Episode 16

16. From Country Roots to Luxury Brand: The Art of Rising Without Shame

In this episode, I explore what it really means to rise without shame - to build something exquisite and world-class without abandoning where we came from. I share how old stories about class, worth, and identity quietly shaped my creative block and how I uncovered the fear of “tarnishing” my new luxury brand through my humble beginnings.

This is an intimate conversation about reconciling the girl from the country with the woman creating at a couture frequency. It’s about healing the invisible narratives that tell us we don’t belong in beauty, wealth, or higher frequencies - and reclaiming the truth that our roots are part of our radiance.

Covered in this episode:

  • Why micro-actions are so important to keep you moving forward
  • How to move beyond imposter syndrome when stepping into luxury energy
  • The emotional process of reconciling identity and ambition
  • Redefining what “luxury” and “artistry” mean as energetic frequencies

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Transcript
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This is the House of Andrea.

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I'm Andrea Lee Matthies, an artist,

photographer, and clairvoyant medium.

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And in this podcast, we explore what it

really means to thrive as a soul having

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a human experience, how to connect with

our energy, transcend those edges and

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boundaries that we create for ourselves.

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And open to the full

spectrum of who we are.

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If you're ready to see yourself

differently, to sense more deeply,

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and to expand into more of who you

are, you are in the right place.

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Let's dive in.

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Andrea Matthies: Welcome back to

another episode of The House of Andrea.

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This is an interesting topic that I

wanna dive into this week because I've

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been working over the last few days to

rebuild really elevating up my brand,

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my presence, and even the energy that

I am in around this brand, into this

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new luxury level brand, because this is

something that I've been craving to build.

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And it's not so much about needing

to be a luxury brand or needing to

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be seen a certain way, but there is

a frequency and energy that has been

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stirring within me, that has been asking

me to rise, to rise and rise and rise

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over the last, I would say, 12 months

that I've been resisting a little bit.

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And I wanna talk about that today because

what I wanna create, The visions that

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I get shown, the spaces that I wanna

work in, the women that I wanna serve,

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it is at a higher level and a higher

frequency than I've ever done before.

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And when we want to go up into these

higher levels, it requires us to stretch.

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And when we stretch, this is

where our old stories and our old

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conditioning starts to reveal itself.

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So it's really interesting because I was.

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Feeling really stuck over the weekend.

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I was feeling really stuck around

some of the ideation, some of the

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specific details that I wanted to

really solidify and I hit my journal.

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'cause quite often when I feel blocked,

I'm like, I need to just brain dump

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energy, dump out all of this resistance

down into words, down onto paper so

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that I can start to see what's here.

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But the one little conditioning that

I didn't realize existed that came out

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was this, I'm gonna read it to you.

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There is a fear within me that I won't

make it because I'll tarnish this new

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brand through association with my roots.

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And this sentence came out and now like.

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Oh, this is interesting.

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And to give you a little context, I grew

up in the countryside here in Australia.

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It was a farming type town called

Wonthaggi, down on just near the coast

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of the southern coast of Victoria

and growing up in the country.

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we grew up not right on the poverty

line, kind of like just above the

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poverty line in that Aussie battler.

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Your parents own multiple businesses.

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You work seven days a week, either

selling things at the market on the

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weekends and the main business during

the week, and then there was usually

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other two or three other types of.

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Physical income streams that the whole

family would rally together to basically

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keep the lights on and keep food on the

table and be able to send us to school.

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And my parents made the decision

to send us to a slightly higher

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quality school as well, which just

completely put this incredible

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financial pressure on an already.

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You know, low income earning family.

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And so there was just this energy of

hustle and can't afford, and you know,

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most of our clothes were handy hand

me downs 'cause I had older cousins,

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so we were in secondhand clothes

and secondhand books and uniforms

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and all of those kinds of things.

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Which, you know, it's all we knew.

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So at the time it was fine.

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It wasn't until we started getting

into these older, um, you know, high

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school and older ages that you can

start to see the haves and the have-nots

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in the world and start to compare.

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But because we're in the country in

this kind of particular economic status.

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It just, it was what it was.

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And you get very used to your

parents saying, no, we can't have

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that, or No, we can't buy that.

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You just stop asking eventually.

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But I had associated myself, I guess

by the time I left school and went to

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university and moved through my, my life

as a young adult with this association

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of growing up, without much, and growing

up in the country, I had embodied this.

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I'm just Andi from the country.

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I'm just Andi from this income bracket.

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This is kind of, I've got

the Aussie Butler mentality.

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Like this was just a, a story and

an energy that I kind of carried

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through and I became quite successful

later on in my careers but I never

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quite was able to, I guess, reconcile

this energy of where I came from.

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And it's really interesting because

sometimes when we overcome certain

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social or financial situations, it

can almost become a badge of honor.

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It's like, yes, but look at what I've

achieved despite my roots and look

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at what I've been able to achieve

and I'm not that person anymore.

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And we can have these sort of

verbal vernacular type, labels

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or sayings or pride and all

the things that come with that.

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And we can also even have these narratives

of like, well, I'm more humble because

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I've had to work for what I've got

and I'm more this and I'm more that.

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And it's, this is this whole

world of narrative and story

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and belief and conditioning

that can get bottled up there.

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And I thought I had done a very good

job of unpicking that and healing

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that and reconciling that and

actually seeing where I came from.

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as a, this was just the experience

that my soul chose in this lifetime.

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These were the things that

I was meant to experience.

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This is how it has formed

my view of the world.

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And it's okay.

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Like I don't need to have a story.

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I don't need to have a label or

association with it anymore, and I'd.

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done a lot of work around that to just

be in love for myself and for my life

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based on what it was, rather than an

overcoming of something or a, I did

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this in spite of that, um, type story.

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And I thought I'd done a

really good job of that.

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And I believe that I have until.

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Just feeling this beautiful pull to

like step into this next level of this,

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you know, five star world class type.

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Level of service.

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Like I've always delivered an

incredible level of service because

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it comes from the heart in my work.

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But I really wanted to elevate this

surface up to sort of sit alongside some

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of these beautiful other brands that

exist, and not about the income or the

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money, but from a frequency perspective.

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This beautiful frequency of

seeing everything as art, seeing

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an experience as a creation.

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Of artistic energy, exp of energy

exchange of being able to hold

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people in a higher level of frequency

and think about the detail of

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every element of their experience.

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Like there's just something delicious

about that, that I'm now realizing

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that I wanna resonate with, and

I've been doing a lot of research

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and reading about luxury brands.

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There's so much depth to these luxury

brands that I had judged from the

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outside and didn't realize existed.

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the hand laid work that takes hours

and hours and hours to craft because

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an artist is doing this for the love of

being able to put this art into the world.

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I was like, oh my gosh.

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This whole other world of detail, of

attention, of love exists in these

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beautiful luxury energy exchanges.

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This is where I'm going.

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This is the space that I really

wanna spend more time giving back.

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Into, particularly now that I'm in

this artist era and in this space

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of energetic couture essentially.

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And I've just given away, uh,

the name of one of my new offers,

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but I'll get to that later.

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But was really interesting

'cause I got stuck on, well,

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how am I gonna present this?

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What, you know, there was just

some resistance that I was feeling

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over the last couple of days

of bringing this together and.

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And I realized there was this

underlying story of Taring, this new

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brand, this new era because of the

association with the country girl,

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the poor girl, the, the Aussie Batard.

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It's like there was this separation

between this artesian and Artia type work

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that I am now starting to create and.

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Me.

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It's like I had split myself into two

versions, two energetic versions of

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myself and the old country girl from Aggy

who, you know, was wearing hand-me-down

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shoes and a hand-me-down dress to school.

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It's like, oh, she, she is going to

tarnish this new brand that I'm creating,

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this new house of Andrea frequency.

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And I was like, whoa.

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What?

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On Earth is this.

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Hello friend.

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I love that saying.

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When you discover a new fear

or something that's uh, a new

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old story that's playing out.

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It's like a, hello friend.

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Thank you for showing

me that you are here.

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I was like, oh my gosh.

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Like this is something that I need to

address and we can do this unconsciously.

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We can have these old versions of

ourselves that we have just not, like

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I was talking about in an earlier

episode, we just haven't chosen to

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not have the story, to not make a

different decision around who we are

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and they can wreak havoc and play out,

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Underneath all of this stuff

and create this resistance.

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'cause I thought I was

just creatively blocked.

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I thought, I was like, oh,

I'm just not in the mood.

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Like, uh, my brain is like,

can't think of the things.

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Like I had a justification as to why

I was feeling creatively blocked and

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then all of a sudden it was like, bam.

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No, there is still a,

a version of me that's.

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At the table for this conversation that

I'm like, Ooh, she's tarnishing this.

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Like that girl from Wonthaggi that

that girl, she can't run this business.

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She can't have a five star luxury Brand.

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She can't play in this world.

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Like you're gonna be found out.

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You're gonna be found out as an imposter.

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And it was interesting as I started to.

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Write down just some more

of the detail around this.

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feeling like I was going to tarnish

this whole thing based on my roots and

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I found this fascinating, like shocking.

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But also fascinating.

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And I immediately, and this

is how quick it can happen.

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When you decide to just recode and,

and reframe energy, make a decision,

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like command to yourself, it's like,

no, like I wanna believe differently.

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It's like there is, I wrote this down,

there is nothing wrong with my roots.

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There is nothing wrong with my roots.

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That is the story.

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If I'm gonna have a story or

belief, that's what I wanna believe.

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There's nothing wrong with my roots.

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I had a loving family.

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I had a beautiful sister.

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I had fun.

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I had moments of deep learning,

a deep understanding based on the

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businesses that we had, based on

the way we used to run markets

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It's like the, when I did

eventually buy clothes.

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You know, the, the excitement that I held,

like there were moments here that lead

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to such a beautiful, energetic foundation

that there's nothing wrong with my roots.

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These roots are not going

to tarnish where I'm going.

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Like, just stop that in its tracks

And I think the other thing that kind

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of came through in this was around, I

think I've spoken about it many times

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on the podcast is like Instagram, right?

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Instagram.

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Just having this love hate relationship

with Instagram where I wrote down.

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My Instagram feeds to date have

been tacky and this new brand will

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get tarnished by being associated

with tacky Instagram accounts.

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I was like, what is going on here?

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Like, how have I put so much

weight on like the look and feel of

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Instagram accounts that it's like.

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Become such a strong

reason why I couldn't.

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Transforming into this new brand.

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It's like, what is going on?

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It's just fascinating when we uncover

some of the stories that we have.

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And so I was just like, Nope.

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Okay.

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Whatever channel I use,

I'm gonna make it mine.

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I'm gonna be the woman I wanna be.

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I'm gonna lift other people up, and

if I decide to be a five star luxury

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level brand and allow my energy to

rise to that, then that's what it is.

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That's what it is, and it is nothing else.

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And it was really interesting when I made

this claim of I will make it mine because

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I was immediately hit by this feeling of.

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High-end fashion, high-end

couture, high-end luxury.

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No matter whether it's fashion,

accommodation, experiences,

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jewelry, whatever, luxury

bands get to say what it is.

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It's like it is what I say it is.

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The brand just makes this

declaration of it is what I

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say it is, and I was like, huh.

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Yeah, cool.

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Like by setting this beautiful self

permission of like, I get to do this,

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I get to, you know, experience this.

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Another immediate kind of story or

thought that came up was, but this

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is intimidating because I've never

made a claim like this before.

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Another like little thread of that

imposter syndrome, I have never.

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When it came to a brand that was so

stretchy and such a massive energetic

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shift, again, not realizing there

was this subtle version of me, of the

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country goal of from Wonthaggi, I've

never been able to, I've never realized

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that I could be like, it is what I say.

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It's like that sentence was such a foreign

concept that it almost sent like this

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ripple effect through my body at the time.

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And I was like, oh, wait, what?

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Really?

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Like this feels so foreign.

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Like I've never just been like, it

is what I say it is, and here it is.

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And I was like, wow, this

is amazing territory.

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And this was the key that started to

unlock some of this feeling of imposter

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syndrome over the last few days to

just quantum leap everything to shift.

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Everything that I have been

feeling and being like, whoa, okay.

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I am coming home to self.

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I am in love with my life.

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I feel the fire more than ever.

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I am super connected to the

invisible, to the magic of the

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unseen, and now I get to say.

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From my brand's perspective, and this

next chapter, this next era of service

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that I'm moving into, like I get to say

it is what it is, and that is luxury, that

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is artesian, that is energetic couture,

that is all of this beautiful next level

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of art and service that I'm moving into,

and I can just step forward with that.

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I can just get my energy behind that

and just move and move with trust

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and self-assurance from a place of,

no matter what happens, I've got me.

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No matter what happens, I've got me.

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No matter what happens, I'm all in.

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No matter the investments that I

make, the things that I try or the

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conversations that I have, I've got me.

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And I'm here and I'm willing, and

I'm going like, this is happening.

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And when we make these bold statements

like this, it changes everything.

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And you might feel this

within yourself too.

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This like questioning this imposter

syndrome, this like, I can't do that

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because of this, or I, that feels

too stretchy, so I'll do it this way.

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Or you, it feels stretchy and

then you let the mind run the

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show of the but what if this?

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And, but what if that,

and how do I do this?

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And I, I really need to make sure

it's gonna work before I move.

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Like the mind will do what it does best

and process and analyze and problem solve.

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But it never really

answers those questions.

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It just throws up all of these

different questions, which then

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turn into worries, which keep us in

the same space and we don't move.

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And so that's where like making

these declaration, these declarative

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kind of like as I was talking about

earlier, these sort of commanding type.

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This is what it is.

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This is what I want, this is,

these are the choices, these

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decisions that I'm making.

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Not only does it shift us out of the

mind asking the questions that we can

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never find the answers for, but it gets

us into motion of like, well, I'm going

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anyway and I'll find out pretty quick

what works and what doesn't for me.

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And I think that's been also the

key with shifting the frequency of

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what I'm doing now, is that I could

never have made these shifts without

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doing the mini trials, without taking

mini actions, without putting things

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out in the world, knowing that they

were steps that I needed to take.

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And this is fascinating in that I'm

sitting here now with this luxury brand

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that's launching this week with all of

these amazing new couture offers with

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a totally different vibe and brand new

Instagram, the whole works, but there's no

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way that I could have just jumped straight

to this point, like it has taken so many

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steps backwards, to be able to do this.

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Launch.

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I've had to go through all of

the healing that I've done.

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I had to have the breakdown to

then realize that I wanted to be an

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artist to then pick up the camera

and start finding mentors to shadow

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in photography, studios to work in.

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And courses to take to then realize I

wanted to make art to then start making

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art to then lead to these other spaces

and conversations that I've had to then

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get me into the rooms where conversations

around luxury were being had to then.

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Test this, first luxury

offer, which is The Channel.

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Again, if you're not in

there, please jump in there.

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It's completely free with this beautiful

new luxury, high level frequency,

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it's the best possible place to get

into the frequency and the taste test

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essentially, and be in proximity with me.

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but I needed to like run The

Channel to then rebuild the brand.

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Like I could never have

jumped straight there.

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And this is what I think is fascinating

because when we feel lost and when

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we feel uncertain or frustrated.

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We want someone to give us the

answer of the end goal of the

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thing that we are needing to do.

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But it doesn't work like that.

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Like you have to get into motion.

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You have to make these micro

decisions of, like me, I'm an

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artist, not an entrepreneur.

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But I needed to like, take these little

micro steps and even before that, the main

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thing that kicked me out of my corporate

career trajectory was my hysterectomy.

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Like having that major health crisis

and then going to the surgeon and them

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telling me we need to take your uterus

and we need to do it now, like matter

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of days versus, you know, wait and

see what happens in six or 12 months.

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I couldn't have predicted that, but

that catalyzed everything overnight.

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You're taking a uterus, you

no longer can be a, a mother.

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Even although I'd made the decision,

like having that taken away, set that

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reality in which meant there was a

whole bunch of emotional work that I

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had to do, and the recovery was so.

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Severe.

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Most women are up and about within like

six to eight weeks after a hysterectomy.

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Mine took me six months, six months,

and in that time I was like laid up,

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could barely walk like on the couch.

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And so I was like, well,

I have all this time.

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I can't go back to work.

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I was on sick leave and then unpaid

leave for a lot of that time and.

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I took a online start.

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Your online business course, right?

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Because I was a strategist, I thought,

well, maybe I can start a business

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from the couch while I can't move.

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You know, I can still use my

brain and my hands might be out,

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might not be able to get up, but

at least I can learn something.

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And so that hysterectomy catalyzed me

taking my first online, launch a business

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kind of course, with this beautiful lady.

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So I studied that and started my

first coaching business, which was

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at the time intuitive strategic

coaching for other women in business.

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Bringing the psychic element

into business coaching from my

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couch at like $10 a session.

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No, word of a lie?

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$10 for an hour of

strategic level coaching.

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And I built it from there to

the point that when my, um.

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Sick leave and I was starting to be

able to like think about sitting at a

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desk so I could go back to work, and

I was starting to walk around that

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sort of like five, six month mark.

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I went back into the corporate.

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world, but I was still running

my little coaching side kicker

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and everything had changed.

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The energy had changed.

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I was finally using my

intuitive and psychic gifts.

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I was like, I don't wanna go back

into a corporate world where I

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can't use them, where I have to bury

them when I can't talk about them.

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And so I left my big corporate gig.

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And there was a consultancy who

headhunted me essentially, um, for a

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part-time consulting role in strategy.

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And I was like, well, this could be a good

transition while I build up my business.

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And I kind of hinted to them.

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at the time when we were negotiating,

I was like I'm an intuitive.

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This is why I can see trends and

opportunities and foresight, I

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can see the patterns so well.

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It's like, because I'm tapping into a

whole bunch of seen and unseen stuff.

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Are you okay if I use these abilities?

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And they was like, yeah, as long

as it's behind the scenes and not.

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Like, we're not gonna talk about it.

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I don't even think one of the

company directors or the other

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staff even knew about it.

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But the guy that I was negotiating

my contract with, he kind of got

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it and I was like, oh, okay, great.

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I'm gonna get paid to

consult using these gifts.

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I felt like a, you know, one foot

still in corporate world, one foot out.

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And so I did that while still building

my little coaching business, but like

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those two things would never have happened

without the hysterectomy, which would

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never have happened without a whole bunch

of other lifestyle and trauma and a whole

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bunch of other things that happened in

my life that I had to alchemize and work

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on and heal to get me to this point.

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Like, you have to just keep taking these

steps because I could not have sat there.

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A pre hysterectomy and being

like, how do I become a

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photographer with a luxury brand?

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Like it doesn't work like that.

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these things weren't even on my radar.

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Running my own coaching business

was not on my radar when I

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was in the corporate world.

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Being an artist was like dead and

buried since I was a kid and had

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convinced myself that I wasn't creative.

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If I could speak to her.

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but if I was in the same room with the

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teenage Andrea and being like, girl,

you're not gonna believe what I do now.

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She'll be like, whatever.

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Like, I don't believe you.

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You know?

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And so that's why it's so important.

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To take the micro step, to do the

little mini action to get into action

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around what our soul is calling us to

do step by step, even if we don't have

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the bigger picture, even if it's only

half an inkling of something, it's like

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at the time I was like, I feel like I

wanna bring in my clairvoyant intuitive

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psychic abilities to work with women.

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Like that's the only piece I had.

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So I was like, okay, I

guess coaching business.

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You know, and this recent like big

breakdown, breakthrough, it's like the

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only piece I had is like, I feel like I

need to be an artist that sees through the

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lens, or sees through the words, or sees

through some sort of artistic creation.

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That's the only piece I had.

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And so I borrowed a camera of

my brother-in-law and wrote to

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a bunch of photographers here

in Melbourne and said, I'm doing

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this massive crazy career change.

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I wanna become a photographic artist.

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I love your work.

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Can I shadow you?

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And then that catalyzed to where

I am now, like not even six

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months down the track from that.

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I think the first photographer

I shadowed was in August this

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year, like two months ago.

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And already everything has catalyzed so

quickly because the energy was behind

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it, because the micro steps were there

because the willingness to invest to go

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all in to like put a credit card down

and be like, okay, I'm doing this thing.

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Like whatever it takes, I'm all in.

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And that's why I am sitting

here now after uncovering.

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This story around the, this version of

me, this country girl that's tarnishing

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what I'm doing now and alchemizing that

because all I know, all I have to do

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is keep taking micro steps, following

that hint of energy, knowing that

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The artesian side of me is really

coming out in this next chapter.

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It's like they're the only

pieces I have, so I'm gonna move.

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The website is up, the offers are out.

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The new Instagram is being rebooted.

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These are the only pieces that I have

right now, but they are the things

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that crack open everything else.

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These are the things that get us back into

who we are, back into our energy, into

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our soul, into our essence, and give us

the trust that it's okay to leave behind

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the things that we thought we were, the

things that we thought that we had to

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do, the lives that we thought that we

had pigeonholed ourselves into that.

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Well, we're here now.

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We've done these things.

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We've spent all this time on these

university degrees or this career,

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or this job or this relationship.

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Like I guess this is it.

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Like I can't waste all of that time

and that energy and that effort, and

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I'm like, that served its purpose.

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Like those things serve their purpose.

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There's an end of the line.

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For them and to just shift and

to make the micro movements and

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to come back to the self and be

like, what is here in the flame?

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What's in the flame of

knowing of, of soul?

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Intuitive, like these are the only pieces

I have, but I'm gonna take a micro step.

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I'm going find someone to talk to.

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I'm going to invest in someone walking

alongside me, whatever it is that

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catalyzes you into the form of motion is.

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So worth it.

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Like I look over my career now

and I had so many career breaks.

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Like I work in the corporate

world in either marketing or

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product development or strategy.

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And then I take a 12 month career

break and I retrained as a phlebotomist

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and worked as a path nurse, a

pathology nurse in hospitals.

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And then I came back

to my corporate career.

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And then I did another one where

I worked in schools as a teacher.

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And I taught math and science

like I retrained and taught

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math and science for a year.

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And then I came back to the corporate

world and I did it with fashion design

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and came back and I did it with, like,

I look back on my career now and even,

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although so many recruiting agencies have

given me grief over the years because

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they take one look at my resume and

they're like, what is your career path?

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Like, what are all these career breaks?

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I was like, well, it was interesting

at the time, I, I wanted to do it.

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I wanted to try something different.

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You know, it was a nightmare.

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They could never, they hated it.

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They absolutely hated it.

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But I look at it now and I'd be

like, I was just following the flame.

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And now in the era that I'm in

now, I can see how I'm pulling

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on all of those threads.

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Like to be a nurse and work in those

hospitals has given me such a depth

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of compassion and really seeing.

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the beautifulness of the humanness,

right through the pain, through

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the grief, through the suffering,

to still see the soul that exists.

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Like I, I couldn't have got that just

from reading a book, you know, like all of

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these different experiences, the traumas,

the abuses that all of the stuff that

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I've been through has cracked open and

shown me something else about my depth.

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About my fire, about who I am at a

soul level that I could never have

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just thought about or learned through

a book or, you know, observed on tv.

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Like I had to go through it to find and

collect up all of these pieces of me.

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And so this next chapter, the House Of

Andrea, this luxury brand is coming.

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She's something special.

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She is to this point, my life's work

of pulling together the most powerful,

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visceral, real threads of myself and

pouring it into this piece of art.

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And that's how I see my work now.

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It's like.

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Creating pieces of art, whether it's

the website, it is a piece of art.

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It's not a marketing tool.

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I used to write and create websites to

market, to sell It's like, no, I don't.

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I create art, right?

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I create art in my experiences.

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I create art in my interactions.

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I create art in the website.

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Because that's what my soul is

calling for, and that's what

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the House Of Andrea stands for.

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It is about being the artesian of our

life, about being the energetic architect,

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the artesian, bringing that magic into

who we are to create art with our lives,

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to create art through our work, and

even just create art with our energy

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and who we are and how we show up.

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If we keep just moving forward and

then tidying up, cutting away, changing

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recoding, making these powerful

decisions to just move forward anyway.

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Everything becomes possible.

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Everything becomes fuel.

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Everything becomes magic.

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And this is where we start to manifest

the unseen, the things that exist into

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the ether, into the physical reality.

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Because we're finally taking

these big, bold, trusted, and

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knowing steps forward to create.

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Things that we can't even

comprehend right now.

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The, the magic that unfolds just takes

us on these wild journeys that are

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just so worth being here and being

alive for that we can just wake up

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every day and be like, I get it.

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I'm here.

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I love it.

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I'm working through it, and this is me.

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If you are feeling that pull through

this conversation, any of our past

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conversations, or you've just got

this knowing within you that there is

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something that you are meant to be doing.

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I really invite you to come and

check out this brand new frequency,

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this brand new arena that I've

created in the House of Andrea.

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All of my offers now are organized in

incredible seasonal collections like you

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would find in a luxury fashion brand.

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So right now we are.

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The spring summer 25, 26 collection, and

there are three core offerings in there.

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The channel that you know about, has been

mentioned a few times in this podcast.

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It's the free telegram space.

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We can come in, have me in your

ear, in your messages every

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single day with a channel message.

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With weekly q and a riffs, you

can share your own intuitive hits

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and musings in that space as well.

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It's a beautiful.

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High frequency, luxury space

of being able to receive and

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tap into our intuitive energy.

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We have The Encounter, which is my brand

new one-on-one session you know those

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stories you read or the movies you watch

about two people who meet on a train and

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it's just this deeply connected encounter.

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This is harnessing that energy.

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It's one-on-one online, and we go deep

straight into the energy, straight into

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the dream, straight into everything that

you are, but then this beautiful portal of

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window rather than stepping off the train

and, and having that lingering feeling of

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like, will I ever see that person again?

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The encounter is designed to hold

you in this frequency for 72 hours.

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So three days after our session where

at any time you can voice note me.

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'cause quite often what happens

when you are on a call you have

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this beautiful conversation.

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But then straight afterwards

something pops into mind or something

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else happens in your world and the

container's over so you can't share it.

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Whereas with The Encounter, we hold you

in this beautiful luxury high frequency

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space to really move the needle and get

you into that micro action around what it

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is that you're trying to shift right now.

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If you are feeling like you wanna just

start stepping into this world, into

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this frequency, into this vibe, The

final offer in this spring summer 25,

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26 collection is called The Atelier.

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And this is the space where

essentially I work with you as

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the clairvoyant creative director.

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This is the ultimate

energetic couture experience.

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So Whether you're in the art world,

you're in the creative world,

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you're in the coaching world.

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Anything that you are birthing and

creating, this is the partnership where

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we get into the energetic couture of your

world, of your art, of your creation.

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It's not coaching.

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It's where we walk together, shoulder

to shoulder, to architecturally and

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energetically craft your spaces,

your experiences, your art, your

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interactions with your audiences.

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So it doesn't matter whether you are a.

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An artist in an exhibition, whether you're

in fashion, whether you're in design, on

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a stage, anything where you are putting

vulnerable, beautiful pieces of yourself

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to the world in the form of your work.

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We work together to craft that,

and my magic is being able to

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see and work with the invisible.

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So we bring the invisible, the

magic of the invisible into your

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work, into your experiences working

together where you get my commitment.

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To love and nurture and work

on your work as much as you do.

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This is not just us coaching you.

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Of course we work on you as

the whole person as well,

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but this is about the work.

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This is about looking at the anchor

points into the physical and the unseen,

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to channel the energy down so that

the energy flows through the offering,

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it flows through the interactions

with the audience, the connections.

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It is everything to do with the unseen.

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As your Clairvoyant Creative

Director, side by side in the

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trenches making magic happen.

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This is the signature offering

of this particular collection.

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this is the flagship and these are

the three incredible opportunities

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that are being released under the new

brand in this collection this season.

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So if there's anything there

that you feel the intuitive pull

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or you want to know more about,

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Jump on the website, all

the details are up there.

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You can book the couture session.

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You can jump into the channel

as well in the meantime.

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And if you want to know more.

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more send me a DM and we

can chat about it further.

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But this space, this period, this next

chapter, this is what it's all about.

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This is what we are here to do as

these souls to create art through our

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energy, through our eyes, and our.

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lives.

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I cannot wait to see what happens.

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I love you and I'll see you

in the very next episode.

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Andrea Lee Matthies

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.