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Welcome to Inspired Action Alchemy.

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This is where we have motivational,
inspiring conversations and interviews

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that we hope you’ll enjoy listening to.

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Join us and other inspired
alchemists-in-training on this

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alchemical transformational journey
Otherwise known as a podcast.

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Welcome to the Inspired
Action Alchemy podcast.

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This is pod 145.

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I’m Jay, and here with my
co-host, as always, Leta Herman.

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Hello, inspired alchemists.

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Hello, hello, everyone.

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We are so happy to have you here today.

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We know some of you have been listening
and sharing with us on the podcast

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since episode one, way back… Well, I
don’t know, when the dinosaurs walked-

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on the earth.

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Yeah, right.

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But if you’re brand new to this podcast,
maybe you searched for wisdom or alchemy

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or studying Taoist or studying Taoist
wisdom or just want to learn more

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about life from an alchemical pers-
perspective, we’re happy you found us.

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Yes.

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Or maybe you just searched for help.

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“I’m overwhelmed and out of balance,
and I just need someone to talk to

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me about ancient Chinese wisdom so
I can get my life back on track.”

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Okay, that’s very specific.

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But that’s okay, ’cause if you did that
and you found your way here, that’s okay.

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Welcome.

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Perfect timing.

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We hope that you find the balance
and the information and the just, you

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know, the, the ease of the conversation
that we’re gonna have for everyone

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to talk about in this podcast.

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So perfect time.

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You found us exactly in the right
moment, when you’re supposed to.

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Yes.

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Whether you’ve been with us since
the beginning or you just tuned in

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today, we’re really glad you’re here.

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So settle in.

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I’m gonna grab a cuppa, so grab
your cuppa, Leta- … and let’s

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have a conversation, and let’s go.

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Great.

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Today is gonna be a little bit
of this, a little bit of that.

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Basically, a podcast about the
podcast to ease everyone back in.

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We’re gonna tell everyone where we’ve
been, what we’ve been working on.

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And, you know, I guess, Leta, the
most common question we have for the,

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uh, past eight months have been what?

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Where have we been?

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Where have we been?

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You know, we get emails every day,
and people are usually like, “I love

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the podcast. I love the podcast,”
which we love, but lately it’s been

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like, “Where’s the podcast? Where’s
the podcast?” Where are you guys?

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But we’re here.

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Yeah.

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We really didn’t go anywhere,
other than around the world, but we

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have been working on our alchemy.

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We’ve been working on, uh,
so many different things.

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But we’re here, and we
became wandering Taoists.

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Yes, and literally.

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I mean, literally the past
year we’ve been on the move.

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For many months we’ve been teaching,
we’ve been traveling around the

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world, and it’s been really great.

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And we’re back now in Massachusetts,
which is our home base.

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The world headquarters of the Inspired
Action Alchemy podcast, our super

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busy Chinese medicine clinic, the
Alchemy Healing Center, also the world

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headquarters of the Alchemy Learning
Center, and just where we live right now.

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It’s been amazing, and let’s just
talk a little bit about that, Leta.

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It’s been so much fun.

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It really has.

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You know, here’s the
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At some point, you know, you, you, you
definitely feel the sense that you’ve

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let go of some of your material needs
in the world when you’re wandering.

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But at some point you also
just miss your people.

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And we really missed all of you,
our listeners, and especially

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just doing this podcast.

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We really missed it.

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Right.

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We missed the deeper
dive talks about alchemy.

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Even though we were having them,
we weren’t sharing them, so we love

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to share the deeper dive on our
conversations about alchemy, the five

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elements, so many different topics.

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So that’s really what we wanted to
connect back with you about with

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these conversations, ’cause now
they’re even deeper than before.

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Yes, and so we’re back.

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Woo-hoo.

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And it’s season 10, and
we have a lot to say.

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What?

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Us have a lot to say?

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I don’t know.

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I think we’re kinda quiet.

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No?

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I don’t think so.

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No.

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Okay.

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I’m just teasing.

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But, you know, in all that wandering,
we experienced so many new environments,

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so many unexpected conversations
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as you all know when you travel,
really expanded our minds and our

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perspectives, and it gave us a lot to
bring back into these conversations

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and the interviews that we’re planning.

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Yeah, things got clarified.

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Things got deeper.

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Yes.

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Things got more exciting for us.

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Yes.

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And so we’re excited
to share that with you.

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And we’re ready to move forward.

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Woo-hoo, so let’s move forward then.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Before we get into today’s episode,
I wanna tell you about our next live

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event happening June 27th as part
of our Alchemy Lab workshop series.

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Jay and I are teaching a four-hour
workshop called From Seeker to

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Alchemist, and honestly, we think
it’s going to be a lot of fun.

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We’re going to show you what
alchemy actually is, and what

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it does for a person, and how to
start walking the path yourself.

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And if you’ve been walking the
path for a while, this is where

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it can all come into focus.

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So if you’re looking for radical
transformation, come hang out with us

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June 27th at alchemylearningcenter.com.

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And we’ve put a link for
you in the show notes.

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Before we move forward, let’s just make
sure for- Wait, you just said let’s go.

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I know, I know.

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So let’s

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go, but wait a minute.

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But wait.

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Let’s not quite go.

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Let’s not quite go because- Okay.

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Put it on hold, pause … I’m just
thinking, Jay, for anyone that is

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brand new, what is the Inspired
Action Alchemy podcast, and

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what are we actually doing here?

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Well, I can’t answer that last question.

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I don’t know what we’re doing here.

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But no, we’re having fun.

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We’re having conversations.

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We’re sharing.

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You know, we’re students of Daoism.

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We’re students of alchemy.

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We’re also teachers.

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We’re also practitioners.

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We just do a lot of different
things, and we just love to talk.

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Yes, and we’re going to bring you a lot
of information about transformation, real

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transformation, not the bumper sticker
kind and not the spiritual bypass kind.

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That’s a really popular phrase
that’s being tossed around a

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lot lately, spiritual bypass,
and we’re gonna talk about it.

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And we wanna be clear about
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Because, you know, it’s interesting.

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Some of you may have even been hurt by
the wellness culture or feel that way.

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You know, for years now, people have
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your feelings maybe, maybe you felt like
you got dismissed, and you were told to

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just let it go, and the hard stuff never
really gets addressed when you let it go.

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You know, or maybe you grew up in a
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was the explanation for everything,
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right with you, and we hear that.

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Daoist alchemy is not that.

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It doesn’t skip the hard parts.

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It goes straight into them, the
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patterns that keep running underneath
everything, what we call the hooks.

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We actually have a whole episode coming up
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a real conversation, not a footnote.

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Yeah, and that’s so true.

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So but for now, if you’re listening
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trauma in the past or you may have
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all the things we’re talking about.

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That’s, that’s good.

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Be skeptical.

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Stay skeptical.

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Stay curious.

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Be the mystic, we always say.

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Like, just keep asking questions,
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Yeah, because being a mystic means
you get to figure it out for yourself.

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And what we’ve discovered in our 25-plus
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is that true transformation requires
more than changing your thoughts.

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It also requires the things That
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That’s what we call ghosts and what
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we’re gonna go all through that.

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We’ve also talked about that
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out those podcasts as well.

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But we’re gonna have some
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And those hooks, you know,
how do you let them go?

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So if you’re overwhelmed, we’re not gonna
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We’re going to help you understand
your own energetic nature.

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That’s where you need to begin with
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Who are you?

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How are you actually wired?

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What genuinely drains you?

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What restores you?

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And why is the approach that maybe
works for your best friend so, you

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know, just really helps them out, maybe
that’s the wrong approach for you.

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There’s another approach that
would work for your energetic type.

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Yeah, there’s just no one-size-fits-all
in alchemy, as well as all of

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the self-cultivation, um, that
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So we try to help everyone find their
own way, and I think the number one,

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uh, thing that we hear or I hear…
or actually, I’ll give a couple.

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I’m overwhelmed.

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I’m burnt out.

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I can’t find balance.

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You know, I’ve done all the
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I don’t know who I am in my own life.

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I, I, I hear, I’ve heard all of these
from different people, and what people

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don’t realize, or maybe they realize
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is they’ve been going against their
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Not because they did something
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Because maybe no one ever showed them how
they were actually wired energetically.

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Yeah, that’s where the
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It’s not a personality test.

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It’s not astrological.

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It’s a framework for understanding
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is how you’re actually built.

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So the five elements explain how we all
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we feel, like, overwhelmed, like you said.

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Yes, and we did a whole
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Usually I ask you what pod number
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it’s one of our most popular ones.

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It wasn’t that long ago.

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142.

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Right?

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And it’s about how to navigate
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on your elemental nature.

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So if any of what we just described sounds
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um, and see how that feels with you today.

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And before we go any further, we
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being overwhelmed, it’s not a problem.

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I would like to say more of a challenge.

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It can be emotional challenge.

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It can be a physical challenge.

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It could be a spiritual challenge.

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All of the things can be overwhelmed.

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But I think it’s a challenge
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Right, because you always substitute
the word challenge for problems.

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Right?

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Right.

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But it’s not a sign that
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What’s happening when you face
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spirit, what we call your Shen,
is actually trying to guide you.

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The struggle is part of a guiding of you.

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Your your spirit, your
Shen, is the part of you that

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knows what it’s always known.

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And once you understand that, then
you’re ready for the alchemy work.

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You’re ready to start
your alchemy journey.

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Specifically, the nine stages of alchemy,
which is a, a map, we like to say a

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road map, for transformation provided
by ancient alchemists that just kinda

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give you a guide along the way of
the work that we are doing right now.

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Yeah.

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And if you feel stuck and don’t know
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through these stages of transformation.

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And stage one of alchemy starts with
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And then the second most important
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Which is the first?

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Wait.

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Who’s on first?

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What’s on second?

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I was gonna say the
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The… Let’s just say- So
what’s the most important?

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I actually… The most
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And then the second- And then the
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important is what do I actually want?

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‘Cause you gotta get
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Yes.

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Now, it’s not what I think I should want
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should want that, not what looks good from
the outside, but what do I genuinely want?

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Yeah, that’s a, that’s a really
challenging question, ’cause people

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sometimes skip over it or they go too
fast, or like you just said, they,

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they, they do something in their
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to do, and they don’t really… Their
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they’re not aligned, uh, energetically.

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And here’s one thing, another
thing, Lita, that some people

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misunderstand about alchemy.

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They think it’s about mystical stuff like
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Uh, and there is different
types of alchemy.

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And as much as I love Harry Potter
magical stuff, and I do, right?

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Gotta love me Adobe, right?

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It’s a different kind of magic.

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It’s internal magic, internal alchemy.

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It’s what we call inner alchemy,
and there’s a difference.

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And we’re gonna also have a podcast
on that coming up, too, which we

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really dive into all the different,
uh, forms of alchemy out there.

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So- Yeah … um, I’m really
excited about that as well.

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So- And- … uh, the Daoist alchemy
is what we’re talking about.

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Yeah.

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This one right here.

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Inner.

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Exactly.

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That inner alchemy, the Daoist version of
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not lead into gold, and becoming… That
is what the classical texts call becoming

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a Zhenren, Z-H-E-N-R-E-N, a realized human
being, fully, authentically yourself.

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Not who your parents wanted you to
be, as much as, like, you wanted

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to be that person for them, and
not who society says you should be.

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Yeah, and I’ll just add, not what
your partner wants you to be,

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not what your children wants you
to be, not what your neighbors.

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it’s, it’s what you… What is,
what, what is your authentic self?

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And it’s about Wu Wei, which we
translate as inspired action,

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hence the name of this podcast.

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Wu Wei is how you practice
your authenticity in the world.

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It’s the daily work.

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It’s how inner alchemy actually
happens in a real life, not

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just in a philosophy book.

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It’s an ancient spiritual technology
for when you sense there’s more

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to life than this, and that’s
something that we’re also…

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We’re kinda giving you little hints here
what we’re gonna have our podcast on.

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Yes.

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Because we’re gonna be talking about
all these topics about how to understand

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yourself, how to move through the world
authentically, how to, you know, if you

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choose to, start to understand alchemy.

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And you know, I love…

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Everyone who knows me know I love to
talk about the Wu Wei and creativity

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and different things, so we’re gonna
all explain all of that as, again,

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this is the podcast about the podcast.

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Yes, and there is so, so much
more, and that’s why you’re here

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So we’re gonna go much deeper on
all of this But wait, wait, wait.

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Before we go, Leda, let’s just do a
little orientation, five elements, and the

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alchemy roadmap for those who are just,
just wanting a little bit more today.

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And since some of you are brand new,
you might be wondering, you know,

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where does all this stuff come from?

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Who are we?

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Why are we talking?

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Who are we?

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Who?

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Who?

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Who?

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Who?

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I really wanna know.

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I could be the only one who really wants
to know, but- Right … I’m just saying.

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I know.

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Well, let’s just say for those
who might not know us- Well,

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let’s give them the little bio.

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Yes.

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I’m gonna let you do it,
’cause you do it really well.

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All right.

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Well, I’m Leda Herman.

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I’m a practitioner- Hi,
Leda, nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you.

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And I’m a practitioner of Chinese
medicine, but specifically

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alchemical Chinese medicine,
and I have been teaching it.

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And for over 25 years, I’ve been studying
it with Master Jeffrey Yuen, an 88th

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generation Daoist priest, and taking
that wisdom into my clinical practice,

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and really trying to understand that
with all the people I’ve worked with.

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So for the past 12 years or so,
Jay and I have been sharing that

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wisdom through teaching, writing.

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You know, doing this podcast has
been really a big part of it.

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It’s been fun, too.

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So why don’t you just keep going?

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Go ahead, you.

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All right.

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And Jay- I don’t feel
like tooting my own horn.

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Right.

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You can toot it.

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Okay, I’ll toot your horn.

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It’s a very little horn.

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It’s a tiny tootin’ horn.

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Okay.

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So for Jay, Jay came into this
alchemy work already having had

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a lot of experience doing life
coaching type of work in her previous

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marketing, uh, role in the world.

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And- All right.

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I’ll toot my horn.

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The little tiny horn.

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Toot, toot, toot.

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Okay.

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So I’m Jay, and the alchemy work that
I do, I love to say I’m a student

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of alchemy, alchemist in training.

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Like everyone in our program,
we say alchemist in training.

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So even if you’re listening
and you’re into alchemy, you’re

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an alchemist in training.

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Right.

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Um, I like to do, you know, let’s
call it life coaching, but that…

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I really don’t align with that word.

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So we kinda came up with a,
a, a term called alchemy life

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strategy, because we’re not really
coaching, we’re not really guiding.

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It’s not therapy.

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It’s a whole new concept on how we
can try to get people clear on what

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they actually want in their life using
the five elements, using the nine

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palaces, which we’ll talk about more
in the podcast for sure, and laying

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out or trying to find the guides, the,
the markers in the alchemy roadmap.

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Then with all that information, I
try to help people… Like, I’ll

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say help in air quotes, right?

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Help people find their way so they can
go live their true authentic lives.

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And it’s a journey, and I like to
say I hold up the mirror, and we talk

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about it, we laugh, we cry, we go deep.

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And we also are teachers and
authors, and we love this podcast

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like we’ve already mentioned.

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So we have a very active life in the
study of the Daoism and the study of

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alchemy, uh, and Chinese medicine.

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So we’re kinda in it.

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We’re kinda, like,
nerding out all the time.

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So if you like this stuff and you
wanna be nerds- … you have found

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your, you’ve found your podcast.

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Yes.

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‘Cause we get super nerdy all the time.

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Yes.

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And we’re partners in life as
well as business, and we’ve

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been together since 2012.

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What?

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What?

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I thought you, I just met you.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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How do you do?

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I know, and we’ve done so much fun,
and we’ve been traveling the world, and

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yeah, all the things we mentioned before.

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Yeah.

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It’s just a great life.

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Yeah.

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And we’re not at the top of the
mountain just yelling down instructions.

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We might be yodeling- … but we’re
not yelling down instructions.

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We do like a good yodel.

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Yodel-lay-hee-hoo.

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We’re just walking the path with you.

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And maybe sometimes we can
say, “Hey, watch out for that

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rock,” or something like that.

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Or maybe left, maybe right.

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We- we’ll go there with you.

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Yes, and that happens too.

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So it’s, it’s about the practice,
and that’s why we’re here.

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And at the same time, there are those
who walked the path long before us and

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left markers that we’re still finding.

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And we’re so grateful for all the
people that have come before us and

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have given this knowledge freely,
and we like to do that as well.

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We don’t feel like we’re gatekeepers,
but we do love to follow the breadcrumbs

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that they have left for us and
for everyone out there- Yes … to

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follow along if you so choose.

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And that’s actually why the
timing of this new season matters

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to us in this year of 2026.

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And why would that matter, Lita?

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The suspense is killing me.

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Because if you know anything
about the Chinese zodiac, you

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know this isn’t just any year.

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It’s the Year of the Fire Horse.

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Woo-hoo.

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Woo!

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And we moved into it way back in February.

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Now, it’s, we’re- But it’s
the Year of the Fire Horse.

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Yes, and- So we can still
talk about it … and yes.

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And so just a couple months in, it’s
absolutely living up to its name.

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Yeah, the horse is already
a fire animal with passion,

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vitality, speed, forward momentum.

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It doesn’t wait for permission.

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It just runs.

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It charges.

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It goes.

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And then you add fire on top of the
horse as a fire animal, which means

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double fire, so everything that fire
represents, joy, connection, creativity,

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the desire to truly live, fully amplified.

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Yeah, the fire horse is out of the gate.

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It has run out of the barn.

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It is running through the world,
and maybe with a little intensity.

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Maybe things moving faster than you may
like, and that’s okay- Yeah … because

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we’re in this Year of the Fire Horse.

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But here’s the key thing.

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The Fire Horse year isn’t chaotic
because the energy is bad.

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It’s intense only if you resist it.

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When your doors are shut and all that
powerful energy is just pushing against

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those doors, that’s when it feels like too
much But when your doors are open or when

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you allow things to move through you…
It becomes the fuel, the pure joy- Ding,

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ding, ding, ding, ding … the vitality
that makes life feel exciting- Yeah

461
00:19:41,304 –> 00:19:42,164
instead of exhausting.

462
00:19:42,183 –> 00:19:45,273
And that can be the difference between
a hard year and a beautiful year.

463
00:19:45,573 –> 00:19:49,724
It’s, it isn’t the year itself, it’s
how you are moving through the year.

464
00:19:49,773 –> 00:19:52,563
It’s whether your doors
are open or closed.

465
00:19:52,573 –> 00:19:52,773
Yeah.

466
00:19:52,804 –> 00:19:55,783
And that is exactly what our
next episode is gonna be about.

467
00:19:55,783 –> 00:20:00,054
We’re gonna talk a little bit more and
go deeper on the fire horse year and

468
00:20:00,054 –> 00:20:04,123
what it means for you personally based
on your own five elemental nature, and

469
00:20:04,123 –> 00:20:08,133
we’re gonna teach a, a foundational
Daoist meditation that we wrote on

470
00:20:08,143 –> 00:20:10,763
opening your doors and letting energy in.

471
00:20:11,033 –> 00:20:11,513
Yes.

472
00:20:11,794 –> 00:20:15,403
And it’s one of the most powerful
practices in all of Daoist alchemy.

473
00:20:15,433 –> 00:20:18,093
Honestly, it’s exactly what
this year is asking for.

474
00:20:18,154 –> 00:20:19,980
Yeah, they just didn’t know
they were asking for it.

475
00:20:19,980 –> 00:20:20,016
Yes.

476
00:20:20,016 –> 00:20:20,269
Well, now we’re … we understand that.

477
00:20:20,269 –> 00:20:20,824
So that’s gonna be our next podcast,

478
00:20:23,683 –> 00:20:24,964
uh, Pod 146.

479
00:20:25,244 –> 00:20:26,183
We’re gonna let you know that.

480
00:20:26,183 –> 00:20:27,134
We’re gonna go deeper.

481
00:20:27,363 –> 00:20:28,704
We’re gonna give you a meditation.

482
00:20:28,854 –> 00:20:31,404
So Leta, all right, that was
a great little teaser, little

483
00:20:31,404 –> 00:20:34,514
tidbit of what’s coming on,
what’s going on, what’s coming up.

484
00:20:34,733 –> 00:20:36,784
I think we’re gonna
keep this podcast short.

485
00:20:36,854 –> 00:20:38,204
I think we should get right into it.

486
00:20:38,503 –> 00:20:40,523
Um, so if you’re here,
thank you very much.

487
00:20:40,564 –> 00:20:42,303
If you’re new, thank you very much.

488
00:20:42,303 –> 00:20:46,193
If you’re, I don’t wanna say
old- … you’re like, “What?” ‘Cause,

489
00:20:46,193 –> 00:20:49,053
you know, you might be immortal, but
if you’re… No matter where you are-

490
00:20:49,053 –> 00:20:51,273
Oh, right … on the podcast here,
thank you, thank you, thank you.

491
00:20:51,534 –> 00:20:54,213
And we’re back, and
we’re happy to be here.

492
00:20:54,213 –> 00:20:58,373
So again, emails are great, and you
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493
00:20:58,384 –> 00:21:01,744
leta@inspiredactionpodcast.com- Or jay-

494
00:21:01,924 –> 00:21:03,533
jay@inspiredactionpodcast.com.

495
00:21:03,623 –> 00:21:06,324
And you can also find us anywhere
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496
00:21:06,324 –> 00:21:08,364
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497
00:21:08,634 –> 00:21:12,004
And please, if you can leave a review,
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498
00:21:12,004 –> 00:21:14,973
matter, ’cause people from all over
the world find this little podcast,

499
00:21:15,323 –> 00:21:18,994
and they listen and they reach out,
and we make connections all the time.

500
00:21:18,994 –> 00:21:19,843
So it does help.

501
00:21:19,843 –> 00:21:24,073
If you could just take one second to
make a little review, that’d be great.

502
00:21:24,153 –> 00:21:26,303
Even if you’ve written one
before, write another one.

503
00:21:26,314 –> 00:21:27,104
Oh, please.

504
00:21:27,753 –> 00:21:28,083
Thank you.

505
00:21:28,093 –> 00:21:28,343
Woo-hoo.

506
00:21:29,093 –> 00:21:31,093
So until next time… Stay curious.

507
00:21:31,434 –> 00:21:32,554
Be your wonderful self.

508
00:21:32,753 –> 00:21:36,413
Remember to look for those
breadcrumbs, those signs, those 509
00:21:36,464 –> 00:21:40,033
sometimes neon, sometimes hidden,
but they’re on the alchemy path.

510
00:21:40,104 –> 00:21:40,924
They’re on your path.

511
00:21:41,294 –> 00:21:45,028
So keep looking And remember,
we’re all alchemists in training.

512
00:21:45,028 –> 00:21:45,092
Woo!

513
00:21:45,092 –> 00:21:45,158
Woo!

514
00:21:45,158 –> 00:21:47,588
Alchemists in training.

515
00:21:48,068 –> 00:21:48,088
Yay.

516
00:21:49,128 –> 00:21:49,678
Thank you, bye.

517
00:21:50,118 –> 00:21:50,278
Thank you.

518
00:21:50,498 –> 00:21:53,487
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519
00:21:53,487 –> 00:21:54,298
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520
00:21:55,007 –> 00:21:55,317
Woo-hoo.

521
00:21:56,057 –> 00:21:56,097
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522
00:21:56,318 –> 00:21:59,067
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523
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524
00:22:01,157 –> 00:22:04,277
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525
00:22:04,497 –> 00:22:07,578
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526
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527
00:22:10,057 –> 00:22:14,837
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528
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529
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530
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531
00:22:27,388 –> 00:22:30,837
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533
00:22:33,528 –> 00:22:38,717
Join us next week for another inspiring
conversation, and thank you for listening.

534
00:22:38,997 –> 00:22:41,987
Yes, thank you for listening, and
remember to hug the dog, and, you know,

535
00:22:42,028 –> 00:22:45,137
give yourself a hug, too, because you
both probably deserve a really nice hug.

536
00:22:46,467 –> 00:22:46,937
Yourself.

537
00:22:47,198 –> 00:22:48,058
Yes, hug yourself.

538
00:22:48,667 –> 00:22:50,517
Go ahead, hug your-
that seems funny, right?

539
00:22:50,628 –> 00:22:52,458
Just wrap your arms around,
give a little wiggle.

540
00:22:52,507 –> 00:22:53,027
It’s easy.

541
00:22:55,978 –> 00:22:57,007
I think you yodeled.

542
00:22:57,247 –> 00:22:58,088
Did I yodel?

543
00:22:58,088 –> 00:22:58,196
I think you yodeled.

544
00:22:58,196 –> 00:22:58,250
You yodeled.

545
00:22:58,250 –> 00:22:58,587
I yodeled.

546
00:22:58,618 –> 00:22:59,877
No, you yodeled.

547
00:22:59,877 –> 00:23:00,737
Yodel-ay-hoo.

548
00:23:01,227 –> 00:23:02,348
No, yodel-ay-you too.

549
00:23:03,637 –> 00:23:04,827
Oh my God, we’re now yodeling.

550
00:23:04,827 –> 00:23:05,428
Ticky, ticky, tick.