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Episode 12

12. From Endings to Expansions: Spiritual Growth & the Audacity to Become More

In this episode, Andrea Lee Matthies explores the threshold between endings and expansions, sharing how shifts in identity and creative expression can open new possibilities for growth. As she transitions her podcast into its new chapter under a new brand (House of Andrea, launching next week!), Andrea reflects on the energetic containers we create for ourselves - how old containers can limit us, and how consciously designing bigger spaces allows for expansion, higher-frequency work, and deeper connection to our soul and gifts.

She speaks candidly about: how the containers you’ve created for yourself can limit your expansion, why stepping into higher-frequency work feels both exhilarating and uncomfortable, and how embracing your full identity - including your name, your creative power, and your soul gifts - anchors you in your next chapter. If you’ve ever felt yourself expanding beyond the life, labels, or roles that once defined you, this episode will feel like permission to create a new container worthy of all that you are.

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Transcript
Andrea Matthies:

I'm Andrea Lee Matthies, Writer, Photographer,

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and Clairvoyant Medium, and this

is the Bold, Brave Woman Project.

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This podcast is a living, breathing,

unfolding of what it really

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means to step into our becoming.

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Born from the ashes of a failed YouTube

channel, this weekly podcast brings you

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real unfiltered moments of failure, of

bravery, and of deep intuitive knowing,

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so that you too can step into who you are

becoming with even more trust and bravery.

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Let's dive in.

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Welcome back to another episode

of the Bold, Brave Woman Project.

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This episode is really special

because this is actually going to

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be the last episode in the current

Bold, Brave Woman Project Branding.

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And this is really exciting because

I have been contemplating a lot over

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the last couple of weeks around what

it is that I really wanna do with

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this podcast, and particularly as

I move into this new artist era.

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What it is that I wanna do to bring

all these beautiful pieces together.

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And so I made a really big decision in

the last couple of days that I'm shifting

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the branding from the Bold, Brave Woman

Project to a brand new energy, a brand

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new entity as well called the House

of Andrea, and this feels really good.

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By the way, it's really windy

where I am at the moment.

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So if you start to hear the

beautiful sound of the trees

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in the background pay no mind.

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I think the universe and the,

the environment at the moment is,

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uh, cheering on and, you know,

bringing these beautiful gusts of

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wind in support of this big change.

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But the house of Andrea

actually came to me.

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Um, it was in the middle of the night.

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I had had a series of conversations with

some mentors that I work with around this

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work and this new era and phase that I'm

stepping into around the embodied energy

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of the artist and what that means for me.

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And I was starting to think about

energetic containers, and sometimes

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when we are in old identities or we've

been through certain experiences and

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we set these energetic containers

of ourselves, of our lives, when

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we wanna step into something new.

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That old container brand identity,

whatever it is that we have

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built sometimes isn't big enough.

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It's not stretchy enough to hold

the new energy that we are stepping

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into, and I was starting to feel that

happen with the original branding

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of the Bold, Brave Woman Project.

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Now, don't get me wrong.

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This brand and this podcast started

from a absolute beautiful place.

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It was the sourcing of braveness of

boldness to, not give up to make something

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of a failure to realize and step into

the energy of being bold and being brave.

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Starting a podcast, talking

about some deep breakthroughs and

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incidences that were happening in

my life to keep walking forward

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and share those with the world too.

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Honestly, just connect with

you on a deeper level to let

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you know you're not alone.

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If you're going through any of

this deep stuff, you are not alone.

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And I see you.

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I see you in your bravery.

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I see you in the depth of despair,

and I honor you too because

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this life, this being human is.

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It's such a tricky one at times.

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It's so complicated.

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It's so heavy, but it is also so

powerful and so magical at times.

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And so when the Bold, Brave Woman Project

Container was set, it was perfect.

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It was what I needed at the

time to step into my bravery.

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But as I've gone through this rapid

transformation over the last couple

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of months, so many more pieces

of me are starting to surface.

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So many more depths of desires of

interests, of things that I really want

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to step into and start expressing have

started to reveal themselves, and I

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realized the container that I set when

I was in that really broken, beaten down

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space of the failed YouTube channel.

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Sourcing that power that I had at the time

that's no longer big enough to hold the

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energy and to create this container of

stretch that I know I need to step into.

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Now that I'm moving into this

new era of photographer, of

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channeler, of energy worker.

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of all of the things that I am

moving into at the moment, the

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Bold, Brave Woman Project container.

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I've outgrown that and it needs to shift.

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And so I connected with a couple of

mentors last week to really help me unpack

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what it is that is being created here.

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And after I had those sessions, I fell

asleep and was woken up in the middle

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of the night being shown that this

new container that I need to create.

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Has to be something that is very,

very stretchy, is a higher level of

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frequency, but is big enough for me

to be able to expand into, because

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sometimes when we set containers for

ourselves, we set containers based on

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where we're at and what feels comfortable.

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Mean, we set containers of safety

essentially, so that we have these

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beautiful boundaries of having spaces

to move into, to flow into, to move

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around, to step into our power, but

within a limit that feels comfortable.

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We.

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And I'm realizing with this next

era of really becoming an artist who

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can infuse source codes into their

art, who can translate energy and

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ether and messages from source into

either photography sessions into.

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Art pieces or channeled messages,

it's going to require a much higher

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frequency and a much bigger space

because where I am right now is stepping

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into, this is like the beginning.

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It's like that first step that we take

onto the journey of where we are going,

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but we need to have that space to grow.

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Even if it feels scary, even if it feels

really, really uncomfortable, it is so

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much more in alignment with who we're

becoming and in service of ourselves

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to create containers that stretch

us that almost not terrify because

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that tips into a different frequency

and a different energy, but fills us

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with this sense of I need to expand.

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I need to expand even

if I don't know how to.

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This container that I'm creating

for myself out of my own free will,

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out of my love, out of my intention.

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This space has me, it's solid.

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It's my container that I create,

but it is also gonna ask me to rise.

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And so in the middle of the night, my

angelic team woke me up with this idea.

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It was about 2:00 AM this tap

on the shoulder, energetic.

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Tap on the shoulder.

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That was like the container

is the house of Andrea.

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Now it's interesting because over the

last few months I've had this house of

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type energy and these words flow to me

in different formats when I'm thinking

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about different offers or partnerships

or collaborations or things that I have

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been creating around this new artist

identity and house of has come up a lot.

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But it's also felt super stretchy

and super almost out of reach.

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It's like, no, that's like the

house of Chanel or the house

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of luxury or the house of, um.

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These big, beautiful, you

know, fancy elite level brands.

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Like who am I to step into a container

or a, a brand or a name that is, you

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know, synonymous with some of these

other elite level, high level brands.

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Like who am I to do that?

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And so there has been a lot of.

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Hinting from the universe that this

was a container that I needed to set,

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but also, oh, but I couldn't do that.

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Like who am I to do that?

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And it's taken a lot of.

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Time really to cultivate through that,

to sit with that, to allow that to

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reveal what it is that needs to shift.

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Because we are all these incredible

beings in these amazing, beautiful bodies

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that are having this human experience.

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Yet we let our minds and our

circumstances and expectations.

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Limit and forget that incredible

potential and power that exists within us.

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And soon we start telling

ourselves, no, I'm not.

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I'm not for that.

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I, I can't stretch that far.

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That is not for me.

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These types of narratives start to

root and take hold in our minds.

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And you say them to yourself.

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We think them to yourself, or even

just energetically allow them to play

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in our energy and before we know it.

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It's real.

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It's a belief.

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It is an anchor.

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It is something that we

move through the life.

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We move through our lives existing

by, and that's crazy because being

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of source and from source and having

all of this incredible, powerful

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energy exists within us, we should be

having and creating and trusting and

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ultimately giving ourselves permission.

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To create the containers that hold all

of this magic, because as soon as we

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create the container, the magic and the

the essence, it has somewhere to go.

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Finally, it's supported within

a container, within a space that

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doesn't just exist within us, but

it can start to move and in whatever

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way that is for us, whether that's

in our career, whether that's in

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our mothering, in our family, in.

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Our voices the way that we wanna express

or share our mission with the world.

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This container all of

a sudden creates space.

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For that to happen.

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And the more we start to fluidly move

and express within that space, the more

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we, the more we start to build trust

and a reminder of what we're capable of.

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And then the more trust that we have.

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The more energy we can pour out.

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And it becomes this beautiful cycle

of trust and outpouring, trust and

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outpouring within this container that

has space enough for us to expand.

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and of course when we get

to the edges that expansion.

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We can just make the container bigger.

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And this is the thing that I am

realizing now, is that we create

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containers for ourselves at each chapter.

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That we are in our lives based on where

we're at, based on what we wanna achieve.

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But we can't stay in those containers.

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You know, I sometimes look back at

different periods of my life, and every

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now and then you have that fleeting

thought of, oh, I wish I was back there.

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I wish I was still in that moment,

in that time with those people.

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But we look at who you are now and

the incredible wealth of experience,

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the things that you have witnessed,

that you have moved through.

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There's no way those older

containers, those nostalgic

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back in the past containers

could hold all that you are now.

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It's absolutely not possible.

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And so we, we might look back on with

that nostalgia, with that energy of,

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I wish I was still back there, but

it's not feasible and it can sometimes

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be really difficult to let that go,

particularly if the time of our life

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or the memories attached to it, the

achievements, the people, the experiences.

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If they were so love filled or if they

were an essential piece of our identity

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that allowed us to escape from the

heaviness of how we were feeling or the

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heaviness of what we were going through at

the time we create these energetic anchors

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back to that container that felt safe.

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That felt happy, particularly if

we are moving through a phase in

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our life now where a lot of that

stuff is ready to shift and it's

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coming up, it's moving through us.

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Life feels heavy, feels dense.

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You feel sad all the time,

or you're stepping into a new

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path and it feels different.

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Awkward.

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So scary because it's different.

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It's so much easier to look back

at that past version of ourself

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in that past container and feel

like it was better back then.

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I wish I was back there in

that energy because that was

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the moment where I felt happy.

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And when I've looked at this because

I've had these nostalgic moments of

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looking back, you know, in beautiful

romances when I was younger, or times

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where I felt free, and in my body,

I look back at those moments and

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it's like, why am I so unhappy now?

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And it's because I'm trying to, in

this expanded version of myself,

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contort myself, and fit myself

back in that container, which was

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perfect at the time and made me feel.

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That weigh those beautiful

feelings, but I can't actually

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contort back into that container.

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What I need to do is create the

container with self permission

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and awareness that fits me now.

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Oh, that allows me to pour myself into

and expand so that those feelings of

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happiness, those feelings of trust, of

loving my body, of loving being alive

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and present, they can be now feelings.

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They can be things that I experience

as I am now without trying

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to attach myself to the past.

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And so many of my friends and I talk

about this regularly because when life

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feels difficult in the moment now,

it's so much easier to be like, oh,

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it was so much easier when we were 16.

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It was so much easier when we were 20.

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It was so much easier when we were 30.

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Like we are always going back to those key

moments and wishing we were back there.

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And it always seems to come

up when you're around people.

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Who were present in those moments in

the past, who were those anchors and.

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Integral to those memories.

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It's so easy to get together and be like,

oh, do you remember when it was easier?

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Do you remember when we did this?

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And we wanna compare it to where

we are now and how we feel now?

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It's like, oh, I've done this, this,

and this, and it doesn't feel this way.

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Or, I've tried this, or I'm tied

to this, or I made this decision,

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or I can't believe this is my life.

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And you compare it back.

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Oh gosh, wasn't it easier

when we took that road trip?

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Wasn't it easier when we were

doing that or living that way?

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It's like, yes, it was easier, but

for that container, for where we

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are and the experiences that we had,

it's just that we're in and outdated

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container now and we need to expand it.

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And so this container that this new

concept of House of Andrea that woke me

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up in the middle of the night a couple

of nights ago, all of a sudden I was

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like, yes, being brave enough to set a

container that's so big that allows me to

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expand is exactly what I need right now.

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I need to stop trying to fit

myself into everything that I have

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been and allow myself to dream

bigger and ride it with the fear.

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Because when I came up with this same

house of Andrew, I was like, well,

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who am I to name something after me?

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Who am I to?

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You know who, what kind of audacity

is it to go house of Andrea?

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Like it felt, it felt really challenging

at first because the ego of, not even

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the ego, but the fear of it being

ego led started to meander and bang

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around in my mind, and I was like, oof.

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Oh, are people going to hear that and

think, oh God, does she, does she think.

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That she's better than us.

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Does she think this?

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Does she think that?

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And this fear of people perceiving

this shift as an ego-based

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decision was really loud.

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And I had to sit with that.

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And you might, you might feel this in

your life too, when you have this big

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idea and you want to name it something

or you wanna pursue something, but

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then there's this voice of like, oh,

but people are gonna think you're.

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Super arrogant or way beyond where

you're at or too big for your

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boots, that can get really noisy.

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And if we say it to ourselves

enough, it's like belief beliefs are

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thoughts that we said over and over

and over and and have decided are

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real, and we start to believe that.

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But the bravery is the key to this.

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The trust and the bravery.

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There's a key to this to be

like, okay, House of Andrea.

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Why is this coming through?

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Okay.

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Guides, angels, team source.

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Why are you giving this to me as this

new container that I need to hold?

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And I sat with it and I'm like, even,

although it's called House of and my

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name, Andrea, this is not actually about

me creating a house where everybody

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comes in and we all follow my rules.

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It's not like that.

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It's like if I give myself permission to.

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Claim something like House of Andrea, it's

like I am giving myself permission to step

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into my power, to to lead with my soul.

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Essentially to lead with my

soul, to lead with my energy.

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And if I can do it,

then everyone can do it.

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It's like I see everyone having their

own house of, and it's like this

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inner sourcing of power of coming

back to leading from our energy,

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from our soul, from our soul gifts,

from the reason that we are here and

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saying that we're enough out loud.

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Claiming that we're enough.

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Out loud.

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It's like.

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By creating this container of House

of Andrea, it not only allows me to

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finally give myself permission to

own all that I am and all that I'm

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creating in this beautiful, energetic

state, but by doing that, it's almost

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like I'm saying to the world as well.

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It's like give yourself

permission to do the same.

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Like you deserve to have your own house

of, or, you know, whatever it is in terms

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of the terminology that you're thinking

of doing or that has been coming to you.

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You've been getting these little signs,

these symbols, to do something different.

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To take a different path or

own something in your own way.

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It's like, yes, let's do it.

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This is the time, like

this is, this is:

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We for such a long time have been

putting woo and spirituality and healing

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and all of these things in a separate

bucket to the real world, you know?

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And if you do go and do some of

this work, it's like either within

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safe communities or you know, really

talked about with people that you

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know are gonna be accepting of it.

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And then we switch, back

into the normal life.

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When we're around the normal

life people or situations and

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environments, it's like this is 2025.

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These two separate buckets

don't need to exist anymore.

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We can say we are source filled

and fueled beings who are deeply

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connected to ourselves, deeply

connected to our spirituality, who

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also do this normal stuff, who also

just normalize the conversation and

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the sensation of being alive and

connected to our soul, to our energy,

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to everything that we are here to do.

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So if we are that connected and it's

:

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to like talk about this stuff, then

let's start using that language to

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create containers that can hold all

of that for us and normalize it.

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'cause part of my work that I'm seeing

into this next chapter is like, the

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words that keep coming through to

me are like, it's woo, but:

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It's like making this, this type of

conversation so normal that we all

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just talk about it over coffee in the

workplace, uh, at home all the time.

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Like there is no denying now where we

come from and what we are made of and what

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we're here to do and that we are moving

through lifetimes, and we are gonna be

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doing this over and over and over again.

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Like we have all this wealth of wisdom

from where we've been in different

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lifetimes to where we are now.

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The beautiful ancestral lines that

are connected to us, to the lifetimes

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that we're gonna live beyond this.

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But really coming home to who we

are right now in this lifetime.

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In this lifetime, I'm Andrea Matthies

and that comes with a whole wealth

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of things and experiences, and it's

time for me to just own that the same

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that it is time for you to own yours,

to own your name, to own who you are,

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to set the containers that are big

enough to hold that plus what's coming.

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All of the things that you were about

to expand into setting the container

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big enough to hold that and being

ike, yeah, it's woo, but it's:

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Like there is no separation and

it's really interesting, the

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power of claiming your name.

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And I really understand this because

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I have had a tumultuous

journey with my name.

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When I was born, I was named

Andrea Lee Matthies by my parents.

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But as we do when we are children, we get

given nicknames and my nickname, quickly

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became Andi Or Andi PAndi or, Ange.

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Different variations of this.

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And it's funny because I think

this happens to a lot of us.

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We get like our pet name or our

nickname and we get that most of the

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time except for when we're in trouble.

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And then we either get the full first

name or the full name, and I knew

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if my mom yelled Andrea Matthies

or Andrea, I was like, uhoh, have

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I either been busted or something's

coming, like I've done something wrong.

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And so we can attribute

that energy to our name.

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And so by the time I hit high

school, I was like, I'm not

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going by the name Andrea.

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I'm going to go by Andi 'Because

there was so much love attached

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to that nickname as well.

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It had a beautiful energy around it.

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So I went by the name Andi I changed, you

know my name with my friends at school.

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It got them to start calling me

Andi, the teachers, everyone.

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And.

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I went through high school, mostly

being known as Andi, and then when I

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went out into the work environment,

when I graduated year 12, I went to

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university and then started working.

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I felt like I needed to

go with my legal name.

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So I started to put Andrea on,

you know, employment forms or

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work badges and things like that.

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But as people got to know

me, they would call me Andi.

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So I went through this kind of period of

early career as being known as Andrea.

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know, 20 years or so.

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don't hold me to the dates 'cause I

haven't worked them out specifically,

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but fast forward a fair chunk of

time and I met this particular

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man and started dating him.

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he said to me, Andi is a boy's name.

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I refuse to call you that.

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I'm only gonna call you Andrea because

he was a of a European background.

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He had a, an accent.

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So said, I'm only gonna call you

Andrea, like none of this Andi business.

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And I remember sitting there and

it was in a really a particular

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time where my self-esteem and

my self worth, everything was.

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Non-existent.

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And so of course this man was

showing me, um, attention and

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interest and I was attracted to him.

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Well, he's only gonna call me

Andrea, and that sounds exotic.

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Then yeah, I'm gonna come become Andrea.

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And so in that moment of allowing

someone to, I guess, project and

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change my identity in that moment,

I was like, okay, Andi is dead.

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I am now Andrea.

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You know, becoming this version of Andrea,

over this course of this relationship,

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which lasted almost a decade.

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And, it was really interesting that

sometimes when we get into situations

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where we give our power away, we give

our voice away and we allow others to

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imprint an identity on us, we slice

these fragments of ourself away, and

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so I just started to become the shell

of a woman, the shell of myself,

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becoming a shell, I was becoming

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very resentful of this relationship.

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'cause I could see what was

happening, but I was also allowing it.

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I was making decisions to stay, I was

making, um, allowances for someone to call

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the shots around where I worked, what we

did with my money, which became our money.

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Lots of different things that sort

of stripped away willingly, these

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were micro decisions that I made, and

so there's no blame here other than

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just seeing this as an experience

that I went through, but I realized.

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This relationship had created a

situation where I was no longer

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myself and I was no longer happy.

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And so I had to ultimately at the

end of that, make the decision to

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walk away so that I could start

walking myself back to who I was.

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But what had happened in the process

of this is because I had been told that

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my name was Andrea and that, um, this

was the identity that I was to assume.

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When I left that relationship, I

started to hate the name Andrea because

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it had been forced back on me, and

so pretty much within 24 hours of

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finally leaving that relationship.

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I completely changed my name back

to Andi So overnight everything,

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LinkedIn, Instagram, people I knew,

I'm like, please don't call me Andrea.

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Call me Andi.

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Because what it felt like at the time was

me taking my power back, making a decision

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to go back to the woman that I thought

I was before entering this relationship.

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Who, uh.

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You know, Ellie's had ownership of her,

the name that she preferred, and so I

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went back to Andi and that was fine.

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But what was really interesting is

that it took me some time to realize

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that that going back to Andi was

massive overcorrection that maybe

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didn't serve me because coming home to

yourself and owning all that you are.

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There's such power in that.

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There was power in starting to strip away.

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Like why did I need to call myself

Andi in the first place, is because I

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was afraid of using the name Andrea.

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'cause I thought I was in trouble

just from that association,

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from when I was a kid.

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And I really even, although someone

said to me, I'm only gonna call you

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this, which created some tension

towards my, the name Andrea.

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It's like, well actually, if I allow

myself to forgive myself for giving my

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power away in that relationship and just

let that be an experience and a journey

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that I went through and neutralize it.

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If I'm able to go back and just.

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Like neutralize the stuff from a childhood

where, you know, if I got my full

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name, it meant that I was in trouble.

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Just neutralize that because of

course your parents are gonna call

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you by your name if they need your

attention and there's something

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important to speak about, like you.

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You know, it's, it's, it's crazy

how we internalize these fears

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or these associations with words

based on these experiences.

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So I was like, okay, I'm just gonna go

back and neutralize that, and I'm moving

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into a phase of my life where I wanna

take ownership for this beautiful soul

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that exists in this body, and I was

gifted this name Andrea Lee Matthews.

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There's power in owning that.

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There's power in making the decision

to come back to my roots and to really

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just see my soul and my energy, and

my love for what it is, and allowing

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myself to reassemble inside this

beautiful name and just own that.

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And so over the last couple of months,

I, um, since this podcast started, I was

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very much in the Andi when this podcast

started, but over the course of the last

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months, however long we've been running

now, I'm like slowly, slowly edging back

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to, no, I'm ready to come home to myself.

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And part of that process

is deciding within me.

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To step into the full energy of where

I started, how I was gifted this

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name and how I came into the world.

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That first breath that I took, I took

that breath as Andrea, and there's power

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in deciding to clear and neutralize all

of the associations, all of the stuff

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associated with that, and step back in.

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And so that's where I'm at.

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I've, over the last couple of

months, as I said, started using

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Andrea, and then over the last four

to six weeks, I only use Andrea.

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Now I've removed Andi off my socials,

and of course, friends and family.

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You, you can still call me

Andi It's not a big deal.

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But from a leadership stepping into

this next chapter, this next container.

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Andrea is the name that I want to use.

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And so when I woke come in the middle

of the night and it was like, now is the

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time to own this container and to step

into the power of the house of Andrea.

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For me so that I can expand,

so that I can pour out into the

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world all this incredible wisdom,

this connection to source that's

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being amplified minute by minute.

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The deeper that I move into this and the

deeper that I trust myself to stretch and

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expand into these new roles, these new

containers that I'm building, the more

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I am actually gonna be coming home to

myself and the house of Andrea, is it.

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And so from next week, all of the

episodes that are gonna be released on

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this podcast are going to be under the

brand new branding of House of Andrea.

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I'm gonna be working on all of the

graphics and everything that will wrap

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around that over the course of the week.

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So keep an eye out for that.

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When it drops, there'll be a new intro.

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Um, 'cause I will be slightly

repositioning these kinds of

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conversations as well to involve

more of this woo, but:

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We're gonna have deeper conversations

about connecting you back to your soul.

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And that includes your gifts, that

includes your self trust, that includes

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your knowing, your wisdom, the connections

that you have to everything around you,

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really deeply connecting you back to that

so that you can become your own house of.

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Owning your name, whatever that

is, for you in this next chapter.

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That's what these conversations

are gonna be about.

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And there's no more fear.

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Now I, I'm, I'm done with being

afraid of talking about some of

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these topics and really helping

you awaken that for yourself.

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So there's gonna be a lot more of

that because the more of us that

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turn our light on, the more of us

that step into the power that is our.

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Birthright that exists within us.

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It's not outside of us.

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It exists within us.

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And the more of us that step into

that light and into that energy and

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turn it on, the more that we're gonna

activate others and the more that we

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can activate others and send out these

incredible powerful signals and do things

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differently and own things differently

and more in a more grounded way.

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That's how we're gonna change things.

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And it starts with normalizing

these kinds of conversations and it

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starts with coming back to yourself

in whatever way that takes place.

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And so I'm really excited to go on

this next chapter, this next part of

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the journey under the house of Andrea.

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I don't even entirely know exactly

what's gonna be involved in this.

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All I know is that what's coming through

me at the moment are these beautifully

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source coded pieces of artwork that

I'm sharing on Instagram every day.

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And so my new handle on Instagram,

which has now been updated is House

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of Andrea to really encourage you

to jump on there and follow that.

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'cause these new source Act, source

coded pieces of art are gonna be dropping

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every day to really start helping

you with this self permission to.

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To get deeper in connection

with your soul and who you are.

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I'm offering the readings as well to

support you in this, this next phase.

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So if you're feeling cold, reach out.

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Book a one-on-one session with me,

and we'll connect you back to your

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soul, to your source so that you can

start really stepping into this next

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chapter that you're moving into.

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And then these deep immersive

photography experiences, which are.

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Healing there.

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There are like a combination of

healing, tapping in, cracking open,

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and then capturing that so that

you can not only be seen, but see

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yourself deeply in this amazing next

chapter that you're stepping into.

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These sessions are gonna start

becoming available, so if you're

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interested in getting on the wait

list of those, send me a dm and I

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feel like this new house of Andrea

container is gonna have so much more.

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In it.

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But right now, I'm only being shown

each single piece one step at a time,

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and I'm just allowing myself to stretch

and trust that this is the path.

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This is the path.

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This is the thing that I'm meant to be

doing because I'm done with trying to

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figure it out with only my brain, and I'm

done with following someone else's path.

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And I'm also done with abandoning

myself, and I hope that you are too.

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I hope that.

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Each time we have these conversations,

there's just this little bit, this little

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extra piece of yourself that starts to

come home and starts to anchor back in.

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That starts to help you remember who

you are and your soul and your energy

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so that you two can walk the path that

you are here to walk and set that bigger

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container that is waiting to hold you

in this next chapter of your life.

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So signing off with the last

episode of the Bold, brave

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Woman Project, transitioning

now into the house of Andrea.

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I love you and I will see

you in the next episode.

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As always, thank you for being here.

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If this episode stirred something for you

and you wanna book a channeled reading,

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jump on the link in the show notes.

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There's only a few channel reading

sessions available each week.

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And of course you can reach out

to me anytime or follow all of my

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art and photography on Instagram.

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Andrea Lee Matthies is an artist, photographer, and clairvoyant medium who creates portals for people to see and experience themselves more fully. Through her work, she blends creativity with clairvoyant insight, offering a unique perspective on what it means to thrive as a soul having a human experience.

As host of House of Andrea, Andrea brings together soulful conversations, channelling and subtle activations that invite listeners to awaken their intuition, dissolve self-imposed boundaries and step into the full spectrum of who they are.

Her approach is contemporary, vibrant, and deeply human - honouring both the beauty of the physical world and the unseen wisdom of spirit. Andrea’s mission is to help others feel seen, inspired and activated, so they can embody their own brilliance and frequency in everyday life.