E23H: 9 Years Anniversary Celebration: From Playful Dates To Purpose-Driven Love

Joy isn’t a break from purpose; it’s the fuel. We marked nine years together by tracing how a playful, faith-led relationship became a mission: to align with God’s presence, embody peace and joy, and help others move from anxiety and overwhelm to ease. Along the way, we swapped flashy gifts for meaningful ones—a shower of “blessings” and a gadget-packed hiking stick—because symbolism matters when you’re building something bigger than yourselves.

We take you inside a Michelin-rated brunch with entrepreneurs where we skipped the small talk and led with heart-first connection, using conversation cards to spark real stories. That flow carried into Dopamine Land, a sensory playground that made the neuroscience of delight tangible, and into our car-date pizza ritual that turned an ordinary slice into a lesson on savoring the moment. Play became a practice, not a pastime, and we unpack why joy and nervous system regulation belong in every leader’s toolkit.

Beneath the celebration is the work: emotional mastery, belief redesign, and the difference between human love that quits and divine love that carries. We get honest about the tests that forged our partnership into a vessel for a larger vision, and why clarity—companionship, partnership, or purpose-led union—changes how you choose and how you endure. We also share upcoming mentoring: an eight-week group for women committed to alignment and a five-week coaching seri

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Chapters

• 0:02 Welcome And Anniversary Context
• 1:06 Faith, Purpose, And Shared Values
• 2:37 Blessings, Vision, And Service
• 4:33 Playful Gifts And Symbolism
• 6:33 Community, Entrepreneurship, And Heart-Led Networking
• 10:29 Dopamine Land And The Practice Of Play
• 12:05 Pizza Ritual And Savoring Simple Joys
• 14:12 Emotional Mastery And Self-Mastery Work
• 17:50 Tests Of Love And Mission Readiness
• 20:25 Calling In A Divine Partner
• 22:09 Gratitude For Community And Seasons
• 23:49 Women’s Mentoring And Men’s Coaching

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:02

Blessings and welcome to Ascension Alchemist Podcast. It is your host, Rev. Honey B, and much love to all of you. This is the space where we get to align with mighty God's presence and embody that eternal truth so we can truly bring the blessings into our life and be a blessing to others. And how about that? As a community, we're so blessed, we get to live in this way and get to share our journey together. So, welcoming you. Today is a very special day, and um because it's a celebration day where nine years ago Michael and I met each other this particular day. Nine years ago, there was a lot that was happening behind the scene. As Michael and I crossed path without looking for it, yet it happened. And we're going to record this week the whole story behind. For those of you who don't know our story, we are going to dedicate our upcoming episode this week that comes out on Thursday. It's all about how we came together, what happened, what was happening in Michael's uh behind the scenes in Michael's life, what was happening in my life, and how incredible it is when God Almighty has orchestrated for you to come together. And then here it is. You want this and you come together, and then there's like a whole different experience you have to walk through. And nine years later, here we are looking at each other. We don't even recognize each other from when we first met. Yet the essence is there, our values are there, and how far we have journeyed into the depth of our inner being, and there's so much more still to come, and that's what's exciting. We still haven't even seen the best and the greatest that's in front of us, and that's such a celebration. So today was a full day of play, and it started with um opening small presents for each other. Uh, we we like adventures, we like activities, we like experiences, and that's what we um enjoy very much um doing. Yet today Michael was really sweet. He he came over, he said, close your eyes, and he started throwing things over my head, and I looked and it was like all these dollar bells, it was so cute. He was like raining dollar bells over my head, and he says, This is all the God's blessings that's coming our way. I said, Oh, this is so wonderful. And it was really, really significant because as we're going to 2026, we were we are saying yes, we're saying to more of that flow in our life so that we can create our vision with these temples of light that was given so many years ago to create them and to be able to serve our mission and upliftment of humanity and help people greater move from this space of uneasiness, worry, anxiety, overwhelm into true peacefulness, easefulness, joyfulness, which is the truth of God Almighty. I mean, that's what we're so passionate about through essential alchemists. We get to alchemize that, we get to live it ourselves and bring that presence out. And through our community courses and coaching, we just get to share and radiate that truth, which for me is an everyday gift that I'm just so grateful and to share with you who are part of our community. We're just so, so thankful. And thank you for celebrating the um the anniversary of ours. Several of you have been part of our anniversary that we met on the same day, each other, and you've journeyed with us, you've witnessed all of our changes and shifts and all that good and all that greatness. So today he did that, it was really sweet, and I got him a gift, and it was so amazing because a few days earlier, Instagram, without me even looking for it, provided this ad, and this ad was about hiking stick, this very fancy hiking stick, where it has a screwdriver in it, it has um like a um lighter in it, it has compass in it, it has um all kinds of gadgets in it in this hiking stick, and I tell you, I felt jackpot of all tools had blessed me somehow, somehow. The Instagram ad was able to tune into my thought that I wasn't even thinking, yet I wished because Michael likes to take me on hikes, but he never has any of these things with him. And I'm always like, Michael, if a bear comes, what are you gonna do? So this was like the best gift. So I purchased it for our anniversary. And someone some of you have seen the video that I posted today. It's a short reel. It was so funny when he opened it, he was laughing, he couldn't believe this was our anniversary gift. I said, Yep, I'm I'm very, very serious. This is our anniversary gift. Now you get to take me on hikes, and we're safe, you're all good, none of these concerns anymore. So that was a good laughter. And uh he bought a beautiful book again on um emotional mastery. We've we've really been uh inviting ourselves to further expand our awareness on the gift of emotions as tools. And uh, some of you have taken our one-year self-mastery course on how to master your beliefs, your thoughts, your emotions. And we're always shifting ourselves even greater to the greater vision of God Almighty and how these emotions play a role so that we can use them truly as a navigation tool towards our greater destination and through the greater version of ourselves, the becoming in that image of God Almighty. So I was very, very thankful about that. That was really sweet. And the other thing that was really, really uh precious today, today, Michael and I had made reservations at this beautiful Michelin-rated restaurant that we had been before to meet with a group of people that we don't know at all. They're part of the entrepreneur world, they're part of this um this um group that we joined membership with, and it's all a community of entrepreneurs that are really doing amazing, amazing things. And since this Sunday was the only Sunday we had available in November, before we together with these groups, we meet them in Florida for their mastermind, we decided to celebrate our Sunday, having a brunch with these folks. We really don't know yet, we're so excited to know. And I told Michael, I said, Michael, let's take him a little gift. So we've prepared a little gift to take, um, to take with us and um gift them these little gifts from our hearts. And some of you are part of our circle, you've come to our gatherings, you know how we are, we love little gifts, sentimental, and and and really show up in a heartfelt place, especially in the world of business where everything starts in that conversation. What do you do? This, that, all kinds of conversation goes in there. We're really heart-centered, so we like to come meet in the heart and soul. Let's get to know each other, let's just establish a connection first and laugh a little bit. And I had purchased these cards where it's a great conversation piece. So I had put it at the table, and at some point we were able to pull the cards with people we didn't know, ask questions and learn about each other, which was really, really sweet. And it was so beautiful. People we really didn't know. We got to know them today, and it was like we've always known them. It was so, so wonderful. And more to that, some of them we're gonna spend the full next weekend again with them, uh, further training, and then we'll be for three days in the mastermind in uh Florida with each other, and it's exciting, it's exciting to learn as a community together with these individuals we are in, and to celebrate each other's win, and because we are all in the same journey, and we're all from different walks of life, we get to be as a community in DC, discover about one another, and it felt like such a blessing today. So that's what Michael and I did, and then afterwards said, honey, I organized the uh surprise for you, something fun. One of the things we love doing is um allowing the little kid and us play. So we often organize a date activity where we just really fool on playing. So today he organized it and um we went to this place called dopamine land. It was towards the end, we had a little bit of a short time there, and this place was all about all these different lights and sensories where it was actually education of dopamine. What happens when dopamine is released as a neurotransmitter in your brain, and how um through sounds, through music, through art, to all kinds of expression, this is released. So, some of you are gonna see tonight all kinds of um videos and pictures from that place, and it was cute, and we allowed the little honey and little micro inside of us really played because it doesn't matter what age we are, there is this youth, there's this youngness on the inside that just wants to play and discover. So we love unleashing that unapologetically and have a lot of fun with it. So that was really fun. And then I told Michael, I said, Michael, listen, the night is never a finished night until we go discover another fabulous pizza. So we do this usually when we play, we have to go discover a fantastic margarita pizza, glorious one, and um to just eat it in the car. So you're gonna see that video too. So we we had learned about this one place in Bethesda that had uh been there for 53 years since 1972, which is my age, my human age. So I said, Michael, let's go there. We'd heard about it, we might as well go. And uh we pulled over to this place. Michael went in, bought the pizza. I was so excited to experience that. I don't know if you all ever do a date time in the car. This is something that Michael and I love engaging in, having a date in the car, eating, and um especially with such foodies, and not even waiting to get to anywhere else, just right there, just enjoying the smell, the the aroma, the the taste and the texture, and the crust particularly. So, of course, we started right away. The crust was fantastic, the marinara, not very good, the mozzarella, not very good. Yet I said, Michael, I give it 72. I I love my 100%, but I give it a 72. Yet still, it was really fun. Just just to have this experience together that we enjoy so much. And it's been a filled day, filled day with a lot of messages. We did a live this morning on Facebook. We had several beautiful friends commenting, and we were out all day, play, and how important that frequency of play is to be able to allow ourselves play and discover and be and put ourselves in new situations, discover different friendships, different ways of thoughts, different ways of beliefs. And that's something my con and I really appreciate. We like getting to know other people that are in complete opposition, especially belief systems, religions, cultures. It is so satisfying to learn about each other and be open in hearing different opinions and also be able to be ourselves, be able to very freely share our world, which is all about God Almighty, which is all about the devotion and commitment and living that truth, being uh being that, and literally working for God, being of service to God Almighty, and and having a community that we get to share our passion and be able to have these visions that we want to bring them into pass and take part in upliftment and how we help others with emotional maturity, uh system, nervous regulation, greater thoughts, greater capacity to be able to take charge over their beliefs and of course letting their mind be in harmony with them versus in separation. So it's just really, really wonderful. And it was a really blessed day today, really, really blessed. I wrote a love letter for Michael, thanking him, thanking God Almighty, as I said in God Almighty, with so much reverence for that deep desire in my heart that always really desired a true love. Um the the one thing I really wanted to experience in this life was magnificent, true, steady love and to believe it exists and um to be mature enough to handle it, because in my earlier years, being immature, uneducated, and uming fantasy is not uh fantasy is fantasy, visions or something else, wanting to be in a really beautiful, devoted, committed relationship that was of mission and I was purpose, that this can be possible. So I held that vision and I was blessed to meet some individuals that came before Michael. I got to know them, but they weren't able to um, they weren't able to take part in this because the devotion to the vision wasn't there, and and I knew it has to be mission and devotion, discipline, commitment. And it's so beautiful that we get to share our life that way from morning till night and um live a purposeful life, purpose-driven life. And um, you know, for those of you who are looking for your partner, you have to decide: is it just the relationship you want, or is it true partnership, or is it of a divine purpose, is it mission-driven? Because all of those are different energies that you are allowing in yourself, and as you're very clear with yourself, truthful yourself, you get to interact with individuals that come in your life where you get to say no to those who are not that vision, and you get to say yes with individual that is in that vision. And then you get to put that relationship into test because here's the other part that relationship has to go through so much test to be a living testament. Can it actually handle this bigger vision? To handle the bigger vision, we have to be strong in our devotion and our commitment, and that's something the last nine years we've gone through so much together, which probably going to have a heartfelt conversation about this this week for our episode this week because it's our anniversary week. And to really share the power of love that comes from God Almighty's love is a very different love than the human love, because through our human love, it was always very limited. If it was up to our human love, a hundred times we would have broken up over this nine years because it was we faced a lot of challenge and difficulty. Yet it was exactly the challenge and difficulty that we needed to go through, even though we didn't want to. It was really rough sometimes. But it's the ability to be able to actually go through it and be on the other side of it and develop this muscle where our relationship has been able to be so solid in a foundation of truth and can handle, has the capacity to handle bigger things, we fully grasp that inner standing. This is why it's taken nine years for this true grounding of alchemy, alchemizing it, grounding it, embodying it so that we can handle this higher vision and actually deliverance. And part of it is the orchestration with the developers, the builders, the financiers, uh, the fundings, all of that comes with it. We have to be emotionally mature, mentally mature, uh, spiritually mature, and most important, our own union has to be very mature to handle all of this. So today is a celebration of all of that. And if you are calling in a divine partner, and if you're you're hearing me and you're seeing me a Michael as an example, know that's possible. Know that truth also exists in you. And if you have that vision, that dream inside of you, know that God Almighty put that dream in you. So that will that means it will happen. You have to remain in faith, you have to remain in trust and allow it to unfold and be able to say no when it's not the right person, and be able to say yes, take step towards that right person. So that's what I want to share today with you. We just got back and I'm going to journal even more gratefulness just for everything that was experienced today, and thanking God even further. So much of blessing is here. Because God Almighty is so generous, indeed. Indeed, indeed, indeed. And I want to thank those of you who've been part of our life, those of you who continue to be part of our life, and those of you who are new coming into our life, we're so grateful. And those who were part of our life, and you're not in our life anymore, we're so grateful to you as well. There's always a divine perfection in here. You remain with so much love in our hearts, and and sometimes the friendships is just during your duration, and it's so perfect. We fully, fully, heartfully honor that as well. And with this, I bless your week as you go into this week. We have six more weeks until the end of the year. Make it the best, the best six weeks of 2025. Enjoy it. I'm so thankful. I just have to also give a shout out to the woman who said yes, and uh that I started um doing the group mentoring for the eight weeks that started this past Monday. Tomorrow is the second class. It's been such a divine gift to mentor this incredible woman, and I've had several of you women that also reached out and said, You won't be able to join this Monday. When is the next one? So I'll be posting that as well because I didn't publicize this one. Um, but I will make that because I see the value of it for those who truly desire to be in their truth, in their alignment, and actually live there and not let their excuses continue to suppress them to live it. I am so honored, I will mentor you in that in these eight weeks. So that's coming up, very, very exciting. And uh, Michael has a this coming next week. He has uh for five weeks, he's gonna be mentoring men. So, those of you who are listening, you want your man to be mentored for the next five weeks, and and just if your man or brother or father, grandfather is just stressed all the time, is worried, is concerned, is sh is just overwhelmed, please send them to Michael so Michael can help them over these next five weeks. It starts next Monday uh at 7 p.m., just one hour. He'll mentor them, coach them to be released from these so they can be more in ease and peace and and actually joy. So they're not bringing that into the household because this has been something that I've taught Michael, like, no, that remains that, don't bring it into the household. So he finally, you know, he really really understood that and has been very responsible with it. So he can help the others, and it's just better because your the environment is everything. If your environment is in a place that is really nurturing for you, you can't grow, you can't grow and magnetize and multiply and bring even greater blessings. So that's coming up. Send send um, reach out to Michael for it. I'll put that in the show notes as well here. So have a gorgeous week. Lots of love, lots of blessings, and thank you so much for being part of this community. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing. Thank you so much for also sharing the podcast for others. It's the best gift you can give us. We're so grateful if you're experiencing value in this, share with others so they can also hear it and they can be uplifted. And leave always a review for us, and we love getting reviews. Yeah, we're uh what is it? We have two more weeks left till we graduate. Yes, yes, yes, yes, it's so exciting. So, thank you for catching me in this celebration mode. I share this celebration with all of you. May you remember you're always celebrated. May you remember God Almighty celebrating you day and night. May you give yourself permission to move into your celebration and let that celebration be the walk of your inspiration. Infinite love and blessings. Have a gorgeous time, and I will see you later this week with Ne Michael's episode. Thank you.