PODCAST EPISODE #001
Imagine shedding the layers of self-sacrifice and rediscovering your true identity – that’s what we’re exploring in today’s episode with my very first guest, Alex Eastman. As an entrepreneur, community builder, artist, and consciousness explorer, Alex shares his insights on the impact of identity, values, and vision on our lives, especially as we become parents. Join us on this journey of self-discovery and personal growth, as we reflect on our own experiences and discuss the importance of connecting with ourselves, our values, and our tribe.
Motherhood can be an all-consuming role that leaves many of us feeling lost and uncertain of who we truly are. Together, Alex and I delve into the struggles of reclaiming our identities and aligning our choices with our true selves after years of selfless dedication. Learn how to become aware of your own values and vision, and let us guide you in making choices that resonate with your authentic self.
As we navigate through the chaos of life, being an example of living with intention for our children becomes more crucial than ever. Alex shares his journey of personal growth and transformation, emphasising the importance of finding your tribe and community to feel at home and fulfilled. Let’s appreciate ourselves and our journeys as we uncover our innermost strengths and passions. Tune in to this inspiring and thought-provoking episode and embark on the path to rediscovering your true self.
Megs:
Hey there and welcome to the Free To Be You podcast. I have wanted a place to have these conversations for so long. Convos that matter I’ve been having them anyway with the best humans in my life, but I’ve wanted to have them here with you, and now is the time. From personal stories to meaningful, high-vibed conversations with inspiring guests. This podcast is created with one purpose to give you permission to finally free yourself up and be you in every area of your life, to go from self-abandonment to full self-expression. We discuss everything from mindset, health and vulnerability to relationships, parenting and more. I’m Megan Gibson, aka Megs from here on, and I’m passionate about helping women uncover who they really are so they can author a life they’re obsessed with. I’m a life-alignment coach, certified as an ultimate contribution uncovered facilitator (more on this later) A writer, a mother I’ll want to be surfer and crazy in love with my life. I’m a living, breathing example of my work every day. My first guest is Alex Eastman, my brother from another mother. We recorded this conversation a little while ago now, but it’s such a fantastic introduction to the amazing work that we do that it’s perfect to kick off this pod. We discussed everything from identity and how that shifts, especially when we become a parent, how values and vision develop for us as individuals, and how lack of awareness around what is important to us can affect our choices and who we’re being. Alex is a follow-up partner, speaker, entrepreneur, community builder, artist and consciousness explorer. He’s a lot of things. Alex specialises in human and community development, in entrepreneur incubation and education, in self-realisation, spiritual, mental and physical alignment, and the liberation from and alchemy of, past trauma, with particular interest in the impact our values have on our personal and collective culture, the Emmy influence that that culture has on our ability to develop and flourish holistically. Alex is dedicated to helping people globally build a life that they love, that they can be truly authentic and self-expressed in. He is the founder and chief of the Toledo community, the co-founder of Mindfully Empowered, ultimate Contribution, pinpoint Your Purpose and Atlas of Self, and the Victoria’s Promise Cancer Charity. Alex is a very multifaceted man. He is amazing and I’m really, really looking forward to you listening to our conversation. And there is no better person for me to introduce at this stage in the series than the Mr Alex Eastman Alexander Eastman I’m sorry I don’t know his name My brother from another amazing mother. We’ve been in each other’s world now for coming up seven years, I think it is. I’ve lost count. It really doesn’t matter, because it’s been amazing And so pleased to have you here to join me in this conversation that we’re going to have. We first met I’m going to let you kind of introduce yourself but when we first met we were both quite new to this work and it’s just been such an amazing journey, getting ourselves more in alignment with ourselves but also with each other, for the point where we’re now doing even more amazing work together. So welcome.
Alex:
Thank you very much. It’s a pleasure to be here. Thank you for that beautiful introduction and thank you for this beautiful podcast that you’re putting out. I’m very excited, very excited, that more and more of you in your heart is going to be out there, reaching many beautiful people. So thanks for having me on.
Megs:
No worries. So I think that the perfect place to start is to perhaps just touch on how we got here, because I know we’ve got a beautiful topic to dig into in a minute, but it kind of really sets it up well. So, sort of take us back a little bit over the last, I’d say, six, seven years, and I know that’s a couple of things that you’ve done that are super relevant to the conversation we’re going to have as well. I’m still doing even.
Alex:
Well, it’s been a big journey the last seven years. It really has. So we’ll try and keep this to the point, relevant for your listeners, and just welcome to your listeners as well, and thank you for being here. The fact that you’re listening to this kind of transmission tells me already a lot about who you are and how you’re looking to show up in your lives and looking to self-realise and step into a more beautiful experience of yourself in your life. I just want to commend you for that and acknowledge you for that. Especially at these times, we need that kind of leadership in the world. So, thank you and welcome. So, Megs, you and I have been, yeah, like you said, a seven-year journey. That started when we met together in a community We were both you were part of, to begin with as a member, and then you stepped into being someone who served that community, and I came into that community to serve that community As the director of something called the Brand Incubator. Now this is a community of entrepreneurs, individuals mainly that are looking to reinvent themselves, that are looking to step out of maybe more traditional ways of living and being and to find themselves in a new business that would help them to elevate their life and their experience and live one, you know, with more time, freedom, financial freedom essentially was the root of that particular community that we were involved in. My position in that community was the director of something called the Brand Incubator. Now this was built around a three-day workshop and then an ongoing process which was designed to help people to, at first to build a brand and then to step into that brand. Now, as time went on, one of the elements of the branding process that we’re doing is to help people understand what the brand values are. What the brand values are We hear this, we move what the brand values are so that we can pick the right colour palettes and logos and things to represent those brand values. So we kind of started that and I started understanding that at a deeper level in that education and you did also alongside me And we began to try and understand and formulate a better and better process to understand what these brand values were. But what we began to realise very quickly is we started to understand values at a deeper level and a vision at a deeper level for the individual, because to understand the values of the business, we went through a process of understanding the values of the individual and the vision of the individual. And what we found was that that journey and that process and over the seven years that we worked together and Megs was one of the coaches that actually took people through this very special formula, this very in-depth journey of discovery that we took people through, that we formulated to help them uncover and discover these values, as well as their strongest skills that they could use in their business, as well as a vision of what their life could look like with that business, as well as a mission of how to bring that to life. What we found over the time of working together that the impact that was being had on the individuals that are coming to the workshops and then going on to do the work was way outside of the business world. The business, the brand, was just kind of one piece and, if we’re honest, some people didn’t even really follow through with the brands and didn’t follow through with the business, because what they discovered in the journey and what they found in the workshop was so much more profound, because it was an avenue of stepping into who they truly were. It was an avenue of discovering who am I underneath, who am I actually, what do I genuinely value, what do I want to move towards And what do I want the experience of myself and my life to be and a way of bringing that about. And we became more and more and more and more passionate about that side and more and more passionate about helping people outside of just the entrepreneurial space. We’re still very active of entrepreneurs and we both love entrepreneurs. We are entrepreneurs, but we didn’t want to be limited to just work with entrepreneurs, because we saw the transformation The transformation people were having in their lives of going through this deep uncovering process of the most intimate and powerful aspects of who they are and then understanding of how that can actually be brought into their lives. So we both continued to expand into this work. We deepened our understanding, we worked with hundreds of people, we did this discovery process live in front of live audiences and we did it one to one and we continue to smash it around with a hammer and make it more and more and more potent and more powerful, and to get better and better at this work, but at the same time, we embodied it ourselves. So, you and I, one of the reasons we relate very well to one another is because neither of us can stand teaching things that we’re not doing or feeling out of integrity, or not embodying our truth. So whilst we you and I were discovering and understanding this work of finding these values and bringing them into life, bringing them into our business, understanding our vision and how to move towards that, we were living that in our lives, and that took us on a big journey of shedding a lot of the parts of ourselves that weren’t true to who we really are, of letting go of all the stuff that was holding us back from stepping into our voice, stepping into our self-expression, stepping into our hearts and stepping into being able to create, and I know that’s been a big journey for both of us. Our lives look completely different. It’s like we stepped out of one paradigm into another And both of us, in that transition from one paradigm to the next, we’ve discovered who we are and we’ve stepped into it and we’ve grounded ourselves into it and the work’s ongoing And every day we get an opportunity to be a bit more aligned to who we truly are, and sometimes we fall short of that. We pick ourselves back up. Now that led us on from there to stepping into this work in a more detailed way, in a more targeted way, and we’re now working together in Ultimate Contribution Uncovered, which is an organisation which is specifically formulated to help people in this work and to help people to find who they are and to understand a way of bringing that into life and to construct jobs or careers or businesses or brands or enterprises that actually support the self-realisation and support that individual coming to life. So it’s been a beautiful journey and it’s been amazing, and we’re only at the beginning in so many ways. So it’s been a real pleasure. So there’s a little bit of background.
Megs:
Love it And I would love hearing you talk about your journey as well, or just that whole space, because it was such. It was just something that was like this glacial, you know, which just couldn’t stop it. It’s just this natural refining process that’s inevitably always going to lead us to be doing it in a more profound way. And, yeah, and I also cannot agree with more with you that our lives look completely different in many ways, and all for the better, of course, all for the better. So, on that, one of the things that has really stood out to me well, obviously, going through it myself which is, you know, something that’s going to naturally get woven into these conversations but is the amount of women and mothers and people that we have, women that we have sat in front of and helped move through this work, who found themselves, really found themselves in a place where they were getting to know themselves at a whole new level, and the transformations that have happened for those women over the years that we’ve seen have been phenomenal. Not all of them have gone on to start businesses, but a lot of them have gone on to have much more enriching lives And so on that, i think that a really awesome topic for us to cover today is just how that identity shift happens Or, more importantly, not even realising that it’s needed at first, and then how that looks kind of on the other side. It’s been phenomenal to actually go through that myself, and I’ve got children that are growing up and moving out and starting their own lives, so it’s the perfect time for me to be living into it, to who I really am. It’s what I’m all about And let’s dive into that the identity that we were talking about before we started.
Alex:
Yeah, I mean it’s a big and powerful conversation And, as you may have noticed if you’re watching by my beard, i’m not a mother or a woman. However, i do have a 15 month old son And I do have an extraordinary partner, Prue, who is an extraordinary mother, and I have worked with many women and mothers over the years through this work and also through the charity that I’m a co-founder of, Victoria’s Promise that supports young women through cancer and their families, and that was founded after I lost my sister to cancer and father to cancer, and I’ve been, you know, we’re very close And my mom also is a co-founder in that And she’s worked a lot in that space. So there’s an important conversation to be had here. Identity is the central component to a lot of our experience of ourselves and our lives, how we identify with ourselves, how we identify with others, what self concept we have. And if you’re listening and you are a mother, i just again want to acknowledge you because it’s a massive journey And what I’ve seen is it tends to be a journey of self sacrifice, such a high degree, and it’s an intense and wild ride And it takes everything. Takes everything from you in so many ways, and one of the first things that it takes where’s your identity? You know, i see many sort of women. They come into their lives with certain sort of ambitions or thoughts about themselves or certain identity and time and space to relate with friends and others. And then children come along and life kicks in and the heart of service opens and that giving and constantly putting the self to the back, putting the self back, putting the needs of the self back and putting the needs of others in front. Now, even after one year, even after 15 months, I can already see the assault on Prue’s identity this creates And she’s someone that does a lot of work in this space, has done a lot of work in this space and where they’re trying to support her through it, but I can see the assault that it has. But what I’ve seen with many women that I’ve had the pleasure and privilege those two words wrestling with each other of working with, is that they spend. Children come along, the ambitions get put to one side, the self gets put to one side, the kids become the central thing, and then 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 years passes by, the kids leave home. Maybe there’s been a breakdown in the relationship because of the tension that was caused in that breakdown of identity and the lack of being seen, the lack of being acknowledged, the lack of being witnessed, the lack of being appreciated, the lack of being valued for your sacrifices and what you’ve given, because maybe there’s a partner that’s going out and, you know, bringing the money in or whatever it might be, and that just corrodes away at the self and corrodes away at the soul and puts in a very difficult situation as to stepping back out into yourself when children have gone And then children go home, her children sort of leave the nest, and then there’s this kind of vacuum space of like who the hell even am I? I’ve been just a mother. I’ve been a mother for so long, I’ve self sacrificed for so long, I get my best years. To this kind of guy, this is feeling, these resentments that build up, resentments for not having the opportunity to express, not having the opportunity to feel or to live into a life that maybe was, was dreamed of or aimed at. And then there’s just this really difficult space that occurs when that focus that was on the children moves on And then you’re just there with all the broken pieces that have not been attended to over that time. What is central to this is understanding who you are now, because you’re not who you were before you. It’s not about trying to go back to who you were before. You were a mother, and this doesn’t just apply to mothers. This applies to people that have given themselves up in relationships, to their businesses, to their jobs, and people that have married their careers and their bosses, people that have married their partners and given it’s anyone that’s given themselves up in a self sacrifice towards another ideal. So it doesn’t just apply to mothers, it applies broadly to you. If you feel that sense of feeling of like, I don’t even know who I am anymore. I don’t even know what I love. I don’t know what brings me joy. I don’t know what lights me up. I know what makes me feel like a bit of relief, maybe like a glass of wine in the evening or watching a bit of TV or just having 10 minutes to myself. I know what gives me relief. I don’t know what makes me expand. I don’t know what makes me get up in the morning excited for the day ahead. I don’t know what I want to move towards that’s going to make me feel like I’m growing and living into my life. I don’t know what those things are because I don’t know who I am underneath. And those two things are directly related because what we aim at is a massive part of who we become. You can think it just a simple level. Let’s say you had two sisters and one of them wanted to be a lawyer and the other one wanted to be a basketball player. Right, even if they’re genetically identical, twins like that journey of one aiming to be a lawyer and one aiming to be a basketball player is going to shape them very differently. It’s going to shape their identities very differently because you have to become the thing you’re aiming at. So as that person comes on that journey becomes the lawyer, they become more studious. They aim at passing exams, so they spend more time in the library, they aim at studying, so they start to take the shape of the lawyer and the person that wants to be a basketball player. They start eating differently, they start aiming at the gym, they start aiming at training and hanging out with those individuals. So that aim, they start to take the shape of the basketball player. So their identity is a result of those aims. And if those aims don’t match the true identity underneath. When you achieve the shape, the character, when you become the lawyer, when you become the basketball player or when you become the mother, whatever it might be, you can often find that you’ve become a character that doesn’t match who you feel like you are on the inside And you’re having to trade off who you are to be this character that is a result of your aims And that’s because we haven’t had the opportunity, the education, the time, the support to know who we are underneath, to know what we want to aim at, which is true to our nature, to true to our hearts, true to who we really feel, so that as we move towards that aim, rather than sacrificing more and more of our truth and more and more of who we are, we actually become more and more of who we are. We become more and more in the world What we feel on the inside, more we’re experiencing on the outside matches, more and more and more and more. And then we don’t have to pretend. We don’t have to pretend to like our boss when we’re going to work. We don’t have to pretend to not be resentful at our partner. We don’t have to pretend to be happy. We don’t have to pretend that everything’s okay. We don’t have to pretend We’d get to be real, and the more real that we are, the more we actually expand into what we’re doing, because the aim and the internal self is aligned. That’s actually important.
Megs:
So we’re not.
Alex:
We’re not. We’re not moving away from the true self in the pursuit of a goal. We’re moving towards the true self in the pursuit of a goal. So, bringing this back to your mothers or really anyone who’s been self sacrificing over a period of time, what we do is we help them to go through a very in depth and it can be a difficult journey where lots of the most difficult aspects of your experience get looked at and moved through and discussed and brought into the light so we can see how, what is given, what the gift is inside, what the skill is inside. We help people to come through a journey of understanding their true nature, their values, what is formed inside of them through the journey of their life, as well as what skills and abilities have been honed in that journey as well. A vision of where you want to take those things and a mission to bring those things to life. And what we see every time is that even just going through that discovery process is a revelation to those individuals. It’s like they’ve reconnected to a lost part of themselves inside that has been drowning for years, and they reconnect to that self and that is like a mixture of excitement and relief. We’ve seen many tears, we’ve seen many. It’s like the best one I can describe. It’s like oxygen. It’s like the oxygen that’s been waiting for for that internal self. It’s been suffocating on the inside. It’s like that, just that first gasp of air, that face mask that goes on. It’s like, okay, there is a way that I can come back to life and there is a way that I can reconnect to joy and there is a way that I can reconnect to Peace and there is a way that I can reconnect to feeling the vibrancy and the vitality of my experience. And that mask goes on and breathes fresh, fresh oxygen. And then people go on the journey Of taking into life and embodying, living out those discoveries. And it can cause a little bit of chaos as things shift and change. But what that chaos is is like it’s the breaking off and letting go of the shackles And of the things that have kept us confined. The areas in our life that are alive essentially, that are not in truth, break and crumble away and There can be some difficult things to look at in our self and there can be some difficult things to look at in our lives, but we’re supported through that journey of breaking away the things that aren’t true to us and stepping out of that shell And stepping into ourselves. And then the universe responds, as the more we do that the universe responds, starts bringing things into our life That are true to us and things start opening out. And we start opening out and our heart starts opening up And we feel flow and we feel harmony and we feel connection. And we still get hit with chaos, bad things still come around, but we can be centred and we can be grounded and when we get blown off course, we can reorientate towards what’s true to us and who we know ourselves to be, and it’s extraordinary powerful. And the reason that I’ve dedicated myself my life to this work in so many ways, and the reason that you have as well, is because we spent seven years working with hundreds of entrepreneurs and seeing that this was way more impactful than the one. We had entrepreneurs that were making 20 30 grand a month Yep, right, with their businesses, right, and. But they were miserable and felt nothing. They thought that I was going to scratch the itch. Oh, when I’ve got all the time freedom, when I’ve got 30 grand a month, I’ll be sorted. But all that did was exacerbate the problem that was underneath, because now you’ve got all the time to sit on your own and feel your discomfort Without the business of your job that you had before, the distractions, the things that you were blaming, the things that you were blaming for your discomfort, they go and then you realise the discomfort is within. So then you make 20 grand a month and you’re still uncomfortable and dissatisfied and unfulfilled, dissatisfied and unfulfilled. So then you make 50 grand a month and you’re still uncomfortable, dissatisfied and unfulfilled, and never scratches that itch. So then we take these entrepreneurs through this journey of understanding who they truly are and what is meaningful to them and fulfilling to them, and then help them build a life around that and that’s the cure. That’s the thing that scratches the itch, because it’s what we’re all trying to do is come home to who we are and bring that person out into the world So it can be seen, our gifts can be shared, we can be experienced in the world in truth And we can feel at peace and harmony with who we are and how we’re showing up in our experience. And I’ve never found a more powerful way than this work. I’ve found lots of people that give great advice, lots of people that give great wisdom, lots of people that tell you this is how you got to do it. Just be a little bit more like me. Be a bit more like me and you’ll be successful. It’s like no, it’s self discovery. It’s understanding who you are, not what we think, not what you think, but what’s true for you and what’s underneath, and having a reflection And non-judgment and a loving, compassionate space to go through that deep work and to find those realisations. And that’s why we’ve been very fortunate to find ourself in this work. And to live this work.
Megs:
I think you just made a really good point. That too, that Um, it actually speak comes straight into my vision. But is most people look externally for the answers to these things. They look outwards. You know you’re mentioning money or mentioning, you know, wine. You mentioned wine and Netflix. Like most people look outside of them themselves to try and find the answers and try and reorientate themselves. But what we’re actually and you’re Articulate beautifully is that it’s about coming home, it’s about looking in, about turning around, looking inside and, yeah, accessing that in a wisdom. Right, it’s, it’s all there. It’s just that you need that, need that help to bring that out, uncover it.
Alex:
Absolutely. You’re a mother, and I know that you’ve been on this journey And you’ve experienced these things firsthand. So I mean, what’s that aspect like for you? Where did it take your identity? Where, where was your identity in the midst of, you know, right in the centre of when you, you know, you three kids and you had a lot going on like. Tell me a bit about how, how that experience was for you.
Megs:
Well, I think that just it comes. Like I said, it’s also glacial, right, it happens slowly over time. It’s not likely, you know, just one day We don’t know who we are. It’s it’s more of like you when you Get the opportunity to stop, because when you’re a mom and I had three children and I had, i had a very spirited middle child as well um, who’s your? you know, took a lot of the time for a period there. It just goes by so quickly. It’s not like you really have a lot of time to slow down and and look at yourself and and Put yourself first, and that’s not something I regret for one single moment, because I love the mother that I am and have been. Now that they’re older, I was careful not to say but there, now that they’re older and they’re more self-sufficient, I am actually super grateful that I’ve been on this journey for the last seven years, because it’s like a blessing for me to have this time now and it’s a blessing for me to show up for them now that they’re becoming young adults. In a way, that is me. They get to actually get to know me, because a lot of people who are in the generation ahead of me, they’re not being in the world the way they want to be, and I want to be an example of that for them as well, even though they are in that next generation. I’m constantly having conversations with people that I’m close to and they haven’t had this opportunity to be in the space that I’m in right now when my kids are older, and help them, because you know what it’s like when you’re a teenager. Well, we talked to a lot of people about their teenage years. How chaotic that could be for them Is so much just, they’re so disorientated. You know there’s a lot of unraveling that’s happening at that time in your life, and so being able to show up as who I really am, leading my life, and be an example of this work, I having conversations with them from that place, is really empowering as a mom, and there’s no better time to uncover your true nature, in my opinion. There’s no perfect time. Any time is the right time, but I love that at this moment in my life where I’m standing right now, that I have done the work. It’s an absolute blessing.
Alex:
Beautiful and you’re doing it remarkably and showing a great example. But we all wrestle with this mum, son, father, mother. We all wrestle with this. We live into, we grow into the world and we’re fresh into our culture. We don’t know what our culture is. We have our nature, we have our DNA, we have our body, but we don’t have our culture. Yet We don’t know what the cultures are born into. We are born into, you know, the poor part of like the rural India versus like Manhattan, like you could be the same baby and be born into those two places and the culture would shape you very, very differently. We’re shaped very much by our culture, so we’re encultured. What that means is we take on the aims and the values of our culture that we’re born into, that works by the culture, then onto the community, then onto the family unit and then through our parents, through our peers, we are encultured with the values and the visions of that culture and we try and live into those. And I lived into mine very ambitiously, as I do everything. So what I was encultured by was I need to have fast cars, very attractive girls, lots of girlfriends, as many girls as possible, be extremely rich, have a passive income, have a six pack, spend as much time as I can in the gym like, and I got there. I lived into those. I was the shining example of that dream. I had fast cars. I had lots of you know strings of unfulfilling short-term relationship with lots of beautiful women. I had a passive income. I had so much time, freedom of learning way more than any of my friends, didn’t ever have to think about money really at all. What I spent most of my time thinking about was whether I could get that last ab a little bit more out so that I could be a little bit more shredded the next time. I was on the you know. But I was miserable. I was so anxious on the inside, so unfulfilled. I felt empty, nothing ever connected to me. In true, i felt this kind of sense of just discontentment and unrest. The car was never fast enough, the girl was never attractive enough, the money was never, was never. I was never rich enough. And then I was fortunate enough. It was crazy, it sounds, to go through a journey into the underworld which many of us have to do on our journeys of self-realization. I lost my sister, as I said, to cancer. I lost my father to cancer, as in a one-year period I lost both those things. I then lost my business because I was too depressed to work on it. I was playing semi-professional football. I had to have my third knee operation, I lost my football career. I just lost all the things. And that sent me into a journey of despair to begin with, but of coming back to being like who am I when all those things are stripped away And what am I really? And that was. I went into Southeast Asia for a little while, into Eastern philosophy, meditation, really, just to find enough peace and mindfulness and space to start rebuilding myself. And then I was very lucky at that time, after I came back from Southeast Asia, to come into this work serendipitously, where it’s like right now I need to rebuild myself. Don’t let so-and-so know what that looks like, this Eastern philosophy supporting me. And then it was like what about values and vision? It’s like that came to me right at that moment. So I got to reconstruct myself from nothing with that in mind. So I got to really feel the power and benefit of that journey, as I was stripped away by life. It allowed me to step in very viscerally into something new and something different And what’s really interesting now is my character is completely different Now. My friends have known me in my life that I’m still Al. I’m still the person they love and know. But my character, my exterior, is at night and day. It’s way more true to who I am. It’s just way more true to. I don’t care about those things. I care about connections to people in their heart. I care about peace, I care about harmony, i care about kindness, compassion. I care about language, i care about self-realisation. These are the things that I care about and I want to build my life around and I have been building my life around. And we all have that journey because we all have taken on the expectations of our family, the expectations of our environment, the values of our culture And we’ve lived into those as much as we can, even if they don’t suit our true nature. And we have to come to a stage of breaking free of those and stepping into our individuated self, of stepping into our true self. And that is a journey of going. No, actually, I’m peeling that away. Peeling that away and discovering what’s true to me And some of those values that came from my parents and cultures I still have. I’ve still kept many. I’ve let go of and I’ve stepped in and I’ve combined those values that I inherited with the ones that I’ve experienced, and now I am living in a way that feels more congruent and my character and my internal self are more aligned, and more and more aligned as every day passes. I still sometimes show up out of integrity, but I feel it and I know it and I see it and I get to come back to myself afterwards. So we all have this There’s not a single human being in the world that hasn’t got that journey ahead of them or was in that journey, and this work is a tool to help you to move through that journey consciously and efficiently and powerfully.
Megs:
Yeah, and you are doing that, my friend. Your constantly inspiring me, always have done, and I love hearing that part of your story because I think it’s pivotal to what we’ve been talking about. This identity shift. You never see it coming. You never know what’s going to have you tilt on that axis like that and I just I love that we get to and I love that you said we get to, because we do get to, we get to be there for people who are ready to make that shift. So thank you so much, for I love listening to you talk. I guess you always said so passionate. Thank you for sharing that passion with us today And for anyone that is listening. If you resonated with this content, love you to share it far and wide. And you can find the amazing Al on on Insta. I’ll tag you in the bio, tag you in the content And I look forward to just working with you forever. This is home for me. This work, the people, the tribe. I hope you enjoyed this conversation with Al as much as I did. Thank you for being in my life. If you would like to connect with him online, there are some links below.
Alex:
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Megs:
And if you’d like to follow me on social media. Just search up for either you or your favourite platform, You will find me. I’m looking forward to the next guest. She’s awesome.
Alex:
It’s never too late to discover your true It’s never too late to discover your true nature. My mum’s, she’ll kill me if I was just about to announce her age.
Megs:
She’s awesome we love her.
Alex:
She took herself on this journey, in this part of her life, and she has completely reimagined herself and her experience. It’s never too late to discover just how extraordinary you are, how much you can fill your heart and your cup up with the things that you love and enjoy, and it’s available to you and you deserve it. And thank you for being on this journey And thank you for listening to this kind of material, because it’s so key to your ascension.
Megs:
Thank you, and exactly, you are freed to be you at any time.
