The Lens of Love

Welcome to The Power of Healing Your Energy Show. I'm Christine J Gold, I'm a spiritual medium, intuitive energy coach, old soul healer, and soul purpose mentor. This is a live show and podcast all about unconditional love, your light, your intuition, and your soul's purpose. Season 3, Episode 90 is bringing in Don Hajcek, and, uh, he's going to be talking about being seen and witnessing the feminine through the lens of love. Depression and anxiety are a side effect of not living your life intuitively, not trusting your gut, the lost connections with yourself and others. And I truly believe healing is the end of conflict within yourself, and that healing begins where the ego ends. Replays can be found on my Facebook and YouTube pages. Please like, please subscribe, please share, please follow, and please rate and review wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Hello and welcome everyone, come on in. I know Patty's with us already, she's a huge supporter, so thank you so much for being here, Patty. We love you, we're sending you lots of love, and this This is Season 3, Episode 90, and we're talking about the lens of love. And I had a lot of fun making the graphics. Of course, you know me, but yes, if you are new, say hello, let us know where you are in the world. And if you're on the replay, say hello as well. Send us your comments, questions, suggestions. We won't leave you hanging, and at the end of the episode, there is a giveaway as well. Um, but one, uh, housekeeping, uh, note, um, last week we had the beautiful Carrie Hummingbird on, and she gifted away a copy of her book, The Second Wave, and the winner of that book is Lynn. Lynn Rajot, you have won a copy of the book, so I will tag you in this post and we'll make sure we get it mailed out to you and it will be signed as well. All right, so thanks everyone, come on in, and I'm going to welcome Don to the show and pretty much let him introduce himself. I mean, he is a photographer, he is a mentor, he is an author, um, he has quite the extensive bio as well and I really, you know, want you to just kind of enter— like, where are you now in 2021? I mean, things change, right? So, and our roles change, right?

Yeah. Well, first of all, thanks for having me on.

Um, you're welcome.

Yeah, 2020 and 2021 have been a little bit different because I've really been working— obviously my work is in person. I'm a photographer. Um, it's very intimate because I like to really feel like I know my clients before we get started. I have shortcuts to get into that space. And, you know, most of the way I connect with people is through live events, live in-person events prior to 2020. So last years have been— last two years have been, you know, interesting. Things are starting to open up a little more. I'm doing more travel this year, working with more people in person. So where I'm at is really tuning into the emergence that I feel is going on right now, um, you know, physically, spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, right, in a lot of cases. And really helping people, um, what's the, what's the word for this, take advantage of this opportunity to come back out into the light, into the world as their true selves, with their their true gifts shining for everyone to see. And that's a challenge in the best of times. From what I've seen, it's a challenge for me even in the best of times sometimes. And so, you know, it's the role that I had before, but I feel like it's even more urgent now because we need these people to come out and join us, right? Um, more than ever with these gifts that are unique that not everyone has, and fill these niches together so we can make the world that we're re-emerging into a better place than the one that we had before we, um, started this current thing that we're in.

Yeah, well, whatever. Yeah, whoever you talk to, it depends. But yeah, uh, I'm just saying hello to Patty. She's saying she She made it. Yes, we see you. She's saying hello to Dawn.

Hi.

And yes, and we love you too. Absolutely. Thank you. And, and we need to say that more. I think I posted, uh, a picture and it says, if nobody told you today, I love you. And I hadn't had such a response in, in quite a while. Not that I'm looking for a response, but it really tells to us how you know, the pulse, the energy of what's going on in the world, that people are not feeling loved, that people are feeling very lonely, separated, um, maybe even, you know, there's lots of challenges and, and people are feeling that they're, they're alone in a lot of it. So when I guess you, um, as part of your bio, you said you were like a lot of times the only man in the room. And how did that— I mean, I'm sure that's shifting and changing because I watched one of a couple of your interviews before you came on. I— that's part of what I do. I'd like to find out a little bit more. And you're, you're actually expanding it. Did you say you're certified breathwork coach and now you're looking at doing men's groups as well?

Yeah, so I'm, I am a certified breathwork facilitator. Um, the men's work is really interesting because, I mean, I've worked with more than 700 women in the last 8 years, and I've worked with a dozen men in that same amount of time. I'm not in places where men are. I'm not typically speaking at men's retreats and conferences, but every year in January I would try to launch like the men's version of what I do, or expand what I'm doing to include men. And every year was met with sort of deafening silence. When, you know, a few years ago when we started having some societal upheaval around Me Too movement and things like that, more men were coming to me and saying, hey, like, I want to feel like I'm a player in this and I want to be seen accurately and things, things like that. And so I worked with a few more for a while, but then it kind of died off again. Well, recently I've undertaken a project. I'm just calling it the Men's Project right now, and it's, it's going to take a while to do because it's actually a pretty big project I'm doing in concert with some contacts on the East Coast. But it's, it's sort of finding out about the, the judgments that we might make about men that we see in emotional states. And so I've been seeking male volunteers to be a part of this photography project. And I started getting quite a few of them pretty quickly. It was more of a response than I've gotten other times when I've tried to start that program specifically for men. And in the little, you know, send me your name and your email if you want to be a part of this, I just put a box that says, tell me why you want to be a part of this. And to a man, like every one of the people that submitted said, I want an opportunity to express my emotional self in a safe space where I know I'm, I'm not going to be judged, which is a lot of the reasons that, you know, my female clients hire me. But I haven't heard it from men as often, so I thought that was pretty fascinating that each of them said some version of that.

Yeah, that's— I believe that's because subconsciously they're at that level now, right? They're, they're seeing that it's okay to show their feminine side just as much as us ladies. You know, that yin and yang, that masculine, feminine, it's coming together. Like, we're joining, we're seeing that really at the end of the day we're one. There is no separation, right?

Yeah, it's that the light that's shining from every person, right? There's different balances in each person, but we still hold all of it to some degree. I just, I, I feel very hopeful with the way men are reacting to this work lately, that this is another part of that emergence too. Like, I want to bring men along for this ride. And, um, yeah, hopefully it'll do, you know, some, some small part towards bringing us all together and helping us each see that we're all connected in that way.

Yeah, I think that's amazing. And really how you have evolved from— you started out in marketing. I mean, are you still doing that part? Because I, you know, was on your website and there's a branding component and you're really looking at your— well, you're honing in on the introvert.

Yeah. So the way that all kind of unfolded, my— since 1987, I was in the advertising industry first as a 19-year-old. Oh, everybody knows Holland. And then on to, you know, as an art director and creative director and a lot of web development, I got paid a lot to do the work, but I didn't love it, especially in the corporate environment, and became an entrepreneur and, you know, was part of a lot of different startups. I'm near Boulder, Colorado, so there's a lot of startup activity here. But about 10 years ago, I realized, you know, I really just want to do the photography that I'm directing other people to do. And struggled with it for a while, just finding my, finding traction with the work until I realized, you know, I'm not a wedding photographer, I'm not a boudoir photographer, I'm not a birthday photographer, commercial photographer. Because the response I was getting from specifically the women I was working with was that they were feeling some transformation through the process of working with me. And I think it was just not the photography itself really, but the way I want to know people as we're working together and to know what parts of themselves they feel like they want to see in their photographs that they know exist somewhere inside of them, but maybe they haven't seen it in a long time because they're so busy taking care of everyone else around them, you know. Or maybe it's pushed down. Most often with my clients it's pushed down somewhere inside due to trauma, and they want to touch that part of themselves again, right? And so that was decidedly not marketing, really, except that the people that were finding me were women in transition. So, you know, a lot of cases starting a business, entrepreneurs, or wanting to, wanting to grow their business, or wanting to get to the front of their business. And so that reeled in sort of the things I had let go of around my marketing background so that I could help them make those connections to who their ideal clients are. Now, what was interesting to me was that the conversations were not different, because I still want to know, even if it's for their business, I still want to know, what is it that you bring to the table that someone else doesn't bring to the table? It's not how I ask them that, but that's what I'm getting from them. And then just by expressing their true self and what they do bring to the table, they're attracting the ideal clients and not bringing in people that they're not going to vibe with, that, you know, they probably in the end don't want to work with, and allowing them to share those gifts, right? And then the third level of that has been some of the corporate work I do. Where companies will have me come in and photograph their employees, for example, for their website. And they don't want just a bunch of faces of people who are annoyed that they have to take some time out of their, their work day to be photographed. You know, no one's like, oh, there's a photographer coming to the office tomorrow, I've got to dress nice and make sure everything's all taken care of. Well, even if I have limited amount of time with those people, I want to find out quickly, how can I get this person comfortable, which I think is probably the main gift that I bring to this work, getting people comfortable quickly. And then when those people show up on their website, people aren't just seeing comfort photos of people in discomfort, they're seeing, oh, this is the person that brings this, this to the table, this person's got a little, you know, capacity for humor, this person's very serious and knowledgeable and really brings the character of the employees into the work. So long story short, it's always branding. It doesn't mean it's always about business, but it's who that person is, what they stand for, what their values are, and their gifts too.

Yeah, you're, you're showing the, the real, the human part of it. That's what you're showing, not the, oh, I've got to wear a certain outfit and look a certain way and and look like I, I, you know, I look very, very serious because that's what I do. And I think that's inauthentic and that doesn't hold anymore. So that's, you know, that's amazing you can do that. I had a boudoir photo shoot in 2016, and that was a transfer, you know, that was a transformation. She did an amazing job. So Patty's just saying love is what we should all be showing because that's what we want. Absolutely. And she's talking about men. Men seem to be afraid of showing feelings at all. I don't know why. Is it because they're afraid of being judged by their peers?

Oh, you're asking me that question? Yes.

Yes. Can you speak to that as a man? Yeah, I think it's—

I mean, I have my own sense of what it is. Um, You know, a few years ago I walked on a stage to give the speech that I usually gave, and I just that day was feeling like this isn't what I'm supposed to be talking about. For some reason I just had that intuitive hit, and I actually closed the laptop so the slideshow went dead, and I asked them to turn the lights on, and I just looked out at this sea of women and I started talking about men. And kind of what I spoke about earlier how I would try to launch this program and try to launch this program. Well, there was a time when, you know, nobody wanted to be involved, but I said, could I just sit down with you, buy you coffee, talk to you for an hour even though you're not a part of this? And so I interviewed about a dozen men, and at the end of the first interview, I asked a question that I didn't have in my notes. I wasn't planning on asking this question, and the person I asked the question to stood up and walked out of the coffee shop. And I thought, I need to ask this question the next time. So I had another— the next interview, at the end, I asked the same question. And that person said, you know what, I'm not talking about that. That's off limits. The next man, I asked the same question, and he got very emotional, said he didn't want to talk about it. Well, the question that I asked these people was, who taught you how to be a man? And I asked it knowing that I didn't have an answer. I was just curious what people would say. Well, that was an extremely triggering question for them. Now, when I told this story at that event, not knowing what I was going to actually talk about, someone shouted out from the audience, of course, "Who taught you how to be a man?" And I was like, I should have been more prepared for that question, right? But I just thought about, about it for a moment, and I realized, you know, I had an absent father and all these things, not a lot of great male role models in my, in my life. The person that— the people that really taught me how to be a man were, are my clients. And it's when I walk into a room with a woman who is terrified, usually, about having the session at all you know, possibly a trauma survivor. I mean, I've done boudoir photo sessions for rape survivors, like serious stuff where someone comes in and says, this is the first time I've been alone in a man with a room since the day— alone in a room with a man since the day I was assaulted, but I want to refine this piece of myself. Can we get there? You know. And I'm, yes, we can get there. So having more than 700 of those kinds of experiences has taught me more about being a man than anything else. But I guess getting back to your actual question, that little sidebar there, there's a moment where I believe that each of us, when we come into this world, we have everything that we need to be everything that we're supposed to be in the world. What happens is, you know, different moments, but certainly by the time we walk into school the first time, I know for, for me and for lots of other boys, there's the moment where we walk into this group dynamic with a bunch of other boys, kids, whatever, and we run up and we say, you know, "Hi, I'm Don, and I want to play with this toy." And then someone turns to them, some other child, and says, 'What you are right now is not okay in this way,' right? And that can be expressed in a bunch of different ways. Um, I won't say any of them because they're all vulgar, but right, there's something said to that boy that shuts down this piece of who they are, usually the sensitive piece or the emotional piece or the vulnerable piece or, or whatever that is, um, the caring piece, the nurturing part of that, that male child. Um, is shut down because belonging to the group is so important to survival. Even for a child knows that inherently, I am safer, I am, you know, more likely to survive if I am part of this group than I am if I'm by myself, especially as a child at school, right, feeling kind of alone. And that message is reinforced throughout that man's life. And I think the same thing happens with women, um, those messages. And by the time I'm a grown-up man, I've heard a million different reasons why I should not be a sensitive, vulnerable, emotion-feeling man. And so it tricks me into behaving in a way that the system wants me to behave in. Now what I find is when I go against the grain and I feel all my stuff and I share all my stuff and I am vulnerable It doesn't mean I'm putting myself in a position to make the people around me feel like I need to be rescued when I am vulnerable, because when I am vulnerable, I am powerful. Like, for every person, I really believe vulnerability is the pathway to power, and that has opened up my life in ways that no one could imagine. I mean, I've traveled the world doing this work specifically because I'm willing to go there, and I work with you know, amazing people, amazing women all over the planet. And it's a world that men come to me and say, I wish I could be your assistant or something. And I don't use assistants. I don't use hair and makeup. I don't use any of that. I do everything on my own, um, to create the right, right intimate environment where people can feel safe. And so, but my message to them is, if you can really just be— remember who you were This is for men and for women. I call it the art of remembering. Who was I when I came into this world? What concessions have I made to be a part of the group, to feel safe, to feel loved, to feel accepted? I don't want to concede those things anymore. I don't want to say that I'm a tough guy that loves watching football and working on cars. I hate watching football. I hate working on cars, right? But it doesn't make me less of a man.

No, I— yeah, exactly. Unscripting, unwinding. You know, it's like the old default programming. When I talk about ego, you, you got to uninstall that, and then you got to install something new. And actually, it's something that came in with you, like you said, you know, with your soul contract and all that stuff, when you came onto the earth plane saying, yes, here I am. And then you were shown, especially in school— that was very pertinent for me and for many that you were told otherwise.

Yeah, absolutely. And bonus is, I think that's where our purpose lies, is in that scary, scary moment of saying, this is who I actually am, right?

Yeah. And I'm not afraid to, to just be me. Yeah, yeah, not anymore. I'm seeing that more and more, you know, people talking about sovereignty, reconciliation, Christine J Gold, power, love, and vulnerability. Yeah, I think of Brené Brown. If anyone, when it comes to vulnerability and topics of shame and all that, I think of Brené Brown. She really championed that word, uh, vulnerability, and, and really opened people's eyes up to what it actually is.

Absolutely.

And it's not a weakness, it is an absolute strength. Um, and, you know, and thank you. And I mean, over 700 women, that, that's amazing. Um, and, you know, it's all about— yeah, you talk about stepping out of the shadows and more into the light, but you're not looking for, um, people who are, you know, introverts and then becoming extroverted, because then that's just really putting on another mask, right? Yeah, you're really just reclaiming—

it's definitely not what I'm trying to do. You know, a lot of my clients, there are people that will never see those photos. They're just for them. They want to know that this thing— they want to be able to see that this thing exists within themselves. And often they don't know what that thing is when they hire me. Like, I will have conversations with people that have hired me and they're like, I just want to feel like I can fall into who I am and see what comes out, because I don't remember, I don't know. And, you know, we may spend a half day or a day together, even in some cases, um, exploring, you know, and finding, you know, and it opens up little things. Oh yeah, like, actually, I'm really adventurous or very playful, or, um, you know, one of the first sessions I did when I was really getting into working at, you know, retreats and conferences and working with lots of people. We were standing in the parking lot at this hotel, and she's very introverted. Most of my clients are. I think it just naturally— they, they find me somehow. I'm hired by people who do not want to be photographed. That's why my marketing is so tricky. All of my clients are people who absolutely, positively do not want to be photographed. But we were standing in the parking lot of this hotel, and I was asking her about, you know, recalling parts of herself that she used to really enjoy that she doesn't really, um, see in herself anymore. And she said, well, I really used to be so playful, but I just realized, you know, I haven't been playful in as long as I can remember. And right when she said that, all the sprinklers at the hotel, the sprinkler system went off. We're outside of the conference room, right? And I said, would you be willing to get wet for the next 10 minutes before we have to go back inside? And she was like, yeah, absolutely. So I had her running around in sprinklers while I photographed her. And I think she still uses those on her profile. And that was like 7 years ago. They still show up in her, you know, memes and stuff that she puts together. And so I'm not trying to take an introvert and turn them into an extrovert. I'm an introvert. Like, I am not an extrovert. I get on stage and I speak for a while, you know, so anywhere between 15 minutes and 4 hours. When I am done, I can't do anything else the rest of the day. I have to go to my hotel room and sleep or read a book or certainly meditate. There's some energy practices that I have after I do photo sessions, even, um, because we're not Okay, I'm not sure if, uh, Don has frozen on me.

Oh, there we go, you're back, you're back. You froze up.

Everything disappeared for me.

Yes, it did. People were hanging on and no Yeah.

Um, yeah, I don't want to turn extrovert— introverts into extroverts.

Absolutely.

I can meditate and take care of myself. And there are ways that we can show up without being an extrovert. Definitely ways we can show up without, like, having to turn into an extrovert. And what's beautiful about it is one of the things that I find introverts are very tuned into is, I don't want to be inauthentic. It doesn't mean the extroverts don't care about that. But when I work with introverts, they seem very keenly aware of that and have very delicate, you know, BS meters that are on guard all the time. And they don't want other people to see them and say, that's a lie. And if my work is about anything, it's about finding the truth of who the person is. And not just displaying it. To other people, but showing the subject of the photography. When you are real, look what shows up. Because when they see it, they always say, I cannot believe that that's me, because they never get to see themselves that way. And why do they never get to see themselves that way? Because when they look in the mirror, they feel all these judgments, you know, coming back. Oh, they things that other people have said, things that they've said themselves, things that they're saying in that moment. And that's the list that I usually hear at the beginning of a relationship with the client. You know, she'll say, hi, I'm, you know, Karen, Lisa, whatever, and here are the 20 things that I hate about myself, and I'm going to verbalize them to you so that I'm taking away you know, your ability to assign those labels to me, even though I never would do that. But there's, there's a fear in that. So anyway, it's all a process.

Yeah, no, and then that's, that's amazing. It reminds, like you said, a BS meter. That's, that's me as well. Right away, even, even the energy on someone's photo, I'll look at it for 5 seconds and I can tell already what's going— if there's something going on. And it's like, you, you say introvert, I say empath. And, and, you know, whatever it is, some people might disagree, agree. It's just, it's a sensitivity, and not everybody is meant to be, you know, um, running the show, as they would say, right? Or being the center of attention. So then, thank you for, you know, for honoring, um, you know, the, the sensitives, the lightworkers, the healers, even though they don't think they are. They— we absolutely, we all are. And, uh, you're kind of a champion, uh, for them. It's, it's amazing. And your website, Tribe of Diamonds, the whole day, like, I really wanted to play the song, but I know I'd get copyrighted and pulled. All I could think of was Rihanna's song, uh, Shine Bright Like a Diamond. I'm like, that's, you know, the whole day that I had that song in my head. So nice. Yeah, it's, it's beautiful what you do. You make women. You make people sparkle and shine, and that's, that's a gift.

I reveal the sparkles that exist within people, is how I like to see it.

Yeah, there you go.

That's creating something that doesn't exist, right?

There you go, there you go. There's so many facets to it. Uh, Patty's just saying it's hard to be vulnerable, and then she had also said to feel beautiful and smart and desirable. Is that a big component of your work as well?

Those are words that come up for people quite often. Um, before a session, I'll, I'll have— I'll sit with the client and have us, um— I have a workbook actually on my site too, which I could let your people know about. Sure, I can give people access to that. Actually, that might be a good thing to do. Why don't I do that? And it kind of helps us sort out What are those words? Because a lot of times, you know, I might ask a client, what, what do you feel that truly exists within you, existed within you, that you feel like you haven't been in touch with in a while, or that you want people to see but you haven't shown for one reason or another? And quite often they'll go, I am not sure. I've been so busy raising these 5 kids, the last one finally just left for college, and I want to start this new business and I'm just terrified, so I don't know what those things are. So So, um, but those words do come up quite often. Um, I think because, you know, my heart is really in working with trauma survivors. Like, that's where— that's why I'm on the planet. Like, I know that that's why I'm here, but it's hard to have that be the front door for people. What I found is when I'm, you know, marketing my work or displaying my work as for entrepreneurs, you know, entrepreneurial women and things like that, introverts, they come to me and they're like, "Well, I'm not interested in all this other stuff that you do because I just need stuff for my website." I'm like, "Okay, great." But as we start working together, those things come up. And because they know I want to show them authentically, there are I mean, 90% of my photo sessions include tears, usually at the very beginning, and it happens at a very specific moment. And I know I'm jumping around here a bit, but I— a few minutes into a photo session— I know I'm giving away secrets here too, but I will almost always ask my clients to not smile for a few moments. I'm like, for the next 60 seconds, don't feel the need to smile. It's all good. And the reactions to that in itself are pretty interesting, but what usually comes next is I will start photographing them and they start to cry from not having to put up the shield anymore. So my job is identifying armor and gently dismantling it as much as anything else. From that moment, the real them really begins to show up. And then we find out, you know, I don't remember where I was going with the original part of the story, but, um, that's that vulnerability part. The vulnerability is often in the not smiling piece. If I see someone who's not really using their smiles to shield, I might not ask them that. But for most people, that especially at the beginning of the photo session, it's like, this is what I'm supposed to be doing now, right?

Yeah, it's like in, you know, when someone says, how are you doing? What's the automatic response? I'm good. And I'm just like, no, that's not— I— it reminds me of my mom. She would say the same thing. No, no, that doesn't work for me. Try again. That doesn't work for me. I'm like, okay, you're right. She just knew. Um, so thank, thank you for doing that. Thank you for, um, you know, making women feel, um, like, like themselves for the first time in probably a very long time, if any, any time. And, um, every show I ask my guests two specific questions, and these are— I don't, I don't prepare anybody there, these are just fun. So the first question is, how can we as a collective energy help make your dreams come true?

Gosh, I don't know. Do people answer these easily? This doesn't feel like an easy question.

There's so many things. It depends, right?

Yeah.

Oh man, I guess what's your bucket? What's your Moby Dick? How about that?

And I just want I would love to see people showing up in a way that we're not showing up on social media. Social media is the enemy of my work. I use social media and I hate having to do it. But I know this doesn't sound like it's a personal thing, but honestly, I mean, even for my own mental health, I would love for everyone to be able to just show up as they are, show their life as it is, we'd have a lot less, you know, suicide among 12-year-old girls, for one thing. Like, these stories that you hear from the pressures of social media are so just devastating. I mean, that is a Moby Dick for me. Like, I actually would love to work with kids someday. I think that that might be a place I want to go, to show younger people that they can show up as they are and not have to do all these specific things and poses and angles and stuff to show the things that are actually gifts about themselves. I often wonder what would happen if I was working with younger people. Is that a valid answer? That's the only thing I could—

No, that is— I love it. Yeah, I think you're really tapping into the collective because I've been feeling it. I, I've talked to many people that feel the same way. I feel like it's a, it's a rigmarole. I feel like it's a it steamrolls people. Um, it's some— many times it can do good, but from what I've seen, it's very fake, inauthentic, and Instagrammable, and it needs to stop. Yeah, there I said it. So I, I love what you said. Definitely go work with the kids. They're so impressionable, and they're like— they speak the truth, and, and they're so wise, wise beyond their, you know, that, that we are. They're starseeds, indigos, right? So we need to really facilitate that. Um, and then I guess the last question, uh, what does magic mean to you?

Hmm, it's almost the same answer. Magic to me is— I see it, I see it every time I work with someone. And I'm not talking about my magic, I'm talking about theirs. I see— I often tell people that what I love most about my work is that every time I work with someone, I see the face of God. Because when I see this moment where they've remembered at some subconscious level even who they were and what gifts they brought with them when they, you know, came into this world as a conscious being, or whatever it is along that line that, you know, it happens, um, it's a blessing. Like, I am unbelievably grateful at the end of every session because look at what I just got to witness, you know. And so magic to me is that moment, or that, that, um, even that presence with people that just hold it and act from that space through the rest of their life. When I see the being that— what I think is the being that should— that entered the earth in the first place.

Oh, that's beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. I, I absolutely agree. Um, Patty is just— she's talking about— and that's interesting, someone said that to me the other day. There's no use in complaining, no one cares. And she cares. I think we got to start— and I use this word today— stop being dismissive. Because someone said, what's a red flag in a relationship? And I'm like, people that are dismissive. So just, just remember that word. Uh, Madeline, thank you for being here. She was just saying that was a great answer. Wouldn't it be be great if everyone could be authentic. And, and that's what we're trying to do. I, I try to bring people on my show that are authentic. They have something. There's a light in them. They're here for a reason. They have a purpose. They have a passion. They have, you know, they get up every morning, they're like, you know, I'm gonna seize the day, you know. It's going to be amazing. So thank you for being here. Uh, Stacy is just saying, I wish everyone would treat, respect, honor one another like the God beings they are. Yeah, gods and goddesses we are all. We are all. Thanks for sharing that, Jamie— or Stacy, sorry, I don't know why I called you Jamie. All right, and Dawn actually has a treat for us, for anyone that is here live or even on the replay. He is giving away 5 copies of his ebook— sorry, that should be ebook— called Being Seen: Witnessing the Feminine Through the Lens of Love. So if you want to win a copy of his ebook, comment feminine. So just comment feminine and you will be entered to win, and we will announce the winners on next week's show. So good luck to everyone who would love a copy of this. Now, I kind of had— I went on Amazon and had a look, and you have a lot of beautiful reviews. Um, the photography— people are blown away by the book. How long did that take to, to come together, that book?

Um, 50 years.

Yeah, there you go.

The process of writing was a couple of years, and it's not very long. Um, you know, putting it together with the photos and things took some time, but because I really feel like the book comes in thirds and they're, they're all intermingled, but there's my clients and some of their stories that they've agreed to share, there's my perspectives on why the work does what it does, and then I also tell my story in that book, um, part of it anyway. That part was very difficult, and talk about vulnerability. Um, goodness. Yeah, so it took a while to— it took a while to get that book done, but the response to it was so beautiful. Very grateful for that.

Yeah, and we're very— I can't wait to, to read it myself. And thank you for holding that space um, and, and being, yeah, like a wayshower, a guide, an activator. Um, you know, I almost see, you know, you push a button, it's almost like a code. You push this button, then someone else comes along and pushes that button. I'm not talking about triggers and wounds and all that, but you're uncovering something, and then all of a sudden everything just lights up, like your chakras. That's how I see it. Everything lights up and is activated. And once fully activated, meaning you're awake, there's no going back. And why would you?

Yep, absolutely. If I can, only because I mentioned it, um, the workbook that I mentioned. Yes, people want access to that, they just go to tribewithdiamonds.com/shine. S-H-I-N-E, like shine like a diamond.

I'm like a diamond. Yeah, I've been singing that all day. All right, I put it in the comments there for you guys if you'd like it. There are so many people that are wanting to enter to win this. Madeline, you're in. Stacy's just saying thank you. She needs to work on her lost feminine. Patty would love to win. Sherry as well. Patty, you're in. Stacy, you're in. Oh my goodness, look at all this love for you.

Nice.

Look at all this. You show up and they show up, and that's how the magic happens. So absolutely, thank you so much for being here. I, I really appreciate— I know there's way more story than we could, you know, fit in this time slot, but, uh, is there anything else you'd like to leave with our audience before we say goodbye?

Oh, I guess just shine on. Let your light shine.

Yeah, that little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Maybe one— I think one show, I don't know why, we should do karaoke or something. Who's in? No, I'm kidding. Oh, there we go! Isn't that wild? Okay, you're on, Don, you're on. We're gonna have a karaoke night here, guys, so stay tuned for that and let me know if you're interested. And we could have like a big party and bring people on because StreamYard will allow that to happen. And you never know what'll happen, it'll be magic. We'll see if I can find someone to set that up. But thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you, and, uh, and, and I look forward to connecting again. And, um, just a few house cleaning here, guys. I just wanted to let you know that the mentorship is still going on. It is year-round. Um, I also do mediumship training, uh, one-on-one mentorships group mentorships, soul purpose readings. Um, comment or email me if you'd like to book in. As well, the October energy update is ready. So if you guys are wondering what's going on in October, what's happening, it's up, it's ready, it's loaded. And our affirmation for October: I am grateful for this new beginning in my life. I will receive the blessings in store for me on this journey with an open heart and deep appreciation. I will put in the work required to enable those blessings to easily flow from my endeavors. And it is also a new moon today, guys, in Libra. Okay, so it's about the scales, balance, relationships. There's a lot going on, so enjoy your new moon. I love you guys so much. Uh, please remember, healing begins where the ego ends. And take care.