If You’re Waiting for a Sign, This Is It!

What if the sign you've been waiting for is right here, right now? Lizzy and Nikki dive deep into the mysterious world of divine guidance, synchronicities, and those persistent nudges from the universe that we often ignore.

Through vulnerable personal stories, the hosts reveal how signs appeared at pivotal moments in their lives. Nikki shares how a powerful visualization exercise became her unmistakable signal to leave corporate life without a plan. Lizzy recounts the electrifying full-body experience that brought tears to her eyes—a physical manifestation of divine guidance so powerful she immediately committed to an eight-month certification program.

But what happens when we ignore these cosmic breadcrumbs? The hosts explain that subtle nudges from the universe tend to escalate when disregarded, not as punishment but as persistent guidance toward our authentic selves. "Signs are mirrors of your intention, not substitutes for your decision-making," Nikki explains, highlighting that while signs can guide us, the ultimate choice to act remains ours.

You'll discover how to recognize your personal signs through synchronicities, repeating numbers, and those "comical coincidences" that are anything but random. The episode also explores spiritual hygiene practices that can enhance your connection to intuition, making divine guidance easier to recognize and interpret.

Ready to answer the call? The hosts close with a powerful invitation to identify what you've been waiting to do—that first thought that pops into your mind is exactly what needs your attention now. This podcast might be the very sign you've been seeking. Your time is now.

Download the Modern Zen Collective app today to join our 30-day manifestation challenge this September and strengthen your connection to divine guidance.

Episode Links:

• Numerology with Kaitlyn Kaerheart
• Manifestation Babe Kathrin Zenkina
• Lizzy's favorite "Cleanse Your Energy" 10-minute YouTube Guided Meditation

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Chapters

• 0:00 Episode Introduction and Grounding
• 3:20 When Nikki Left Corporate: Following Signs
• 6:03 Lizzie's Electrifying Sign Story
• 9:56 Understanding Synchronicities and Repeating Numbers
• 17:03 Ignoring vs. Following Divine Nudges
• 23:53 Spiritual Hygiene and Energy Clearing
• 27:29 Manifestation Challenge Invitation

Transcript

Speaker 2: 0:13

Hi, I'm Lizzie and I'm Nikki. Have you ever felt that your life was missing purpose, joy or deep connection? Welcome to the Modern Zen Collective podcast, where we embrace holistic living for a joyful, purpose-driven life.

Speaker 1: 0:29

In this podcast, we'll explore holistic practices, consciousness expansion and spiritual alignment. We will dive into personal development practices that connect mind, body, spirit and share secrets that ancient cultures have known for centuries. Together, we aim to guide, educate and connect individuals eager to transform their lives.

Speaker 2: 0:49

Join us weekly on the Modern Zen Collective podcast and elevate your mind, body and spirit. And now on to today's episode. Hello friends, welcome to another episode of the Modern Zen Collective Podcast. One of your hosts, lizzie Sutton, here.

Speaker 1: 1:14

And I am Nikki Sasevich so wonderful to have you here. This is an episode that we're going to talk about. If you're waiting for a sign something that we often look for and we want to have a sign come in for us to move forward with what we desire. So, to start this, let's begin with a grounding moment, just to be fully present, listening to this. Obviously, if you're driving, don't close your eyes, but go ahead. I invite you to place one hand on your heart, close your eyes, take a deep breath in and exhale, let it out. Shoulders, go down your back. Let's do that one more time. Take an inhale, make it your biggest breath of the day, maybe audibly exhale, sigh, activating your nervous system to relax, see and know that this moment is for you. You can come back into this moment, open your eyes when you are ready and if you've been seeking guidance, clarity or permission, this episode is your sacred nudge to do so. So, with that, having this be your sacred nudge, and we just want to give this permission we need permission at times, of course, we all need permission to act on what it is we want to do what it is we have, you know, in the back of our mind that keeps kind of prodding us and poking us to start, but we might be procrastinating it, we might be avoiding it, whatever it might be. So this is that gentle reminder, that sign. If you manifested this episode, this is your sign. That's pretty much that could be the end of the episode if we wanted it to be. Because you're looking for a sign, this is it. So a sign for me was when I left corporate, the big step, and I knew in the back of my mind for about a year before I left that I wanted to leave. I knew it. I felt the pings, I felt the push, I felt the desire to do other things, but I had the layers of conditioning telling me you know, you need health insurance, you need a full income, you need income every two weeks, you need, et cetera, this, that you need this on your resume, you need the corner office, like all of these things kept coming up, and so I kept procrastinating and pushing it off, and pushing it off, and pushing it off. And then I had the nudge, like the sign, the sign that was like blaring, glaring in front of me. It was when I worked with my coach, briar Roots, who we'll link here for you. She was my first Ayurvedic coach who really helped me get in tune with spiritual aspects, but also grounding, yoga, meditation, and she had me do exercises that were Sankalpa and Vin Kalpa and I might be remembering this wrong, it was 2020. But the Sankalpa is the positive, moving forward. Things are great. What do you want to desire? What do you want to manifest your Vik Kalpa? Vin Kalpa is what would happen.

Speaker 1: 4:37

What does your life look like in five years if you haven't changed anything? And she had me go down the really dark road of being a burnout, my health being affected, me being up at 6am, being up till midnight helping other people doing a job I didn't like, getting fired from that job, not having severance, like she had me go through, like the most, the biggest detriment in my life if I stayed down this path. And that was really my sign, where I was like, holy shit, if I keep doing the motions and not actually shaking things up, I'm going to be miserable and I'm never going to feel fulfilled. And that was my sign. It was that reflection and that look.

Speaker 1: 5:18

And it's a yogic practice from the Vedas that she taught me to get out of autopilot, which is incredible because the Vedas are the oldest texts get out of autopilot, which is incredible because the Vedas are the oldest texts, but it was back then. They were even talking about getting out of autopilot. What would your life be if nothing changed? And that was my personal sign that it was like so glaring in my face that I realized I needed to change immediately. And then after that I started to move and grow and leave, without a plan. I had no plan. People asked me what my plan was and I said no idea. I want to create something. No idea what it is. I just know I have to leave and I have to go.

Speaker 2: 5:51

I love that. An example of a sign for me. I'll give a different kind of sign, because yours was more like mental, how you got there to your side. I'll give you an example of a physical sign For me. I had man. It was 2021, I want to say or 2022.

Speaker 2: 6:08

And I had already kind of left corporate and got my yoga teacher training was moving down that path, had been teaching Nikki and I had met maybe six months or eight months before that.

Speaker 2: 6:22

So I was deep into my spiritual learning process months or eight months before that. So I was deep into my spiritual learning process and I was out at a friend's ranch with my husband and they were out turkey hunting. That morning it was a spring morning and I remember I got onto Sahara Rose, one of her webinars that she was hosting and she was launching this coaching institute, along with two other pretty well-known practitioners in the coaching world, and I kind of listened to their spiel, what they were teaching all this stuff and while I was listening to it and towards the end my whole body lit up. When I tell you, my entire body got almost electrified where it came from the inside out and it was like my hairs were standing on edge, but I didn't do anything. I wasn't moving, I wasn't talking, I was literally just watching this webinar and my whole body just lit up and I remember being like, oh my God, this is for me, I need to do this.

Speaker 2: 7:27

This is it. And it was so intense when I tell you like this feeling, this electrification physically, and then the aha moment that came with it, I literally brought tears to my eyes, like literally brought tears to my eyes, and it was probably, I want to say, the second time I'd ever felt that in my entire life, and the first time I felt it was when I was at summer camp as a camp counselor and I was with these kids and it was at a morning shine, so it was kind of like our little spiritual kind of church thing we would have every morning. I remember singing with these kids out in nature. It was this beautiful chapel out in nature and I remember feeling that then too and I didn't know what it was and someone being like that's God, that's God. What? No, no way, no fucking way. It's like that's God. But this time, when I felt I was like, oh my God, I have to do this, and I'm kind of like reliving that feeling right now in my body and it was just so crazy, it was like you have to do this.

Speaker 2: 8:29

And I remember my husband coming back from hunting. I was like, babe, I'm spending $4,000 and I'm signing up for this course and it's going to be eight months long. And I'm in it, I'm doing it. And he's like, wait what? And I'm like I'm in it, I'm doing it. And he's like, wait what? And I'm like I'm doing it. And he's like, okay, I didn't even tell him what it was about. And here we are on the other side and double certified coach, life permit and spiritual life coach, and I'm telling you that eight months was so fricking intensive and so wonderful. But, man, so that was my sign. That was like one of the biggest signs I've had, you know, and it was a physical one for me.

Speaker 2: 9:08

I'm just I'm like one of those people that just feels it like that, you know.

Speaker 1: 9:12

Oh yeah, that gave me goosebumps listening to it, because that's just incredible to feel that body activation that this is for you, like you can't deny that. That's something you can't deny. No, you can't, you can't. It's in the breaking down, like the energetics of waiting for a sign for your manifestations or for what you want to do, whether it's moving, selling your house, buying your house, selling your car, buying your car, relationships, job, whatever. I mean. Those are just like the blanket big things. There's many other things, obviously, that are out there that you could be calling in, but signs are mirrors of your intention. They're not substitutes for your decision making, so they're mirrors of your intention. So when you have these of your intentions, so when you have these intentions of I want to call in this, and then you get that nudge and all of our Claires are different, clairaudient, claircognizant everything is a little bit different. And, claires, can you have that feeling like Lizzie had? You have that download? There's different ways to have it. So your signs are really the mirrors of that intention that you put out into the world. So it's going to come back and it's going to usually be pretty clear that this is a sign for that thing that you are wanting to manifest. Something that I really love are repeating messages, repeating numbers, having those synchronicities where you know things are just like almost comically synchronistic, like things happen and come together, where you were just talking to someone about something.

Speaker 1: 10:58

For instance, there was something I remember when I was and I lived in downtown Chicago and and I was on a date with a guy and we were talking about something and I was telling him about synchronicities and all of these things and he was like woo, that's woo, like whatever. Like it doesn't. You know, that doesn't. Whatever he goes on the other side, he's like that doesn't make any sense. And I said you know it's so crazy.

Speaker 1: 11:41

We saw our other neighbor out last time we were at dinner. Like what if we saw him here? Like wouldn't that be crazy? Because we're in a totally different neighborhood? Literally, I turned my stool. We were at a ramen place in the West Loop, I turned my stool and our other neighbor was sitting next to us. Like the little most random synchronicities in that moment. And you know, at that time and even now I don't know what that meant Like I don't know why he was there again the second time when we had dinner. But those little like almost comical synchronicities, those are a big part of those signs coming through. I love that.

Speaker 2: 11:57

Yeah, synchronicities and, like you were saying, like the repeating numbers, I think for me those are things I look at all the time as like as signs.

Speaker 2: 12:05

I really do see those as signs because, like Nikki's saying, say, you are thinking about something, like you're thinking about something, and then you happen to see a commercial and they're talking about that something Maybe not like the exact same context, but that exact thing that you were thinking. They're talking about it and then expanding on it in some way. And then you're out driving around and you stop and you get a coffee, or you're visiting with someone and you hear somebody else talking about it, like in line, or your friend brings it up, or something. Like when that happens, when I see things, when I hear things, or this synchronicities happen in three or more. I know that's something I better do. Whatever it was that I was thinking about, I'm not saying to follow what other people are saying or thinking. I'm saying whatever that thing that I was questioning when I was first thinking about it. That's the thing I need to go do. And it's same with the numbers when Nikki was just speaking and I looked down at my phone and it was 11-11.

Speaker 2: 13:03

And whenever I notice, when I notice numbers, angel numbers, it doesn't matter which ones they are, you know, twos, fours, six, whatever it is, elevens, twelves, even a twelve, twelve I know that whatever I'm doing in that moment is the thing that I should be doing. Yes, I'm like okay right now, and that's for me, that's what my intuition tells me, that that sign means to me. So somebody else could see 1111 and they have a specific you know thing that they think about when they see 1111, a message for them. It could be twos, it could be eights. They're like oh, eights, that means I'm going to. That's my signal of abundance, that's my signal of money. You know, maybe you know the 11s, it's a master number. Maybe the different numbers mean something to someone else, but to me, every time I see a repeating number, it doesn't matter what number it is. To me it means what I'm doing right now is exactly what I should be doing.

Speaker 2: 14:02

And so I think that these synchronicities think that these synchronicities, these repeating messages, these things that you keep seeing your inner knowing can tell you what that means to you. You don't need to go and look up what three twos means in order to have the message. You know what I mean. Like when you see three twos, your inner being is going to tell you what those three twos means to you. And to me, three twos means something now different than it did two years ago, because my little boy, jackson, loves the number two and he says two all the time. So to me now, three twos, I immediately think of my son, whereas before I would have thought about something else. So I think these signs, these messages, the hard part about them and the greatest part about them is that they're yours. They're so individual, nikki, and I can't tell you what they mean to you. We can only share what they mean to us and what other people have shared that they mean to them.

Speaker 2: 15:18

I love numerology and so I'm going to link Caitlin Carehart in here, because she wrote my favorite book you Are Cosmic Code. It's so short and little. It's like a great basic guide to numerology and I'm telling you this shit's spot on, just think about it, just look into it. But I think what numerology means to her is something different than what it means to someone else. So I think this thing about signs is they're so individual. You need to have that conversation with yourself. You need to have the ability to pause, to notice them, to pause just for a moment and like tune in and say what did that mean to me, what does that mean to me?

Speaker 2: 16:01

And then move about your day. I don't look at the 11-11 and be like, oh, I saw 11-11, you know, like all day long you know I'm like oh, I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Okay, back to what I'm doing, you know what. I mean Like it's that simple. It's that simple.

Speaker 1: 16:16

It's like a high five for you from the universe.

Speaker 2: 16:18

That's what that means for you Like you're doing the right thing, like this is Really if you've been hearing the same stuff over and over, seeing these repeating numbers, feeling something's trying to get your attention, like Nikki's neighbors, you know it's not a coincidence. It's not a coincidence. You're being guided. Right now. The universe, God, is trying to tell you something, and so it's up to you. It's up to you if you want to listen or follow.

Speaker 1: 16:43

Follow it or not, and you know there's a lot of teachings and spiritual texts and teachers that are out there, and past and present, that talk about. When you ignore the nudges, the small nudges, they start to get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.

Speaker 2: 17:02

So it can be a gentle, nudge, like you know.

Speaker 1: 17:05

Hey, you should go to this coffee shop, Just go. And you're thinking to yourself, no, I don't have time, I have 25 meetings, I have this, I have that, I just want to relax, et cetera. And then the next day the same nudge, and then another day, the same nudge, and then all of a sudden, like who you were supposed to meet at the coffee shop or whatever it is or how that was supposed to light you up, needs to come in in a different way way. So the nudge gets more intense and more intense and it starts to get your attention in other ways. I've noticed this has happened to me as well when I procrastinate or I ignore the nudge and I see things like come in a little bit more intense. And it's not the universe like testing you or pushing you to your limits or anything like that, just the universe just wants you to get back to your most authentic self and a lot of that is the journey here on earth and you aligning and being happy.

Speaker 1: 17:50

And with that you know you getting that nudge to go to that one coffee shop might've been that when you drove, you saw a sign. That sign triggered something that you remember from childhood. It healed a wound that you had, because you remember something. You know it could be something that doesn't actually even make sense in that moment, but it's something that the universe was like. She needs this right now and she's not listening, so let's figure out how else to give it to her.

Speaker 1: 18:20

So it's, you know, it's a fun game to release control and trust the signs and maybe for a week you just say, like you know, when the sign, when the nudge comes in, I'm just going to go for it and trust and see what happens, instead of having that trepidation or that you know, second guessing or anything. Because you'll know in your heart, you'll feel it in here. You'll feel like, for me, I feel it on the right side of my body, like I feel this energy on the right side of my body of something that's just waiting to be birthed through me, waiting to come through, waiting for me to just take action and start to take the first step towards that movement. And when I keep pushing it away and pushing it away, I feel this energy get more and more intense and I feel like it's almost as if I can't even, like I have to do this.

Speaker 1: 19:02

I was listening to Catherine Zinkina. She had a podcast which she hasn't had in a while and she said she felt that like she felt that energy to be a stay at home mom and actually release Manifestation Babe. So she did that.

Speaker 2: 19:16

Yeah, literally just posted all about that. How wild is that?

Speaker 1: 19:19

And she said she just kept feeling this like it's time I have goosebumps, it's time for her to be a stay at home mom and not have her energy be split. And that doesn't mean Manifestation Babe is dying. She still has a team, they're still going to keep it going and have automated their courses and things like that. But it's just amazing, yeah. And she said she was ignoring that for a while because she felt this is her baby. She birthed it. She made so much money from it. It just got chills, yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:47

I mean, what? What a sign of a fucking powerful woman right there, like building some multimillion dollar manifestation business based off of what she wanted to do and how she wanted to do it, and then deciding to step away when it is just blowing and going to be a mom, to be like this is what I'm going to. This is what.

Speaker 2: 20:04

I feel called to do now and I'm going to do this Like be like, this is what I'm going to, this is what I feel called to do now. And I'm going to do this Like I mean, that's some, that's some inspirational shit. I'm telling you right there, yeah.

Speaker 1: 20:16

It's. I mean, yes, so inspirational. So inspirational because that sign with societal conditioning could be, nope, like I'm going to keep going, keep going, more money, more money, more. But Catherine also, she teaches this, so she knows, she knows there's something on the other side. She knows, like she knows, that there's another abundant way that's going to come in, and just right now this is, you know, the next step that she's going to take, and with that that means just like adjusting how her and her husband work and manage her finances and where the money's coming from, et cetera.

Speaker 2: 20:44

But it was a yeah, yeah, that's crazy, you brought that up too. Yeah, cause she's, she's like the goddess on manifestation too. We will link her too. And so I mean, like she, she is all about building all these things, but listening and doing it from an aligned place. And so her aligned place at this moment is being with her son and her husband, you know, and being there and present in that way, and so that's what she's doing. I mean, that is what, that's what we're here for, you know, and that is she's showing it in a huge way, you know.

Speaker 2: 21:25

But we choose that for ourselves each and every day with so many of our decisions. Do we do what we feel called to do in this moment and what's right for us, or do we do what everyone else tells us we should be doing right now? Yes, you know, and sometimes it's the same thing. So then it's easy, you know, but when they're different and on their opposite sides, it's when it's difficult to stand in our own power and to stand in our own knowing, our own intuition, in our own signs, like, I mean, that's what it is.

Speaker 1: 21:55

Totally, totally, and feeling the energy in your body.

Speaker 1: 21:59

You know a lot of that comes from you know understanding, having like spiritual hygiene habits We've talked about that before and having you know getting into like a holistic, like no one's perfect, but that holistic homeostasis feeling.

Speaker 1: 22:14

So you understand and feel the energy where, if you eat something, you know if it's not's not right for you or if you do, you can feel a slight energetics inside of you from peeling off those layers that are, you know, trying to keep you in the you know familiar. And having that awareness of those subtle energetic shifts shows you these nudges and shows you where you're getting these signs and they can easily be missed if you have layers of you know not living healthy and aligned or not having that spiritual hygiene and things like that. And we're not saying you need to do that. You know everyone's journey is different but it does make it a lot easier. I would say For me personally, when I started to really take care of my spiritual hygiene release 432 hertz, journaling, meditating, my physical practice, everything like that, and then also living and eating holistically, removing fluoride, all these different things I feel like I can feel my body more. I can feel when things are right or wrong, and I can feel the ping so much more intense than I did 10 years ago.

Speaker 2: 23:21

Yeah. So really, all that is to say is there are so many different ways to clean up that connection between you and yourself, you and that divinity that lives within you and each and every one of us that connects us, that is guiding you towards your highest. So anything you can do to clean that up is only going to help and you don't need to do everything. You know there is a wonderful energy clearing meditation that I listen to on YouTube. That is 10 minutes long. That I listen to on YouTube. That is 10 minutes long. And anytime I feel like I'm just getting too wrapped up in everything that's going on around me and all this stuff and all the frenetic feeling and energies. You know 11 minutes of laying down and listening to this and I'm good to go. I've got that clearing, that cleaning, that spiritual hygiene and that's it, and then I'm back to it.

Speaker 2: 24:21

So, honestly, I'm going to tell you something that's not too good for you, but I do go to Planet Fitness, sometimes lay down in that tanning bed for 12 minutes when I just feel like I need some alone, warmth and quiet time. I'm not going to lie, I do do this, but I listen for this energy clearing. So, while I might not be doing something wonderful for myself, I am on the other side, okay, so let's not get too judgy about it. We all have our things. We all have our things, we all have our vices. Sometimes I literally only go there to go and lay down for 12 minutes because I just need a little bit of a break. And if all I can get is 12 minutes, I can't get a 45-minute sauna session at my favorite sauna studio. I will just walk in, I hit that tanning bed for 12 minutes with that meditation and then I go home.

Speaker 1: 25:12

I love knowing that about you.

Speaker 2: 25:17

So getting back, let's give. Getting back to signs what is one thing you've been waiting to do, what's one thing you've been waiting to do? It just popped in your mind. That's the thing. And what would you do today if you knew you were fully supported? It just popped into your mind. It's that first thing, that first thing that you thought about. So what can you do that today? Then you know, let's maybe take a little bit of inspired action on these, on these signs, on these things, these pings. And you know, we've got more of that for you.

Speaker 2: 25:56

If you want it, if you want more clearing, more connection to that energy, more practices to try out, to find out what resonates for you, nikki and I are doing our very first 30-day manifestation challenge. We're hosting it this September in the Modern Zen Collective app. Nikki built this baby for us. It's housing all of our wonderful workshops, meditations, all of our practitioners, their workshops are in there. It's your sanctuary in your pocket. If your soul's saying yes, say yes back. Join us inside our 30-day challenge this September. Download the app. It's all going to be in there, super simple, and we're going to help you really establish that connection between you and yourself, your divinity, and see what happens in these 30 days, like what can you co-create, what can we co-create with the universe, with God, with Source? And it doesn't hurt to try something new. Even if you only do 10 days of 30 days, it's still better than no days.

Speaker 1: 27:02

Exactly, exactly. No, we would love to have you there. We have so many things in the Manifestation Challenge. We have meditations, we have a lot of ideas for you to clear energy, align with your energy, get high vibe, honor your emotional waves. There's just so much that goes along with it that we're so excited. We've been creating it and we cannot wait to share it. So you know, if you want more information, visit our website or the app and we will see you there.

Speaker 2: 27:31

Yes. So if you needed a sign here, it is, this is it. This is your compliment. You're nudged, your soul speaking to you, your spark, your time is now.

Speaker 1: 27:41

Yep, your time is now. If you had something on your mind, something that was looming, something, you're procrastinating. This is your sign. This podcast popped up for a reason. You stayed through to the end. Take that action All right, love you guys.

Speaker 2: 27:55

See you next time. Have a great day. We'll talk to you soon. Bye everyone.

Speaker 2: 28:07

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