Have you ever faced a moment that called for a resounding 'no', yet found yourself saying 'yes' just to avoid discomfort? Our latest episode reveals why embracing your truth can be the most liberating decision you'll ever make. We delve into personal testimonials from our Conscious Salon Retreat, highlighting the joy and empowerment found in aligning with one's deepest values and the transformative impact of setting healthy boundaries. Together, we uncover the art of crafting an ideal life with intention, manifestation, and aligned action that resonates with our innermost desires.
The healing power of breathwork takes center stage in our second segment, where we explore its capability to unlock deeply held emotions. The collective energy of our retreat participants amplified the emotional release, providing a space for unfiltered expression. We also investigate how physical challenges like ice baths can serve as catalysts for personal growth, offering a fresh perspective on embracing openness and vulnerability as key components of one's transformative journey.
Rounding out this episode, we wrap up with heartfelt stories of vulnerability and self-love from two of our retreat attendees. Their experiences with therapy dogs and ice baths unearthed profound emotional responses and self-discoveries. Our community shares a collective gratitude for the bonds formed, the personal growth achieved, and the empowering realization that investing in one's well-being can have an immeasurable impact on our lives and those around us. Join us for this intimate look into a space where gratitude and self-empowerment flourish, and life-long memories are made.
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This podcast has been produced and edited by Snappystreet Creative
Have you ever faced a moment that called for a resounding 'no', yet found yourself saying 'yes' just to avoid discomfort? Our latest episode reveals why embracing your truth can be the most liberating decision you'll ever make. We delve into personal testimonials from our Conscious Salon Retreat, highlighting the joy and empowerment found in aligning with one's deepest values and the transformative impact of setting healthy boundaries. Together, we uncover the art of crafting an ideal life with intention, manifestation, and aligned action that resonates with our innermost desires.
The healing power of breathwork takes center stage in our second segment, where we explore its capability to unlock deeply held emotions. The collective energy of our retreat participants amplified the emotional release, providing a space for unfiltered expression. We also investigate how physical challenges like ice baths can serve as catalysts for personal growth, offering a fresh perspective on embracing openness and vulnerability as key components of one's transformative journey.
Rounding out this episode, we wrap up with heartfelt stories of vulnerability and self-love from two of our retreat attendees. Their experiences with therapy dogs and ice baths unearthed profound emotional responses and self-discoveries. Our community shares a collective gratitude for the bonds formed, the personal growth achieved, and the empowering realization that investing in one's well-being can have an immeasurable impact on our lives and those around us. Join us for this intimate look into a space where gratitude and self-empowerment flourish, and life-long memories are made.
To follow our journey:
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This podcast has been produced and edited by Snappystreet Creative
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Speaker 2:Welcome to the Conscious Salon. Welcome to part two of the Conscious Retreat episodes. If you haven't listened to part one, please feel free to go back and listen to that. We recently had the privilege of facilitating our first in-person retreat for our private clients and this is a little bit about their experience with us on our Conscious Retreat. Let's talk about day two, because day two was very heavy for you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think day two was the heaviest for me. I think for sure it was amazing, definitely, but it was definitely very heavy. I think, as I said, I really learned into this weekend and I think just letting stuff I didn't even know that I had come to surface was just epic.
Speaker 3:I guess, for me, just going with it and not being scared of what people thought or the judgment. Exactly what Jad said. I feel like I really resonated with what you just said there, with everything. I think you and I were pretty similar with our shares and things like that. I think actually, most of the girls had some type of judgmental issues that they were dealing with. I can honestly say that it changed my life yesterday, and for the better. Even today I'm sitting here thinking just the feeling within my body is just so different before I got here, not shutting that down and just accepting it and knowing I've got so much work to do, even though yesterday was just a little tiny bit like keep doing, that is just going to be life changing.
Speaker 1:I think so it's cool, so beautiful.
Speaker 2:Lossy. We started off yesterday with our life values and our personal values exercise, which is one of my favorite things to do, because for the work that we do personally obviously we do things like values with business and it makes it really easy to make unemotional decisions and making sure that your life is aligned with what you're wanting and what's important to you, and it's really helped for a lot of our people in our community to put in healthy boundaries and we talk a lot about boundaries and setting boundaries and hot boundaries and things like that but the life values exercise really teaches you what's important to you and where you put your time and energy and love. Talk through what you found out of that and what came up for you.
Speaker 3:I think, really understanding what I wanted. I guess and obviously we've done it with our business before, but not really for myself and, as you know, throughout the exercise I like changed mine a couple of times just to make them feel really aligned with me. Like it took me a little bit to actually nail it for me.
Speaker 3:And I think that just was me like understanding myself, like it's a big issue for me, so like really being real and vulnerable with myself. So, yeah, once I got them, I felt so centered and aligned with it and excited, I guess, for like.
Speaker 3:I'm looking at those, like six ones that we picked, and I'm like, yes, like every day I'm going to look at them and like live my life. I remember, like yesterday, as we're doing that, I got a text message from a friend with something that is coming up that we have to do, and I'm like no, and for me I was like, wow, like I'm just going to be like no, I'm not going to do that because it's something that I just it doesn't align with me, it's not going to bring me joy.
Speaker 3:And I literally say that, like it's, it's not something that I want to do, I'm not going to be a people pleaser and I'm just going to be real with that and just go with it. So I think for me that was huge, like literally sitting there doing that exercise, getting that message and being like the universe presents. So when you're like, yeah, like, oh, that's so lovely. No.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, yeah no.
Speaker 3:It doesn't align with what I'm writing down right here. In this moment. I'm like I physically can't do that.
Speaker 2:How huge, amazing, and I feel like this is really the difference between like there's no quite logical people. So we've done similar sort of exercises in different containers over the years and you know you'd write down this really inspiring person and be like you know, I'm manifesting this person and I'm becoming this person, blah, blah, blah. Then that that this would sort of go in a draw and you would never look at it again.
Speaker 2:And there was no integration, whereas when you have the, the six values, right up in front of you, you can literally look at situations like that and go okay, how does this fit? Does this fit into any of my buckets, yeah. Or is this something that's going in the trash?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like what? How does this fit into the things that I want? That's amazing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, literally doing like if I was to do that, it would cause me so much anxiety and discomfort, even even like in my home Life, and I'm like, no, I'm just not going to put myself in that position. I'm just not doing it like yeah and I'm going to be, I'm going to be okay with that.
Speaker 1:Yes, I got obsessed. I love that.
Speaker 2:So good. So then we moved on to one of our favorite exercises, which is creating your ideal life. And this we explore six or five or six different areas within our lives and really declaring what we want. So this is all about you know, depending on what you believe, but our philosophy we're being to manifestation and Also creating aligned action to create what you want. So we talked a little bit about that. Jazzy, I'd love you to share what came up for you and what you found in the ideal life exercise.
Speaker 4:I think I was really excited when I was doing this activity because it I could feel it in my bones to grow that deep Like I, like you can. Even I was writing it like my pen was on fire, so I don't know. I felt really grounded, ready to call these things in and ready to step in to my power of being my next level self you know my ideal self. So it was really inspiring and I keep thinking about it. If I'm honest, like I keep thinking about you know how much impact and how much I want to give back.
Speaker 1:Yeah so.
Speaker 4:I think I'm really excited for what that looks like. How beautiful.
Speaker 2:This exercise really becomes the blueprint for our lives. So, because we you know we, obviously we come away and do these weekends, but it really is the difference with integrating into your own life we really do need to have something that's super clear, especially for people in this industry who tend to be creative, people tend to be people who are more emotionally driven. We need that logical side to be able to, yes, inspire us but also help us to create aligned action. You know, take aligned action so that we can get to those goals, cause that's the difference between, you know, stepping from your actual self and becoming your ideal self, and then one day you just go, oh wow, I've become that person and it's now my actual self.
Speaker 1:I think, rather than just the ideas of who you want to be actually creating it, so that you become that person Cause.
Speaker 2:I always struggled with that, with manifestation, Like that was with working with the manifestation coach that I had. That was the biggest takeaway that I got. It's like, yes, it's beautiful to to make a declaration and write these things down and journal about it. However, what's really going to propel you forward is having a blueprint like that where you go okay, cool, these are the things I'm going to do, and now I'm going to reverse, engineer and work backwards in order to get there and for so much of the work that we've done this weekend, we have reminded the girls that it really comes back to simplicity for us.
Speaker 2:Like we have over complicated so many things over the years planning processes, you know, different developments that we do, different intention setting, different manifestations we have over complicated it to the maximum and then we've really come back to basics in the last 12 months and for us, anytime, we've had really great results. It's been really basic, Like we we actually said about cause we did a little bit of business planning. We actually said to the girls you're going to be so underwhelmed by our planning process because it's so simple, but it's easy. It's really really easy. It's an easy blueprint to follow, Absolutely.
Speaker 4:And it's practical as well, like everything's been like I could feel yesterday when we were talking about when it came to the money, how I was like, oh, I couldn't think of what I wanted it to be because I didn't want to shoot too low, but I do want to shoot too high. But it was just really practical. It's like one step at a time and you know when we're talking about it. You can't say I want this and then click your fingers is going to end up in your account or whatever it might be that you can win.
Speaker 1:We wish we were that powerful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it's not yet, it's more like just you know, it's a practical manifestation of one of the actions to get there, because if you're not putting the effort, like Exactly Because a lot of people, I feel, they make the declaration and they go straight to surrender and they go like you know where is this and that's where people get stuck.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the reference you did yesterday. I want a Maserati. You're the key. You're the key star.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, so much about manifestation is taking aligned action and it is quite practical. You know you make your declaration but there's so many steps to it. Like I follow Georgie's 10 step formula that she created and that was the first time that I actually was able to believe in manifestation because I was like, okay, cool, there's some logic to it as well. But through that formula we've been able to really create some incredible things and, yeah, the blueprint for ideal life is beautiful. Then we moved into, obviously, we did a bit of practical. We did some practical business planning, which was really awesome, but after that we did do a breathwork journey and we did some ice bars and, lauren, I think you'd be the perfect person to kickstart your experience with that.
Speaker 3:Wow, actually it was like being in another dimension for me, I think. Like, even looking back at it, I think it was a. It wasn't a blur. I'm not going to say it was a blur, I was very in the moment but, like you actually can't believe, I did that, to be honest.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 3:So yeah, I think at the start I was maybe a little bit resistant. You reckon, Tess?
Speaker 1:We'll go with your journey. I reckon a little bit. What do you think?
Speaker 3:A little bit, and that was just from, not because I was not open to it that's definitely not what it was. I think it was just the judgment thing. But then once I was like no, as soon as you touched me, I lost it. Like that was it. Your touch was like epic.
Speaker 1:Some context. I'm sorry, I'm gonna give some context. So when Nikki and I facilitate breath work, what we do is Nikki is the journey provider. I will say so. Nikki is not explaining what is the word, talking through the breath, guiding everyone through. She's kind of the big voice and the big leader for the breathing and how we're gonna be breathing and supporting the girls through that and creating different pockets so that things will come up and then through touch, consented touch.
Speaker 1:I really wanna be clear on that, which we do. We always ask for consent beforehand. If anyone's not comfortable and some people are not comfortable and that's cool, you don't need to, it's never an issue for that. But through touch we can just start.
Speaker 2:We can offer support and pockets for people to feel how they need to feel, and especially for women, because so much of what I saw yesterday during the breath work journey was women being held and nurtured. That was what the touch came down to. And everyone had a really emotional response from you offering to nurture them like physically nurture them. Cause. How often do we actually get held as women and we're always holding others and how often do we actually allow ourselves to be held?
Speaker 3:I think it's like pretty amazing what you hold within your body, that you have, that you're so disconnected with. I think probably the right word is and you have no idea. And like feeling that and what it actually does to your body in the moment was just insane, like it really was Like.
Speaker 3:My face was like on fire, my hands and feet were tingly, my head was just like oh, I can't even explain the pressure like in your body that you hold every day and you are so disconnected from it and just don't even realize. It's just incredible.
Speaker 1:I think in those breath work journeys as well and I know we discussed this yesterday a lot of the things that you've become really good in your day to day life, of whatever you're feeling if you don't have the space or the need or desire to deal with it, you've been able to push it down, whereas when you're in a breath work situation you're lying on the floor, you're open, like your body use quite supported, you've got someone guiding you through with breathing and as soon as that starts and you get into that rhythm, all of that energy starts shifting through your body and there's very like it's wanting.
Speaker 1:It's almost like you're giving yourself permission for it to come out. Because if you would like feeling like that in everyday life, you could be like you could just separate from it or go and do something else, distract yourself. Or if you were to cry or get upset, apologize for it, which is a big thing that we've been going through this weekend of not apologizing for feeling your emotions or having emotions effectively or taking up space Exactly. And I think in yesterday, with that, with everyone, it was such a sense of taking the space and really running with it rather than holding yourself back, and even when you were saying I'm questioning about the resistance thing, I didn't see resistance in you. I think there was just that automatic autopilot of like oh no, protecting you 100%, that's probably the right word, and then when you, but then when it opened up it shot through you.
Speaker 3:And I think like I have a new respect for just not only myself but like everyone else in that room, for like what we carry every day, like without even knowing, just accepting that it's just crazy that we actually accept that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like that much it just was a reality, how much we accept. And it's like you think, like the energy that you felt in your body and like how toxic that must be, Like, yeah, I need to get it out. That's the truth I can think about. After that, it's like I can feel it now and I'm like it needs to go. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about. It's so amazing and I love that for you because I think it really will be such a like integral, healing, incredible gifts that you can give yourself. How did you feel when you came out of so? The breath was obviously quite intense, so you had a lot of feeling, tingles, those things. You felt like the pressure running through, I think. Were you crying?
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, I was crying and then like even getting up. So when Nick said to, like you know, slowly come out of it. When you're ready, open your eyes, like I just couldn't stop crying. Like walking down the stairs, like I was dizzy, like before I even did, anything. I was lightheaded, like I had to be careful walking down, let me went to the ice baths. Obviously, yeah, just even walking down there, I was just so lightheaded and, like I had, I could just feel like everything in my body was ridiculous.
Speaker 3:And then, yeah, getting into that ice bath, that was just intense for me Like I've done ice baths before, but not spiritually Like I've done them for like you know, recovery, recovery and it was just a totally different experience for me and, honestly, like I didn't think I was gonna be able to do it.
Speaker 3:Like in there I was having a meltdown and, yeah, I did not think I was gonna be able to regulate myself for a bit, just because it, like I got in there and the pressure just went straight to my head, like everything went straight to my head, and I literally felt like the top of my head was just gonna like go into the universe, like into the sky, and just pop off.
Speaker 3:It was so intense and I think, literally probably even after it, it took me like a couple hours to like I had a migraine after it and it took me a couple hours to like bring myself back to center and actually regulate myself. But and yet, even now, I still don't feel I feel different. I feel different and I think it's just because I know what's there now and yeah, it's just. Yeah, as I said, it's life changing and you guys like being able to create that space to do that and like this whole weekend was just it's a credit to you guys, because it's something that I just wouldn't have been able to do with anyone else and be like. So I just seriously lent into it so much and didn't didn't hold back anywhere.
Speaker 2:So yeah I appreciate that, lois, but I want to remind you guys as well, like as much as we've held the space, you can bring any life-changing content to anyone and you can stand in front of one person who's really open to it and one person who's so resistant and it will never land for one and it will be transformative for other people. So this space has truly been created this weekend because you guys are open to it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I think it has because of the people around us, like you guys, and not only like Tess and Nick, but like the girls, like I think. Literally it was like such a perfect setting and the perfect company to do it with. I agree.
Speaker 1:I think it's really really beautiful, the company being the humans, not the Conta-Salon. I agree with that too. Yeah, missy.
Speaker 3:We've got the therapy dog here.
Speaker 1:She's been wonderful. A couple of farts the first day, though.
Speaker 1:That wasn't ideal but, we've got that under control. I really appreciate you sharing that, lois, because I think with it this weekend and I know we've spent the last couple of weeks like, oh, the weekend, the weekend, the weekend like retreat is going to be amazing, it's going to be amazing. But I really saw you push through, so like it was such a new world for you and I think, as much as I absolutely believe you, with the it's changed like life changing for you. But I think potentially this is the first time in your life that you are going to really take care of you first.
Speaker 3:Yeah, 100%, yeah, definitely. I think it's literally changed my life for sure.
Speaker 1:I'm so grateful and proud and it was truly such a privilege to watch all that. It was obviously, I know everyone was sitting with you, with you. Know, when you were going through it was big, it was huge and that response from your body was massive. Yeah, but I think, with that, the fact that I'm so grateful that happened and that that situation has happened for you, not to you Because I can see such a shift in you and even though we've still got so much that we're going to be working on and changing and doing you're so it almost seems like you're excited for it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:Which I don't think you would have said.
Speaker 3:I think I nearly got a Nika heart attack yesterday, but you got my heart racing a little bit. Yeah, I do, I was just like I've. It was intense.
Speaker 2:Facilitated so many icepiles and I was like I've not seen someone. You seemed almost disoriented towards the end and I was like we are quite in a remote area. Where would a hospital be? And if you did say last night people leave my ice baths.
Speaker 1:Happy, I'm not this off into bed and with the hair, with the migra, I think with anyone else, I would have been like oh yeah, they're going to be totally fine. But because laws has always like.
Speaker 2:Something that we've really encouraged you to lean into is vulnerability. So when you were saying, yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, I thought I'm not sure if you're actually fine. So you did give me a little bit of a heart race. But as soon as when I did climb into your bed later on, I did say to myself I have a bit of a chat. I did say to myself is this too much Me helping?
Speaker 2:in the bed. It was really beautiful to see the shift. It was beautiful and Tess kept saying to me Tess is always trust in the universe. It's just energy coming out of our body.
Speaker 3:It's just energy. Everyone gets out of the ice baths happy and truly. It wasn't that I wasn't happy, it was just so fucking intense. The energy is like I can't explain it. Like I can't explain it. It was like so healing and so like it was fucking intense that's the only word I have. It was crazy. I've never experienced anything like that, Like worse than childbirth. Childbirth was easy compared to the end of yesterday.
Speaker 2:We would like people to come to our future at trade sites.
Speaker 3:In a good way, like mentally.
Speaker 2:Every time you do an ice bath it's different. It's a different experience. So sometimes I've done it and I've been like piece of cake. Sometimes I hop in and it's so challenging. Different things will come that move through you in something intense like that in an ice bath.
Speaker 2:So the fact that you've done them before and you haven't had those big shifts but for you yesterday it was, you know we really encouraged the girls and invited them to declare that they were hopping into the ice bath as their actual self and they were stepping out as their ideal self and you literally did that and you were also first. So it really set the tone for everyone else, but it was so beautiful.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it was just it wasn't just the ice baths Like I think it was literally the breathwork beforehand and like, yeah, as I said, I've got so much energy that it needs to be moved and I think it was just such an eye opener to just realize how much work I have to do. And, yeah, instead of being scared by it, I'm like no, I'm just going to be excited by it and just and just go with it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that was cool. Chelsea, I'd love to hear a little bit about your experience with the breathwork and the ice baths and what came up for you.
Speaker 4:It was very beautiful. My experience during the journey of the breathwork was just how much I love myself. That's probably what was coming up for me. I was even giving myself a little cuddle. I could feel the energy like shifting through my like whole chest cavity. So I, and again, like Tess, your consented touch. Thank you, no, it was so it was.
Speaker 1:so I cleared that up.
Speaker 4:I just said, legally I'm absolutely going to make sure that I'm not going to get done with this. No, it was just really grounding.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 4:I felt again like I could be really vulnerable. And yeah, like that, I just really loved that moment where I had my hands on my chest. I was really trying to like help myself and you just like held space for me. And when you put your hand on my chest and I put my hand on top of yours, yeah, we did a little hand pulse it was so beautiful.
Speaker 1:That energy was really beautiful. I'm glad that you felt that too. Because after me I was like oh, this is like a moment I'll remember forever. Yeah, it was just really like grounding it's electric.
Speaker 4:It was super electric, yeah, beautiful. So, yeah, I really loved how much I felt connected to myself, yeah, and then going into the ice baths to you know just that worthiness and bringing that into my life. It was, you know, and I was connecting so much to I'm going to cry.
Speaker 4:Yeah good, but just so much to the environment and this, like just I was looking at all the beautiful trees and I could just it just felt really. I felt really grounded and I was like I am so ready to stop saying I'm going to do she did not do it and I'm going to fucking do it. I was just so ready Because it's so peaceful it was just so.
Speaker 1:I don't know you were. I agree with the peaceful, you were super. You looked pretty much like roots down and cemented into the earth. But I was looking at your eyes were like you've got beautiful blue eyes, but they were really like glowingly blue. Like glowingly blue and it wasn't because you had tear streaming, but the way that you were just connecting to your trees, because Jazzy's a tree girl and yeah, and I could just see you like. I was like, oh, she could be here for an hour.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I, just I was the and the tears were just like pure gratefulness, like I could feel that, yeah, that tear streaming is so beautiful. Yeah, I was just like I just love my life, Like I just felt so grateful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and what that looks like. Guys, to paint you a bit of a sexy picture. She's obviously in like we've got an incredibly beautiful space here. Will we plug the house?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've got this beautiful. The reason that we chose the house was because of the view, and they've got a room that is floor to ceiling windows and this incredible view, exceptionally private house. So we really wanted to and we came down here for our Christmas party. We wanted to see how the land felt and the sacredness of it and the privacy and the safeness and it really tickled all of those it really does.
Speaker 1:But the view outside is, yeah, it's just trees, trees rolling rolling hills and trees stunning, absolutely beautiful. But I think with that, what that looked like, with you sitting in, it was super calm. When you have tears streaming a lot of time, I think when you hear tears streaming, a lot of people think you're going to be like. It doesn't look like that it's quiet and it's peaceful and serene.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But just these beautiful, I could say the beautiful grateful tears that were just and so connected. It was so beautiful.
Speaker 4:And I feel like when I was looking at I was just sort of like I was. You know that blurry, nothing else is around. Yeah, it was so peaceful and beautiful.
Speaker 2:That stems perfectly into the way we wrap every episode, which we end every episode in gratitude for you guys. If you've ever listened to an episode of the conscious salon podcast, jazzy, in this moment I'd love to know what are you grateful for.
Speaker 4:I feel like I'm so incredibly grateful for you guys and I'm going to cry. Oh my goodness Just how and I said this yesterday, but I just you know, I feel like I want to scream from the rooftop Just how grounded and relatable and special you guys are and just how much you genuinely want to fucking change the world. Like it's so genuine and it's so heartfelt and I just I've never, I've never actually met two people like you guys and like loved you straight away, like I loved you.
Speaker 1:We did, straight away, we did.
Speaker 4:And I just like it's just because you are just the essence of fucking gratitude and life Like you just put, so you've and you've like given that to me. You've given me so much like life, like I feel, like so inspired. So, thank you, I'm so grateful to both of you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, someone's cutting onions. I'm going to break into that.
Speaker 1:That's so beautiful.
Speaker 2:Thank you Jess. Thank you Jess.
Speaker 3:Fuck, do I top that Literally? That's exactly how I feel he nailed that. Jazz, like I totally agree, you guys are you. My gratitude would have to be not only you two, but also jazz, kayla, carla and Lou as well, because, like, just what the space you guys held for not only me but each other was like incredible this weekend and I think, yeah, it's something that I don't get to be surrounded by people like that very often. So I think I'm so grateful that I got to spend three whole days and just embracing that. It was just insane.
Speaker 2:That's beautiful. Well, you do spend that. That's how you spend your new life, so that's great.
Speaker 3:I feel like we just made friendships this weekend that are just like unbreakable, which is like pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Fucking beautiful, it's beautiful. Thank you, lossy Tess.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I'm straight in my feels now. I really want to acknowledge like what I know we've all got a friendship and I know, oh God, I'm actually like a ribbon now. It means a lot that, like, I think this work and what we like as I've said to you guys the other night and we've shared privately this for this work is so much like a purpose for me and getting the opportunity to work with you know, I think let me try and like get this word out straight I'm so grateful for you sharing that and I feel like you really see the intention and I know, lauren, that you do as well, and I know that you know our crew was so fucking fortunate and, again, as it comes down to the alignment and that like way that it works because it doesn't work with everyone, I feel so I had a vision of what I wanted this to look like and how I wanted people to feel, and it's just far exceeded it, I think the way that everyone has shown up and also like a massive shout out to Lou and Carla, who also, just like there was no one that was holding back. That might have been pockets of fear or protection or those things popping up, but the depth that came out of this weekend and the vulnerability and the authenticity and just all the things that everyone was wanting, I just feel so fucking grateful, so like truly grateful, that all of you have left. You know, everyone's got littles in this world as well there's, you know. I think that is not lost to me, because I know how difficult it is to be away from your families and your partners and your worlds. I'm so grateful for that, so grateful that the four of you have taken the time and really put yourself first to show up better in this world, and I know that the world will be better from it. I'm super grateful to Mum as well, who you know has really again gone above and beyond. I'm so grateful for the work that you do. I'm so fucking grateful. Grateful is all I have.
Speaker 1:I there was nothing that I can think like. No, I wish I had more of this. Right now. I'm leaving here a better human because of the humans that have been in this room, in this house, in this life with me for the last three days, and I feel that I've learned and grown and evolved and I just am so thankful that. What a fucking privilege, what a fucking honor it is to be able to experience and to be a part of this, like actually getting to do some good. I just oh yeah, as you can hear, I'm a gratitude slut today. I am full of it and I don't want to lose it. I'm gonna harness it and I'm gonna have this as a deathbed moment for me. This will be something that I will remember for the rest of my life. So I'm so thankful to you, jazzy, to you Lossy, carla Lou, al Missy, nikki, yona the chef.
Speaker 2:The whole year we had our private chef come. Last night, our private chef, we're claiming him. I mean, I would love to claim him. We've got the limo guy with the private chef. You've got to have a list of these people. This is next level.
Speaker 1:Vicky and Tess yeah, exactly, but yeah, I just feel an incredible sense of gratitude and I think I will be writing this gratitude for a really, really long time. So, thank you guys. I love you all so much and I'm so fucking thankful.
Speaker 2:It's wa Hard act to follow. I was so emotional driving down here because I was so grateful for the privilege of holding space for women, because I think there's just anytime women sit in circle, magical things happen and I was really emotional driving down here like just thinking, wow, I can't believe that we have the privilege of doing this and this work, and also the fact that everyone's taken time out of their lives is pretty huge. Like everyone here has young kids, and that was really enormous. But the thing that really stands out for me this weekend is I just sit in gratitude for women choosing themselves, for women who chose, for you guys.
Speaker 2:You chose you this weekend and it's all well and good to have the idea of going to different containers and things like that, but actually showing up with strangers, being vulnerable, but, first and foremost, choosing you. We do that so rarely as women and you've set the tone and you guys have declared that you now choose yourselves and you're available for nothing less, and I know what the impact of that is. So that's where my gratitude sits, because I know the effect of that the effect that it has on us, first and foremost, but then the people around us, our kids, our teams, our partners, our relationships, even the greater environment that we surround ourselves in. Just from declaring that we choose ourselves, it's fucking beautiful. So that's what I sit in gratitude with. I feel like four people are walking away even just with the self-trust to know that they come first. Can't ask for much more than that.
Speaker 1:We'll end it right there. That's absolutely perfect ending finish. I feel like we need to have a cannon or like a.
Speaker 2:Some fireworks going off Leah. Can we insert some fireworks now, please?
Speaker 4:Thank you so much, Leah.
Speaker 2:For listening and joining us on this beautiful two-part episode of the Conscious Salon podcast.
Speaker 1:Love you guys. Stay conch.
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