Personal EVOLUTION into 2026 - Spiritual Perspectives: Discerning News -Chapelle, Maduro, and NYC Wishes

Impactful personal EVOLUTION around the importance of authenticity in communication and the political implications of recent events, particularly the capture of Venezuelan President Maduro. The conversation culminates in a positive story about a community initiative in New York City, emphasizing hope and connection as they look forward to 2026. 

Takeaways

• Thank you for being with us this year!
• The more I share, the more I grow.
• Authenticity allows creative energy to flow.
• Personal evolution is key to spiritual growth.
• We attract what happens to us.
• Opportunity is the essence of living in the now.
• People will rise if given the space.
• I can only influence by changing myself first.
• What do you wish for 2026?
• Happy New Year!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Celebrating One Year of Insightful Conversations
• 3:08 The Power of Authentic Outflow
• 13:34 Personal Evolution and Spiritual Growth
• 24:06 Political Intrigue: The Case of Maduro
• 42:46 Wishing Wall: A Symbol of Hope and Community

Transcript

TNT SpiritWorks (00:01)
Well, 2026 here is our actually our one year anniversary episode that we'd like to welcome you to. One year anniversary. Can you believe it's been a year that we've been talking about discerning news and what's going on out in the world? It goes by fast, doesn't it? Yeah, and I think the first thing I have lots of insights. The first thing I want to do is I want to thank each and every one of you out there for listening in. If you've been a listener from the beginning and listened all the way through, maybe you found us in the middle of summer or in the fall.

We thank you so much for however you're listening, whether it be on audio or on our YouTube channel. We are so thankful for you. Yeah, I you know, it's there's a thing that you when you're doing these kinds of things that they say that you get just as much or more out of it when you're sharing with people. I know in in doing what we do, we learn that real fast that when you're actually being of service to people.

what I get back from that is immense. ⁓ there's a thing that we say is that no matter what level we're sharing with people at, whether we're just doing an intro or whether we're doing some big, deep, profound heavy duty therapy or something like that, or of course, at the end of it, we always say, thank you for the opportunity to let me share with you. And that's because of how it feels.

to be able to share with people. And as you share with more people, you're gonna, that's just gonna get stimulated more and more, because it's like the spirit moves through you, like that insights, the inspiration, whatever you wanna call that, it just keeps expanding. So it's a pleasure to be able to do this and be with you. It's really a feeling of that I'm doing what I've come to do.

I'm working with the energy that I've come to work with because it's the compounding interest of all the spiritual backing of your what come to you come to do what we come to do what I come to do. So it's like that compounding interest. So I'm just appreciative. Thank you. Love you. Respect you. Looking forward to 2026. Sounds good. Well, are we going to open with the next story? Well, yeah, you have nothing else to say about the

Thank you. Well, this is a perfect segue because the key word for this story is ⁓ outflow is what I received from Spirit. And, you know, we recently watched a Netflix special with Dave Chappelle conversation and we're having a conversation right now. Teresa poked me, I poked her back. And. What was great about it?

was that, ⁓ know, Chappelle's put himself in this position where he can just stand in front of tens of thousands of people, and of course millions of people worldwide, and just share what's on his mind. And he's very authentic about what he's sharing, and he is funny. But recently, he took a lot of flack because he did a gig out in Saudi Arabia, and... ⁓

He came back from the gig and he was talking about his experience in Saudi Arabia and ⁓ feeling free to share certain things there that he didn't feel was free to share in the United States. And we watched it. part of us said, I know Teresa and I were comparing notes and that we didn't think it was that funny. There was funny bits to it, but we weren't that impressed. And recently Cuomo

⁓ Chris Cuomo, he had ⁓ made the same observation. And ⁓ so I was thinking about this. And ⁓ what I've noticed is when people have a chance to be authentic, whether I think it's funny or not, they ⁓ outflow. So there's this creative energy moves through, but it's always going to be with the filter of

my first seven years and the environment that I was raised in. And within that sharing, there's going to be some truth that comes out. And this was similar to your recent episode where you talked to, Teresa talked to 15 people around the world from various backgrounds, literally around the world and various ⁓ experiences that, you know, there was quite a bit they shared that was from their filter, you know, of their

environment and their first seven years and so forth. But every one of them came out with something really a phrase or a sentence that I felt was really profound. And I thought, now there's the benefit of outflowing. And I accept, you know, where people are at wherever their first seven years is just like I accept myself. But the more that I can outflow, the more that I can share authentically.

That's when those little pearls of wisdom come that spirit can, you know, throw in there as I'm, you know, searching for my own answers. And there's no way around it. Like I, I need to let people do that for themselves. Okay. Ready for what I'm thinking about this, this, uh, scenario. So we saw Chappelle, gosh, what was it? 2019? It might've been 29. 2019. saw him in Atlantic city. Right.

And before that, know, the Chappelle show, God, he's just brilliant. Love him so much. Now, you know, he's off the rails a bit with some things, but just just really great. And then seeing him in the recent ⁓ Netflix special. And like you're saying, Tom, mean, like, you know, there were some things I was like, wow, look at where he's at now. And I guess what really comes to me and came to me as as we were checking this out and and this has been also for other things in my life, I've really noticed lately is.

Where are people at energetically? And when a leader or a guru or a politician or someone out there that's really seen by many or the masses like Dave Chappelle is and say even Joe Rogan or Trump or anybody, right? The people that are at a higher echelon, they're still talking to the level of consciousness of people who are their apprentices. So, you know,

there were a lot in the Chappelle thing that I was kind of like, man, I don't resonate with that anymore. But and look where his energy is at now after going through covid, after going through the last couple of years of of shifting and changing. And I also felt that he was really pulling in the collective energy of the people that are maybe a step or two below him.

⁓ So for me, I can relate to this, how this happens, how you start one place and then in essence getting caught up in a certain ideal. And to me, that's part of what's going on because I too really have had some really

laughing moments with what he puts out and ⁓ it's... Like I'm Rick James bitch. Yeah, he's funny. He's funny. He's a genius really. He is excellent. He's in his niche. But even when I'm in my niche, I can lose sight of the big picture. I can get caught up in what I'm doing. And there's a whole, there's a saying in the show business that says,

You buy your own press release. Right. And what I mean by that for, for this situation is where nothing to take away from what the accomplishment that he's had or what any of us have done. But if I don't keep expanding my arena, if I don't keep expanding my consciousness, if I don't keep expanding my ability to be of service,

then by the law of nature and gravity, things are to start closing in on me. So it's just, I'll just start thinking about things a certain way and I'll start thinking that I'm going to change certain things. start being jaded about life. You they say if you want to see a depressed person that talk to a comedian, you know, they just, they see, they can see the worst of people, you know,

And then they make jokes about it. But they live in that world. They draw inspiration from that. They have to make it funny, right? So the challenge is if I'm not expanding, mean, think of a channel that's going up, and then that top of that pipe starting to expand out. That's what I need when I'm working with people.

When I'm starting to fill stadiums, I need to think about being of service with my pipe expanding out, which requires me requires in this case, for a genius comedian to start thinking bigger, to start being a bigger picture. Otherwise, what happens is the pipe starts closing in. And by definition, I start losing my ability to communicate to the masses.

I lose my ability to work with more people. of sudden from my niche, all of sudden I start working into more of a smaller group. And that's okay too. Everybody's got to go through that. I I go through that. Everyone who works with people is going to go through that. The question is, how quickly do you get out? So for me, this is all about making sure that my

state of consciousness, my ability to be of service, my communication style, is it expanding? Is the pipe opening up as I grow as I move up in abundance as I move up in ⁓ with people? Am I expanding my horizons? Or am I allowing it to stay the same? Am I allowing it to close? So that's the first wave for me on this story. Yeah. And I think for myself, that goes also to

the consistency of the spiritual work that we do on ourselves, right? And I know that we have, you know, we've seen this, I've seen this firsthand recently in some close people to us, where, you know, they're on this track of greatness, of potential, of expansion, and then you can tell their energy starts closing in. And it really, I mean, it's just uncanny to me how we bring these stories forth, and a lot of times it's exactly what we're seeing.

in situations that we're experiencing every single day, like we just had one the other day. ⁓ yeah, I think it's just quite interesting. And also how just the importance for myself of doing my inner work and matter what that looks like, right? Because I also take into consideration that, you know, what I've come into this lifetime and mastered and so has Dave Chappelle and so have you and so have you Tom. And then what we're individually here to actually experience and grow from, there's a point to where it's like,

Yeah, they're might be kind of done, or they might be it might be time to to go off a different direction than than what they're currently on. So I take those things in consideration to you. What strikes me and you know, ⁓ Chappelle was one example of a number of people recently that I've heard either perform or share that this struck me as to what was going on. And that, you know, my

my concepts, the ones that I get in my first seven years and from my environment, you know, they form a framework and they help me get by, you know, but as I expand spiritually, ⁓ if I just rely on trying to make sense out of what's happening in the world based on those concepts or my ideas of what's right or wrong or what's moral issues, I...

I begin to lose hope and get dissolution, but that's all part of the process because from there I can rise like the phoenix, so to speak, and that begin to look outside or inside more for my answers and my inner wisdom and start practicing getting those solutions from my guidance. The big key for me is lately and in related to other experiences around me is

I'm really feeling this, you know, acceptance of where that's where they're at and realizing. And as I said earlier, is that people have to find their own answers. We like to pretend that it's someone outside of us or outside of me that gives me my solutions or my answers, but I never buy into it until I feel it or I, I have that aha moment and it really allows me to relax and go,

Well, that's just where they're at in working out their awareness and the meaning of life and who they are in the bigger picture. And I guess my final comment was that, you know, my soul essence, this is somewhat related, as a soul, there's no mystery to the universe for me. It's only when I'm in my head, my intellect, my brain in this physical body that

things seem ⁓ mystical or I don't get it because when I'm back in the world of spirit, it's obvious what's going on. Yeah, I think for myself that goes to a resonance that I am again, I'm feeling like you're talking about with feelings. So, you know, back in the day, I mean, well, I just didn't I don't resonate with what Dave Chappelle is coming across is right now because he's in a different vibration than I am at right now. And so and there's nothing wrong with that.

But I think that's what I kind of hear you saying too, Tom, as we move through and, you know, we're in different situations with people and we recognize because of the inner work that I've done on myself and I've I'm at a different place now that I recognize, that's what that's about. And then I can determine, do I play in that or do I pass? Yeah. Going for me, this all comes back down to personal evolution. If I if I were to say a key word.

for this story, would say personal evolution is what really kicks in for me. And there is no shortcut to the evolution of the soul. You know, they say that, you know, within a less than 10 years, right? And this is, you've probably all heard me say this before, but think about this, just the reality of this, the the the immensity of this in less than 10 years.

someone can go from the biggest worry in their life is their social circle or the, you know, who they're going to be on a date with or something like that. And less than 10 years from that going to literally building rockets to Mars or literally transporting, transplanting one organ from one person to another person. So that's like amazing that

the ability to be able to learn that, to do that, it's wow. But spiritually it doesn't work that way. You can't, you can push yourself here on planet Earth and the intellect, you can do that, because it's like a program, right? It's like a computer. So you can push it and program it and make it go faster and all this kind of stuff. But the soul, the inner consciousness, the real you doesn't work that way.

It works steady. It works through experience and evolvement and growth. And that's you can yell at a plant all day, but it is not going to grow any faster. You know, so to why I'm bringing that up is because I go through, we go through evolutionary stages and they're important because I'm getting what I need. I'm getting nourishment so that I can make that growth.

And while I think there's a lot going on around me and there is, I'm personally only going to grow at my own rate. And what retards that growth, what slows that growth is when I get fixated and think that planet earth, this little thing that I'm working with is everything. Right. And that's that energy of getting hard inside of, of losing perspective of who I am and what I've come to do.

And that everything here is temporary. Right. So if I'm, if I'm a comedian, my point is, is if I'm a comedian, then I am the jester of the court. Right. I'm the only person that can tell the truth, but not just because not, just to the other people on the court. can tell the truth about the King and the queen because it's all done in jest. Right. And everybody knows it's true.

But I'm the only one who can tell the truth. Because if the lords of the land tell the truth, they can get their head cut off. But the jester can tell the truth of what's going on. But they don't get their heads cut off if they're doing it in an entertaining, in a jest way. The moment that energy shifts, now the jester has the threat of his head getting cut off.

In other words, I've lost sight of my role, of my opportunity. I'm starting to want to move from that position into being a policymaker, into being someone who's going to do certain things a different way. And that's okay. And that's why we have that evolution. Sometimes it's say, you know what? I've done this job. Now it's time for me to move to another role, another opportunity. So I can have that experience.

instead of trying to do that in the role that I'm in. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's interesting because it's almost like like going to a peak. Yes. At a peak. Yes. And that's kind of where I feel like he's at. Yes. Because he's you know, he's had peaks and valleys, right? Yes. You know, he left the Dave Chappelle show and then he was gone for, you know, a couple of years, came back in at a peak again. But that's what it feels like. It's is he's at a peak. And so like, where do you go from here? That's right. Especially with the the energy that he's working with and

You know, I guess that that's what we all have to kind of look at in our lives specifically is because, you know, when we're involved in things that are outside of us, when they encroach into my area and it feels doesn't feel right. I mean, I'm able to the point now where I can discern that, know, that's not an area I need to play in. I don't need to bitch and complain about that. I don't need to be in that, you know, that muck.

when years ago I've been like, let's muck it up, right? Let's get in the mud, let's play. No, not anymore. And so when I am around or I'm listening to something of that nature and someone's in that muck, I'm like, yeah, I'm not really playing there anymore. Yeah. Well, what strikes me is the keyword authentic again, just coming back to, as long as he's being authentic, which he is, there's no question. at what he does. There's going to be ⁓ an evolution through it. ⁓

And I accept him where he's at. I'm not judging him. I just enjoyed the bits of the special that I did. And I think that that's something to just be aware of, that whoever I'm with, they're going to go through their learning experiences. And that feeling of acceptance of another person's journey is becoming stronger in me. I can stay detached.

respectful, loving, appreciate the genius they've got and allow them to grow through their experiences. Ooh, I can feel that in my heart. just to, that's 2 % there of what both of you are saying that I need to know when, cause you're talking about the muck and you're talking about that evolution, acceptance. It's like, I need to know for my own health and for their health.

of when to pull back and when to move in because I don't do service to anybody by well, I'll be the good soldier and just keep watching you if you're putting out a bunch of muck. No, I'm going to pull my energy back. But then when you turn around and all of a sudden it's different, well, then I'll bring my energy forward again. So I have to be willing to

be honest with myself and what resonates, makes me in this case, what's funny to me and move toward that and laugh. If it's not funny, move back so that I'm honest with myself and I'm being authentic and then everybody wins because the person on the other end, if I'm the comedian and all of sudden people start moving away from me, I start going, well, if I still want this gig, I better raise my state of consciousness. I better raise myself up a bit and shift.

because this ain't working, right? But if nobody gives me that feedback, I got nothing. I'm back in my same little circle. You got nothing. Yeah. All right. So let's go on to we've got another juicy one that we were talking about. Yeah. So by now, I think probably people have heard there there's been a and some activity there in Venezuela where they've captured Maduro.

the president there and extracted him and he's going to be going on trial here in America. So that's the that's the big story. So this has been kind of a buildup from a story wise around the world where there's been the strikes on drug boats coming out of Venezuela. There's been the capturing of oil rigs that, you know, working with Venezuela tankers, you mean tankers, excuse me. ⁓

And so now they're this recently, we've had the situation where they've actually captured and taken the president out of the country. And so that's the story we're to talk about. What's been your impression of this story? Well, it's funny because that it just literally happened, right? Yep. And the first thing that came to me as far as a soul and what I was feeling was how could they do that? Seriously, like how could you go into a country and extract somebody?

And I guess also I watched something on, you know, on the the news on YouTube that this person was saying, you know, that's illegal and they should have protection and they shouldn't be able to just go in anywhere and get somebody. So that was my first feeling was one of how could they do that? Like, could someone come into America and hated Trump and grab Trump and take him and go back to their country? And then he's on trial. mean, like, you know, it could be it can go either way. That's the first thing that popped in my mind is around that.

a feeling. Well, we do have a system and we do have laws and for me, it's important to realize that I don't have a lot of facts about this situation. mean, I've heard in the news that, ⁓ you know, he's committed indictable offenses and he's been indicted and him and his wife. And so there must be a lot of intelligence behind it. I'm I'm pretty relaxed about it. It does.

strike me like, okay, that's like a serious move. That's not something that we do every day or, you know, even every, we only do it, we've only done it a couple of times, you know, and that I'm aware of, like with Noriega and so forth. time will tell as more facts come out. I think that it's important for me to just stay detached and relaxed until more information.

comes out because ⁓ on both sides of the political fence, there's going to be people that are absolutely for it, say it was completely justified and that there is legal ⁓ justification. There's, you know, that go along with it. ⁓ They didn't do this in, you know, without having their ducks in a row kind of a thing. Now, ⁓ on the other side of the political fence, there's people who thinks it's an outrage. But again,

I think it's, ⁓ so what are my feelings tell me? I think I have to go to that because I'm going to hear different things. And in the environment, there were signs that this was going to happen. Even yesterday, I was listening to something on YouTube and one of the commentators had leaked that he had talked to a congressman and that they had been briefed about the ⁓ upcoming strikes and so forth. And ⁓

They were concerned because again, we don't know a whole lot about it, which is, ⁓ you know, Trump's style. He doesn't want to play his hand or show his hand kind of a thing. So, ⁓ I'm okay with it really. I mean, I think that I come back to, ⁓ an idea that I was sharing earlier in that, you know, as a soul, I'm going to attract what happens to me. I am because of my concepts and, ⁓

I start to, you know, we were in a situation the other night where I'm just watching something play out between a couple of people that are friends of mine. And I went, you know, that person's always going to feel this way because they set themselves up to feel lesser than and pushed upon. it's amazing. Like they, no matter what's going on, whereas the person that pushed the buttons of the other person, I just didn't, you know, it.

I recognize what that person's doing and they're being a bit, don't, behaving badly, but it doesn't stimulate me. So why does it stimulate me? And I think that's, we swim in a soup of energy where all sorts of people are at different levels of growth and have different concepts. I always come back to it based on the first seven years and that's all energy. It's, you know, they keep recreating their experience. So.

I'll step back into the bigger picture. ⁓ I don't feel sorry for Maduro. I just, I feel like, well, he's attracted it. And, ⁓ now what's going to play out over time, say with the Trump administration. Well, he attracted it. You know, he, put that kind of thing in motion. So we'll see what happens. Yeah. So it's interesting that, ⁓

these stories and we pull them out and we talk about them, how they relate to so many different aspects of what we're actually going through all the time, especially this past week, things we've been through. And I recognize as you're talking about kind of staying more detached and as a sensitive person, the story I saw this morning in regards to this was more left-bent. So I feel I was pulling into that energy.

of the left of how could they do that and how could I mean I felt it within my whole soul right because I'm that sensitive to when I you know the collective of either the left or the right and there's not many in the middle so you know there's not many in the gray area there's more in the black and the white and so that's interesting you should say that Tom because I as soon as you're saying ⁓ that's what I did this morning is I could feel how people are pissed off about what happened and how they how dare he in that horrible orange man in the

You know, the no matter what he does, they're not going to know. Yeah, it's on both sides though, right? That's right. kinds of people. So, I guess to balance what you're saying, you know, I also heard the folks, conservatives or people on the right share about how it was a great thing. And honestly, for me, we'll see, you know, we'll, we'll see how it plays out. ⁓ and I don't mean as the cop out, but until the facts come, come forward.

Personally, I have some faith in the system and I think that things had the boundaries have been crossed too far. There will be at some point a review. I have faith in the sense that our society, where we live in the United States, will review whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. And over time, we'll find out what they had to go on or what they didn't have. And then hopefully laws and ways of

working with things, the frameworks that we work with will modify or not modify. ⁓ for me, this is ⁓ I relate to both of those. I'm I've really had a lot of interesting this particular news is something that's global in scale because it affects it's not just our region, it's going to affect everything around. it's a good one that we chose.

⁓ I too, I'm gone through the evolution of being a dove and been in a hawk and you know, go get them and then leave them alone and the whole thing. So generally speaking, I'm, I'm pretty much in your camp that, you know, leave people alone. Sometimes there's terrible things, but you know, there's such a thing, even in the constitution of America, they have something called entangling alliances.

And we're not supposed to getting involved in entangling alliances or regime change. ⁓ But that being said, so that's my stand, know, my general place where I go from. What are we doing here? Right. What are we getting involved in? ⁓ And then there's the other side of any country at all has its interests. You know, they I just doesn't matter with the smallest country or a

great big one, you know, China, they have their interests. And it's part of their makeup and what they're trying to accomplish and so forth. And that means that not so good things are going to happen sometimes and they're going to invade this place and take from that place. And this is the way of the world. This is where I've gotten to is that I have my values. And generally, those values are

Non-intervention, let people do their thing so long as their interests don't conflict with our interests. That's my general principle. Live and let live. But I also know that that has to be tempered with pragmatism. This is the world. We have how many states of consciousness here on planet Earth? million. I mean, we got a lot of what you can't everybody thinks differently is my point.

Right. And then you have people who are in charge of different countries and different cultures on top of that. My goodness. So the pragmatic part of me tempers out my ideals, my idealism, right. The ism in that, you know, let's see Greece was doing it. Persia was doing it. Rome was doing it, you know, and on and on and on we goes. And if it's not America doing it, China's doing it.

Mongols did it. I mean, it's just this ongoing thing. Well, if Putin could get so inskey, he would do it. ⁓ no question. Yeah, no question. So that's not for me to justify or say that it's right. I need to float back up to that big picture. So I don't get caught up in it. Because I relate to what you're talking about. I can go there so easily. Like, here we go again.

You know, we're just trying to create something spiritual, something simple to help people. And now we're, you know, now we're have more problems and blah, blah, blah, blah. So if I don't float up to the top and recognize I have one mission and that's to fulfill my purpose, to do my thrust. And maybe one day if I'm in that position, I'll do something differently, or maybe I'll do the same. Who knows until I get there, I can tell you from

working with many people and being in business, you do start learning that there has to be compromises and you do have to shift on things that I thought I was going to hold fast on. It's just the nature of it. So, and it's good. It changes me. It changes people. But bottom line is this is, ⁓ I know where I am in my standard. And then I also know that this is the world and I need to work.

with it, not against it, and that way I can be of service so that there's more wisdom out there, that the leaders themselves will move based on wisdom rather than just their head or their economics. So this is interesting because this brings up something from the other day, especially around patterns of history, things that come again and leave and come again. And did we learn from it this time, or are we going to learn from it the hundredth time?

So we're watching a really cool Edgar Casey YouTube is from his his society. He put out a video recently about 2026 and things that he predicted when he was, you know, he's the sleeping prophet. So he had this time frame and it was quite a, you know, almost 100 years ago that he was alive and doing it. And one part of it, he said that that 2026, a lot of the people who are in Atlanteans, Atlanteans, Atlantis.

are now back and during the Atlantis time, a lot of destruction has happened. was a time when we were very, I say we because I have a feeling of. it Lumiere? No, it was Lumiere because Lumiere is on the other side. It was Atlanta. Okay. Atlantis that that we had such a heightened, you know, using crystals. had the society was a whole different ballgame and then it all got destroyed some somehow and that we're at that place again. But a lot of the souls are back now to try to perhaps do it differently.

And so that's what I think about oftentimes when these situations come up that historically have happened in the past and things have occurred and, you know, leaders have done this and like you're saying, you know, way back that this is just a timeframe where, okay, so how are we going to do it this time? And are we going to make it through it? Are we going to survive to the, know, to go to move past this and to actually, you know, ⁓

The words come to as like elevate and expand our horizons and our consciousness into doing different than we did in the past in situations. And I guess the part of the wrap up there for me is what I'm hearing you say is, the word opportunity and that we keep repeating history over and over again. And regardless whether someone believes how spiritual or non-spiritual, whether we've been here, we haven't been here.

you know, it all starts becoming irrelevant from the perspective. If I'm living in the moment, I'm here in the now, it's all about opportunity. And whether you do believe in more, you do believe in the spiritual concepts of coming back again, or this kind of thing, it's all about opportunity and living in the now. So I always come for me, I always come back to that. And there was a, there was a film that had

really said this so beautifully. says, you know, if imagine someone praying to God and they wanted more courage, do they think that God's just going to slap them with courage or do they think that God's going to give them an opportunity to be courageous? they want to, if they say number two, if they want more abundance or money in their life, do they think it's just going to slap with money or they're going to give them more opportunity to be abundant?

Right. So if I want to fulfill what I've come to do, or I have interest in something up, there's going to become opportunities that will show themselves. So if I don't grab onto that, I'm going to get caught up in other people's opportunities. And that's the key for me is that whilst I, I don't, there's certain things that I like in

these different administrations that come through, the different governances that come through, and there's stuff that I don't like. But all of it has to pale in comparison to my opportunity. Not being selfish, being self-full. What is my opportunity? Because if I don't have that perspective, I'm so sensitive that I'll get consumed by what's around me.

Final word, Atlantean brother.

What struck me was a couple things. ⁓

I guess the key word is, you know, for me is to just relax as I watch these phases ⁓ come and go and people have their learning experiences. I think that's a, that thought that Tiger just shared, you know, that that's other people's opportunity. I'm not sitting in the chair, the executive chair. I'm not the one of the advisors that sits around to that chair. You know, I'm a guy that does a spiritual podcast and

plays drums in a country band and I have my opportunities and how am I going to move through those? ⁓ Because I'm becoming very clear lately that ⁓ like attracts like and that people attract, you know, they have a magnetism to almost create their situations. So now I need to look at what are my solutions here? And when I tune into Spirit, the bigger picture solutions are not

what I think they are sometimes, you know, or what the environment has raised me to believe are the solutions. I have to really tune into my true feelings and the language of Spirit to go, what's the solution here? And what I'm hearing from Spirit is to stay relaxed, stay positive, stay flowing in my happiness and freedom, and that will begin to radiate, you know, into my environment.

And that's probably the most powerful influence. I contrast that with getting caught up in the rights and the wrongs and the moral issues. And as Tiger referred to getting consumed with it. So my solution is to work more with my guidance, like you say, on what my opportunity is and how I need to, the feelings I need to maintain as I move through life. My wrap up would probably be the keyword wisdom.

for all these stories. You know, we got one more story. Yes. But you're wrapping up. Well, you have the positive story coming up. that all goes together. All right. If you want to wrap up, go for it. Well, I guess my summation to this is not only opportunity, it's wisdom and to be moved by wisdom. I need to be in balance in order to move by wisdom. Well said.

So our final, right, come on, story, which, you know, we first started this year ago, we always had a positive story at the end of each one. And then we, you know, we've kind of died. We've done different things throughout the year just to kind of give some, you know, a little change, right? But I do miss those positive stories. So today I was guided, I'm like, okay, what's the last, oh, let's find a positive story. So I found a really good one. And this is around New York City and the Times Square area.

about a month out before the New Year's Eve celebration, which happens every year, but the ball drops, they actually created a place called a wishing wall. And for the whole month, people came up that were visiting or locals, whatever. And they actually wrote messages on these little post-its that were then put together with all the confetti, which was over like, said like 300,000, no, 300 pounds of confetti, 3000 pounds of confetti was thrown out on New Year's Eve.

And then these, these, with these wishes and these messages went out to everybody. And it was really cool though, too, is that it said that they were people online. Could they actually write them or put them into, and people wrote them out for them. So they're from all kinds of nationalities, all kinds of backgrounds. And this to me was so inspiring because you know, there, there's still so much good in the world, you know, that, ⁓ opposing

You know, we're always like, God, it's so dark or the this is the worst time of the, you know, of our history. No, it's not. There's still positive out there trying to influence and balance out what's going on. So, some thoughts about that, about the Wishing Wall? Well, I mean, just on the story itself, and I know we're going to do our own, our own here and wishing everybody good. ⁓ It is exactly I my my response is exactly what you're saying.

that if given the opportunity, people are going to share what they want, the positive parts. It's a rarity that you, if you're given the moment, if you're given the space to just share and my aspirations and my needs, that it just lifts the energy, just lifts the thoughts, lifts the feeling of it up.

And the story that you were sharing just had some really inspirational young people, older people, and it just had a higher vibe. It just felt good. And here's a place that has had its challenges, know, New York City, a big place in the world financial capital. couple of episodes ago we did about that's right. Well, we had the mayoral shift and so forth. So there's lots going on there.

It's such a, a melting pot of so many different people. And so to me, it's just, if it comes back to giving people the space, they're going to rise there, the balloon will want to float. So it just really is being consistent enough for me to, to let people rise and not for myself to get caught up in my own messes. Thomas.

Well, I think it's a wonderful story and it reminds me of your end of the year podcast on enthusiastically spiritual. It was a really special episode. You interviewed 15 people literally around the world from all kinds of different backgrounds, from entrepreneur to disabled, you know, trauma victim and ⁓ everything in between, you know, and successful people. So what was so cool

was they all had this, despite what they were sharing about what they'd been through, they were looking for a better way. And it was based on their spiritual, getting a spiritual perspective for what they're doing. And it really helped me, you know, not look at the window dressing of the person and their drama and their situation, but just, wow, there's a soul moving through an experience and they're

They're looking for that key phrase from their guidance that's just going to help them throughout this year. And then I thought, that's so beautiful. You know, that, ⁓ that's all I have to do and respect that other people, I can't change anyone. can only, you know, influence by changing myself first. I, least I have to start there. So that's what struck me about it all. Thank you for saying that Tom, because that was such a special episode and

And it is kind of like these messages because these messages come from all walks of life. And it's not just from one specific, a spiritual group of people. No, it's from everybody. And that's what that episode really was because of the that my God, like, yeah, the gamut of what each of these people did or had experienced and then how each one seemed to have one key word. Like you heard one thing like, oh, that's what I need to hear from that person. So when I was looking at this, this story, a couple of things that

stuck out to me was that people wrote down like, I wish for more love and kindness in 2026. I wish for a good year with good people. I wish for life to get a little bit lighter for all of us. So I would like to end this episode with what is your wish moving into 2026? For 2026, my wish would be

to do the very best I know how every day and advance a little bit spiritually and to inspire that in thousands of people around the world. That's my wish. What's your wish Tom? My wish is to break through ⁓ one being authentic and ⁓ you know ⁓

A theme that's come up for me recently is like, you know, sometimes I just don't know. And that's okay. And that relates a little bit to that very first story that I opened up with, which, you know, we were talking about it. You know, it's, it's a lot easier if I just go, you know, I don't know, I don't have the facts on that. I haven't gotten a feeling for it yet. And I trust that I will in time. And as I move through my growth areas,

you know, sometimes I just have to experience the emotions and then later take a break and go, well, what could I do differently next time? So my wish is to continually be in balance with what I'm doing and being able to share my enthusiasm for living life, especially the spiritual part of our life in balance with the masses of people. So with those wishes, we would like to definitely ask you guys to take a moment and

Do a wish for yourself. What do you wish for 2026? And in that perspective, how can that with ease, maybe with a little playful energy into it, and how can that amplify the energy moving forward throughout the entire year for you? And with this, we wish you a wonderful 2026. Thank you so much for being on this journey with us. Without you, well.

We're just three people. We love having you guys out there and we thank you from our hearts. So from our home and heart to you guys, make the wishes and enjoy 2026 and we'll see you soon. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.