.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, thank you for joining me. Would you maybe take
a moment to explain what it means to you to
be a servant leader and everything that you offer?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Absolutely, just knowing that and all I do, I'm serving God.
So it's as a doula, as a mother, as a minister,
or as a life coach. Guess what I am serving
God and serving you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh my gosh, it's so beautiful. What brought you into
this work? Have you always been a doula, always been
a hold of sic onest coach or is it something
that you stumbled on?
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well, it was my life's journey. And as I said,
I serving all I do. I mean I've been serving
since I've been in grade school. That is just a
part of me and I thank God for it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It fulfills me.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Like with gift giving, I like to be the one
giving because I like to see the expressions and it
just gratifies me. So just in that same vein me
going through infertility, being married almost ten years and not
being successful and just how I felt alone, I said
to myself, Lord, I want to give back, and so
I put it in a book. But lo and behold,
(01:51):
putting it in a book started my journey in helping
in this lane, in this work and navigating helping women.
So we've developed a nonprofit call I See My Baby,
and literally my journey is the program.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
How we set it up so if you're.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Navigating infertility, whether it's physical infertility or spiritual meaning you're
bearing or you're trying to birth something and you cannot,
We're there to support you. If you have a lack
of faith, We're there to help you build your faith,
help you to understand what it means to have God
as your source and as your strength, and to uplift you.
(02:28):
If you're battling depression and mental health issues, which I
did and on my journey, we give you those tools
and support you in that as well. And so that
is what brought me to becoming a doula because I
want to breath those babies, and then also becoming a
certified life coach because of course you got to have
credentials so people understand you know what you're talking about.
But it also aligns with the program that we have.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I love that story and I see it over and
over again. It's this you know, pain to purpose right
where you take what you had to learn and now
you're able to help those that you know or in
a place where maybe you wish you had that kind
of help back when you were going through it. I
would love to ask as far as the infertility journey,
you mentioned that your mom was that something that you
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were able to overcome?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Thank God for Jesus. Yes, I did, though have a
long journey. So, like I said, we were married almost
ten years and everyone's asking you what's going on?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And then you're looking at your husband like is it you?
Is it me? I mean?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Then a friend of mine at work was like, you know,
try and vitro. It worked for me because I was
in a very vulnerable state, you know, and we tried it.
We got pregnant twice, but the baby did not choose
to stay. And so even in that, I had to
go through lost time and time again.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And then we pondered on adoption.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
We pondered on all different type of avenues, but that
just wasn't for us. And so I was like, Lord,
I have a desire to be a mother, what should
I do? I went back to the doctor because if
anybody knows me, I don't give up at all, Like, no,
just me's not right now. I don't give up. And
so in that he sent me to a specialist and
she opened my uterus lining a little more and I
(04:09):
went back to him like, well what's next, and he's like, well,
there's nothing else we can do other than in vitra. Well,
when I stopped trying because my husband was like, what
you went through and what we went through, we're not
doing it again and we just it just was a no,
and I needed his consent to move forward, you know,
with his his goods.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So we didn't try it.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
But lo and behold, God spoke to my husband, you know,
And that's for all the ladies out there, like you
definitely have to have your mate, your better half, because
when I was battling depression, when I felt a lack
of faith, God spoke to him to uplift me. And
God told him we needed to move closer to my
family because we were going to have a baby. And
so when he told me that, I was like, well,
(04:50):
if God told you that, I guess that's him talking,
because I'm mad at him. He's not listening to me.
He's not, you know, doing what my heart desires. And
we did move, and indeed we got pregnant, and so
I have three kids now. I have three girls and
one beautiful baby boy. And that literally was the desires
in my heart. And so I talk to women day
and the day out to say, you know, like it
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says in the Word, the prayer of the righteous avail
it much. And so if you envision it, if you
manifest it, and you believe it, I'm telling you it
will come to pass.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It may not be.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Your time, and for me it took almost ten years, right,
but then God started blessing me in abundance.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You said a couple of things that I just so
appreciate when you said, you know, no just means not
right now. And that's powerful, that's understanding that you know,
it's there's a bigger time frame right we're only we
can only see what we're able to see here. But
then there's the bird's eye view of you know, higher power,
(05:47):
who has you can know what's going to happen, who
knows what you know when the right time is. And
that really leans into a lot of surrender too, because
at that point when you said that, it was basically
when you you when you stopped was when it was
when the door opened. And and there's it which reminds
me there's a saying of like going against least resistance.
(06:10):
It's like you kind of just stopped resisting and just
was like, Okay, whatever is meant to be, let it be.
And it sounds like that's when the door finally opened
for you. But you had to go through that experience
of loss, which I'm so sorry for that experience. I
know that that's it's it's a really difficult one, especially
when you're just when you want to be a mom.
It's it's so hard to be in that space. So
(06:31):
I mean, I want to first honor that experience that
you went through, but it does sound like it was
what you you learned along the way to help you
get to the place where you were finally ready.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Amen. It shaped me, It mowed me.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
And when the baby came and I remember my mom
would say, God rest her. So like, when that baby
gets here and that baby's acting up and carrying on,
you bet and not say nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You bet it. Enjoy every moment because you cried, you
wanted this. You pray.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
And my husband tells me that now when I'm like,
He's like, no, you pray for it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You export you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You know, And you know, parent it is a whole
other journey too, right. I think I've learned so much
about myself and my spirituality being a parent, you know,
just learning about like how I was parented and how
I don't want a parent that way. And you know,
there's like a whole other slow of learning themes with
the other side of that too.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Like I'm parenting right now as we're doing his podcast,
We're at the park. He's crying, so I'm just rubbing
his head, like, let mommy be professional, So in full transparency,
that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You got him all.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hats.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, maybe he'll be fine. He's a boy, he's tough, yes, ma'am.
But it's happen.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah. I would love to ask. So you have like
a women's center right where you were. You actually have
a location for people to come and get the support
that they need. Do you want to Can you share
a little bit more about what it took to create
that and how it come to pass.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Absolutely, the key word is what you said originally surrender.
My mom transition June seventh, twenty twenty three, and I
literally said to my husband when she does transition, I
don't want to be where we are anymore, which was
in Maryland, been there all my life. I want to transition.
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I want to be somewhere warm and just start over.
And my husband literally was like, all right, let's do it.
And I was like, oh yeah, and I'm quitting my
job because I felt in my heart if my mom
passed before the age of sixty and did not enjoy
her retirement.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I don't want that to be my lot. I want
to live.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I want to be able to live, and also not
just work so hard to achieve, but enjoy it while
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
And we did that, and we moved to a place
where we didn't know.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We don't know anyone right in Bainbridge, Georgia, Southwest Georgia.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
It was a faith walk. It was a true test
of our faith.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
But I was ready, and we've been here almost a
year now, and I was driving down the street because listen,
I'm on my grieving journey, right so I'm just taking
it easy. In my mind, I had the concept of
the Wellness Center, but I was actually going to go
back and forth to Maryland to do it. Don't know
why I thought that, but I was driving in town
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and I saw a sign and the rest was history.
And when I tell you, the process was so smooth.
That's how I know it was God. That's how I
knew it was divine timing. And we have been able
to impact so many women's lives since we've been here.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
We've only been open since January.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And when I tell you, God has truly shown me
above and beyond what I could even imagine how we're
able to really help women break down barriers, start to
open up discussions about what we really go through. That
a lot of times it's especially in the Southern culture,
it's frowned upon. You don't really talk about some of
(10:06):
the things you suffer in silence, you know, as women,
because that's something you don't really want to talk about.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You gotta be discreet, right, And so we're opening up.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Those discussions and we're giving tools and resources. Man, could
you see us next year, like in God is going
to move miraculously, Like I just feel it in my bones.
But we provide Yoni steaming, which is something that helps
women from puberty age all the way to postmenopause. We
also provide dueler services. We provide life coaching, empowerments. I
(10:38):
have written over forty nine books and have ghosts writed
over five books so far, and so we provide those
services as well. So the biggest part of what we do,
if you remember it in a nutshell, is that we
empower women.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
So no matter where you.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Are on your journey, we have the resources for you.
And recently we have started a men's program because a
lot of men have reached out to me saying, I
love what you're doing for the women, but.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
We need help too.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
We suffer as well in silence with mental health issues.
How to be a father because it is different from
nineteen sixty five to twenty twenty five, it looks very different.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
We need to we need resources, we need fellowship, we need.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Devotion, and so we've brought on our program director, mister Reid.
He's supporting with that. We're mentoring in the schools. We
have also established a food program. Our goal is to
feed a thousand this year, and our first feeding we
did one hundred and twenty nine. So that's just a
little bit about what we're doing. And we're evolving. But
(11:39):
I am here living in my purpose and even though
it is hard work, but I'm serving and it feels good.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh my gosh, that's amazing. I mean, truly, it sounds
like you really are like listening to your calling and
you're you're taking those steps one day at a time.
And I mean, and I love what you're offering because
it's outside of the thinking. It's it's more like energy healing,
and which I think is you know, it doesn't get
(12:07):
as much attention as it should because a lot of
our blocks are mental and energetic. That's why disease is disase.
It's it's in the soul, right, And so it sounds
like you guys offer that. But I really really love
how you're speaking about men too, because that's one thing
I've noticed doing my podcast is that I feel like
I feel like a lot of women are getting this
(12:29):
support which we've needed and we need more of it,
and you know, I love that so much. But in
order for the men to catch up, they need it too,
and so like that's one hundred percent, like they need
to have that safe space where they can work on
their healing. And it's it's like it has to go
hand in hand for all of us, like you said, fellowship,
(12:50):
like all of us to raise together instead of like one,
you know, there's that imbalance. So I mean, it just
sounds like you're doing really beautiful things. I mean, the
feeding of thousand people, It sounds like you might even
reach that before the end of the year. I mean,
that's just that's incredible. And so my next question, which
you did kind of already touch on, you know, do
(13:11):
you feel like you've found what you're meant to be
doing here? Like this is your calling.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I do, but I know that there's more, Like in
my spirit, I don't feel like I'm empty.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I don't know, like ask me that in six months
or a year.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
But at this moment, I don't feel like I've hit
it like the tart, like I'm almost there. But I
feel like God is doing And lately I have just
been saying Okay, yes, Lord, thank you Lord, because I
don't see it all and I know if you've done
this from January to.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Now, and I just trust you.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
And when people start to call my phone or they
send me an email, like we just had a mobile clinic,
clinic reach out to us and say we want to
come and serve once a month there, you know, and
support your city, your town, and they've never been here,
I said, Lord, it's you.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I receive you. I'm open. And when you say that,
just be ready to receive.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
That's for that woman out there that is longing and
they're seeking. When you put it out there and you
tell God I surrender, I will do and you can
use me how you want. I'm telling you it's gonna
happen because you're handling God and he's going to work
with you. I'm telling you, and he's going to intercede
and he's going to give you your heart's desire, and
(14:34):
that's what we're receiving. So I know that there's more.
We're definitely making an impact, but God is getting ready
to do more miraculous things here in Bainbridge, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Just ask me in six months or a year.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So I love that answer because I mean, I personally
believe that that our when we're living in our purpose,
our guests, it evolves, right, So like it sounds like
you're in the season of I am the vessel and
I'm going to be what you need me to be.
And and you're obviously like in your gifts, right, You're
in your skill sets while you're doing this work, and
(15:07):
so those skill sets might evolve the work you're doing
might It's kind of like when you go from being
like the one on one counselor to the book writer
who's now reaching more people because you went from the
one on one to Okay, now I want to reach
a community. So I mean, yeah, it just sounds like
you're you're really like living day to day and what
lights you up and you know you're giving back to
(15:28):
the world at the same time, which is my definition
of purpose is that it's it's that both and right.
You do what you love and it's making an impact
in some way a man. So what when it comes
to infertility and not just some particular but you know,
like women empowerment because you know you kind of work
on it. Sounds like you work with a lot of mothers,
but it's not. You also work with women too, just
(15:49):
in general. What is one common struggle that you kind
of see across the board that you see people, you know,
women struggling with, And then what's advice you'd give for
that struggle?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
It is in I'm scratching my head because I'm talking
to myself too, right, it's imposter syndrome.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's like am I good enough? Can I really do that? No?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Not me?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
And to this date I have to get over that
and say no, I can do all things through christis strength?
Is me?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Like? Why not? Alicia Hurt, Like, yes that is you.
Yes you are doing it now.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Of course, stay humble, stay humble, stay in that place
of humility, but also recognize what God is doing, what
He can do through you and in your life. Get
past that, start journaling, get it out your mind. Why
are you feeling like this? Why do you think that
you're not good enough?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
What are some things that you want to see?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Put it on paper and then put your barriers down.
Why you think you can't do it? And then put
on there? How you can maybe even search description?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Google it. It's so easy now you don't have to
just flip the pages of a bible.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Right, google it? How can I get past this? I
want to write a book? How can I get past this?
What are some easy steps in order for me to
write that book?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Steps that I can take? Right?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I want to open a business? What are some steps
that I can do? As you're writing it, write it down.
I'm telling you it'll encourage you and take little steps.
You don't have to say all right, I heard Relisha
said and I'm going to open up a whole salon. No,
I'm not saying that, because you have to be wise, right,
So you take the steps. Maybe it's researching the name
(17:29):
that I'm considering. Is it available? What are the steps
to get registered in my state? What are some of
the supplies that I need? What are some research? Is
it feasible to open it in this area versus another area.
What is the market research saying, right, take those steps
and believe that you can do it. Are three words
that we use that very impactful. Is to envision it,
(17:51):
It's to manifest it, and it's to believe it. Quick
story with me wanting to have children. A friend of
mine's at work had a dream and God gives people
visions for you, and you gotta desert and make sure
it's for you as well, like that's the caveat. But
she said, I saw you in a orange dress and
you had your baby, she said, and I want you
(18:13):
to go out and buy clothes and put it in
the closet for your baby. And I had my mother
to sew me a orange night clothes, just how she
told me in a vision. And I went and I
bought those clothes and I hung it in the closet.
And someone just thinking carnal minded, they'll say, that's crazy.
You don't have the baby. Why are you doing that?
(18:35):
And it's because I am calling my baby to my womb.
I am trusting, I am envisioning, I am manifesting, and
I'm believing that I'm gonna have that baby and that
baby's gonna wear this outfit that baby's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
In my arms. I'm gonna soothe that baby.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
And I'm telling you I'm a living testimony even after
all of those miscourages, all of those losses that we
went through, I have four and I had to have
my tooth ligated because the floodgates were open. So that's
my little wisdom and tidbit and advice, like don't let
imposter syndrome hold you back.
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Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, that's that's a big one. I think I think
everyone struggles without on some level. It's just this idea
that you know what, we've been taught in condition to
not own our power. We've been taught in condition to
play small. And it's like learning how no, I am powerful,
I am here to make a difference, especially when you
have that vision, having that belief in yourself to follow through.
(20:25):
And I do like your your suggestion to write it down,
because it when we write it down, it takes it.
When it's in our head, it's just it's just floating around.
There's no like anchor. When you put it down, you're
actually making something. You're putting it in reality. Even if
it's just on paper, it's it's being created at least
by writing it down on something tangible. And then your
(20:47):
your suggestion to just kind of focus on, well, what
what does it take, because it's that it takes away
the oh, I can't do it, there's too many obstacles
to Now you're focusing on Okay, what's the solution, what's
the answer, versus what's the problem, and it changes the
focus and I really really appreciate that. I think that's
(21:08):
really beautiful advice. And then your story, I mean it
comes back to also your belief, not just in yourself,
because that's part of imposter syndrome, is believing in yourself,
but also that's surrender, right, because we're a lot of
us are programmed to see to believe. Once we see it,
then we can believe it. But when it comes to faith, right,
(21:32):
you have to believe it to see it.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
So it's hard. It's so hard to wrap your head
around that when you feel like you don't have what
you need, when you feel like it's empty and you're like, well,
I don't have it, but it's like again, yeah, that
surrender and that belief and knowing that we're all powerful
beings in our own right, so being able to harness
(21:56):
that and trust it. So I just I love that's
that advice, and also just it's so relatable. Everyone knows
what imposter syndrome is and what it feels like to
not be enough, and that's something I think again we
all struggle with. But there is ways around it. There
is ways healing not shifting it. What is one lesson
(22:19):
that you've learned on this journey, and I know you'd
been like a ten year journey from the beginning to
now as a whole. But what's one learned lesson that
you've learned that you would love to pass on to
someone else who maybe hasn't learned that yet, that you
think could be really helpful.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
If my husband's listening, he's going to be like, yep,
I tolder years ago, but it is talk less and
listen more. Seems so simple, but it's so hard talk less,
and that could be two individuals that could be even
to God. God knows your heart. You put your petition out, listen,
and he's going to talk to you through dreams, through visions,
(22:57):
through situations, through through experiences.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Talk less, listen more.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
The answers are gonna come, and when they come, you're
gonna be like, oh my god, that's all I had
to do.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
But it's so hot.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, No, that's a that's a good one. That's a
really good one. I mean even even just comparing it.
So you know, I'm not I'm not personally Christian, but
my I'm like very op like I guess I'm more
just spiritual as a whole. I believe in higher power,
all of that guides whatever. But it's like it's the
same thing when you meditate, when you're you have to
be open to receiving, and even when your thoughts, like
(23:34):
sometimes when you're meditating, you're just thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking,
Where's where's the space to just hear, just perceive it
whether and it could come. I mean, you could be
in meditation asking for answers and then go out in
the world and then just be so focused on everything
else and not like the things that are actually coming
to kind of like that joke, what is it the
(23:55):
guy in the and who was drowning in the in
the ocean. A boat came no way forgot to say me.
A helicopter came no way forgot to say me. He dies,
goes to heaven and God's like, what are you doing here?
Like that's He's like, well, you are supposed to say me.
I set you a boat, I sent you a helicopter.
It's kind of that same thing as being able to
slow down enough to receive, whether it's actual words or
(24:18):
you know, messages. You know, so I just yeah, no,
that's that's really great advice and very very helpful from here,
And I feel like your story as a whole is
like one giant synchronicity, which is really cool, just you know,
moving and then finding the building, and then things just
(24:38):
taking off the way they have. I mean, that's just
you following the bread crumbs, right, the spiritual bread crumbs.
I mean, all of that is just one giant, beautiful synchronicity.
But like so I love synchronicity story time because it's
like talking about real life magic, right, It's when you
get to know, Okay, there's obviously something bigger going on here, right.
Do you have any other stories could share where things
(25:01):
just like mind up how they have been in a
lot of what you've already shared, But do you have
anything else you can add to that?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Well, my whole life, like even to choosing my husband,
right even to I mean I could talk about boyfriends,
like I remember growing up, I had a boyfriend. He
would answer my phone call and I was like, well,
what's going on? And then I dreamt that he like
went up to the steps of this house. I could
tell him what the girl looked like, and he swore
up and down his best friend told on him, and
(25:29):
I was like, no, God told me and see I
didn't even know. From then God had my back. I
would hang out with the wrong crowd. Everybody else would
get away with it, but who got caught me right
because God had a purpose.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
He had a plan for me. And it just works
like that, when I tell you, it works.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Like that, even from my husband, and God was like,
you gotta make a choice, because of course, you know,
I thought I was a little player, you know, And
he was like, nope, you gotta make a choice. And
I was like, oh, I could choose, you know, And
I did it right. And God bless you with a
man that he literally covers me. He's my helpmate. Didn't
see that early on because I'm.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Like, I'm woman. Hear me rare.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
But when I said, you know what, I am going
to surrender. I'm going to be submissive, I'm going to
be humble. I'm going to work through my husband, specially
in this move navigating uncharted territory. My mom left, you know,
she went over Yanna to complete her work and just.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
My whole life.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Man, God has just been even when I went wayward,
he just had a way to bring me on back,
Bring me on back, bring me on back, and just
continue ordering and then always reassuring me through someone saying something,
through an opportunity, just in all so many different ways,
especially when I'm at the water. That's my place, that's
my place of healing solitude, that's my place of purging
(26:50):
and creativity. He just going back to what I said initially,
like you just have to listen and be in tuned.
I love when you're talking about the breadcrumbs though, sual
Baar crumbs, because it's so true because when you look
back at you like, oh, you have a funny.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Way of working with me the valley. Yeah, you just
have to be in tune and be connected. You really do.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, it is funny. Like anyone who tells me they've
never had a synchronicity, I always say, look backwards, look
at how doors opened even when it seemed like nothing
was available, you know. And I love how you even
mentioned even when you were like going your going wayward
and making poor decisions, things were bringing you back, you know,
and so like obviously in the moment you probably were like, oh,
(27:38):
you know, but it was what you needed and it
was where you needed to be. And the story with
your ACX and having that like premonition basically like you,
you know, you're a very intuitive person who was given given,
you know, information that ended up being true, you know,
which helped you get out of that relationship. And so,
(27:58):
you know, which is I love stories like that because
it's like you had the confirmation, like it wasn't just
a dream you were just like being paranoid, it was
it was actually something to it, and you were able
to go, oh oh okay, yeah yeah. So certainly like that,
I always kind of get chills because it's like, you know,
you can't beat that confirmation. Once you have that, you're like, well,
(28:20):
it obviously is what it is, you know when it
was a message to get you back kind of on
the right track with the right people, you know. And
so and I also mentioned what I like what you
said about you and your husband, because I think that
there's like, okay, so I am. I guess if I
were to lean towards feminism, I am towards it just
because of the women empowerment thing. But there's part of
(28:42):
feminism that's very masculine, which is that I am a woman,
hear me, roar and all, and that's great, but I
think that it's just another program in the masculine narrative
versus you know, there's also this this feminine that hasn't
been getting a lot of attention, that softness, that leaning in.
And I feel like when you're when you're in a relationship,
(29:04):
that's that's healthy. You can lean into your divine feminine
and be safe and be in that masculine And so
it's it is that beautiful balance of you know, you're
still in your power, You're not giving your power away
to be in your feminine. You're just you know, it's
it's just you're able to soften versus needing to be
that warrior, which is definitely more of a masculine energy.
(29:26):
And so I just I love that you you touched
on that a little bit.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Too, absolutely, and it's so free. I'm like, so all
these years I could have just let go. I could
have let him, even though sometimes it takes.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Longer, right, but it gets done.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
You know, I could have just closed my eyes and say, yep,
I guess I just wait till tomorrow and took that
stress off of me. I should have did this a
long time ago.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Well that's part of the learning though, right, because we
and the society really does teach the pull yourself up
by the bootstrap no matter what, and there's a time
and place for that. But there's also you know, a
lot of us women I think we really need to
learn how to how to find that balance and so
that it was just so beautiful that you touched on that.
(30:15):
The final question I always love to ask is it's
about legacy. What legacy are you wanting to leave behind
for future generations with the work that you're doing.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
I want generations to come to understand, first off, the
bar is high, so no mediocracy at all. I want
you to do your best, and whatever your best is,
I want you to do it.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
I don't want you to give your circumstance.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
An excuse for not striving and doing what you're supposed
to do.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And also to live out loud.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I want them to say, my great great grandmother, she
was a ball of fire. She was authentically herself, no
matter what right. And I also want them to understand
that their I'm on my shoulders, on my mother's shoulders,
on my grandmother's shoulders, on my great grandmother's shoulders. So
(31:06):
honor that, honor that in the way you carry yourself
and the decisions that you make. Know that you're not perfect,
but we are rooting for you. We are rooting for
you above and beyond. We have prayed for you, we
are interceded for you. We've laid the foundation. The other
part is that what my mom instilled in me is
you have to have a relationship with God for yourself.
(31:29):
It's great to have community, to go to church, synagogue wherever, however, pray, meditate,
but when you have a connection for yourself, that connection
for yourself, it means a lot more because in your
time of distress, like for me, my mom is not here,
so I can't go to her now and say Mom,
can you intercede or this is what's going on.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
No, I have to go to God for myself.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I have to draw strength from a higher power for myself.
And if she didn't lay that foundation, there would I be.
And as we can see looking right and looking left,
we're in a society in a place where there are
a lot of people that lack faith, They lack that
spiritual maturity and they're wayward.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
They're wayward, they can't take on a lot of stress.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
They lean towards maybe drugs or alcoholism, or maybe even
put that power into a man that may be abusive, right,
I want my generations to know that, No, you have
a relationship with the High Power for yourself and that
will keep you grounded, that will keep you safe, be yourself,
(32:41):
and the bar has been set.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
I love that. That's I mean, acot, everything you mentioned
is just beautiful because it's like, well, first, you know,
honoring where we're coming from, right, is important to see
how far you're going, how far where you're at now
is because of ancestors, right, that led you there. But
you're living out loud and not settling for just meteorocracy,
(33:08):
like you said, I mean, And the thing is, we
all have different versions of what that looks like. You know,
it doesn't mean you everyone has to go out and
do podcasts and you know do that. But but it's
when you're living authentically to you know, truly like every
day to your best, you know, just every day striving
to be your best version of yourself. However that looks
for you. I mean, that's that's basically that you're you're
(33:31):
going in knowing that you already are worthy of that
however it's supposed to look for you, and and even
mentioning how we all need connection with our higher power
that that is one hundred percent Like for me, when
I found my spiritual awakening and I found that connection,
that's the first time I started realizing that so many
people are I kind of call I call it sleepwalking.
(33:52):
They're just like, there's just And that's one of the
reasons I love this podcast because it's bringing in different
perspectives and encouraging people who maybe don't feel like they
have that spiritual connection. Well, what does that look like
for you? Because for me personally, I had to go
like on my own journey because I did grow up
very Christian, but for me, it just kind of always
felt like a shoe that wouldn't fit. And I tried
(34:14):
many different times, and then I tried different religions, and
for me personally, it's just like I think all religions
are right to a point, and it's just like that's
just how I see it. It's just all encompassing. That's
my personal journey. But I had to find it. I
had to plug into what resonated with me. And so
whatever resonates, whether you know, whatever it is, so long
as it's in love and it gives you that support
(34:36):
and you feel like you're you know, you have that
higher power support when you need it, and you're you know,
being your best self. I mean like that's that's where
that connection comes in. And so I just I love
so much that you mentioned that because it's where faithes,
it's where that trust is, that's where you learn how
to believe before you see it. I mean, it's it's all.
(34:57):
That's where manifestation comes from, all the things, right, So
it's just like that. I feel like that's such a
good important message too. So I love everything you mentioned.
This was This was really just a beautiful conversation. I'm
so glad we were able to connect and have you
on well some of your services, so I know you
also have like the facility that's in person. But do
you some of your coaching is it also remote as well? Yes?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
So, because I'm from the DMV area and I have
since COVID been doing coaching and supporting women. Most of
my clients are virtual, so we do virtual and we
also do in person. Of course, I am in a
community which I love. We love each other, we want
to see each other, so we have the facility for that,
but definitely anywhere nationwide.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I'm a traveler. We do virtual as well.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Okay, perfect. So if listeners want to connect with you
as a coach, whether they're local or you know they
actually they're not local, but they want to still work
with you, how can they find you?
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Absolutely so you can google me. That's very easy, Alisha
Hurt with two teeths. You can also look up I
See my Baby, I seembaby dot org.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
We are the only ones with that.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Name, so we will pop up and you can book
a call with me a session.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
You can also follow us. We have a plethora of
classes on event bright.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
So if you go to our website, scroll all the
way down, you'll see that we're on all the social
media platform. I'm tiktoking with my daughter, my oldest daughter.
We're having a good time empowering and educating women on
the topic of Yoni's seaming and the benefits of it.
So yeah, check us out. But like I said, we're
all over social media. You plug us in, you'll see.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Us all right, wonderful. I will make sure to put
those links in the show notes so listeners can find
you if they want to work with you, and y'all
can thank you for taking the time to connect to
be here, share your wisdom. I really enjoyed our conversation today.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Thank you for joining me on another inspiring episode. Remember
your purpose. This is a unique and unfolding path. I
hope these conversations have ignited a spark within you. Until
next time, keep exploring, growing, and embracing the beautiful adventure
of connecting with your purpose. Stay tuned for more meaningful conversations.
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