Crystal Energy Made Simple

In today's episode, I talk with Mart from Canny Crystals about how manifestation, grief, and spiritual tools collide in real life and lead to rapid change. 

We unpack crystals in a grounded way, from intuition and frequency to practical choices for stress, confidence, and energetic protection. 

We talk about:
• Mart’s early manifestation story and the £3,500 turning point 
• Grief, mental health, and why crystals became a daily support tool 
• Building Canny Crystals from a simple product idea  
• Limitless and the role of science in spirituality 
• Self-love practices and mindset shifts that create real momentum 
• Vibrational frequency, chakras, and using crystals as intention anchors 
• What it means to feel “drawn” to a crystal
• Moldavite as a catalyst for transformation, plus grounding pairings 
• Crystal size myths and why small stones still matter 
• Grounding picks for stress, including Amethyst, Howlite, Labradorite 

Join us for a beautifully grounded conversation about how these beautiful stones can impact our everyday.

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Where to find Mart:

@cannycrystals

www.cannycrystals.co.uk

Lots of love,

Speak soon,

Rachael xx

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Transcript

Welcome And Meet Mart

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Hello, I'm Rachel. You could say I'm a modern day Feng Shui consultant here to help you transform your home into a space that truly supports and uplifts you. My passion is showing you how to work with your home to unlock its full potential. I'm here to show you how to tap into the power that your home holds and make this powerful practice simple, accessible, and something everyone can use. Hello and welcome back to the Everyday Fang Shrey podcast. Today I fangirling about the guest I have for you. So this is somebody who I followed for a very long time, and just before I pressed record, I was explaining how crazy it is to me that I'm sitting here now having a conversation with them. And for anybody who questions whether the stuff that we're going to talk about today and the things that I talk about with Feng Shui work, then today, this moment right now is testament to the fact that it does. So without further ado, I'm going to introduce you to Mark from Canny Crystals. How are you, Mart? I'm very well.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

How are you?

SPEAKER_01 1:11

I'm good. Thank you. I'm good. I'm very excited. I think I might be shaking a little bit with energy and nerves. So just as I said to you earlier, I think most people who listen to me probably have heard of you. And I certainly talk about all the crystals that are in my house relatively regularly on my podcast. But for those that haven't, do you want to just give us a little intro to who you are, what you do, and how you came to be the crystal expert that everybody seems to know about?

The Secret And First Manifestation

SPEAKER_01 1:41

Am I the crystal expert?

SPEAKER_00 1:45

So my name is Mart. I was about to say I'm 38 and I'm from Newcastle, but that sounds a bit like a blind date intro, doesn't it? Cylla Black's about to pop out. So basically, I discovered crystals in 2019. But just to go back a couple of years before that, in 2017, I was around my friend's house one night and I saw on his bedside table he had this book. And this book was like orange and brown and looked quite mysterious. And I went, What's that? And he went, Oh, it's a book called The Secret. You need to read it. It's absolutely amazing. I thought nothing of it because I thought it was a love novel, if I'm totally honest. The way that the little, you know, the wax stamp and the wax seal is on the front. I was like, what on earth is that? And then I think I was watching TV one day and the author of the book was doing an interview. And I was like, oh, it's some kind of spiritual book. I have no idea what it's about. But as long as I remember, like I've always been interested in spirituality. I've always gone to, you know, like open nights at spiritualist churches. I've always been interested in tarot. I've always watched like supernatural things on TV. And so I just thought, you know what, I'm going to give this book a read and just see what it's like. It was a self-help book. It was talking about manifestation and how you could basically bring something out of the universe into real life and reality. And I just thought, what have I got to lose? Now at the time, the book said to try and manifest something very specific. And at the time, I was about 30,000 pounds in debt. I was working in mental health in the NHS. And I was in one of those jobs where every single penny that I got out of my pay at the end of the month would be absorbed by bills in debt and I would have nothing left for myself. I hadn't had a holiday in so many years. So the first thing I was trying to manifest was this holiday to Thailand. And I can remember getting really clear on how much that would cost. And I summed it all up, and it was £3,500. And that was for flights, hotels, spending money to be able to do exactly what I wanted to do in Thailand. And so every single night I was going in the bath, I was playing like seagulls and sea noises. And I was lay there in the bath splashing the water over myself as if I was actually like lay on a beach somewhere and the water was lapping around me. And I can remember it being so intense that I literally had tears in my eyes because I was like, this is so relaxing. And one night I just went on Twitter and while I was scrolling through Twitter, I saw this little adver that said like contestants needed for game show. And when I clicked on it, it was the ITV game show called Tippin' Point with Ben Shepard, where you put these counters in the machine and you basically win money. And I just thought, what have I got to lose? So I apply for this TV show. A couple of weeks later, I get a phone call to say that I've been selected to go for an audition. A couple of weeks after that, I got a phone call to say, congratulations, you passed the audition, you're going to be on the show. And it'll be no surprise to you that the amount of money that I won on that show, because I was the winner, obviously. The amount of money that I won was £3,500. And it wasn't until I was on the train on the way home, like ringing my family, excited, telling them what had happened, that I kind of clicked. And I was like, oh my God, maybe I did this. And there's kind of like a light bulb moment when you think, was this me or was it coincidence? And it kind of balances out. And the whole time I was just thinking, oh, it's coincidence. Like, surely I didn't do this. Like there was still that doubt in my head. So for the next two years after that, until 2019, I had done nothing. I'd forgotten about the book, forgotten about manifestation, even though I saw it firsthand. And it wasn't until 2019 that I was just trundling along in life. One of my friends went on the ITV show Love Island.

Grief, Burnout, And A Turning Point

SPEAKER_00 5:34

While she was out there, I basically got left in charge of her social media. And the night of the final, I was on Cloud Nine. I'd been on BBC Radio One Breakfast that morning. I'd been on this morning the day before. Like things were just going at 100 miles an hour. And we went out that night, and my friend actually won Love Island that night. So I'd had a bit to drink. I'd got home at about one in the morning. And I was on cloud nine. The next morning, I remember waking up at around 6 a.m. and my phone was ringing. And I can just remember thinking, oh, this is going to be like some journalist wanting the first scoop or something like that. They've got me a number online or something. And when I saw it was my mum calling, my stomach dropped because I was like, my mom would never call like 6 a.m. Do you know what I mean? And as soon as I answered the phone, she was quite audibly upset and crying. And I my stomach just dropped. And I thought, what's what's going on here? And she said they hadn't wanted to notify me the night before because they knew how much that night meant to me. But unfortunately, while I was out celebrating, my granddad got took to hospital and he actually died in the ambulance on the way. And I can't remember, if I'm totally honest with you, Rachel, I can't remember the next three months. I feel like the funeral, I know I carry these coffin, but I can't remember it. I almost felt like a zombie over those next three months. And I was grieving really, really badly. And I just kept on going into work thinking, how am I supposed to help other people with their mental health and their struggles when I'm really struggling myself mentally? And so I'd had a one-to-one with my manager at the time, and she'd said, Look, we can see you're really struggling. We've got some trust further down the UK in Liverpool. We'd love to send you there for a week to work because they need this support. And it just means that you can get away from the Northeast, get away from everything that you're going through right now. It's almost like a little bit of a fresh start for a week. We'll put you up in a hotel, you can hire a car, blah, blah, blah. And I said, you know what? I've got nothing to lose. I'm going to go for it. And I feel like the stars kind of aligned because when I got down to Liverpool, I went into the higher car

First Crystals And A New Path

SPEAKER_00 7:44

place. And the girl who was behind the desk who was checking me in for the car was called Carly. She'd seen me on TV the week before. And she I told her my story. And she said, Do you know what would help you? And I said, What? And she said, crystals. And my first reaction to that was F off. That was what I said. Literally, I just said it. And she was like, No, I'm being serious. Crystals will really help you with your grieving. Thought nothing of it, totally forgot about her, added her on Instagram. And about a week later, she opened up this crystal shop online. And I thought, oh, that's why she was mentioning crystals because she's wanting me to buy crystals from her. And so I remember at the end of her first day, she'd said she hadn't had as many sales as she'd hoped for. And because of how lovely she'd been with us, I really felt sorry for her. And I sent her a message and I said, Look, I'm gonna send you 10 pounds. Please just send me any crystals that you think will help with grief. I kid you not, right? She sent me some crystals, and a couple of weeks after that, I felt like a different person. I was doing exactly what she told me to do. I was setting my intentions, I was putting them out in my garden in the sunlight, charging them under the full moon. I was working with them on a day-to-day basis, visualizing, meditating, carrying them around in my pocket, taking them to work, putting them on my desk, carrying them in my car. I felt like a different person two weeks later. And I thought, maybe there's something in this. So over the course of the next year, I'm a bit like you, I accrued over 200 of my own crystals. There wasn't a single room in my house that didn't have any crystals. Like even my downstairs bathroom, my toilets, my

Building Canny Crystals And Manifest

SPEAKER_00 9:20

everywhere in the house was just covered, right? And I remember five years ago in 2021, my birthday was coming up. I was thinking about the future and thinking about what I was going to be doing. Because I thought I can't really see myself working in the NHS like for much longer. It was really getting tiresome. And I can remember thinking, what else could I do? How could I make a little bit more money? Me and my partner were wanting to have a child. And I just thought, how can I make some more money? And I just had this idea pop into my head that was to pair a candle with a crystal and just sell it online. And at first I just thought, you know what, this'll be good, making money between friends and family. I can get these amazing crystals, pair them with candles, jobs are good in. And I was sat there one night trying to think up of a name so that I could claim a website to launch. And just as I was trying to think of a name, my granddaughter in my head as clear as day, and he said gankani. Now, my granddaughter is quite a Jordy expression. It means like go steady or take it easy. And he used to say that every single time that I left his house. And straight away my mind just went to, oh my god, canny crystals? I love alliteration. It's one of my love it. Yeah, it just popped into my head. And I thought, okay, canny crystals. I had a look. No other businesses called canny crystals. But you know what? I'm going to set this up, canicrystals.co.uk. I launched that website on my birthday five years ago, which is five years at the end of this month, and overnight sold out. So straight away the next day, I messaged my friend again. I said, I need more candles, I need more crystals. And I sold out again. And it just kept on going from there. And I remember thinking, I need to get myself out there. I'm going to put myself on TikTok. And at first, I was just doing faceless videos, holding up crystals, talking about them, and it was just a video of my hand. And then there was one day where I started talking about the moon just on a rant. And overnight, I think I gained about 55,000 followers on TikTok.

SPEAKER_02 11:26

Really?

SPEAKER_00 11:28

Went crazy. This was like within my first two weeks of using TikTok as well. I had no idea what I was doing. And after that, the podcast then blew up because I started a little podcast thinking, I think my whole reasoning behind it was I just wanted to share like the feeling and the enjoyment that I was getting out of it. And I think my passion really came across. And I thought if there was somebody else out there struggling with their mental health or grief like I was doing, I wanted them to be able to use crystals to get out of it and go from the depths of despair to exactly where I was and to be happy and content with life. And so over the last few years, things have grown. I've got an academy now which has, I think it's just over 30,000 members in it, going through courses and online teachings. I have a membership. Just last year I launched Manifest because I wanted to do something face to face rather than just over Zoom calls. Like Zoom was good for the pandemic, wasn't it? But you can't beat that real life, like being in the room around these people and feeling that energy. So I created a little event in Newcastle called Manifest because we're always traveling to London. Like London's always the closest event, things like this. So I thought, you know what? I'm going to have it in Newcastle. We're quite central between the north and the south of the country. And people came from South Africa, from New York, from Australia, from New Zealand.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Like five and a half hours doesn't seem too long now, does it?

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Do you know what? The the ladies that came from New York, it was a mother and daughter. They flew in, and I think the flights were something like 19 hours because they had like a layover somewhere. As soon as the event ended, they flew back. They only came to Newcastle just for that. And they said it was one of the most uh like incredible days ever. They absolutely loved it. And the feedback that we got from this was that it was absolutely amazing, but it was a lot to fill into one day. So I was like, you know what? Let's go bigger this year. So this year is over two days. So I feel like it's grown from my love of crystals to then teaching people about crystals via the academy and the podcast to then let's talk about everything else. Feng shui, mindset, manifestation, spirituality, colour therapy. And I've just grown it and grown it to the point where it's now this absolute beast that absolutely overwhelms me on a day-to-day basis. And the funniest thing is, everyone thinks, oh my god, you must have this incredible team. I've got one little PA and she works eight hours a week. And she literally goes through my inbox and just points me in the right direction. Other than that, I don't have any admin support. I am a control freak. I know I've got to get over it. But I love to do everything myself and I love to know what's going on in my business. So I don't want to give that control away too much. So yeah, I think I've grown massively in the last five years. And I just can't believe it's been five years already because it has absolutely flown.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Yeah. I mean, you say about how, you know, having a team, like I can imagine that's just wonderful.

Authenticity Versus AI In Spiritual Work

SPEAKER_01 14:25

But also, and I've got a bit of a bugbear about this. We are living now in this place and this world where people don't get contact anymore. They don't get, there's no personal anything. Everything is AI, everything is created, everything. So on when I speak on my podcast like week to week, I know with our conversation, as we've already been through, like the sort of things that I'm gonna ask you, but in general, I switch my microphone on and I speak and I don't plan it out. And I think, and that's sort of my commitment to authenticity. And I think what you're saying about having this team, actually, what makes you special is that it's you because you could create that event, which by the way, I've heard nothing but like rave reviews about, and even so I was as I sort of said to you earlier, I was on a virtual, I was a virtual visitor, like I don't even know how you would describe it, but even then that energy, even through a pre-requ, so I didn't watch it live, I came into it like the week after, but even then you can still feel that energy. So, I mean, you've created that, and that that comes from the fact that it's your magic, so yeah, you know, keep you in it as much as as much as you can, as much as you can shoulder.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

I was going to say, because I don't think you can even fake that authenticity when you're out there on stage either. Because yeah, you might have like, you know, some notes or something on an iPad, which I did last year because everything was just in my head. I had to know everything about every speaker, who was coming on, what to talk about. Because especially because I opened the event as well, I knew there was very specific topics that were on my like presentation behind about the lineup, about health and safety, about lunchtime and the workshops. And I knew I had to have so much. So I had hold of like an iPad initially. But then by the end, I was like, I know these people, it's fine. I can literally just talk about who they are and introduce them exactly who they are. Do you know what I mean? So as the day went on, but I don't think you can you can replicate that authenticity through AI, especially when you're on stage and it's face to face.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

Yeah, and people people can pick up on it all the time now, can't they?

SPEAKER_00 16:33

So 100%. You can always tell when something's written by ChatGPT.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

So when you stood on that, um on that stage for the first time last year, which crystal did you have in your pocket?

SPEAKER_00 16:42

Oh, I had well, I had a moldavite ring on, a moldavite necklace pendant, and a moldavite piece in my pocket because moldavite's my baby, and it's really good for transformation. But I also had Tiger's Eye, and I remember keeping on like grabbing hold that tiger's eye because Tiger's Eye is really good for focus, confidence, strength, and willpower and determination. And it's really hard when you stood at the side of the stage and the music went down, and I knew I had to walk on that stage because everything just went silent, and I was like, Oh my god, oh my god. And it's really hard. And I remember like grabbing onto my tiger's eye thinking, you've got this, you can do this. And then I just went up on stage and I was like, hi everyone, and my voice like broke and everything. And I've had like such a gimp afterwards, like looking at the recordings, I just go on and go, hi everyone. But yeah, it was just incredible. It's the most amazing feeling, but that tiger's eye definitely did it for me.

Limitless And The Science Angle

SPEAKER_01 17:37

So let's I was gonna talk about like the science of crystals first, but actually, let's just talk about the book quickly. The book Limitless. So that was quite a success, you know. From I know an awful lot of people that have read that, and I was sharing it on my Instagram stories as I was reading it with so many people coming back and saying, you know, how brilliant they thought it was. And what as we have ascertained, my like area of excitement, my geek zone is where woo, energy, and science kind of meet in the middle.

unknown 18:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

And that's what I love about your book, is that actually there is like sciencey bits in there.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

It's quite, you know, it's it's an unrounded book, but it's it's I think I think I think that that was really important for me to get across because I think when someone first comes across the concept of manifestation and the law of attraction, they just think spiritual nonsense. Do you know what I mean? But there's actually a lot of science behind it, like behind gratitude and mindfulness between like energy and stuff like that. Do you know what I mean? So I just think if you explain something in scientific terms, because it's like actual factual evidence, it's almost making people believe in it. And no, like obviously people can say, oh, the universe and stuff. We can't actually explain what the universe is or if there's like a god flying around in the sky or anything like that. But when you can actually factually explain something, it makes people believe. And then the more belief that they have, the more they'll think that it's actually going to work for them. So I wrote Limitless with that kind of intention because I wanted to explain everything that it helped me get from the depths of despair, that those four years before I'd wrote it, into where I was at the time of writing. So it was things like meditation, feng shui, crystal healing, mindfulness, grounding, you know, just using all these different tools and techniques. So it is a book. It someone said it was like an autobiography, and I was like, is it? And I think because I share a lot of personal stories from my childhood as well, but it's all kind of relevant, it's all bringing it back to how this has helped me over the years and how it's got me to where I am today. So when the book was released, I had, I think there was about 600 people on my like priority list that had signed up to get notified when the book came out. And I thought 600's fine. I'll I'm more than happy with that. On release day, it sold about 900 copies and it went to Amazon bestseller, number one in nine different categories. One of them was Australia, one of them was the US, seven of them were in the UK, all different categories like spirituality, self-help, uh, self-development. It was absolutely crazy. At one point, my book was number eight of all books on Amazon, right? Bearing in mind there's over seven million books on Amazon. My book was number eight in sales that day. Yeah, I thought that was absolutely wild. And since then, it obviously came out on Audible and on Spotify. So if you have like Spotify Premium, you can listen to the audiobook for free. And the amount of hours that that has now been streamed is wild. It's something like three million hours have been streamed on Spotify.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

I genuinely believe that it is because of all of these practices that promote this self-belief, that promote this confidence of being able to share what you have learned and share what has helped you because ultimately that is what most people are searching for, isn't it? You know, most people.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

And I think, like we were speaking earlier, a lot of people out there at the minute are trying to sell this magic pill that just fixes everyone's problems all in one go. Where in actual fact, I'm not doing that. I'm just saying, look, this technique or this tool has helped me, it could also help you as well. I'm not selling things to people to say, like, this is going to fix your problem. This is gonna get you pregnant. I'm gonna say it's a tool that if you have the right mindset and you use this tool along the right side, like like alongside the right mindset, it could help you. Do you know what I mean? So it's not like I'm selling what I was saying earlier about like some courses where it's like Like 11,111 pound angel numbers, you know, buy this course and fix your life. I'm not selling that. I'm selling, you know, how to learn tarot, how to meditate. I'm teaching people how to. That's that's kind of where where my stance is coming from. So I am helping them like on Monday coming, I'm starting a tapping course. So EFT, and we're doing something called Abundance on Tab. I've called it that because we're doing 14 tapping scripts over the 14 days on video, but it's all money related. So I just thought I'm not saying to you, do this course and you'll win the lottery or you'll win a million pounds and you know live your wealthiest lives. But if you do this course and you know, you really put your all into it, there's a good chance that you're

Self Love Tools And Real Change

SPEAKER_00 22:47

going to improve your money mindset because of that.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

And that's it's a different aspect, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 22:52

It is, but also that comes that, and that's that's like the key to it all, in my opinion, is you know, you by taking people on that journey, you are opening something inside them up to allowing them to think that something good can happen. And actually, that's where the power is. You know, that's it ultimately all comes down to the self, doesn't it? Like you cannot attract this stuff if you are in a negative space.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

Yeah, I think last month, sorry, February this year, I did a course called Magnetic Self-Love. And it was basically in the last 12 months, I was I'm not gonna well, do you know what? I might as well. I was 15 and a half stone, right? I had it was it was absolutely awful. I was the biggest I have ever been in my entire life. I felt really uncomfortable with myself. Whenever I was going out for a run, my knees were hurting. It was getting to the point that it was like I would put on a t-shirt and it was so tight, I was buying like little overjackets and overcoats to wear just so that my love handles weren't showing on photos. I felt really uncomfortable with who I was. And I got myself into a little spiral and I could tell that I was heading down again. And I thought, you know what, you're not showing yourself any self-love. Because of doing all these little self-love tools and techniques, you know, just little things, I was able to lose four stone last year. And I went back down to 11 and a half stone, which I'm comfortable about. And I thought, you know what, I'm gonna help people this Valentine's Day. I'm gonna record like 14 days of self-love practices. The amount of breakthroughs that we had by the people that went through this course, all because nobody was doing self-love, people were crying daily. And I just felt it was so powerful because I was helping them. I was basically holding their hands, telling them to stand in front of a mirror and repeat affirmations one day, and it was making them cry. The next day I was telling them to get naked in front of the mirror and do the same thing, and they were crying again. But it was just little tools and techniques, and I was walking them through like somatic dance, and we did like a little like self-love playlist. So they were listening to long songs all about self-love, and it was raising people's vibrations collectively, but all I was doing was holding their hands and showing them this is what we're going to do today, this is what we're going to be concentrating on, this area. And because of that, people came out of that course feeling empowered, feeling refreshed and feeling rejuvenated in life. And that's exactly my mission. I don't want to sell someone something and be like, this is going to happen as a result of this. I'm just here to hold people's hands to be like, walk forward with me and see where you come out.

SPEAKER_01 25:32

And that I mean, that but that's just so different to anything else that you see, you know, as we've already said, you know. So let's touch a little bit on vibrational frequency, because this is where I get it that I get a bit excited.

How Crystals And Frequency Work

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Because I just find it fascinating. And as you know, as you say, like even down to colour energy, uh colour therapy, and all those sorts of things, vibrational energy is everywhere. So, specifically with crystals, then walk us through how that works because people, as you said, that's where your journey started. You're like, it's a stone, like, how's this gonna help? But they all have, they all vibrate at a different frequency. Is that not? Is that right? If I understood that right?

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Yeah, it is. I mean, crystals all vibrate at totally, totally different uh frequencies. And if you think about it, like crystals all came from the earth, they've been around for millions and millions of years. The earth obviously carries energy. Every living, breathing thing, everything solid, every bit of solid matter on this earth is made up of energy. It is like, you know, if you look at it under a microscope, it's all bouncing around. And crystals obviously imbue that energy. So they carry the energy of the earth, they've been kissed by the sun, they've been kissed by the sea at some point, and crystals all have a different vibration. Now, if we think of like sound healing, sound frequency, we have all these different frequencies that relate to different things. So we have like 888 hertz, which is all about abundance and wealth, and crystals are no different, really. Crystals are exactly the same in that way. So if you want to heal the heart chakra, you would look at something like rose quartz. And it all comes down to like colors, but energy frequencies as well, if that makes sense. So, yeah, we all have the seven chakras, which is like your energy field. And if you align a crystal to that chakra, you're gonna be able to then open it and heal the energy that's flowing around your body. So I think when people get started with crystals, they're quite confused about it. But I actually think it's much simpler than people often think. I think people tend to overcomplicate things. I always say the biggest mistake that people make is assuming that there's a complicated system that they need to learn before they even pick one up. Yeah, but what I would say is like the truth is that working with crystals, it's it's quite intuitive. I think the best place to start is simply by choosing one crystal that you feel drawn to because it might sound a bit mystical, do you know what I mean? But there's a real psychological element to that because I think humans are very good at sensing what resonates with them and what doesn't. So you could walk into a crystal shop and feel immediately pulled towards a very particular piece without really knowing why. Happens to me every time. I always go for the most expensive bit, and I'm like, why did I have to look at that? But that's usually a very good starting point. It means that you're intuitively thinking about that little piece. And then once you have a crystal, the next step is to simply do bring it into your awareness, you know, carry it in your pocket, like I was saying earlier, place it on your desk, keep it somewhere that you'll see it regularly, and it almost becomes an anchor. And crystals work beautifully as physical reminders of the intentions that we want to hold in our lives. So if you choose something like Rose Quartz for self-love, every time you see it, you're going to be reminded to treat yourself with a little more kindness. So some people think of it as a placebo effect, you know, but I don't. I see it as this is energy. It's exactly the same as like holding something else. People often say to me as well, like, do you really believe in energy? And I'm like, Well, yeah, if you point your TV remote at the TV and you press a button, that's transmitting what is it, infrared, I think it is. That's transmitting infrared to your TV, telling your TV to wake up and start or change the channel or put the volume up. But we can actually see that. We've got Wi-Fi. We're sat right now on a call. You don't see all the signal and everything flying around. It's all energy. We are all made up of energy. But I would say that when you're choosing a crystal as well, the other thing I always say to people is that curiosity is your best teacher. Because as you start to work with crystals, you naturally begin to notice how certain ones make you feel. And I think some might help you feel calmer, some more focused, like my Moldavite and my Tiger's eye that was talking about earlier. Others might feel like more energized and more pumped. And over time, you'll build your own understanding of them. So I think starting with crystals really isn't about learning any rules or anything like that. I always say to people, it's just about reconnecting with your intuition, paying attention to how energy feels in your life, and just allowing the crystals to become supportive tools along that journey.

Why You Feel Drawn To One

SPEAKER_01 30:20

Yeah. So would you say then that if you are drawn to a crystal, because this is one of the questions that I had from a follower, was you know, what does it mean when you're drawn to something? So I think her specific crystal was Dalmatian Jasper. And I mean, as I say, I'm not an expert and I don't know what that kind of represents and what it supports. But do you think that they're that you are drawn to the thing that in you know that you need, but you might not be aware that you need, if that makes sense?

SPEAKER_00 30:48

100%. I think your subconscious thoughts are always running in the background. And you know what? It's quite funny because Dalmatian Jasper is one of those crystals that people are often drawn to instinctively. And I think there's a lovely reason for that as well. So if you look at Dalmatian Jasper, I haven't actually got any honors. I thought I had some over there. I just like glanced over for a second. But if you look at Dalmatian Jasper, it's kind of like a cream or a beige background, but it's got little black spots scattered through it, almost like the coat of a Dalmatian dog, which is where it gets its name from. But it's it's got a really playful light energy. Now, energetically, Dalmatian Jasper is often associated with joy and grounding, but also emotional balance as well. So it's a crystal that reminds people not to take life quite so seriously. And a lot of the time when people are drawn to it, it's because they might have been carrying quite a lot of responsibility or heaviness in the life. And the Dalmatian Jasper brings in that slightly kind of lighter vibration that helps people to reconnect with humor and curiosity and a sense of childlike, like playful energy as well. But what's interesting about it is that it's also quite a protective crystal as well, because the black spots that are in it are actually tautmaline inclusions. Yeah, so tourmaline is quite known for grounding and protective qualities. So Dalmatian Jasper has this beautiful kind of dual nature, if that makes sense. It's lifting your mood, but it's also lightening your emotional energy, but keeping you grounded and protected at the same time. So I often say to people, use Dalmatian Jasper to people who feel a bit more emotionally reactive or easily triggered. I usually have one on us. I can't believe I'm kicking myself because it's usually there. But it's also lovely for anyone who feels like they've lost a bit of fun in their life as well. Sometimes the crystal that we are most drawn to are the ones that's reflecting exactly what we need. So if someone feels really pulled towards something like Dalmatian Jasper, it could be just like your gentle reminder from your own intuition that it's time to bring in a bit more playfulness and balance and emotional ease back into your world.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

I love that. I love that. I mean, I personally have a wild

Citrine And Everyday Joy

SPEAKER_01 32:56

issue with citrine. Like I literally surround myself with citrine. It's every it's everywhere. It's like it's just this it's like sunshine. It's just sunshine in a stone.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

Citrine represents the sun, doesn't it? Because it's bright yellow. So it's joy, happiness, abundance, everything that we associate with the colour yellow in terms of colour therapy and feng shui. And yeah, it's just if we think about the sunshine, we think about joy, happiness, and abundance straight away. It's what gives life to the earth, it's what gives life to plants and things like that. So citrine is that embodied basically.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

She's gorgeous, she's gorgeous. Let's talk about the big one, the moldavite.

Moldavite And Fast Transformation

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Okay. Because so my own journey with moldavite started in 2024, courtesy of yourself. Um and when I bought So I actually really do have you to either thank or blame the speed that of which this has changed in my life. So I bought that in in November 2024, and in November 2024, I with on a on a complete whim, closed my old business. So I was self-employed for 10 years as a newborn photographer, that was my job, and I was like, no, I'm done. And I shut that in November and retrained and launched this business in the January. And then obviously, this year has gone in insanely, insanely. I feel like every time I introduce Moldavite into my life, I go, oh, here we go again. You know, it's like propulsion, which is phenomenal because how I work with Feng Shui is Feng Shui for me is propulsion. Like, how can I walk this pathway of life that I am walking and achieve the things that I want to achieve? And that is what how I lean on all these modalities, if that's what you want to call them, to help me kind of navigate life. And this little thing here has played a massive part. I feel it's made a massive part in in that in that proportion. So Moldavite does seem to be the Instagram crystal to talk about at the minute, doesn't it? Like it's it is everywhere in this world.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

So I think it's quite a fascinating one to talk about because it has such a reputation around it as well. Like people absolutely either love it or they're slightly terrified of it. I get messages about it every single day, and I mean multiple messages. Sometimes I can have anywhere between 20 and 30 messages per day about moldavite alone. Uh so for anyone who doesn't know, Moldavite is a tectite, so it's not actually a crystal, but it formed around 15 million years ago. So basically, a meteorite struck the earth in what is now the Czech Republic, and that impact it fused kind of, you know, all the soil and the earthly material with that extraterrestrial energy that came from outer space, and it created this beautiful green glass-like crystal. That's basically it. So you can imagine the heat of a meteor hitting the earth, and as it hit, it melted all of this earthy material, shot it all up into the sky, that all came crashing back down, and just over the years, it's just become buried in the ground. So energetically, Moldavite is known for being incredibly transformative. People often describe it as a catalyst crystal, a bit similar to what you were saying there, Rachel, because it tends to accelerate change. It brings hidden things to the surface and it pushes people towards the life that they're meant to be living. So if we think of it energetically, if you think of a meteor, the meteor is not like just dawdling along, like, yeah, I'll hit the earth soon. It's rushing through space. It is flying, it's on fire. Do you know what I mean? So it's got all this heavy fire energy going on. And like I say, it tends to accelerate change. So that's why you'll sometimes hear people say that when Moldavite enters the life, things start shifting quite quickly. Because basically, for things to shift, it's got to get rid of all the old crap so that it can bring in all the new. So when we look at that through the lens of the fire horse year, for example, which is what we're in right now, it becomes quite interesting because the fire horse already carries that very fast, bold, forward moving energy because it's a year about momentum and courage and change. So when you pair that with Moldavite, it can amplify that transformational energy even further. So for some people, that might be incredibly powerful. For some people, that might be like, oh my God, this is far too much. For me, I thought I could handle Moldavite and I've used it now for the last four years. In fact, when I first started using it, the week later, I handed me notice in with the NAHS, and that was the month that I'd had my first ever 30,000 pound month. I was making 30,000 pounds a year in the NHS, so that was massive for me. But this year alone, because we're in the year of the fire horse and I'm still actively using Moldavite every single day, I feel like things are going too fast. I feel like I'm a bit overwhelmed and a bit burnt out and exhausted. I'm probably taking on too much. That's probably what it is. But I do feel like I'm going to lock it away for a little bit, just maybe for a couple of months, just to see if it makes a difference. Because if someone is consciously ready for change and ready to step into a new chapter and they're willing to let go of what no longer aligns with them, then Moldavite can feel like a rocket booster. But for other people like myself right now, it might feel a bit too much. If someone is already feeling overwhelmed or stressed or like life is moving far too quickly, Moldavite could intensify that feeling. So I guess my usual advice is that Moldavite isn't something that you have to avoid, but it's something to approach with awareness because it is intense. It's got very intense high energy. You might pair it with a ground and crystal like smoky quartz, black tourmaline, hematite, just to keep yourself balanced there as well. But I think ultimately the most important thing with any crystal is to just listen to your own intuition and your own energy. If moldavite feels exciting and empowering when you look at it, it's probably the right time to start working with it. But if it feels quite intense, there's absolutely no rush. I'm not forcing you. I haven't got a gunt in your head saying, buy this, work with it. Um the crystal world isn't going anywhere. These are around. Moldavite is quite sparse, and the people are quite shocked at this the price, basically. So it works out around about 30 to 40 pounds per gram. I feel like a cocaine dealer. I promise you I'm not. But yeah, it's 30 to 40 pounds per gram. That's purely because it it gained huge popularity during the pandemic. Someone went online, put a TikTok video on, it went viral. Everyone started buying it. The mines in the Czech Republic were saying, hang on, we can't cope with this. There's very little of it left to actually mine. So most mines have shut down the ones that were searching for Moldavite because they just can't find it anymore. So it is quite expensive. Like I say, 30 to 40 pounds per gram, depending on where you buy it. And yeah, it's it's very expensive, but very, very powerful, very transformational and very life-changing.

Crystal Size And Real Impact

SPEAKER_01 40:05

I feel like this leads beautifully into the question that you know makes us laugh, which is does it really matter how big a crystal is? So, for example, obviously, as you say about the price point of moldavite, and not necessarily just moldavite, but crystals in general, you know, you can buy these phenomenal, like beautiful, huge pieces, but that might not be something that is accessible to a lot of people. So, is there a difference in the power of having a tumblestone versus a gigantic tower, for example?

SPEAKER_00 40:43

Yeah, I think this is a question that I get asked quite a lot because people often worry that if their crystal is small, that it somehow won't work properly. The short answer is no. Small crystals are absolutely not a waste of time. I think the energy of a crystal isn't determined by its size, it's determined by its structure. So if we think about crystals, they form through very precise geom I can never get this word out, geometric patterns at a molecular level as well. And I think that structure is what gives them their stability and energetic consistency as well. So whether you're holding a large statement piece or a tiny tumblestone, that structure is still present within the energy of the crystal. It's just that tumblestones are a lot easier to transport and to obviously carry around. You're not going to lumber around this huge, like 45 kilo piece of rose quartile. Do you know what I mean? And I often tell beginners that small crystals are actually quite a fantastic place to start because they're affordable for a start, they're easy to carry, they allow you to work with several different energies without actually needing to invest in big, huge display pieces. Because I'll be honest with you, like sometimes like crystals can be thousands and thousands of pounds depending on the size of them. But where size can make a difference is more in terms of the area of influence. So a larger crystal placed in a room might feel like it holds space for the whole environment, if that makes sense. Whereas a small crystal might be something more personal that you start just carrying in your pocket or keeping on your desk. But energetically speaking, I think it's more the intention that you bring to the crystal that matters far more than its size, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 42:20

And I think that's so important, isn't it? Because actually, if you've got something that is that either that you can't access because you think, well, there's no point in in buying it because it's I can't afford it, then we're never gonna work with it. Or if it is so big as you say that you can't carry it around.

SPEAKER_02 42:38

Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 42:40

Then then you might yeah, so that's that's amazing. So just say that if people thought, you know, I'm feeling really fractious, I'm feeling quite stressed, I want somebody to just say, try this.

Top Grounding Crystals For Stress

SPEAKER_01 42:53

What would would be your your top picks of grounding kind of crystals?

SPEAKER_00 42:58

I would say there's probably three that immediately came to mind just as you were talking. And the first one is amethyst. So amethyst is probably one of the most popular and most common crystals ever. Like, I think even as a child, I remember going down my local river and picking up this little purple crystal out of the riverbed and saying to my mom, what's this? And she was like, Oh, it's amethyst. And I just used to take them home. So amethyst is quite common, it's found everywhere. But amethyst has such a calming property and such a calming energy. It basically takes your energy and just, you know, just gives it a big hug. That's exactly how I can describe it. So amethyst would be an amazing pick. I think how light, so how light is white and it has like bands of gray through it. It looks like marble almost. How light is an another amazing uh crystal. It disperses anxiety, disperses stress, any overthinking, like panic attacks. It's great for stuff like that. But I think probably the one that I would say the most is Labrador. So Labradorite, you might know it, it's it's it's quite flashy. There was a story that Labradorite was, I mean, it's a it's a myth, obviously, but Labradorite was formed because it was someone took the northern lights and put it in a stone, and the stone was shattered into a million pieces.

SPEAKER_01 44:18

What it looks like, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 44:19

Yeah, because when you it's got a flash on it, so that when you turn it a certain way to the light, you can see all these different colours of like greens and blues and yellows and oranges, and it's an absolutely stunning crystal. And it's one of the crystals that I look at often where I just think, How is this natural? It doesn't look natural, it glows almost. But labradorite's properties are that it transmutes negativity into positivity. So all the other, although the other two that I mentioned, amethyst and how light, they are just dispersing your energy and calming you back down. Labradorite's actually transmuting the energy. So I've got a piece just behind my front door, actually, like a huge piece, because I've got torment, you should say my front door, honestly, I've got selenite above the above the door to cleanse anyone that comes in. I've got a piece of tourmaline by the front of the door, which obviously protects the house and protects any negativity from coming in. But then I've also got Labradorite behind the door that if any negative energy does come in, it's going to transmute it into positivity. And we have positive vibes only in this house. So yeah, that's exactly what I've got at my front door. But the other three that I would say amethyst, how light, and labradorite.

SPEAKER_01 45:27

Amazing. I've got Labradorite by my front door as well.

SPEAKER_00 45:30

Amazing.

SPEAKER_01 45:31

It's been so, so wonderful to speak to you today,

Courses, Events, And The 2026 Guide

SPEAKER_01 45:34

Mark. Honestly, I cannot tell you how grateful I am for you coming on and speaking with us today. There's going to be so many people that are excited to kind of listen to the depths of, you know, what these other energy modalities and things are. So we've we've talked about your book. So I'm going to put that into the show notes because you can buy that through your website. Is that right? And you can buy it on Amazon.

SPEAKER_00 45:56

You can buy it on Amazon or Waterstones, you know, any decent bookshop. But if you buy the one off my website, cannycrystals.co.uk, it also becomes like you get a signed version, basically.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Oh, nice. I'll put that link in. And your EFT tapping course is opening on the 23rd. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 46:16

Open from Monday. You can join any of my courses over on the academy. So it's cannycrystalsacademy.co.uk. Any of the courses, they're all evergreen. You can come and join us whenever you like. Like I said, there's 30,000 other people in there. We're always chatting on a day-to-day basis. And yeah, if you want to get involved in Newcastle upon Tyne on the 13th and 14th of June, come to Manifest. The details are many-fest.uk.

SPEAKER_01 46:40

And there's but there's a link to that via your website as well, isn't there? So if you can.

SPEAKER_00 46:43

Yeah, it's all on the website. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:46

Honestly, it's been such a joy to speak to you today. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 46:50

Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 46:52

And now we have something really exciting to share with you. So we have been working on a little collaboration, which is a PDF guide to the crystals to support you with your 2026 energies. So as we know from Feng Shui, every year we get a new energetic input. And that means that energy moves around our house. It means that things show up differently in our home. So one area that may have been feeling supportive one year might shift into something that's a little bit less supportive the next year. And what I have done is created a 2026 energy guide, which is area by area of your home. And what I've done is send that information over to Mart at Canning Crystals, and he has amazingly made his recommendations for crystals that can support each area of your home depending on the energy that is showing up this year. And what I will do is I will pop the link to that guide in the show notes below. It's an amazing way to get started with just trying to balance the energy of your home, especially if you haven't yet had your home analysed in terms of what's showing up energetically for it, or if you want to have this as your your introduction to starting with crystals. So the guide has got all of the energies for the year, how that might show up, what might be happening in your life, the crystal recommendation, what Mart has to say about that crystal, and the link to be able to purchase it if you don't have that crystal in your collection already. It's absolutely brilliant. I absolutely love it. I'm really, really proud of it, and I'm so thankful to Mart for collaborating with me on it. So yeah, really, really excited. That'll be in the show notes below. Next week I'll be back with you and we'll be talking all things energy again. And until then, I hope that wherever you are in the world, you are happy, healthy, and well. And I'll speak to you soon.