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Emotions Untapped
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#017 Empowering Teenagers: Breaking Societal Norms Through Mentorship and Self-Discovery with Nathan Francis
What shapes the subconscious patterns driving our behaviors and life choices? Join us as Nathan Francis, a former school teacher turned youth mentor, shares his transformative journey. Nathan's story is a testament to the power of self-awareness and spiritual growth, revealing how practices like quantum healing and Reiki mastery have not only reshaped his life but also inspired him to help teenagers discover their true potential. This episode delves into the importance of breaking free from societal expectations and the role of mentorship in fostering supportive environments for young people.
Through engaging discussions, Nathan and I uncover the profound impact of the subconscious mind, starting from early childhood experiences. We explore how these deep-seated patterns can lead to self-sabotaging behaviors and affect our relationships. Nathan sheds light on the process of reprogramming these ingrained habits through conscious effort, patience, and resilience. Our conversation extends to the significance of living authentically, with practical tools like journaling and vision boards to help identify and align with one's core values.
The episode further explores Nathan's efforts in creating a documentary on alternative education, showcasing the benefits of homeschooling and independent schools as empowering educational choices. We emphasize the transformative power of mentorship and the necessity of creating safe spaces where teenagers can express themselves freely. By nurturing open communication within families and providing guidance without judgment, we can counter societal pressures, foster strong family bonds, and guide young people toward a more fulfilling and authentic life.
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that connection just with spirits just grew stronger from that quantum healing session. I then did beyond quantum healing, where the facilitator just is just sitting there. You're in control, you're in that meditative state, you're in control of where the session's going. I did that as well. I've done reiki mastery. I did that. I did my reiki one and two the last two years. I did mastery in July and that Reiki stuff's wild the energy and different things to really help ground my energy. I use those tools every day and it's helped my connection to myself first and my intuition grow stronger from that to come from a more grounded, calm place.
Speaker 1:That's going to create anxiety and depression if you're doing something that you don't want to do every day. Look around you. In the world today there's a lot of people doing things that they don't want to do every day on just that surface level. But where's that ingrained? Where's that come from? That's what I want for every teen out there that's in that dark period right now is that there is a way out.
Speaker 1:You just need someone with a different lens to be like hey, this is like where is it that you want to go? It's just a matter of if you're a teen or you have a teen watching this. Just ask them the question of what it is that they want to be and don't impart anything on them. Let them speak about what it is that they want to be. Don't add in your issues with whatever. What is that they want to be? Don't add in your issues with, with, with the with. Whatever it is that they want to be. Let them figure it out.
Speaker 1:You have the potential to be whoever it is that you want to be. You just need to untether, and that untethering process is where all the growth happens. You know, sitting in solitude, allowing yourself to cry, allowing yourself to feel those negative emotions, but then also allowing yourself to feel happy, letting yourself to feel joyful, allowing yourself to be excited, because there is so much to be excited about in this world. There's so much beauty out there, because the beauty exists here too. It's within and it's also out there.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Emotions Untapped podcast. I'm your host, livia Louder. This is the show where we explore the power of our thoughts, feelings and emotions and how they create our personal and professional realities In this community. We dive into better understanding, using and managing these elements of ourselves so we can live healthier, better balanced and less overwhelming lives. Experts and thought leaders from a variety of fields here to help you gain insights, strategies and tools for building and upgrading your emotional awareness and regulation techniques, and there will be a couple solo episodes with yours truly. It brings me so much joy to share this information with you, to connect with you and guide you on your journey. If you're ready to start doing the work, you can download our free seven-step guide to improving your emotional health right now. Just go to wwweqnationorg. Now let's dive in.
Speaker 2:The star of the show this week is someone I am super grateful to have connected with. We share such similar views and also share some similar experiences along our individual healing journeys. I could not speak more highly of him. Nathan Francis is a coach, podcast host, writer and author and is super passionate about helping people overcome their own self-sabotage and live the life of their dreams. As a former school teacher Nathan's mission is to inspire everyone, particularly our youth, to stand out of their own way and make a run for it up the mountain of greatness. He's also working on a very exciting documentary that sheds a light on the good, the bad and the ugly of the current education system. Get ready for the goods, nathan. It's fantastic to have you on the show today. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for having me, livia. It's an awesome connection. I sort of saw your post on the baseball group and, yeah, I didn't realize that we're all the same age doing the same thing, very similar journey, so it'd be good to see what we chat about today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'm really looking forward to having this conversation with you. Last week I actually binged your podcast and listened to a whole bunch of episodes, so I feel like I kind of know you a little bit already. I know a little bit about you, know who you are, what you're passionate about, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm really excited to you know, get a little deeper on that and share that with my audience.
Speaker 1:Now looking forward to it. Well, let's get into it, eh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you are a mentor for kids and teens, but this is not something that you've always done, necessarily in this way, so I'd love for you to start off by just sharing with us what it is that led you to the work that you do now a good question, I know.
Speaker 1:For me, I was always wanting to work with children and, like, I went to uni and did the teaching thing and then 2020 started and you know, I sort of didn't take the experiment that they were offering. So I went on a different path and it was during that time I really started to go in deep with who I was, what I was doing, the person I was, and I came across this podcast that one of my mentors had done and actually a buddy of mine recommended that he interview my future mentor or my mentor now, and I listened to that podcast. He was talking about self-sabotage. His name's Jason Kristoff, also from Canada too, and he was talking about self-sabotage. And I listened to that podcast probably three times and it was actually after I was very hungover from the night before it was actually the last time I ever drank alcohol and I found that podcast the next morning, actually about three hours later. And then, yeah, listen to that podcast. So I met self-sabotage. I went well, I do all of that and more like I'm the king and self-sabotage. So I got self-sabotage, everything like relationships. Uh, if you listen to my podcast, you knew the sort of lifestyle I was living before.
Speaker 1:I am the man I am now and it was that podcast that sort of opened my eyes to my stuff, like my shit. And it was like I emailed him for different advice and then he opened up his self-sabotage coaching program and I was something inside. Intuition was like I need to do this, like I need to delve into my shit, because I already knew about the world truths and it was time for me to delve into my own journey. And it was upon that journey where I really figured out like I learned about a subconscious mind and how I was wired to do the things I was doing and what my belief systems were within myself. And it was all about untethering and letting go and just allowing myself to step into my full potential and step into my power. And it took a few years to get to where I am now.
Speaker 1:But I'm very grateful that I went on that journey, learned about stuff and then applied it into my own life. Like it's very simple to learn the stuff and then not apply it. Like we see a lot of people read self-help books and then they go back into normal life and they don't apply what they've read, whereas I was. There was just something inside, like a fire inside, for me to just embody what I'm learning and reading, to be that better version of me, because I always had hopes and dreams. I always had big dreams and big visions but I always sabotaged it because I didn't feel like I was worthy enough.
Speaker 1:And then, once I sort of started the journey, it come very clear to me through meditation, through spiritists like you're still going to work with children, but you're going to mentor them in a different way. You're not going to tell them what to do and sort of in the system. You're going to mentor them and show them about the spiritual stuff, about how to understand their emotions, how to uh deal with them and feel them. A lot of kids feel them. They don't know what the emotion is like. What like if you ask a child what is anger, you'll get a million different responses, but they don't necessarily want to feel that anger or feel that emotion. It's about helping them understand, even like the spiritual stuff with their dreams and all these things. It just become very clear to me that I was gonna help these children, whoever comes into my field, to be like yeah, I was one of you as well.
Speaker 1:I used to have wild dreams. I used to have our out-of-body experiences, sleep paralysis. I used to have a wild imagination, but society was like that's all woo-woo, you need to, it's all in your head, right, and it's like, no, this stuff's real and for me it's. One of my big passions is helping children understand there is another side and the things that they're seeing are real. I saw a mermaid like a month ago in Noosa we're talking about Noosa, really on Just Dial Fair. It's like I see these things too and I want to help you nurture that ability to step out into the world and be heard and seen. And for me, that was one of the biggest things was being heard and seen. And, yeah, to be able to help children and help teens and adults to sort of step onto the path has been awesome work, but it started within first. I wouldn't have been able to do what I do now if I hadn't gone on my own health healing journey.
Speaker 2:Fantastic. Thanks for sharing that. It's really interesting, like how you said, you know you had a big night out and the next day you listened to that podcast and that really was the pivotal moment for you where obviously, everything that was going on in your body and your life up to that point you were obviously ready for change, there was a transition coming. But it's so interesting just that one podcast, that one moment of hearing a conversation, hearing ideas and perspectives of something new that you haven't heard before, and it just flipped the switch and you were like, okay, now I'm going to go in this direction.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'll just add a little bit of the story behind that too. It was that night where I looked myself in the mirror and I said this is my last night of drinking alcohol, chasing women. Being that old version of me, I said to myself this is the last night I'm going to do this. I had no idea that 12 hours later I was going to be listening to a podcast about self-sabotage. I really did.
Speaker 1:And during that night it was about four or five in the morning and I had a lot of other substances along with the alcohol. And I'm seeing this plastic folding at table talking to three young girls. So I was the oldest person at the gathering. What about six, seven years? And they were probably 1920, when I was 26, 27, and I remember just saying pick up line and then I fell through the table, like that was my rock bottom. That was like nathan, it's time for you to step onto that journey now, step onto that path, become who you're supposed to become. And it was like three or four hours after that moment that podcast dropped and, yeah, it just completely changed my trajectory, changed my path to where I am now. Was that pivotal night in September of 2021.?
Speaker 2:Fantastic and, like you said, it was like you kind of had already put it out to the universe. You already made the decision that, hey, things change from now. And you didn't have, obviously, any like you know, inclination of like how that was going to transpire. And lo and behold, this podcast, you know, falls on your ears and you're like OK, I love that, I love like the alignment of it and I know that you're quite, you know, spiritual as well from listening to your podcast there last week and it's something that you've been able to nurture in yourself, is something that you know you recognize as a kid. But obviously you know we go through life, we grow up, the programming sets in and we kind of lose that a little bit. So is that a big part of your coaching that you do now is really, I guess, supporting young adults to kind of like recognize that in themselves, their intuition, and really like yeah go through life like listening to that and tuning into that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's about also helping them connect with themselves on that deeper level and it's about holding space for that person to be able to go to those places that they don't really want to go to. But I find that, even with myself, that it's not really necessarily the place that they like, the dark place that they're afraid of. They're afraid of shining their light on that dark place and I find that a lot of people, including myself, were afraid of my own power, my own potential. I was actually afraid of who I could be rather than what I was.
Speaker 2:And that's the ultimate act of self-sabotage. That is 100%.
Speaker 1:We all have felt that, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So let's talk a little bit about self-sabotage then I'm sure at one point or another, every single one of us in our lives have experienced this, whether we realize it or not. You know, once we do start to work on our emotional intelligence skills, work on our self-awareness, we can have a little bit more understanding around this. But I'd love to talk about what self-sabotage can look like for those that perhaps you know, maybe don't recognize it in themselves, and I know that it's going to look different in, for example, relationships in your career, your professional life and then just in life in general. So I'd love for you to kind of take us through what that can look like in these different kind of environments.
Speaker 1:All right, let's start with the part of the mind that doesn't get taught inside the school system called the subconscious mind. We have two main parts of the mind that make up the human psyche. You've got the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind sits behind the conscious mind and it works on what you picked up from the womb till when you were here and now. It records everything. It records conversations all around you, and the way it works is that what you see and what you hear is what you become. So if your house was full of what it is these days lying, cheating, stealing that's your repetitive program. So it works on repetition. So it's like going to the gym. If you want to go to the gym and you want to get big biceps, you're going to do a shit ton of bicep curls right, and you're going to keep going until you eventually see growth. It's the same the mind. So if you have had that lying, cheating, stealing program, that's the life that you will automatically live, because that part of the mind deemed as safe and familiar and the way it works is record six million pieces of information per second and from zero to six children are walking theta brainwave state robots. They mirror, mimic and copy everything that their parents do, their teachers do, friends of friends do, cousins, brothers, sisters, whatever and that's what. And their program is and their mind's scanty. What is safe for me to play here? Oh, my family's drinking alcohol, okay. So that's a safe card to play. That's going to find me safety in the bigger group. And I know, as humans and you would know too, we're pack animals, right, we, we bond with the bigger group. We want to feel safe, secure and supported in our group and in our tribes. So we will do things that we're not necessarily aware of, but we'll do them anyway to fit in, to go along, to get along, to blend in, to be that, that person inside that tribe, for acceptance, because we just want to be accepted, and for self-sabotage, right. So if you have a group of friends that are all okay, drinking, partying and smoking, we'll just go there and one person puts their hand up and says I'm not drinking tonight or I'm not drinking that, that person will get mocked. They'll get pressured, peer pressured, into taking and then eventually, and it's like if your group of friends aren't evolving and aren't growing, but you want to grow and you start to grow, it's like crabs in a crab bucket. They will pull you back down because it's like, oh, they're growing up, they're taking big steps and it's shining a light on them, being like, well, I'm not, I'm just. People are comfortable with where they are and it's understanding that and letting those friendships and letting those people go, because those new people will come in that are maybe three steps ahead of you, that maybe are on the similar path to you and unfortunately, that's just how the nature of this journey works. You, and unfortunately, that's just how the nature of this journey works and give it. I'll give you another story too, with with how these sabotaging behaviors work.
Speaker 1:It works on the flip side too. So if you're not comfortable or ready to start that journey like you start getting bigger arms and you start feeling more healthier and more vibrant and your friends are a little bit overweight, they're not looking and feeling the way you are then that part of the mind well, this is a very unsafe thing here. You're getting healthy, you're getting strong, no one around you is doing that. Oh, you're going to be alone, you're going to be very lonely on this journey. So then people will just automatically stop Like, people will lose weight, they'll lose 50 kilos and then you'll see, in two years' time they'll put it back on.
Speaker 1:It's like this part of the mind that's not a safe card to play out there in society, because if you're overweight and all your friends are, and then you become healthy, strong, it's like, oh no, now I'm abuzz and now I'm alone. Oh, there's no one around me, my friends are all. And you'll just automatically, without even realizing it, you'll go back and you'll put on that weight again. That's how, like, this part of the mind controls our behavior and once you're consciously aware of how it works and how you can reprogram it, you can literally reshape your whole life and transform yourself beyond your wildest dreams. But it's like going to the gym. You got to go to the mental gym. You listen hypnosis recordings, you surround yourself with affirmations, your self-talk, your inner self-dialogue, you're asking questions and it's a day-by-day process. You're not going to become the healthy, strong version of you are overnight. It's just going to take patience, resilience and discipline.
Speaker 1:And in terms of relationships, well, this part of the mind will hit the self-destruct button every single time. You might have mummy or or daddy issues related from your childhood, given the zero to six age group. So if your mother or father wasn't present in your life, then your trust for, let's just say, for a woman, a dad is the figure in their life, the first male figure that they trust and that they love. If that father breaks that love and that trust, then women are going to be looking for that subconsciously on a subconsciously looking so that man to be able to, to love them and to protect them the way that their father wasn't. But the way this part of the mind works is they'll look for they'll pick up men or boys that are just like their father, that will hurt them because they have this wound, this subconscious wounding.
Speaker 1:Of all men are bad because my father treated me a certain way and then their boyfriends all treat them the same way. And for me I hit the self-destruct button. I had a lot of issues with my mother. My mother and I now are on a really awesome terms, but I was looking for that same woman. But then, when a good woman would come in, I didn't feel like I was worthy of it. So I pushed the self-destruct button. So I'd ghost, I'd cheat, I'd do those things because I didn't feel like I was worthy. So this part of the mind will control every aspect of your life until you become consciously aware of the patterns, of the relationship patterns, the financial patterns, and you'll see that everything will relate back to when you were that child. It's like I'm looking for someone subconsciously that is going to hurt me the way my father hurt me if I was a woman that's, yeah, that's the familiarity correct, it's the state card, right, it's safe.
Speaker 1:But yeah, consciously the women are like, well, why do I keep attracting men like my father? Or if they're not consciously where, why do men keep hurting men like my father? Or if they're not consciously aware, why do men keep hurting me? And then they have this wound, or this belief system of all men are dicks, all men are bad, all men are, and then that's society right now. Look around you, it's everywhere. But it's about doing this healing work understanding the patterns, understanding this part of the mind and using it to guide you and to reshape your entire life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so then I guess the key there really is, you know, in the conscious mind, really recognizing and understanding the patterns. I think that would probably be you know, correct me if I'm wrong but kind of the first step to kind of just again building that self-awareness and recognizing hey, this is a thing that keeps happening, or these are the type of people I keep attracting, or this is the behavior that I keep exhibiting towards this particular scenario, and starting to understand, ooh, there's a pattern here. Perhaps there's a programming that's controlling this behavior and these habits around this particular pattern right, I'll give you another example.
Speaker 1:So for me, I watched American Pie a lot and I watched Friends and I watched Two and a Half Men. You can sort of see the programming here. Charlie Sheen, right, had the beach house, he had the cigars, he had the women, he had the hot tub. It's like subconsciously I wanted to be that guy because it was safe for me to be that guy. So then I watched american pie.
Speaker 1:Stifler would talk about his conquests, he would brag about the women that he was sleeping with, talking absolute rubbish. It's like that was the safe card for me to. This is my teenage programming here. And then I'd watch friends with joey same thing. So who was the? So from 18 to 27, I was trying to be like them because on on the screen it's such a safe card for me to play. So I wanted to be that guy that some of the bunch of women had the hot tub, had the and, and I wanted to be that guy because I thought he was a king, I thought he was cool, I thought that that was going to get me acceptance and get me some safety inside the tribe. But reality setting, it's like I was a real dick to women the way they were, but in the show it's projected as women like being treated like that. In reality, women don't like being treated like that. Because I was treating women like that and then, as soon as I sort of had that epiphany, I was like, well, I need to change the way I am and turn my back on the stuff that's on the programming that's leading down the gutter, like the music, the tv shows, everything that we consume on a repetition basis. As I said, before, we become that.
Speaker 1:I became stifler joey and char in my own way Just from watching that Like. I watched American Pie at least a hundred times Like I'm going to be honest with you. I watched Short Half man. I watched all those shows there's so many more but I wanted to be that guy. But then once I delved into that and been like that's not me at my core, that's not who I am. I'm being someone that I'm not to fit in. I didn't come here to fit in. I didn't come here to people, please. I didn't come here to be that guy. I came here to do some pretty awesome shit and live the life that I want. But being that, being that guy, was not getting me where I wanted to go, so I had to let him that version of me go and then figure out who is my authentic self, what's heart-centered, what's my ego? Where is that balance? And it was in that moment of really journaling and delving in deep with myself going well, who do I want to be? What sort of leader, what sort of man do I want to become? Two years ago I did that. I'm living that version of me now.
Speaker 1:You know, we talk about solutions. A lot of people love solutions. A good solution is just asking yourself who are you? If you're a teacher, who are you? Beyond a teacher, you might be a father and mother. And then go deeper, who are you? And then figure out at your core, your center, who it is that you are.
Speaker 1:And it was that reflection last year when I moved up here of who actually am I. I'm a brother, I'm a son, I'm a coach, I'm a podcast host. But who am I when I take those labels off? I'm just a soul that has inhibited this body for a human experience. That's it. That's who I am. But then, who am I really? Well, I can have fun, I can be nice and I can be kind, but in my own way, rather than having all these influences around me, just me and myself and my thoughts.
Speaker 1:And then a vision board. Two years ago, my brother and I made a vision board to be where we're living. Now I'm living the version of me two years ago. My brother and I made a vision board to be where we're living. Now. I'm living the version of me two years ago that wanted to be where I am now and I have a lot of gratitude and a lot and a lot of gratefulness and a lot of fondness because. And then it's like, okay, you get the thing that you want, and then people just stop. It's like we keep going. So, nathan, what else do you want? So I have a vision board now in two years time a woman and a family and to be able to provide for that family. That's who I'm stepping into now.
Speaker 1:So I'm always working on myself to step into another version of me. So, beyond the, beyond the father and the and the husband well, that's a really good question that I may need to then, once I have that, to then figure out okay, what's next? Because if we're always having something to strive for, we're going to get out of bed every day and have purpose. So for me it's I want to build a family and I, when I want to meet a woman to be able to to do that. So how am I going to do that? Well, each and every day I'm one, I'm one day closer. What can I do today that in two years time, or in one year time, or whenever it is that day comes that I've put the good habits and and and whatever into that energy to be able to bring that into reality? So it's manifestation thing, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, fantastic. I love that. It's like the way that you described it. You had a complete identity shift and now you're very aware and intentional about embodying the kind of person that you are going to choose to become, and not just, you know, accepting, you know, not that okay of. Also, we get to understand the parts of ourselves and like what parts are serving and what parts are not. And obviously you had that shift and you did that work to kind of let those old parts of you, those old versions of you, fall away that weren't resonating anymore, that weren't, you know, getting you to closer to the person, the man that you actually want to become. This is so incredible. I'm loving this conversation.
Speaker 1:This is fantastic and and and you just gave me another awesome point too it's about oh, I've put myself in those shoes of being that father and husband already. I know it's not here, but I'm already like, each and every day I'm on. It's as if I'm imagining, like I've already got the in my life, so I'm already embodying that person now to then allow that in yeah, and that is the ultimate manifestation.
Speaker 2:Right, like that's exactly how it works, is like stepping into the vibration of that version of you that has those things, is those things, feels those things, right? There was a question that had just dropped in and just escaped. Give me one moment here.
Speaker 1:That's all right. But that's what they don't show you inside the school system and that's what I show people on a daily basis is how this all works and how you can manifest the life that you want. But it's going to be a really, really challenging, can be a really challenging, challenging can be really challenging period, letting go of everything that you once were to become that version of you that you see. I see people's potential, I see who they can become. But they got to do the work to untether from that old version of them and those old belief systems to bring in the new. And it's upon those letting go and those really shitty periods is where you really discover who you are. But it's upon those letting go and those really shitty periods is where you really discover who you are.
Speaker 1:But people stay stuck in the shit for too long, like I know I did, and then like, yeah, it's the most common act of self-sabotage is you're starting to work. Act of self-sabotage is you're starting to work. Then, as you start to evolve and grow, you get you get fearful of being that person, so you just remain comfortable with where you are. But it's shining that light on all of that shit to then step into the new we'll be right back after a quick break.
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Speaker 2:So share this episode directly with a friend or pop it on your socials with your biggest aha moment from today's show, and don't forget to tag us at Livia Lauder. That's L-I-V-I-A dot L-O-W-D-E-R. Right, let's get back to it. So I want to ask you a little bit more about your coaching and some of the you know findings from you know working with children. But I do just want to ask first, you know, on your journey, you know your healing journey, when you kind of had that lightbulb moment and like obviously now you're very different version than you were, you know two years ago. I'm curious for you because there's so many you know healing modalities and like different techniques and tools and strategies out there that you know some work great for these people and not so much these people over here. Everybody has a different way of doing things. I'd love to know what, for you, was you know, some of the most powerful practices I guess we'll call them that you, you know, took on board when you were going through your healing journey you were going through your healing journey.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, so that podcast started the health sort of sabotage journey. But then around that time I did something called quantum healing and it was like the spiritual awakening started. So a friend of mine, who's awesome, and one day when she steps in to the world stage, look out, she was learning having guinea pigs for quantum healing and my brother and I would just happen to be at this gathering up. She was learning having guinea pigs for quantum healing and my brother and I would just happen to be at this gathering again. Just happened to be there and she just happened to mention it. And I'm like, okay, let's just see what this does. And I remember that session so vividly because it was almost two years ago or three years ago that I had that session and it awoke me spiritually because my grandfather was standing in like right in front of me he's obviously passed on and my cousin and I had another family member as well standing there and I'm like, wow, wait, like that connection was so strong, they came through so strong, I know, and on those quantum healing, you delve into past lives and you delve into different things for your journey to sort of help you understand this life and the things that you're doing, and it was in that session where I really sort of awoke spiritually. But then, as I started building the habits and started taking care of myself more, it become very clear to me that my dreams are pretty wild and I had this thing called sleep paralysis for such a long time and as a child I used to feel like I was being taken. I felt like I was being choked, like when you have sleep paralysis, you can't like move in the bed and it's your soul wanting to pop out of your body. I learned about this thing called out of body experiences through this interview I did with darius right on my podcast, and he was talking about it and I just had this intuitive pull to be like I need to talk about my sleep paralysis and then he helped me then have these wild experiences where you're literally out of your body and then your body's laying there and you're like holy doly and then it's like as a kid I always had these gifts and these experiences, but it was like society was like oh no, that's woo-woo. Oh no, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, do that. But I find that the more physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy you are. Your body can do these awesome things, like we can all do these things, but it's a matter of taking care of yourself and also stripping back your belief systems and allowing that connection back in.
Speaker 1:And some wild experiences I've had with with clients, like they start to take care of themselves and then they're like oh, I had this, had this dream last night, or I had this experience last night, and it's like wow, like, and dreams are significant. You know you could be dreaming about an ending like I know. For me, um, I've had some really wild dreams and I've had future dreams and and different things, but they're significant because when something you know, you might have a dream of something exploding, well, it's not necessarily that building that's exploding, it might be something in your life that's about to explode. You know dreams are significant. We need to write them down. I know I write them down a lot and that connection just with spirits just grew stronger from that quantum healing session. I then did beyond quantum healing, where the facilitator is just sitting there, you're in control, you're in that meditative state, you're in control of where the session's going.
Speaker 1:I did that as well. I've done reiki mastery. I did that. I did my reiki one and two the last two years.
Speaker 1:You did mastery in july and that reiki, that reiki stuff's wild, the energy and different things to really help ground my energy. I use those tools every day and it's helped. My connection to myself, first, and my intuition grows stronger from that to come from a more grounded, calm place. It's really helped me understand that people. Just, you know, help me understand people and have that deeper understanding of where they're at, because I used to judge a lot of people. I could see their potential and so everyone's on their own journey. It just helped me. I have more of a understanding of society and people and, yeah, I've dabbled in that. I've dabbled in all sorts of modalities like kinesiology and different things to help me on that path. Right, and those modalities are great.
Speaker 1:But if you're not physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually doing the work, then those modalities aren't gonna necessarily work either. I've found that you can go and see someone for reiki or go and see someone for these things, but if you aren't doing the work or embodying what's come up, then you'll stay where you are. Stop reading the self-help book and just not embodying anything from it. It's the same with these modalities. It's like you meet them halfway. They're giving you the energy to heal yourself, but they're not going to give you energy to heal you. They're not there to heal you, they're here to help you heal you. And that was one of my biggest things. It's like we go and see these people but if we're not embodying that work or doing the evolution work or whatever work that they give you to do, then you're going to remain where you are, and then that's where people go and see psychics too.
Speaker 1:Right, they'll go and get a reading. They'll say, yep, you're going to meet this person on this day and this. Then, and it's like that's just one timeline that they see, but then that day comes they might be talking to some friends in a social gathering oh, I saw a sidekick. They're no good, you know. They told me that I was going to have this happen and this happen, this happen and didn't happen. It's like, well, they saw a timeline for you and there's multiple timelines, but they saw one timeline of multiple timelines and it's up to you to action, whatever those choices or whatever that that was, to bring that into your reality. They're just seeing that for you, but you just went home and I well, I'm gonna meet this person tomorrow, so I'm gonna sit here and do and do nothing with my arms folded. That's not going to be able to help you meet that person, or or whatever it is that I told you.
Speaker 2:If you're not shooting something to bring that in I love that and I yeah, I actually remember one of your podcast episodes. You guys were talking about this too. It's like you know, sometimes psychics and intuitive people get a bad rep because it's like, oh well, they told me this was going to happen, but it didn didn't happen. But it's like you said, it's they're seeing one version and they're kind of giving you that information and it's meant to be a guide, right, so that you then, as the person, can go in that direction, take steps towards that direction, not just sit around and wait for something to happen, like that's not how it works yeah, and it's.
Speaker 1:It's the same with manifesting right you can meditate and visualize and envision, but if you're not actioning, you'll still remain where you are. If you're not taking that action, the universe will also reward. Action might just be sending an email, might just be going somewhere you don't usually go and stepping out of your comfort zone to action, something to bring in, whatever it is that you're manifesting to bring in, and that's that's advice for me yeah, that's such a key piece what you just said too.
Speaker 2:You know, the comfort zone like we get said you've mentioned this a few times like people just being really stuck in their comfort zone because, quite frankly, it's uncomfortable to exit your comfort zone.
Speaker 2:That's the idea, but like that's where all the magic happens, right like we, if we want to go on this journey of, you know, self-development and connecting to ourselves, we're going to do things that are unfamiliar, that we haven't done before, and, like newsflash, it's going to make you uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:But once you kind of start on that journey, I feel like for me anyway, maybe you can attest to this too when you're you know you're on your spiritual journey and you're doing the work, you're healing, you get so much more comfortable with being uncomfortable. It's like a muscle, like flexing that muscle, that you can kind of keep stretching yourself further and further and further outside your comfort zone, busting through grids, so to speak, if we want to look at it from like a quantum physics point of view. So you know, that's just something to note, I think for people you know like it's important to remember that the work is hard, it's tricky, it's not always, you know, I feel like often, you know, healing and a spiritual awakening and all this kind of stuff. It's a little bit glorified sometimes on social media and by people online where it's like, oh, it's this journey and it's all magic and it's like, no, it's dark and it hurts.
Speaker 1:And that's another good topic too. It's like all these spiritual people are in this new age movement of love and light. Well, we're aspects of both. We have love and light, but we also have darkness. And look at the world too the earth is light and it's dark. It's the same thing. We are aspects of both.
Speaker 1:You can't just be living love and living light and not and not going back through the darkness, because it's always going to be there. But what I found is you don't let that define you. You're not defined by the label of your darkness. You're not defined by your trauma. You're not defined by your trauma. You're not defined by all these things. It's just there. But, yeah, we're not defined by the labels that we put on ourselves and it's where aspects of both, and it's just how it is. You're not going to have love and light the whole time, because if you're going to have love and light the whole time, then you're not allowing yourself to feel those negative emotions. You're just going to be, you know, happy, joyful and all these things. But then you're going to have a come down period where you're going to feel a little bit angry, a little bit frustrated. It's allowing yourself to feel those anger and feel those darker emotions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, letting those aspects of being died. Yeah, the polarity right correct, that's what I was looking for polarity polarity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's true, you can't have one without the other. That's just the way it is. Um, I'd love to talk a little bit more about your coaching and, you know, the children that you work with, because I love that you've, you know, taken it upon yourself because, like there's so many coaches out there that are just coaching, like other coaches, or you know a certain person, um, but I love that you work with kids because this is actually a huge part of my mission too. With the emotional intelligence. It's like the way I see it is, you know, okay, so us as adults, especially like a lot of us, like, kind of in this day and age, like yourself, you know people that are kind of waking up and understanding, like, hey, there's work to be done here.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, we're already programmed. So when we get into this work, it's like we have to first of all recognize our programming, unprogram it and then reprogram in the good stuff, right, so that we can start to build these emotional health tools. But when we work with kids, it's like they're not necessarily I mean perhaps, like you said, up until like there's that age when they're, you know, not even double digits yet when everything essentially kind of does get programmed in, but the earlier that we can get to them and be like hey, you know, here's some new ideas, here's some ways of thinking about these things, here's emotional intelligence, here's all the facets of emotional intelligence, let's start to have these conversations. Then, you know, if that kind of work continues with the next generation, like, oh man, you know, in a couple decades, like the world has the potential to be so different than it is now, so much more, you know. Just awoke, we'll use that word as I air quote um, so I love that yeah.
Speaker 2:I love that. This is your mission.
Speaker 1:You know it's fantastic yeah, the wings of change are blowing hard, olivia absolutely so.
Speaker 2:my question is when it comes to your coaching and it comes to the kids that you work with, what would you consider one of the main factors that contributes to children experiencing anxiety and depression and perhaps these self-sabotaging behaviors? You know, they're really kind of like for lack of a better term like hot words at the moment, like there's a lot of this going on that you know maybe we didn't see 10 years ago, like even when yourself and I were younger children, right? So what do you think is one of the main factors that's contributing to this?
Speaker 1:Well, there's different layers to it. There's one layer of well, children are people too, and they can feel like they're disconnected, that they can feel like they have no purpose, doesn't matter how old they are. And unfortunately, inside that school system, that's where all of that sort of goes to shit, and they can feel lost and stuck inside this place of being told what to do and do things that they don't want to do, learn things that they don't want to learn. That's going to create anxiety and depression if you're doing something that you don't want to do every day. Look around you.
Speaker 1:In the world today, there's a lot of people doing things that they don't want to do every day on that surface level. But where's that ingrained? Where's that come from? Well, look at little Johnny at six years old. He didn't want to go to school every day. Or look at little Johnny at six years old. He didn't want to go to school every day. Look at little Johnny at 55. He doesn't want to go to work every day. That's where it starts. So that's one layer.
Speaker 1:Second layer that little Johnny might have a lot of shit going on at home too. Mum and dad might be fighting. Mum and dad might be arguing every night. He'll be laying in bed scared every night. Mum's another layer to it. Then you look at the distractions the video games and the porn and all these things. There's your third layer. You know, if you're playing video games every night as a child, not taking care of yourself, not getting a bed on time, look, people in their 20s and 30s are doing this stuff and they're anxious and depressed. Kids are people too. Children are people too. And if they're doing those things that aren't, if they're looking at a screen for however long they do, that's going to create anxiety and pressure. Not getting out in the sunlight and playing with your friends out in the park, running through sprinklers and stuff, that's more an uplifting than sitting with your friend. Just have a headset playing. Call of duty, you call a Judy. There's your other layer.
Speaker 1:And another layer to this is they might have just come into this world as we're all born pure love. This is the spiritual soul we come in as pure love. And then we get programmed and hammered with all this stuff that says we must be a certain thing. Well, this child doesn't necessarily understand what they came here to be, but they know they came here to be something and they're not ever disconnected. But they're not connected. They don't understand their soul, and their soul wants to grow and wants to evolve, and they're not necessarily disconnected. They're just not connected to themselves or their soul. Because if they were, they'd have a little bit more of an understanding of what it is that they came here to do. They just want to create, they just want to have fun, they just want to be kids. Right?
Speaker 1:The school says no, you must do the right thing. No, you must put your hand up to speak. Oh, no, you can't run today. Oh, no, you need to. You need to ask me to go, asking for permission.
Speaker 1:And it's like it's it's, it's, it's destroying that, that, that authentic soul.
Speaker 1:Be like giving them all these rules and regulations of who and what they should be keeping them in a little box, like that soul that that child wants to be expanded and wants to grow, not be kept in a little box. So if they're kept inside this box for such a long time, then they're going to grow up in 50 years time and they're still going to be in that box, working that job, doing the things that they don't want to do. That's another layer to it. And then you throw in the alcohol, then you throw in the all the, all the pleasuring chemicals out there in society. We all know what what they are. There's your next layer. You add in those chemicals that it's poison and you're poisoning the shit out of yourself. But why are people poisoning the shit out of themselves? Because the school system kept them in this box. They knew that they were meant for more, but they're kept small when they want to be something more and they don't know why they've lived the way they've lived.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like they're steered in the wrong direction, like away from self.
Speaker 1:Yeah correct because they've allowed someone else to tell them what to do. And if you look at even governments, too, like people follow the orders of the government. It's the same thing in school they're being told what to do. If you remove government and remove school, tomorrow, unfortunately you're going to have a very, very different world, because people don't know how to govern themselves. They don't know how to take care of themselves, so let someone else to hand their power away on an energetic level be taken care of by and and another figure, such as your doctors, your teachers, your lawyers, all these things, your, your accountant and the staff. If people manage their own lives and manage themselves, you wouldn't need all these extra things. You wouldn't need any of it. Really, you wouldn't need government for a start.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like the conditioning right. It starts when we go to school at four years old. That's wild, we're just babies. We starts when we go to school at four years old. Like that's wild, like we're just babies. We're literally just babies and we're already being conditioned.
Speaker 1:But they're getting to you at that early age because they know. They know we can have a show about who they are if you want. But they know that if they can get to you between the ages of zero and seven, they can get you to do whatever it is that they want you to do and you'll just be the robot, not knowing.
Speaker 2:You have this tunnel vision Like they get that to you and I love how you call this out honestly, like it's so great because it's like I've felt this way about this exact scenario for so long. But I love it's them. It's like you've got such a big, like there's so much passion, like you can hear so much passion in your voice when you talk about this and you have a mission around this as well, and I'd love to talk about that next. Um, it's great. I honestly, I applaud you, like to step out into the world and be like this system's broken, let's fix it. Is that's a big undertaking. Like that's a big thing. To step out and be like, hey, this is what I see and this is what I think should change about what I see. And I just, yeah, I applaud you for that because it's fantastic and I'm so excited for this project that you're working on.
Speaker 2:So you're working on a documentary about the education system and shining a light on all of this stuff that you're mentioning now. You know the good, the good, the bad and the ugly, and I love the approach that you're taking. We talked about this in our pre-interview that you're really it's not just like your opinion, it's not like you know you. It's like you're actually taking the perspectives of all of these different people teachers, parents, students, former students having conversations with them and then showcasing alternatives to the traditional system. So I'd love to know. Obviously, this is something you're very passionate about. This is something that is a part of your purpose, which is fantastic, but I'd love to know what sparked the idea for this project specifically.
Speaker 1:Well, when you go and see sidekicks and go and see these things, I was told two and a half years ago I was going to make a documentary. Now they can give you breadcrumbs. And I didn't know. I was asked and I didn't get told. I was supposed to go on that journey and discover that myself.
Speaker 1:Well, this time last year, but just before we moved up here, I was talking to my actually the Quantum Healer's son. I was talking to her son about school and different things and he wasn't enjoying it. He's one of those 15-year-old kids that there's heaps of them that just aren't enjoying it. And he's awake and can see right through it all and he doesn't want to be there. And he's awake and can see right through it all and he doesn't want to be there. And he has this passion for media and film. And I just said to him I said we should make a documentary about this, eh, and he went, yeah, we should, and then that was end of conversation. There was nothing more about it. It was like that seed was dropped.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I went down to my old town a couple of months ago for my birthday and I caught up with him.
Speaker 1:And then a couple of months ago for my birthday and I caught up with him and then we just got this bit of paper out, made this mind map of how this is all going to work and then just sort of all just took off from there, like the name came, and then it's like, okay, let's action, like the vision board, let's take some action now. Let's get this out there, start talking to some people, and it's sort of just blossomed from that next conversation about 10 months later, blossom from that next conversation about 10 months later. And then here we are, like it's happening now, like it was just that little conversation 12 months ago and I just didn't even like I'm pretty aware of this stuff. Now I had this intuitive feeling to mention this project that I always wanted to do a documentary about it. I just needed to uncover that within myself. And yeah, and it's just awesome that a 15-year-old or CB16 soon, that's going to help me put it all together.
Speaker 2:It's pretty cool. Yeah, that's fantastic. I love that aspect. It's like it's kind of like a full circle in a sense, right Like, yeah, now how far along are you on this project? Have you started to collect, you know, interviews and things like asking questions and getting video footage of you know teachers, and I'm curious, like, who are the kind of people that are coming on board?
Speaker 1:So literally what we're, what we've put out there, is just to get some stories, and I've spoken to some parents and I've had some teachers and some former principals uh contact me and and share their story and and, and a lot of principals that are former principals have got their own like online tutoring business or their online homeschooling business, which is great. I've had a lot of people reach out about that. But I've also had some parents out there that are pretty angry about the current state of affairs, which is great. But if you're a parent out there that are pretty angry about the current state of affairs, which is great, but if you're a parent out there, we don't necessarily want the anger. We just want to empower people with that stuff. We don't really want to shine on all the darkness. We want to be able to empower people with what's going on and also have people's stories heard too, because I've had a lot of people email in and say that they've gone to these news programs like in australia have a current affair. You guys have 60 minutes. You know they've gone to those shows and they don't get any any response back, right, because they're an arm of that system, so they're not gonna. They're not gonna do that, and when I sort of researched documentaries about the school system, I found a heap that were phasing it.
Speaker 1:I didn't find any on the other side. So I'm like, oh, this is meant for me, I'll shine a light over here, but I will touch on the stuff over there as well. There are so many good things but there's a lot of bad and it's like, well, no one's really talking about the bad. So, yeah, I'll bring that together and then there's nothing out there having. You know, com Dick and Harry have the homeschooling community out in Wukwuk. No one's going out to Wukwuk and allowing them a platform to be like, hey, we have this awesome community, come be part of it. So it's actually showing the normal everyday Joes that there's not just the school system here. You have all these other online communities and communities that are alternative and not necessarily in that mainstream system. So it's for those everyday Joes to be like, hey, there's something over here that might be worth exploring.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just letting people know that there are actually options out there. And, having spent quite a number of years in Australia and traveling around, one thing I did notice was that, you know schooling over there compared to how it is in Canada, there is actually quite a lot of, you know, independent schools like the Montessori schools, like there are quite a lot of alternatives out there, like bush schools and stuff like that and people just doing things in their own way. So this is really exciting. I'm really happy for you and excited for you and stoked to see this come together and I can't wait to watch the final product once you complete it all. Because, yeah, I know that there are a lot of alternatives out there. It's like I know that there are a lot of alternatives out there but, again, I don't really know what they are, where they are, who they are. So this is fantastic that you're going to be shedding a light on this. I love this project so much.
Speaker 1:And if any of your listeners and any of your viewers want to listen in on my podcast, you can follow me on the Breaking Free podcast. I'm actually interviewing a few of these people in the next few weeks in the interim, just to get them out there. So there's a lot of some homeschoolers and some former teachers and principals and staff are coming on my podcast to share what it is that they're doing in the interim, which will then give us some more footage to add into the documentary. So, yeah, that's coming. So stay tuned. You might be able to find my podcast in the show notes or something and they can listen in and they can see what's happening out there in the alternative.
Speaker 2:Fantastic. Listen in and and and they can see what's what's happening out there in the alternative. Fantastic, yeah, I love that. Um, oh, again, I just had a question right there and it just popped out. Oh, I just wanted to say as well, um, for those listening that you are in the sunshine coast. So for anyone hearing this that wants to put their hand up and say I'd love to be a part of this, I I have something to say I'd love to share. You know my perspective, my story. Obviously, yes, all of your contact information will be in the show notes, but just for geographical terms, you're in the Sunshine Coast in Australia, in Queensland, in Australia. So anyone locally in the area we actually have quite a few listeners in Australia that actually tune in. So my statistics show so potentially some people coming through um from this podcast here, which I hope they do um, don't hesitate to reach out.
Speaker 1:There is and there is also one more story I would like to share that we were going to talk about that we could probably just throw in. Is that the work that I'm doing? Is it's really really like. It makes myself proud of being able, in the start, the start of the year, to have this 16 year old child come to me. All these parents did, and he was in that dark period of nearly ending it all.
Speaker 1:And to see him now yeah, what is it? Eight months, nine, nine, nine months later is a totally different, totally different man to what he was seven months ago. And to hear the, the passion and the and the love and the, the beautiful, just the beautifulness in his voice, from where he was to where he's now. He has a girlfriend and different things and he's working at being the best version of himself every day. He's left school, he's got a job and it's like that's a testament to that work, like he was at the darkest period and in only nine months, he's bettering himself every day. He's got his purpose and he knows what he wants to do and who he wants to be, and that's what I want for every teen out there that's in that dark period right now is that there is a way out. You just need someone with a different lens to be like, hey, this is like where is it that you want to go? It's just a matter of if you're a teen or you have a teen watching this. Just ask them the question of what it is that they want to be and don't impart anything on them. Let them speak about what is that they want to be. Don't add in your issues with, with, with the, with whatever it is that they want to be. Let them figure it out. You know, easier said than done, that we that I find in society, that we that we wrap our children up in cotton wool and we wrap them in bubble wrap and we don't really we keep them like let them grow, let them expand, let them, let them fail, let them let them make mistakes, you know, and for me to be able to help, we'll call in joey to be able to help.
Speaker 1:Joey was just awesome, because where he is now, from where he was, it's just unreal, and we can all take a leaf out of his book that we can all do this as well. There is hope for everyone. We're not all broken, we're just a bit stuck with where we are and that's okay. It's a good, a good place to be. We can get ourselves out of that.
Speaker 1:And it's about asking for help and then and then embodying and actioning that help that that person's providing you and listening to the advice and then actioning that, and that's what we can do. We can all become better. We all have the potential. It's just that we need someone sometimes to see that potential in us. I know for me I had some beautiful mentors that saw something in me that I didn't quite see. But then when I saw it, it was like this fire inside that no one's ever going to extinguish, because once you see it it's great that we see, but once you see it, look out the cup becomes a lion I love that there's so much power in you know mentorship and coaching and, um, it's kind of full circle really to what you were talking about at the beginning.
Speaker 2:You know this, this client of yours, joey, as you full circle really to what you were talking about at the beginning. You know this client of yours, joey, as you call him. You know what you were saying at the beginning was you know the environment right? It's a lot about who you surround yourself with. What are these people saying? What are they doing? What are their habits right? Like, is that in alignment with you? So, to link up with someone such as yourself that is so passionate about you know, helping people understand who they are, where they're going and then giving them the actionable steps to get there Like that is the power of you know change and creating an environment where you can actually, you know, have the change happen, experience change. It's incredible the work that you're doing.
Speaker 1:Nathan, there's another one too. I allow the parents to sit in on this stuff. I don't just have the child, because if the child's going to grow, parents can grow too. Parents this is valuable information that not only the child can learn. The parents can learn and embody in action too, and it's a matter of them coming back together. Joey might want to grow and and evolve, but parents like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, it's like no, let's bring them together and let's and let's allow them to go on that journey together, because in the school system they you hand your kids away for eight, nine hours a day, so there's no growth there. So it's like bring that family unit back, because one of the agendas is to destroy the family unit. As you can see, it's happening in real time. So it's bringing that family back together to grow and evolve together I love that.
Speaker 2:It takes a village right, as they say. So that's fantastic because there's, you know, you have, I'm assuming you know it'd be like a weekly session that you have with this kid, these clients of yours, these teens, you know so, for one hour one week it's like they can come to the sessions. But if they're not then going and implementing and actioning these steps, you know, then not much change is going to occur. When you have the parents also supporting everything, that happens, you know, before and after your sessions and, of course, like you know, the change is inevitable, the progress is inevitable because they have that continued support it's about providing a space too like it's about providing a space too.
Speaker 1:It's about providing a space where these children can feel seen and heard, with no judgment. I don't judge them. They might feel like at the start that I might judge them. Given the way I live my life, it's like I don't judge, I just allow them to speak and I just let them go. Sometimes I sat in many sessions with Joey and I didn't. I just let them go.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I sat in many sessions with Joey and I didn't say one word.
Speaker 1:He was just speaking because I needed to listen and he needed to just speak about his troubles and he didn't need anyone to tell him what to do. He just needed a space to just unleash and I'd just sit there, I'd nod and if he asked me to speak, I would. There's a lot of sessions I've recorded with him where I didn't say one word, apart from hello and goodbye, because sometimes these children just need an ear or they just need to be heard, they just need to be seen. So I don't have sometimes I don't have to say a word. I just let them speak, and that was one of the things. I needed to say a word, but I just let them speak, and that was one of the things I needed to learn a lot. Yeah, I needed to learn to be able to do that, because I used to always just want to get to the root and fix everything, but sometimes the best place to be is in silence and just let the other person run wild.
Speaker 2:I love that. Well, you're very intuitive, extremely ambitious. You know you've completely changed your life. You've turned it completely around. Now you're impacting others' lives in such a positive way. It's been an absolute pleasure to have this conversation with you here today and I would love for you to just share with us quickly where people can find you, where they can find more information on your podcast, your documentary that you're working on, et cetera.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you can follow me on Instagram. It's at Nathan Francis and two underscores. Follow me on Facebook, nathan Francis. My website's currently under construction. I'm rebranding everything, so don't worry about going there.
Speaker 1:You can find my podcast on YouTube, apple, spotify and Rumble and Amazon. It's called the Breaking breaking free podcast. I've done over 100 episodes now, so if you want to go back, listen to the first one, feel free. I'm a lot, a lot different than what I am now. Cut the guest off and stuff, but we might start somewhere. Yeah, probably on their youtube, apple, spotify, rumble so it's just at the breaking free podcast and it's just a yellow light. Um, pretty easy to find. And, yeah, just for me on facebook, instagram where else am I? Telegram if you want to find me on telegram, it's nathf994, but I'll put all the links to that in the bottom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, websites under construction, absolutely, and documentary too. So the documentary. Just find me on social media. Uh, all the, all the details are on my social media about the documentary as well, so you can sort of have a bit of a look around. I'm gonna do some more posts in the next couple of days and, yeah, just keep it, keep it going. So, yeah, we're gonna build a website for the docker as well. So that's all coming. We're in the early stages.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:And any final thoughts before we wrap up uh, you have the potential to be whoever it is that you want to be. You just need to untether, and that untethering process is where all the growth happens. You know, sitting in solitude, allowing yourself to cry, allowing yourself to feel those negative emotions, but then also allowing yourself to feel happy, allowing yourself to feel joyful, allowing yourself to be excited, because there is so much to be excited about in this world. There's so much beauty out there, because the beauty exists here too, it's within and it's also out there and it's and it's just being grateful for where you are and then having that vision of where you, where you want to be, and if you can't see your own potential, what, there are people out there who can see it. I know I can see it.
Speaker 1:And if this podcast helps you ignite, or ignite that little spark inside that's starting to fire up, then who knows where you'll be in 12 months' time, and that's the most beautiful thing. Sometimes you aren't meant to know, but if you're out there and you are stuck and struggling and need a little bit of support, then feel free to reach out to me anytime. I'm always here. Big, small, old, young doesn't matter. We can all step onto the path of becoming who we're supposed to become, and it's just a matter of having that belief in yourself that you can do and be anything.
Speaker 2:Fantastic, I love it. Thank you so much for chatting with us, sir Lee. It's been an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 1:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:That's a wrap on today's episode with us. Certainly, it's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you for having me. That's a wrap on today's episode. I am beyond grateful for your participation in today's conversation. My intention is that the information shared here today has inspired you to deepen your understanding of your emotional health and that of the people around you. When you're ready to start sharpening your tools, head to wwweqnationorg and download our free seven-step guide to upgrading your emotional health. Our website is the best place to connect with our community and get access to free resources. You can also send us your questions through our social media channels, linked on the website wwweqnationorg. All the resources from today's show will be in the show notes and before. Linked on the website wwweqnationorg. All the resources from today's show will be in the show notes and, before you go, make sure you hit follow so you don't miss an episode. I'm Livia Lauder. See you next time. On Emotions Untapped.