Embracing Life's Twists

Life threw me some curveballs this season, but I caught them with open arms. Join me to kickoff the fifth season of Life Activated for an unfiltered journey through my post-corporate world adventures, burnout recovery, and the unexpected twists that have reshaped my current phase of life.

It's not just about the hustle; it's about the heart! And as I’ve discovered, sometimes the heart needs to rest. Strap in for an intimate series of conversations and personal reflections that aim to energize and enrich your life.

In this episode, I share:

• the importance of taking a step back to recharge

• how to embrace the slow yet rewarding path of building a business

• the art of patience and how to listen to life's rhythms

• navigating the glossy veneer of social media success

• what it means to live Life Activated

This episode was produced by: Six-Two Studio

Mari Roberts is an Energy Healer, Psychic Guide, and Lifestyle Mentor with over 15 years of experience in the corporate and non-profit world. She helps high-achieving women rise above the grind, find deeper meaning, and live into their most fulfilling life possible. Through energy healing, coaching and private mentorship, Mari places focus on healthy activations that welcome more balance and joy.

Resources:
Life Activated Course
Radiant Life Program
Community Energy Healing

Find Mari:
Website - marirobertslife.com
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Linked In - @mariroberts

Transcript

Mari Host 00:02

You deserve to have the life that you desire. Your passions are a part of you for a reason, and when you don't follow your passions or listen to your call, things can get rough. You don't have to take some massive, intimidating leap. One small step each day leads to lasting change. So let's get started by accepting our passions are here in the first place, because this is Life Activated. I'm your host and guide, Mari, here to help you recenter life on your passions and purpose, so you can feel good inside, because you deserve it.

00:45

Welcome to season five of the Life Activated podcast, season five. Oh my gosh, I say that and I just can't believe it. I'm so happy to be here with you. This is going to be a really lovely season, in my humble opinion, and this first episode is going to be the get up to date episode, the updates for you episode. Shall we just dive right in. So, first and foremost, what I wanted to share with you is my original plan for this season, which I talked about alone at the end of last season, was to do a solo season. That's not going to happen. I'm just telling you now. I had to realize that I needed to get myself some space and some time to really kind of move through burnout and in that I realized that I didn't have the energy to record solo episodes. So this season is going to be a mix again really fantastic, wonderful interviews with women that I hope you will be inspired by, and some more me talking to you, sharing with you, and we'll see what the next season brings. But I reserve the right to follow the energy, to listen to what feels right, and that's where we are now. There's other updates to share with you and I want to take it back to August.

02:32

So August I left corporate. I discovered that I was burned out. I did not realize I was burned out. I really didn't do much with my business. I just kept to my clients that were my clients and I gave myself truly space to rest. One of the most frustrating things I want to share with you is that every single time I would connect with my guides or pull cards to ask what's next, what I need to do, what am I focusing on right now? I kept getting rest, rest, rest. It's highly annoying when you've left corporate and you're going all in on your business and you really want to focus on what brings you joy and what is fun for you, which is what I do for me. It's amazingly fun for me to be able to do readings and to do energy healing and to coach and support my clients, and I want to do more and more of that. So to keep getting the message to rest was highly frustrating, so I just want to share that with you. But it also means if I listen and I don't push, that's good.

03:50

Something that I know to be true for me is, with my design whether it's human design, gene keys, whether I get an astrologer reading you name it connecting with the Cauchic you friggin' name it the one thing that constantly comes up for me is patience. I don't have any patience and one of the biggest things to learn is patience, and that is not only in business but in life and if I'm being really honest, I truly believe in life. I have been very patient. The energy and aspect and learning of a business has been completely different, and I also know that when I talk to other people or there are people who might be looking in from the outside, the perception is that I'm killing it. Things are amazing and, honestly, things are slow as molasses and in the same breath, when I stop and reflect and look back. I'm kind of baller. I've done a lot. I've impacted a number of people in their lives, but I've also done a lot at my business, even when I was working a full-time job. We get a little, dare I say, jaded by social media and what people portray to be success and realizing that success looks different and monetarily it doesn't always mean that you're successful, if that makes any sense. Anyway, that's a rant and an update on where things are, I guess, with the business and how I'm feeling. I took a rest not only from the business but from the podcasts. I am back All of a sudden.

05:47

In October is when I first started to feel that energy kind of bubbling up within me, that I was ready to do things, and that means not just in business but even with the podcast. I'd say that energy that was bubbling up to do new things is also what has been changing here in my life, even with the podcast. Right, hopefully you notice the new music, the new intro, the new little cover art. That's how I'm feeling in life. I just need a new energy in the areas of life and the business, as well as the podcast. You're seeing that. Hopefully you're feeling the energy shift and something that I'm kind of a little realizing a little of the place, but I'm just lying what wants to come through, to come through.

06:43

One of the things that came up with this sense and need for new energy was even like these fractal changes that we can make in our lives that help to shift and move energy. One of those things for me was also changing my part. I know crazy. I always parted my hair on the left and I started parting my hair on the right. I don't even remember when. I want to say I probably started doing it in September, october. Again back to that October energy thing starting to just shift and change. And this part on the right-hand side of my body is not what I normally would do because personally I think my better side is my left side, hence why I part on the left side. So parting my hair on the right side is also this like I'm willing to shift energy in small ways and big ways. The podcast, music, the podcast to me those are big ways of making shifts. Hair, small ways of making shifts. So I share this with you because if you're feeling like you're ready for an energy shift or things are bubbling in your life and you want to, or not bubbling in your life even, and you're wanting to encourage movement, try doing little shifts, like parting your hair on the other side of your head or maybe wearing a new color lipstick or doing something like that.

08:28

Anywho, back to updates and where I'm going with this. So, in addition to these, this needed new energy, this shift in what's happening in life, I realize that I'm also going through, I would say, multiple tower moments. You know, leaving corporate that's a tower moment Going all in on your business, kind of a tower moment. I have another tower moment that's pretty big that I'm gonna share with you and, to be honest, not a lot of people know. And the people that know, I'd say, are who am I? My family knows and, to be like I said, to be honest, not all of my friends even know what I'm about to tell you. Some of them are gonna listen to this podcast and they're gonna be like what? The absolute F? Why did you not say anything? Or tell us, or tell me whatever? And I'm gonna get to the update whole time, but the reality is I don't have the energy to tell everyone, one by one, what's changing. So, the other tower moment in my life update that I wanna share with you is that John and I are separating. We are going to be getting divorced and there's nothing heated I should say there's nothing heated in that it has been, I think, just in the making over time.

10:11

Over years, we were in counseling together and even on our last session with our therapist, I literally said to her is this what conscious uncoupling is? And, honestly, pork when, pork, when she got a lot of shit for that. Sometimes I wonder if she has got the freak to genius in her, which is a channel on human design. I've got the same channel. Sometimes it's if you say things too early, they may not be received well, and I'm not saying that very beautifully or articulately, but essentially is you may be ahead of your time saying things, having concepts and ideas, and maybe people aren't ready to receive it, and or you were not invited to share that information, or asked, not asked. I wanna say you weren't invited and then people don't receive it.

11:08

Well, but I know she was onto something because truly, john and I separating is there's no, there's nothing, there's no bitterness, there's truly just kindness, friendship, loving, and we're moving through this process in our own way and I actually want to do a full podcast about this and I have some other people that I know in my life who are also in their tower tower moments and separating from their partners, and they are also having separations that are kind and cordial and they are still friends and caring for each other, and I feel like there's a really important conversation to be had around this, because I think everyone thinks that when you are getting divorced, that things are really shitty, something's really bad, and or that there was infidelity or someone is an alcoholic or stealing money, you name it. And now it's time for another video, thank you. I believe we're in a period of time where you can move through change in a relationship and realize that it's time to move on and still be kind and loving and friends. So I'm going to talk about that more. I think and that's another update for you Lots of change happening.

12:51

What does this mean? I don't even friggin know. My mom asks what are you going to do next? I don't know. I literally don't know, tower moment galore. I don't know. We will move on and I will figure it out, and I am not worried about it. I'm trusting that everything is going to fall into place, which is kind of wild, but I also have to trust and trust in myself, trust in the process, trust in the universe. God, whatever you want to say, have to trust. So I am. Any other updates I want to share with you? Oh my God, yes, there are other updates I forgot. So back to the business and back to October.

13:38

So not only did I feel like there's this new energy that's coming within the business and there is new change, I think I want to say that I just didn't see possibilities in corporate and how I could bring my work into corporate, and in October, the light switched. So I am now not only offering my one-on-one work with my clients, but I am also taking all of my knowledge and skills I have over 15 years of human resources experience and learning and development experience and looking to bring it into corporate through unique experiences and workshops that are going to help teams and leaders one, be authentically who they are and two, to shift culture, because lots of spaces that needs to change in corporate and I want to help bring that through. So first of all, this is a shout out to any of my friends who are listening that are in corporate. If you are a leader who wants to do something different, who wants to have unique experiences and workshops, reach out to me. Let's talk about what we can do. And also I'm just putting it all out there here I want to help senior women who are like CEO, exec status with being truly badass women who are trusting their intuition and who are leading from a different and through a different way not the hustle way and I want to really connect them to their intuition. So, yeah, I'm just going forward. I'm telling you I want to do what I want to do. I want to bring in my psychic gifts, do readings for them, do healing and really help them up level and that sounds so cheesy when I say up level, but you know what I mean. All right, I think those are all the big updates.

15:51

I am getting divorced, I am moving into offering corporate and I am following my feelings and my, my energy in terms of how we're going to be sharing the podcast this season. And I started parting my hair on the other side. I kind of went from the big to the little, but I mixed it all up earlier. What I want to share with you and invite you to consider is where are you feeling the need to have shifts energetic shifts in your life? And I want to invite you to take a little step. One little fractal change might awaken and spark more movement in your life. So what are you wanting to see shift? And maybe don't even ask what you're wanting to see shift. Just be open to what might shift by making one little change. If today's episode resonated with you, share your thoughts and feelings in any review section To let me know where you're at on your journey. Send in you big love to bring those passions to life because, remember, you deserve it.

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