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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, cool, we are now live in the fact.
We are now episode five on Champions Connect. Welcome back
to all my people who love this show. Guys are
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The goal is to get three hundred by the end
of March, so please go subscribe. So today's guest is
a very special guest, Andrea Patruth. And guys like she
She's a phenomenal person. She's motivating, and she's been through
a lot. Her story is our story, you know. And
I'm gonna play a short snippet for those who don't
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know who Andrea is. I'm going to play a short
snippet and please guys tune in.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Tune in.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
It is on honor, a blessing, and I'm grateful that
I have you all here, especially my husband, because this
is our story. This is not my story as Andrea,
this is our story as a couple. We met in
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twenty sixteen, and the first thing that I remember is
looking on skype at the picture and seeing the light.
He was light the room was light, I was light.
There was just divine light between us, and in that moment,
both him and I knew that together we're going to
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have a beautiful family. We're going to fulfill our dreams,
live with passion, and feel free. It took us five
years to get there, and the biggest moment of crisis
happened right before the global crisis. And it was because
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I was not listening to my heart. I was disconnected
from my own divine self. I was separating from my
husband by listening to my mind and to other people's
ideas about me and how life should be, how making
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money should be, and I forgot why I had kids
in the first place. In March twenty twenty, when everybody
knew what happened and we were getting ready for lockdown
in Toronto, my husband and I were burnt financially, physically, mentally, spiritually,
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and at the soul level. By thirteen months say even
more of huge challenges. I was a year in which
he were like crazy all day long to breathe. The
breadwinner as a mother, I worked like crazy all day
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to take care of our children. And because I'm a challenger.
Ny a grand type eight to nine I took the
challenge to study laws just because I had some skills,
not because it was my deep passion. And what happened
was that bit by bit, drop by drop, physically I
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would get to burn out, my body shaking, my brain
could not function properly. I I was not myself sure.
I was walking on automation, you know, every day, doing
a ever that I needed to do, even take my
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kids to school because my husband could not be home
on time. And although we had money coming in through
me so my husband would have some support, it was
the year where everything was piling up and I said
yes to everything just because I'm a challenger and I
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love challenges. But in March, although I got helped to
physically come back with the help of a nutritionists, and
although I finished successfully the polical course and it was
a good way to make money, everything within me said no,
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I don't want to do that. I don't want to
continue with that. I want something different, I want what
is mine. And the signal for the shift first was
hearing from the nutritionist Andrea. Physically, you're getting better, but
if you don't calm yourself down because your body has
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been in stress for many years, you're gonna have a stroke.
Take that in. Can you imagine yourself having a stroke
while being with the divine right partner, while having three
kids who meet you. I did imagine, and what I
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saw was death. Everything that I dreamed of my life,
our life together, would disappear in a blink of an
I and said, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not I'm
not here for this. And then my husband came home
gave me the news, Andrea, it's lockdown, and we were like,
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uh oh, we're really deep doodoo, because we cannot make it.
If we continue living the life this way, we won't
have money, happiness, joy, freedom, anything. We won't even have
a relationship. So then I took the decision for myself
and I knew. I knew he would always agree and
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support me. And I knew once I have the clarity,
once I'm sovereign and I show up in life with integrity,
taking responsibility for my life, every single lines around me,
I remember at least that thing. So that's what I did.
I said, from now on, I'm just going to follow
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my heart like I used to do. And every time
I listened to my heart, things started shifting and happening.
And I had my husband's support, and we started digging
and finding what would be useful for us. We started
shifting towards spirituality and following our instead of working for money.
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He would still work for money, but I would go
my way. I would be the first to go her way.
And we found a method that would connect us with
the divine self. Very fast. I took it. It's called
the awakening of the minute. It hard workshop, and because
of it, I started creating my life from the heart.
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And I started listening deeply within more and more each
day what was right for me? What types of classes, coaches,
what types of activities, what kind of lifestyle, how to eat,
how to love, how to be? The year went by,
and this year twenty twenty one, thanks to all these
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beautiful synchronicity that came because I listened to my heart,
I found all the people that I needed and I
partnered with everyone. And that way that one of my
coaches said, Andrea, it's like you're partnering with everyone, like universe, God, coaches, friends, husband,
you name it. I'm like yeah, because I felt for
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the first time going inside, we are one and when
we know what we want and when we ask for it.
And when we listen, and when we take the leap
and have the courage to go for it, things happen.
You and I, all of you here right now have
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a role in this world. We are not in crisis.
This is an opportunity. When each of you follows their heart,
when each of you follows their passion, even even if
nobody else but you believe in you, that's when change
is going to happen for all of us. And this
is what I learned. And what I learned is that
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I am a multi passionate woman. I am extraordinary who
can live a fulfilling life. And when I do that,
and when I am on my path, my husband can
trust himself to be the same way for himself too.
And I do that for my husband. I do that
for the women I'm working with. I show them and
I guide them so they connect deeply with their heart.
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I bridge, I create a bridge from my heart to
their heart, so they see what's in their hearts, so
they see their gifts, so they see what they're here for.
So they have the courage to take the leave and
feel free and feel supported by all the relationships, whether
it's relationship with God, relationship with themselves, relationship with their children,
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and so they feel that deep connection that we can
all have because we are one and I'm one with you.
Thank you for listening. I love you.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Wow. Such a powerful video.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Such a powerful videos bring up without further ados, bring
up Andrea. Yeah, that was a powerful video right there, Queen,
such a problem video.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Thank you. You know what's funny, I had another video
on the website and something, you know, I had a
mutch of Now I want that because what you have
seen is actually a recital that I gave in December
eighth last year when I finished my Compelling Speaker program
and I worked on sharing my story, the story that
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I think would help people and says why I'm doing
what I'm doing now. So and you know, even listening
to it, I'm like, okay, thank you, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That always always now that was that was a powerful story.
Like like you, it reached me because like you said,
you gotta have courage and yeah to be able to
reach other people, and you know other people around you
far as coaches like, if you want to be successful
in life, you want to surround yourself those who are successful,
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because those others going pour into your cup. Those others
gonna fill you up as you feel them about. They're
gonna add value to you as you add value to them.
So I definitely that was a powerful message.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Clean, Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it's you know, we need
people and in our life we are, we are interconnected,
and when we ask for help and when we we
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acknowledge we need help, then we make we make the
big step, We really make the big steps towards improvement
in our life inside and everywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Is that well some people had some people are too modest.
I think some people don't have the courage to ask
for help. And you know, I tell people all the time,
we all need help. You know, even the best of
the best needs help. You know, even a millionaires and
billionaire if they had people around them helping them build
their team up. You know, they're not doing that alone.
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You know, So like we all should have a team,
but a strategic team that's going to again fill you
up and fill your cup now bring you down, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, And you know you said something, uh, you said
about courage, What about ego? Because ego is another thing
that stops us. You know, whether you're rich or poor,
whether you live in scarcity or you live in abundance.
Ego can stop you from receiving. Ego can stop you
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from enjoying. Ego can stop you from receiving the help
you need here and now. The other thing is trauma.
When we have been traumatized by people, we are like
like dogs traumatized by children or an adult. Right, we
are afraid and this word courage that you mentioned comes in.
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We are afraid of being hurt again again and again,
and we'll rather not ask for help. It happened to
me when I had relationships in which I try to
go towards the person and share, and I was happy
of sharing and all that, and I received no, like
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you know that shild coming in no or no, your
idea is not good. You know things like that. They
shut you down, They shut you down, and unfortunately we
stop ourselves because you see, I find it fascinating that
we are big. You know, even a child, it's still big.
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It's it's powerful. We are powerful, and yet we treat
ourselves like we are nothing. We have no value. Like
if somebody says no to us, if somebody says no,
that idea is not good, we take it for real.
We take it personally, we take it like, oh, he said,
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the idea is not good. I'm not good. He said,
this project is not going to work. I'm not gonna work.
I'm not good to work. And we feel we think
to ourselves and we start nurturing that idea, Oh, we
are broken. We are things that need to be fixed,
which is you know, yes, because we are not things.
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We are human beings. We have a heart, we have
a body, we have a soul, we have a mind,
we have an experience, and we are valuable and we
are not something to be fixed. We have attitude, thoughts, beliefs, education,
we have lots of things to work on and with.
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But it's not like they are broken. We feel like
it is something broken in side, and it is because
it's hurt, it's trauma, it's cars, whatever it is, it's painful.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But you got to use that pain for fuel, though,
And I said, I was literally talking about it that
somebody the other day, and because what I've been through,
I said, well, you gotta take that pain and use
it for fuel. Whatever you're good at, you know, don't
go get a bottle or or and feel sorry for yourself.
You know, if you if you're an artist, sit down, draw,
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take all that pain you're going through, apply it to
your art, and you see how good you'll do. If
you if you're a fighter, a boxer or athlete, go
out there Russell Miles, workout and you see how you're good.
You'll feel so good because all that anger is coming
out to something that you love doing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You know, and it helps you heal, isn't it, Because
the first thing you can do for yourself, like you said,
is release. And you know, King that kings in general
all over the world are I don't know in your
culture and your family, so peace forgive me if it's
not true for you. You but I've seen around me
that boys are raised with a shield. You're a boy,
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you cannot cry. Boys don't cry, boys don't show emotion.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah. This is a problem
in our culture. It did not allow you, kings, men
all over the world, to be yourselves, to show that
you care. I've seen men who are so loving, Oh
my god, but the problem is they don't show it.
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You really got it. It's like digging a tunnel in
the soil. You gotta be some warm, you know, earthworm
to really dig into the soul and finally see, Oh
my god, he's such a loving person beyond that face
of Uh, I'm serious, I don't have emotions. I'm holding
on you know, like, come, so, this is the problem
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that we've been raised. And even some women, you know,
it's like you gotta be tough. Even me. When I
lost my mom at eleven years old, I was like,
I gotta be tough. People were saying, oh, we're so
sorry you lost your mother, like for real, they really cared.
But I was like, yeah, so what I didn't grieve
for twenty nine years? I held it inside. Do you
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think that was good for me? I'm telling good was not.
But coming back to what you said, nice to see you, John.
Coming back to what you said, is that idea of
releasing so first, like I had one my mom that
I had anger. I was angry that God to her, like,
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why would you take nice good people? Don't you take
the alcoholic that beats his mom right in her family?
Like my uncle, you know, he was an alcoholic. And
I always compared like the white sheep and the black sheep.
You know, she was the white chip, he was the
black sheep. Why God, didn't you take the black sheep? Huh?
I was really angry, And I know I'm not the
only one. Many of us when we lose somebody dear,
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we find ourselves in a situation where we forget a
lot of stuff and God becomes something we will look
at and will take by the collar and say, hey,
what did you take my mother, my child? Why did
you do that? It's horrible. He could have shed he
could have brought a change in the world. So first,
is that emotion. Then find a way to release it.
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And the best way to release it is, like you say, creative.
Creative can be with building something, with working out, you know, fighting,
or because it teaches you something you are bringing up.
You're building a bridge from the inside pain to the outside,
and you're showing to the world what do you do
with it? And when you start working it out, you know,
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like you say, it becomes a fuel. I say, not
just the fuel, It becomes your transformation because you allow
yourself to see it. Yes, I am angry, Yes I'm frustrated. Yes,
I'm in deep, deep pain. I feel like yelling, screaming, howling,
that's how much it hurts. And when you do that,
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you allow yourself to have a different day, a different time,
because if you keep it inside and you drown it
in alcohol or bring drugs or anything, it's gonna do worse.
The pain is not gonna go. You're just pushing it down.
It's not gonna go. What you need to do with
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it is to take it because it's a very heavy thing.
It's like, you know, when we dig in minds, we
have this a pack of something. We don't even know
what that is, but we need to sculpture. We need
to do certain things in there with tools, and then
we see the gold, the sapphire, We see it, right,
we see the gems. The trauma will reveal a gem
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for us. And how I found that helps me. You
talk about being creative for me writing, just putting the
pen on paper and or you know, typing and just
think about it like it's like it's a person. Like
it's an object, it's a person because you can have
a dialogue. Why are you here? Why? What? What do
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I think of you? What do you think of me?
What are you here to bring into my life? This
is something that I've learned from Leah Lamb who is
a storyteller and a story coach, and she took us
through this process of you know, if you have resistance,
if you have pain, if you have what every doubt, fear, worry,
anything you had anger, just take it as it's a
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person and ask why are you here? What are you
bringing into my life? What is what is the gift?
What do you want from me? What is the gift?
What can I do so you can release my life?
So you can get out of my mind, get out
of my space. You know what are the lessons you're
bringing me? So it's just take yourselves with these steps
and you will see the wisdom and everything that's happening now.
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I know that some people because I ask myself too,
is there any good to a rape or any good
to any other kind of horrible thing happening to us?
And my answer is I don't know what I What
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I know is we can take something from anything that's
happening when we take it out as an observer. If
we keep it in and looking like it's me, the
trauma is me, what happened to me is my fault,
then it's it's hard to see where can this take us?
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Because you know, Sean from your life experience and the
people you're working with. I I've watched some of your
work and I really appreciate what you do being there
for others. This is this is amazing. Thank you for
what you're doing. You know that you gotta I'm going
to say something, then I'm gonna let you speak. Uh
it's and I forgot what I want to say. So
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what I mean is when you when you take it
out and you work with it and you're not making
it personal, you give yourself the chance to see why
does this happen to you here and now? And most
of the time it is because somebody else will go
through a similar situation and you're gonna be the rock
for them. That's the That's one thing that I can
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take always when you go through horrible stuff, there is
one thing that you can do, which is learn be stronger,
empower yourself, because five minutes after, or five hours or
five days after, somebody is gonna come into your life.
They're gonna they're gonna tell you the same story, and
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you're gonna be there for them because you know how
you get out of that, you know how you empower yourself.
You're gonna be there, just like you've shown me or
others have gone through stuff and we are we are
there exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I agree, But I think first people gotta go from
a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. And that's the
first and foremost right. They gotta go from a fixed
mindset to a growth mindset. And then they gotta realize
that you can't get in relationships. You can't really have
somebody love you. You alla love yourself. You know, Will.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Smith said it best.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You know, a person could make you smile, a person
can make you happy, make you laugh, But whether not
a person is happy, it's deeply and totally and early
out of your control. So like, if they're not really
happy with themselves and love themselves, it's not gonna be
happy with anybody else. So they gotta really find out. Okay, Well,
the three essences in life which I love is suffer, sacrifice,
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and success. Now in your mind, if you're suffering, find
out what do I need to sacrifice? You know a
lot of people are scared in my sacrifices. If your
best friend holding you down, if your best friend ain't
adding value to your life, you know they're a taker.
Cut about your life. I don't care how long y'all
be in friends respectful. You know, you have to look
out for yourself. Your mental health is everything, you know,
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especially our children. You know, if you're kids. Look, if
ain't adding value to your life and slain't filling your cup,
then what's who point having somebody you around you going
to go where you're celebrated and not where you're tolerated.
A lot of people are stuck in that at our
mindset of well that's my best friend. But yet y'all
arguing though, so like, basically that person is tolerating you.
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You know where you can be great because we wasn't
born to be average, you know, and any religion, any religion,
there's no average god in any religion, you know what
I'm saying, Like any religion, there's no average guy. So
we wasn't born to be average. We was born to
be great. A lot of people have to embrace that
and accept that that we are great. And like I
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spoke at a homeless ylater a couple of days ago,
and I went back and I told them, I said, guys,
don't allow homelessness to find you as a homeless person. Yeah,
you know a lot of people opinions, well, a lot
of people have people opinions find them. It's might tell
me Sean, well, I think you shouldn't be a model.
That's your opinion. Your opinion will not be my reality exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
So, and if I tell people all the time like
people don't have their opinions, but you have the vision,
you know what you capable of doing. Nobody know what
you're capable of doing but yourself. You have belief in
yourself and love yourself and just attack everything and be
phenomenal and be phenomenal. You're gonna track phenomenal people.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah. And what you mentioned is it starts with letting
go right because we say, oh, that's my best friend,
or this person helped me when I was in dark
times and blah blah. Yeah, you know, time goes by
for us. Uh, and we live in the present moment,
which is if something served us a second ago, this
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second might not serve us because the circumstances changed. The
context is different with every single we are living. And
it's not like, oh, so you mean we should treat
people like something we can discard. This is not about
discarding you shown your don't talk about discarding people. You
talk about relationships that serve you. Relationships that don't serve
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you anymore. Uh, And in life we can we can,
you know, join forces. It's good for a while, it's
a line. It's perfectly fine. Something's happened. We change, We
people change, circumstances change, and you know, there's a time
where we have to say farewell or goodbye or see
you later. And that, you know, even when I do
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this with my hands, feels like a magnet. We are
tracked like northern south poles of the magnet at first, right,
but then somebody starts switching and it becomes the south
south of north and north and we try. We're like, oh,
but he's my best friend, but something like you say,
it's tolerance. We're pushing each other back and we should
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see the truth. This is another thing people don't. We
don't see the truth. We're like, oh, but no, like
you say, it's your opinion, your perspective on the relationship,
and the person is what you created for that. You
put something shiny and you're like, oh, it's a beautiful.
But instead when sean On anybody else comes and tells you,
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I just noticed the way he speaks to you. Have
you seen that? Because it's that tells me something in there,
like do that gesture you know? And you're like, what gestures?
Like what do you mean? Non verbal clues? We need
those clues. We need those clues and step back and
look like an observer and say, oh, okay, that's when
we allow ourselves to let go and move on and
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get ready for something better. Self love, you said, self love.
Self love is really important, and I think it's not
easy to have. I cannot show you because it's virtual background,
but I have a book. Have you ever heard about
doctor Kirsten Nefity self self compassion? She has a tach talk.
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She has a tech talk about self compassion, and she
said something that really struck me. She said, self is
steam the one that you know we are so hype
about in schools and life self esteem. Self esteem. Self
esteem has some side effects, she mentions, while self compassion doesn't.
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Self compassion has the same benefits of self esteem, but
does not have the side effects of self compassion. Now
I'm not sure these are exactly her words, but this
is how I understood it, very clearly, like black and white.
And she what she mentions is when you have self
compassion and you're looking at a homeless person, for instance.
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Then you will be able to see not as an
all poor guy or judging why did he do that?
Why did he take care of this and this and that.
You're gonna be at the same level, and you're gonna
allow to wonder what if they were rich and somehow
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something happened in their life and they lost everything. Because
it happens, you know, we don't know what's going on.
So it allows non judgmental attitude, and it allows you
to treat yourself like your best friend. Talking about best friends,
she said, we don't treat ourselves like we treat our
best friends. When our best friend is in pain, we
go there, Oh, Sean, come on, man, let's let's let's
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have a cock king and queen. You know, it's just
feel the hog, feel the love. I'm here for you.
I'm here. You're in pain, I feel you. We don't
do that with ourselves. We put some shield in there,
closed the door, lock it in. I'm in pain, yeah,
but I don't show it what That's not okay And
this is not self regulation. Self regulation is yes, Andrea,
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you're in pain, yeah, in deep pain. I feel you.
I am there for you. This is how we should
start with ourselves. And love also comes with gratitude. And
will you do me a favorite? Can we do an
exercise together here for sixty seconds, just to show your
audience how is done. So, my friend Marjorie Dietrin taught
me something that she learned from her her teacher, Dromvlo Melchizedek,
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which is, for sixty seconds, you can drive, you can
sew your with your eyes open. Just think of all
the things you're grateful for for sixty seconds. So I'm
gonna look at the time and I'm gonna say one
thing I'm grateful for that you, and we're just gonna
keep doing this. The rule is, there's no rule. You
can be grateful for a cup, for anything, plastic bags,
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I don't know, for anything in your life. We're gonna
do this and then we're gonna talk. What has happened
to you? What has happened to me while we did that? Okay, okay, on, okay,
So I'm gonna start. I'm grateful for being here with
you and everybody watching and listening.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I'm grateful for that as well too.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Okay, I'm grateful that I wear eyeglasses and I can see.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I'm grateful for my children.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Okay, I am grateful for the husband that is always
here with me.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I'm grateful for another day.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I'm grateful for staying alive, grateful for my family. I'm
grateful that my father is still alive in Romania.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I'm grateful for my business and my business partners.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I'm grateful for all the people that I have met
for podcasting.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I'm grateful for all the viewers as viewing right now
showing mad Love.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I am grateful that I can see a tree outside
my window.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I am grateful for having my own vehicle.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
I am grateful that I can go in in a
used car, my family's car, and I can lock myself
in and record pages for my book.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I'm grateful that my book would be out soon.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, okay, so I think that the sixty seconds are gone.
How do you feel?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I just feel blessed. I mean, I'm not content, you know.
I tell people all the time, you want to be
grateful and be happy and accept your blessings, but you
never want to get content, you know, because there's always
somebody watching you, trying to catch you and take your
spot and be above you. If you're doing like when
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I'm doing like a clothing brand, or if you're a speaker,
you know, so you always want to keep that, keep
fresh and keep something new, keep going every single every
single day. Never give up, you know, don't let age
define what you got going on. I don't care before
years old, keep pushing Morgan Freeman than Gain's first millionto
he was what fifty five sixty Morgan Freeman. And then
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you got a lot of these successful people right now
didn't really get their first millionto it into their forties
and fifties because they ain't never they never gave up,
you know what I mean, people getting their thirties.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
But like I'm old. I'm old, getting they forties. I'm old.
I don't want to do anything. I'm just retired. I'm old.
What come on? Man?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Like, yeah, long you breathing, You got a breath on
your body. You got a chance to get money, You
got a chance.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
To be great.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You got a chance to go out there and impact
people lives. Because the youth is watching us, the kids
is watching us, you know what I mean. So I
want my son at thirty years old talking about dad.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm old.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Nah, man, go out there and be great. But there's
other things you can do. You know, you're not old.
Your mind. Oh he's still developing your mind. Yeah, you're
still learning things every single day.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
You know. That's what I'm going to say about the gratitude,
and then I'm going to share a story that I
think relates to what you're saying, and it's going to
be powerful when I observe that when I am grateful,
my heart opens up and I feel the love self
love that you mention, and also the love for what
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I have and the world. It's like the love for
the people, the love for life. I think this is
very important and I hope it helps everybody listening to
you and those you talk to, because I want to
help and support you and supporting them because everything you
say is right and everything it's true and it's empowering.
So gratitude for me is like you say, it's a blessing.
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It's a great thing. We notice the blessings, and those
blessings while we acknowledge them, they become our power. Just
like anger becomes a fuel, gratitude becomes another kind of fuel.
This time. You know, anger pushes you from inside out,
right gratitude brings you from outside in. This is how
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I see now the story that I meant as. I
was in a community center that where there are elderly
here in Toronto, and there was a group it's called
Grandparents' Friends or something like that, activities organized by a
very young and beautiful lady lady to bring families with children,
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and uh, you know, the elderly there together and doing
different things. And you know, some most of the elderly
were fine walking, you know they were from But there
was one single lady in a wheelchair, and I love
people in wheelchairs. And I went to her. You know,
she's in a situation where she has to spit a lot,
like she feels miserable. Right other people are walking having
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fun and she she doesn't feel physically good. She's in pain,
she's she's going through so much stuff. And I go
to her and I talked to her, and I asked
her some questions, you know, about how she feels and
all of that. And I feel that and I start
talking to her so she can switch her perspective. And
I asked her, where do you come from, Mario? Okay,
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how is your house there? Well, we had a house
that surrounded by trees, and oh, tell me about the trees.
What kind of tree? Well, we had an apple tree.
Oh my god, I love flowers and apple trees. Can
you tell me how they were? Like? Small? Okay, what color?
How did they smell? Where? What was your favorite place
in there? Well, sitting on a couch. How did the
couch feel? That was an armchair or chair or something?
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Wa it feels soft? And oh my god, this is
so good. How do you feel now? So I just
took her on a journey and then she was like,
I feel better. So she was still in the same room,
watching the same people in the wheelchair, but she started
changing her perspective on life. And I said, every time
you feel bad, every time you're in painting and you
feel like, you know, having pity for yourself, because that
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was the idea, remember the blessings you had, remembered those
beautiful moments. Because the brain doesn't know whether imagination or reality.
So we can use that, use this tool, make it
your reality here and now by bringing yourself in the moment.
And the other thing is I reminded her where she
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is in the moment, because in the moment, you know
she's in a wheelchair. But she was in a wheelchair.
But I found out from people take from her caregivers,
that there was a lady who could only lie down.
And I said to her, can you imagine how that
life is just being lying down, only able to move
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your head, never see like you see this room, These
people never be able to watch outside the window, And
can you imagine? And I told her, look, you are
in a way better place than her. I know you're
in pain, I know you're suffering. But if you're looking around,
you can help her. You can tell her what I
told you, and you can help her because she can
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still hear, she can still speak. And even if she
didn't speak, you know the fact that she can hear
and use her imagination, it's going to keep her going.
You know, that woman thought that her life is not
valuable anymore. You know, like I'm in a wheelchair, I'm
going through a lot of pain. I'm no good to anyone.
I'm not good to myself. And I told her you
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are because there are people worse going through worse things.
And when you realize your blessings, then you can you
can see your divine role. You can see how precious
you are for the world. When you go out and
you find that person who has at least a bit
more pain than you, you know, just a bit more
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pain than you. Go there and talk to them, and
oh my god, you'll see a miracle happening. You see
that you become a blessing in their life because you
bring something they need, which is care, love you. You know,
you know, Sean, the most precious thing that you do
and people react to is feeling seen, feeling hurt, feeling valued,
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feeling appreciated, feeling loved, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
That, and then the worst feeling is feeling took it
for granted.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Oh oh, you just touched a sensitive point with me
with that, because I've been taken from granted by many.
You know, you're taken from granted by people who love us,
by workers, by bosses, by colleagues, by uh it's yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
A that's that's when we really gotta find yourself. That's
when your mind really kicks in and you got better
your mind. But you gotta know your value. And you know,
I've been I felt like that before. But then I'm
able to pull myself out and tell myself, like I
could bring value to someone's life, you know what I mean,
Like I could really bring value to someone's life, like
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why say it hurt and go through pain and suffering
and I can I know my value? You know, I'm
a true lion. You see the photo of my background,
like I represent the lion fully. A lion is a protector, yeah,
and a predator. He his family. I'm my family one
way or the other.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
You know so, But I see I love how how
you said it, and I want to also add to
it to say that a lions and tigers are ferocious,
they are also very loving. And some people say, you know,
like the universe is not a friendly place. Life is
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a battle, It's it's a jungle. We have to fight
for ourselves, we have to protect ourselves and things like that.
And I'm saying something that I think aligns with what
you you said about being a lion, because I also
thought of myself as a lioness or a tigris because
I'm taking care of my cups, uh, my children and
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my husband. And I've noticed that this idea of fighting
and protecting can also be in harmony with being open.
Life is not a jungle where everybody wants to hunt
us down, although there are people with intentions like that.
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I'm not saying they're not. They are, but let's not generalize.
Life is here to support us, and life is also people,
and life is also circumstances. If something happens to us,
it doesn't mean it's everybody wants to. You know, if
you have this this mindset of I'm living in a
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cage and I'm like on a Nero playground, you know
where he's gonna bring lions to eat me, that's that
is not life. We cannot live with that with that mindset.
You got to you got to see that there's good,
that's bad, there's the ugly, and then there's nothing. Like
some things are because we give we have an opinion,
like you say, we give them certain importance, and we
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put our imagination to work to make it like, oh
it's this, but it's not. We always have to have
a reality check and you know, ask somebody else, like
what do you think about this? If they have the
same feeling as you, maybe you have insights, or maybe
simply both of you need to get out of there.
You know, if you're in a horrible situation and another
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person feels that, and you know, maybe both of you
are not recognizing something, or simply both of you or
more of you need to collaborate and bring the change
at the society level. Right, it's happening today.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
I love the way I love that concept of you
saying a lion because a lot all the guys have
that mentality of alliant. My mentality of allan is that
you know, a lion isn't the biggest because the elephant
is bigger than a liar, and a liar isn't the
fastest because a cheetah fastest exactly. But a lion is
the hunger. It's the hunger. He never dies in the life.
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And I tell people every time, I tell people, if
you have the hunger in you, no matter what you
go through in life, if you're homeless, if you go
through different situations in life, the hunger will never die
in you.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
If you're a lion.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
A lion is always hungry for success, always going on
there to feed that family.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
So the hunger never dies in a life.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
I was translated in my words as is soul yearning?
What your heart is yearning for? That's the line you're
talking about inside, right, The hunger is what is your
soul your heart hungry for? What is your mind hungry for? Chuse.
We always want more and better. We always do. And
also what you mentioned is getting out of the comfortable zone.
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Like you say, being content means being comfortable with what is.
When we're comfortable with what is, of course we don't
want to change anything. Something has to happen. So life
is kicking us a bit and says hello, I think
you should work from something. And then we have some pain,
we have some challenges, we have some things going on
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like you've seen in my story. And if we listen
and we step up the game, then we're gonna grow.
We're gonna have more, and we're gonna bring those people
you were talking about, those who really support us, serve us,
and help us in the best way possible. I love
how you're thinking. I'm glad we connected. Thank you for
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just so you know, everybody listening and watching this. He's
the one who contacted me and he's the first person
in my life who called me queen. And I had
to look it up. I had to listen to his
podcast and find out why the heck he's calling me
a queen because I don't. For me, It's like, oh,
he's filling up my ego. But then I realized why
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he tells women queen and men king. And that's something
that I really appreciate. Can you tell that to people
who watch me and have no thinking idea what we're
talking about here? Why are you and queen?
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Because we was born from royalty and I want people
to know that we're royal.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
We all got value.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
In this world. We got value to get. We was
born to be he was born royal. You know, like
I said, in every religion there's a god that wasn't
born average, So we was born royal. You know what
I mean that everyday there's a god that was born
to be a guy. So I felt like we was
born to be gods who was born to be great.
We was born to go out there whatever we good
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that what if it's writing, if it's cooking, if it's dancing, whatever,
it's good that we was born to be great at it.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
But we just got to have that belief in ourselves.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
And like you said earlier, courage, you know that step on,
you gotta have that courage in yourself and belief in
what you.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Got going on.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
You know, get up early in the morning and work,
Like if you don't want to do it, just do it.
Your mind's going to tell you no, but you want
to beat your mind. You know, like you said, your
mind going to keep you in a comfortable place. It's
a beautiful place, but nothing grows there. You want to grow.
Speaker 3 (45:54):
It's a beautiful place, but nothing.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
So you want to take your place. We want to
get out of the comfort zone and just grow past that.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
I have to cut down trees. I am from Temple, Florida.
I live in Maine. And when I got hired to
cut down trees, they called me the black Lumberjack. So
I'm I'm in the woods cutting down trees. I'm like, man,
what the heck? They called me Florida And like I'm like, man,
I'm getting ticked on me. I'm seeing snakes, spiders. I'm
like this ain't this, ain't no Florida stuff right here.
I really had to adapt and get out of my
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comfort zone, you know, and get used to the job.
And I did, and now I'm able to do and
adapt anything. Now I live in main where it's snowing
that I drove for FedEx when we have to drive
in blizzards, all white conditions.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
You live in Canada. You know how it is. Yeah,
you know, so.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
I got like driving all white conditions uncomfortable, you know,
by telling my mom like he just get past this.
You can do is have a belief in yourself and
I get past it. It's just another day. And people
gotta to realize that there's just a day.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Don't say a bad day, say a character building day.
You know, because we have good points in our day.
You take the good points for your day and don't
worry about the bad points and move on to the
next day, and you know, get up and apply it
and make the next day the best day.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
You know what you say again translating into how I
see it is taking everything that happened that supported you
in that day and make it like rocks for your
for your growth, like rocks for your soul, to hold
you to h and to encourage you and to tell
you that if you found at least one thing that
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brings light, beings, compassion, brings appreciate or anything like, just
one thing you that really brought something beautiful to you,
hold on to that. See if you can it can
happen again, How it can bring it again and again
and again in your life and one single thing can
actually help you and shift your life forever.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
I totally agree. I totally agree.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
So so a tot of v us about how they
can get a hold of you and in your book
as well too.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Okay, so I haven't finished my book. I'm writing it now,
so we'll see uh later this year. I hope I'm
going to bring it through self publishing. It's a spiritual memoir.
I talk about a short period of my life, but
full of full of stories. It's going to be about
love also. Uh, they can find me at Andrea petrud
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dot c A A N d r e A p
e t r u t dot c A. Me and
my friends organize all sorts of events where like even
now next week on Thursday, we have a workshop of
an hour and a half workshop where will help people
bring peace and serenity and healing in these times through
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heart imagery. And I'm here on Facebook. You see me commenting,
that's me Andrea put food coaching on Facebook. I'm on Instagram.
Also if you go to my website, you're going to
see all the links necessary. I have a YouTube channel,
but I'm not like you, as you know, renowned so I'm.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
Getting there and getting there.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
That's just hard work, hard work, you know, consistency, and
I tell people just being consistent and persistent, you know.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
So committing, committing to yourself. So if there's one thing
we can leave you all, as like Sean said, commit
to yourself, be consistent, keep with that. Those lights and
your life is just today. Hang gone, keep keep doing
because you're going to be great. And Alian, it was
thank you one for everything. It was really great to
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thank you. We need you.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Yeah, we did it, we did it, We did it,
so thank you so much. I'll get this on Apple.
I've seen you all the links for you have it
as well too when you're in, so share all your
Canadians for me.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I will bye everybody. Thank you for thank.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
You, no doubt. Thank you. Have a good day you too.
All right, y'all, Thank y'all for viewing.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
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Speaker 2 (51:10):
I love you all.