August 28, 2023 • 34 mins
I had the pleasure of meeting Hyda in Colorado while speaking at the No Limits Ranch retreat in June. We hit it off right away and went off exploring the woods on a hike within hours of meeting each other. She has a gentle spirit in tune with nature, and honors God’s creation with her whole heart.
BIO: Hyda Maria Dougherty is a delightful mix of Native American and Spanish from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She shares music, dance and art under the umbrella of education, and offers presentations and ceremonies about our sacred waters as an integral component of her work. Hyda’s spiritual practice is one of service to others through love and compassion. It is with great pleasure that she offers her talents for a variety of events such as conventions, workshops, schools, galleries, festivals and other special events.
GOLD NUGGETS:
- Water carrier, go with the flow
- Institute of American Indian Arts
- Kinetic prayer
- Unifying through being of service
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- Connect with Hyda via email: HydaMaria@gmail.com
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BIO: Hyda Maria Dougherty is a delightful mix of Native American and Spanish from Santa Fe, New Mexico. She shares music, dance and art under the umbrella of education, and offers presentations and ceremonies about our sacred waters as an integral component of her work. Hyda’s spiritual practice is one of service to others through love and compassion. It is with great pleasure that she offers her talents for a variety of events such as conventions, workshops, schools, galleries, festivals and other special events.
GOLD NUGGETS:
- Water carrier, go with the flow
- Institute of American Indian Arts
- Kinetic prayer
- Unifying through being of service
LINKS:
- Connect with Hyda via email: HydaMaria@gmail.com
- SUMMER SALE!
Bonus 4th Session with any 3-Session Package on SpiritCenteredBusiness.com
- Join the Activation Ekklesia for Business: http://SpiritCenteredBusiness.com/activation
- Join the SCB Tribe: http://facebook.com/groups/scbtribe
Be sure to answer the membership questions so we know you’re legit! ;-)
Copyright 2023 - Bralynn Newby Int'l. All rights reserved.
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Hey there, I hope you're enjoyingyour summer. I have a hot summer
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Bye bye. Welcome to the SpiritCentered Business podcast, where we blend
the spiritual with the practical for supernaturalresults. Now here's your host, Brilin
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Nuby. Well, hello, they'rewelcome to Spirit Centered Business. I'm your
host, Berlin Nuby, and I'mhere with Hita Maria Dirty. So I
just met. I'm sorry about thatlast time I know I did the second
time I did it, I'm sorry, but I want to say daughtry and
I don't know why doughty. Anyway, I met hed to Maria in Colorado
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at the No Limits Ranch and wewent on two hyps together. We just
had some great bonding time and Isaid, you know what, I love
your heart, and I love theway that you blend your spirituality into your
business and into your life. Andso I think that my people need to
see that because one of the reasonsthat I started Spirit centered Business back in
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twenty fourteen was because people were separatingtheir business and their spirituality. And one
of the things that I think thatGod has called us to do is to
be blended and just be who Hecreated us to be in everything. And
if He created us, like youand I are both water babies, we
love water. You know, yousay that you're a water carrier in you
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love to go with the flow.I love that and I'm really attracted to
water as well. So we justnaturally kind of do some things that we're
how we're designed. And I justwanted to introduce you to the people.
Share your heart, share your story, and share what you're doing. So
welcome to the show, Hita.Thank you so much. I really appreciate
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having met you there at Unlimitured Ranch. No Love is Yeah, So I
it was a pleasure. It isa pleasure to continue to get to know
you and deepen our friendship and connectionin this way. So really thank you.
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So much for just having me heretoday. Of course, of course,
yeah, you know, the firstthe first day that we met,
I was just musing about finding thisbeautiful vist the view that the owner of
the ranch, Evelyn said, andI said, I'm going to just go
hike. And I said I'm gonnago tonight, and you said, oh
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with you? That was awesome.I'm like, yes, a fellow explorer
adventurer. I always want to findthe edge and see if I can find
a view. I learned that frommy dad and always I love nature and
looking hiking through the forests and allof that stuff. And you braved it
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even if you had caprizon and wehad to go through some scrub rush.
I'm like, oh, I'm sorryto scratching your legs. I'm going to
keep going. But we found ourway there, we found our way back
and it was really good. Soso in that though, I really want
you to tell tell people, shareyour story. How did you get into
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doing the education and the writing andthe things that you do, just kind
of share with the peeps. SoI have a very interesting beginning, and
I firmly believe that God Creator hada hand in it, for sure.
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So I was adopted at age fouryears old, and my mom who adopted
me, is Irish. She passedon a number of years ago. Oh,
I apologize, I think that myphone. I thought, I'm so
sorry. I thought I had noworries. We didn't even hear it.
So that's all good, okay.So I just wanted to say that how
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that came about was there was awoman who was working with my mom.
My mom was a director of GarciaStreet Club. Her name is Laura Doherty,
and she was visiting a mutual friendin the hospital and said, I
have been taking care of this littlegirl, and I'm elderly and just really
not able to continue to do so, and wondered if if her friend knew
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of anybody who they could recommend tofind a home for me. Basically,
so she said, yes, Iknow, missus Doherty, Lord Doherty.
She's director Garcia Street Club and herwhole life is about children. And so
my father called her and said,sure, bring her bye, and you
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know, let's talk and see whatwe can help you, see what we
can figure out. So my mommet me, had my little suitcase with
me. I remember even I waswearing a pink PoCA daddy dress, you
know, just like that. Andso my mom they my mom and dad
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spoke and I didn't really at thatage I understand so much what was going
on or happening, but she basicallytold my dad that, well, in
her Irish way, what's one morepotato and pod? That's funny. So
that's my journey began there. Andit was an unusual upbringing because we actually
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lived right at the community center,and my mom started the early childhood program
there, which was compromised children fromall different backgrounds. My first language was
Spanish and many of the children thatshe started the program therewith were also Spanish
people and children, and many ofthem were having a very difficult time transitioning
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into the regular school system because theydidn't understand English. And so she started
her program with a few kids.And this is not an exaggeration, but
she had a god given gift thatshe eventually expanded to her kindergarten program had
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as many as seventy five children atone time, which I know believable,
but that's the gift of faith.Wow, well, a gift of multiplication
for crying out out, that's wow. So so she was Irish and she
became your adopted mom. But youryour your bloodline is what well, Native
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American on my mom's side and Spanishon my my dad's side. That's a
pretty sure bloodline in that respect.So then it comes down to being about
half and half wow biological side andoh very cool. Okay, So then
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what happened. I obviously you gota gift of you know, being with
the kids and teaching and that kindof stuff from your adopted mom. Well,
yeah, that's where the whole worldof new music and storytelling and dance
and art was really because it wasan art center that as well. We
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had a painting room and weaving andpottery and auts and crafts and my mom
I don't even know how people foundher through the grace of God, I'm
sure, but they would find herand they would want to come and participate
as instructors there. So we hadinstructors from the New York Valet company that
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came and yeah, just amazing backgroundsthat would come and teach classes. That
was particularly for the summer program,which was basically K through sixth grade,
so five to twelve years of age. And we also one of the really
big motivations during that time was theshe was the first person in the state
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of New Mexico to enter great SpecialNeeds Children with regular children. And that
was really great because we had thisone child, Matthew, and when he
first came to us at the NsiaStreet club there, he was just kind
of slumped over in a wheelchair andthey said that they didn't give him very
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even a very long life to live. And but what we would do is
we would put his wheelchair in thecircle of the kids sat on the floor.
It was a really big room,so the kids all sat on the
floor and he started to when dayhe started to just kind of lift his
head up a little bit, andwe kind of put a thing to kind
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of tie him in so he wouldbe more upright, and he started going
back and forth to the children wouldsing and he loved it and he would
keep rhythm with his body way.And then we also did what's called the
doman Delicato method, which takes achild back to the very early stages of
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creeping and crawling. And his momwas a saint. I mean that in
the truest saying of the word,where it's his mom were literally on her
knees. She was raised and hadthe Mexican tradition and she would early morning
she would get up and on herknees, she would go from her house
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to the Sano Guadalupe San Guaio onher knees to pray for Matthew. Wow,
get a little motion. Yeah,So between the prayers and active community
that would come in because they neededfive people to cross pattern him because we
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would do it on a big tablethat we had moving its head, his
arms, and legs at the sametime, getting that creeping motion which is
to activate the brain, many braincells that we don't use off every day
in our lives. So I sawsuch tremendous progress with him. He was
eventually able to be admitted into thepublic school system and he you know,
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they went on further. So hewent long story short as a young I
guess he must have been about ateenager where he was able to begin to
walk. So wow wow. Soyeah, So that was a huge miracle
that came about through a lot oflove, came about through community effort,
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came about through belief and faith.M Yeah. So so you saw all
of that going on. He wasone of your classmates. He was well,
I was older by that time Iwas already in high school. Yeah,
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I kind of jumped. So mymom adopted me and I did.
I went across to preschool and kindergartenthough with her, and during the summer
program she would help me, haveme help with some of the classes like
arts and crafts and paintings, workingdirectly with the children, tutoring, sitting
down listening to them, reading themstories, you know, those kind of
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things. So it really began ata young age, that whole process.
And obviously you had a lot oflove and just compassion and grace and everything
all around you. Were you prettyspiritual at that time as well? Were
you doing spiritual practices or was shea Christian? Or was she You have
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such a great way just knowing howto ask the right question, but yes,
so I believating that I had beenliving with. Her name was hanne
Eva, and I remember I don'thave a lot of memories, but I
remember going to the Loretto Chapel herein Santa Fe, which is known for
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the miraculous staircase. Is believed thatSaint Joseph had actually been the carpenter that
built it because there's no visible meansof support, and that's file of staircase.
Anyways, I remember going to churchwith her and she would sit in
the church and say her Rosary,and I would think of going with viral
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staircases as like going up to Heaven. This is just off from a very
young child point of view, youknow. So and then my mom actually
I think her family of origin wasPresbyterian, but as an adult she chose
to become Catholic, and she wasa practicing Catholic in terms of, you
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know, when we were going up, send us to Catholic schools, and
also she would go to Mass onSundays. But I think what was most
impressive of her way in teaching wasthat she she would often say, well,
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she had a twin brother, whichyou know, I totally respect.
His way of worshiping was to goget up every morning and go to Mass
and do his prayers and in thatway, which I mean, prayers are
so a really big part of mylife, but in a different kind of
a way. It's evolved for methat, like my mom would often say,
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She's say, you know, well, my prayers, my actions,
and what I do for their childrenin the community, that's beautiful adapted same
ethic, ethic and spirituality of tryingto make each day and the tray that
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I think to be a prayer.I love that. And that's actually biblical
because it says and oh my gosh, I'm really I'm not a biblical scholar,
so I don't remember exactly where itsays that, but it says something
about let your let your life bethe prayer itself or a prayer until you
become prayer itself or something like that. So that's really really cool. Yeah,
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so you weave that in through everything. I love that. And when
did you start the more of theNative American style, Well, would happened?
So I did go So anyway,so went to high school and I
actually went to Santa Fe Prep onmine from a sophomore to senior year.
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And I did go on to collegeto major in elementary special education and got
my masters and counseling. And whenI was taking my master's program here in
Santa Fe, Charles King, whoat the time was a director of student
services at the Institute of American andthe Units, approached me one day after
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class and he said, you know, I really like what you say in
your participation in class, he said, and we are going to be having
a position open at the Institute ofAmerican Indian Arts, and of course I
was very excited. I was like, why am I quiet even finished my
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master's program and there's an interest possiblyin being able to work there. He
said, of course, you know, you'd have to come in and go
through the interview process, and soI did all of that. I was
hired at the Institute American Indian Arts. And you know, I really had
not had much opportunity to learn orexplore my Native American roots and heritage,
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and so this they presented me withan amazingly beautiful, wonderful opportunity. I
was hired as a counselor there,and a lot of the traditions came from
different tribes, because there were tribesthat came from all over the country to
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study at the Institute of American IndianArts. And so my mentor there,
and the psychologist that I worked withwas doctor Jane Navarro, was a medicine
man, and so he would includeme in some of the ceremonial ways,
and that felt that it was away that we used as well for counseling
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and guidance and you know, reachingout to the student population reintegrated, for
instance, sweat lodges and our circlesin that way. So so the Institute
of American Indian Art, and didyou were you involved in the art at
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that time, because I know you'rean artist, and you know, I
know that you're a musicians, sowre we justin consling? Well, I
think what was I You know,I always enjoyed painting and and dance has
always been ever since I was young. That's been just a part of who
I am. When I got tobe Institute American and Units, I had
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actually taken music, classical music lessonsfor about ten years, and I studied
the recorder as a prano, altoand tenor recorders, and also studied piano
for about five years during that time. So I had that basic foundation.
And when I started working at theInstitute of Me and in Your Arts,
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there was an instructor there who taughtNative American foot and I, you know,
it was very interested and I didn'tbecause I was actually working and didn't
have the opportunity. Anyway, Isat in a couple of his classes really
attracted to and so I picked upplaying Native American flute and added that to
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my repertoire. Yeah, and Ilove that and just you know, for
the audience. We were out onone of our hikes ups to the waterfalls
and you were playing your flute justas a blessing. That was so cool.
Yeah. So did you learn abouthonoring nature and working with creation and
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everything through through that? Yeah.I mean I'm always even as a kid,
I love being outside, you know, from burning morning to evening,
and through high school college, youknow, I enjoyed, you know,
hiking and being around the waters.And so so I think what was a
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question. I'm just you know,having a conversation as far as you know
what you're, what you do now, and what what I saw you.
I was just trying to come backto the roots of of where all of
that came from, and how you'veblended the Native American into your you know,
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Christian or Catholic roots, and youknow, honoring nature because you know,
we're we're created to be the restorerof creation, and where we take
dominion by loving it and working withnature instead of against it and making it
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work for us. And and Ilove your heart through all of that,
and so I'm just wanting to getthe story of how all of that came
to be. And yeah, okay, so the integration of nature and spirituality
for me has come about through actuallya lot of it has come about to
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my participation as an Aztec dancer.I danced with the group Don't seeing Delco
here in Santa Fe. And again, you know, that came about through
my own daughter, who was attendingthe Boys and Girls club here and she
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said, Joe, mon, there'sthis group, is this dance group with
boys and girls club, and begreat if you'd come, you know,
and she seemed really interested in it. So I did. I showed up
and I mad to my core andlater but three, yeah, and I've
been in that circle for almost thirtyyears now. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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it's been such a beautiful path oflesson because it's definitely a continuation of
the spiritual path that when well,it's kinetic prayer is how we describe it.
The best way to describe our asticdance group. Oh I love that.
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Kinetic prayer. Tell me more aboutthat. That's cool, Well,
kinetic prayer. So they at thevery beginning of our dance we offer,
we offer, I guess what youwould call like our mark to creator,
to the world a rounders to spiritand that we do that through our steps
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and our movements. And a lotof the movements are also nature based.
So we have dances for Mother Earth, dance for clllowed, for the rain,
we have the dance of the deer. So it's all really very nature
connected to which you know that itsymbolizes, like well, the deer symbolizes
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love and compassion and all of thosethings. And so we we slowly learn
those dances and we learn the importanceof what we call the almas, like
thetas that we wear, the dryasand the feathers all have a connection from
Earth to love, spirit, toCreator, to God and and so that's
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all really important. And we offerthe fire in the water and the herbs,
you know, they're on the earth, and it all comes from the
earth in that way. And alarge part of those teachings are having gratitude
and belief. You know that whenyou really believe strongly and have they that
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miracles do manifest. And so weare called upon to do blessings out in
the community and to offer the firesand the waters and all of those things.
And you know, the groups thatwe in the community varies and different
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people have different types of spiritual beliefsof course, as you know, some
are Christian Baised, some are peopleare more from the Buddhist tradition. Some
have a sense of spirituality but maynot be specifically connected to I think the
important part is unifying everybody to thehow I see it for myself as being
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a service and being of service inwhatever way I'm called upon to do that,
which varies, and it is integratedinto my business as well. As
you were asking about that little earlier. Yeah, that's good. So so
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it's it's sometimes difficult to get peopleof different spiritual beliefs and stuff to come
together because there's such a religious spiritthat is a legalistic kind of thing that
just block being able to actually justlove each other and just you know,
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honor you as you know, adaughter of God, you know whatever.
So that's really beautiful that you cando that and that you found the common
the common thread is that acts ofsurvey, because that's that's love, right
if you're if you're serving others,unless unless you're doing it for other motivations,
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but I'm assuming them and the motivationsour love right that you want to
serve each other. So that's reallybeautiful that you can come together with find
the common thing that you can bothagree on rather than you know, disagreeing
about theology and all of that kindof stuff in your work. And I
think that that's an important an importantpiece of being able to blend your spirituality
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into your business is to not tryto force your beliefs on other people,
but rather just show them, showthem who you're created to be, because
we're all created in the image ofour creator, Father God, right,
and regardless of what they believe,I can still be who He created me
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to be to them, right.So I love that you do that in
such a beautiful way. So thislast little bit of this first segment,
I want to just start telling peoplea little bit more about your business.
And then in segment too, let'sgo more into your business and what you're
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working on right now. Okay,so just give us a sneak peet,
like a cliffhanger overview of what's goingon to wrap up this session. Well,
let's see. So as far asmy business goes, it's you know,
it's it's been an interesting journey.And first of all, I'll say
that and I believe that in orderto have worked outside of the traditional eight
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to five, seven day a weektype of structure. It has taken a
lot of day and belief and upsand downs with the economics of it,
as well as the social and spiritualall of it, all of that ballistic
type way choosing to to be abusiness person in that way. So what
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I've done is I've set myself upbasically as an independent contractor, which is
a really wonderful experience because it hasallowed me to work in a lot of
different places and areas and venues andbringing in music and stories and dance and
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and yeah, and working like Isaid, in a lot of different venues
like schools and museums and galleries andworkshops, conventions, and it's been really
a wonderful experience. But I haveto say there were times where especially being
at one time in my life asingle parents and just you know, I'm
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laughing because I have a friend whoalso we supported each other because we kind
of chose a different way of goingabout our careers. And we used to
call it the Santa Fe Speer.One day we'd show up to tutor and
the next day we show up toto do a you know, a conference,
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a workshop about with a life tryingto think of something at the off
the moment, but oh like,oh, stress reduction workshop or something like
that. So so yeah, Ijust kind of had to be able to
change hats, so to speak,you know, to be able to But
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it already came under one umbrella asfar as my business model and integrated that.
And so what would you what wouldyou name that that umbrella that kind
of just covers everything I would Iguess arts in education would be a great
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to name that. Yeah, itsin education, Yeah, the education of
the arts. So I guess reallyit would be arts and nature in education.
Yeah. That is so good,and that's I mean that you really
just exemplify that. Even in talkingto you, you know, sitting over
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dinner before we even went on ahike. You're all about you know that,
the nature and the and just beingartful and being mindful of you know,
what's going on and going with theflow like you said, and all
of that. Yeah. Okay,So how can people get a hold of
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you? And are you working onlyin the Santa Fe area or do you
travel now or oh no, Yeah, through the years, I've traveled different
opportunities that have arisen. So yeah, I definitely open to continuing to do
that now that the world's opening upagain, of course, which is really
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great, and it's nice to beable to be back in community in different
places and m So the one ofthe ways that I can be reached is
through my email address. That's HeetaMaria at gmail dot com. And it's
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about h as an hat Why asin yes, d as in Dad as
an apple, Amazon, Mary asan apple, are as a rabbit,
I as an Indian an a asan apple. So it's Heta Maria.
You're such an educator. We lovethat in front of the audience. I
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will have her email address in theshow notes below so all will be well.
And you also have a YouTube channel, Hita Maria at at on YouTube.
Just go and look and search forHita Maria and Hita like she said,
Hyda. So let's just wrap thissegment up and then when we come
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back in segment two right away forus and next week for our viewers,
we'll talk about what you're doing nowand some of the books that you're writing
or you have written, or youwant to write, or all of those
kinds of things. Okay, okay, all right, is it okay?
Okay, step away for a minuteto just go grab the cover of those
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books I can show. Oh ofcourse, yeah, let's do that in
segment two. So for right now, you guys, if you have loved
this with interview with Hita Maria,do share it out with your friends.
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Hey there, I hope you're enjoyingyour summer. I have a hot summer
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Bye bye. Welcome to the SpiritCentered Business podcast, where we blend
the spiritual with the practical for supernaturalresults. Now here's your host, Brilin
(00:47):
Nuby. Well, hello, they'rewelcome to Spirit Centered Business. I'm your
host, Berlin Nuby, and I'mhere with Hita Maria Dirty. So I
just met. I'm sorry about thatlast time I know I did the second
time I did it, I'm sorry, but I want to say daughtry and
I don't know why doughty. Anyway, I met hed to Maria in Colorado
(01:12):
at the No Limits Ranch and wewent on two hyps together. We just
had some great bonding time and Isaid, you know what, I love
your heart, and I love theway that you blend your spirituality into your
business and into your life. Andso I think that my people need to
see that because one of the reasonsthat I started Spirit centered Business back in
(01:34):
twenty fourteen was because people were separatingtheir business and their spirituality. And one
of the things that I think thatGod has called us to do is to
be blended and just be who Hecreated us to be in everything. And
if He created us, like youand I are both water babies, we
love water. You know, yousay that you're a water carrier in you
(02:00):
love to go with the flow.I love that and I'm really attracted to
water as well. So we justnaturally kind of do some things that we're
how we're designed. And I justwanted to introduce you to the people.
Share your heart, share your story, and share what you're doing. So
welcome to the show, Hita.Thank you so much. I really appreciate
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having met you there at Unlimitured Ranch. No Love is Yeah, So I
it was a pleasure. It isa pleasure to continue to get to know
you and deepen our friendship and connectionin this way. So really thank you.
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So much for just having me heretoday. Of course, of course,
yeah, you know, the firstthe first day that we met,
I was just musing about finding thisbeautiful vist the view that the owner of
the ranch, Evelyn said, andI said, I'm going to just go
hike. And I said I'm gonnago tonight, and you said, oh
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with you? That was awesome.I'm like, yes, a fellow explorer
adventurer. I always want to findthe edge and see if I can find
a view. I learned that frommy dad and always I love nature and
looking hiking through the forests and allof that stuff. And you braved it
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even if you had caprizon and wehad to go through some scrub rush.
I'm like, oh, I'm sorryto scratching your legs. I'm going to
keep going. But we found ourway there, we found our way back
and it was really good. Soso in that though, I really want
you to tell tell people, shareyour story. How did you get into
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doing the education and the writing andthe things that you do, just kind
of share with the peeps. SoI have a very interesting beginning, and
I firmly believe that God Creator hada hand in it, for sure.
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So I was adopted at age fouryears old, and my mom who adopted
me, is Irish. She passedon a number of years ago. Oh,
I apologize, I think that myphone. I thought, I'm so
sorry. I thought I had noworries. We didn't even hear it.
So that's all good, okay.So I just wanted to say that how
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that came about was there was awoman who was working with my mom.
My mom was a director of GarciaStreet Club. Her name is Laura Doherty,
and she was visiting a mutual friendin the hospital and said, I
have been taking care of this littlegirl, and I'm elderly and just really
not able to continue to do so, and wondered if if her friend knew
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of anybody who they could recommend tofind a home for me. Basically,
so she said, yes, Iknow, missus Doherty, Lord Doherty.
She's director Garcia Street Club and herwhole life is about children. And so
my father called her and said,sure, bring her bye, and you
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know, let's talk and see whatwe can help you, see what we
can figure out. So my mommet me, had my little suitcase with
me. I remember even I waswearing a pink PoCA daddy dress, you
know, just like that. Andso my mom they my mom and dad
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spoke and I didn't really at thatage I understand so much what was going
on or happening, but she basicallytold my dad that, well, in
her Irish way, what's one morepotato and pod? That's funny. So
that's my journey began there. Andit was an unusual upbringing because we actually
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lived right at the community center,and my mom started the early childhood program
there, which was compromised children fromall different backgrounds. My first language was
Spanish and many of the children thatshe started the program therewith were also Spanish
people and children, and many ofthem were having a very difficult time transitioning
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into the regular school system because theydidn't understand English. And so she started
her program with a few kids.And this is not an exaggeration, but
she had a god given gift thatshe eventually expanded to her kindergarten program had
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as many as seventy five children atone time, which I know believable,
but that's the gift of faith.Wow, well, a gift of multiplication
for crying out out, that's wow. So so she was Irish and she
became your adopted mom. But youryour your bloodline is what well, Native
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American on my mom's side and Spanishon my my dad's side. That's a
pretty sure bloodline in that respect.So then it comes down to being about
half and half wow biological side andoh very cool. Okay, So then
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what happened. I obviously you gota gift of you know, being with
the kids and teaching and that kindof stuff from your adopted mom. Well,
yeah, that's where the whole worldof new music and storytelling and dance
and art was really because it wasan art center that as well. We
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had a painting room and weaving andpottery and auts and crafts and my mom
I don't even know how people foundher through the grace of God, I'm
sure, but they would find herand they would want to come and participate
as instructors there. So we hadinstructors from the New York Valet company that
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came and yeah, just amazing backgroundsthat would come and teach classes. That
was particularly for the summer program,which was basically K through sixth grade,
so five to twelve years of age. And we also one of the really
big motivations during that time was theshe was the first person in the state
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of New Mexico to enter great SpecialNeeds Children with regular children. And that
was really great because we had thisone child, Matthew, and when he
first came to us at the NsiaStreet club there, he was just kind
of slumped over in a wheelchair andthey said that they didn't give him very
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even a very long life to live. And but what we would do is
we would put his wheelchair in thecircle of the kids sat on the floor.
It was a really big room,so the kids all sat on the
floor and he started to when dayhe started to just kind of lift his
head up a little bit, andwe kind of put a thing to kind
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of tie him in so he wouldbe more upright, and he started going
back and forth to the children wouldsing and he loved it and he would
keep rhythm with his body way.And then we also did what's called the
doman Delicato method, which takes achild back to the very early stages of
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creeping and crawling. And his momwas a saint. I mean that in
the truest saying of the word,where it's his mom were literally on her
knees. She was raised and hadthe Mexican tradition and she would early morning
she would get up and on herknees, she would go from her house
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to the Sano Guadalupe San Guaio onher knees to pray for Matthew. Wow,
get a little motion. Yeah,So between the prayers and active community
that would come in because they neededfive people to cross pattern him because we
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would do it on a big tablethat we had moving its head, his
arms, and legs at the sametime, getting that creeping motion which is
to activate the brain, many braincells that we don't use off every day
in our lives. So I sawsuch tremendous progress with him. He was
eventually able to be admitted into thepublic school system and he you know,
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they went on further. So hewent long story short as a young I
guess he must have been about ateenager where he was able to begin to
walk. So wow wow. Soyeah, So that was a huge miracle
that came about through a lot oflove, came about through community effort,
(11:37):
came about through belief and faith.M Yeah. So so you saw all
of that going on. He wasone of your classmates. He was well,
I was older by that time Iwas already in high school. Yeah,
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I kind of jumped. So mymom adopted me and I did.
I went across to preschool and kindergartenthough with her, and during the summer
program she would help me, haveme help with some of the classes like
arts and crafts and paintings, workingdirectly with the children, tutoring, sitting
down listening to them, reading themstories, you know, those kind of
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things. So it really began ata young age, that whole process.
And obviously you had a lot oflove and just compassion and grace and everything
all around you. Were you prettyspiritual at that time as well? Were
you doing spiritual practices or was shea Christian? Or was she You have
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such a great way just knowing howto ask the right question, but yes,
so I believating that I had beenliving with. Her name was hanne
Eva, and I remember I don'thave a lot of memories, but I
remember going to the Loretto Chapel herein Santa Fe, which is known for
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the miraculous staircase. Is believed thatSaint Joseph had actually been the carpenter that
built it because there's no visible meansof support, and that's file of staircase.
Anyways, I remember going to churchwith her and she would sit in
the church and say her Rosary,and I would think of going with viral
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staircases as like going up to Heaven. This is just off from a very
young child point of view, youknow. So and then my mom actually
I think her family of origin wasPresbyterian, but as an adult she chose
to become Catholic, and she wasa practicing Catholic in terms of, you
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know, when we were going up, send us to Catholic schools, and
also she would go to Mass onSundays. But I think what was most
impressive of her way in teaching wasthat she she would often say, well,
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she had a twin brother, whichyou know, I totally respect.
His way of worshiping was to goget up every morning and go to Mass
and do his prayers and in thatway, which I mean, prayers are
so a really big part of mylife, but in a different kind of
a way. It's evolved for methat, like my mom would often say,
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She's say, you know, well, my prayers, my actions,
and what I do for their childrenin the community, that's beautiful adapted same
ethic, ethic and spirituality of tryingto make each day and the tray that
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I think to be a prayer.I love that. And that's actually biblical
because it says and oh my gosh, I'm really I'm not a biblical scholar,
so I don't remember exactly where itsays that, but it says something
about let your let your life bethe prayer itself or a prayer until you
become prayer itself or something like that. So that's really really cool. Yeah,
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so you weave that in through everything. I love that. And when
did you start the more of theNative American style, Well, would happened?
So I did go So anyway,so went to high school and I
actually went to Santa Fe Prep onmine from a sophomore to senior year.
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And I did go on to collegeto major in elementary special education and got
my masters and counseling. And whenI was taking my master's program here in
Santa Fe, Charles King, whoat the time was a director of student
services at the Institute of American andthe Units, approached me one day after
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class and he said, you know, I really like what you say in
your participation in class, he said, and we are going to be having
a position open at the Institute ofAmerican Indian Arts, and of course I
was very excited. I was like, why am I quiet even finished my
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master's program and there's an interest possiblyin being able to work there. He
said, of course, you know, you'd have to come in and go
through the interview process, and soI did all of that. I was
hired at the Institute American Indian Arts. And you know, I really had
not had much opportunity to learn orexplore my Native American roots and heritage,
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and so this they presented me withan amazingly beautiful, wonderful opportunity. I
was hired as a counselor there,and a lot of the traditions came from
different tribes, because there were tribesthat came from all over the country to
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study at the Institute of American IndianArts. And so my mentor there,
and the psychologist that I worked withwas doctor Jane Navarro, was a medicine
man, and so he would includeme in some of the ceremonial ways,
and that felt that it was away that we used as well for counseling
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and guidance and you know, reachingout to the student population reintegrated, for
instance, sweat lodges and our circlesin that way. So so the Institute
of American Indian Art, and didyou were you involved in the art at
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that time, because I know you'rean artist, and you know, I
know that you're a musicians, sowre we justin consling? Well, I
think what was I You know,I always enjoyed painting and and dance has
always been ever since I was young. That's been just a part of who
I am. When I got tobe Institute American and Units, I had
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actually taken music, classical music lessonsfor about ten years, and I studied
the recorder as a prano, altoand tenor recorders, and also studied piano
for about five years during that time. So I had that basic foundation.
And when I started working at theInstitute of Me and in Your Arts,
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there was an instructor there who taughtNative American foot and I, you know,
it was very interested and I didn'tbecause I was actually working and didn't
have the opportunity. Anyway, Isat in a couple of his classes really
attracted to and so I picked upplaying Native American flute and added that to
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my repertoire. Yeah, and Ilove that and just you know, for
the audience. We were out onone of our hikes ups to the waterfalls
and you were playing your flute justas a blessing. That was so cool.
Yeah. So did you learn abouthonoring nature and working with creation and
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everything through through that? Yeah.I mean I'm always even as a kid,
I love being outside, you know, from burning morning to evening,
and through high school college, youknow, I enjoyed, you know,
hiking and being around the waters.And so so I think what was a
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question. I'm just you know,having a conversation as far as you know
what you're, what you do now, and what what I saw you.
I was just trying to come backto the roots of of where all of
that came from, and how you'veblended the Native American into your you know,
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Christian or Catholic roots, and youknow, honoring nature because you know,
we're we're created to be the restorerof creation, and where we take
dominion by loving it and working withnature instead of against it and making it
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work for us. And and Ilove your heart through all of that,
and so I'm just wanting to getthe story of how all of that came
to be. And yeah, okay, so the integration of nature and spirituality
for me has come about through actuallya lot of it has come about to
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my participation as an Aztec dancer.I danced with the group Don't seeing Delco
here in Santa Fe. And again, you know, that came about through
my own daughter, who was attendingthe Boys and Girls club here and she
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said, Joe, mon, there'sthis group, is this dance group with
boys and girls club, and begreat if you'd come, you know,
and she seemed really interested in it. So I did. I showed up
and I mad to my core andlater but three, yeah, and I've
been in that circle for almost thirtyyears now. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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it's been such a beautiful path oflesson because it's definitely a continuation of
the spiritual path that when well,it's kinetic prayer is how we describe it.
The best way to describe our asticdance group. Oh I love that.
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Kinetic prayer. Tell me more aboutthat. That's cool, Well,
kinetic prayer. So they at thevery beginning of our dance we offer,
we offer, I guess what youwould call like our mark to creator,
to the world a rounders to spiritand that we do that through our steps
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and our movements. And a lotof the movements are also nature based.
So we have dances for Mother Earth, dance for clllowed, for the rain,
we have the dance of the deer. So it's all really very nature
connected to which you know that itsymbolizes, like well, the deer symbolizes
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love and compassion and all of thosethings. And so we we slowly learn
those dances and we learn the importanceof what we call the almas, like
thetas that we wear, the dryasand the feathers all have a connection from
Earth to love, spirit, toCreator, to God and and so that's
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all really important. And we offerthe fire in the water and the herbs,
you know, they're on the earth, and it all comes from the
earth in that way. And alarge part of those teachings are having gratitude
and belief. You know that whenyou really believe strongly and have they that
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miracles do manifest. And so weare called upon to do blessings out in
the community and to offer the firesand the waters and all of those things.
And you know, the groups thatwe in the community varies and different
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people have different types of spiritual beliefsof course, as you know, some
are Christian Baised, some are peopleare more from the Buddhist tradition. Some
have a sense of spirituality but maynot be specifically connected to I think the
important part is unifying everybody to thehow I see it for myself as being
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a service and being of service inwhatever way I'm called upon to do that,
which varies, and it is integratedinto my business as well. As
you were asking about that little earlier. Yeah, that's good. So so
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it's it's sometimes difficult to get peopleof different spiritual beliefs and stuff to come
together because there's such a religious spiritthat is a legalistic kind of thing that
just block being able to actually justlove each other and just you know,
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honor you as you know, adaughter of God, you know whatever.
So that's really beautiful that you cando that and that you found the common
the common thread is that acts ofsurvey, because that's that's love, right
if you're if you're serving others,unless unless you're doing it for other motivations,
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but I'm assuming them and the motivationsour love right that you want to
serve each other. So that's reallybeautiful that you can come together with find
the common thing that you can bothagree on rather than you know, disagreeing
about theology and all of that kindof stuff in your work. And I
think that that's an important an importantpiece of being able to blend your spirituality
(26:30):
into your business is to not tryto force your beliefs on other people,
but rather just show them, showthem who you're created to be, because
we're all created in the image ofour creator, Father God, right,
and regardless of what they believe,I can still be who He created me
(26:56):
to be to them, right.So I love that you do that in
such a beautiful way. So thislast little bit of this first segment,
I want to just start telling peoplea little bit more about your business.
And then in segment too, let'sgo more into your business and what you're
(27:18):
working on right now. Okay,so just give us a sneak peet,
like a cliffhanger overview of what's goingon to wrap up this session. Well,
let's see. So as far asmy business goes, it's you know,
it's it's been an interesting journey.And first of all, I'll say
that and I believe that in orderto have worked outside of the traditional eight
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to five, seven day a weektype of structure. It has taken a
lot of day and belief and upsand downs with the economics of it,
as well as the social and spiritualall of it, all of that ballistic
type way choosing to to be abusiness person in that way. So what
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I've done is I've set myself upbasically as an independent contractor, which is
a really wonderful experience because it hasallowed me to work in a lot of
different places and areas and venues andbringing in music and stories and dance and
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and yeah, and working like Isaid, in a lot of different venues
like schools and museums and galleries andworkshops, conventions, and it's been really
a wonderful experience. But I haveto say there were times where especially being
at one time in my life asingle parents and just you know, I'm
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laughing because I have a friend whoalso we supported each other because we kind
of chose a different way of goingabout our careers. And we used to
call it the Santa Fe Speer.One day we'd show up to tutor and
the next day we show up toto do a you know, a conference,
(29:26):
a workshop about with a life tryingto think of something at the off
the moment, but oh like,oh, stress reduction workshop or something like
that. So so yeah, Ijust kind of had to be able to
change hats, so to speak,you know, to be able to But
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it already came under one umbrella asfar as my business model and integrated that.
And so what would you what wouldyou name that that umbrella that kind
of just covers everything I would Iguess arts in education would be a great
(30:11):
to name that. Yeah, itsin education, Yeah, the education of
the arts. So I guess reallyit would be arts and nature in education.
Yeah. That is so good,and that's I mean that you really
just exemplify that. Even in talkingto you, you know, sitting over
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dinner before we even went on ahike. You're all about you know that,
the nature and the and just beingartful and being mindful of you know,
what's going on and going with theflow like you said, and all
of that. Yeah. Okay,So how can people get a hold of
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you? And are you working onlyin the Santa Fe area or do you
travel now or oh no, Yeah, through the years, I've traveled different
opportunities that have arisen. So yeah, I definitely open to continuing to do
that now that the world's opening upagain, of course, which is really
(31:15):
great, and it's nice to beable to be back in community in different
places and m So the one ofthe ways that I can be reached is
through my email address. That's HeetaMaria at gmail dot com. And it's
(31:36):
about h as an hat Why asin yes, d as in Dad as
an apple, Amazon, Mary asan apple, are as a rabbit,
I as an Indian an a asan apple. So it's Heta Maria.
You're such an educator. We lovethat in front of the audience. I
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will have her email address in theshow notes below so all will be well.
And you also have a YouTube channel, Hita Maria at at on YouTube.
Just go and look and search forHita Maria and Hita like she said,
Hyda. So let's just wrap thissegment up and then when we come
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back in segment two right away forus and next week for our viewers,
we'll talk about what you're doing nowand some of the books that you're writing
or you have written, or youwant to write, or all of those
kinds of things. Okay, okay, all right, is it okay?
Okay, step away for a minuteto just go grab the cover of those
(32:44):
books I can show. Oh ofcourse, yeah, let's do that in
segment two. So for right now, you guys, if you have loved
this with interview with Hita Maria,do share it out with your friends.
We appreciate you liking and subscribing andfollowing and sharing where where you're seeing this
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