Inner Journey with Greg Friedman and Gratitude 2025

Inner Jouorney with Greg Friedman welcomes GRATITUDE every day and every moment to the best of our abilities. As a part of that process at the end or the beginning of every year we take an entire show to see what y'all are grateful for. It is a celebration that fosters abundance and we are happy toencourage others into recognizing that gratitude is a presence process that supports us now and always.  To that end,  THANK YOU!!!!!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hi, this is Greg Braden, Jack Canfield, Mariam Williamson, James
Van Praut.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Everyone, this is Neil Donald Walsh and I'm happy to
tell you that you're listening to Inner Journey with Greg Friedman.
Stick around, Your life will change any minute.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Here we go, folks, you are listening to Inner Journey
with Greg Friedman on k x F M one O
four seven broadcast from Laguna Beach for Laguna Beach and
for the entire world. Y'all know the gig sex relationships
stream interpretation. We talk about it all. We don't tell

(00:44):
you what to do and we don't tell you how
to do it for one good reason. It's not our
freaking lives. It's your life, which means it's your choice,
which means you have the power, You have the strength,
you have the ability to choose your happiness, to choose love,
to choose where you focus your time, your energy, your force.

(01:12):
There's a reason they talk about spending time because it's
the most vital currents that we currency that we have
in this form. Spend it well, and spend it so
that you feed yourself so that others can be fed.

(01:35):
This show will introduce you to pathways and possibilities and
all kinds of things, and ultimately there's one goal and
one intention alone to help you understand, to help you
realize you are the magic, and we just get to
help you along the way.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I want to get on your good, but I got
on the good buddy going down for the film.

Speaker 5 (02:18):
But that all hangs out.

Speaker 6 (02:20):
I well, so.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Get somebod.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Going down to the film and let it all hang out.

Speaker 7 (02:28):
Then we.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Get some mountain.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
With people to find and take the game.

Speaker 8 (02:38):
And then tell the music and the man to dancing
on the good.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
I got to beat on here the food boot. You
got to do it on the but do it with
the good.

Speaker 8 (02:50):
But I said the long a app back there all
get together both tracks and they pot it.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
In stood, But you know, to dance in the good.
They're good.

Speaker 8 (03:05):
Ain't nothing going over but the whole roll of build
and my usments.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
On my bedroom. You know my face didn't show them.

Speaker 8 (03:20):
I got I got a job in the painting the
news on the good.

Speaker 9 (03:26):
But the.

Speaker 10 (03:28):
Good they don't.

Speaker 11 (03:30):
You're good but.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Good, but they don't hear good but.

Speaker 12 (03:38):
Death you got didn't didn't shouting out, come on.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
On good.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
On the good? Bo Wow, the on the good book
on good.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
On good one who.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Only good one man din it stamps, then it jam
wow tip face.

Speaker 13 (04:54):
They don't know.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Come on, get up. Stop.

Speaker 14 (05:27):
My name is Marianne Williamson.

Speaker 15 (05:29):
And you're listening to Inner Journey with Greg Friedman.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Well come back. You are listening to in Her Journey
with Greg Friedman, And yes, that was mary Anne Williamson.
And we are talking to her right now and trying
to figure out the optimal date for her to come
back and visit with us. Unless you'll I've been hiding
under rock.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
There have been fires all over southern California. So far,
they have not hit Laguna Beach or Orange County, and
I hope that never comes to fruition. However, there's been
a lot of stuff going on Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades,

(06:26):
even working into the Valley, all over Malibu and Glendale
and Altadena and Pasadena and Burbank. And one of the
things that I've found is that in times of disaster,
we get the best of humanity. For the most part.

(06:49):
We get people helping one another, we get people pitching in,
we get people friendly to another one another, we get
people that are willing to go out there and take
care of a stranger's pets, a stranger's children, a stranger's stuff.
It doesn't matter. What matters is it's one human in
need and one human with an ability. And that, to

(07:15):
me is some of the absolute best of humanity. And
I've seen it. I lived through all kinds of funky stuff.
I was three miles south of the epicenter of that
huge earthquake we had in southern California, and people were
amazing to one another. They chipped in, it wasn't about

(07:40):
a monetary exchanger. You owe me this if I do that. Instead,
it was very very simple. There was a need and
there was an ability, and that's it. Nobody asked for
a remuneration. Nobody asked for a glorifica well, except for
you know, politicians and a few other so and sos

(08:03):
that decided to use it as fodder for their next campaign. However,
for the most part, people stood up and they saw
one another, and they saw their brothers and their sisters,
and their children and their aunties, and their grandmothers and
their mothers and their fathers, all in themselves and in

(08:28):
one another, and they understand we are all related to
all my relations and that to me is so incredibly
beautiful that, to me is the thing that makes me
have belief to know, to recognize that humans are beautiful

(08:55):
creatures and about that. And then one of the things
that I see inevitably is a lot of us will
revert back to pattern I mean, mine for me? What

(09:15):
can I do? What do I get? How is it
that I am here and I feel cheated or I
feel like I deserve or in whatever form, me me, me, me me?
And what if this world is transforming stay with me?

(09:38):
What if we're moving into a place where non monetary
exchange that giving because there's a need is the currency.
That giving to ourselves out of an act of love
is the currency. Feed yourself, Absolutely, feed yourself, because because

(10:00):
then you will be able to better feed another. Serve yourself,
and then you will be able to better serve another.
We do not have to revert back to a pattern
that is ignorant, disregarding, discounting, or jealous or angry, or

(10:20):
coveting or hoarding, so that we don't recognize, so that
we once again go blind. Going blind is a choice,
so is offering. There are so many people over the
last this last week I have seen people offer up homes.

(10:43):
I've seen them offer up food and close literally close
off of their own back. I've seen them offer anything
and everything that is needed. There's one picture that still
gets me. There's a fireman that is with one hand

(11:04):
got a hose and he's putting out a house fire,
and with the other hand he's petting a scared dog.
We have that in us. We could live in that place.
And I say it over and over and over. You
may think I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

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And we can do this. And it just takes the willingness,
the openness, the recognition of how powerful and wonderful and
well fed we are in mind, body, and spirit, so
that we don't have to covet another. Instead we can
offer to another. Reverting back to pattern, reverting back to

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a place where everything becomes a monetary exchange is not necessary.
I have seen such beauty in the worst of times. Perhaps,
just possibly, please let's transmute that and continue that beauty

(12:18):
and make this right now going forward the best of times.
That's all I got. And please just love yourself so
you can love another. And we have a very special
show tonight. Every year, either at the end of the

(12:42):
year or the beginning of the year, I do a
show where I invite a whole bunch of people, including y'all,
and if you want to out there listening, want to
call in. The number is nine four nine seven one
five five nine three six. That's nine four, nine five,
nine three six. And what we do is anybody and

(13:07):
everybody gets to share what they're grateful for. The only
rule is you can't say, hey, I'm grateful for Greg.
Hey I'm grateful for the show. Now. I want it
to be what you have going on in your own
personal life that rocks your world because it's so important.
Gratitude is a presence process. The more we can appreciate,

(13:30):
be grateful for what we have right here, right now,
the more it builds into the next moment. And I
say this at the end of every single program, and
I say it for a reason. Thank you. It's such
a phenomenal, simple prayer, Thank you, and we'll be back

(13:57):
with more inner journey right after a little lemmy.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
I would teacher.

Speaker 7 (14:26):
Than you.

Speaker 13 (14:30):
She shall be my.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
Way. Let me drive you away.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh should be done, everyone under.

Speaker 7 (14:49):
Us.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
You could be gas just day. Thank you you are
a saving say I am the savings.

Speaker 13 (15:12):
Because your mothers.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Some that's the true.

Speaker 16 (15:20):
Puss, your mothers snr.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Others think mister your n wish.

Speaker 17 (15:35):
Sometimes pushcomes.

Speaker 13 (15:46):
What do you say? Shall remember under house.

Speaker 18 (16:24):
Already to fire to.

Speaker 10 (16:29):
Some beast.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
There's the window.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Fall show most of the United City.

Speaker 13 (16:44):
We shall be then, shall be heroes.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Just a long day.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Hi everyone, this is Neil Donald Walsh, and I'm happy
to tell you that you're listening to In Her Journey God, Goodnight,
stick around. Your life could change any minute.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Nothing like the dulcet, sweet subtle tones of Lemmy and
Motorhead to bring us into a show of gratitude. All right,
we have Pamela Knutson calling in. Pamela is a local artist.
She works with a cat foundation here in town and
does so so many other things. And she has been

(18:12):
on in Her Journey. She's been on AM Radio and
probably conservatively a dozen or show or so other shows
on KXFM because she's such an amazing lady. Hey, Pamela,
welcome to in her Journey.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Ah, like Greg, that's a really nice introduction, thank you.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, yeah, you're just used to me being a smart
alec off air.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, definitely like, who is this person?

Speaker 3 (18:43):
See the truth will out.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
You're a good guy.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Don't let anybody believe that stuff, all right?

Speaker 15 (18:53):
You know the deal?

Speaker 3 (18:53):
This is the Gratitude Show. You have so many things
that have been going on in your life, and you know,
I know, tons and tons of tales of victory that
have you've experienced. Which or what do you want to
share with our listeners tonight?

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Well, I still think the biggest one. I was just
thinking about it tonight. It's been four years. Let's just
put it this way. Four years ago at this time
I was facing cancer surgery. I was stage three C
two uterine cancer and it.

Speaker 19 (19:31):
Was not good.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
And it's just kind of a trip to look back
and go that four years ago and I kicked it
in the butt and I'm still clear of cancer. And
I'm so grateful because I've got a lot to do
on this earth and I'm not done yet. I wasn't
ready to be done. And so yeah, that's my big gratitude.
Still still can't believe it. I'm so grateful for that,

(19:56):
you said.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
One of the biggest things. I've been working in wellness
for or most of my adult life in one way
or another. And it's that if you have a passion,
if you have a reason to be here, then that
will you will prevail. And you have done that stunningly.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Oh well, thank you. It's amazing. But something like that,
like a life threatening disease, will do to you. I mean,
I had a lot of dreams and things I wanted
to do with my life, but I kept thinking, oh someday, Well,
once I survived cancer, I'm still undergoing chemop arapi and
I went to hell with it. I have a dream

(20:35):
of getting a book published. I had a manuscript done
and had been reviewed and my editors and I was
trying to get it published traditionally that I went through
a hybrid publisher. Anyway, I decided to get the book
published and I found a publisher and did it. And
that was two years ago, and it's been amazing. Number One,

(20:57):
so proud of myself that I had the courage to
do it. But I really I think facing a life
threatening disease with the impetus to really take that next
step and get it out there. And what's really great
I'm grateful now is that it's you know, sales are
it's challenging. Marketing is hard because I have a day job,
and it's but it's picking up momentum and those who

(21:18):
have purchased it, those who I've done readings to children,
and I get such positive feedback. So I'm spreading light
through my story and that just makes me so happy.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
One thing, two things actually, One is please don't recommend
getting a life threatening illness in order to be able
to embody your dreams.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Well, I wasn't really recommend. I'm just saying that just
for in my case, really was kind of you know,
gave me the courage to just do it instead of
putting things off.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, get it in.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
I don't recommend it because it was hard.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yeah, that was the best, biggest understatement I've ever heard
you express. And also speaking of doing readings, I understand
that you have, first of all, what's the title of
the book. Tell us a little bit about it, and
I understand that you have a reading coming up, correct.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I do, Yeah, I do.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
So.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
The book is a children's book called Two Cats, a
Mermaid and a Disappearing Moon, and I started writing it
in twenty ten. But I won't go into you know,
a lot of detail, but it takes place in Laguna
Beach and cats. You know, you know I love casts,
Greg and most people in the community know I'm a

(22:39):
cat lover, animal lover, but I'm very fond of feelings anyway.
The protagonists are cats that were mine since past. But
it's a it's a magical adventure, but it teaches kids
about a lunar phenomenon that really is quite magical. So
it's it's a teaching moment, but it's through the magic
of nature. And I also recommend it to adults. And

(23:01):
where can people enter child any online bookstore? I mean,
it's available on Gosh, Barnes and Noble Amazon. I mean
I've googled it and it just comes up all over
the place. So just google Two Cats, a Mermaid, Disappearing Moon,
and you will find it.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Got it, and you're reading what's coming up.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
It's at a really cute little children's store in town
called Little Free Birds. And it's going to be the
twenty fifth Saturday, the twenty fifth, at eleven o'clock in
the morning.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
And one more time the name of the book. If
you would please.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Sure, Two Cats, a Mermaid and the Disappearing Moon.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Love it. Pamela, thank you very much for calling in
and joining us.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Oh well, thank you, Greg, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Thanks be well, all right, you guys will be back
with more gratitude right after this.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
Turning backs.

Speaker 7 (24:16):
Stop stop.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
That sun that suck suck in?

Speaker 7 (25:38):
What that.

Speaker 20 (25:50):
Suckatack said.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
That?

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Who Yeah, all right. I love this show. Every year
it gets me fired up. This show is all about gratitude.
Every single year we do a show at the end
of the year or the beginning of the year, and
it's all about being grateful because the more you could

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recognize the things that you're grateful for here and now,
the more it carries into the next moment. Our next
caller is Alessandro Bologni, calling in from New York. Alessandro
Bologni is somebody. She is, in my opinion, the fore

(28:55):
most authority on the Black Madonna that's alive today. And
she does more things with going into the energy, the
spirit and the archaeology and the history as well as
the manifestation of the Black Madonna through dance, through music,

(29:17):
through movement, through stories, and that's a beautiful thing. Alessandro,
welcome to Inner Journey.

Speaker 19 (29:24):
Thank you so agree to be back even if I'm
not there in your studio.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
It's been a long time.

Speaker 19 (29:31):
Laguna beach and warm weather.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
How cold is it in New York right now?

Speaker 19 (29:38):
Actually today was warm thirty nine degrees.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You cannot
say those two things in the same sentence to me.
You know, I used to be from there. I am
not from the animo. It's like my body would just
turn into a pillar of ice.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yes, no, no, no, no, all right, So mind dot too,
I can.

Speaker 19 (30:02):
I cannot take the call.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Tell the listeners what you're grateful for if you don't mind.

Speaker 19 (30:08):
Oh many things. Well, first for life, you know, first,
life is a miracle. So I'm grateful to be alive.
And I'm grateful for the Black Madonna being such a
big part of my life. And if I can just
eat listening it what I'm grateful.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
For my mother.

Speaker 19 (30:27):
I had a very special mother, and she talked me
a lot about unconditional love and the devotion to the Madonna,
and also about courage, strengths and the desire to be
a free woman and an artist. And I'm grateful also
for I think a gift gift that I had, you know,

(30:52):
by birds of the voice I always sang since I
was a child, I always had a singing voice. The
same with reedom. I always had freedom, and I realized,
you know, now that I'm older, that's not a give
and there was a gift, you know, like I was
gifted some talent to do what.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
I do today.

Speaker 19 (31:14):
But you know, as a child, I took it for
granted I could do all these things. And then also
grateful for being able to be free and express myself
with my creativity and come to New York to be
an artist because in my generation being from Italy, that
wasn't simple. Yet I am grateful for being born in

(31:36):
Italy and growing up in Italy. I really realized that
that's a very solid background and with great culture and civilization.
That again, until I got older, I took for granted,
Oh yeah, I was born in Rome by the colors
feel and I thought that was just normal. But I'm

(31:56):
grateful for that now I realize I grew up around this,
you know, the beautiful arts and culture, and I'm grateful
for love where I received and experience throughout my life.
I still feel the blessing and a lot of love,
A lot of also loving relationships including my ex husband

(32:19):
with great love story and as part of my artistic pastor,
and a lot of love experience with the artists and
musicians and people I share the stage with the healing
workshops that I do a lot of love times from
my students, from people who follow me that you know

(32:42):
that restep healing. And then also I think I've been
blessed to meet great men that became my spiritual father.
I will gave me a lot of also, you know,
a lot of strength and inspiration. I have to naming

(33:03):
the dean of the cathedral, Saint John the Design, James
Parks Marston was an extraordinary man and a visionary. Took
me under his wings, and that's why I am Artistian
residences in John the Design. I'm very very grateful to
be there. I was just there for near receieves at
their concert, looking around to say, Wow, I'm really blessed

(33:26):
that this is my home.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
No, Alessandra, I don't know if this is possible. Could
you please give us a quick short story of the
Black Madonna? And I know I'm asking for something that
I'm asking you to condense a huge and a set
of encyclopedias into a paragraph, but I'm.

Speaker 19 (33:48):
Asking it was four hundred and thirty five pages in
my book, but in many ways she still represents the
Mother of Ris, but it's the pre Christian tradition of
a Christian devotion. I would say in a few words

(34:09):
that she's the female aspect of God, the cosmic Mother
that where we come from, the black you know, the
darkness representing the cosmos as well as the Earth Mother,
the womb of the Mother, the womb of the Earth
that we come from. All that darkness really represents, you know,

(34:34):
are the origins of human kind. And that's why she's
so popular all over the world. And in the pre
Christian times, these black goddesses were very, very important and
very strong. Isis, so I would say the biggest connection
is with the goddess Isis from Egypt, with the black

(34:54):
goddess of magic and also of laws of very complex
Now also she Ballet, the goddess of the Earth from
Thirsty Anatolia and from Rome, and the goddess of the Moon.
She represents also the dark side of the moon, and
so Diana or Artemis, and then the other aspects of

(35:16):
the great goddesses, which are all aspects of them, you know,
the origin of life where we come from, including Aphrodiity, Venus,
the godless of.

Speaker 10 (35:25):
Love and water.

Speaker 19 (35:27):
Black Madonna also represents the prim audio water.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Where we comes from.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
And Laluna has been coming up a lot tonight. And
as we start to enter into our next full moon.
You have a book that you just mentioned here to share.

Speaker 19 (35:42):
Yes, Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
I was.

Speaker 19 (35:47):
I was at your station with you, yes, and we
were one of the people who pushed me really hard
to get going to.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Do that book.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
All right, Yes you do.

Speaker 19 (36:01):
So you've been an inspiration.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Thank you. Tell tell our listeners where they can find
your book, please.

Speaker 19 (36:09):
Well it's on Amazon and Healing Journeys with the Black
Madonna Bars and No Books is published by Inner Traditions,
Bear and Company, which is a very good publisher. And
I've been blessed. I was going to name him after
Dean Morton to have the introduction by an amazing man,

(36:30):
visionary writer, Reverend Matthew Fox. So his introduction also has
been a blessing. I'm very grateful for that.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
And then you give workshops all over the place. You
give workshops that are in Italy, that's in the south
and Sicily, and you have a workshop coming up fairly
soon in Maui as well. Is that correct?

Speaker 19 (36:50):
It's not in Maui, it's in Oahu. I do go
to Mawi, but I work in Maui, but in a
different aspect. The workshop is in Oahu at the Windwater
Treats Enter on February twenty third through March first. It's
so doubt, but I do it every year and it's
called readom is the Cure. So because I believe that

(37:11):
readom is the cure very much.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I love it. And if people want to find out more,
when people want to find out more about you, how
do they go about doing that? Oh?

Speaker 19 (37:21):
They can check my website, Alessandra Belloni. Should I expill it?
I think so yes, A L E doubles A N
D R A B E L l O ni dot com.
And also I have a Facebook page with my name
and Instagram it's the other way around, belooney. Alessandra. Yeah,

(37:46):
I post post a lot of things there. I am
very excited and I have a film coming out.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
You know that, right?

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Well?

Speaker 19 (37:54):
Yeah, you remember?

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Do I remember? Yes? We are going to have you
on when you get your film a little bit closer
to release. And in the interim, I just want you
to know I'm grateful, grateful for you in my life, Alessandra.
Oh but I am for you too, and we'll be
back with more inner journey and more gratitude right after this.

Speaker 16 (38:49):
Gets a little bit funny, this feeling inside.

Speaker 10 (38:57):
I'm not one of those who can.

Speaker 21 (39:01):
He's only high.

Speaker 16 (39:05):
I don't have much money, but boy, if i've to,
i'd buy a big house where.

Speaker 10 (39:16):
We could both live.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
It follow us gold, but then again no or man
who sell oceans but then.

Speaker 10 (39:33):
Travel and shovel.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
I know it's not much, but it's the press I
can to.

Speaker 10 (39:44):
My gift is my song.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
This one's for you, but you can tell everybody.

Speaker 10 (39:57):
This is your song.

Speaker 16 (40:01):
It made me quite simple, prod. Now that it's time,
I hope it's so mind. I hope it's so mine.

Speaker 21 (40:12):
Got I put down in the world.

Speaker 16 (40:17):
How long live life is while you're in the world, saddled.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
The kids out?

Speaker 1 (40:39):
The love?

Speaker 16 (40:42):
What a few those persons.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
You know why.

Speaker 10 (40:46):
Make me quite crl.

Speaker 16 (40:50):
But the sound has been quite come while I wrote
down that song.

Speaker 10 (40:57):
It's for people.

Speaker 22 (40:58):
Lock you that.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
Mixture, so excuse me, fork.

Speaker 10 (41:10):
But these things that I do.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
See.

Speaker 10 (41:14):
I woke out then you know that any mean things
what I what I mean?

Speaker 5 (41:26):
I mean?

Speaker 23 (41:29):
It was out the sweetest eyes I ever see. And
you can tell everybody and.

Speaker 19 (41:43):
This is your song.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
It may be quite super.

Speaker 24 (41:50):
Not that is till.

Speaker 18 (41:53):
I hope you to had I hope you to d.

Speaker 11 (41:57):
Got out time?

Speaker 18 (42:02):
How loveest, how one.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
Liveest?

Speaker 2 (42:24):
WI your.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
All right, y'all? You are listening to k x F
M one O four seven broadcast from Laguna Beach, California,
for Laguna Beach and for the rest of the universe.
And you are listening on fun Night. I get to
have all kinds of people from all over the world

(42:59):
call in to share what they're grateful for. And that's
just such a cool thing to me. It's like, imagine
if we spent at least an equal amount of time
speaking about those things that rocked our world, that fascinated us,
that thrilled us, that gave us a reason to be

(43:19):
excited about being alive rather than existing. How much would
that shift the timber of this entire world? And our
next caller is a local man named Aloha Curtis. Now,
the reason Curtis came into my mindset about calling this

(43:40):
evening is because TJ has a show right before mine,
and usually he does a lot of surf music and
Hawaiian music and all kinds of things. Tonight he was
playing a song and I came into the studio went, oh,
I've never heard that version of the song.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Who is that? And he said it's a Loha Curtis
and I went no way, Curtis.

Speaker 25 (44:10):
Yeah, yeah, way, thank you, Thank you, Greg. A pleasure.

Speaker 10 (44:15):
You know.

Speaker 25 (44:18):
I like your idea of what your you know, people
are grateful for, and I was just thinking, this is
down my float chart of what I'm grateful for. But
I'm going to segue right into it community, you know,
because I was thinking about you and Tom and how
I'm so grateful that there's support in the community at

(44:40):
different levels, that there's any interest in like what artists
are doing sometimes even if they're not like totally mainstream
or whatever. So that's one thing I'm usually grateful for.
But back at a more basic level, I want to say,
electricity is pretty great, all.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Right, did not anticipate that? Cool? I'll talk about that.

Speaker 25 (45:04):
Yeah, well, you know, so without revealing exactly like my
home address, there's like a band of a residential area
in in Laguna Beach that has been experiencing power outages
for a couple of days, allegedly from the winds. I
thought it was preventative, but you know, so it's been

(45:25):
like camping as far as you know, no electricity, and
I actually liked that. I could see the stars better.
But it's slightly off putting when you when you're driving
home and you go up the hill and the people
down the hill have electricity and you don't. So that
was a little bit, you know, funny. But but you know,

(45:46):
I'm I'm grateful for, of course, being healthy. I'm happy
to be alive. I have a healthy family. I'm an
able bodied person. I have all the right parts.

Speaker 10 (45:56):
You know.

Speaker 25 (45:57):
Some people are missing something significant, can't and still somehow
make it through. Like I know a woman who's missing
a leg, and she's such an example of perseverance, you know,
and tenacity that if I feel like I'm having a
bad day, I think to myself, well, I'm doing all right.
If I got both my legs and all my fingers

(46:18):
and all that stuff, you know, that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
I agree entirely. Now, Curtis, around town, you're known for
two things. Predominantly one of them is your puppy and
the other is your music. Which one you want to
talk about first?

Speaker 25 (46:35):
Well, either one. Yeah, I mean I'm open to it.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Go for it, you call it, go for it?

Speaker 25 (46:43):
Yeah, okay, Well yeah, I'm grateful for music for sure.
I'm grateful for expression. For it's a phenomena I call positioning,
you know, because I was born into a family of
talented people. There's a lot of talented people in my family.
My mother was a great actress, a great artist, amazing singer.

Speaker 14 (47:07):
She could play guitar.

Speaker 25 (47:09):
Her brother was a He studied classical guitar under Pepe Romero.
I remember him from family gatherings and he's still around,
and you know he was. He inspired me so much
to be interested in guitar. And my aunts they could
play violins, fiddles, flutes, pianos. They all had beautiful voices.

(47:34):
They were musically literate. My my grandmother, who's related to
June Carter, she's she was a Carter. She she had
an audition for this big band and I think it
was the forties, and and she got the job, and
then she got pregnant and she left the gig and

(47:56):
it was, oh my gosh, the Golden Girl. You know,
what's her name? Did she recently pass or is she
still around? I can't believe I'm blanking out anyway, my
you know, a lot a lot of my family were
like a couple of hairs away from being really famous.
So it was kind of cool to grow up in

(48:17):
that situation and not realize that that wasn't completely normal.
And you know, I never really had formal musical lessons,
but I was surrounded by these musical events and was
so it just became a very important part of my
life and I'm grateful for that. You know, even even

(48:37):
if success in music is not always really that financially
rewarding directly, you know, it's still it's still a joy
to be involved something that you you reach a certain
point of commitment where it doesn't really matter that you're
not making much of a living at it. I don't

(48:58):
know if you understand why, but it's okaya, Oh you
can't stop doing it. You're like, you know, well, god,
I spent a lot of time doing this, and you know,
you have a day job because you got to pay bills.
But I'm not going to stop doing it, so I'm
still enjoying the opportunity, And I figured, like the worst
thing that can happen when I'm looking for new opportunities

(49:19):
is that they close the door on me. Is that
they say, no, you know, we're not gonna you don't
have that chance, or but how do you know if
you don't try. It reminds me of a Jim Carrey quote.
He said, you could fail doing something boring and ordinary
and that you don't even really want to do, so
you might as well do what it is that your

(49:40):
heart's desire. And then if you fail, you knew, you know,
you tried.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Yeah, a man's grasp should exceed his reach out? Is
what's a heaven for?

Speaker 2 (49:50):
There?

Speaker 25 (49:50):
You go shoot for the stars yep.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
And you know everybody up in the fires in LA
and the Palisades and Malibu and Glendale and Burbank. One
of the things that strikes most at the heart is
all of the pets, all of the different animals, even
the ones that they may call predators. There's cougars, and

(50:13):
there's mountain lion, and there's there's coyotes. There's all kinds
of animals up there. And for you like me, I
mean pretty much anybody that knows me knows my little
lap dog, and that goes along with me almost everywhere.
He's laughing because my laptog is about one hundred and
fifty pounds so and that's the same way with you, Curtis.

(50:38):
Talk to talk to me about your relationship with that
little one.

Speaker 25 (50:42):
Yeah, okay, Well, so I guess I'm a spiritual person
and I do believe that there are connections, you know,
forged beyond, like the tangible universe, and creatures come into
your life to support you or age you or teach
you things. And you know, I my pet if you will, Millie,

(51:07):
she's just she's such a lover. She's so she's so
friendly and garious, and you know, she's my support. Animals
sounds silly. Some people don't even really like dogs, but yeah,
that's I mean, I'm just saying, like, you know, there's
people out there that they're not dog people. I love animals.
It's not just dogs, but but and dogs are a

(51:28):
lot of work. You know, they can do a lot
of work. I mean, you want to give them attention.
The last thing you want is a neglected dog. Nobody
wants that. But yeah, animals, you know, kids always point
out that that you know dogs spelled backwards as God.
I mean, there's something, there is something sort of divine
in the connection of you know, pet, the unconditional love

(51:55):
that it gives you ulterally asking is just for you
to give it its basic needs. And yeah, that's it's
so it's like a breath of fresh air or a
drink of water after crossing the desert, or excellent meal
when you've been fasting. It's the connection between human and dog.

(52:16):
It triggers the release of oxytocin in both the animal
and the human or both animals. And you know, it's
it's a wonderful thing. And it's gone on for tens
of thousands of years, and it's been refined in an
amazing way with selection, and you know how we interfered.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
And what's your puppy mean to you?

Speaker 25 (52:41):
She's she's just yeah, she's very precious. So I guess.
Wrapping back around to the fires and people who are
displaced and back to community, I want to say that again.
I'm grateful for community and my dog is definitely part
of the community and she supports me in ways they're
like sort of not even possible to put in words,

(53:04):
but I think that now. Being Californians, there's a lot
of people out there that are able to support others,
and now is the perfect time to reach over the
fence and aid those who need it, whether it be
you know, nonprofit radio stations or those who've lost homes.

(53:26):
I'm looking forward to seeing builders donating their services to
help rebuild things. I got to thank the firemen, some
of which I know who you know, put themselves in
harm's way to help out other people that they don't
even know. I want to see people in California rise

(53:47):
to the occasion and aid each other as my dog
aids me in my ordinary functioning. Yeah, she's like a
fur angel. You know, if that inspires you to do something.
But now it is a good time to take something.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Always is. I agree with that in the times always now, Hey,
is there anything I can support you do? Anything you
want to plug? Anything upcoming that you want people to
know about?

Speaker 26 (54:12):
God?

Speaker 25 (54:12):
Well, you know, I'm just I'm trying to book the
sawdust and trying to get I'm trying to get Rachel
to tune in on the radio. I've had a couple
of good, good pops here and there on the radio.
I don't really have the next gig until until the set,
but you know, look me up just if you guys

(54:36):
are interested, or ask Greg to play something they've been playing.
My version of submission has gotten out there and a
little bit. And you know, I think that Baby Beach
and that and it Don't Come Easy. I think that
those are good ones.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Yeah, it Don't Come Be Easy was the one that
got me coming in the room. It was so awesome,
it was very very cool. All right, Curtis, we are
running low on time. I just want to thank you. Uh,
you know, you always have a kind word, you always
have a big smile, and I always feel happier for,
you know, just encountering you wherever we happen to run

(55:10):
into one another.

Speaker 25 (55:11):
So thank you for being likewise likewise. Say hi to Petunia,
Thanks for the thanks for your time. Have a great night.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
All right, all right, you guys, we have come to
the end of the first hour. We are going to
rock and roll and see you on the other side.

Speaker 24 (55:39):
I'll listen to the wind, to the end of my
soul where I'll end up. Well, I think only God
really knows. I've said it on the said in some

(56:00):
but never never Vne for never. I never wanted water once,
never the heaven.

Speaker 21 (56:11):
Ne.

Speaker 24 (56:20):
I listen to my words, but they fall far below.
I let my music take me where my heart wants
to go. I swam upon the devil's leake. But never, never,

(56:42):
v never for never. I'll never make the same mistake.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
Never ne heaven never.

Speaker 21 (57:01):
Come.

Speaker 27 (57:34):
What will you do if I say out all, we
should stand up and walk out on me, Lay out
on me your ear and I'll sing you a song.
I will try, not just sing out of jeep. Well

(57:54):
better not.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
Let me listen.

Speaker 11 (58:02):
My man said, I'm gonna get on back.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
My face.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
I'm gonna little hell.

Speaker 11 (58:18):
What do I do when my love is a way?

Speaker 13 (58:23):
Does the world be longe?

Speaker 5 (58:27):
No?

Speaker 3 (58:27):
No hound?

Speaker 4 (58:29):
Do I feel at the end of the days? Are
you saying because you're on your own?

Speaker 10 (58:37):
I said you, I don't get signed no more.

Speaker 5 (58:40):
Lettle call from my friend.

Speaker 10 (58:42):
I'm gonna get fine. I'm gonna get.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
Fine A leader, help from my.

Speaker 19 (58:47):
Friend to normal keep on trage'll.

Speaker 13 (58:50):
Letal help from my friend.

Speaker 10 (58:53):
I don't get said no more.

Speaker 13 (59:03):
I do lead about.

Speaker 27 (59:09):
I need someone one the lord.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
I could have been about.

Speaker 11 (59:17):
A let me somebods a smell nooy, somebody who knows
a little joy from myriad said, I'm gonna.

Speaker 28 (59:36):
Get fat about no sound about.

Speaker 11 (59:41):
The time when frobout, when I made our hair.

Speaker 22 (59:46):
From my head.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
Wood?

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Did you be lead even love at first sight? I'm
certain it happens all the time. What do you see
when you can turn of the light. I can tell
you about it.

Speaker 29 (01:00:12):
Shuts like mine.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Said, I'm looking on that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
I'm going on that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Ship with a little from my prayer.

Speaker 19 (01:00:40):
I do you leave out a life?

Speaker 10 (01:00:50):
I coluded be a.

Speaker 29 (01:00:55):
Love me sobody, somebody who's not a live man, somebody
who's gonna so in a way.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
When I'm gonna get back, I'm gonna get back by well,
I'm hona keep on, child, I'm gonna keep.

Speaker 22 (01:01:22):
Trying to get John, gonna keep on some pen together
a week, no boy, I mean.

Speaker 26 (01:01:38):
Again again again.

Speaker 8 (01:03:02):
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Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Its management, or its board of directors. My name is
Greg Friedman. I am a modern version of those that
have existed in every culture. I am a guide. For years,
I have taken people all over the world to work
with indigenous elders in exotic locations, only to show you
that you are the magic, and we just help you

(01:03:39):
realize it.

Speaker 10 (01:03:41):
It could be.

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
Terrifying to look at our fears, and sometimes even more
so to look at our strangers. I take you out
into the wild, into the unknown foreign Inner Journey. All right,
you guys, here we go. You are listening to Inner

(01:04:02):
Journey with Greg Friedman on k XFM one oh four
point seven, broadcast from Laguna Beach, for Laguna Beach and
for the entire world. All right, this is a very
special evening. What I mean is at the end of
every year, and at the beginning of every year, or

(01:04:23):
at the beginning of every year, I have a host
of people calling in randomly or just people that I know,
picking randomly. And the idea is singular expressing gratitude, because
every moment in gratitude creates the next. And if we

(01:04:46):
can remember to be grateful, then we are simply like
wealthy people building on our wealth and it becomes more
and more abundant and easier and easier to recognize and
to dance in. And next up on the hit parade,

(01:05:07):
we have Michelle Schmidt. Michelle has done so many things. However,
one of the things that I find most extraordinary about
Michelle is her thirst, her hunger, her drive, her desire
to grow internally in this world and to be able

(01:05:29):
to express love, happiness, and joy to herself and to
others more fully every single day. How is that, Michelle?

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
Wow?

Speaker 15 (01:05:41):
That was something nice?

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Stroke, Greg, Yeah, my heart.

Speaker 30 (01:05:47):
Much.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
All right, we may have to call you back if
we can't get a better connection because your phone just
went all wonky. So how's this mo Beta? Thank you
very much?

Speaker 26 (01:06:00):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
All right, Let our listeners know if you don't mind,
what's you grateful for?

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Well?

Speaker 15 (01:06:07):
You know, I thought about this the other day from
a variety of standpoints, like life is so full, And
when I started thinking about exactly how you introduced me,
I come to how you started the program. There's an
immense outer disruption going on right in California, these devastation

(01:06:28):
of these fires, and you started the program with humanity
being demonstrated and really large and small ways as the
fire's rage. And in the middle of disruption, what I
am so grateful for is this outpouring of love?

Speaker 26 (01:06:43):
And my experience is that.

Speaker 15 (01:06:47):
Gratitude is absolutely a transmitting force. It is a gateway
for love. My pal, who you're going to interview later,
Betsy Sanders, has said to me a number of times
that when I say thank you you, it's really about
you knowing that you are loved and appreciated.

Speaker 26 (01:07:06):
And so.

Speaker 15 (01:07:08):
I moved from that outer disruption to the inner world.
And I'm going to go back seven years. My husband
passed seven years ago, and oddly enough, I will say
that I am super grateful for the inner disruption. That
grief was the journey of grief, walking through the dark night.

Speaker 10 (01:07:27):
Of the soul.

Speaker 15 (01:07:28):
When Haspis asked me how long we've been married when
he got diagnosed, I said not long enough. And I
truly can say that grief was a transformative, alchemical process
that transmuted was transmuted by pouring myself into gratitude. Finally,

(01:07:49):
after I got through being them and distracted and finally
got down to what was pulling me out of my
own uh navel gazing, it was gratitude, gratitude that that
filled my body again with feelings uh gratitude that filled

(01:08:09):
my heart to overflowing for the example that he had
been in my life, and I thank you for this.
You you talked to me about this the other day
that the people who have been in our life or immortal,
they touch us and they leave things us in us
that we pass on. And he left in me this
this amazing strength and this amazing gentleness that as a

(01:08:32):
foundation for the life that I'm creating going forward, and
I'm using that foundation now in the middle of a
huge inner disruption. You know, you talked about my thirst
for inner inner growth and and learning, and I can
truly say that thank you for the uranus Uh transit

(01:08:55):
of my Leo moon Uh and the quote inner disruption
that it's made making that this period of inner growth
is probably one of the most difficult unfoldings, and we
all need grounding and support for those journeys, for those
tough inner journeys. Our self love people like you, Greg

(01:09:18):
being one of them. I'm grateful for the people who
support us through those inner journeys. I'm going to go
back to my pal Betty Sanders, who you're going to
interview here. We all need somebody, We need a tribe
of somebody's but we really do all need somebody who
sees us clearly when we're in those periods when we

(01:09:40):
can't see ourselves, like a huge interdisruption can create for us.
We need, as that song that you just played, a
little help from our friends.

Speaker 26 (01:09:52):
We need that grounding and.

Speaker 15 (01:09:53):
Support that those people give us. So I'd say, where
I find myself right now today, and then the outer
disruption of these god awful fires that are actually an
odd blessing in disguise, burning away what needs to be
burned away so that we can love each other more deeply,
including our own selves. So that's what I got for you, Thus,

(01:10:15):
bar Gregor, that'll work.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
So that'll work.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Yeah, it's just be grateful for what you're grateful for.
And the thing is, I have heard throughout the evening
so many different ways that people are looking at gratitude,
so many ways that feel into it, and there's no
wrong way. So thank you. I am incredibly grateful for you.

(01:10:41):
I'm incredibly grateful for your presence on this planet and
how you bring life to yourself and in that process
you bring life to so many other people.

Speaker 15 (01:10:53):
You as well, my friend, thank you so much for
having me it's been a treat to share gratitude with
you and your audience.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
We truly are one.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Great, big family.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
All right, y'all, we're gonna take a short break and
when we come back, how about a little mule gratitude
Because I don't think I can get enough.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
He came back to me.

Speaker 31 (01:11:44):
Who the so he got ju ju ballman, holy roll?

Speaker 5 (01:11:52):
He got him.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
To is me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
Got jupe a jump up?

Speaker 5 (01:12:01):
He just do what.

Speaker 31 (01:12:17):
You and those shoes shined. He got to jumpoobaw. He
got my get backer shoe co cola.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
He said, I know you.

Speaker 11 (01:12:31):
You know me, Ma, I can tell you if you got.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
To got together.

Speaker 10 (01:12:46):
Over me?

Speaker 4 (01:13:23):
He roll a coost, he got water and he got
mad and water.

Speaker 13 (01:13:31):
He want more joke built up?

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
He said, one and one and one is.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
Got two people looking coning.

Speaker 11 (01:13:44):
S come to get.

Speaker 19 (01:13:52):
Over me.

Speaker 8 (01:14:23):
In your journey, guiding you on an adventure of spiritual
and personal growth, helping you realize and make real the
life of your choosing.

Speaker 32 (01:14:33):
I just want to let you know that even though
this was a difficult experience, I really learned a lot.

Speaker 6 (01:14:45):
Lessly holding her can Harvis never ding award, busting them
says of and torture's baby hearts, wishing he.

Speaker 13 (01:15:05):
Could that I only children at the.

Speaker 11 (01:15:10):
Sound of goodbye, and.

Speaker 6 (01:15:18):
Wordlessly watching heels fall in and wonders at the empty
place inside, heardestly help being himself to a.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
Bad dreams and lobbies?

Speaker 13 (01:15:38):
Did he hear goodbye?

Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
I ah?

Speaker 4 (01:15:43):
Either hello?

Speaker 19 (01:15:48):
The word?

Speaker 21 (01:15:50):
The person they had to.

Speaker 10 (01:15:54):
Own?

Speaker 6 (01:15:54):
They had three together, they had four awful each other.

Speaker 13 (01:16:08):
Stand still, We see something.

Speaker 18 (01:16:13):
To tend to tell you.

Speaker 6 (01:16:15):
Confusion has its course, love, isn't itsels in a.

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
Lingers saying shades and choking.

Speaker 10 (01:16:35):
On hello?

Speaker 13 (01:16:38):
The one person they had to.

Speaker 5 (01:16:44):
Own.

Speaker 30 (01:16:45):
They had three together.

Speaker 21 (01:16:48):
They hut for.

Speaker 13 (01:16:50):
For each other, that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
Is the gems and they on more than a few times,
and they are absolutely phenomenal. We have Phoebe Diffler calling
in right now. Phoebe is one of the fore most
Thai Yoga massage therapists and Thai Yoga massage masters and

(01:17:21):
teachers in the country. She has taught workshops all over
the country. She has given Tai Yoga massage to people
of all kinds, of different sizes and shapes and creeds
and cultures. And the one thing that is consistent is
that every person walks out feeling liberated, feeling more full,

(01:17:47):
feeling more powerful as a result of the energy, the time,
the love that Phoebe shares with them, and on top
of everything else, Phoebe is a resident of Palisades and
she had to bug out to come down here and
is now temporarily a resident of Laguna Beach. First of all,

(01:18:11):
thank you welcome. And what are you grateful for today?

Speaker 26 (01:18:18):
Well, I've been thinking about what is it, which thing
to speak to focus on and our feature and you know,
you know, I've taught time assage for about twenty years,
and I haven't taught since COVID the White Loatus Foundation,
where I taught clothes and so I've you been really

(01:18:39):
missing sharing that work with students. And after the fires started,
you know, a lot of a lot of my students
have been to my house and studied privately with me,
and they know how close I worked with the fire.
I actually moved from that place, but I still live
very close and a lot of people have checked in

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on me and told me how important I was to
them and how much you know, the time we shared
together means to them, And so I'm really grateful. I'm
grateful to just see how how what I put out
actually landed with people enough that they wanted to call them.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Tell me, I love that, would you mind terribly as
long as you're on the phone telling us a little
bit about your experience up there. And I understand you
were pretty much at ground zero when you saw it
at the early early stages. How has that affected you

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for the better and maybe even a little bit traumatically.

Speaker 26 (01:19:44):
Well, I first saw it. I think it was about
ten o'clock and I was walking with my friend and
maybe we had walked twenty minutes up up closer to
rest at canyon, and we looked up. There were two
other people there, and you know, we've been hearing about
how conditions are really dangerous, you know, for days the

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things were going to be dangerous, and we were and
I just meant that fire and just in the maybe
two minutes three minutes that we were standing there, it
got bigger and bigger, and it you know, it was
very threatening and ominous. But I had, of course have
no idea how bad it was going to be. I
mean it literally, you know the street that I lived,

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the house I was, the building I lived in for
twenty years, the street, the street across the street, the
street next to that, the one on both sides, the
you know, the grocery store, the the the whole other
section of the Talisas on the other side of the sunset.

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My friend's house that I spent so much time in,
the place where I go swim every day, all of
it is gone. There's nothing, nothing there, and you can't
even recognize. And you know, when people drive by and
show all the destruction, you can't even it's hard to
even understand where they are because there's there are no

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landmarks anymore, you know, when you think about a building
being like there's there are these big beautiful houses on
the left that overlift, overlook the cliffs, and somehow my mindset, well,
if they're burned, you'll be able to see the houses
behind them, and of course they're also gone.

Speaker 5 (01:21:27):
You know, And so.

Speaker 26 (01:21:30):
I just I just started, you know, I feel like
there's no physical container for the memories that of what
happened to me there, you know, the teaching with my students,
the dog that I had there for twelve years, you know,
all the friends that came and lived with me oftentime,

(01:21:50):
all of it. You know, I mean, if I have
a container inside of myself.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
But yeah, that's what I was going to say. You
are the physical container. You are the vessel that carries
that life force, those memories, those experiences that cheat in you.
That is that full not existence, but life, and that's

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the thing that's such a beautiful thing. If you could
let go and see beyond the ashes, and I'm not
saying that's an easy feat, however, I'm asking if you
could see beyond the ashes, then you will see the
phoenix because all of this rises again because it lives

(01:22:38):
in you. All of those things that you're thinking about now,
all those things on some level that you're re experiencing
through remembering, are now bringing more immortality, more life to
those teachings that you gave, to that laughter that you shared,

(01:22:58):
to those tiers that you share, to every experience and
facet of your life as it is, it is now
in its truest form, meaning that it resides in the hearts,
in the minds, and the bodies, and in the love
of each person there and each person that you shared
it with.

Speaker 26 (01:23:22):
Yeah, I know that's true, and I do sort of
feel some of the shock of it in sort of
not being the most dissipating sum and I think after
that I will be able to feel that more and more.
I mean, I was listening to your gayest that was

(01:23:44):
talking about when her husband died that I've heard. I
don't know her exact words, but how feeling gratitude is
what helped her through it. And I think that's connected
with what you're saying. Just knowing that I don't need
a physical can painter, and especially you know, students calling

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in and saying how important I am to them, you know,
and what they learned is that's another way of saying
what you're saying, it still exists.

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
Is there some way to support you?

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
For me?

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
If I were in your position, the one of the
best medicines would be to be able to work, because
my work revolves on around love, and so does yours.
If people would want to, you know, you're down here
in Laguna Beach, you know, and for an indefinite amount
of time. Are is there a way to get a
hold of you? Aren't you have a website or a

(01:24:42):
page or a Facebook page where people can contact you
and maybe get a Tayo yoga massage while you're down here,
and just so people understand what is tai yoga massage.

Speaker 26 (01:24:54):
Ti Yoga massage is an ancient form of healing, and
it's a combination of of opening up the meridians and
the similar similar kind of meridians to acupuncture, but it's
done without needle. That's done you know, using your thumbs
and your elbows in your hands and and there's also
stretching and energy work and it's you know, it's what

(01:25:18):
I love about it. Well, there's so many things, but
in terms of receiving it, you know, you're it starts
with your feet, your legs that really works a lot,
your back, your arms, your chests, your stomach, your you know,
your face, your neck, everything.

Speaker 25 (01:25:33):
In other words, so you do you.

Speaker 26 (01:25:35):
Feel like the tension, the tension is kind of.

Speaker 25 (01:25:38):
Eased out of you.

Speaker 26 (01:25:39):
But also.

Speaker 25 (01:25:41):
The result is that you you.

Speaker 26 (01:25:43):
Really similar you know to some people feel after a
yoga class. You feel the energy moving, you know, from
your from your heart down your arms, from your sacrum
down to your blowing down to your legs and your feet.
You know, all the things that happen that age people,
that blocked the energy flow, that caused people not to
be able to stand up straight as you know, they

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have their their feet become less collectible. It's a way
of opening all of that back up.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Would you like people to reach out to you on
social media?

Speaker 26 (01:26:16):
Well, I'm thinking thank you for suggesting this, because you know,
not only am I here now, but I'm imagining myself
coming back more often. And I have a website which
is vb tie yoga dot com. Which is t h
O E b E t h a I yoga dot.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
Com, vobtie yoga dot com. M perfect any last things
that you'd like to express your gratitude for, Well, thanks.

Speaker 26 (01:26:51):
For letting me come on here. It helped me to
clarify my feelings.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
You are welcome, all right, Thank you very much. And guys,
she is absolutely phenomenal at what she does, and there
are very few teachers that teach with this amount of
heart care and consideration to each individual student. All right,
and we'll be back with more inner journey and more

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gratitude right after this.

Speaker 21 (01:27:22):
She paid moved last night pre flight zero L ninety.

Speaker 11 (01:27:35):
I'm gonna be.

Speaker 21 (01:27:39):
A s a kite vivin.

Speaker 13 (01:27:44):
Amiss the Earth.

Speaker 28 (01:27:46):
So much as my wild it slowly load in space
on such a time, smiled.

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
Grisy.

Speaker 32 (01:28:08):
It's gonna be got to touch down. Brings no road again,
but it man, he's got a light hold.

Speaker 21 (01:28:20):
Thou do know.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
How a rock at that?

Speaker 11 (01:28:29):
Look at.

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
Him using the kind.

Speaker 29 (01:28:44):
Of place to raise the kids. In fact, it's called
a health there's no one lad childway then if you did,

(01:29:06):
and all this silence, I don't understand it.

Speaker 21 (01:29:12):
It's just my job, five days a week, a rocket land.

Speaker 11 (01:29:24):
Rocking mad.

Speaker 7 (01:29:29):
And I think it's.

Speaker 21 (01:29:29):
Gonna be a long long time to touch down brings me.

Speaker 13 (01:29:33):
Around again to fight.

Speaker 11 (01:29:35):
And what a man lit a guy in my home?

Speaker 5 (01:29:42):
No, don't know.

Speaker 32 (01:29:48):
I think it's gonna be a love A long time
to touch down brings me around again to find I'm.

Speaker 21 (01:29:55):
Not how man there's a guy that home.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
No, no, no, I'm looking man.

Speaker 5 (01:30:17):
Him. I think it's gonna be a.

Speaker 21 (01:30:23):
Whole long time. I think it's gonna be a.

Speaker 11 (01:30:30):
Lone no time. Because I think it's gonna be a long,
no long time. I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
I'm Carlin Mason. You're listening to Inner Journeys with Greg Friedman.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Y'all heard the You are listening to Inner Journey with
Greg Friedman on k xf M. All right, Our next
caller is from Sutter's Creek, California, which is about an
hour and change outside of Sacramento. Betsy Sanders has been

(01:32:22):
a to say, a captain of industry would be really
too low a rank. She has taken and transformed companies
that every single one of you would recognize, multimillion dollar companies,
huge companies, and she has taken them and nurtured them
and grown them and really transformed them. However, in my estimation,

(01:32:48):
her greatest work wasn't in work. Her greatest work was
in joy. She has taken friends' lives, her husband's lives,
and her children lives and done her best to nurture,
to grow and to support them into their own personal transformation.

(01:33:09):
And now she's in her own process with the aforementioned Betsy,
thank you very much for joining us tonight.

Speaker 14 (01:33:18):
Well, thank you, And I must tell you one of
the things I'm grateful for when they appear is tears.
And so I have to say, although you've told us
not to, I'm really grateful for.

Speaker 10 (01:33:30):
You, Grake.

Speaker 1 (01:33:32):
You've just moved me.

Speaker 14 (01:33:36):
Well you and so has so has each sharing each person,
each set of experiences. So I can also not say
I'm grateful for this program, but you can pick up
the hint, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
So I asked you not to express two things, and
you just did both of them.

Speaker 14 (01:34:00):
That you know me very well and you know how
I understand challenges.

Speaker 10 (01:34:06):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:34:06):
Yes, if you say don't to Betsy, that's almost like
a guarantee that you will. All right, Bets I.

Speaker 14 (01:34:13):
Knowing you really want me to and you're being demure.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
I am a lot of things, Darlin, but I am
not demure. I will tell you that fo sho.

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
Talk to me.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
You have had so many events just in the last
year alone. You've had loss, you've had you've had things
that you've let go of, You've traveled the world. What
is it that really I mean? Because in all of
this wild abundance and also through the arduous aspects, what
are the things that are most poignant to you? What

(01:34:46):
are the things that strike you most? When I ask
what you're grateful for?

Speaker 14 (01:34:50):
Well, I will I will give a little inside info
right here. It's that I asked to go last, and
I I have to go last because I am clearly
the oldest person here, and that is what I am.
I'm not grateful for the years of life. I'm grateful for,

(01:35:15):
as the saying goes, the life and the years and
I've heard it in everyone everyone tonight, and I hope
that everyone listens reflects that life is such an incredible
gift in all of its permutations, every way where it appears.

(01:35:35):
And you know, I do argue with you from time
to time, break and the only thing I'm not argumentative.
I am curious, and I'm active, and I'm engaged, and
I love connecting dots together and making something beautiful. I
call it that third thing. And I am so grateful

(01:35:56):
for in listening tonight, there have been so many third
things that everyone who has shared has created with me
with my listening, not necessarily with my exchanging, but life itself.
And I will tell you I have been through at

(01:36:17):
least five or six cycles of life. And I am
very aware that when we're born, we're in our first year,
and when we turn seventy nine, we're in our eightieth year.
And this is a year of great This is my
eightieth year, and it's a year of great transformation for me.
But I would have told you that when I turn

(01:36:40):
twenty twenty one, and I would have told you that
at thirty thirty five, and I would have told you
that at forty five, and at sixty I just keep
I keep thinking I've got it, and then life opens
up and the destiny card that I'm working with in
an alchemical process that I'm doing, This destiny card I

(01:37:05):
pulled has me kneeling at the altar of unknowing. And
I have to tell you, for someone who's lived this long.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
And has known so much, and you know, that's like
old crap. So I call old age.

Speaker 14 (01:37:23):
Adolescens with wrinkles instead of pimples, and it's just as open.
And this is what I'm grateful for. Life never lets
go of us.

Speaker 1 (01:37:34):
We never have to.

Speaker 14 (01:37:36):
Stop interacting and growing and learning and falling down and
you know, being ashamed of stupid things we do that
last less and lest long because we catch ourselves faster
the older we get. But every stage of life, every
stage of life, is beautiful. And I'm here to stand

(01:37:56):
up for my deep, deep gratitude for getting to live
a lot of years because I love life and I
love sharing life with you. And yes, Greg, I mean
you in particular, but I don't, but I mean each
person I encounter. There's something that comes alive between us
when we allow it to that grows us and our energy.

(01:38:21):
I've come to understand expands the energy of the universe,
each of our energies, and I'm grateful to be part
of that expansion and that I get to do it
with so many incredible human beings all the time, whatever
walk of life, wherever I find myself.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
Well, I don't know what to say to that except
for thank you. It seems absolutely amazing. And it's what
I hear you saying, is that every age is an
opportunity to choose living over an existence, and to choose
absolutely And you have done that extraordinarily well. And you

(01:39:04):
teach people, and you learn by teaching a lot. Like me,
some of us just learn better if we're sharing the lesson.
The way I look at it is, I'm a very
slow learner, so maybe if I share it with somebody else,
I'll hear myself. You have found the generosity of spirit
and the generosity in life to make sure that you

(01:39:27):
are considerate and compassionate to that entire village, that tribe
that you surround yourself with. And that's a gorgeous thing,
and thank you for that.

Speaker 14 (01:39:40):
Well, you are so welcome to that tribe.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
So welcome, all right, any less, any last words, any
thing that you care to share before we go on.

Speaker 14 (01:39:52):
I just think the whole show has been a exposition
of what you said, every stage in life and everything
that occurs in life. I don't believe in bad and good.
I don't believe in misfortune and good fortune. I believe
it's all here, Chris, for our mill, and the mill is.

(01:40:14):
What we're growing in is love. What we're growing is love.
What we're growing in is love and connection. And some
of the lessons are more sobering than others, and some
are more. You know, we can exalt and dance and sing,
but together we are creating. We are creating the world

(01:40:38):
that is possible for humans to enjoy together. And I'm
so grateful for tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:40:45):
Thank you, thank you. All Right, you guys, we're going
to take a short break and we'll come back in
a little bit with more gratitude.

Speaker 5 (01:41:07):
M h m hm hm hm hm.

Speaker 30 (01:41:32):
I wish I could swim.

Speaker 33 (01:41:42):
Like dolphins. Like dolphins could swim though nothing, We'll keep
us together.

Speaker 19 (01:42:03):
We can be them.

Speaker 30 (01:42:08):
Forever and ever.

Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
How we can be here, rooms.

Speaker 30 (01:42:19):
Just for one day, we can be herooms just for
a day.

Speaker 6 (01:42:40):
Our be king, and you.

Speaker 7 (01:42:51):
You will be queen.

Speaker 30 (01:42:57):
Thou would nothing with travers away.

Speaker 13 (01:43:06):
How we could be here us just spoked?

Speaker 24 (01:43:17):
How we can be us.

Speaker 30 (01:43:22):
Just deep?

Speaker 11 (01:43:39):
How can we remember.

Speaker 4 (01:43:45):
Standing standing bob Wall.

Speaker 11 (01:43:56):
And the dons.

Speaker 4 (01:44:00):
Shut about my heads.

Speaker 11 (01:44:06):
And we cast.

Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
Thet nothing could fall.

Speaker 7 (01:44:17):
Shot, showing up the side.

Speaker 30 (01:44:27):
When over, can be us just for one day?

Speaker 17 (01:44:58):
Less all her looking overs nearby, awaiting a word, gasping
at places chentle true spirit, he rotes, wishing he could

(01:45:20):
fine a whole little trip at the sound of.

Speaker 34 (01:45:26):
Goodbye, wordlessly watching ways by the window, and wonders at
the empty place inside, heartlessly.

Speaker 17 (01:45:49):
Being himself to her bad dreams, He warberies, did he
hear a good bye?

Speaker 30 (01:45:59):
Or evil?

Speaker 5 (01:46:03):
Love? The one person? They are to love?

Speaker 13 (01:46:12):
They are three together.

Speaker 5 (01:46:15):
They are full.

Speaker 30 (01:46:19):
Each other.

Speaker 17 (01:46:25):
Stand by the say where you see something certain to
tell you Confusion has its cost. Love isn't liing, it's
loose in a lady bulkers saying she is loved us

(01:46:51):
and choking.

Speaker 4 (01:46:54):
Unlow. They ought to.

Speaker 30 (01:47:04):
They are three together.

Speaker 5 (01:47:07):
They are met ch other.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
So nice. I had to play it twice, that is
Crosby still's nash, and I do not believe young and
the Gems did the first version, and they did this one.
And they're just stunning, just absolutely stunning. And I'm going
to tell you this, sometimes I have to struggle for gratitude.

(01:47:40):
Sometimes I have to look in a different direction to
remember how incredibly full my life is. I'm not saying
gratitude is always easy to recognize or to have or
to appreciate. I'm just saying it's incredibly valuable as you

(01:48:04):
are and as I am, and more than anything else,
as always. So many things, so many people in this
life that I personally am grateful for. But top among
them is this pulpit, this microphone, these people, this station,

(01:48:25):
Billy Freed, who runs this place, who actually took this
place out of the possible abyss and put it back
into action. So many different people and things that affect
us in ways that are tiny and that are huge,

(01:48:47):
and none are insignificant. And as I say every week,
what I'm mostly grateful for is you, the listening audience.
This show does not exist without your participation. For that
and so so much more, I am hugely grateful. Thank

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you You've been listening to In her Journey with Gregg Friedman,
good Night,