Your GPS for Success
Today's episode explores the transformative journey of embracing our true calling and understanding it as an assignment rather than a burden. We dive into a powerful conversation with Raquel Soto, who has turned her own challenges into a mission to help others break their limitations.
Through her unique blend of neuroscience and faith, she guides individuals in recognizing their worth and potential. Raquel shares personal stories that illustrate the importance of answering the call to our purpose, even when life gets tough or feels overwhelming. By reframing our perspectives, we can ignite the fire within us, allowing our experiences and struggles to fuel our growth and resilience.
Join us as we unpack these profound insights and learn how to harness our inner warrior spirit.
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Transcript
I've walked through fire with shadows on my heels Scars turn to stories that taught me to feel lost in the silence found in the flame now wear my battle cry without shame this isn't the end and it's where I begin A soul that remembers the fire within.
Speaker B:Welcome back to another episode of A Warrior Spirit brought to you by Praxis33.
Speaker B:I'm your host, Darrell Snow.
Speaker B:Let's dive in.
Speaker B:My wife and I went out of town on Memorial Day weekend to visit a friend and she was nice enough to invite us to our church.
Speaker B:And the pastor was finishing his five week series on calling.
Speaker B:You know that voice you hear deep inside that lets you feel the passion and excitement of something you were meant to bring forth in this world?
Speaker B:And during his sermon, he said something that really struck with me.
Speaker B:He said we should stop thinking of it as our calling and we should look at it like our phones.
Speaker B:Because when someone calls us, we get to choose whether we answer it or not.
Speaker B:And we get to decide if we send it to voicemail or even if it's the right time to return the call this moment.
Speaker B:And that's how many of us treat the calling God puts in our heart.
Speaker B:We question if he even has the right number or is it the right time to even take the call.
Speaker B:But what if other things are happening in our lives where the call is an inconvenience to those things?
Speaker B:You know, you get the point.
Speaker B:But the pastor said that if you think of it as your assignment instead of your calling, you may think of it differently.
Speaker B:An assignment is something you must get done and something we have to figure out how to complete, no matter what obstacles we perceive we are encountering.
Speaker B:And today I have the pleasure of speaking with Raquel Soto.
Speaker B:Raquel is someone who has definitely turned her calling into her assignment.
Speaker B:So much so, she's founded Break youk Limitations and considers herself your GPS for success.
Speaker B:And she does it by combining neuroscience with the word of God.
Speaker B:And over a decade, Raquel has helped faith driven individuals break free from the hidden hoops and step into their abundant life they were always meant to live.
Speaker B:And Raquel, I welcome you to the show.
Speaker A:Thank you so much for inviting me here.
Speaker A:I'm very excited to have this conversation with you.
Speaker A:And hello to everyone who's watching throughout time and space.
Speaker B:I appreciate it you're currently a faith driven entrepreneur and coach, but I love that you also combine it with the neuroscience.
Speaker B:But were you always as faith driven as you currently are?
Speaker B:Was it always a part of your life?
Speaker B:Was.
Speaker B:Was God like always your center, focus.
Speaker A:In waves.
Speaker A:When I was about 13 years old, it was funny because I remember this.
Speaker A:I remember this distinctly.
Speaker A:I don't know if my parents remember this at all or remember it the way I remember it, but I remember being going to Mass, and I'm Latina, I'm Puerto Rican, and we're in Mass, and we're in this beautiful church, and it's like over 500 people.
Speaker A:And the priest said for us to open our Bibles.
Speaker A:And, you know, I go to a verse, and so I opened my Bible because I'm a little girl, and we're reading along, and then he ends up interpreting the verse.
Speaker A:That didn't sit well with me because it didn't to me, didn't say what he said it meant.
Speaker A:And so I wanted to go and talk to the priest.
Speaker A:And if you know any Latinos especially, well, I'm in my 50s now, you know, it's just like that.
Speaker A:The priest is basically God, so you don't go and question him.
Speaker A:And I was like, mother.
Speaker A:I always call her mother when I get annoyed.
Speaker A:I said, mother, if I don't go talk to the priest, you're gonna be sorry because I won't embarrass you.
Speaker A:I want to know where he got the interpretation from.
Speaker A:So I've always had some moxie.
Speaker A:I always had some tenacity.
Speaker A:I get that from my mom.
Speaker A:So then she said, she's like, you're not gonna go talk to the priest.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh, yes, I am.
Speaker A:And I said, well, you don't know either.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:I'm looking around, there's 500 people here, and nobody opened up their Bibles.
Speaker A:I was the only one who did.
Speaker A:So you can't even tell me what it means.
Speaker A:And neither can Daddy.
Speaker A:Somebody's gonna tell me what this means.
Speaker A:And she's like, no.
Speaker A:I'm like, well, I'm never coming here again.
Speaker A:And my sister's Josie.
Speaker A:And I said, she's not coming either.
Speaker A:We're going to go to the Baptist church.
Speaker A:Maybe they have an answer for me.
Speaker A:And so it was that summer.
Speaker A:I remember, because sometimes this is really, you know, we're recording.
Speaker A:This is not too far from Father's Day.
Speaker A:And I was privileged to be on a podcast on Father's Day where we're honoring men.
Speaker A:And I ended up honoring my dad because when that was the introduction to God.
Speaker A:I'm in Chicago when I was growing up, every Saturday, you know, oh, man, I wish I would bring back Saturday morning cartoons.
Speaker A:My kids are in the 20s now, except for my youngest to 16, I would totally watch them because I love animation.
Speaker A:So we used to have those Saturday morning cartoons and in Chicago they would also have on wgn, like foster kids.
Speaker A:And so I grew up really being groomed with that idea of like, adoption is good.
Speaker A:You know, adoption is great.
Speaker A:There's always like these beautiful children who don't get adopted because you know, they've already gotten like too old to get adopted.
Speaker A:But they're amazing.
Speaker A:And so I grew up watching cartoons right, right in the middle of being happy of like this idea of adoption.
Speaker A:And so that summer, then in the summer, the young pastor is just like, oh, your father.
Speaker A:And he was your father.
Speaker A:And he was like describing all these characteristics.
Speaker A:And I looked at my sister, I'm like, I know, like, why is he talking about Daddy?
Speaker A:Like, I was confused literally for like five minutes.
Speaker A:And then he said, oh, your father in heaven.
Speaker A:And my thought was like, oh, God's like Daddy.
Speaker A:Not like Daddy's like God.
Speaker A:And they say, oh, he's adopting you.
Speaker A:And I was just like, oh, well, it was like bringing up those two things together, right?
Speaker A:Like my father, the way he was explaining God, my father was exactly like the character.
Speaker A:And then this idea of adoption and that kind of got married, mirrored together, married together.
Speaker A:And so that's how I started to really understand who God was because I'm fortunate enough to have that kind of father in my life.
Speaker A:And so it was just like, oh, it was a no brainer.
Speaker A:So, so I understand like the heartbeat of the father part of God.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And then, you know, then I became a teenager and then I still love God and.
Speaker A:And I ended up going to a church in the south side here in Ch.
Speaker A:And I would wake up like at, you know, Sundays, like it was like five in the morning.
Speaker A:I had to go across town to meet my friend's mother who is the choir master.
Speaker A:And it's an African American church.
Speaker A:So then if you've ever been into an African American church, you know, it's like an all day affair.
Speaker A:So we would go, we would go, you know, she had to go to practice.
Speaker A:And then it was first service and then it was Sunday school and then it was second service and then it was grandma's house.
Speaker A:So, you know, for three years, sophomore year to like senior year, I was getting up every Sunday.
Speaker A:I would go on like Wednesday nights or Thursdays as well.
Speaker A:You know, I would get jobs.
Speaker A:Like, I can't work because I'm going to church those nights.
Speaker A:I remember my parents at the time they were arguing about it and my father, my, my mom's like, oh my gosh, I can't believe she's going there.
Speaker A:And why are you going to church all day long?
Speaker A:And I, that's really where I fell in love with Jesus, was the person of Jesus and understanding who he was at that church.
Speaker A:And my father would say to him, he's like, look at our daughter.
Speaker A:You better be glad that she's not running the streets.
Speaker A:The way that she looks, the way the boys always trying to date her.
Speaker A:You're lucky.
Speaker A:Just be happy she's going to church.
Speaker B:So the Catholic girls can get in trouble too.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:But do you, do you remember the scripture that you were going to go talk to the priest about?
Speaker A:No, I remember.
Speaker A:I just remember that it was like something so simple that even a 13 year old was like, no, that's not what it says, that's not what it means.
Speaker A:You're gonna have to explain it to me.
Speaker A:And so, you know, that was like my introduction then to like the, the Jesus side of God, really falling in love with that part, you know, of who he was and what he did for us and how, you know, sacrificed and everything.
Speaker A:And then when I was about 19, 20 years old, I started to like hear music.
Speaker A:Well, I was always like singing at the locker and there was this girl, she, she would, she was so funny and she's like, what are we singing today?
Speaker A:I would just be humming and singing.
Speaker B:Singing today.
Speaker A:She's like, you know, you should really go into singing.
Speaker A:I was like, nah, I can't sing.
Speaker A:And she's just like, yeah, it was just funny because they sang it.
Speaker A:I was singing in eighth grade.
Speaker A:I was a valedictorian, so I sang at that.
Speaker A:I sang at my high school graduation.
Speaker A:I was still saying, no, I can't sing, I just can carry a note.
Speaker A:And I, I was like tone deaf, right?
Speaker A:So like the teacher would play like, raquel, just put your voice here.
Speaker A:And I would just follow the piano.
Speaker A:And turns out that I have like an almost four octave range.
Speaker A:So he was just like, put your voice here.
Speaker A:And I'm like, okay.
Speaker A:And then put your voice here.
Speaker A:And I'm like, okay.
Speaker A:So I'm not like one of those natural singers.
Speaker A:Like, I need somebody to tell me where to put my voice.
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker A:And if you like the sound of my voice, I sound pretty good.
Speaker B:Well, you can harmonize pretty good though.
Speaker B:But growing up in Southside Chicago, especially for a Latino, I'm 60 now and I remember those years in Chicago.
Speaker B:I Mean, I grew up in Minneapolis, so it was like Chicago Light.
Speaker B:But I remember, you know, even at kindergarten, I had to carry a knife to school.
Speaker B:And I remember how rough, you know, the neighborhoods were.
Speaker B:And we always heard the stories of, you know, how bad south side Chicago is.
Speaker B:So how did you navigate the mean streets, and I'll put that in air quotes.
Speaker B:The mean streets of Southside Chicago in a Latino family in probably the early 80s, late 70s.
Speaker B:Like, how did you navigate all that?
Speaker A:Well, I lived actually in the north side of Chicago in Wicker park, and then I would visit there.
Speaker A:So I was there two, three times a week.
Speaker A:But I was in my own little bubble, you know, so it's just like I never.
Speaker A:I didn't notice it because I would go there, and the people were amazing and.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:The community was great.
Speaker A:And I was very naive.
Speaker A:I was very naive.
Speaker A:And I was very focused, too.
Speaker A:Like, I was with my friend and her mom and her sister, and we would go to 118th in Indiana, and they were just, like, being the church.
Speaker A:We would walk outside of the church.
Speaker A:I mean, I had, like, no fear, but I had that as a child.
Speaker A:Like, my.
Speaker A:My parents, I felt so safe.
Speaker A:You know how the babies.
Speaker A:When you had the babies and you tell babies, oh, come on, and they're like, stranger danger.
Speaker A:My mom used to get afraid because I would actually jump into the people's arms, and they were like, oh, I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker A:Usually the babies are just like, no.
Speaker A:And I had no fear of adults.
Speaker A:So I.
Speaker A:I just had this sense because of the way my parents were always very thoughtful, and they were, like, very careful about, like, who was around us and giving us.
Speaker A:I always felt safe around adults because that's the way my parents really protected us.
Speaker A:So I.
Speaker A:I really didn't have any.
Speaker A:Any street smarts to probably even think about.
Speaker A:I think if I would have thought about, like, you know, really paid attention to the news or maybe the things that were going on in that neighborhood, I probably would have had reservations.
Speaker A:But I was going there for a reason.
Speaker A:And I really loved the community, and I really loved the church, and I really was having a good time that I didn't even recognize if anything was going on.
Speaker A:And there's a scripture that says that right to the pure in heart, everything is pure.
Speaker A:And so for me, it was just like, oh, you're going all the way to the south side.
Speaker A:My mom's like, you're going all the way to the south side.
Speaker A:You're waking up in the morning at 5.
Speaker A:You don't get home until 8pm she's like, and you're in the south side all day long.
Speaker A:And then you go two, three times during the week.
Speaker A:And she's scared because she's watching the news.
Speaker A:And I was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker A:We're fine.
Speaker A:Like, I had zero sense of fear.
Speaker A:And I think part of that was the way my.
Speaker A:My parents took care of us.
Speaker A:And so I already had no sense of fear, which maybe you must respect what didn't seem very wise.
Speaker A:But it's also like, well, where I feel God is calling me, well, he's in charge of protecting me, right?
Speaker A:So in my mind, I was just like, well, I have guardian angels and, you know, and he's my father, and my natural father would protect me.
Speaker A:Why wouldn't my heavenly father protect me?
Speaker A:And if this is where feel he's.
Speaker A:He's taking me, of course I'm going to be protected.
Speaker A:So I never took a thought like, this is dangerous, or this might be dangerous or be, you know, stay in the church and scared.
Speaker A:I was never scared to go outside of the church and walk the neighborhood in the.
Speaker A:In the south side, just because of the way that.
Speaker A:That my mindset was at the time where this is where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker A:And I just knew.
Speaker A:And there was a lot of fruit from that.
Speaker B:Can you imagine in today's world, because it was tough enough in the 70s and 80s, can you imagine in today's world, our children going, I'm gonna go to the south side for all day, three times a week.
Speaker B:We'd be like, no, you're not.
Speaker B:You're not even going near the bus station, let alone to the south side.
Speaker B:Like, the times, you know, I look at all the days where, like, my parents would drop us off at a movie theater or at a mall or, you know, the skating rink by ourselves, and then, you know, come pick us up four or five hours later.
Speaker B:The world today is different.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker B:You wouldn't let your kid out of your sight for five minutes, let alone five hours, you know, So I think you had a blessing to be able to be in a world and a realm where, even as tough as it was, your parents still felt safe enough for you to.
Speaker B:To do that kind of thing.
Speaker B:Did that experience set you up for future adversity, that you could just face it with the courage that you did in those times?
Speaker A:I think it did because I had a really great foundation of, like, God.
Speaker A:And my.
Speaker A:Like my parents, you know, they.
Speaker A:They loved God and they really believed, like, you know, in family and like, there's like, just certain things that, that we do because we love God and we love family and there's, there's the things of protection and some wise choices to make.
Speaker A:But my parents also, you know, very hardworking blue collar people.
Speaker A:And so they.
Speaker A:I learned through watching, and it's true, right now I'm a parent of three kids.
Speaker A:And even though two of them are adult children now, the children do learn by watching their parents more than anything else.
Speaker A:And that's.
Speaker A:I was.
Speaker A:My parents modeled that greatly of like, you know, how to have goals and how to, you know, go after them and, you know, and deciding, you know, what you want and making projects and, you know, trying to make wise decisions, whether it's, you know, finances or, or relationships or, or anything like that.
Speaker A:So I learned a lot about them and I've seen them go through tough times and, and how they handle it.
Speaker A:And so that was really helpful as well, I think, because I had such a strong foundation early enough when I started to get into, you know, life happens.
Speaker A:Things started to happen as I was in my, you know, mid-20s and 30s where I had just really gotten to the point of believing lies about myself and who I was.
Speaker A:And even though I knew that I was loved, you know, I started to buy into the lie that perhaps the world would be better off without me, that my children will be better off without me.
Speaker A:And four different times did it try to take my life where all times I was like, supernaturally stopped.
Speaker A:Like, I was in the.
Speaker A:I wasn't thinking about taking it.
Speaker A:I was actually in the process of taking my life when I was stopped.
Speaker A:And whether people believe me or not, it makes no difference to me, but it happens.
Speaker A:I could change to my experience.
Speaker A:But one of the times, like, I think it was the third.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was the third time.
Speaker A:And I remember just feeling so overwhelmed and I.
Speaker A:And I figured out, because I'm great at researching how much insulin.
Speaker A:My husband at the time, he was taking insulin, so how much insulin I needed to take in order for me to take my life.
Speaker A:And I was like, oh, what if that doesn't work?
Speaker A: know I had like some tequila,: Speaker A:I'm like, how much of that do I have to drink in order for the combination to work?
Speaker A:I was being like a little mad scientist.
Speaker A:And when I figured it out in my head, I remember going to the kitchen.
Speaker A:I opened up.
Speaker A:I opened up because I was going to do the drinking first.
Speaker A:And I opened up the cabinet and I put my hand on the tequila bottle and then I heard a voice behind me, and it was a male's voice.
Speaker A:And he said, that's not going to work.
Speaker A:And I knew it wasn't my husband.
Speaker A:And there was nobody else in the house except for the kids.
Speaker A:And I was like, my hand's still there.
Speaker A:It's like you're just gonna go into a coma and then you wake up, but you're not going to die.
Speaker A:But I promise you, if you go and you go to sleep tomorrow, you will feel differently.
Speaker A:Things will feel differently to you.
Speaker A:Just go to.
Speaker A:Just go to sleep because that's not going to work.
Speaker A:And I remember going, taking my hand off, and the kitchen was like, you know, it was like this.
Speaker A:And then there's like a.
Speaker A:You know how they have that corridor.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then it goes the rest of the apartment.
Speaker A:So walking like a crab this way.
Speaker A:I did not want to, like.
Speaker A:Did you turn around to see what the voice was?
Speaker A:Oh, no.
Speaker A:Have you.
Speaker A:Have you read what some of the angels look like?
Speaker A:Like a thousand eyes.
Speaker A:They have four different faces.
Speaker A:So there's.
Speaker A:I mean, whenever you see an angel, encounter a human, what's the first thing they say?
Speaker A:Fear not.
Speaker A:There's a reason why fear not.
Speaker A:Now, there is a scripture about how you don't know if you're entertaining an angel because sometimes they can't take.
Speaker A:You know, they look more human almost, except for that phrase.
Speaker A:Every single time they appear to somebody in the Bible, the first thing they say is fear not.
Speaker A:People are like, on the floor, like, ah.
Speaker B:Let me ask you a question, though.
Speaker B:Let me stop you for a second.
Speaker B:How does someone who goes from loving life, loving church, loving God and all those things, what takes them to the deeper depression that creates the lack of hope to where suicide becomes your only outlet?
Speaker B:Because having attempted suicide several times myself, I know that the only times that I have attempted that is when I'm in complete, utter despair with no hope.
Speaker B:If I have hope, I don't care if it's a blade of grass worth of hope.
Speaker B:If I have hope, that thought never entertains my mind.
Speaker B:But when there was no hope, that's the only times when that has seemed like the only outlet.
Speaker B:So what took you from this outgoing, carefree blinders on girl to someone who's now wanting to attempt suicide multiple times?
Speaker A:It was very subtle.
Speaker A:You know when they talk about, like the frog in the water, and it was this perception that no matter what I did, it was never enough.
Speaker A:And so, like, you know, growing up with that, like Even though I was a straight A student, it was never enough, you know, then, you know, going into other things and, and doing well and getting awards, it was just never enough.
Speaker A:And so having this undercurrent of like, it's never enough.
Speaker A:It doesn't matter that I was winning awards, I was being recognized.
Speaker A:It just, you can always do better.
Speaker A:And so then when I got married, I got married very young, I was like, I'm going to be 22 that month.
Speaker A:And it was more of that.
Speaker A:Like, oh, that was great, but you can always do better.
Speaker A:And having that pressure of nothing I do is enough, which then gets translated and mistranslated, I'm not enough, then there's something maybe fundamentally wrong with me.
Speaker A:And if there's something fundamentally wrong with me, which is a lie, right?
Speaker A:But I was believing that lie.
Speaker A:I believed a lie that there was something fundamentally wrong with me.
Speaker A:Because no matter what I did, no matter what awards I did, no matter what how much money I was making, no, it didn't matter that on the outside I was being celebrated, because there was always voices that I, you know, I put on a pedestal and I took heavier than my own voice, or even the voice of what God was saying about me, as though that was gospel.
Speaker A:And I believed it, but it wasn't true.
Speaker A:And so when you're the pressures coming.
Speaker B:From internal, or was it the words that you were hearing other people say?
Speaker B:Because it's hard to imagine.
Speaker B:I mean, I grew up with abusive parents.
Speaker B:Well, mother, not father, but I grew up in an abusive household.
Speaker B:And so I was always striving to be perfect because if I could be perfect, I wouldn't be in trouble.
Speaker B:But that was never the case.
Speaker B:That was a false narrative.
Speaker B:I was telling myself, were these voices inside your head telling you you need to be more, or were they external words you were hearing from the people around you?
Speaker A:They were external at first.
Speaker A:And then, you know, like anything, right, the words are seeds.
Speaker A:And so, you know, if I'm listening to these words being very impressionable, you know, holding other people who are much older than me of higher regard than myself, and then not comparing that to what God was actually saying, what he was saying to me.
Speaker A:And so that external seed I was receiving, and then, you know what happens with the seed, right?
Speaker A:If you're receiving it, then it gets conceived, and then it's getting nurtured by their external voices.
Speaker A:And then I'm thinking, well, maybe they're right, because it always sounded like wisdom.
Speaker A:And that was the trick.
Speaker A:It sounded like wisdom, but it was really death.
Speaker A:And because it was not wise enough to discern what the truth really was, because it sounded like truth, then the fruit of it was depression.
Speaker A:The fruit of that was death.
Speaker A:Because it wasn't life affirming, it wasn't edifying.
Speaker A:And since, of course, you know, people who are high achievers, we always, we love personal development.
Speaker A:I mean, we find ourselves in personal development from when we're very young.
Speaker A:And so it's like, oh, well, of course I want to be better.
Speaker A:Of course I want to, like, do the best that I can.
Speaker A:Of course I want to be excellent.
Speaker A:Those are not those things within itself is not a bad thing.
Speaker A:Those are qualities of a person who has a character of excellence.
Speaker A:But when that becomes an inadvertent idol, where we are like, well, I need to be these things because that's what's being asked of me, required of me.
Speaker A:It's like, well, who said.
Speaker A:Who's.
Speaker A:Who said, you know, we're made in the image and likeness of God.
Speaker A:That means fundamentally there's nothing wrong with us.
Speaker A:And it was things that I didn't understand.
Speaker A:But going through that process, the last time I tried to take my life, I was like, okay, God, I can't come here again.
Speaker A:You're gonna have to show me what's.
Speaker A:Why am I believing this?
Speaker A:Did I think that this is okay, and how old.
Speaker B:How old were you on the last attempt, the final attempt?
Speaker A:Oh, and we're gonna say, yeah, it was the final.
Speaker A:I was at least say my 40s already.
Speaker A:I might have been like my late 30s, early 40s.
Speaker A:I can't remember right now.
Speaker B:So somewhere in a 20 year period from 22 to 40, let's say, you attempted four times to end your life.
Speaker B:How many children did you have by this time?
Speaker B:At the last one?
Speaker A:Three.
Speaker B:All three.
Speaker B:Okay, so you.
Speaker B:You were under the false belief that your three children would be better off without you than with you because you weren't good enough.
Speaker A:Mm, yep.
Speaker B:That's a hard.
Speaker B:Did your.
Speaker B:Did your husband feed into that?
Speaker B:Was he a part of that voice you were hearing, or was it still further outside?
Speaker A:Oh, no, he was part of it.
Speaker A:He was a big part of it.
Speaker B:And how much older was your husband than you?
Speaker A:20 years.
Speaker B:So you were 22 and he was 42 when you first got married.
Speaker B:Now I'm a father of a 26 year old.
Speaker B:I can't imagine that I would be sitting down okay, with her marrying someone that much older.
Speaker B:And I'm not in a Latino family.
Speaker B:How did that go over with your folk.
Speaker A:Well, it's funny because so we were best friends and then we got engaged and then we got married, so we never really dated.
Speaker A:And when we got engaged, I remember I was telling my mom, my parents, I was like, oh, by the way.
Speaker A:So they thought I was somebody else because I was in a band and there was like seven or eight of us.
Speaker A:It was a big band, so they thought it was the other.
Speaker A:This other guitar player.
Speaker A:I'm like, no, not him, the other one.
Speaker A:They're like, oh, the quiet one, the artist.
Speaker A:I was like, yeah, that's him.
Speaker A:They're like, oh.
Speaker A:I think they were, like, kind of relieved that they thought it was somebody else in the pants.
Speaker A:Yeah, he's fine.
Speaker A:Yeah, that guy, he's okay.
Speaker A:And it was one of those things where a lot of, like, positive words and prophecies were talked, you know, spoken over us.
Speaker A:Part of it was like the music of what, like, God really wanted to do with us as a couple.
Speaker A:And so when we started, when we got married, before we got married, decided that once we started to have children, one of us would come home.
Speaker A:And so we were married for a few years.
Speaker A:And then we.
Speaker A:We had some miracle.
Speaker A:We started having miracle babies because the doctor said that we probably wouldn't be able to get pregnant.
Speaker A:And we both grew up in the same town, right, watching the same TVs, so we're actually very similar.
Speaker A:Did it like, the.
Speaker A:The age gap didn't really come into play because we were so similar.
Speaker A:So it was a.
Speaker A:People were like, oh, there's such a big age gap.
Speaker A:But then they would be around us and be like, oh, but you guys actually, like, perfectly suited.
Speaker A:And I remember, you know how they take the.
Speaker A:The test for premarital people and they're like, to see the comparison, like the pastor who was marrying us, he had to get like seven other pastors to look at the test.
Speaker A:And they're like, we've never seen anybody more perfectly suited.
Speaker A:They're like.
Speaker A:They're like, there's something wrong with the test.
Speaker A:There were like, two things that he wasn't sure about.
Speaker A:He brought us in together, and it's because we both misinterpreted the question.
Speaker A:So once we said it out loud, we found out that we were on the same page.
Speaker A:So like, our age ended up being like a non issue, even for our pastors, because they were concerned, obviously.
Speaker A:They're like, what's going on here?
Speaker A:But after, you know, we did the premarital counseling and then we didn't need any counseling.
Speaker A:Because they're like, oh, even on paper, we look like the perfectly matched couple.
Speaker A:And so we were going to do music together.
Speaker A:And there.
Speaker A:And that was the point.
Speaker A:Like, after a few years, whoever was still working will come home.
Speaker A:And he was an amazing artist.
Speaker A: , passing away when he was in: Speaker A:He had more talent in his little pinky than people have in their whole body.
Speaker A:I mean, he was literally a genius.
Speaker A:Had a super high iq, really smart, funny, you know, very caring.
Speaker A:But I would get broke.
Speaker A:I would cut on the broke.
Speaker A:His brokenness.
Speaker A:There was a lot of things that happened to him as a child in his teenage years that were super traumatic things that happened in his first marriage that was also very traumatic.
Speaker A:And, you know, when you're young, you're like, oh, love covers everything.
Speaker A:He'll be fine.
Speaker A:He's a tortured artist.
Speaker A:It's okay, you know, and then you have the opposite me, who is just like, you know, big ball of sunshine.
Speaker A:So, you know, we did bring out best in each other.
Speaker A:But because, you know, in retrospect, right now that I understand, like, the neuroscience part of it, that's really what helped me heal through it.
Speaker A:Because even when we were talking at the end, because we had actually were splitting up before he died, we already been separated, but all living together for a while as a family because the kids, I thought, were too young, and I didn't want to not have us together in the family in the same house.
Speaker A:And so I remember him and I having conversation about it, and I said, why did you do those things?
Speaker A:Why would you say those things?
Speaker A:And he was just like, I don't know.
Speaker A:And that's the thing is if you were like, well, if he loved.
Speaker A:If, you know, if he loved me or this person loved me, they wouldn't do those things.
Speaker A:They wouldn't say this thing.
Speaker A:But actually, it's like, that's not the way it works.
Speaker A:It's not like I know that he loves me with the passion of a thousand sons.
Speaker A:Like, love was not the issue.
Speaker A:The man adored me.
Speaker A:I was the love of his life.
Speaker A:I was his best friend to the day he died.
Speaker A:I was the love of his life and his best friend.
Speaker A:We were still friends after we were not together.
Speaker A:I was still his best friend.
Speaker A:I just couldn't be his wife.
Speaker A:And we talk about it, it's like, I don't know.
Speaker A:And then I started.
Speaker A:Once I started learning about neuroscience and how that works and the trauma and what's happening and how we're, you know, 95% of our actions and reactions and decisions are automatic.
Speaker A:But there were things that he never got healed of.
Speaker A:And because of that and the lies that he believed about himself that were not true.
Speaker A:And it turned out that there was an incident which I don't remember even the whole story, but six weeks into our marriage, he.
Speaker A:I was crying about something.
Speaker A:I can't remember even what it was.
Speaker A:And he looked at me, he said, whatever you're crying about, I don't want to know.
Speaker A:And he walked away from me.
Speaker A:That was like.
Speaker A:That was actually the beginning of the end, he thought.
Speaker A:See, he believed a lie.
Speaker A:He thought that.
Speaker A:At that point, I realized I shouldn't have married him.
Speaker A:And so every day he started to treat me as though any moment I was going to walk out of his Life.
Speaker A:It took 20 years, over 20 years before it happened.
Speaker A:But he was so scared because of the trauma, because of the things that happened in his life.
Speaker A:And then he's just like, oh, my gosh, she just realized she made a big mistake.
Speaker A:And so he was living his life with me in a way that was filled with fear.
Speaker B:But if he.
Speaker B:I can relate to a lot of what you're saying because I was broken for the first 58 years of my life as well.
Speaker B:And I have a background in psychology, so I know the neuroscience and the.
Speaker B:In the brain, the way it works.
Speaker B:And I can see how in my brokenness, you know, I love my wife beyond measure, but I can see in my brokenness how sometimes I didn't speak to her as kindly as she deserved or didn't say things as.
Speaker B:As nicely as I should have.
Speaker B:And a lot of that was out of fear.
Speaker B:But if you tried suicide four times, that means you were with him during all of those.
Speaker B:If my wife tried one attempted suicide, that would be a huge wake up call for me and I'd fix whatever the fuck was wrong.
Speaker B:Excuse my language.
Speaker B:So how does someone who loves you so dearly go through 1, 2, 3, 4 attempts and still not.
Speaker A:He didn't know.
Speaker A:I didn't tell anybody because the first.
Speaker A:Every time that I was, like, in the process of doing something, I was stopped.
Speaker A:But then I didn't tell anybody, so he was not aware.
Speaker A:Like, even when I started to share these stories and stuff, like, it was.
Speaker A:It was a few years before I.
Speaker A:I've just been open about it in the last, like, two years or so.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:So when my parents found out, my sister found out.
Speaker A:They're like, what are you talking about?
Speaker A:And then they were starting to feel guilty.
Speaker A:Yeah, like how did I not notice?
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker A:And that's the thing is, like, somebody who is very also empathic, I didn't want to have other people be burdened with my pain, because then they were trying to carry my pain.
Speaker A:And I was like, well, I don't even know how to articulate my pain at that point.
Speaker A:How do I articulate these things?
Speaker A:And so I, you know, I was a great pretender, especially, like, in my family.
Speaker A:Unfortunately, there was a lot of women in my family who were abused, you know, sexually and emotionally and financially.
Speaker A:And we were the house that people ran to.
Speaker A:So they would come to our house and they would hide.
Speaker A:They would come to our house, and they would, you know, get their life together.
Speaker A:But I have all these stories of.
Speaker A:Of a lot of the women in my family.
Speaker A:And so back then, and it's still like that in other places.
Speaker A:And I'm sure people have these stories, too, where you don't talk about it.
Speaker B:We become the great pretenders, don't we?
Speaker B:We become great at putting on these masks for the rest of the world.
Speaker B:And there's no clue that anything.
Speaker B:You know, I was joking with my wife the other day.
Speaker B:Our family crest could be the theater mask of the happy and sad, because there's no clue of what goes on inside the house when you put on the happy mask for outside the house.
Speaker B:And, you know, it's disheartening that we all get really good at wearing those masks as opposed to healing and becoming a little more authentic.
Speaker B:You said something just a moment ago that is also kind of interesting to me based on what I understand.
Speaker B:And I'm a reformed Catholic, so I understand the world you grew up in.
Speaker B:I just didn't enjoy it as much as you did.
Speaker B:And I got tired of the priest a little sooner than you did.
Speaker B:But you talked about being an empath.
Speaker B:And empaths, empathic natures, intuition, cognitive function.
Speaker B:Some people have a hard time pairing that with religion and God and what they believe because of most Catholic churches.
Speaker B:I don't know about all churches because I've not been in all of them, but been in enough Catholic churches.
Speaker B:Most Catholic churches teach out of fear, and they don't teach directly from the Bible.
Speaker B:They teach from their interpretation of it.
Speaker B:So we get this mixed thought in our head about what religion is supposed to be like.
Speaker B:And I've said for a long time, religion is the worst thing that happened to God.
Speaker B:So how did you balance your empathic abilities with your knowledge of what God and spirituality are?
Speaker B:Because they are mirrored and matched and I love that as a faith driven woman, you marry the neuroscience with the biblical word, with the spirituality.
Speaker B:Like you have this nice divine triangle of all three.
Speaker B:And so when did you first start embracing your empathic abilities?
Speaker B:And how did you merge that with what you knew God to be?
Speaker A:I think it was just, it just kind of happened.
Speaker A:When I was younger, I recognized and first husband, I call him that because at some point I know I'll be married again.
Speaker A:First husband also had the same gift.
Speaker A:He was, I think that's what made him such an incredible artist and writer and poet and guitarist.
Speaker A:I mean, he literally, he would play a couple of chords and people would be outside and people from the neighborhood, blocks away would hear him and they would literally just sit at his feet.
Speaker A:I mean, he had like that Pied Piper kind of thing because he was so in tune.
Speaker A:The difference was that very young I was able to recognize that I could pick up on things and I learned to turn it off.
Speaker A:He never learned to turn it off.
Speaker A:He couldn't.
Speaker A:It was very hard for him.
Speaker A:So people who are highly empathic, a lot of times they would come around me, they're like, oh, I don't hear any noise.
Speaker A:For those of you who are not that sensitive, don't have that gift.
Speaker A:If you have a friend who's like, oh, it just, it's hard for them to be around a lot of people because they can feel like vibes or they can feel other people's emotions.
Speaker A:So they would come around me and it was just like quiet.
Speaker A:And so.
Speaker A:But I learned how to turn it off because otherwise I couldn't function.
Speaker A:And as somebody who is, I guess, what is that called now, Ambient.
Speaker A:You know, I'm extroverted and introverted.
Speaker A:I love people, I love to be around them.
Speaker A:It charges me up and then I get depleted and now I have to, to go recharge by myself, by myself.
Speaker A:I had to learn to do that very young.
Speaker A:And as.
Speaker A:Because of the experiences I had, even though, you know, I knew.
Speaker A:And I think part of that, right, it's like growing up with my parents and, and even though my mom had gone through a lot of things and it's not my story to tell, she'll tell, tell it.
Speaker A:She says she's going to tell it when she's ready.
Speaker A:But she went through a lot of things, unspeakable things when she was very young.
Speaker A:And because of that she made decisions with my sister and I out of fear because she didn't want us to go through those things.
Speaker A:But it, it, it Ended up protecting us in a lot of ways and also hurting us in other ways.
Speaker A:Just because of.
Speaker A:She was operating from a state of like, I do not want my daughters to go through what I went through.
Speaker A:And because of that, the things that she chose for us and how to speak to us and try to groom us, to protect us, it was very difficult.
Speaker A:Was difficult for my sister and I in some ways.
Speaker A:And so going through the experience of.
Speaker A:I knew, watching my parents, like, you know, that God loved us, he always protected us, he always provided for us.
Speaker A:You know, I learned to be charitable because my parents are very generous.
Speaker A:They're very kind.
Speaker A:They're empathic people.
Speaker A:They're very compassionate, I guess.
Speaker A:I guess they're very compassionate.
Speaker A:Not necessarily empathic, but very, very compassionate and generous.
Speaker A:And watching that and being in that atmosphere and then, like, deciding to spend so much time at church growing up, that really set a foundation.
Speaker A:And then when I was going through those experiences, asking the question, like, something's off, something's wrong.
Speaker A:And then the first place God took me was actually in quantum physics.
Speaker A:I was just like, they're like, oh, you doing.
Speaker A:Oh, a little light reading, Some quantum physics, some epigenetics.
Speaker A:Light reading in my spare time.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then I recognized as I was studying that, and then I was like, going back to the Word and really just looking at the Word.
Speaker A:I'm like, oh, that's why God said that, you know.
Speaker A:That's why he said that, you know, Romans 12:2, that you are transformed by the renewing of your mind and how important that is.
Speaker A:What we call it mindset work, we call it personal development.
Speaker A:We call it rewiring.
Speaker A:But those are the things that he's been telling us all along of like, this is why you hang out with these kind of people.
Speaker A:This is why you have to be mindful of your words.
Speaker A:And this is why this death and life are in the power of your tongue.
Speaker A:Like, all these things, it wasn't.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker A:It wasn't different.
Speaker A:Like, God was telling us the why, and science was showing us the how, the mechanisms of how those things work.
Speaker A:Which for me, made me appreciate God even more.
Speaker A:Like, oh, my gosh, you're a genius, God.
Speaker A:And then it was like, oh, God, I had a V8.
Speaker A:That's why you said some things we just going to have to, like, take on faith, because we don't know yet.
Speaker A:But I remember a preacher saying a long time ago that there will come a point where people's faith, almost like they would have to try to be in faith because science is going to explain all the things that God's been telling us all along.
Speaker A:But it doesn't take God's power away or like the awe of respect or worship of him.
Speaker A:Because it just made me feel more loved.
Speaker A:Like you've, you love us so much because you made us, you know, how we operate and, and this is why you've been telling us all this time.
Speaker A:And it was there, we just didn't know how to unlock what was right in front of us.
Speaker A:And so for me it was just, it's just easy because I'm seeing it through the lens of I am loved by God.
Speaker A:We are loved by God.
Speaker A:We are made in his image and likeness.
Speaker A:What does that mean?
Speaker A:You know, if we're supposed to operate like him, then how do we operate like Him?
Speaker A:And then I found love.
Speaker A:The answers of the mechanisms that matched, they actually have a match to what God is saying in the Word.
Speaker A:Through quantum physics and epigenetics and neuroscience.
Speaker A:It's actually all in there.
Speaker A:Even emotional regulation, all of it's in there.
Speaker A:It's been there the whole time.
Speaker B:That's why I love what you do.
Speaker B:Because in my coaching practice I always called it where the woo meets the work.
Speaker B:Because we were taking these things that people were calling new age and wooey but showing them how it's based in science, based in the word of God and you know, whether they're a believer or non believer, you could show them either the science or the scripture or if, if they're into it both.
Speaker B:And that was kind of what I appreciate about you.
Speaker B:I'm going to pull up these couple of things and we're going to talk about how you got into all this.
Speaker B:So one breakthrough now I love, by the way, your logo with the spiritual.
Speaker B:I call you the spiritual gps.
Speaker B:You call it the GPS for success.
Speaker B:But I love the logo and how you have that there.
Speaker B:But explain one breakthrough now and then let's cover all three of these elements.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:And it's one of those things, right, we were talking about in the beginning of like saying yes to the whisper of things.
Speaker A:And One Breakthrough now is my television show.
Speaker A:It is found now on YouTube and when this is being recorded, it just got launched on Roku and it will be on like Amazon, Fire and Android, Android and Apple, iOS and things like that, streaming platforms.
Speaker A:But the one breakthrough now actually was I named it that because I had a session with a male client last year, I think it was in the summer.
Speaker A:And I remember because he was very straight laced, you know, very Left brain, very, like, hyper creative as well.
Speaker A:But he was very, you know, black and white.
Speaker A:And I remember sitting with him and we were talking about things, and he looked.
Speaker A:And he just looked shocked.
Speaker A:And he's just like, you know, you should call these sessions what I do now, he said, because, like, that was the one phrase that the clients kept on giving me.
Speaker A:Like, you know, they always had a breakthrough.
Speaker A:And it turns out that that's really my superpower.
Speaker A:It's like, I'm a breaker.
Speaker A:And so I will break your limitations is actually part of my name.
Speaker A:So when I got the name, you know, break your limitations llc, I got that through prayer, meditation, and a couple years later when I did, started looking at my name and what it means, it's actually a breaker.
Speaker A:Like, I break the limitations of rational intellect, and I lead them to the door of grace, which is the word of God.
Speaker A:Like, all of that is actually in my name.
Speaker A:And I was getting that revelation in pieces.
Speaker A:And so the work I was doing with my clients, one on one, is really what the show is about.
Speaker A:So I give, like, you know, some foundational work of, like, what's happening in your brain.
Speaker A:So the first season is around the topic.
Speaker A:Words matter because they become matter.
Speaker A:And so it's like, okay, what does that mean?
Speaker A:It's not.
Speaker A:It's not an abracadabra.
Speaker A:It feels like an abracadabra sometimes because how fast the fruit of your words are manifesting, you know, but your.
Speaker A:Our words are always manifesting.
Speaker A:And so what do you.
Speaker A:What do you do?
Speaker A:They're happening by default.
Speaker A:This is a way you can do it by design.
Speaker A:And then here's your neuroscience.
Speaker A:Here's the epigenetics of it.
Speaker A:Here's emotional regulation.
Speaker A:Here's what scripture says about it.
Speaker A:And seeing like that really it's all working together.
Speaker A:And so the first part of the segment is around giving you understanding.
Speaker A:There's a scripture that says, you know, in all you're getting, get understanding.
Speaker A:And so the first part is really for you to understand what is happening in your body, what is happening in your brain, what is happening your cells.
Speaker A:You know, this is why it's activating this way in your circumstance.
Speaker A:And then the second part of this, the show, the segment is around.
Speaker A:Let's coach it.
Speaker A:So I have this process called the 1% ACT model, which is 1% is 1% or less of your day, which is 15 minutes or less.
Speaker A:And it's ACT awareness, capture, transmute, and that's what we do together live.
Speaker A:So it's basically even Though it's prerecorded, it's like, live for you, right?
Speaker A:It's a coaching segment.
Speaker A:You have the first part where we're rewiring reality based on that topic, and then the second part where we're gonna.
Speaker A:I'm gonna coach you through it so that way you can have your breakthrough during that time.
Speaker A:So within that 30 minutes together, it's like a free coaching session.
Speaker A:It's like a working masterclass that you get to have with me for free every single week.
Speaker B:And it's pretty phenomenal.
Speaker B:I've heard your shows, and you do a great job especially blending it so that people who, even if you're not religious, you can understand how it applies to your daily life.
Speaker B:What about the voiceovers and the song creation and the music by Raquel that.
Speaker A:Just, like, the show just kind of happened.
Speaker A:So it was funny because I was.
Speaker A:I'm in different groups, and one of the memberships that I'm part of, she's a brilliant salesperson, and I love the way she does it because she does positive sales psychology.
Speaker A:And that's really, like, my jam, right?
Speaker A:I don't want to manipulate people.
Speaker A:I have zero interest on pushing people's pain points.
Speaker A:I want to push a desire point.
Speaker A:I want to activate your desire so you can go after what you want.
Speaker A:Because I feel like that's a really a stronger and better motivator than pain.
Speaker A:And, you know, and actually, it is, you know, for longevity, for business.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:And so I had.
Speaker A:I didn't have a mic, and then I finally got a mic, and it was funny because the girls are like, raquel, is that what you really sound like?
Speaker A:And I was in the mic, but I was just like, yes, this is what I really sound like.
Speaker A:And so they were like, you need to do voiceover work.
Speaker A:It's like you can do those spicy novels.
Speaker A:And I started laughing, and then one of the other girls said, you can do those ASMR things because of the sound of my voice.
Speaker A:And I can.
Speaker A:And I manipulate my voice.
Speaker A:And it's funny because I do that with my children.
Speaker A:We have our.
Speaker A:Once a week, we have our game night together.
Speaker A:And so we're doing, like, you know, I forget what they're called now I'm having a brain fart.
Speaker A:But we.
Speaker A:But we enact the game, so we're always doing, like, voice work.
Speaker A:And so I sound like different people all the time.
Speaker A:And so it's a lot of fun.
Speaker A:We were very goofy at home, and it turned out that it actually helps with the Voiceover work.
Speaker A:So I can do voiceover work.
Speaker A:I do.
Speaker A:Especially with audiobooks and things becoming more popular then that was really encouraged by sales group.
Speaker A:And they're like, you need to do voiceover work.
Speaker A:And I'm like, okay.
Speaker A:So that's where the voiceovers was actually born was because other people were just like, is that what you really sound like?
Speaker A:You should have gotten a mic a long time ago.
Speaker B:And the song creation and the music.
Speaker A:Yeah, the song creation and the music, they kind of go together.
Speaker A:So last year in December, the music started coming back.
Speaker A:And so one of the things that was said over my husband and I was that we were recreating music and it was going to break things off of people.
Speaker A:And there was all these, like, beautiful things and that didn't come to pass.
Speaker A:And I thought that, you know, once he passed away, like, that was never going to happen.
Speaker A:But the thing is, is that God never changes his mind about you.
Speaker A:It doesn't matter what the circumstances are.
Speaker A:And those words that were said over me was still there.
Speaker A:The music was dormant for about 20 years, 25 years.
Speaker A:And all of a sudden I started hearing music again and lyrics and it wouldn't go away.
Speaker A:And I remember being in prayer meditation and it was just like the sense of I needed to really create these things that I was hearing.
Speaker A:I was like, you've got meal Jesus.
Speaker A:You know how.
Speaker A:How expensive it is to hire musicians and do all these things.
Speaker A:Like just write the.
Speaker A:Write the words right, start composing.
Speaker A:And I did.
Speaker A:And then with some AI assistance, I'm able to.
Speaker A:To produce the songs.
Speaker A:And that's where the music started coming in from.
Speaker A:And then I had, you know, everything was working together.
Speaker A:So then I had the opportunity to have my own television show.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And then I had this thoughts.
Speaker A:It's like a real soft whisper.
Speaker A:Why don't you make a.
Speaker A:Your own theme song song?
Speaker A:I was like, oh, that sounds fun.
Speaker A:That could be fun.
Speaker A:So then I created a theme song for myself.
Speaker A:And then the next day I had another thought.
Speaker A:It was very soft.
Speaker A:Like, why don't you offer it?
Speaker A:See if any of the hosts want it?
Speaker A:You know, like, pick five people.
Speaker A:See the first five people who want it and you know, just gift them with it.
Speaker A:And I was like, well, what's the worst they can say is no?
Speaker A:And that's where the Zong Creation service came from.
Speaker A:Because then it was so.
Speaker A:It's been so fun.
Speaker A:And it's been.
Speaker A:It was.
Speaker A:It's been incredibly, incredibly humbling for me because I've been able to have these conversations with people and it's like seeing like their mission, their heart, like the.
Speaker A:How they love what they do and how they love their audience so deeply and be able to translate that into music and then seeing like the ripple effect.
Speaker A:There's like things that are happening that I'm just like, oh, something.
Speaker A:I thought, like, oh, a cool thing.
Speaker A:It's different that you have your own theme song.
Speaker A:It's almost like you're on.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker A:You're, you know, a rock star, you're a celebrity.
Speaker A:You have your own song to bop too.
Speaker A:But that's like superficial.
Speaker A:It's so much more than that.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:People have been getting heels from songs and, you know, like even having conversations with people, like, how do you know me?
Speaker A:After, like a 20 minute conversation.
Speaker A:So all the things that I've been learning about neuroscience, you know, emotional regulation, you know, coaching, emotional intelligence, selling, listening, listening to people really well, all of those gifts, you know, that were dormant and I wasn't using them, it's just like they all came back, you know, and it all flooded and culminated to this one thing.
Speaker A:It's probably like the most.
Speaker A:My favorite part of my work right now.
Speaker A:I'm completely obsessed with creating theme songs for people.
Speaker A:And I made them in different genres.
Speaker A:I just finished one today, and it's like a neural soul one.
Speaker A:And she was just like.
Speaker A:I was.
Speaker A:We were talking earlier, we're getting on, you know, like, she's like, I feel like a celebrity.
Speaker A:And, you know, she was crying on the phone and she's like, oh, my gosh, how did you.
Speaker A:How did you get this?
Speaker A:You know, after like a 20 minute conversation, I just feel like, seen.
Speaker A:And that's what she's.
Speaker A:People are saying, right?
Speaker A:They feel seen and loved and like, oh, somebody gets them.
Speaker A:And that's just been like one of the fruits of creating music for people.
Speaker B:I can certainly say that the music that you created for this show, which is heard on the intro and the outro in pieces.
Speaker B:But it's amazing to me that after.
Speaker B:And we only spoke for 15 minutes, we had never spoken before.
Speaker B:We spoke for 15 minutes and you came back with these incredibly powerful lyrics that said exactly what a warrior spirit is about and what it serves and who it's for.
Speaker B:And when I did the beta testing on which version to go with, the version that I settled on was settled on because one of the beta testers, she's 72 years old, she said, my daughter and I have been listening this to this with the top down in our Mustang, driving around the Lake at full blast for like an hour.
Speaker B:And can I use it in the movie that's being created for my life and can I play it at my funeral?
Speaker B:And like that's the version.
Speaker B:I don't need to do any more beta testing.
Speaker B:And that's the version.
Speaker B:And then I went the next weekend and I, me and Canva got really friendly and I created a video to go with it.
Speaker B:So now I have a music video with a theme song that goes for this.
Speaker B:And it's all because of your gifts and your generosity.
Speaker B:And listen, my song was okay before, I mean my, my show, but that intro and that extro and.
Speaker B:And all that that song represents impassions me to do this even more.
Speaker B:Because if I'm having a down moment, I turn on that song.
Speaker B:I envision live events that I'm going to do in the future.
Speaker B:I envision workshops and gatherings and I envision that song and the music video playing.
Speaker B:You know, as.
Speaker B:As people are getting inspired to share their story and learn how to live an authentic life.
Speaker B:And what you did and what you do is simply more than amazing.
Speaker B:It's a blessing and I am forever grateful.
Speaker A:Thank you for that.
Speaker A:It's like I'm seeing the words that God had spoken over me as a, you know, in my early 20s and I was like, who am I to do that?
Speaker A:And it was like not into my 50s, you know, that things started to unfold.
Speaker A:And that's the thing is that Ghana doesn't change his mind about us.
Speaker A:It doesn't matter what the circumstances are throwing at us.
Speaker A:It's like he's always drawing us back, like you said, right to the assignment.
Speaker A:And part of the assignment was, you know, words matter because they become matter.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And now the music, what is it doing?
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's causing people to be healed and enjoy their life or to like get their passion back again.
Speaker A:You know, have.
Speaker A:When you have those down moments, that's where music is so important.
Speaker A:The kind of lyrics that you have are so important is because they're speak.
Speaker A:They're going to either activate life or death.
Speaker A:There is no in between.
Speaker A:And so that's what I've been finding.
Speaker A:And I think that's why I'm so obsessed with it because I'm like, oh my gosh, I get, I get to like co create this.
Speaker A:I get to like spend time with all these different amazing, cool people and they're doing all these amazing, interesting things and then I get to do some fun music to go with it.
Speaker B:Well, it's A beautiful thing.
Speaker B:And I'm gonna ask you two final questions as we kind of bring this to a close.
Speaker B:The first question I'm gonna ask you is, who is Raquel today versus who she was ten years ago?
Speaker A:Hmm.
Speaker A:Who I am today is.
Speaker A:I'm still the same in the point of I'm still open and learning and growing because I know that there's parts of me that there's still probably lies about myself.
Speaker A:I still believe that God only exposes when I'm ready to let it go.
Speaker A:And his kindness, he does not show us everything.
Speaker A:But who I was before, I mean, I was.
Speaker A:I was scared.
Speaker A:I was.
Speaker A:I didn't really know who I was.
Speaker A:I was not confident.
Speaker A:And everybody has those moments of imposter syndrome, right?
Speaker A:No one's 100%, but I think the braver now than I was before, where I'm faster at saying yes to the whisper just because I'm like, what's the worst thing happen?
Speaker A:Nothing.
Speaker A:Nothing will happen.
Speaker A:Nothing will come out of it.
Speaker A:If it's.
Speaker A:If it's.
Speaker A:If I didn't hear correct, I think I'm much more open and creative and willing to follow some instructions or some things that seem weird, a little bit off.
Speaker A:Like, why would you do that?
Speaker A:Well, why wouldn't I do it?
Speaker A:Why not?
Speaker A:Again, what's the worst that can happen?
Speaker A:And that's not who I was 10 years ago.
Speaker A:Ten years ago, I was still very hurt and broke, still healing and not understanding a lot of things and believing a lot of lies about myself.
Speaker A:And I don't believe those lies anymore.
Speaker A:They have no hold.
Speaker A:And so that's why it's easier for me to talk about things, because since I don't believe it anymore, it's just like I'm talking about somebody else.
Speaker A:She literally does not exist anymore.
Speaker A:She's gone.
Speaker B:And so what does a warrior spirit or having a warrior spirit mean to Raquel today?
Speaker A:For me, sometimes I have this picture, and I had one, you know, because, again, no one's 100%.
Speaker A:We all have our moments, and it's like the willingness to get up.
Speaker A:And I've seen this picture sometimes where, you know, we all go through hard days or hard moments or even a hard season.
Speaker A:And it's just like, I see myself as a warrior.
Speaker A:Like, I'm like.
Speaker A:Have this gear on, like Wonder Woman.
Speaker A:She's probably my favorite warrior.
Speaker A:And I see myself, and it's almost like fighting.
Speaker A:And I fall in the sand, and I get up, and as I'm getting up, the sand is falling off.
Speaker A:And I really have this attitude of like, you should have killed me when you had the chance.
Speaker A:And then I just get very rough and take my power back and I remember who I am.
Speaker A:And that's really what Aurora Spirit, it's like, in spite of we're still going to get up.
Speaker A:It might take us a while to get up off the sand or get up off the floor, get up off the bed, but we're going to get up.
Speaker A:And when we do, the thing that kept us down will have zero power over us, as though it never existed.
Speaker A:And so that's what it means to us, to me.
Speaker B:Well, I'm glad that you're still with us.
Speaker B:I'm glad that you're in my tribe of warriors, and it's just an honor to be walking this journey beside you.
Speaker B:We are both now on the Prospera TV network and it's an honor to be hosting shows with people like you.
Speaker B:So just thank you for all of that and thank you for all you do.
Speaker B:And, you know, I just appreciate your time today.
Speaker A:Thank you for the invitation.
Speaker A:It's always a good time having a conversation with you, Darrel.
Speaker A:I really appreciate you.
Speaker B:You're welcome.
Speaker B:And if you'd like to connect with Raquel, you can do so on her website, yourgpsforsuccess.net and all of her social platforms.
Speaker B:Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and now on Roku through the Prospera TV Network TV app.
Speaker B:And as always, I want to thank you for joining us on this edition of A Warrior Spirit.
Speaker B:Be sure to like or subscribe so you can catch all the episodes.
Speaker B:And like I said, we're now not only on YouTube, but also Spotify, Apple, Podcast and all the major platforms, as well as Roku.
Speaker B:And as always, the journey is sacred.
Speaker B:The warrior is you.
Speaker B:So remember, be inspired, be empowered.
Speaker B:Embrace the spirit of the warrior.
Speaker A:It's not just about the fight.
Speaker A:It's how we rise from.
