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Transform Your Life - Just Count Me In
#6 Exploring Life's Transformative Moments with Sari
This episode explores the transformative power of miracles in our lives as our host recounts her personal journey through challenges, including a near-drowning incident and a life-threatening heart attack. We discuss how these experiences shaped her perspective and inspired her podcast, encouraging listeners to embrace change and recognize the miracles surrounding them.
• Journey to Pawleys Island and the significance of community
• Personal reflection on childhood challenges shaping resilience
• Miraculous rescue by her daughter during a beach vacation
• Life-altering heart attack and the healing journey that followed
• The importance of vulnerability, authenticity, and connection
• Starting a podcast as a means of sharing stories of transformation
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Welcome to this special episode of Transform your Life. Just Count Me In. I wanted to thank you so much for joining today. In this episode, I'm sharing some of the miracles that shaped my life and led me to this moment, coming off of a really awesome weekend. My husband and I just moved here about a year ago to Pawleys Island, south Carolina, and it was a dream of ours for five years before we actually realized it, and we both had our birthdays last week. So I was a little bit nervous about being here for the first year without our families and without friends, and we left Colorado after 28 years, so that's leaving a lot. And this weekend we were so blessed that we had people to go out with today that wanted to go out with us, and friends that came over last night to wish us a happy birthday, and I just feel like I'm in such a happy place. I wanted to go ahead and record this now. So I was interviewed by Tracy King from Soulfully Unscripted. She has a podcast about people who have had transformational experiences, and it was the very first time I had ever been interviewed, and that's what this episode is. So my journey has shown me basically that even in my greatest challenges, there's extraordinary opportunities for transformation. These experiences inspired my podcast Transform your Life Just Count Me In and my upcoming masterclass this spring.
Speaker 1:A powerful experience that's designed to help you embrace change, clear the clutter out of your life, align with your purpose, recognize the miracles that are unfolding for you. It was once said, and I used to quote, there's two ways to live your life. One is though everything is a miracle and one is though nothing is a miracle. Well, while I know everything is a miracle, there are miracles all around me I think most of us honestly don't just live two ways. I think a lot of us live in the gray. Sometimes, when we're in the middle of the muck, we don't exactly see the miracle of in the situation. I'm not there yet. I hope to be someday. So if you've ever faced obstacles that seem kind of insurmountable, this episode is for you. Get ready, shift your perspective, embrace possibility and step into the transformation that is waiting for you. Your journey from tragedy to miracles.
Speaker 2:Hi and welcome back to Soulfully Unscripted. I am so excited you are here today and tuning into this episode Today. I'm so excited to have Sari with me, so excited to have Sari with me, and so we're just going to get into it.
Speaker 1:I'll let you tell everybody what you feel comfortable talking about. Well, I'm a pretty open book, so if there's anything that comes up, then you just go for it and ask me. So I have a story. Definitely everybody does, and basically my life has been a series of miracles and I feel very blessed. Every single challenge that I've had has given me such lessons and such an opportunity to grow and then to share with others that that is the way that I go through life, and I've come to realize that instead of things happening to me, they're definitely happening for me and for me to share, and through me. So I was a miracle.
Speaker 1:To start with, my parents were told that they couldn't get pregnant, they couldn't have any more kids. And here I am. And then, six months into the pregnancy, she fell in the bathtub and her water broke. And back then they couldn't save a baby at that age, and so the doctor basically told my dad he didn't know how to. They didn't ever tell my mom, but she knew it was serious. He said well, you're going to lose the baby. We just don't know when. Just let's just put her on bed rest and then let nature take its course, but the baby's not going to be able to live through this. And so my dad knew that. My mom didn't know that, she just knew that she had to be on bed rest and she dug in and she called my grandma to come and stay, because I had an older sister, five years older, and she stayed on bed rest and the doctor would come to the house every single week and every week he would say I can't believe this, but she's still, you know, baby's still healthy, everything's fine. We got one more week but we're still not out of the woods yet. And then I guess at about 37 weeks, they told my dad it was three weeks before I was born. Actually they said we could probably save her or the baby, because they didn't know boy or girl if the baby came now, but still probably going to be very damaged because there's no water in there and there's supposed to be water. So he was prepared that if I was born alive I was just going to be a complete mess. And I came out almost nine pounds, 8, 15, and my mom was tiny, five foot two, she said it about took her out to give birth to me. But I came out out on time, not late, not early, big, healthy fat, you know and fine, like I got a good score on my APGAR and I was deliriously happy. And the joke in the family was I was so happy that they took me to a pediatrician for my three-month checkup and said that they thought I was mentally disabled because I was ridiculously happy. I would talk to my fingers and I would laugh all the time. I hardly ever cried. They thought something was wrong with me. I'd be in my crib just talking to things in the morning, not screaming for them, and so they didn't know what to do with it. So that was pretty funny.
Speaker 1:And then after that I think I had a pretty normal childhood. I mean, we had things in our house going on that molded me to who I am now. My mom was depressed. She suffered from depression. She actually just was in the wrong marriage. But I was made to be responsible for things at a very young age and I've had to work very hard to overcome that feeling that I have to constantly be responsible. Everybody's got to be okay for me to be okay. So I worked through a lot of codependency issues. But I also took out of that an amazing amount of self-reliance and I know I'm a person that can be counted on. I know I can count on me. I know other people can count on me. I keep a really calm head when those about me are losing it. I get very calm in the eye of the storm. So there were definitely blessings in that. And I had the second miracle. That was huge when we were on a vacation. So fast forward, my daughter was almost 20. So this is years after that On a vacation in Cozumel.
Speaker 1:We wanted to find a beach without coral, because all the beaches have coral, and we got that. We went to a Walmart and got the shoes and everything They'd have that there, but still it wasn't as fun as like. I like to swim barefoot in the ocean. I like the feel of the sand, and so we felt we heard there was a beach where they had imported sand. So we rented a Jeep, took two trips to get everybody in there, because it was a whole family vacation my son and his family, my daughter and her boyfriend, my husband and myself and we went to the beach and my husband dropped us off first. My daughter's name is ava and she had grown up watching baywatch and it was. We just used to joke about it because the person's name was like ava, save a lot. We just were kidding around about it on the way there. So we get there and we're swimming and my husband went off to pick up the rest of the family and bring them and then we got not too far out.
Speaker 1:I grew up on the ocean so I'm pretty comfortable. I'm not an Olympic swimmer by any means, but you know, a healthy reservation for swimming at night, you know a healthy reservation for swimming at night, but definitely no fear of it. I have respect for it. And I was just out there treading, you know, just maybe it was my chin level, but when the waves came it would be deeper. And all of a sudden I put my foot down and there was nothing. And then I felt this like vortex, this like pulling, which they later found out was a riptide, pulling my leg down into it, and I had never felt that before and I grew up on the ocean so I just tried to pull my leg out of it. I couldn't pull my leg out of it and meanwhile I'm going under with every wave instead of riding above every wave.
Speaker 1:And I looked at Ava and I said I'm not kidding, I can't get out. And she just looked at me and like sheer terror, right, because we've always swam, okay. And she said something came over ground and she carried me through the waves to the beach and I am bigger than her, okay, and so that I mean to me that's her miracle equally, yes, it's my miracle that I lived, but definitely her miracle. And this day we're not sure which angels, which guides helped her. But she said she just thought of Ava Sable, which we had just been joking about. It was funny. And she scooped and carried me and her feet did not touch, she didn't even swim, she was walking in the water, on the water, like wow, I have goosebumps right now, like that is amazing.
Speaker 2:We definitely don't give our guides and the angels the credit that they deserve. You know, we always think, oh, because we can't see them with our human eyes, that they're not there. But then you hear stories like that and it's just like wow, they're so there, yeah there, yeah, yeah, and I go back in.
Speaker 1:I was very shaken up but I did go back in and swim later that day because I wanted to break that. I didn't want to have that fear. You know, that's right. I had to. I am, I am of the water. I mean I just feel it and, um, yeah, maybe a mermaid another lifetime, I don't know. But but I'm most at home when I'm in the ocean, in the salt water, with that sun, and, yeah, I feel really at peace there. So it's a home for me.
Speaker 1:So I had to make it that it was okay for me to go back in.
Speaker 1:But to me that was a miracle, because if it had been anybody else, I don't know that it would have happened and I would have to tell you the truth, I would have gone out that far by myself if she didn't want to go right away, and that would have been it.
Speaker 1:She would have thought I was just treading water out there, and so I was very, very grateful and I thought, wow, when I was just getting ready to start my master's program, I mean, I was at a really good point in my life and that's the other point that I think is significant for me. A lot of people have miracles and have these things happen when they're at the bottom, when they've hit the ground, when they're at the dark night of the soul. They call it Now, when they're at a breaking point. My miracles have happened when I was at a high point in my life, and I don't know why I don't even pretend to know why but I just know that it's different for me because things are going really well and something like that will happen almost like validation or something you know like.
Speaker 1:So have you always been on the spiritual path yes, I actually and I tell this in my podcast trailer too, or the first episode when I was 10 or 11, I started wanting to go to different churches and I vacillated between wanting to have 12 children and wanting to become a nun, like literally, those were the two things that I wanted. My mom was like I'm not sure about either of them. My dad just watched his hands on me for a while. So my mom said, okay, we'll take you. She was more so an ethical culture is more of a spiritual type person and she had a lot of the spiritual.
Speaker 1:My dad was, for the social and cultural aspects, jewish, and so I went there. I had nothing against it, but I didn't feel that connected to that. Some of the traditions were great and it was a family thing, but he didn't have a spiritual piece to go with it. He had a very strong social connection and that was good. I mean he was great in that community.
Speaker 1:For me, I didn't really need to do something that way. I wanted a spiritual connection, even though I was young. So my mom took me to different churches and I mean I went to Quaker meetings. I went all over and some of them I felt at home with and some of them I would feel at home with, and then I would hear, maybe, that they were saying something negative about other religions or saying that their way was the only way, and that would make me feel sad because I would think, was my dad can go to hell. I mean, he doesn't go to this church. You know, I didn't know. I was hoping they weren't right on that point and I didn't want to go.
Speaker 1:I knew what I didn't want at that point. I didn't want to be anywhere where they thought that other people were going to be condemned if they didn't follow that path and that kind of turned me off to some religions, even though I do believe that everybody wants the best and we're all finding our way home. It's just different paths. To that way, I think we should respect each other's heads definitely, and I so. I did end up getting involved in researching a little bit about buddhism when I was 12 because I became very interested in that and that was something that caught my. I'm still very much a part of that feel. I still love those teachings. I also resonate with a lot of Jesus' teachings. I also like a lot of the teachings of the Kabbalah from the Jewish Testament. So I take from a lot of things, but I've been spiritual in the way that I could feel that I was in touch with something from the time that I was very little.
Speaker 2:Luckily, kids growing up now have more. The parents understand it more than when we were small.
Speaker 1:My major work has been with children since I was little.
Speaker 1:They would come to my house if they needed help in school and it was just there. I coach them and I tutor them and when I coach them they coached so quickly it's so the transformation is exponential. As as far as like how fast I would change or how and I like change and I love being coached I'm really open to it. But it's probably like five to ten sessions worth of progress in one session when I coach a child. It's that fast. It's that fast that they can grasp things and they can go right in because they haven't built those walls of resistance. But I'm very, very mindful and I do make sure I have good communication with the parents.
Speaker 2:You know, make sure I have good communication with the parents, because we don't realize when we say something to a kid on what what they're taking in or or what they're embodying, what they're integrating into themselves yeah, like even you know, as I've started going on my healing journey and started um releasing all the traumas and things I always say, like everybody's truth is their own truth and you don't have to have the same truth. And again, I think it's coming back to trusting ourselves and trusting like our opinions can change too as we evolve.
Speaker 1:The third big miracle, I guess, was in 2021. Everything was going really, really well for me and I had left the school district. I didn't wait for retirement, but I was very scared, but I did it anyway and I left and started my own coaching and tutoring business and also taught yoga, which is what I'm doing now. And I did not. I mean, I was frightened because of financial reasons and security reasons, but we did it and then COVID happened, so it actually worked because I could do virtual, which never occurred to me before, and so I was happy. I was a new grandma again because I had other grandchildren. Then my daughter had a baby. I was just my feet weren't touching the ground. I was a new grandma again because I had other grandchildren. Then my daughter had a baby. I was just my feet weren't touching the ground. I was so happy and so happy with my life and happy with my husband and woke up every day happy and my pretty pretty much my natural state, took really good care of my body.
Speaker 1:And then I had a massive heart attack and almost died and that it came out of nowhere and I had just had a physical two months earlier, where the doctor said to me and he was 40, he was younger than me. He said I wish I could swap lab results with you. You've got much better labs than I do. He said what are you doing? You're so healthy, you're not your biological age at all. So I told him what I was doing and it's not like I thought I was immune to anything going wrong with me. My mom was healthy and she died when she was 52, but you know, but I did take really good care of myself, so I'm like good, the things I'm doing are working. That's awesome, you know, and they're still not sure why. I'm part of a group that's being studied because there was about 25 of us between Denver and Boston in the two cardiology clinics that my cardiologist in Denver had that showed up with this exact heart attack between January and mid-April and mine was April 10th of that year and they were completely atypical heart attacks where there was little to no plaque and a huge blood clot and there was no history. There was no, there were no problems.
Speaker 1:So anyway, so I didn't know I was having it and I meditated in the morning. I just thought I had really bad pains like in my stomach and I asked for guidance and I asked for I should have asked for more guidance and less strength. I asked for strength to do the work I'm supposed to be doing and I got it. I got what I asked for and I tutored a kid and then taught two yoga classes and then came home and by the time I got to the hospital my LAD was 100% blocked and they said it was a miracle that I lived and that I sat on a widow maker heart attack. I didn't mean to sit on it, I didn't know I was having a heart attack and lived and that there was a lot of damage. But a lot of damage can get healed.
Speaker 1:And then they didn't go into any other detail and I was. You know, I'm telling my daughter it's probably going to be two weeks before I can, you know, give you a break and watch Teddy again. And she's like let's just see how you feel, mom. You had a heart attack and I'm like but it's okay, I'm okay, nothing's changed. And boy, did I eat those words. Everything friggin' changed for me.
Speaker 1:And I can't even begin to go into like the emotional agony that that was and, I guess, the confidence that I lost and I was asking why, like, why? Why now, like, what did I do, you know? And I didn't get an answer, and so I started asking well, then you know what? Show me why I'm here then, because maybe I just shouldn't be here. I mean, I felt awful, I felt like my family, I felt like I let everybody down and it was horrible, probably the worst thing that I've gone through and it was the best thing that could have happened, because it opened me up to a whole new form of compassion and I thought I was compassionate, I could, I could be so much more compassionate and I thought I was loving and I could love so much more and I thought I was really appreciative of life. I lived that. And now, holy cow, it's a whole different ballgame and it did something to me and it's. It opened up so many places in my brain and in my heart that I probably would never have gone to. I've met people I never would have met. I'm very humbled by the whole experience and the miracle that came out of it.
Speaker 1:Not only that I lived was that? Three months into it I was. I had to take drugs for the whole year. I was on seven, eight prescriptions. It was. I felt awful from all the drugs. But they said this was we have to make sure that we are just taking care of the heart, keeping everything very, very chill for this first year, and then we can maybe come off some of the medicines. Well, I was able to get off everything except for aspirin After a year and a half. It took me, but that was still pretty good.
Speaker 1:But in three months I went back and I had an electrocardiogram and I had not a stress test but just an echo test where they could see everything. And the cardiologist brought me and my husband out and I figured well, we're going to get good news. I'm sure more healing happened because I'd been doing this and working with my coach and she literally was calling. She said I'm not going to charge you, I'm going to call you every day and if you're strong enough, we're going to talk, or I'm just going to send you energy and we're going to heal this. And I listened to that type of music. I couldn't do much else. I did tutor still, because I loved doing what I did, but then it knocked me out. That was about all I could do and I have this belief that I have a healthy heart.
Speaker 1:I do have a really healthy heart and that's what I kept saying in the hospital. I know that this happened, but I have a really healthy heart, I have a really strong heart and I believe that. And when I went in for the three-month checkup, he brought up the films and he looked at them with us and my husband was there and he got tears in his eyes and he said you have a beautiful heart. He said your heart is all healed and he had never seen in 15 years so much damage heal 100% and he'd never seen that much healing in three months. So I feel like it was God's way, or the universe's way, of saying you can heal this, but you need to take it and share it and you need to help others and you need to reach more people. And that's why I'm doing this and I tell people about it.
Speaker 1:I didn't want to tell anybody about it for a long time and I was like no, no, don't do that, because this happened for a reason and you don't want to deny that. You don't want to deny a gift that you've been given. So I do, and I know one person, actually his dad, a child that I tutored. His dad was having really bad indigestion that they thought was indigestion and they said because of what happened to me. They brought him to the hospital and it turned out he was having heart attack. He was only 44 years old. So I mean, I feel like it, you know, maybe it helped save his life in some strange way.
Speaker 1:It can happen to Sari. She's really healthy, sari's like super healthy. It can definitely happen to me, you know. So I try to help people with it and encourage people that when they're going through something or something that they feel like has just taken them right down to their knees at a time when they're doing well in their life, that there's always a reason and it's always happening for you. And I still. I'm not going to say that I don't have a hard time with it. I mean, I just got choked up talking to you about it, but I've worked through so much since it and I don't mess around. I'll tell you what my relationships I. You know it's got to be real. I thought I only had authentic relationships before. It's to a whole new level now and I tell people how I feel, if they're interested in knowing, and I tell people I always told people I love them, but boy, I sure make sure that I tell people extra, because you never know Something could happen to them. You never know, you just don't know.
Speaker 2:I think that's the thing. You never know. You just don't know. I think that's the thing. Things can change so quickly but we get so caught up in our everyday life and in our problems that we kind of forget how quickly life can change and how precious and amazing and miraculous being here, even though sometimes we might not feel like, oh, this is a blessing, or feel like this is a miracle that we are sitting here, especially you know the way the world is going at the moment. We can sometimes feel so heavy and dark, but actually, at the end of the day, every person who's who is here, it's a miracle and there is a reason. We all have a specific person, a specific reason that we are here, going through and dealing with what we are dealing with. Yes, absolutely. Have you always wanted to do a podcast? Or how did you get into doing the?
Speaker 1:podcast. Parents have been asking me to do something like a blog or something for a long time and but I wouldn't. I just didn't feel that and I didn't feel like people would want to hear what I have to say, I guess, and I just didn't feel like it was the right time, I guess, for me. But a part of me at the same time felt like and my husband felt it and coaches at school felt it, and my life coach felt it she was like you've got something bigger. I feel like you need to go to something bigger than what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing because you love it and you can love it bigger. And I didn't know what that would look like. And this summer my daughter was visiting and or actually she came in early summer and then she was going to a retreat the Kathy Heller retreat, I think it was in June and so I asked her how was that retreat thing that you went on? I didn't know who she went with or anything and she said it was amazing, mom. And I said who was in charge of it, because I know we follow some of the same people and she told me and she was like you should be here, let me send you something. Let me send you her podcast. I'm like, okay, didn't listen to her podcast before and I know I'm one of the dark ages here and I loved it. And she started talking about doing this thing like a free workshop on podcasting. And I'm like you know, I'm just going to do it. It's free, what do I have to lose? I'll just do it while I'm. You know, I'm just going to do it. It's free, what do I have to lose? I'll just do it while I'm. You know, podcasts are great because you can just listen to them while you're cleaning your house or you know gardening, whatever you're doing, you can put the podcast on. And I really liked her a lot. So I said, well, I'll just do that podcast thing.
Speaker 1:And then it came down to it and I thought maybe I should do this podcast thing. And I talked to Stan. He said I think definitely you should do this podcast thing. I thought, but what am I going to talk about? He's like how many times do people get off the phone with you and say we should have recorded the conversation? And I was like actually a lot. And so I thought you know what? I'm just going to go for it.
Speaker 1:And then I thought, no, immediately stuff started happening like I hadn't had a problem. And then I had a small problem with health. It's tiny, not big, but a little blip, you know. And I was like, okay, so that's. I don't think I could do it, you know. And one thing, one little thing would come up. Well, I really can't do it.
Speaker 1:And then I thought, if I am pushing away from this so quickly when I was so excited, what would that tell me if one of my clients was doing that? I'm a coach, my coach needs to be able to call me out on my own stuff. So I kind of was my own coach on this. I was like you are full of it, you're looking for an excuse to get out because you're just afraid. It's like what are you afraid of? So I started to ask, I kind of coached myself a little bit, and then I thought, well, I think I'm still not going to do it.
Speaker 1:And then I got on the phone with Jen and she said, maybe? She said do you get excited when you think about it? I said, very, I feel a pull, and when I feel a pull, I act on it. Like I felt a pull. I moved cross country by myself when I was 18. I felt a pull for South Carolina. That's where I'm sitting right now. My husband and I moved here Like it took five years to get here, but still, when I feel a pull, I know it's right. And so I said I feel a pull towards this, but I'm also actually very like avoiding it in some way. I'm looking for a reason to not do it. And she said, well, maybe this is the year that you learn how to do something messy and be a C student. And I thought, hmm, and neither one of those hit me very well, and so I thought, since I'm not comfortable with that, maybe I need to lean into the discomfort as Igor, my acupuncture saint Buddhist.
Speaker 2:He's like.
Speaker 1:He's like my teach, my big teacher. He's an amazing person. He always says did you? He's from Poland. He's like did you lean into it, sari? And I was like I'd be like I'm having anxiety about the heart about this, about that. He's like have you ever tried just leaning in, just lean in a little bit instead of, you know, trying to get away from it? And so I thought I'm going to lean into it.
Speaker 1:So, and as soon as I mentioned it, people seemed supportive, like they thought that it was a good idea, and the guidance that I'm getting is it's about time. Those three words came to me like it's about time. Those three words came to me Like it's about time. So I don't know who's saying that to me. Maybe it's my mom on the other side, maybe it's my dad, but they always thought I could do more than what I thought I could do too. My husband has always had bigger visions for me than I have, and so I think that that's where it came from. But no, this is new. I can't say I've always wanted to be a podcaster or always wanted to do this. No, no, Very excited, and I think I'm loving it, but also still very difficult, very difficult.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it brings out a lot of things that we didn't quite realize we needed to still work on, things that we didn't quite realize we needed to still work on, because it's brought up so much like fears of being in the spotlight and that fear of being seen and being heard. And it's actually funny because I've spoken to so many people who have started doing the podcast and everyone's story is pretty much the same, like I thought I'd done the healing and then I signed up for this and I realized there's still so much healing that so much.
Speaker 1:There's always another layer. That's what my my teacher would explain it to me that you because I'd be like really this again, like you're kidding me I thought I cleared this, I thought I've done like the work inside and the path of the regression stuff and energy clearing and Reiki. I had back surgery, so I tried to avoid that for two years. So during that process, I got Rolfed, I got Reiki, I got acupuncture, I got energy work, I had crystal work, which I'm into, all that stuff, but I tried so many different things and I ended up still needing surgery, but I'm sure they work for some people.
Speaker 1:I needed to go through that experience, though, and I just couldn't. I couldn't believe it that the same dang thing was coming up about trusting myself. And then she said to me it's like onions, like you peel and I don't like onions. You peel a layer off and you think you're good, and then there's another layer, and then there's another layer, and she would say to me you weren't ready to process it at that level of energy. And sometimes we like if I come out of a long period of being anxious, it was just my energy level was shifting, and my energy level shifted big time.
Speaker 1:My calibration went up so much after the heart attack and, um, it just changed, and every time it's changed. Even without the heart attack I have felt very unearthed while it was going on, I guess because you're not really having an earthly experience. You're having an organic body experience and then I just assimilate to the new energy that I'm vibrating at and I'm good again. So that could be the answer to the podcast thing too. Whenever you're taking a step in growth, you're ready to and you're at a pretty good level now you're ready to process that trauma or that wound at that level and that much deeper and share it with those people, because you're usually in a different crowd a little bit too. You're swimming in different waters by that time.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and yeah, that's actually true, because one of my coaches always says that about the onions as well and it's like it's like a onion and it's like you have to take it off layer after layer and another one is like another level, another devil, and I'm like, oh yeah, that is.
Speaker 1:I feel that too my yoga teacher used to say afgo. She didn't say frigging, but I will, because I don't curse another frigging growth opportunity but she called it something else. So when something came up, she'd be afgo growth opportunity, and I say that to my kids too. I let them know that that's what it is when they're going through something. So, yeah, it's been a lot. So I'm excited to be doing it and I'm feeling in a flow sometimes with it.
Speaker 1:The best times for me are not always when I can record the flow that's coming through me, so I have to kind of work with that, but I I really love it when I'm doing it. I always ask for guidance before and I'm just hoping that I can reach some more people and start connecting with people and then use it as a platform to, you know, maybe start teaching some classes or doing some workshops, or maybe doing more coaching, doing more individual coaching, which I love to do with adults too. Or maybe I might even meet some more children through there, because I do the virtual with kids and so I'm pretty excited about that chapter. It's new still, I mean I only have three episodes out, but everything inspires me and I always used to say there's a teacher in everything you know there is, and so I'll just get inspired about something, and then I'll think, and that's connected to that, and here's an episode.
Speaker 2:So you know like you just get so excited about life. Yeah, that's actually true. I also often I get off calls and my friends and they're like you know, this could have been an episode on your podcast and I'm like it's so true, like how the conversations when you're in this space, the conversations that you have, are so profound and so deep and there's so many realizations you know, just from listening to other people's stories and hearing things from their perspective sometimes can kind of trigger something in you to see things in a different way. And then it's like, oh, wow, like, and then that's why we all grow together and I think like it's all about of coming more of people get coming together as communities rather than competition and trying to be better than each other. It's like, no, actually we get a lot further when we are working together as a team and like rising together absolutely.
Speaker 1:I. I love the way that's what people say. You know, there's a lot of this in the world. There's a lot. I see so much beauty and so much goodness in this world and the kids that are coming up now have so many gifts and people that are older are realizing their gifts. These conversations are becoming more they're they're mainstream conversations. What we're talking about energy, work and angels if that's what you're into and just the, the oneness, the consciousness of oneness.
Speaker 1:I feel like we're coming so far in so many ways and that's where I keep my focus, because where my mind goes is where my energy goes to, and I keep my focus on those things.
Speaker 1:I don't watch news.
Speaker 1:I don't get involved in any of that, because I work with children and I can't come from that place and also because I don't want to come from that place.
Speaker 1:I want all my energy to be focused on the greatest good and the good for the collective right now, and there's a lot of things to be happy about, a lot of things to be grateful for in life and the way we are unifying with each other now. Even this, like I'm not a social media person, it has forced me to get on social media and I'm grateful for it, because I wouldn't be doing this with you right now if we hadn't met that way. And I'm grateful that I can do the tutoring virtually, because my kids are in Colorado, I'm in South Carolina, I'm ready for some clients to come here, but we're new, so I haven't started with any kids here yet. So, thank goodness for all those things that I used to say, oh, it's mucking up my life or it takes away the human connection, it doesn't. You really can't close a door on anything. You know, I think these are great times that we live in right now.
Speaker 2:They're exciting and, yes, there are some things going on that we need to dig in and work even harder to bring about the light, because light eradicates dark period yeah, and I think that personally, and you know, uh, when I look at what's going on, it's like the more that the light shines, the more it's gonna shine onto the darkness so that the darkness can crumble and, you know, be released. But it's, like you, it's not going to just disappear overnight, like the light has to be shown on to the darkness, and and I think that it's such exciting times that we are here. When you look at it from that perspective, there's we have so many, so much better opportunities than any of the generations before us had, and I think that is like really exciting.
Speaker 1:I wake up every day and it started when I had the heart attack, because I started asking why am I here? And then I would say show me why I'm here today. And I was at a sad point, Just like then. Show me why. And the signs would come. Somebody would text me, Somebody would say I need tutoring for my child, Somebody would tell me that they love me and they were thinking of me. I would hear a song that resonated with me and every day now still, I wake up and when I'm meditating I ask please, show me, Please show me why I'm here today. And I'm always shown, I always get signs of why I'm here and I love it. I love it Because I know I'm here for a reason. But it's nice to get that confirmation.
Speaker 2:So if you want to just let everyone know where they can find your podcast, I will also have your podcast listed in the description so that they can click on it to find it thank you.
Speaker 1:My podcast name is just count me in and you can find me there. I also have a Facebook page. Just count me in, sari Stone. It's S-A-R-I-S-T-O-N-E. And then I'm also on Instagram. Just count me in and I think that's Sari Stone, 2025, but they can find me.
Speaker 2:I'm connected on that, so, and on X, yes, and on X too, so I'm on all of it and I have all of your links listed below you as well, so you can just go and click below the podcast and go find you on all the platforms. And is your podcast on Spotify and Apple? It's on everything.
Speaker 1:Amazon, spotify, apple and some places I've never heard of. I'll put it out into the universe.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for coming on to my show today thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:It has been delightful. I just love being in your presence. You have such bright, shiny, like bubbly kind of energy. You're really a gift to be around. I'm very sensitive to people's energy, so I can tell you it's it always it's. I've only talked to you a couple times and it just uplifts me. Whenever I talk to you, I get such a good, happy, happy feeling in my heart. So I I'm glad that you're doing what you're doing. I am listening to your podcast now and it's and it's a bright spot in the world, and keep shining your light. Thank you so much for joining me today. If you like this episode, please let me know. Stop by at social media, on Instagram or my Facebook page. Just count me in and please leave a comment. If there's anybody that you think could benefit from this episode, please forward it to them, and I look forward to seeing you next time. We're all in this together.