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The Last Shall Be First: Finding Peace in Your Season of Solitude

• Trusted Voices • Season 2 • Episode 11

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Have you ever felt an inexplicable shift within—where external accomplishments suddenly feel hollow and something deeper calls to you? This conversation with Laura King explores the unmistakable signs of spiritual awakening and offers guidance for those navigating this profound transformation.

Laura shares her personal catalyst moment: learning she was losing her hearing forced her to confront deeper questions about her purpose and relationships. This wake-up call mirrors what many experience—a moment that demands we see beyond our carefully constructed identities and recognize something more meaningful calling us forward.

We dive into the challenging transition from self-sufficiency to surrender, where Laura admits, "I can't believe I'm 42 years old and I've never allowed people to truly help me before." This vulnerability reveals how awakening often requires us to shed the very traits we once wore as badges of honor—our independence, our ability to "do it all."

For those feeling stuck while watching others accelerate, we offer perspective on the sacred purpose of waiting seasons. There's profound wisdom in learning to be last, in developing patience that eventually reveals unique gifts only accessible through this humbling experience.

Perhaps most powerful is our discussion of slowing down to catch "God's wave." When we stop frantically paddling and surrender to divine timing, we discover a force ready to carry us further than our own striving ever could. This metaphor beautifully captures the essence of spiritual awakening—learning to partner with something greater than ourselves rather than exhausting ourselves through force and control.

Whether you're beginning to question your purpose, feeling called to something deeper, or already in the midst of transformation, this conversation offers both validation and practical guidance for your journey. What might become possible if you stopped paddling so hard and allowed yourself to be carried?

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Mondo:

All right, we are back. Miss Laura King shout out to the podcast listeners Thanks for joining us as we lean into this heavenly human podcast where we help you find fulfillment. And we said we're just going to go with the flow. No notes, just flow. And so, podcast listeners, this is a flow session, and so we will start like we normally start and just check in with each other. So, laura, as I check in with you, how are you feeling?

Mondo:

I am having a great day, Fondo you feeling I am having a great day, Mondo, that is amazing, because the last session you were just like I almost cried before we started. And so a couple of weeks later, you're just like, nope, everything has rebounded, even though you rebounded right after that, uh, the other week. But but you're feeling good, You're feeling great. Why is?

Laura:

that there's not. It's going to sound so bizarre, but there's really nothing in my external world that's changed. It's all my internal work that is keeping me. So grounded is the word. I have a tendency I get really excited and I just like I think, all this energy above my swirling above my head and my thing, it's like I have to ground it into the earth, and so, um, for me it's just been this continual. I'm trusting you God. I'm trusting you God, and, like every day, it gets easier with this faith walk.

Mondo:

Yeah, yeah, would you? We probably talked about this before, but just to refresh the memory of the audience, when you actually wake up in the morning, is there a conversation or a routine that, like you and God have to? Like? Start your day off that way so you can feel grounded?

Laura:

So, before my two feet hit the ground, it's always a thank you, cause it's a thank you Like I have this beautiful gift of life and I'm thankful that I have this day, and I'm grateful, and so I usually before I get out of bed. I've told this to many people before, but I'd love for you to know. This too, is that I play a movie in my mind before I get up, and that movie is all the major scenes of the day and, like I've already like this scene we've already done.

Laura:

Okay, it was awesome.

Mondo:

Yeah.

Laura:

But no, like we're laughing, we're smiling, we're having a great time, and I get to do that throughout the day.

Mondo:

That's dope.

Laura:

And like moments of I think about when I'm greeting. Oh my gosh, it's so fun when I pick up my son Crosby. Every day we do this running hug and it's just our thing. Like he goes across the classroom and he just runs at me and I lift him up and I lift him all the way up and then we just hug and I'm like I look forward to that, like that is a highlight of my day and, um, like I'm like literally tearing up just thinking about it, because these are the moments that I want to emphasize, like these are the life moments. It's not me answering 50 emails, it's like the moments with the humans that I love.

Mondo:

So here's a. So here's a super, just curious question, because I love cinema. So when you just explained that moment, the way I visualized it, it was in slow motion.

Laura:

Is it in slow motion for you? Duh, it's always in slow motion. There's always some amazing song in the background. Like I literally love moments coupled with music, there's something that just that makes my soul just sing.

Mondo:

Okay, yeah.

Laura:

And yeah, I don't even know Like there's other moments during the day I'm like, yeah, that should be set to music. Like, yeah, that should be set to music.

Mondo:

Okay, oh man. So you have a whole theater in your mind in the morning before you get out to bed.

Laura:

But then I do it throughout the day too, where, let's say, I'm going into an important meeting, I like, will close my eyes and I will ask myself how did this get to go? It's that pause, the intentions that I set. You know like before entering a meeting that could be a really important meeting. I'm like God, give me the words, give me the right words that you would like me to use, and so everything feels like it's just a surrender at this point in my life.

Mondo:

I think that is that's so telling. Yes, and we have a similar strategy. I don't play the scene in my mind, but I am intentionally asking God to give me the words, because I look at the story as like all right, god, your will is going to be done regardless, right? It's like an ocean wave that nobody can stop, and so I have made the choice to, like figure out how do I tag team with that wave? Like, how, how am I in service of that wave, which means I have to learn how to surf it. So I'm always asking God, like please give me the words to compliment this wave where, historically, I thought I was the wave. You know, I thought I created everything around me. And then God was like well, let me smack you with this wave and now you recognize that you're not going to smack you.

Mondo:

Yeah, wipeout moment. I don't know if anybody serves I never have. But what I've experienced through this journey is really embracing the idea of like, how do I become a tag team partner with God? Of like, how do I become a tag team partner with God? And the environments that I'm going to be in are the environments. The outcome is the outcome, but what words am I saying to support the narrative? And for me, it's really about those words, because the right words can change the trajectory of the room or shift the energy. And so to your point, god, what words do you want me to use? Right In the beginning, with God, was the word so like cool, please help me deliver the words that you would like me to use to be in service to you. So, tag team high five to that.

Laura:

The other thing that I think is a really healthy practice is I try to get outside as quickly as possible in the morning. I mean get like sunlight on my eyes, be outside. I mean my neighbors know that I'm the weird one. I take off my shoes and I literally ground in the grass.

Mondo:

Okay.

Laura:

Like that. I mean, that's how much Laura needs to ground is. I take off my shoes and I'm doing my yoga poses in my front yard. I mean it's. It's at this point where I've got neighbors that like they love it, they absolutely love it.

Mondo:

Yeah.

Laura:

I'm the. I am the oddball.

Mondo:

Yeah, definitely. If you have new neighbors, move in. They're going to be like honey. Do you see that lady outside every morning? What is she doing?

Laura:

I was like why would I want to be inside when I can be outside?

Mondo:

Yeah.

Laura:

That's what's going through my head. Yeah, because my husband's asked me like Laura, you can do that inside. I'm like I know, but I would prefer to be with the nature.

Mondo:

Okay, yeah, we are opposite in that, for I, for the most part, I am never barefoot outside.

Laura:

Oh, you should try it, man.

Mondo:

like the bottom of my feet are so sensitive, I just I have to have socks on everywhere. I don't even know why. It's been that way my whole life, but you know, such is life, I guess.

Laura:

Okay, whenever my boys are acting up, this is my strategy Take off your shoes and your socks and let's go run around outside. That changes their super hyper energy and it like anytime there's any behavior problems. My go-to is how quickly can I get these humans outside?

Mondo:

dang, that's cool. That's cool. I just feel like maybe my energy never gets that high. I'm so chill yeah, different, like my energy needs to be grounded yeah, yeah, and somebody's probably like mondo, can you come with a little bit more energy and you're like so chill, so maybe I should start turning on some loud music and rocking it out or something, I don't know.

Laura:

You, do you.

Mondo:

Yeah, what else we got?

Laura:

Well, remember I told you I said what I would have loved to listen to three years ago was a podcast episode. That was like how do you know if you're going through an awakening?

Mondo:

Yes, how do you know? How do we know? Okay.

Laura:

So not that we have all the answers, but let's ask. I mean, think about this. Like you told me and you've said this, it's like you were asking God for a better story, correct, this is like you were asking god for a better story, correct? Right?

Laura:

and I am looking back and I'm like whoa, that was similar to me too like god, help me write a different story yeah, yeah it like what used to be satisfying, what used to fill me up, what used to fill me up just didn't fill me up anymore, and for me it was more of I would accomplish something, and then I would feel empty. It was all the doing, doing, doing.

Mondo:

Yeah, let me piggyback that for a second, because I watched a short clip from Will Smith the other day because he just put out a new album. I haven't listened to it, but he's doing a lot of interviews.

Laura:

He's still making music.

Mondo:

Right, it's like the first album he's made in 20 years or something. I guess he challenged himself like I'm not supposed to be able to do this in my late 50s or whatever, so let me make an album, because everybody says that I'm not supposed to. But in this interview he talks about what you just said. He's like some people experience rock bottom and they have to make that shift. And he was like for him he identified cliff top and he was like he was at the top of the cliff and going and producing a new movie or winning an award or whatever the thing was.

Mondo:

He didn't get the satisfaction that he once got.

Mondo:

And so he reflected he was just like I clearly have to do something different, because there's not a higher cliff to climb, I have to now go down.

Mondo:

And so he just it was really fascinating because that going down is kind of like now you have to lean into that introspective part, right, like it's not about jumping off of a cliff, but it's just like you've climbed the ladder enough that, like now you need to go within and figure out how you find that sense of peace without all the extra stuff. And what I hear you say is you got to a point in your journey where you were like these things that I'm doing is not bringing me the type of joy that maybe they once did, because I've accomplished these things over and over and over and if I do this for the next 30 years, this is going to be a not so good story. And you decided to make a change. My question to you then is was there a defining moment where, like the shift that you made, you were like this is an awakening journey, like? How did like that word even enter into your awareness?

Laura:

That's such a great question.

Mondo:

How did I even come, even enter into your?

Laura:

awareness. That's such a great question. How did I even come up with the word awakening? Because, if I'm looking back, I think it first actually started when I found out that I was losing my hearing. That was a huge shock to think, gosh, there could be a day where I can't hear things. And so I went there. I'm like what would that be like to experience life without sound?

Mondo:

Dang, that is when you talk about alarm going off wake up?

Laura:

That was a wake up. Yeah, what, what? Alarm going off. Wake up? That was a wake up like, yeah, what? And now that I can reflect on that, that allowed me to just again it's like it's just ask different questions. Am I it just had me pause and reflect? I'm like, am I being who I'm supposed to be? Am I it just had me pause and reflect? I'm like, am I being who I'm supposed to be? Am I showing these people that I love, that I love them? Like I just I almost went, not that I was even dying, but I almost went towards the. This is the end. What would I do differently?

Mondo:

Yeah.

Laura:

How would I show up differently? And that may. I made some pretty big changes. Um, that was what 2000, 17, 18. And that's really where I was. Um, I was pretty selfish. I was, um, I was wanting to do things in my time and I wasn't always respectful for other people's time. There was some major character flaws that I began working on.

Mondo:

Well, now I am starting to recognize why you and I might be so close. I am starting to recognize why you and I might be so close. This is the first time in the entire time that I've known you that I heard you say oh yeah, I was selfish, I was selfish. I've never heard you say that before, and I pretty much had selfish written on my forehead, and so that's fascinating. We both had this intersection as a moment where we had to choose to not be selfish and embrace a life that was more selfless and prioritizing others in a way that we haven't done historically and that changes things. I'll tell you, for me, it Driving in today, right to come to this podcast, I was like God. You know I am spent, like I don't want to use the word exhausted because I don't think it's exhausted. I don't think it's exhausted, but I'm just at this intersection where I'm like God. I feel like you've taught me or guided me through a journey to learn everything that I needed to learn being last. And so I'm bringing this up because All the years of my life where I was selfish, it was because I felt it was my duty to be in front, to lead, and so the contrast of that was like nope, be last.

Mondo:

So surrendering all this stuff and still showing up for people. I was always a last in the room, like everybody had quote, unquote, more than me, more success, more stuff, more whatever, and I had to offer a way or an opportunity to pivot being last. And so it was like like this is how I am coaching you to put other people first, you have to first recognize what it feels like to be last in line, and so for me, it was this extreme version of having to experience selflessness by being last in the line. And so I'm coming full circle, I'm driving up, and I was so much in my head driving here I actually went a different way.

Mondo:

I like missed the exit I was supposed to take, and God knows my mind, because I have always said like yo, god, if there's a heaven on earth, I'm definitely on the porch right, it's just something that I've always said. And coming up this other back way or whatever, I'm like God, you got to give me something. And then I see a street and it's like porch way, and I'm like I started crying because I was like, oh, thanks God for giving me a sign. Like yeah, mondo, you are spent, but you're also on the porch, so keep going, and so putting a bow on that. To me, that's what I feel like the awakening process is like Right, it's going through this season where you are in union, in concert with the wisdom of God, and like that's what you have awakened to, where it's not just your thoughts, it's a dance with you and the creator.

Laura:

And I think with all. I think about all the things going on in the outside world right now and I am not an avid, I'm not reading all, I'm not getting consumed by it, but I'm like I watch headlines. I'm not reading all, I'm not getting consumed by it, but I'm like I watch headlines. I think about old Laura used to get so caught up in things that were outside of her, all the things happening in the external world. I let the external dictate how I felt inside, and I think the difference in doing this work is, oh, it's way more important for me to generate these feelings inside, because that inner world creates my outer world. Yeah, and so I'm like I'm interacting with just the best people. Like I feel like, even like yesterday, I'm like everywhere I went, everyone had a smile on their face, everyone was kind and compassionate and all of my interactions were full of joy and I had some incredibly meaningful conversations. I'm like, if that's heaven on earth, like let's sign me up for a bunch more of those days.

Mondo:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Laura:

Like there was nothing from the external that entangled me Right, like it got me into a fear and separation and lack and limitation. I'm like I was able to maintain my vibration, my like vibration, unconditional love.

Mondo:

Yeah.

Laura:

Right, like I get to emanate that and be that. And then I'm seeing it reflected back at me and I'm also like do other people experience this? Yeah, because the day before was not a great day. Yeah, the day before I was well, this is going wrong and this is going wrong, and this is going wrong and this is going wrong, and all I focused on was all the things that were going wrong and that was a pretty crappy day.

Mondo:

Yeah, one thing that you just said and it struck me when I was on my trip last weekend to Kentucky for volleyball with cadence. It was after a game we got in and Black Panther 1 and Black Panther 2 were on just some regular TV, and I had always been connected to the word Wakanda because I was just like, well, you rearrange that and it's awakened, right. And so, as I was watching it, and so, as I was watching it, the material, that kind of like, separates their culture or whatever the thing that they have is called vibranium. And as I was watching it, it was just like, yeah, that's just symbolic, like vibranium is just their vibration, right, like they found a way to vibrate in this way that allows them to live this divine life or whatever. And so, when you were just talking, you were just like, yeah, like I went through this awakening process and I choose to vibrate at this way and wherever I'm at, I then become the vibe I lead because of how I am showing up.

Mondo:

And so I'm just highlighting that, because we all have our own, like random ways in which we make sense of the world. World, for me, it's story, right, find a way Like what am I watching, and how is it aiding or supporting my belief that every story everywhere is a version or a variant of the same story, pointing to Christ, or that vibration or that heavenly kind of essence that you live with right, where God is just walking within you. And so I just wanted to highlight that you saying these words and just talking about your vibration and you having control of your environment, because your environment is just you right and then everything that happens in your life is the response to how you are choosing to vibe that day. Agreeing with that or a version of that statement is part of the awakening process.

Laura:

It's am I? Am I a victim or am I helping create this?

Mondo:

Yeah.

Laura:

Right, victimhood or creatorship.

Mondo:

Let me ask a question. What would you say as you Turned into a creator and you started this awakening process? Can you think of a moment where you you knew for sure like all right, God, this is my way, this is Laura's selfish way, you want me to go this other way? And you had to choose to follow God's wisdom as opposed to yours, the way that you had been doing it historically? Does that question make sense?

Laura:

Yeah, it does make sense. Well, if I rewind to 2023,. Well, if I rewind to 2023, I wanted what is about to unfold this year, so in 2023,. It was why I felt like I was supposed to do something really important in the world. Why am I not doing it already?

Mondo:

Okay.

Laura:

I was so mad I wanted and the thing is like I couldn't even put my finger on what it was, but I knew that it was like I mean, this is so weird to say, but I, when I first put up, put out my first pursue your purpose workshop, I'm like everyone should sign up. Everyone like everyone needs this, everyone needs this. And I was so like people just need to sign up and I will have three a month and I will make. I will make all the money I need to make and that be good.

Mondo:

Yep.

Laura:

And in my head I'm like that's what I'm doing.

Mondo:

Yep.

Laura:

And then no one signed up, that was because I was forcing it. It was all in my ego.

Mondo:

Okay.

Laura:

Whereas if I think about what I'm preparing for a purpose workshop now I pray, I pray God, who needs to be here, who needs to be in this room? And people's names just come to me oh my gosh, and I just have to nudge them. Oh my gosh, and I just have to nudge them. And so many have accepted the nudge and their life is totally different now than it was before that workshop. And I don't want to say that it was me. I want to say that it was all God. So me being obedient to letting him dictate my actions makes all the difference.

Mondo:

I love that.

Laura:

Oh, like, why did I think I had to strive and struggle and force it, when truly it's just allowing it like, not forcing, and it can be easy Like. And then I'm just so touched by these individuals, transformations, and some I play a big part in, because we continue on and we have a, you know, a coaching relationship and others, you know, maybe not, but it's still a hey, I see you doing this, I'm cheering you on, like, it's so fulfilling.

Mondo:

That's dope. I want to talk to um, I don't even know what I call you, but I'm just going to say number four. This is something that just is kind of in my spirit. So Laura just talked about having this belief that she was supposed to do something in 2023 and it didn't manifest until 2025. And through that journey, she was like it's supposed to happen now, now, now, now, now, and now that it's happening two years later, there's some excitement around it, and when I say I want to talk to this number four person, it's because in my life, I feel like I'm the number four person, like last.

Mondo:

So like Laura's winning, other people in my life are winning and God is still saying Mondo, it's not your time yet.

Mondo:

And so I just really want to talk to that person who notices a bunch of people starting to accelerate, but you're still on pause. I'm talking to you and I'm talking to myself at the same time Continue to have patience, continue to trust in God's plan, because there's just no other way around it. And so, like it's just it's resonating with me right now a lot because, like I'm just in that season of enduring being last this long, but also knowing that there's purpose to it Right. So Laura said now, when I start my purpose workshops, like I, pray like I there's a different type of spirit that I bring. And so I believe that, because I've chosen to be last, and some other people who may have to be last in their circle, because you choose to be last, there's going to be a unique gift, a unique thing that, like you have, and you have alone, simply because you were the one who was called to be last in your circle- so, oh, that is so beautiful, that is so.

Laura:

And there are so many people that need to hear that, yeah, the awakening, oh, that is so beautiful, that is so.

Mondo:

And there are so many people that need to hear that. Yeah, the awakening.

Laura:

And then I'm called to speak to the person that things are starting to accelerate, yeah, and some of the things that you've been dreaming about are coming true, coming true. So do not forget what this is all about. Do not go back into ego, yeah, do not go back into ego, and ego, I heard the other day, is edging God out.

Mondo:

I love that.

Laura:

I think that came from Wayne Dyer.

Mondo:

I don't know who Wayne Dyer is Edging God out. Oh, that came from Wayne Dyer. I don't know who Wayne Dyer is that you got out.

Laura:

Oh, I'll just Wayne Dyer.

Mondo:

Okay.

Laura:

I think I've read a dozen of his books. He was way before his time in bringing spirituality to the masses.

Mondo:

That's dope. So let me ask what, what would or what does it look like for like your ego creeping back in right now? So somebody is like okay, Laura, you've shifted. So, like you say, don't let my ego creep back in, Do you have a?

Laura:

control, all control. Okay, like I need to know exactly how this turns out. I need to have all these steps, like it's so it's all control. It's like me gripping the steering wheel and not letting anyone else influence me and what I'm learning in real time is, oh my gosh, there's a much bigger mission and movement and I got to let people in and so, oh my God, I'm learning Laura, who has just been the, you know, I'll figure it out on my own and I don't need anyone's help. I really I kind of liked that for so many years. Like I stood in my own pride of, yeah, I got four kids and I do this and I do that, and yeah, I do it all. But now I get to allow the help, allow people that want to help me, and I've never done that before.

Mondo:

That's big. It's big one because you recognize like, yeah, my pride, like you wore that like a badge of honor.

Laura:

Sure did.

Mondo:

I can do all this stuff, Everything. I am undefeated and you're like. But having a squad and leaning on other folks that you may not have historically makes the journey more fun.

Laura:

It's the richness of the relationships and I'm getting to know people at such an intimate level and seeing where they are getting hung up and like their breakthroughs and just the shared learnings that we can have together. I mean that's the richness of this life. It's like when you get to do it with other people and I don't know, I just love to hear their stories. I love to just experience the wins together and the losses too. It's just um, I can't believe. I'm 42 years old and I've never allowed people to truly help me before.

Mondo:

I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of humans that have experienced something similar, but would you say that it was more your ego and pride, you wanting to be number one in front, or was it a distrust?

Laura:

in the capabilities of others. I thought I could do everything better I would one.

Mondo:

Let me shout out coalition nine, because laura just said yes so.

Mondo:

Similarly, I thought I was the most capable and competent human in the world. So I was like, oh, all these things that need to happen, like I can do them all at a solid enough level that I'm going to win. And I noticed what mastery look, sound and felt like around me in different verticals. I was like, oh, bro, you're so confused, meaning to myself, you're so confused to think or believe that you're even close to touching the greatness of that person in their arena, right. And so to Laura's point.

Mondo:

Sometimes our biggest blind spot is us not recognizing what greatness or mastery is outside of ourselves. And like somebody next door to you or up the street has put in so much work on a specialized, like gift that they've nurtured for the last 30 years, like gift that they've nurtured for the last 30 years, you can't touch that Right. But you partnering with them is like what's necessary to bring, like God's gift, the biggest gift, the biggest blessings to the world. Because you were open enough to lean on somebody and say you know, I know I can't see what you see. And vice versa, you believe you can't see what I see. Great, we are just able to honor each other's gifts. I know I can't see what you see, and vice versa you believe you can't see what?

Laura:

I see Great things happen. We are just able to honor each other's gifts so beautifully. Now, like I'm so eyes wide open into, like, what's your gift? What's your gift? What's your gift? Like I want to understand everyone's gifts.

Mondo:

Yeah, yeah. So okay, what would you say is your one or one-two gift, like, what's your top gift? If Laura walks into a room in contrast to everyone else, what is Laura's gift?

Laura:

The positive energy that I bring.

Mondo:

Hmm, hmm.

Laura:

Like I just bring that belief, like in everyone and everyone, and like a let's go, let's go yeah, take your shoes off, let's run outside.

Mondo:

Okay, I love that. I think for me it is just being an active listener and then being able to reflect back what I heard as a mirror but reflected back in somebody's blind spot. I remember growing up, everybody used to talk about my big ears. My ears were huge. I'll probably have to post a picture of my ears as a kid on this podcast because they were just out there and so, like when I think about how God plants seeds in the story way before you even recognize it, right, like everybody, talking about my big ears was just like seeds being planted. Like no, don't run away from that, be an active listener. Like shut your mouth, be quiet and listen. And uh, now I like receive that with all glory and I just try to be active.

Laura:

How much is that gift needed right now? Yeah, for sure how many people need to truly be be heard.

Mondo:

Mm-hmm, and I feel like we're offering that on this podcast, right. Hence send in your questions. Yes, help guide us on things that you may want us to talk about, because hopefully we can unravel or unwrap some of these taboo things that may not be talked about in a theme that we have. This is a subjective question. Is there a completion, like can you be done with being awakened?

Laura:

Like. What does that look like for you? The word that's coming to mind is realization. Realization, and when we heed the guidance that comes from above and we begin to look and act and just go about our days a little bit differently than we used to, you are in full realization. It's almost the embodiment of this new you. Yeah, and I think again. I mean, I'm still very much like a student, a sponge. I'm like I'm here for it, right. I'm like I'm here for it, right. The coolest part about the last few months for me is I'm literally witnessing my own becoming. There's moments where I have to just like stop. I'm like this ideal version of Laura.

Laura:

I am her in this scene, like with my kids, or handling a certain situation, Like I am her, wow. And I just have to like pause and really take that in, because that's that's the beauty of this awakening is that you're slowing down. You're slowing down to realize these moments where old you would have done this and new you does this. And by slowing down and bringing that awareness so front and center, you are building the circuitry. This feels good. More of this, please. Circuitry, muscle memory, like repetition, repetition. Okay, I can do that again In the next situation. I can pause, and that I think of Viktor Frankl, of the space between stimulus and response. That's your choice. You can choose Between stimulus and response. There is a space. What are you going to do with that space? Old Laura, kids doing something I would rage Rage. I was not proud of her. New Laura we dance it out. Remember, we're dancing and I have to reflect at the end of the day that that is my biggest accomplishment.

Mondo:

It's nothing external, like I won an award at work or I got the most I mean you can fill in the blank of whatever these other was practicing my Laura morning routine and visualizing something in my brain and it tied back to the earlier statement of like God's wave, to the earlier statement of like God's wave, and so I was envisioning Laura in the middle of the ocean, like paddling super fast, super fast, super fast, and like feeling like she was going to get to the bank faster because of how fast her arms were going to like get there. But she said then she chose to slow down. And because she chose to slow down, like God's wave started to like merge beneath her and then she was able to ride that wave. And because she slowed down that was the only reason she was able to ride the wave was because she paused and she reflected and she looked around like I'm going too fast. And the reason why I wanted to reiterate that is because the things that Laura and I say, if you just listen to every podcast in succession or in order just like quick, like in a day you would be like they're saying a lot of the same things.

Mondo:

Just like quick, like in a day, you would be like they're saying a lot of the same things. And the reason is because, like this is not new wisdom, right? Like slowing down and pausing and focusing on the present is something that you can find other wise people say all over the globe, all throughout history, and so we're just doing our best to say it in a way that you might receive it this time. Like slowing down is just part of the process. Like just slow down Literally, like I've been moving this fast, I need to slow down. But you might be thinking, if I slow down, I am going to miss something. I'm not going to be able to reach the goals that I have set because my goals require me to hustle all day, every day. Yes, your goals require you to hustle all day, every day. God's goals requires you to slow down to find that wave and once you find it, then be creative with your hustle right. But you just have to have enough patience to slow down and catch that wave.

Laura:

So, do you know, what I found myself doing is because I'm integrating all this wisdom. I re-listened to this podcast. I like I think I said something, probably a couple weeks ago, but I need to hear again. And it's like my higher self knows like okay, laura, go listen to that again. And it's so bizarre and cool that I'm like, oh, yep, thanks God needed to hear that. And I literally hear it from myself hey, that's Yep, thanks God.

Mondo:

Needed to hear that and I literally hear it from myself. Hey, that's so real, all right. Another like tactical thing that somebody might want to choose to do. So Laura was a writer. I was a like audio verbal documenter. So like, when you start going through this awakening season, like document how you feel some way, put it into a drop box, put it into a journal, put it somewhere, but, to Laura's point, eventually you're going to go back to it somehow some way and there's going to be some nuggets that your higher self dropped in there for you and there's going to be some nuggets that your higher self dropped in there for you. So like for me, I narrated my journey on Patreon, but let me be like real, intentional and tell you why I did it on Patreon.

Mondo:

The reason why I put my content on Patreon was because, subconsciously, if I were to put it on a LinkedIn or YouTube or Facebook or IG, I know that I would have been trying to talk to somebody else, like I would have been saying language to try to get a like or to a love or somebody to hop in my comments.

Mondo:

But because I just knew I was talking to me, I had to put it in a place where I wasn't getting that external validation or response. It was just coming out naturally. So not saying that you need to put it on Patreon. I'm saying you can just record on your phone every Sunday a message to self and then a year later just start listening to those Sunday messages back Like, oh man, like I did say that, oh, thanks for thanks God for helping me say that 12 months ago, because now that applies right now and so it's just a super hack that God plant seeds for us through our own words, and it's quite wild how it happens that, oh my gosh, if I don't say yes to the dreams that God's placed in my heart, then the whole plan like I'm leaving people behind or I'm like I'm not doing my duty to help humanity as we ascend.

Laura:

There's so much. It's so much more than a business. It's like what I came down. It's like, laura, this is not about winning a business, this is so much bigger.

Mondo:

This is not about winning in business. There is so much significance in that statement for so many reasons. Let me try to piggyback it in a way that is hitting me in this moment. So I remember back when I was in my hustle season as an entrepreneur and I, like had business partners or people I work with closely, and I remember, you know, we would have like strategic sessions all the time and like I would say something that I thought was brilliant and it wouldn't hit in that moment, and then, like four months later, somebody that was in that room would say the same thing and forget where it came from, as if there was their own brilliant idea. And I was like, it's okay, it's good, yeah, cool, you're supposed to have that, whatever.

Mondo:

But it happened so frequently that I was like, well, mondo, maybe that's just your role, like maybe you are supposed to plant a seed and then let that seed blossom down the line. And the reason why I bring that up is because in this awakening kind of spiritual quest, there are things that we or you are going to say out loud to somebody else, that you're going to be like this is truth, like my mind was blown so much. This is it, but you saying it to this other person or other people, you're just planting a seed, like knowing that they are probably not going to get it right now, because it's not time for them to get it. They have to put sunlight on it, they have to water it for it to start to mature in their mind. And so to Laura's point. This is not like business where you can win, like you say something or you go do something, put out a product and you get a return right away. Like it doesn't work that way. It is like you pouring out so much love and compassion and kindness and just being present in hopes that three years later, somebody's like man.

Mondo:

Laura, when we had that conversation in July of 2022, like I noticed that that was the moment that changed my life, right. And so this awakening season if you are in it or you are anticipating, wanting to step into it, just be aware that a lot of people around you aren't going to receive your words right away. It's just not how it works, and you have to be responsible to not let your ego be bruised enough that you stop or get frustrated or remove yourself in a way, because you can't take it personal, and I'm saying this with every fiber in my being because, being last, I have had to endure saying words so many times over and over, and over and over and feel like that did absolutely nothing, but having faith that, like, god has a plan for that person in those words, six months from now, and I have to be okay with that.

Laura:

So again getting to your immense amount of patience, immense amount of patience. So, I think of you often when I'm like, if I'm getting impatient, I think of Mondo. I'm like, if I'm getting impatient, I think of Mondo.

Mondo:

I need, I need. I need another role model to look Not actually like like watching sci fi stuff does like help support my patience, because it helps me just look at the broadness of the universe and just how big, how long everything has been around.

Mondo:

And it's just like Mondo, it's still only been three years, right, like in a grand scheme of things. And so, like, continue to be patient, continue to endure, but anyways I lean on. I don't know what Matthew verse it is, but eventually, like the first will be last and the last will be first, like I hang my hat on that Like, eventually there is going to be a moment where somehow, some way, god just changes the story and that person who knew they were in last place and stayed there, and did their best to support everybody else in last place will somehow find themselves in a position that is first.

Mondo:

I don't know what that is.

Laura:

Yeah.

Mondo:

But I have faith that that is going to be the outcome.