She Quit Her 9 to 5 Job Then Everything Shifted

We are here to wake each other up!

In this episode, Rebel CEO, Breeanna Kay, shares how a series of wake-up calls - including a devastating personal loss which forced her to reevaluate everything: her priorities, her work, and how she was showing up in her life.

This isn’t just about quitting your job. It’s about:

• Trusting yourself when nothing feels clear
• Getting out of your own way
• Following your intuition in business and life
• And reconnecting to your purpose

We also dive into soul contracts, human design, alignment, and how to stop feeling stuck so you can finally take action.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Today's episode is your reminder that you are allowed to outgrow the life that you have been tolerating. I sit down with Brianna Kay, the rebel CEO, whose journey from corporate accounting to soul-led entrepreneurship reveals the moment you know it's time to pivot and what happens when you trust yourself enough to take that leap. In this conversation, you're going to learn how to recognize the signs that you're meant for more, how to trust your intuition and listen to it instead of fear, how loss and grief can inspire you instead of ruin you, and how one aligned decision can change your entire trajectory for the better. So if you are ready for a push forward, this episode is it. Let's get into it. Hello, my friend. Welcome to the Brilliance Method. Brianna, hi honey. Hey, thank you so much for having me. Oh gosh, you're so welcome. And it was so fun to be on your show. And now here you are. And like we have so many things in common. There's so much synergy here, but I just really want to get right into it because your story is amazing. And we both have been very inspired by loss in our life. And you were in accounting, and then you became a photographer, a very successful photographer. And now you help women build businesses that feel good. So can you take us back? Because there's a lot of people who are in their accounting job or something similar, hating their life, going, Why am I even here? What am I doing? So what happened?

SPEAKER_03 1:28

I was at my accounting job. I didn't even want the corner office, to be honest. I just wanted this safety and this paycheck and to feel like I'd done something with my life. And I come from a family where neither of my parents went to college. So, like to have this job in a corporate office felt like the end game to me. And I liked the accounting work, actually. I just didn't like the nine to five schedule and the passive aggressive emails and all of that. So the reel that I made earlier today is actually related to my outfit, which if if people are listening on just audio, they won't see it. But like if anyone's watching on video, I have a kind of low-cut shirt on, but it's like cute, right? Gorgeous. So I made a reel saying, dear Megan and HR, um, something about like, remember when you pulled me into the office to tell me my skirt was too short, you'd be appalled at the shirt that I'm wearing for my own podcast episode today. So that was the first, like getting pulled into HR saying, like, you're showing a little bit too much leg was my first wake-up call where I was like, I don't like that they're telling me how I can dress, that I'm not even like being paid enough to like go out and buy a whole new beautiful wardrobe of like work clothes at this point. And it just like really rubbed me the wrong way. And they didn't do anything wrong. Honestly, the skirt was probably like a little bit too short for a corporate office. But I was in my 20s and you know, that's just what happened, and I just couldn't get that out of my head. So that stuck with me and just like rubbed me the wrong way. And then a little bit later, I got this call and they were asking like what time I would be in. And again, like they weren't doing anything wrong, but I just I had this need for like freedom over my day-to-day schedule, the way that I express myself, the way that I dress, like all of that. And it just built up like little by little over time, along with the fact that I'd be going into work before the sun was fully up, and then I would leave work and the sun would have already set in the winter, and then I'd go to the gym, and then I'd go home, go to sleep, and do the same thing all over again. So it was like I was living this cycle to literally just go into the office and work and then work out and then wake up. Like it just it wasn't actually living life, it was living to work, and then that ties back into my astrology because if you know anything about Sagittarius, I'm married to one. Yeah, yeah. And what are Sagittarians known for? Wild child and like freedom, like they're free-spirited, they want freedom, and my Sagittarius is in my sixth house, and my moon is in my sixth house, which is also my chart ruler. So, like, I didn't know anything about astrology at the time besides my sun sign, but it very much tracks with like my day-to-day life, like my daily habits. I need that freedom, I need that expansion, I need to be able to like adventure in roam and sitting in a cubicle from nine to five every day, like wasn't gonna do it for me long term. So I feel like those were the wake-up calls that built up to me being like, I'm gonna burn it all down and pursue something that I already know that I love, which was photography at the time.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Wow. And so for everyone who's not familiar with astrology, tell us about the sixth house.

SPEAKER_03 4:55

Yeah, so the sixth house is like your daily habits, your daily like routines and rituals. Um, it has a lot to do with like health and wellness too. But I feel like for me with the the business here, it was really like my daily what I'm doing Monday through Friday.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Wow. And then with people who want to work with you after hearing this conversation, you do infuse astrology, human design, and soul contracts into your work with your clients now, right?

SPEAKER_03 5:24

Yeah, absolutely. So that's like a huge thing that I felt pulled towards because I heard the spiritual idea of a soul contract, which is the idea that like you choose your birth date, you choose your time, you choose like your family, you choose these experiences to some extent that you go through so that your soul can learn and grow and evolve and help other souls. And I was like, you know what? We we if we pick our birth time, we pick our birth name, like that could very well tie into astrology and numerology, which are all based on that. And then I started looking into those more and more along with human design. And I was like, if you combine all three together and like layer them together, it's a super well-rounded picture of not only your purpose, which is huge to know, and then apply to your business and just like your life in general, but to be able to know like who you are and have that sense of identity and like understanding yourself on a deeper level is like so important, I feel like for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

Yes. One thing that stood out about what you just said is if we have this soul contract and we've chosen this life, we've chosen our birth time, then perhaps we've also chosen when things end, right? Jobs, relationships, even life itself. And if we can lean into that idea and surrender a little bit that the script is written, I mean, it's a it's a really good outline at least, then it can help us to learn from and be inspired by loss. So can you tell us a little bit about your journey with that with your sister?

SPEAKER_03 6:58

Yeah, so my soul contracts actually came up because everybody kept saying after my sister was killed that she probably had a soul contract with me, that like it or with multiple people. But like in my case, people were saying I'm sure she had a soul contract, like it was her time in some way or other. And for me, the like soul contract theme kept coming up with her. And then when I did start looking into all this stuff, I realized like one of my core purposes is literally to connect myself and other people with their like true souls based on the tangible soul contract. And that is so much what my awakening was like after my sister died. I was in photography and in photography, in order to really like build a business, you either have to charge really high rates, like a successful, like six whatever figure business, you have to charge really high rates, or you have to take a lot of work, or you have to have people who work under you. So I was doing kind of a combination of all of them, but that meant that I was working a lot. So you'd work like every weekend, at least one wedding every weekend, spring through fall in this area. And then you have all of the back end editing to do. You have engagement shoots during the week. And I don't think a lot of people realize how much work that actually is, but that meant that a lot of the time I was like working until late at night or like ignoring my boyfriend at the time, who's now my husband, and skipping plans with friends and family just so that I could stay in my editing cave. So the huge wake-up call for me was that the night before my sister was killed, so she was a victim of domestic violence by her ex-boyfriend, she called me and she's like, Hey, I want to bring you your birthday present still. And I was like, I'm in like an editing cave. I don't really know if I have time. And just thinking that I could have missed that like last chance to see my sister, she came over anyway, even though I told her I didn't have time. And I was like, I I literally told my boyfriend, I hope she doesn't stay very long. And because I wanted to get back to editing. So then she came, she stayed, and like made herself at home and we had the best conversation. It lasted forever. And I can't imagine not having that like that final interaction with her because it gave me a lot of closure on the other side, but it was a wake-up call to like how messed up my priorities in that very moment were.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

Wow. Thank you for sharing that. You know, it sounds like you guys were really close, and I'm so sorry that she lost her life that way. And, you know, even when we do know there's soul contracts or if we believe the script is written, it it's still fucked up. It's still not fair, it's still sad and awful. And there's an aftermath. Interestingly enough, my I can relate a little bit on the on a slightly different level, but I'm so happy to hear your story, Bree, that she came over, that she came over anyway, and that you you stopped and you spent some time with her. My mom, I've told this story on the show a bunch of times, so I'll keep it short. But she had told me when she was in her mid-30s that she wasn't gonna live to be 50. She was very intuitive and she just knew. And I remember freaking out that day. I was like 10 years old. I was like, why would you say that to your daughter? That's such a sad, horrible thing. And like I freaked out, and I kind of like kind of grieved it then. She just knew, like, she was able to tap into that soul contract. She's like, I just wanna, I'm telling you to prepare you. Like, I'm not gonna be here very long. It's like, what? And then when she was 37, she was hit by a car and killed. Oh my gosh on accident. Yeah. And her and I got in a fight that night, and we did not have a nice conversation, and I didn't have a nice goodbye, and I didn't spend time with her. And that haunted me for a long time. But I was 12, and so for me it was different, and it wasn't about what were my priorities, even though when I reflect on it, I could have been kinder, I could have been more open, I could have been more loving. Definitely affected my life in a big, big way for a long time. And I've had so many people in my life just be so loving and supportive as I've still unpacked what all of that did and meant and all and everything. So I get it, I get it, Brianna. I get it. So big, and I'm so happy. I'm so relieved your story ended with she came over anyway. Because otherwise it would right. Go ahead. She was very forceful. I love that. I love that. Tell me a little bit more about her. Let's shine a light on her today and reinvent.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

Yeah, she was she was younger than me. So she's seven and or six and a half years younger than me. And she was like very, very bubbly. And I'm like not the most bubbly, to be super honest. So she had this like magnetism that would instantly draw people to her. She also very much didn't care who anybody was, where they came from, like what their background was, what their reputation was like. She loved everybody so unconditionally. And I really do like, it's weird to say that it was her time, but like everything points to like she was here for what she needed to be here for, and she succeeded in doing what she was meant to do. And a lot of that I think was spread love and like joy and not judge people. And it's not that she came and had this like amazing career. She was only 22, so she wasn't even like that far separated, but she didn't come do these like things that got her big rewards or I don't nothing like that. She didn't even graduate high school, she got her GED eventually, but she just like everybody remembers the way that she made them feel and the way that she loved like so wholeheartedly.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Wow, what was her first name?

SPEAKER_03 13:08

Audra.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Audra. I just feel it. I feel her love. It brought tears to my eyes just hearing how much you love her, and like that love is so big, you know? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, I'm gonna pull some cards. Yes. And when I pull cards, it's really for everybody. It's for you, Brie, but it's also for everyone who's listening and watching for them to receive right now, especially while we're tapped into this energy of gosh, just do what matters, be present in your life and with your family and do what you love. And if you feel that desire for freedom, the way that Brianna talked about today. I worked at Keller Williams briefly, not as an agent, but I was like an assistant to all the agents. And I basically became the office therapist. And it was, it was kind of fun. But what I didn't like was having to go to an office. This card already popped out every day, Monday through Friday. And I felt like a bird trapped in a cage, you know. So when you're talking about that accounting job, I get it. And for people who are listening or watching, I have a client I love very much who lives in Florida, Redhead, you know who you are. She feels that way, you know, with her job too, sometimes. And sometimes it's just a means to an end, and sometimes it's a path to purpose. You know, to really go, oh my gosh, I'm doing this because I require stability, or you're really proud of yourself, you know, like what you shared about your family and you have this job, and that's good, that's necessary. There's nothing wrong with it. But yeah, I think the the older we get, two things kind of happen depending on what you do for a living. For most people, your world gets smaller because you've moved or you're focused on your kids or people around you, or they're moving or passing away, you know, your world gets smaller. And then we then we have this whole world of social media that was intended, even the internet intended to connect us. And one of the side effects is it's actually created a lot of isolation because people are spending so much time on it that they're not hanging out in real life. They're hanging out on Instagram or TikTok or wherever. And then, you know, people like you and me and and other people who are building a brand, a personal brand. And we have podcasts and we have clients and we go out and we we speak and we host events. In some ways, our world gets bigger because we're helping lots and lots of people. And our clients, we love them and they can become our friends. But a lot of the people we help are strangers. I don't know a lot of the people who follow my podcast. I want to know you. Leave, please leave a comment and say hi or follow us on Instagram and send us messages. But, you know, there's when you look at like, well, why did Robin Williams take his own life? What, like, what happened to Kurt Cobain? Like, why do these stories happen? You know, there's a lot of, again, it goes back to a feeling of isolation or separation. And I think you'll you have a story of conquering that because you the isolation you were experiencing in being in your with as a photographer, you're out doing weddings, engagements, you're with people. You're with people in like their happiest moments, you know, and so there's a lot of love and joy there. But then you're spending all this time out working or at home working. So your isolation is masked by purpose, you know. And so then to have a wake-up call like that, it's really powerful. I do believe we have soul contracts. We're here to wake each other up and to be more loving and kinder and forgiving to ourselves. So we both set intentions before the call. So one card already popped out, so I'm gonna pull two. So everyone who's listening and watching, just set an intention for yourself. And no matter when it is that you've found this episode, these are the right cards for you to hear today. So this is also for you, Brianna. I pulled the first one. You're super psychic too. So you say now when it's time for me to pull the second one.

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Okay, I'll let you know.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Okay, now okay. So the first card I pulled, so this one is boundaries. Okay. Boundaries. Where do you need to establish better boundaries? And so I see that in two different ways for you and for us. One, good boundaries and going, okay, I need to get shit done. I'm focused, I'm creating. Sometimes saying yes is not entirely kind to ourselves. We have to learn to say no more. And then on the flip side, when we say no to ourselves all the time, that's not the best thing either, right? So just honoring and cherishing those boundaries. Also, having boundaries with yourself and your own drive and your own discipline to then go, it's okay to turn off the computer and put my phone down and just go be with the dogs and the cat and the husband and just be present, right? Have like, I don't know, the like a devoted discipline almost to real life, right? What are your thoughts on that before I read the one you pulled?

SPEAKER_03 18:34

I definitely like that one. I actually, so I feel like in a lot of areas of my life, I don't struggle with boundaries, but I have been struggling lately with boundaries with working on a project that it's like a big project. And you know, when you kind of self-sabotage and you're like, oh, I'm too busy to like actually get around to it ever, that's where I'm at, and I need the boundaries around buckle down and do the big thing that's going to like make a difference instead of keep doing the small things that don't really make as much of a difference. So I definitely feel the need for boundaries there. And then even though what's wild is even though I had this big wake-up call that like my I wasn't actually honoring the things that I value in life in the order that I value them, even though I do think that everything comes in like seasons and um you can't expect to have like the perfect bounce 24-7. It still is hard for me to sign off of the computer. And I think partially that's because I really genuinely do like love what I do and I get so excited about it. But I I think I have this this wound around like I need to work to like to make things happen. Like I need to work really hard to make things happen, I guess is the way that I should say it. And that's something that like I need better boundaries still, even to this day, around not overworking and need to also do some like mindset work around that like wound or that belief.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

For sure. And like how relatable, you know, that's so relatable, especially in the entrepreneurial space. So thank you for being vulnerable and telling the truth around that because we can all relate to that. And I just recently had a conversation with myself around self-worth. And I was like, I don't have a self-worth issue. So my friend Andrea Quinn, who's been on the show, she's an incredible author, empowerment coach, business coach, life coach. She was wrapping up an event and we were all on a Zoom call as kind of like a final call for this event. And she said, she channeled a message that morning that said, Your money has a message for you. Once you know the message, your money problems will resolve themselves. And everyone on the call is like, oh, that message was for me. And I'm thinking clearly me too. I was like, oh, that message was for me. And I was like, What's the message from my money? And then I immediately heard self-worth. You're not valuing yourself. I was like, What? And because one of the things I've helped my clients do is pricing and pricing structure and look at their worth and their value. And I remember a coach I had a long time ago named Patrick Dominguez. He said, Your mess is your message, right? And then, like, oh my gosh. So this thing that you might need to work on is something that you help other people with or you have helped other people with. And I have a lot of clients who deal with we need you can call it imposter syndrome, right? Amanda Palmer calls it the fraud police. Like you just think you're gonna get arrested by this invisible force of adults who are responsible, who know that you're full of shit and you no one gave you authority to do what you do, right? It's so funny. And when people are feeling like they're a little bit of a fraud because they have only been doing this thing for a little while, or they're not totally healed, or they don't have their PhD. The way that I live my life, and I believe, and I feel like you're the same, Bree, is if you're helping somebody up a mountain and you're a step ahead of them, or two steps ahead of them up the mountain, you can help them up the mountain. Mountain. They can, if it's snowing, they could see your footprints and they could match your footprints. You just need to be a little bit ahead of somebody to help them. And now that's not always true when it comes to like solving a big issue or or whatnot. But if anyone out there is feeling like a little bit of an imposter or they don't have enough experience or whatever, it's like, well, are you further ahead than the person you're helping? Okay. Then just show them what you're doing. Yeah, absolutely. Right? Be truthful to say, I don't know if we're gonna make it to the top, but I can show you how to keep going, right? Go ahead. That's what we're gonna say. And then I want to read the second card.

SPEAKER_03 22:40

Yeah. So also along with that, a lot of the time people don't want somebody who's all the way up the mountain when they're just at the beginning because they can't relate to them anymore. The person at the top of the mountain forgets what it's like to be at the beginning. And they they just like can't help them in the way that somebody who's just slightly ahead can because they still remember what it's like. They're not that far separated from the feelings and emotions and like trials that that person at the beginning of the mountain is going through now. I feel like the mountain for that wasn't necessarily like the best analogy for mine. It's more so like business related. Like if you are getting a business mentor who's a million-dollar business owner, but you're literally just starting and haven't even had your first client, there might be a disconnect where somebody who is just a little bit ahead of you, like maybe they have the six-figure business, they can probably help you get to that mark better than somebody who already has the million-dollar business and then you go from there.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Yeah, very well said. It's so true. And I found that the best quote unquote million-dollar coaches out there have success when they have a team of coaches under them who are in the six-figure mark because they're on the ground doing the work, you know, also learning from that millionaire mentor, but they're more relatable, they're trustworthy. They're not this out-of-touch superhero who doesn't remember what it feels like to start your first email sequence or whatever it is. You know what I mean? Yeah. So that's great. Okay, so the card that you said now when I stopped is Sisterhood of the Rose. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, beauty and devotion, priestess, mystic, teacher. So I love that we were talking about your sister and how she put you on this path as the mystic. Yeah. As the teacher, and all this beauty and all this devotion that you bring in your whole world. And I know your photography is as separate and you don't do it as much anymore, and it doesn't merge in, but the way that you see the world, the way that like, like, if you're not watching this, like Brianna's hair is backlit. Like she looks perfect. You look great. Like you like, you see beauty, like you know beauty. Where do you have uh Venus in your astrology chart?

SPEAKER_03 25:02

Third house. So the third house is about communication. It also has to do with siblings, and it's one of the houses that like some of them I'm super familiar with because I have strong placements there and like relate to it a lot. And the third house, I think my only placement is the the Venus in Leo. And Venus is interesting, but I just like I don't know that much about the third house or like relate to it as strongly as other houses.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Yeah, well, I think when that happens, it's because you don't have to, it's just inherently who you are. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, you know, whatever karma is placed there, and whenever we have a um, you know, a symbol or a planet in that house, I look at it as karma. Karma is not necessarily a bad thing, it's just here's where we have lessons and things that we are learning, becoming, unbecoming. So there's something there, you know. So it's interesting that it's it's beauty, it's siblings, it's all that stuff. And we pulled the Sisterhood of the Rose card. So this is the my intuitive hit for you is just you're just gonna keep leaning more and more and more into the mystical, Rihanna. And I think that speaks so true to your brand of being the rebel CEO because that is part of that. You know, a lot of people think, oh, you're a business coach, so you must be all corporate and buttoned up. And it's like, no, that's the did you hear her story? That's the opposite. She's unbuttoned in the prize and rebellious. I love it. Oh my gosh. And then, okay, this third card sticking out on top. Soul family, call in your tribe. You don't have to do it all that.

SPEAKER_03 26:38

I love that. I'm obsessed with like all things like soul family, soul contract, like all of that. I think that it's so interesting.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

It is. And this idea that things are predetermined and predestined, for some people, they find it depressing because they're like, wait, I don't have control. I can't quote unquote manifest. I can't like how much of it is written, how much of it is structured and scripted. And I have some thoughts on that.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

Yeah, I absolutely do. I have thoughts too, but I want to hear yours first.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Mine first? Okay. So I have a couple schools of thought. So one, I have been studying and and practicing. I've been a student of A Course in Miracles since 2007. And in A Course in Miracles, it's said that the script is written, that we don't, our only free will is our perspective, how we choose to see something, that every single thing in our life is already pre-scripted, predetermined. We are just here to react and respond and have an experience. In addition to that, in studying Robert Scheinfeld's work, and he uh he did two episodes on the brilliance method. So if you're interested in this topic, I would dive in and listen. Uh, definitely have a coffee. We go deep, it goes a lot of different directions, and it is so amazing. He believes that we don't have any free will, that even our idea of shifting perception and changing the way we think about something was predetermined. That there's an author, you know, that that author might be your soul or the universe or source energy or God or whatever you, the Holy Spirit, whatever you want to call it. But we're simply here just to have the experience. And again, some people when they do a course in miracles or whatnot, they go through course depression. They're like, wait, I don't have control over anything, then it's all meaningless. It's like, it's actually the opposite. It's so meaningful because you just get to experience life. And the idea is not to judge the good or the bad, it's just to have the experience to love, to grieve, to laugh, to cry, to feel pain and heal and to forgive, forgive, forgive. So that's my philosophy on free will when it comes to that. Now, as far as manifesting, because I love manifesting, I even have a video on the podcast about how to manifest. And I think in our 3D reality, in this dream that we're having, whether some people are like, I'm in 4D, I'm in 5D, cool, I'm there with you. It's all great, we are experiencing this on multiple timelines. All these scripts, there must be an infinite number of scripts written about your life and about my life. So if all the scripts are written, and this gets a little quantum physics-y, so I'll keep it simple. If every version of your life, Brianna, there's a version where you're still an accountant, there's an there's a version where your sister's still alive, there's a version where you're a multimillionaire world-famous photographer traveling around the world doing the Oscars. There's like all these versions of you. If you want to manifest a different experience, now maybe I gave some pretty extreme examples. There might be a version of you that wore a different top today that felt cranky, right? Like, like there's every version of us possible. So let's say you want to manifest something new and wonderful in your life. Let's both make a wish today. What do you make a wish for me?

SPEAKER_03 30:04

Um, hold on. This is a lot of pressure. Let me think. Okay. A wish. Okay, can it be like kind of a selfish, selfish wish? 100%. Make a selfish wish too. I yeah, I feel like I just I want my I'm like ready for my business to like pop off, like majorly pop off. That's what like I would love because I don't know, I'm just like ready to connect with so many more people, and I feel like I I just am not even doing like a quarter of the capacity of what I could as far as like helping other women change their lives. And that's what I've been focusing so much time and attention on lately. So, like, yeah, let's let's pop her off in this wish.

SPEAKER_01 30:52

You're so funny. That is not selfish. You're helping people.

SPEAKER_03 30:56

It's like the most unselfish thing. But on the other side, there's like the abundance and everything, and like the freedom of time, and like I could outsource, like, I don't know, oh, editing my podcast. I hate editing my podcast. I could outsource that. So I feel like like in a way it is, but in a way it's not because my business has a strong purpose tied to it.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

Yes, and you just hired an editor, you just gave somebody a job. There is nothing selfish about kind people having wealth. Yeah. We hire so many people, we give so much, we build incredible lives and experiences for ourselves, our family. Yes, I'm just I'm just I've been shifting that narrative for a minute. So, similarly, my wish is for my podcast to become one of the top 10 podcasts on all the platforms. Yeah. Apple, YouTube, Spotify. And I'm growing my YouTube right now. I'm focusing a lot on YouTube. So if you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, please go over to YouTube, Alicia Sky, and subscribe. So, selfish or not, um, I'm here to help a lot of people. So let's say right now we are on a trajectory where maybe that's not happening yet, right? So we can shift timelines. There's already a timeline where your business is popped, and my podcast is number one. So, yes. Now, does that happen instantly tomorrow? No. But like it, we shift into the trajectory of that. We shift into becoming and what it feels like in the 3D, 4D world, it feels like we're we're all of a sudden becoming the person who's ready to have that abundance and that experience. But what's really happening is we've shifted timelines into the woman who is already on that trajectory because the script is already written. So when I manifest, I'm jumping timelines. I just go to that version of her who feels ready to be there. And on that timeline, if I ever do sink back into fear, doubt, worry, limiting beliefs, self-destruction, I'm just shifting timelines again to a version of me that feels scared. So that's all we're doing. I'll have Ingrid Turner on my podcast soon, who's the one who originally taught me about timeline shifting, but a lot of people are teaching about it. And it's simply just focusing, focusing on it, noticing a feeling or an image around it and just being present to it. It doesn't take long. And it almost can feel like like a quick, like, whew, all of a sudden. You know, you know you get that feeling, you're like, did the light just change? Did something just I feel am I a little dizzy or huh, all of a sudden I have a different energy? You just shifted timelines. It happens so subtly. We don't even realize we do it, we do it all the time.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

I feel like we do it a lot in our sleep too. I'm like very connected to dreams and like I ask for help from like spirit guides and stuff in dreams a lot. Um, I went through a phase where I like learned how to elucid dream just like very lightly. I'm not, I don't do it anymore, but I was having um sleep paralysis and I needed to learn how to stop my sleep paralysis because it was so scary. And sleep paralysis? It's have you heard of the sleep paralysis demon? Some people get the demon, some don't. I did. So like that's why it's scary. It's this like sleep paralysis is like a medical thing, but I believe that even if it's a medical thing, sometimes there are spiritual reasons for it happening, and like there's more than the medical community can yeah, I believe it.

SPEAKER_01 34:23

So what happened? And I'm so happy that you worked out of that.

SPEAKER_03 34:26

Yeah, so um basically it started, so I'm 35 now for reference, and it started when I was like 19, and I don't have it anymore, but it lasted for a few years, and actually I have a wild story about how it ended. If that's cool that I share like all of that.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

Um I want to hear all your stories, and then so we don't forget later, I want to hear your take on manifesting and yeah, and uh free will.

SPEAKER_03 34:50

Okay, I have notes. I was writing down notes as we were talking because I'm like, okay, wait, I need to touch on this. Um, okay, so sleep paralysis. Like if anybody's had it, you will kind of wake up from a dream, nightmare, whatever. Like you wake up and you can't move, and it's scary. But some people have what's called a sleep paralysis demon, also, where they see some type of like demon men was just like a shadow figure, but some people have seen other things. Like, I've had people message me because I shared a reel on it, and somebody said there was a devil sitting on the edge of her bed, and like you can't move, like you you're like seeing this, and it's because you're medically between like asleep and awake, like your body's still asleep, like your mind's awake or something. So for me, it would always be this like shadow figure like floating over me, and I got the sense that it was like trying to like possess me, which is terrifying. So this was actually like I had like major like fear around being alone in my house or sleeping alone because of this. Like I would sleep with the lights on, um, and it was almost always just the shadow figure like laying over me. And then I would start to try to pray to wake myself up because like what else do you do when you think that you're like something's trying to possess you? Because it feels very real. And for me, dreams are really important because like even if they're not real, they're still real in the moment. So when I felt like something was trying to possess me, it was very real for me. So I would start to try to pray, but you can't move. So like it would come out really creepy until like I could finally start getting the words out, and then I'd wake up. So that happened regularly for years, but um, like a couple years, but I stopped having them as often when I got a boyfriend and like somebody would be in the room with me. It was always just when I was alone that I would have them. So then I went through this whole like something is trying to get me. Like, I need to go talk to people and like make sure that I'm not that this isn't actually like happening, right? So I went and I started talking to some. I don't know why my first instinct wasn't to like go talk to a priest, to be honest, but it was to like go talk to like psychics and figure out if I had negative energy around me or if like I should be worried. And all of them said that they didn't see anything negative around me and that it was the way that I was interpreting something coming to me in my sleep, like the way that I was interpreting a spirit coming to me because I had like preconceived ideas of it being bad or something. So like I was spinning it into a bad dream, which I don't know if that's right or not. Like it doesn't totally feel right, but it doesn't totally feel wrong. But they said you need to ask it what it wants and tell it it can't be there if you don't want it there. So I was like, all right, so I need to learn how to lucid dream. So then I started dream journaling. So like essentially every time I would wake up and I would remember anything about a dream, there'd be a journal right by my bed and I would write down what I remembered. And then eventually through that process, I was able to like realize I was dreaming and then like do the sign. Like I would I stuck my finger through my hand, was the sign, and I don't lucid dream ever anymore. I learned how to for the purpose of this and then never needed to use it again. But then I was able to like realize I was dreaming and get control of my dreams when I would feel like it was going down that bad path. But the first time I was able to use it with this bad energy was actually not, it wasn't like the figure floating over me like the other ones, but it felt the same. But it was this translucent head. It was sitting on the ground, just this like translucent man's head. And I looked at it and I said, What are you doing? This is my dream. You can't be here. And in the most monotone voice, it said, I want to know what the fuck is up with Curtis. But it wasn't mean, it was like monotone and like old man, like robotic almost voice, but it Curtis. Curtis is so I'll get there. But okay, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

I'm into the story.

SPEAKER_03 39:18

Yeah. That was the last time that I ever had any of those dreams when I asked it what it wanted and told it it couldn't be there. Curtis is my older sibling. So Curtis was born a boy. So I grew up with a brother, and at that time he had just gotten married. And I was like, I remember telling my mom, I was like, I don't, what do they mean? Like he just got married, he's doing great. Literally, a couple months later, Curtis came out as transgender. So Curtis is now Allie. So I now have an older sister. But I was like, maybe there was more to that dream than like I realized at the time. I don't know. But yeah, so I haven't had that was when I was early 20s over 10 years ago. I haven't had any dreams like that again since. So like that leads me to believe that maybe it's not just a medical thing. And I mean, maybe they were right if I literally just said, what do you want? You can't be here, and I never had one again.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Yeah, I think that works when there are deceased people. Like I do a lot of mediumship work and they're when they're in my space, or if they're trying to talk to me, or guides or angels for clients or friends, I'm trying to sleep and they're telling me messages, and I'm like, hey, I need to sleep, go away, love you, mean it. Come back when I'm available, when I've invited you into the space. And after doing that enough, it did work and I started sleeping better. But I think I feel, and I've had a very interesting experience. If anyone goes back and listens to my episode with Gary Renard, when I feel like some sort of demonic entity attached itself to me when I was in New Orleans, which I never believed in that stuff until that happened. Fascinating, right? It's all just a projection of the ego. It's all just fear. It's all just our fears materializing in some way in the illusion of this world, right? But it wasn't enough for me to just be like, go away. Like I did some work. I did some work. I have a friend who I shared this with. And when I told him everything that had happened to me in New Orleans and what happened after, and this dark energy coming out of me physically came out of me, and I threw up it's a whole story. Again, it's on the Gary Renard episode, and I'm happy to tell you as well, Brianna. But he said to me, My friend said, You need to contact a Knights Templar, and I know one in Vietnam, and I'll connect you and he'll talk to you on the phone, and he'll do this like cutting ceremony to cut the energy off. And it's like there's so many ways to release ourselves from these types of things. And I think ultimately, whatever you believe to be true will be your experience. You know, it's like people who are very religious who believe they have a demon and then they need an exorcism, and then that works for them. Great. Everything works for us because we believe that it works for us. And also let's try to shift into a timeline where we have a peaceful experience of our life. Yeah. Right. So I want to hear your perspective on that and um and manifesting and free will.

SPEAKER_03 42:19

Yeah. So I 100% agree with what you said about manifesting. And like when you manifest, you're essentially jumping timelines. I feel like everything you said on that was like my thoughts. So I'll just leave that one at that. And you said some people think that you can't necessarily choose, but we're just meant to feel our feelings and have like the experiences and stuff. With that, I do think that one of our sole purposes, like I think we have multiple purposes, and some of them are just like for humans in general, this is your purpose, and some are like your individual purposes. And I think that when we come to this earth, that like one of our purposes for everybody is to feel the full range of like human emotions because I don't know anything about like where we go otherwise. If it's not Earth, like nobody really truly does. Like you can believe your beliefs, but like we don't know. But from what I've heard, the other places that we could choose to incarnate, they don't have the same range of human emotions. So I do think that when we choose to come here to Earth specifically as a human, then that is part of the reason that we incarnate and to like have these experiences so like that that could look like even the crappy things like the grief, the heartbreak, like we want to feel the full range of what we are able to. And then as far as free will and like not having the the choice or having the choice, I think that we have all of the choices on free will, but I think we have certain things. Like I think that I like I said earlier, my sister's death was a part of a soul contract we had together to Push me closer to my purpose or like me getting the accounting job, which led me to realize that I don't want the accounting job and then pivot to something that was more aligned. Those are all put in our ways to steer us closer to where we're meant to go. So even if you don't know what, like what you're meant to do, like you have these breadcrumbs that are placed in front of you. And a lot of the time, people, if they follow their intuition and follow what they think is meant for them, they'll end up close to that, whether they ever look into their astrology, numerology, human design or not. But I think that of it as like, okay, do you know the choose your adventure books where you like can choose this or this? And then you go to a different page.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

I love those.

SPEAKER_03 44:41

That's what I think of free will as. So I feel like we're able to choose, and it's not just a couple of options necessarily. We have like infinite options, and it's really hard to comprehend and think of as a possibility, like as a human, because that's just like that's a lot to process. But when we choose one, then it opens a different page. And then we have a million different options that we can choose from to get to the next page. But all of them, like you'll keep having things thrown in your path to align you closer and closer to where you want to go. So I don't know if it's necessarily like my sister had to die in our soul contract or something was meant to happen to activate that. And that's like the way that it played out. But I do think that my soul signed up to be activated in some way. And I don't think that I was meant to have that portion of my like life activated before, I guess, this this big thing happened, or I wasn't on the path to maybe because I didn't choose to take the actions to align it myself. So when I got to a certain point, it was like this big life-changing event needs to happen to like flip me really quick instead of me figuring it out slowly over time. But a lot of the time we don't change without the the pain, without the reason to change.

SPEAKER_01 46:02

And why do you think we have to experience all of these lessons and grow as a soul?

SPEAKER_03 46:11

Yeah, I think that a lot of it's just around, like you said, growing as a soul. So I think that we come here. It's like earth school, I've heard it referred to as by some people. We literally come here to like learn and grow. And I think our higher selves and our souls want to always be like doing better and being more, more, I don't know, full expressions of ourselves, more loving, like closer to who we are on our like soul level versus our human level. So I yeah, I think that it's just growth.

SPEAKER_01 46:46

Yeah, there's a a beautiful conversation I had with Jade Luna. He did an astrology episode too earlier when you were talking about how we used to use astrology so much more, like in everyday life. Like that was part of who we are as a civilization. We talked about that in his episode called The Wisdom of the Stars. And if you even watch just the beginning of the episode, you'll get an idea of kind of what happened there. And then I brought him back, been on the show a few times, and the second episode is about passion and purpose. And he was talking about your spirit, and he was talking about your soul, and he was using all those different words, and I was like, what's the difference? Like you keep saying spirit and you keep saying soul, because I believe our soul is eternal, our soul is perfect love, our soul is already at home in love. But our spirit says, here's what I learned from him and also from my mentor, Rachel, that we have a spirit, and our spirit has almost like this energetic imprint of being human or whatever race that we're, whatever planet we're on, right? And so our spirit is here to have that adventure and to learn those lessons and to grow and do all those things where the soul, and this is just getting more into semantics, but our soul is perfect. Our soul is perfect love. There's nothing to learn, you're perfect, right? So the way that I've come to language it and understand it for myself when I think about Earth School is it's our spirit. Our spirit is here to play and to grow and to learn and return home to our soul, that the spirit and the soul and the body have this beautiful synergy between the three of them to help shepherd this experience for us.

unknown 48:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:22

And like you said, who knows? We don't know. We're all just philosophizing and theorizing. And my answer to the question I asked you before was to forgive, to forgive, to feel safe, to feel loved, to forgive. Like everything we learn is just to ultimately be kinder to ourselves and stop feeling the pressure of how real everything appears to be because it's just so easy instead to just make loving choices.

SPEAKER_03 48:53

Yeah, that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

Thanks. Thanks. It's fun. It's fun to talk about the stuff and to philosophize with the stuff. With all this in mind, Brianna, what would you say to someone who's afraid to dream bigger because they're scared? They might not be making those choices from love yet. They might be afraid of failing.

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Yeah, so this actually goes back to my core why in my business. So I love that you asked it. It's kind of a depressing response, but it's not meant to be depressing. So it's what would you think? Like when you're, let's say you're on your deathbed, you're 85, 90, 100, however many years old, and you look back at your life. Would you think, man, I'm so happy with the way that I lived that life and the way that I took these chances and like went out and made a difference? Or and even I could say went out and made a difference, but it could even be something as small as like showing up in your community at like the post office in the diner every day and like making the people around you feel loved because you're making a bigger difference than you realize doing that. But how would your deathbed self look at the life that you've lived? Would they say, shoot, I really should have taken more time off of work to like be with the people that I love, or I should have followed this passion that would have made such a huge difference. And instead, I worked this job that I literally hated from nine to five for however many years people work in the workforce before they retire. I don't want to do the math, but way too many years, way too many hours if it's not something that you truly love doing five days a week. So, how would your deathbed self look at your decisions? And if you're saying, like, oh, you know what? I really am just like surviving during the week and then waiting for the weekends to do what I call living. And then I'm going back to just going through the motions and then waiting for the weekend again. You're not truly living and you're not reaching your fullest potential. And I think that there will be regrets in on some level. And I don't want anybody to feel like they wasted their life because they were too scared to live. That's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 51:03

And what a great practice that anybody can do right now. You know, you can finish this episode and sit with that and imagine your beautiful old self and all those thoughts and feelings about it. You know, and the I think also that the practice that you just gave us it helps us to release drama and gossip and just like low level, low vibration energy, like how obsessed people get with politics and all of that stuff, you know, and not that I think you know we need more policy that's in alignment with being kind to humans, but there's people just get so angry nowadays, and I don't think that that's helping. Yeah. So when you look back and you're like, oh, I spent 40 years just being angry at the world, how did that turn out? How did you contribute to people being able to get meals and water and be with their families and have equal rights and all the things that we care about? Uh, so it's really interesting. This has been so fun. I could talk to you all day, and you'll definitely be back if you'll come back. I would love to, yeah. Yeah, let's do it again. There's so much more to even just play and dive into here. Thank you for uh I asked you what charity I should donate to, and you said St. Jude's. I'll be making that donation in your name. So uh obviously, everyone, go check the show notes for Rebel CEO on all the platforms. Go follow Brianna on TikTok and all her socials. As far as the soul strategy, can you let everybody know about the free strategy, the mini reading that you offer?

SPEAKER_03 52:45

Yeah, so I have a free soul strategy mini reading, which is basically a small version, like a mini version of your soul contract that you can take and apply directly to your business. So it is for business owners, and I'll tell you about your CEO archetype, your core gift, which is like the gift that you really naturally embody in your business, and then your business edge, which is like what makes you a little bit different in business, just like your your unique edge in business. And that is something that's again based on astrology, numerology, and human design. So yeah, it's just a free 20, 30-minute call. And then you'll have the option to move into my program rooted if you want to from that call, which is where I do the full soul contract readings.

SPEAKER_01 53:32

Amazing. How generous of you to be offering that time. And if you're finding this years in the future and she's not offering that anymore, reach out to her anyway to see what she's got going on and at least follow the podcast.

SPEAKER_03 53:43

I also just want to say that you put so much intentionality and like thought into your podcast episodes, even before you start recording with the intention setting and lighting the candle and doing all of that together. So I just want to thank you for everything that you put in for not only your guests, but also for your listeners, because it is like next level. And I definitely have learned some things that I could level up on in my own podcast too through you.

SPEAKER_01 54:09

Wow. Thank you, Brianna. Thank you so much. You know, I reached out to you because I looked at your podcast as like, oh, you have a successful podcast, and like I love who you are, what you stand for, and I wanted to be a guest on your show. I'll link my episode on her show in our notes for everyone as well. So I look up to you too in that field. So thank you for saying that. That means a lot to me. And uh we'll continue being sisters in this space and learning from each other. Be sure to connect with me at patreon.com forward slash the brilliance method. The only way I'll know if you're loving the show is if you leave a comment, five stars, and subscribe.