The Mystery of The Unknown

In this episode, I open up about the journey of trusting my path and embracing the unknown. I share personal stories of life changes, the importance of allowing things to unfold naturally, and how transformation is an integral part of my spiritual journey. I explore how embracing uncertainty can lead to personal growth and authenticity.

Topics discussed:

• The importance of trusting your passions without a rigid five-year plan
• How uncertainty creates new possibilities and opportunities
• How my college journey in Northern California led me to living on Maui
• How breakthrough relationships can catalyze spiritual growth
• The significance of surrendering to life’s flow and trusting the process
• Insights from astrological elements highlighting transformation and relationship energy

This episode was produced by Six-Two Studio

Mariama 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, Mariama places focus on healthy activations that welcome more balance and joy.

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Transcript

Mariama (00:02.158) 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, Mariama, here to help you recenter life on your passions and purpose.

so you can feel good inside because you deserve it.

Mariama (00:42.734) Sitting in my studio apartment on Maui, I was having a conversation with my little brother. He was sitting on the, at the time, air mattress for guests slash sofa. I was sitting on my bed and we were across from each other. We were talking about life.

We were just starting to go down this road, really diving deep into our visions and our plans for life. And I shared with him that I don't necessarily know what's next. I don't necessarily always have a vision that is, this is going to happen in the next year. This is going to happen in the next five years. And I really do believe

that when we try to plan everything in our lives, it's the thing that keeps us small. I've realized that it is a spiritual practice to trust your path, even when you can't see the destination. It's a spiritual path that I've been on probably my entire life. And I've also realized that uncertainty is what

creates more possibilities. It's not that false sense of security that you get from having a five-year plan. And I'm sure if you've ever been through an interview process, someone somewhere asked you, what's your five-year plan? What's your vision? Which, by the way, is a question that I despise. I think it's pointless and ridiculous. And especially when you're interviewing for a job,

What they're trying to get from you is that you want to stay there for five years and have a long storied career. The reality is who really does know what's going to happen in five years? And as I was talking to my brother, I shared with him, yeah, I have a sense of my future. I have always felt and believed that I'm going to be okay and that I am going to have and have a good life.

Mariama (03:11.53) I know practically that I am resourceful and well-resourced to do what I need to do. However, I still don't necessarily know what's next. And I have felt this way, have existed this way since at least college, if not before, to be honest. I remember leaving my...

college to move junior year. I think about the fact that I got a job, moved to Washington, because someone reached out and recruited me very randomly, where we bought a house and my gifts unfolded, a house that we never thought we could afford because we lived in the Bay Area at the time, the Bay Area at the time, to

literally having the out of the blue opportunity to live on Maui and have a place to stay. And that I do truly believe is because I have allowed the unfolding and the journey to unfold. And, you know, I'm going to take it back. I'm going take it back to college. When I left St. Mary's, I was a junior.

And for those of you who don't know, it's not just any old St. Mary's. This is St. Mary's of California, okay? Anyway, I was a junior. These are the years that you're like preparing for graduation. And I just had this itch, this feeling all of sudden that I was so tired of going to a small school where everyone knew who I was. And I don't know if it's because I went to

Procureal school aka Catholic school my whole entire you know grammar school years or if it's because I've lived in a small town in Northern, California and Went to a public high school where it was still small enough for people knew who you were I Don't know what it was right because then I go to a college that's still small and you know if you aren't known at that college

Mariama (05:28.064) It was always sort of said, no one knows who you are at that college, because you're probably a transfer student or a master's student. And even the transfer students get known in some way. So I just was tired of feeling like everyone knew me and knew who I was and what I was about. I decided I want to experience something different. I want to move to San Diego. My friends, my dearest friends, thought I was

literally losing my mind. They thought I was crazy. Why would you want to leave junior year when we're about to graduate? And I knew they didn't understand, but I just had this pull, this call to move. And I'll never forget I had a seminar teacher who was a visiting professor. What do they call that? An associate professor? I don't know. He was a visiting professor. And somehow or another it came up during class.

that I wanted to do this. And he just looked at me and he said, but it's your life. You can do this. If this is something you really want to do, you can do this. And people aren't going to understand, and that's OK. And it just felt good to have this person who was an adult understand my need to have a different experience. And I remember telling my mom, and my mom was like, OK, kiddo. First of my mom never called me kiddo.

Okay, good. If you're gonna do this, no problem. I'm gonna support you. That's one thing I can say. I've been very blessed to have a parent or parents who supported me on my journey, whatever that looked like. And I know that that is not the case for everyone. But I still, I put this to the fact that my mom always had a saying, you why have an ordinary life when you could have an extraordinary life? And I do believe that that has been a...

foundational point, a freedom point in the way that I am living my life and the way that I have lived life. It doesn't mean that my mom has never been worried or doesn't think that I make decisions that she may not make or agree with, but it is something that has been reinforced since childhood. I believe that it also affects the work that I do with the people that I work with. So she says,

Mariama (07:55.16) Hey, if you're gonna leave, just take a leave of absence because you might wanna come back. So I said, sure, that's a great idea. I'll just take a leave of absence. So I left St. Mary's, I moved to San Diego with one of my friends from grade school and we live in an apartment far out in El Cajon, if anyone ever knows San Diego. El Cajon is technically where San Diego State is located. We move all the way out to El Cajon. We live in the...

little cute apartment and we're broke. We have no money. We have no food most of the time. Our landlord invites us over for dinner and feeds us pretty regularly. Thank goodness her husband did not like leftovers. And our friends who worked at the bar let us go and raid their tip jar so that we could go buy like hot dogs from Winchell's. Random but true.

And I get to go to school and because I transferred from a private college to a public college, San Diego State, I actually had to go for one semester to junior college and then transfer over to the four year. So things go great at the transfer. Then I go to San Diego State. Okay. Super duper. I get my experience as I desire. I am literally a blip. A nothing.

Needless to say, I managed to get a C, a D, and an F in all of my coursework. And after that semester, I thought, well, hell, this is definitely not what I want. And I would like to actually graduate from college. So I decided, you know what, I'm going go back to St. Mary's. Now, what happened? Literally all of my friends that I started college with graduated. And I was technically now a year behind.

But in this moment, in this instant of me being behind and shifting, I ended up living off campus. And through living off campus, I met my dear best friend, my soulmate best friend, who happened to be from Maui. And it shifted my life. It is partly why I get to be here in this moment now, talking to you from Maui. And I don't know. I don't know if

Mariama (10:21.676) Life would have been different if I would have met my friend Shona, who would have led me to meeting my friend Heather. I don't know. I can't say. But I can say that I would have never in my life imagined that that could have happened. And it was because I allowed for the unfolding and the trusting.

of the destination that I didn't know even existed. And I do also know and have realized that I do have a pattern of major life changes that seem to come completely out of nowhere. And I do also realize that these shifts and patterns, or I should say these shifts and changes are what have made me who I am today, what have given me the...

the pieces that I've needed to be who I am, which probably sounds really out there and wild, but I do really believe that it's necessary to have these experiences. And I want to tell you, truthfully, sometimes I still feel like there's something wrong with me because I don't always have a clear vision for what is next. I don't always know that the next step is

I don't want to the right step because I don't believe there's a right or wrong step. I'll say the step that might be the path of least resistance. But I do know and I am confident that my life will always be comfortable. My life will always feel blessed. And even though I don't know what's next, I know that I'm going to be okay.

And then this isn't about like bypassing, because I do want to really be clear, like this isn't about bypassing life. This is about actually surrendering to the flow of what life wants to give us without fear and leaning into the fact that that truly is a spiritual practice. It is a practice. It is a blessing to have a vision for our lives.

Mariama (12:46.71) and hold it so loosely that we can allow for it to unfold. The thing that I think is really, really interesting, and as you know, I'm so into freaking Matrix of Destiny these days, when I look at my chart, the one thing that I learned about it that is interesting to me, might be interesting to you, is how my chart revealed that

transformation is a part of who I am. It's literally my extrinsic identity. It is literally how the world sees me. It's how you see me as someone who is always transforming, always changing. And I think that the more I even know this about myself and see this about myself, the more that I can also feel, I'm gonna say embodied and clear in the way that I move through the world. And you might find that

You are a person who moves with the world in the same way, right? Like that you don't have a five-year vision or that you have always wanted to let go and not have this clear vision and allow the unfolding, allow for the transformation and the changes. I want this to be the invitation to welcome that in. The other thing that is in my chart that I think is interesting is in my relationship sector. So this is...

not only like soulmate love, and when we say soulmate, I'm not talking like cheesy, it's my soulmate. I mean, like soulmate friends, like the friend I mentioned before, Heather, this is, and by the way, I have more than one soulmate friend, I just wanna be clear. Soulmate friends, this could be love relationships, this could be business partnerships when it's in this relationship sector. And for me,

It is 16 energy, which is breakthrough change. It's the lightning strike that clears the path. So when I think about this, I actually feel really emotional right now having this moment. When I think about this, like meeting my friend Heather, I'm really trying to control this emotion that's flowing here right now. But when I met my friend Heather and meeting my friend Heather, that was literally a breakthrough. That was literally a lightning strike path. That was...

Mariama (15:08.49) a friendship that was dramatically, positively changing my life. But that's like a big one. I'm realizing that's like a big example. There are others, and I know that for me, 16 Energy is being in relationship with those who can be a catalyst for spiritual growth, those who are comfortable with

change and flow. And as I'm thinking about this, as I'm wrapping it up for today, what I really want to invite us all to remember or remind you to remember is that embracing the uncertainty is a superpower. It's not a constriction. And it is part of being a visionary leader.

And I believe that if you're listening to this podcast, you are a visionary leader in some form or fashion of your life. You may not see it, you may not believe it, but I just don't believe that anyone listening to this is not. So how do we embrace, how do you embrace uncertainty? How do you lean into it?

Mariama (16:33.102) For the leader who's frustrated with five-year plans, who's ready to trust their intuitive navigation system, I can help you. I can help you connect to your intuition to feel safe and uncertainty. I invite you to book a 30-minute illumination call where we can sharpen that tool. Book yours in the show notes today.