A conversation with Jourdi Bleu!

A lot of addiction stories don’t look like the stereotype, and that’s why this conversation lands. We’re joined by empowerment coach, yoga teacher, breathwork facilitator, and public speaker Jourdi Blue, who opens up about the real timeline behind her sobriety journey, from a traumatic car accident at 15 to opioid addiction, rehab at 18, and years of “high-functioning” drinking that blended into college and party culture. If you’ve ever wondered whether your relationship with alcohol is a problem because you still show up to work, this will feel uncomfortably familiar in the best way. 

We talk about what happens when trauma gets pushed down instead of processed, how emotional regulation and identity can get hijacked, and why alcohol can become the fast fix for social anxiety and that painful sense of not belonging. Jourdi shares the pivot from a glamorous Sydney lifestyle that looked successful on the outside to feeling empty on the inside, plus the intuition moment that told her to leave and rebuild from scratch. Her story is also a clear look at the “moderation trap” and why attempts to control drinking can quietly turn back into daily dependence. 

From there, we dig into what helped her finally put the drink down for good: 12-step support, therapy, hypnotherapy, coaching, and the healing power of yoga and breathwork. We also explore the fun side of recovery, including how she reclaimed dancing by creating sober dance parties built around cacao, breathwork, movement, and community. If you’re searching for sobriety motivation, alcohol addiction recovery tools, or a more spiritual and body-based approach to healing, you’ll take a lot from this one. 

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Transcript

Welcome And Meet Geordie Blue

SPEAKER_01 0:41

Hey guys, welcome to today's episode. I'm very excited to have a special guest, Geordie Blue, who I met at a Billabong retreat on the Soudie is a phoenix who has risen from the ashes. She now finds her light bright to inspire others to do the same. Her greatest passion is helping people remember who they truly are. And Geordie does this through a variety of modalities, including yoga, breath work, empower. She's an empowerment coach, a public speaker, an author, and a spiritual gangster. Geordie, welcome to the show. How are you?

SPEAKER_00 1:22

I'm so good, Meg. Thank you so much for having me. It's such an honor to be here with you this morning.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

It's my pleasure. It's so good to have you here too, Geordie. Can you start by telling everyone a bit about how you got to where you are today?

SPEAKER_00 1:35

Oh, okay. Well, buckle up.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Yes, it's a big ask, I know.

The Car Accident That Changed Everything

High Functioning Life With Hidden Chaos

Wealthy Sydney Lifestyle And Inner Emptiness

The First Honest Look At Alcohol

Rock Bottom And The Final Decision

SPEAKER_00 1:42

No, it's um, it's a very interesting story. So, through all the work that I have done over the years, I firmly believe that our souls choose our path before we even get here. It's like they do a little inventory over what lessons we need to learn in this lifetime. And then things are thrown at us. And if I didn't accept the belief that everything happens for you, not to you, I certainly wouldn't be sitting here today. So even though my story is heavy, I know that it all happened exactly as it was meant to, so I could be the woman I am today. Um, so yeah, where do I begin? I guess the juicy part started when I was 15 years old. I got into a really bad car accident. And I was living in Florida at the time. And for any listeners who have ever been to Florida or know anything about Florida, you might know it's a little bit wild. You can just Google Florida Man and get some very interesting stories from Florida. And um, in Florida, they we started partying quite early. Um, you know, I was I was drinking alcohol and smoking weed at age 12, 13 years old. So I was already kind of experimenting with substances, and then my accident um was I was it was a miracle that I survived. Um, it was a pretty traumatic head injury. And in that accident, I sustained a pretty big blow to the frontal lobe of my brain, which is our decision making and our rational thinking. So now I was already experimenting with substances in an environment where that was very normal. Um, however, there was a very clear line in the sand after the accident. Um I slid into a life of rebellion, of addiction, of hopelessness, really. Um, and because this frontal lobe, it it controls your rational thinking, like I said. So um I didn't have the strongest sense of what was right and wrong. And look through the work that I've uncovered over the years, I do know that I had a very strong belief of I don't belong in this world. And drugs and alcohol made me feel like I belonged. And so those next few years in my late teens, they got they got pretty dark. Um, I was also in Florida at the time of the opioid epidemic, and I actually ended up into opiates um by age 17. And um, that was a pretty heavy journey in itself. I was in rehab at age 18. And I, by the grace of God and what I now know as divine interventions, um I was able to put those opiates down um around age 19, uh, which wasn't easy because it included, you know, some pretty heavy things, including me finding my boyfriend's dead body after he overdosed. Um, so there was some some heavy years there. And, you know, in all that drug use and stuff, there was a lot of other trauma that happened in those years that it just all got swept right under the rug. And I now know today that that trauma still lived within my body and in my subconscious and in my energy field. But I was just in survival mode, really, and I was just getting on with life. Um, so even though everything was really heavy back then, I was still very high functioning. Yeah, I graduated high school and college with honors. I was a teaching assistant in both. Um, I actually got my bachelor's of criminology from the University of Denver, which is super ironic considering I was the one creating committing crimes most weekends, um, those years. So yeah, I think it's important to note here that after I stopped the heavy opiate use, um I had a very high bar of what was acceptable drug use-wise. And so anything under that was acceptable to me. So alcohol was always a really big crutch for me throughout the years. But, you know, because it's so socially acceptable, it was very easy to hide the fact that I actually had a pretty severe alcohol addiction because a lot of people around me were drinking exactly like I was drinking, especially in those college years. And now, look, my college years were the typical American college experience, as you see on the movies frat parties, keg parties, you know, and it was, don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun in those years. Um, but you know, it wasn't uncommon for me to be drinking hair off the dog in the morning before I got to class to like settle my hangover for those years and stuff. Um, so I would say, like in the college years, that's when alcohol really started integrating its tentacles into my life. And it became my best friend. It became someone. I mean, I don't want to personify alcohol, but I guess here we are. Alcohol was someone I could lean on and someone that took the social anxiety away, and someone that numbed me. And I think numbing is the biggest word to use here because of all that trauma of my heavy drug use years. There was all that stuff underneath the hood that I didn't look at that just got swept right under the rug, right? Um, and so yep, college was wild. Look, I spent a couple of nights in a jail cell because of my drinking. Um, I crashed a couple cars. I was very lucky to survive all of that. Um, and I think it's also really important to note that I escaped death many times in those years. I was like the cat with nine lives. Um, so I definitely have a angel team looking out for me. Um, because there was a lot of really close calls back then. And even though I was presenting to the world this confident, happy, bubbly, carefree, won't like girl, I was a girl back then. Um, that was all a mask. And I learned how to mask, you know, from my parents, because we all we always were in a home that was like, yeah, everything's beautiful. Do we don't need to talk about the heavy things? And um, and again, that's a survival strategy, and it's it helped me get through all those years. Um, and then when I was graduating college, I met a successful Australian businessman, how I ended up in Australia, and this was going back 12 years now, and we ended a relationship and I moved to Australia, and I spent five years with this man, and it was a beautiful relationship in a lot of ways. Um, however, there was a lot of drug and alcohol use in that relationship too. So I essentially just traded my, you know, ecstasy-taking, concert-going days of the wild college experience to the champagne and the cocaine lifestyle of the eastern suburbs in Sydney. And this relationship was one where he had a lot of money and I wasn't working. And that not working thing, it's so funny because I hear so many people these days be like, oh, I hate work. I don't want to work anymore. And I'm like, Do you really though? Because work gives you a purpose to wake up for, because I didn't have a purpose to wake up for back then. And my life on Instagram looked amazing, right? I was like flying in the fancy helicopters and in all these five-star resorts all over the world. But inside I was slow, slowly dying, excuse me. And um, I was so confused because I'm like, I've just been handed a beautiful life that we as a society deem as winning, as successful, as the dream. And I was still so deeply like empty inside. And look, now I know that it was because I had all this trauma again from those years. I never dealt with it. Um, another consequence of my accident was my emotional regulation, just wasn't there at all. So I was pretty emotionally volatile in those years, and then add the substances on top of that. It just wasn't a good mix. And um I knew deep down that I had something big to offer the world, but I had no idea what it looked like. I had no idea what it was, and it the mountain just seemed so freaking tall. Like I was like, I I know I want to be up there, but I'm at the bottom in the canyon, and it just seemed so far. I don't, I don't know how to get there. And the confidence was just out the window then. Like again, I was very good at portraying confidence, but I remember going to yoga and Bondi back then because you know, what does the trophy wife do? You go to yoga every day, you volunteer, and that's that was my life, kind of. And um, I remember being in the yoga class and just looking at my teacher with such admiration, being like, wow, I could never be her. And I could never like have the confidence to be standing up there preaching this spiritual practice to people. Um, but so yeah, yoga was always part of my life. My mom introduced yoga to me when I after my accident when I was 15. And my mom's very spiritual, so she definitely is a huge part of my journey as to why I am where I am today, because she was like drip feeding me all the little spiritual seeds. Um, they were getting watered with margaritas for a while, so they weren't exactly growing, but they were there, right? And um, so yeah, anyway, I was on this health retreat once um when we were we had had a massive fight. The relationship was quite volatile and toxic, probably because I was so volatile and toxic too. And I would I would get sent off to these health retreats to fix myself and the relationship. And I I remember um I was up in Noosa in the hinterland. This would have been about eight years ago, and I listened to this meditation by Sarah Blondin, and it said, I love you, I'm listening. And I was I remember it so clearly, I was sitting in like the jungle up there, and I had a hand on my heart and a hand on my belly, and it was like this voice just came in and it was like, I love you, I'm listening. You need to walk away from this relationship in order to be the woman that you're supposed to be. And that was a really freaking scary thought because I was 27 years old, I had never had a job, I was in a foreign country, um, away from my family. Um, I had no idea how I was gonna make money. And at this stage, for the last five years, I had just been with a multi, multi, multimillionaire. So my perception of what sort of money you needed to survive in this world was extraordinarily warped. Um, I thought, you know, if you weren't flying in the front of the plane, who the frick are you? Sort of vibes. Because you get brainwashed and used to a certain lifestyle, yeah. And I was so scared, but now I now know that that was me listening to my heart space and my gut. And it was like, you need to jump off the cliff and I will help you fly. But fuck, when you look off the side of that cliff and you're like, I don't know how this is gonna work, but okay. So that was the first really big step I took was to um get out of that relationship, which is very hard. And I'm still good friends with him, and I have nothing but love for him. Um and yeah, it's but it was it was extraordinarily difficult, you know, because at 27 I moved from the$11 million mansion in Tamarama to a shared cockroach-infested flat in Bondi, and it was a bit of a rude awakening, and all of a sudden I had to pay bills and get a job. I um I faked my way through a job interview and got a management position at a yoga studio. Um, I have no idea how I pulled that off, but I did, and I had done my yoga teacher training when I was with him, so I was trying to get into teaching yoga, but like I was still partying super hard. And that's party, a party girl and a yoga teacher, that doesn't exactly align, right? So I did spend about six months just kind of being a wild girl in my 20s because I wasn't really able to do that with him. Um, I was making up for lost time, you can call it, in Bondi. And um then I was managing a gym at the time. So I had switched over to managing um a branch of anytime fitness, and I remember I had had a massive weekend, like you know, one of those bender weekends in Bondi, um, barely any sleep. And it was Monday, and I was I pretty sure I had like the shakes and stuff, and I was just like, there has to be more than this. Like, I don't, I didn't like my job. I was hungover, and I went to the sushi restaurant next to the gym I worked at. And I remember I had to order like two or three crafts of sake to like sort me out just so I could go back to work. And I was like, yeah, this is probably an issue. And that was the first time I even realized that I might have had a drinking problem, even though I had had massive consequences from alcohol all throughout my life, including, like I mentioned, arrests, car crashes, overdoses. I overdosed on alcohol when I was 15 after my accident, ended up in a coma. Like alcohol had done a lot of bad things in my life. But because again, it's so normal to like, you know, and especially when you're in your 20s, it's like, oh, she got blackout, whatever. She's young, it's fine. But like, it's actually quite scary how normal we make it in society. So, anyway, I remember in my tipsy state after those bottles of sake, I was like, I need to sort myself out. So I I researched um addiction counselors, and there happened to be one right upstairs in the Edgecliffe Medical Center, which I was at. And so I called up, I made an appointment, and I'm actually really proud of myself because in that moment, like that was my higher self, the bigger Geordie, like intervening and being like, hey, you need to sort this out. And no one had to tell me, even though I think there were some people in my life that were concerned about me, no one ever said, like, hey, you might have a problem. And I think that's really important to note as well, because like alcoholism runs deep in our society, right? And it's not always like the jobless, homeless person, like it can get to that state, and I'm so glad it didn't for me, but like you don't you can have your life pretty together and still be suffering deeply from from drinking, and so yeah, that was eight years ago now, and that's when I started my sobriety journey. And look, there was a lot of bumps along the way. Um, I had my last sip of alcohol about three and a half years ago. So for four and a half years, I was on this two-too train of like, am I drinking, am I not drinking? Can I moderate? Can I not moderate? And look, I grew up in a very, very loving home, but a very, it was very, very acceptable to drink. My dad owned a liquor store. He's a saumonier. We had a wine cellar in my house, you know. So, like having a glass of wine with dinner was like, duh, of course that's gonna happen. And then coupled with the societal norm of it, the thought of me not being able to have a couple of glasses of wine if I want to, or like a margarita at a party was just like, no, like I was in the mindset back then in those four years, um, that oh, if I just take a break for a little bit, then I can get it under control, and then I can go back to normal drinking, whatever the whatever that means, right? Yeah. And so um, look, it wasn't easy, and it took me quite a few tries. And um, I would have periods of sobriety, I would have 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, and my life would start going. I got another job managing like a big yoga company. I was operations manager at one of the big yoga companies in the eastern suburbs. I was now teaching yoga consistently on schedules during COVID. COVID was actually amazing for me. I used that time to really focus on my sobriety because we weren't going out, right? And um, I had access to gyms and studios, so I was like super in shape and I was like super in a good mindset. I did all this coaching work in COVID. And so um, after that, I started doing little group coaching online for my yoga studio. At the time, the owner of the studio was like, I was the only full-time employee, and he's like, I don't care what you do, just keep the members engaged. So I started sharing on Zoom calls weekly about what I was learning to for myself, and so that's how the coaching kind of started. And then everyone's like, You're really good at this, you should do your coaching um certification. So then I did that, and um, so I was doing all these things that was helping me get to where I am now, but then I would go back to drinking. And look, nothing catastrophic ever happened in those years, but my mental health was significantly down the drain when I would start drinking again because it would go from you know, I would have a period of sobriety, and then that one party would come up where I'm like, oh, I'll just have one margarita. And then that would be fine. I'll maybe I would have two or three. And then the next weekend, I would be like, oh, that went fine. I would do it again. And then all of a sudden the dinner on the Wednesday would come in. And then, you know, eventually without fail, every single time it went back to me drinking daily, to me leaning on alcohol as a crutch um to numb myself out from not feeling my emotions. And look, it took a breakup. I got after I left, um, or after we broke up the me and the um the first boyfriend in Australia. I I dated another beautiful man and he really helped me get back to myself. But unfortunately, alcohol played a big role in our relationship deteriorating. Um, and yeah, I in those years it was like I had these two lives pulling me back and forth. It was like, are you gonna be the woman that you're meant to be, or are you gonna keep falling back into these old patterns? And I got invited to speak at my first festival. This would have been 2022, I believe. Yeah. And I was um invited to give two workshops at a women's empowerment festival down in Melbourne. And I my mom flew over from the States for it and everything. It was so cool. And my workshops were packed out and I vulnerably shared my story up there. And look, I didn't preach in those workshops that I was sober, but I definitely implied that I had my shit pretty well together. And that was this was the um the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. So it was down in Melbourne, this festival, and um I I experienced what we call a vulnerability hangover. It was the first time I had really shared my story publicly, and I think there was this little part of me that knew that I wasn't being completely transparent with everyone. And on the plane ride back, it was like my party Geordie just came back with a vengeance, and I ended up drinking, I don't even remember how much wine, which turned into me getting back to Sydney. It was a Sunday. I dropped my bag off at my place in Bondi from the Uber. I went out to Sash um by Sundays. Like I was out until 5 a.m. that morning. I was supposed to be on a coaching course the whole next week. I had to cancel it because I was so hungover. And that next week was that was my that was my what do you call it, rock bottom, I suppose, because I was so sick and I was just so done with myself. I was just it's like this has to stop. And that's when I was going to teach yoga um that week, and again, I was still like not good, and I was crying my eyes out on my way to go teach yoga, and I just had to stop the car and be like, okay, you need to get your stuff together. You need to go in there and teach yoga right now. And I took a couple of deep breaths, and again, that voice came in, which is I now now is upstairs, my higher self, and it was like, put the drink down for good and watch all your wildest dreams come true. And I'm like, okay, so yeah, that was that was, yeah, like I said, three and a half years ago, and I threw everything. At it. I, you know, I entered 12-step programs. I did hypnotherapy. I tried microdosing on psilocybin. Um I tried more intense plant medicine journeys. I did more coaching. I um did more therapy. I was just like, I'm throwing everything out at this. And it's worked. So yeah, today I've been running my own business for two years now. Um, I just got back from Hawaii. I led a group of extremely high-powered uh businesswomen through a spiritual retreat for six days. And I know that it's because alcohol was dimming my shine and it was a low vibrational substance for me. And I work in the high vibrational realm, so I gotta be up there, you know? And so, so yeah, that's kind of the story in a nutshell.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Wow. Oh my gosh, thank you for condensing it into podcast-friendly time because I know there was a lot, a lot. Um, but thank you so much for sharing. So amazing. And I relate to you know, that higher self version of yourself um coming through. And uh, yeah, I really relate with that. Um, and also just that decision that, right, I'm gonna throw everything into it. So congratulations on three and a half years on that part of the journey. Uh so cool. And so what you mentioned that your family, you know, there was the alcohol business and that. How do they how do they see this? How do they feel?

SPEAKER_00 24:22

Yeah, look, I I know that they're so proud of me. Um, yeah, they're very, they're very proud of me. Um and and I'm not gonna lie, it's it's a little hard, you know, um, because there was this part of me that alcohol kind of bonded our family together, um, in a way. And um yeah, that's that I don't engage in that anymore with them. And like they're they're super, they're super proud of me. There's nothing but love there. Um, but but yeah, I just I just want to keep shining my light bright and yeah, maybe it'll leak out into the rest of the people around me, you know?

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Yeah, so amazing. And so you were you're still in Bondi. So how was that shift from like the massive, oh you're in Bronte, but that party party girl to the to not like yeah, though I don't get me wrong, it's kind of hard some days.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

I walk past for VCs or you know, bar 34, and I'm like, oh my god, just like to think about the democracy I used to get up to in there, you know. Um, and there's a lot of really healthy people in the eastern suburbs, too. I mean, you just gotta walk around for five minutes and you can see the caliber of health and wellness that is going on here. So, you know, the good thing is like people are up early, sunrise is packed, like, and now instead of watching the sunrise from the night before, I'm up watching the sunrise because I'm fresh, you know. Um, so yeah, but there's definitely times where I walk past places and kind of grimace.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll I'm the same. I've been on the northern beaches, you know, most of my life. So uh biggest party is but biggest health and wellness movement as well. So that's really nice as well. But um, so what else? You know, you've you're on this journey, you're doing amazing. Is there more that you're you're wanting to do?

SPEAKER_00 26:26

Yeah, absolutely. Um, I have some pretty big dreams. Yeah, yeah. I really want to get more into the public speaking realm. Um, I really believe that again, like I said at the beginning, my soul chose all of this to overcome it so I could show others it could be done. And when we're vulnerable, Renee Brown talks about this, right? Vulnerability is power, and when we can share our story, um, it's relatable, right? And I think a lot of people can relate to a lot of my story and um and all the work I've done to overcome it. I like I want people to know that it was that there's a powerful place inside of them that if they can access it, they can overcome any challenge. And it's not easy. And some people say to me, Oh, you make it look easy now. I'm like, it is not easy, but it is so freaking worth it. The freedom that I feel on the other side. So yeah, um, public speaking is a big, a big realm I want to hop into. Um, I'm in the process of recording an online course to just reach more people because you know, you can only you can only do so much from in-person events. Um, the breath work is something I'm super passionate about. So I do a modality that's very similar to rebirthing breathwork, and that is a direct connection for people to access that powerful part of themselves within. Um, and so I actually just joined a breathwork school in Bali. I'm gonna be spending a lot more time over there helping running trainings and running more retreats because Hawaii was amazing. So, yeah, there's a couple more retreats already in the books for the next 12 months. So, yeah, it's expanding slowly.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Amazing. I that's so cool. And so I met you at Billabong and you were running a workshop, and I just loved everything you said. It's kind of how I coach as well. So, but I really loved you. Have um a process called Disco. I was like, that is so cool. So on brand, yeah, you've made it yours, and I just it was so great, and you could just see people around that um had an experience like that spiritual sort of learning um self-work, just get so much out of it. So I'm so glad that you're taking that further. That's really exciting. Um, and the public speaking, in what kind of way, like you just so where would you be looking at doing that?

SPEAKER_00 29:01

At events or yeah, so I've actually been invited um around the world to speak already in the last few years. Um, and I didn't even put advertisement out for this. These are people sliding in my DMs, being like, hey, I love your story. I want you to share it at my convention or my or my summit. And so yeah, I was in Paris before at a women's empowerment conference. I was in Sedona, Arizona last year at a sobriety conference. Um, so I definitely love speaking at those sort of events, but I'm finding like those people kind of know what I already am talking about. What I really believe I have a gift in is making this spiritual stuff not stuff. It's a whole it's life, it's the way the reality works, but I can talk about it in a way that is accessible and fun and light and playful for the average person to, you know, think about. They don't have to necessarily get on board with it. So um, but yeah, just planting those seeds. And so this includes like corporate events. Um, I definitely see myself at those. And you know, yeah, of course I'm gonna stick with the women's empowerment stuff and any sort of sobriety conference or anything because obviously I have a story that's very in line with that. So and those stories are what got me through when I was really sober, especially when I was in rehab when I was 18 for opiates. I remember this woman coming in and she was just so empowered and so beautiful, and I was like, I'm never gonna be her. And now I kind of am her, which is pretty cool. Um, so yeah, the more hope I can spread in in all those worlds, uh, the better, I would say.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Yeah, that's awesome. That's exactly what I was meaning by Billabong. I could see, excuse me, you were planting the seeds for the people that hadn't experienced that, and um, it was amazing. So, well, Geordie, where can people find you?

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Yeah, so you can head to my Instagram um at Geordie underscore blue, or I have a beautiful new website. It's up, but the final touches are still getting put on geordyblue.com. So, yeah, all my information is on both of those for all the upcoming events. If you're in Sydney, I throw sober dance parties. Um, so I have one coming up on May 10th. So if you want to come boogie and Bondi in the afternoon, we do cacao, breath work, dance, it's a beautiful event. Um, and then yeah, I I'm hosting a retreat actually in April as well, just outside Sydney. And you can find all the other events on there. There's tons of upcoming stuff. I do one-on-one work as well. Um, you can book with Colin.

SPEAKER_01 31:46

Yeah, that's so cool. And with the um the dance parties at Bondi, can people come by themselves? Like, is it that kind of thing?

SPEAKER_00 31:54

Or absolutely. We get people coming, and you know what? I just want to acknowledge like a lot of people that come are quite nervous because we we have taken alcohol and we've packaged it up. Sorry, we've taken dancing and we've packaged it up in a Red Bull vodka package and put it in nightclubs. And so a lot of people have never danced sober, and that was why it was so hard for me to stop drinking because I freaking love to dance. And um, I I still let myself dance, right? I go to festivals and I can do it in a whole new way now. And um it my biggest shift came when I didn't push that wild party girl away. I instead I welcomed her into the family and I was like, hey, I know you're here to stay. I know we need to like get your needs met in a more healthy way. Um, so I started throwing sober dance parties, and people love it. And so, yeah, people come by themselves all the time. And if you're listening to this and you're quite nervous about coming, don't worry, we got you. And uh by the end, people's faces are just priceless. Like you kind of just get high on your your own supply, so to speak. I mean, with the breath work of the cacao and then the dancing, people just leave in this elated state with new friends too, which is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 33:12

Yes, that's what I wanted to. Yeah, that's why I asked because I think it can be so nerve-wracking. But I also think that this journey, you know, sometimes we have to, I love getting out of my comfort zone, but that's taken practice. And so encouraging others that it's gonna be safe and you're not alone, I think is amazing because there are so many people that love this sober dancing, like you said, like it's it's so alcohol related, but it's actually such a beautiful thing for our mind and body. Um, so I'm loving seeing these pop up, and I think, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:46

It's amazing. Like dancing was part of all of our cultures, yeah. Growing, like I was gonna say growing up, but like, you know, I guess growing up in the ancestral world, um, all of our ancestors had danced in their practice when we were in Hawaii. We taught the ladies traditional hula. We had some a local comm, it was beautiful, and dancing has been part of our culture for millennia, right? Tribes in Africa, I'm pretty sure it's a Zulu tribe. When when someone's not well, they ask, When's the last time you sang? When's the last time you dance? Like dancing is healing. Wow, the dance floor is a is a healing place, it has been for me, you know. And so I being able to share that with people um has just been so magical.

SPEAKER_01 34:27

That's beautiful, and yeah, it's it's been forever, and alcohol was not involved. So bring it back. That's so awesome. Well, it's been so lovely to have you on, and um, yeah, for everyone listening, head over to Geordie's website, see what's on offer, and those in Sydney and um, well, around the world, because you know you're you're popping up everywhere. So see what's on offer. But thank you so much for sharing today, Geordie. It was so great to have you here.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Oh, thank you so much for having me, Meg. I really, really appreciate it. It's been lovely being here.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

My pleasure. See you soon, Geordie. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

All right, see you soon, bye.