Episode 25
25. When You Don’t Take the Safe Option: A Story of Trust and Surrender
In this episode, I share a deeply personal story about trusting my connection to Source during a major life transition. After receiving notice to leave a home I had finally begun to feel grounded in, my husband and I faced uncertainty, pressure, and the challenge of finding a new place that truly felt like home.
I take you through the journey of surrendering control, following intuitive nudges, and holding faith even when nothing seemed certain. From almost taking the “safe” option to waiting for the place that resonated, this episode highlights the power of trusting the unseen guidance that comes from staying connected to Source.
I also reflect on patterns in my life - how I’ve moved and chased external validation in the past - and how grounding in my energy allowed me to navigate change with clarity, strength, and calm. It’s a real-life exploration of faith, intuition, and alignment.
If you’ve ever doubted your own guidance or felt pressure to make decisions before the timing felt right, this episode offers insight into how trusting your connection to Source can create opportunities, synchronicities, and the right outcomes in your life.
In this episode:
- Trusting your intuition when logic offers safer options
- Holding pressure without collapsing into old patterns
- Letting go of external validation and coming home to self
- How surrender creates momentum, clarity, and unexpected support
- Finding groundedness, even when everything is changing
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Transcript
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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:Hello, and welcome back to another
live episode of The House of Andrea.
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:If you are here, live with me.
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:Welcome.
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:I am so grateful that you are here.
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:I wanted to come in today
because I've got a big update.
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:If you've been following along on the
podcast and with these live episodes,
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:you'll know that my husband and I.
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:We've recently given, uh, the instructions
to vacate our home, the place that
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:we've been for the last, just under
a year because the landlord, and
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:they're a beautiful landlord, don't
get me wrong, but they've decided to
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:sell, which has popped us in a little
bit of a fix around having to move
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:on, having to make some big decisions
before what felt like we were ready.
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:We had decided that we loved it here,
that we had really, really settled, and
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:this notice has changed a lot for us.
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:But I wanted to come in today because
it's been a week since I shared.
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:An update on this and I
have some really good news.
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:We found a place, we found another
beautiful place, and the reason
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:why I wanted to give this update
and the transmission has come in
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:to share this today is because.
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:It is amazing our connecting to
our energy, connecting to our trust
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:and our belief in something bigger
source, the universe, mother nature,
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:the energy that connects us all.
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:Really connecting into that and
holding the faith in that can
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:have such a profound impact on.
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:How our lives play out and how we can
really hold ourselves and be at peace
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:and be in strength and bravery as we
start to navigate challenges that come
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:up in our lives that aren't expected,
that throw us, that really throw us and
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:just shift the trajectory of our lives.
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:Because I was saying in some earlier
episodes, if you've been following along.
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:We have moved a lot over
the last few years and.
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:Over my lifetime, honestly, I, I have
moved and been quite nomadic and for
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:the longest time, that was because
I never let myself feel grounded.
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:That was because I never really let
myself come home to myself and put roots
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:down, um, put roots down in places that.
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:Felt like commitment or felt like
grounding into a chosen identity.
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:I'd always felt like I needed to keep
moving, particularly if there were
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:significant impacts or significant
events that were playing out in my
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:life, such as a, a big breakup, a
big heartache, a big breakup, or
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:having to move very quickly out of
domestic violence situations or having.
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:Situations of bullying or
things in my career start to.
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:Really shift my self-worth and
how I saw and felt about myself.
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:And so there was always this sense
of just keep moving, move on.
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:Um, run away, escape or chase
adventure, chase curiosity.
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:And of course, I, I love curiosity and
I love adventure, and I think that is a
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:huge part of the human experience that
helps us learn and grow and develop.
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:But I think in my case.
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:A lot of the time it was, I choose
curiosity and adventure because I
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:don't wanna face these emotions and
I don't wanna face these feelings.
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:And so for a lot of my life I had
used moving and moving different
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:countries, different cities here in
Australia as a mechanism to escape
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:from what I really wanted to face.
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:And it was interesting
because over the last.
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:I'd say three years.
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:I've done some really deep concentrated
work about excavating that really
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:finding out what was driving a
lot of that need to keep moving.
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:And it wasn't until we landed, we'd
moved from the big city, I think it was.
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:Probably a, an earlier
episode if you wanna catch.
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:Um, when I share around how my
husband and I, we lived in the
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:city, we moved right into the CBD
of Melbourne a few years ago to, you
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:know, feel like we were amongst it.
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:I think choosing to be
childless and choosing not.
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:To start a family and being a child free
couple, there was a sense of loneliness
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:that was building in some of the other
places that we lived in the suburbs.
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:So we made that conscious
choice a few years ago to move
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:to the city and it was great.
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:We were well connected.
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:There was always something going on.
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:There was a hustle and bustle, but still,
I never really let myself ground there.
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:I think that.
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:Location whilst it was trendy
and amazing and you know,
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:everything was at our fingertips.
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:I was still.
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:Allowing external things to really
distract me and drive my validation.
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:You know, it was, it was so
powerful to be able to say, oh, I
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:live in Spring Street in the city.
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:I'm opposite Parliament building.
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:I'm, I'm opposite the Carlton Gardens.
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:You know, these are prestigious things
to say, but I wasn't really allowing
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:myself to fully connect to where I was.
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:I think I was using those external
things as distractions as a way to.
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:Feel good about myself without having
to really put my roots down and ground.
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:And so late last year, around almost
12 months ago, um, to the day we
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:had to move, not had to move, sorry.
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:We made the choice to move from the
city out here into Ivanhoe, this
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:beautiful suburb, which is green.
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:There's rivers and nature walks.
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:We walk out our front door here and
there's big green open spaces, and it was
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:the first time that I let myself land.
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:It was the first time that I allowed
myself to really look inward and heal.
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:Some of those things that had kept
me moving, had kept me latching onto
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:the external validation, the external
environment to distract me or.
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:Make a, a commentary or a narrative
around who I was and moving here was so
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:beautiful in that I finally let myself
stop and ground and come more into myself.
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:That made myself actually start
to feel whole for the first time.
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:And I remember, I think I mentioned this
in a, in a couple of episodes ago, within.
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:Days of saying that to Matt, my husband,
I'm like, I feel like I finally landed.
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:I feel like I can finally stop moving.
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:I feel like I'm finally coming home to
being Andrea, being a whole version of
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:who I am, and then within days of saying
that, and this is how the universe
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:works, and I'm gonna get into trusting
the path as it unfolds in a moment.
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:But as soon as saying that, allowing
that to be felt in my body and say
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:those words out loud, make that
commitment to, I'm here, I'm grounded.
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:This is my home.
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:This is where I'm going
to finally stop moving.
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:Within days we've got notice from the
landlord that, sorry, but it's time to go.
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:It's time to move.
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:We're selling your apartment.
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:And it popped us into that frenzy.
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:But I'm really excited to say.
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:That after a few very, very intense weeks
of searching, we have found something,
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:which is beautiful and I'm actually
starting to feel excited, um, about
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:shifting into the new place as we speak.
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:Um.
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:I am surrounded by empty shelves.
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:There's barely any furniture left
in this place now because we've been
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:moving over the last few days, and if
the audio's a bit echoy, that's why,
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:because it's a just big cavernous space.
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:But we are finally moving to a place and
I'm realizing that what I actually needed.
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:Was to come home to myself to make
that decision that I give myself
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:permission to land, to ground, to
build an identity around who I am
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:as a soul, as a human, having as a
soul, having a human experience in
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:this lifetime, in this moment, in the
present moment that I didn't need.
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:Location.
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:I didn't need external factors to really
define who it is that I am, that now I
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:actually can move without needing where
I'm going to say something about myself
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:or be something that validates me.
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:And I think that's a huge powerful
shift because sometimes our attachment
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:to the external, our attachment to
needing things to be a certain way.
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:To make a commentary around
ourselves can be really overpowering
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:and it can be also unconscious.
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:If I look back, I mean, I kind of
knew I was running in the past.
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:You can feel it.
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:You can feel that sensation
of, I think I'm running.
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:Like I, one time I went through a
significant breakup with someone I was
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:absolutely enthralled with, in love with.
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:We'd been together for a while and
went through a breakup and I was in my.
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:Um, mid twenties at the time, and
I thought the world was ending.
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:And I remember going to a coffee
shop on a popular strip here, it's
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:called Ligon Street in Melbourne,
if you've ever heard of it.
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:It's a very popular, um,
coffee strip, restaurant strip.
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:Very trendy here in Melbourne.
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:And so I thought.
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:Gonna go out for a girlfriend, uh,
for a coffee and lag on street.
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:And we were sitting there and I
remember saying to her, you know, just
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:how heartbroken I was and again, how
unsettled I felt because I had intertwined
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:my value into that relationship.
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:And of course, when that relationship
had departed all of a sudden.
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:I felt like an untethered kind,
just flapping around in the wind.
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:I remember saying to her like, I don't
even know why I'm here in Melbourne.
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:If you are familiar with Melbourne,
we are the city of Australia
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:that has four seasons in one day.
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:So one minute it can be hot and
you're peeling off all of your layers
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:and you're getting sunburnt, and
the next minute the rain starts to
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:come in and then it's like winter.
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:Again, and then by the evening
it's kind of like it's spring and
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:warming up again for the next day.
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:Like it is a really wild kind of a weather
pattern that we get here in Melbourne.
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:And so we're sitting there and I'm
like, ah, you know, it was raining
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:and it was cold at this point.
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:And I'm like, it's so
cold here in Melbourne.
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:I don't know even know why I'm here.
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:I think I wanna move to Perth.
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:And these were just words that fell
out of my mouth, out of nowhere.
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:I had no idea where they'd come from.
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:Like, I think I wanna move to Perth.
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:And she was like, ah, I think
I, I, I wanna move to Perth too.
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:Like, I've always been thinking about it.
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:And I think at the time she was dating
someone who was over there for work,
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:and so Perth had been on the top of
her mind for the last month or so.
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:That's interesting timing, I thought.
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:And I'm like, well, why don't we go.
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:Like, what would it take for us
to go, you know, we were young
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:women in our early twenties.
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:We didn't have huge
commitments at this point.
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:I had a casual job.
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:I think I'd just finished graduating,
um, from my master's degree.
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:So I was kind of, I was working in film
and television and I was all a little.
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:Fluid at the time.
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:And you know, she didn't
have any major ties here.
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:And so within a couple of weeks
we, from this coffee in this coffee
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:shop, we had sold a bunch of our
belongings, put notice into the
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:share houses that we were living in.
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:I shipped a bunch of my belongings
down to my dad to put into storage.
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:We book flights my friend.
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:Arranged some pet sitting accommodation,
um, to sit some gorgeous dogs in a
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:gorgeous house in this really upmarket
suburb in Melbourne, sorry, in Perth.
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:And we got on the plane and we left.
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:Like it was as simple as that.
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:I, I threw together a quick going
away party, um, at my share house
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:with some friends and family, and
I was like, I'm going, I'm going.
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:I was really running.
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:But at the time I was all this
independent confident, you know, early
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:twenties woman that's like, I'm going
on an adventure, nothing can stop me.
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:And I went to Perth and it was the
best decision I ever made because
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:we had to offend for ourselves.
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:You know, we house sat for about
six months before finding permanent
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:rental accommodation and you know,
fell in love in a new relationship
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:and got new work over there.
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:In fact, it's amazing.
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:And this is again.
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:Coming back to this faith and this
trust of always being connected
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:and always being supported.
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:I remember I was a motorcyclist at the
time and I had my own motorbike and I
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:had it crated from Melbourne over to
Perth because the weather was so good.
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:I wanted to be riding I every day
and my bike was on the truck being
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:created over and my girlfriend and I
found a, a local riders group and we.
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:Published on the, the forums back then
before social media, it was web forums.
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:So we published on the forums, you know,
two Melbourne girls coming over to Perth.
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:I look back now and I'm
like, oh, so dangerous.
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:But anyway, we posted two Melbourne girls.
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:We've come over to Perth to stay.
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:You know, relocating, um, we motorcyclist
'cause she was a motorcyclist as well.
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:And you know, we wanna join a
local, local motorcycle group.
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:Are there any rides going on?
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:And we found this ride.
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:Thankfully it was a really kind of
safe, great friendly ride to go on.
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:And we mentioned we don't have bikes,
we don't have bikes over here yet.
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:They're on the truck on the way
over, but can anyone pillion us?
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:And so we found.
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:A couple of people again, uh, would not
recommend dangerous, but true story.
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:We found a couple of friendly people
to take us on their backs of their
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:motorbikes to go on this group ride.
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:It was an evening on a Saturday night.
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:And it was fabulous.
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:Like this massive group of like
60 or 70 motorcyclists all came
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:together, all walks of life.
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:And we rode around parts of Perth
for a few hours and then in the
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:middle of the ride there was
actually a dinner break, um, fancy
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:dinner break at a service station.
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:So we all pulled up to the service
station and went in and got out.
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:Prepackaged sandwiches and coke and all
the rubbish that you can get from there.
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:And I remember sitting out, um,
just sitting on the curb of the
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:car park of this service station
and this motorcyclist pull up.
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:Pulled up with this really cool,
I think he was riding a Harley at
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:the time and his full leathers.
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:I just got chatting to him and I was
like, oh, you know, what do you do?
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:And he is like, oh, I run this big,
um, technology company, uh, here in
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:Perth and we do a lot of, um, work.
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:Produce unmanned aerial vehicles, or
we call them drones now, but back then
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:they were UAVs full of military in wa.
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:You know, what do you do?
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:And I'm like, oh, well I'm in film and
television and I work in marketing and
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:you know, at the moment I'm just, I had.
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:Picked up a casual job at
Smle, the stationary store.
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:So I was just working casually at Smle,
um, while I was in WA and I explained
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:to him, you know, I have a strong
background in marketing and master's
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:degree and all this sort of stuff.
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:And he looked at me, he goes, oh, I've
actually been thinking of hiring a
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:director of marketing for my company.
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:Do you.
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:You looking for a full-time job?
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:And I was like, I am.
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:He's like, do you wanna come in on
Monday to have an interview with me?
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:And I was like, oh, oh, actually,
you know, I'd, I'd love to.
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:Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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:But my bike comes in at the docks on
Monday and I need to go pick it up.
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:Um, they've said I had to
pick it up by a certain time.
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:And so this gentleman, this
gentleman that I met sitting.
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:In the gutter, essentially whilst
eating a ation sandwich on a motorbike
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:ride that we'd randomly organized
whilst house sitting picked the next
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:Monday, picked me up, drove me on his
motorbike to the docks so that I could
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:get my motorbike out of the crate.
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:He helped me like uncrate it
with the crowbar, get it all
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:set up, get it all running.
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:Drove to the office of
the company that he ran.
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:I had an interview and within
about 45 minutes had a full-time
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:job as a marketing director.
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:Like it was wild.
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:It was amazing how many things, when
you surrender into just allowing the
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:universe to support, you can just
unfold in the most miraculous of ways.
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:And I worked there for ages, um, until.
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:Coming back to what I was saying about
this running when things, um, unsettled.
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:When the boy that I was seeing at that
time and I was deeply in love with,
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:he got deployed to the Army 'cause he
was in, um, he was in the army at the
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:time, we were living on the army base.
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:He got deployed overseas and it
was too much for me too handle the
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:relationship wasn't quite solid
enough to be able to support a full,
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:you know, long-term deployment.
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:Overseas.
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:And so we separated and again, I had
that floating in the wind feeling,
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:so I moved back to Melbourne, but I
worked with that gentleman in that
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:director of marketing job for ages and
got to see some incredible things in
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:terms of, you know, working with the
military, working with lots of different
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:security contracts in a world that
I hadn't been exposed to before, and
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:eventually left that job to move back to
Melbourne 'cause I was too heartbroken.
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:Wasn't grounded, as I said, hadn't really
fully landed in who I was at that time.
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:And so as soon as something became
difficult or shifted, it was
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:like, oh, you need to keep moving.
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:You need to keep going.
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:And so ended up moving back to
Melbourne, but there were so many.
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:Things that had unfolded at that time
because I was even at that early age,
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:starting to surrender into trust of
being connected to something bigger and
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:fast forward decades since that point.
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:There has been so many times when allowing
myself to just trust and surrender.
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:Even when the stress is, feels
unbearable, even when you have no
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:idea which direction you're going, you
just have a feeling, you have a nudge.
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:You trust that nudge and you move in
that direction and just allowing your
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:connection to whatever you believe
in, whatever is the thing that you
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:know is connected between you and
energy, and the bigger context of us
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:as souls, having this human experience.
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:When you allow yourself to stay
connected to that, it is amazing
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:what unfolds in your life and coming
back forward now to this situation.
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:When Matt and I got the notice,
we had that feeling, 'cause I'd
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:recently become grounded here.
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:I thought, well, I, I wanna
stay in this beautiful area.
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:I wanna stay amongst
this nature amongst the.
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:Services and facilities and grounds
and everything that is here.
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:I would, I would love to stay here
like this feels like home, but we
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:searched for weeks and weeks and
weeks and we couldn't find anything
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:in this area that was suitable.
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:Lots of places that were really
run down and moldy, and I just knew
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:that moving into a place like that.
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:Wasn't enough like it, it just
being in this area, but having
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:to deal with accommodation like
that, it wouldn't be enough.
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:It wouldn't feel like a home.
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:And so we had to look further and further
out and into areas that we never really
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:stepped foot in before into suburbs
that were a bit of an unknown, but.
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:I kept getting this nudge that there
was this particular pocket, um, this
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:particular area in the east of Melbourne.
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:Inner East, and I'm like, I don't
know a lot about this, but every
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:time I kind of drive through it or
I drive on the periphery of these
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:areas, just passing through to other
different things to see friends or
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:family, I'm like, there's a vibe here.
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:There's a feeling.
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:I need to go and look at that.
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:And so Matt and I started.
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:Going to a lot of house inspections in
these areas, which were a huge unknown,
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:but every time I entered in to look
at a house, I'm like, the house isn't
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:right, but there's something here.
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:There's like a buzz,
there's an electricity.
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:There's a feeling that the next
groundedness, that next connection
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:that I am to make in this new
chapter, it's in this area.
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:There's something here for me, even if
I can't see it, and I think this is a.
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:Really important point because often
we are afraid to move unless we can
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:be certain around what we feel, what's
coming, or be able to see the bigger plan.
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:You know, we can stay in stasis,
we can stay stuck not being able to
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:move because we need the certainty.
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:We need to be able to be like.
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:This is why, this is the reason,
and this is the five step plan
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:for me, be able to get there, and
this is why I need to move there.
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:There's a big, kind of like a
logic element that comes in, but
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:sometimes it's just a feeling.
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:Sometimes you're in a coffee shop
and a a flash pops into your mind
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:and words fall out of your mouth.
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:And that is the guidance, that is
the nudge from the universe for
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:you to do something, something.
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:Sometimes it's just driving on a random
ride through an area that you don't
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:normally have much to do with, and you're
like, this is the place, this is the home.
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:This is where I am meant to
be, right here, right now.
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:So I'm gonna follow that.
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:I don't know why, I don't know where.
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:I don't know how.
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:I, I don't know any factors.
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:And it can create that nervousness.
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:Like when I was thinking about this is the
area I wanna move to, um, for anyone who's
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:in Melbourne, I'm talking about that.
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:Um, Canterbury, Surrey Hills, Albo,
that kind of pocket in the East.
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:Um, it's just got this
beautiful green feel to it.
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:And every time I pass
through, I'm like, huh.
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:I don't know how I am gonna get here.
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:Like everything feels really expensive.
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:It's really feels unknown and
I, my mind wanted to search
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:for answers, like, is it noisy?
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:The neighbor's Nice.
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:What's the traffic like?
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:Like I wanted to run through
this usual checklist of things
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:that would make me feel safe.
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:You know?
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:My mind wanted to find that
certainty before making a move, but
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:sometimes certainty isn't possible.
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:It's just a feeling.
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:And so Matt and I, we started looking
at properties in these places and
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:each one we'd get into, I'm like, oh.
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:It's not the right configuration,
or it's dark, or it's moldy or the
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:conditions are not great or the,
the street has extreme trucks and
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:noise and, and things like that.
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:But every time we would do a house
inspection in this area, I'm like,
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:there's a reason that I keep getting
pulled back to this area until we
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:pulled up out the front of this street.
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:We hadn't been in the street before
of this house, this little unit.
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:As soon as we pulled up, I got
this strong, grounded feeling
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:of like, this is the one.
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:This is the one.
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:And we, we had been to dozens and
dozens and dozens and dozens of
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:properties up until this point.
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:And each time you pull up and you have
a look and you're like, oh, okay, I'll
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:go and look because we're desperate.
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:If we don't find something,
we're gonna be on the street.
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:Well, we'd be back with family.
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:We wouldn't be on the street.
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:But if we don't find something
soon, you know this is gonna be.
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:And difficult situation to navigate.
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:But I pulled up and I was
like, Ooh, this is one.
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:It was this feeling.
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:I was like, it was annoying.
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:And we walked up the driveway and there
were dozens of people queuing to see
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:this property, and I understand why.
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:As soon as I walked in, it was gorgeous.
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:It would been renovated,
it was light and airy.
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:There was skylights throughout
it, Polish floorboards, you know,
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:it just had this beautiful home.
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:Um, feeling to it.
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:And I was standing at, we
were in the back of the line.
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:There was so many people waiting
to go in and as soon as they
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:opened the doors, people started
moving in and it was raining.
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:And so Matt and I, we didn't
have our umbrellas either.
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:We're like, oh, we'll be fine.
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:And so it's raining.
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:We are getting absolutely drench.
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:And I get up to the door and I take
my shoes off and I step in and I'm
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:like, this is the place, this is
the place, this is the one I want.
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:And especially after you've looked
at a bunch of properties that are
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:awful, when you walk into one that's
magic, you're like, this is the one.
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:So we went through, um, we did
a walkthrough and I, I felt this
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:pull to put my hand on the wall.
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:And so I just walked along and I put
my hand on the wall and I just got
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:this strong message of you'll be back.
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:You will be back.
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:This is the one you, this is your home.
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:And I was like, Ugh.
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:You know, you get that overwhelming
feeling of like, oh, I found it.
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:I found it.
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:This is the one.
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:Okay.
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:And I'm looking around at all the other
couples, professional people, families
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:that are like doing the same thing
of like going through the motions of
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:like, oh, this is really nice and we
could put this here and put that there.
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:And so Matt and I quietly just moved
through this space and we stood out on the
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:back deck 'cause it's got a little garden.
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:And a decking out the back,
this beautiful, um, garden area.
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:And I just said to him,
I'm like, this is the one.
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:This is, this is what
we've been looking for.
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:It's in this brand new unknown
area, but it's gorgeous.
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:And so we sort of quietly left
and said to the agent, asked a few
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:questions, um, and said to the.
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:Uh, yes, we'd, we'd like to apply.
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:Please send through the details.
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:And we drove, um, out of the street
and found this beautiful little
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:township of shops and all these
gorgeous little cafes and things there.
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:And we pulled up and went into the
cafe and ordered a little coffee, had
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:a TME latte, and we put the application
in as we were sitting there within
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:minutes of inspecting it and just.
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:Allowing myself to dream a little,
because sometimes when we feel like we
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:want something or something's meant to
be for us, we can get resistant around,
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:oh, I don't wanna get my hopes up.
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:Oh, I don't wanna get my hopes
up because if I don't get it,
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:I'm gonna be really disappointed.
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:And I, I don't wanna have
to deal with that sadness.
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:I don't wanna have to go
back into searching again,
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:trying to find a new place.
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:And so it's so easy for
us to be like, oh, well.
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:I won't get my hopes up, we'll
just, you know, go through the
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:motions and keep myself detached.
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:But in this instance I was like, no,
the energy here is too strong this
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:pull to make this move and decide
that this is the place that we want.
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:So there's so much energy around this.
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:I'm like, no, I'm gonna
let myself get my hopes up.
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:Because when we allow ourselves to get
into that energy of excitement, into that
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:energy of like, this is the one, what it
does is it actually kind of like creates
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:a frequency match in our own frequency.
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:So stuff that we want
around us can find it.
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:And so I'm like, no, I'm
gonna put the application in.
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:I'm gonna picture myself there.
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:It's gonna be great.
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:And so this was a Tuesday that we'd
expect, inspected it, and we put the
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:application in and we didn't hear
anything, didn't hear anything, didn't
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:hear anything, didn't hear anything.
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:I spoke to the real estate
agent on the Friday.
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:I rang in to check in on it and
she's like, oh no, the landlord
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:hasn't made a decision yet.
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:And they were opening it again the
next day on the Saturday, which meant
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:a whole bunch of other dozens and
dozens of people were gonna go through
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:it and put more applications in.
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:I was like, Ugh.
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:But anyway, I thought I'm gonna
go through I again on the Saturday
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:and just, you know, part of my mind
is like, just gonna double check.
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:I double check the one, you know,
'cause I got a really strong
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:intuitive feeling that it was.
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:And so on Saturday morning we
turned up again, raining again.
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:So we're standing out the line
again, getting trenched amongst
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:dozens of people for this property.
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:And we walk through and this time I'm
like, I'm gonna take a video of the
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:walkthrough, um, just to kind of like.
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:Bring it home with me so that,
you know, I could think about
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:where are we gonna put things.
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:So I did this video and walked through it
again, and I said to Matt, I'm like, this
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:is the one, this is, this is the house.
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:Like, I can't wait for a response.
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:Anyway, we did the walkthrough, went
back to the little cafe that we'd found,
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:and just sat there and like I could
picture ourselves, you know, grabbing
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:coffee here or going to the shops here.
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:We went home anxiously over the weekend,
just putting lots of energy out there.
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:I was like, no, this is the house.
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:This is the.
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:One.
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:Anyway, Monday morning comes around and
it's like three o'clock in the afternoon.
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:By this point, I'm like, I still haven't
heard from the agent, and so I ring her.
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:Now side point.
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:I wanted to also let you know,
we had popped applications in for
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:some other houses that we'd saw.
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:They weren't as good as this
one, but we thought we need
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:to have a roof over our heads.
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:And so we put a bunch of
applications in for other places.
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:And on Monday we got accepted
for some of the others.
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:And whilst that was relieving.
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:Whilst that was relieving, I thought,
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:I know I'm gonna move into those houses
and feel like I should have waited.
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:I should have waited for the one,
because as soon as you accept an
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:application, it's legally binding here.
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:I'm not sure what it's like where you
are, but there's no cooling off period.
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:It's signed, sealed, delivered.
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:So as soon as you sign a new lease, you
are on the hook for that lease period.
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:Minimum usually is 12 months.
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:And so we got Monday morning, all
of these applications coming in.
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:You've been accepted.
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:You've been accepted.
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:You've been accepted, and we hadn't
heard back from this other one in Surrey
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:Hills, and I thought, oh, poor Matt.
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:It's getting ruper stressed because
the clock is ticking and we need to
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:make a decision before the Christmas
shut down because as we speak now,
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:all the real estate agents are closed.
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:There is no more house opens,
there's no more securing any
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:properties until they reopen around
the four, fifth, 6th of January.
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:So we are like, Ugh, if we don't sign
something, we could end up with nothing
534
:at the end of our tenancy in January.
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:So.
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:I tuned in and I'm like, what do I do?
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:Do I just sign one of these
properties that we've got to
538
:just secure something poor?
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:Matt's stressing is sweating and
I thought, they're not right.
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:If I sign a lease on one of these
properties going against this
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:intuitive message, going against
the energy, the the things that my
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:senses is saying, I'm gonna regret it.
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:It's not going to work out well.
544
:And so.
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:I sat with it, I pulled cards on
it, I channeled on it, and I, I
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:kept getting, wait, hold, wait,
don't sign, don't sign, wait.
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:And I rang the agent at, as I said,
three o'clock in the afternoon
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:on the one that we wanted.
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:And she's like, I'm sorry, we haven't
got a decision, but I need you to
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:decide on these other properties.
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:And I just said to her, I'm like, I'm.
552
:We are gonna withdraw on all the other
properties that we got an application for.
553
:We'll withdraw.
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:I said, because the one
that we want is Florence.
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:And she's like, alright.
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:So we removed our application from
all the other properties that we had
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:and I'm like, my heart's beating.
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:And I'm like, oh, what have I done?
559
:And I said to Matt, I'm
like, I can just, I feel it.
560
:I see it.
561
:I know it.
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:We are going to get Florence.
563
:And I'm like, can you trust me because.
564
:He and I are in different, different
worlds in terms of energy and
565
:trust and our connection to source.
566
:We're in different worlds.
567
:He's a logic man, and I, and that's fine.
568
:And I said, can you trust me?
569
:And he's like, I'll, I'll trust you.
570
:I'm like, it's, it's gonna be okay.
571
:So we withdrew from all
the other applications.
572
:Three o'clock the agent said, hasn't
made a decision, and she rings me back
573
:at four o'clock after I'd just withdrawn
from all the other applications.
574
:And she's like, I'm so
sorry you didn't get it.
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:You didn't get it.
576
:So all of a sudden I went from
having multiple houses to none
577
:and I didn't get the one I wanted.
578
:And I was like, oh, what have I done?
579
:What have I done?
580
:Oh my God.
581
:So anyway, I'm like, no,
it's, it's gonna be okay.
582
:There's something else here.
583
:There's something else
here that I'm not seeing.
584
:And so I had to go to Matt
and be like, we didn't get it.
585
:And I was drawn from all of the others.
586
:I'm like, but just there's
something else here.
587
:Because I'd so clean, clearly
seen when I did the walkthrough
588
:of that house, I saw us there.
589
:I got the message that we were gonna
be there, and so I was confused.
590
:I'm like, what do you
mean university leaving?
591
:We have this one.
592
:Hey, I'm okay.
593
:Right.
594
:Alright.
595
:Trust, trust, trust, trust, trust.
596
:And so Matt and I are like, okay, well
we are gonna have to go look at more
597
:places now because now we have nothing.
598
:Anyway, I got a text message at
like, she told me no at four.
599
:Four, about four o'clock.
600
:I got a message at five o'clock that
night to say the tenants that had
601
:been approved for that property.
602
:Withdrew and it was back
available again, and so she'd
603
:reforwarded all the applications.
604
:Back to the landlord.
605
:So this is amazing, right?
606
:I had been given all of these other
properties, decided to say no,
607
:hold out for the one that I wanted,
got rejected for the one that I
608
:wanted, and then was, came back to
my practice of like groundedness
609
:and being like, there's a reason.
610
:There's a reason.
611
:Just move.
612
:Just trust the messages from source.
613
:Just keep going.
614
:Stay in the faith, stay in
the trust, hold the pressure.
615
:And here's the thing, the pressure
that was building in my field,
616
:in my body was tremendous.
617
:And in the past I would've absolutely
collapsed into an a mess of failure.
618
:Shame, you know, all of those
feelings of like, I should have
619
:done this, or I should have done
that, or I shouldn't have trusted.
620
:Should have taken the safe option,
like I would've collapsed into that.
621
:But this time around the
pressure was intense, but I
622
:was like, good things happen.
623
:On the other side of pressure.
624
:Good things happen when we hold the
line, when we stay steady, when we stay
625
:connected to the thing that is bigger,
then us when we stay connected to.
626
:There is magic on the other side
of it, and I kept feeling it.
627
:I kept getting the signals,
I kept getting the downloads.
628
:It was like, just hold, just
wait, just hold, just wait.
629
:So anyway, we are now back in
the running for this property.
630
:We had to sleep on it because
the real estate agent was shut.
631
:Three o'clock the next
day we got the call.
632
:We got it.
633
:It was ours.
634
:And so what a rollercoaster, what
a wild rollercoaster to go on in
635
:terms of setting your attention
around what you want, holding the
636
:faith, holding the trust, and then.
637
:Just allowing it to manifest,
allowing it to come around to you.
638
:'cause I got that really clear
message when I was in that property.
639
:This is home.
640
:This is where you're meant to be.
641
:And it was almost like the
universe brought me the acceptances
642
:of those other properties.
643
:It's like, here's, here's two or three
other things that you could take.
644
:We're tempting you with,
you know, like the apple.
645
:Here are the things that you could take
if you wanna play it safe, if you want to.
646
:Go with logic, with security,
with just taking the thing
647
:that you can see right now.
648
:It's like the universe put me, put those
in my path for me to have to say no.
649
:Like I had to say no to be able to allow
myself to be back in the running when
650
:this other property became available
again, because if I had have said
651
:yes to the others, my application
would never have been reforwarded.
652
:It would never have come about.
653
:And so.
654
:The pressure was huge, but I was
like, thank you for giving me the
655
:opportunity to stand in my conviction
and to say, no, thank you for that.
656
:I mean, we wanna say test, but
thank you for that growth point.
657
:Thank you for that journey.
658
:Thank you for that experience.
659
:And what it does is when you have these
experiences is it strengthens your trust.
660
:To your connection, to your source,
mother Earth, universe, spirit guides,
661
:angels, whatever it is that you are
connected to, it strengthens you
662
:because you're like, look at what I
can achieve when I stay connected.
663
:Look at what unfolds.
664
:Look at the magic that happens in my life.
665
:And it was an absolute whirlwind.
666
:We got the yes that next day and
I was like, gimme the contract.
667
:I'm signing.
668
:I'm signing it.
669
:We're locking it in.
670
:There was a little bit of negotiation
that I had to do and because we were
671
:getting the keys on the 19th of December,
and I said to her, I'm like, that's.
672
:Days before everything closes down,
like trying to get removalists
673
:and all sorts of things, like
it's a tough time of year to move.
674
:And I knew that because we moved in
here at the exact same time last year.
675
:I said to her, is there any negotiation?
676
:Can we get the keys earlier?
677
:No, we can't.
678
:Can, can you?
679
:Hold the keys until January
when everything reopens.
680
:No, if you don't accept it on the 19th of
December, we'll give it to someone else.
681
:And so I was over a barrel in
terms of that and I'm like,
682
:hold the faith, hold the trust.
683
:There's a reason.
684
:There's a reason why this is happening
and that we are so much more capable
685
:to, of what we think we can do.
686
:I mean, my mind was starting to say, oh,
it's gonna be busy, it's gonna be hard,
687
:it's gonna be this, it's gonna be that.
688
:And I was like, Nope.
689
:There's a reason, let it go.
690
:Let all of that go in terms of what the
mind wants to tell me that I'm capable of.
691
:And so I was like, okay, 19th
of December it is, let's go.
692
:Um, and I said to her, I'm like,
I don't wanna be doing this.
693
:If you change your mind and you wanna
sell next year, I don't wanna be doing
694
:this, uh, at the same time next year.
695
:So I at least want you
to extend the lease.
696
:So we have protections until, you
know, February, March next year.
697
:There was a little bit of pushback
on that, but again, I held that trust
698
:of like the universe is on my side.
699
:The universe is working with me to
voice what I need to voice to say
700
:no when I need to say no, and to
also stand my ground when I need to.
701
:I mean, if you not gonna allow me to move
in in January, you, this is what I would
702
:like in this beautiful exchange of energy.
703
:And so they did.
704
:They at least gave us, um, an
extended contract, which is great.
705
:And so we signed and then we
were like, oh, what a magic.
706
:What a magic experience.
707
:And my husband, I was
like, how did you do that?
708
:How did you do that?
709
:I was like, it's all in the trust, baby.
710
:It's all in the trust and in the faith.
711
:And so right now I'm sitting, as I
mentioned at the start in an empty
712
:room because over the last few days
since the 19th of December, we've
713
:been moving, um, and everything.
714
:I managed to get a removalist, managed
to get everything that we needed sorted.
715
:Again, the universe.
716
:Provided when my mind tried
to tell me it was gonna be
717
:difficult, it has been so easy.
718
:The removalist came in
and offered us a discount.
719
:The, you know, people became available.
720
:They had professionally cleaned the
place before we moved in, so I didn't
721
:even have to clean the new place.
722
:Everything has just flown
so smoothly and I'm just.
723
:I keep coming back to that sense
of gratitude of thank you for
724
:reminding me of how connected we are.
725
:Thank you for all this abundance.
726
:Thank you for challenging me and making me
grow and grow in my trust and the pressure
727
:that I have held is such a gift because
as I mentioned, the previous version
728
:of me would've crumbled, absolutely
crumbled under that level of pressure.
729
:You know, I have a history of.
730
:Anxiety, depression, um, lots of
different challenges in my history,
731
:but to be able to be someone now who
can hold pressure because of my trust,
732
:because of my faith, and because of my
connection, it makes us unstoppable.
733
:It makes everything feel possible and
it stops us from collapsing into the but
734
:how, but what if, prepare for the worst.
735
:Type of energy that as humans, we've
been conditioned so well to do.
736
:You know, it stops us from collapsing
into that, that we can then hold pressure.
737
:Find the magic that exists on
the other side of that, and every
738
:time we hold that pressure, we
expand, we grow our capability.
739
:The things that we realize that we
can do in our lifetime expands because
740
:we know that we are never alone.
741
:We have this incredible capacity to
continue to grow, to push, to expand,
742
:but also to allow the universe to unfold
exactly how it's meant to be without.
743
:Having to collapse into old patterns,
and it's just testament to really
744
:what we are capable of as a, a
human being, a human existence, and
745
:souls having a human experience.
746
:So if you are going through a situation
right now where everything is up in
747
:the air, where you are weighing up,
I talked last week about the duality.
748
:On the podcast of thinking that
there's only two choices if
749
:you are in between two choices.
750
:If you are in a pressure situation,
if you're coming up to the festive
751
:season and you've got situations
that you're navigating that are
752
:difficult, know that you are so
capable of holding pressure, not in a
753
:stressed, not in a collapsed, not in.
754
:This is gonna cost me way, but
holding pressure from a I trust,
755
:I have faith, I surrender, I
move with what I know to be true.
756
:I move with my intuition.
757
:I move with my connection to my team,
to the universe, to mother earth.
758
:Whatever it is that you feel connected to.
759
:Say to yourself, I move with that
connection I trust, and I back myself.
760
:I say no, and I back myself.
761
:I put boundaries up, but I also soften
and move when I need to move, and I
762
:trust and surrender when I need to.
763
:If you're facing that right now, just
know that there is magic, and it all
764
:starts with having that connection.
765
:Knowing that you're not alone.
766
:Expanding your senses, expanding
your field, softening into that,
767
:allowing yourself to receive, and then
just moving with the flow of life.
768
:Because like I said, making that decision
to move to Perth catalyzed a whole
769
:bunch of incredible change, catalyzed
me being able to do the healing, to
770
:finally feel grounded to finding this
place, to settling here, to realizing
771
:I don't need a place to be able to
feel connected and grounded to them.
772
:Being able to step into this next
incredible chapter that's coming for
773
:us in this new place as we move over
this week and into the new year,
774
:and create whatever it is that we're
here to create as we move forward.
775
:So I love you.
776
:Thank you so much for being here.
777
:Thank you for watching live.
778
:I will upload in the next half hour
or so this episode to our House of
779
:Andrea podcast, which is available
now on all podcast platforms.
780
:So if you wanna catch it there, you can.
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:Thank you for being here.
782
:Honestly.
783
:I love doing these podcast episodes and
sharing this and helping you come and
784
:walk back to your connection to self.
785
:If you ever feel like you wanna walk
side by side, just know that I am here.
786
:I have serv a coaching
service where we meet.
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:For an hour every single week.
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:We walk for an hour every single week.
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:We bring you back to your connection
every single week, and we have
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:telegram chats and voice notes back
and forward, uh, throughout the week.
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:In between that for as long as you need
to, to help remember your connection,
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:your senses, your gifts, your mission
in this world whilst being connected,
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:whilst creating art with your life.
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:And so if that's something that
you need or you feel drawn to.
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:Please do connect and reach out.
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:We can create something for you
along those lines and walk together
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:every single week in coaching.
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:Otherwise, I'm here every single week for
the podcast and the channel as well where
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:I channel daily, uh, transmissions from
spirit every single day into the channel.
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:And you can just receive those if you need
a little boost of guidance for your day.
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:Um, otherwise, I hope
you have a beautiful.
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:Festive season if you celebrate.
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:If not, I hope you just have a beautiful
conclusion till the end of the year.
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:I will be here If more transition
transmissions drop in, I'll do
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:more live episodes that otherwise
I will see you in the new year.
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:I love you and I'll see you very soon.