S2 Ep 77: How Intentional Design Can Boost Your Mindset and Wellness with Lisa Morton

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Have you ever wondered if your home could do more than just look good Like, actually support your mental health and personal growth?
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In this episode, I chat with Lisa Morton, a holistic designer, all about how feng shui can transform your space and your life.
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From balancing energies with the five elements to simple tips like using color and lighting to shift the vibe, lisa shares how intentional design can make a huge impact.
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So, whether you want a productive workspace or a cozy sanctuary, this conversation will leave you inspired to rethink your space.
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Welcome to the how we Get Through community.
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Welcome back to the how we Get Through podcast.
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Today we have Lisa Morton on the show.
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Hi, thanks so much for having me today.
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Yes, I'm so excited.
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We had some technical difficulties, but we have made it and, lisa, you also have your own podcast, correct, I do.
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It's called Feng Shui Living Tips for Busy Women.
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I love to share easy, quick tips that you can take on like today, tomorrow yes, we need that.
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I love it.
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Yes.
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Yeah, so you are an interior design and specialize in feng shui and looking at the holistic picture of design.
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Sure, yeah, yeah.
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I've been doing interior design for 20 years now, and I did residential.
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I spent several years doing my dream job, designing private jet interiors, which was super fun right, traveling the world, touching amazing materials and working with outrageous people.
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And while this was like such a fun job, I just wasn't fulfilled, and it was.
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It wasn't until, I guess, I went through some major health problems of my own, struggling with my mental health.
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I was in a really, really bad space.
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I don't think I had the tools needed for that high stress of a job, so I wasn't prepared.
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I didn't have those tools in my tool belt.
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And then I got to a point where I had to leave and I started my own business doing residential design.
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But I knew I wanted to do more, so I started studying about holistic design and a holistic approach to a space and setting up your space to support your body, to heal your body.
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And then I went down the feng shui rabbit hole and it's just been transformative and just really.
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It's design but also really helping people.
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It's really just fulfilling.
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I'm so grateful for the work.
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Yeah, well, it sounds like there's energy involved, right, and even as you talk about this like designing for like jet airplanes, like private, I just that is insane but I can imagine, even energetically, looking at that, how small that is, how enclosed that is, and then maybe the energy of the people that are wanting maybe outrageous designs or pushing like what was the breaking point for you?
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What were you feeling from the demands of the job?
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You know, for me it I mean there was a lot of hilarious stuff, like you know, unrealistic expectations, I mean, these are natural materials.
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We would use carpets that were hand-tufted by a man who would use a machine and hand-tough each piece of each rug, right, and so it was just mind-blowing to meet some people's expectations.
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And, being the designer and being a perfectionist myself recovery perfectionist I wanted, you know, to please them.
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I wanted to give them exactly what they wanted, their dream project.
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And you know it wasn't an issue of say okay, so say, there is a carpet had to be installed in a plane, right, it wasn't like a $3,000 carpet, it was a $30,000 carpet and we're dealing with an airplane here.
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There are very, very strict rules regarding the materials that can be put in, you know, so they don't go up in flames, right, like, certain materials have to be used, so we have to avoid other materials and having it handmade.
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You know it had to follow the engineering drawings, but if it was off by an eighth of an inch, you had to scrap that $30,000 carpet and start over.
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Wow it was so intense, it was so much pressure to get.
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Just you know, your seam on the stitching had to be perfect.
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Wow.
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So it was, it was a thing, I mean it was it was definitely a different world and it was also a lot of well.
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I want to make my plane cooler than my brother's Well, and I always just wanted people to have more heart.
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Like this is where you're spending your time.
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Maybe it's not your home and you're not spending.
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You know you're not living there, but this is where you're spending time with your friends, your family.
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You are supposed to conduct business and be mindful.
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Let's make a space that makes sense, not just as nicer looking than someone else's.
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Yeah, wow.
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Are they like?
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were your customers in America.
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I just got a flash of like Dubai, but were they all over?
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Yeah, yeah, I went kind of all over um kind of all over the world, really yeah.
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Wow.
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It was nice it was.
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It was a great experience, Um, I was, you know, when I first started doing this.
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I wasn't married yet.
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I was traveling on, you know, and exploring a world on someone else's dime.
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It was, it was great, great experience for me, Um, but I did learn about the type of design that fulfilled me and the type that didn't fulfill me.
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And really the type of design that isn't fulfilling for other people, but they think it will be Bingo, bingo, yeah, yeah.
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So how did you start into feng shui?
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How did you start to kind of navigate that journey?
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Sure, I well, as I mentioned, I went through my own health and well-being struggles.
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I was.
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I got to the point in that job where I was having panic attacks daily.
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I would.
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We had this office space, this design room, and there is a closet space where we would store design materials and I would go in there and just have an outrageous panic attack and just trying to get through the day.
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And I knew something had to change.
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And I was doing all the things.
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I was doing the meditation, I was doing the therapy, I was eating better, I was walking every day, doing all those things you're supposed to do, but I just couldn't get there.
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So I knew I just needed a change of pace.
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But I just couldn't get there.
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So I knew I just needed a change of pace.
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And so I left that job and I decided to start my own business doing residential design.
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We'd also moved to a new city, new state, and it was a total reset.
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It actually was really nice.
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And then, as you know, I needed a job right, so we started doing residential design.
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But then I really knew I wanted.
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I knew we needed a job right, so we started doing residential design.
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But then I really knew I wanted.
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I knew we could put more into it.
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I knew I wanted to put more into it.
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I wanted to really help people.
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And so let's see, it was 2014.
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I did my first.
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I started studying one-on-one, probably 2012.
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And then 2014,.
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I did my first certification in interior alignment feng shui, and then I went on to do an advanced training in 2018.
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And then this past summer, I became a master teacher of feng shui.
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So now I get to teach other people and I can certify other people in doing this work Awesome.
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That's so cool.
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It's been this beautiful full circle, yeah Well, I mean it just, I think is a testament to how much you love it and how much aligned you are with it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, you know, I had a story.
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If you don't mind me telling a story, I love stories.
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I had a woman.
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This was maybe eight years ago.
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I was really trying to decide do I stick to traditional design, lisa, or do I go this other route?
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Right?
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And I wasn't sure and I was worried what are people going to think if I become the woo designer?
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Right?
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I was all worried.
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And then I had this woman call me and she asked me to come to her home and I wasn't sure what I was in for.
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But I took my bag with all my swatches, tape measure and everything and I showed up and we did a quick tour of the home and then we sat down at the kitchen table.
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She sat across from me and she looked me in the eyes and said Lisa, I'm dying.
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I need you to help me set up my space so my children and my husband can go on living once I'm gone.
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Right?
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Oh?
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my gosh gosh and, like to this day, I get chills, you know I had to like regroup and pull myself together, and it was a beautiful, beautiful project we were able to really, she did need some new furnishings, right.
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They needed some new flooring.
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They needed some new, um a new, some new sofas and chairs and things.
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So we did that, but we did that with the intention of creating a safe space, a comfortable space.
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So we utilized the five element of feng shui.
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We brought in a lot of earth element for grounding, right.
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We brought in some wood element for regrowth, because she was adamant that she wanted her kids going on and living their lives once she's gone, and it was just a really beautiful process to bring all this together and for me, it was confirmation that I'm meant to do this.
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If the universe put us together, then I'm meant to do this and it's just been going on since then.
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And now I, you know, I'm teaching, I'm able, you know, I do a lot of virtual work, so I get to work with people all around the world and it's so interesting how people live and their different spaces and trends and styles and colors they like.
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It's really cool and interesting journey, but that that one moment, that one client, that one meeting was transformative were there any design elements of her?
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I'm gonna get.
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I'm like so teary thinking about it like were there, I know it was like years before I could tell the story without crying yes, um, were there any yeah, like elements that they wanted of her in the design, or was she like?
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I want to be kind of removed from it.
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This is for them.
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What was her vibe?
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For her, it was for them, but I knew it had to be for everyone.
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We did a really beautiful intentional collage wall of all kinds.
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Oh, here we go, I know.
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Oh my God, we did a collage while of all the family events.
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They like to be active, they like to do things and and, and she, you know, the problem was she wasn't able.
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It'd been four rounds of cancer and she wasn't able to do these things.
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So we re she wanted them to like, really think of all the fun things they did.
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So we did this beautiful collage while we brought out some beautiful artwork too that they had, like in a back room.
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You know how sometimes you take things down, throw it in a closet, you forget you have it but some really intentional things that really shifted the space.
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So it was.
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It was balanced because we brought in these beautiful things to make them feel, to make them remember their mother as time went on.
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But we also set them up for this whole process.
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That was going to be very hard for everyone.
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Yeah, just really wanted to support them.
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Wow, so I can imagine.
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I mean, do you get close to your clients Like?
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That feels like a very intimate thing.
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I work with a lot of people going through illness through divorce.
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Yeah, a lot of people going through illness, through divorce, yeah, a lot of heavy things, and it's such an honor to be able to help them because I know I can right, I know it makes a huge difference, but on the flip side.
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So let's make it more fun.
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On the flip side, I get to work with a lot of people who have amazing things going on.
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They're moving into their dream home, they're starting their dream business, they're taking on a new something or other right, and it's really fun to be a part of that.
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There's a balance.
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Yes, I love that.
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It is both because, again, I think it speaks to that energy of transitions or something that needs to be kind of, that is maybe shaken up within us internally, that needs to be reflected externally and where we are in the world and where we want to be.
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So exactly.
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I mean, that's what I tell people.
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Your home so many people think that it's just this place you land at the end of the day and you just crash and go to bed.
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Right, and I get that.
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But your home is really kind of.
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It can be a template for your tomorrow.
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It can be a template for your next week, your next year, for like who you want to be, which is really powerful.
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We're lucky we get once.
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You can take that on and explore that you can set up a space to really support you.
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You do need more grounding in one area because something stresses you out.
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You know your office right.
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Or do you need, you know, to find extra relaxation in, maybe, your living room where you sit, relax and watch TV because you're struggling?
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Relaxing right?
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When we can influence our bodies through colors, patterns and textures, it just makes it so much easier.
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I love that.
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So talk about feng shui Like what is it and how, how do you do it?
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It's a magic.
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No master, how do we do it?
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A lot of people think feng shui is really superstition and pat your head, rub your belly, turn around three times and, poof, you're very miscomfortable.
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And it's not.
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But it is.
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It's an ancient practice.
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It's over 4,000 years old and it started in southern China, was first documented there, and it's since shifted off into different schools or sects or styles, but we all the goal is the same to create balance in your home.
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So it's your home structure, it's also the surrounding land around your home, and then we also take into account what your goals are.
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What are you looking for?
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What do you need in life?
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Right, how can you be more supported?
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So we utilize the five element system wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
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And then we also utilize what's called a Bagua map, and this is an energy map that has nine different energy centers.
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That corresponds to different areas of your home.
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So, to kind of explain this, some people understand like the chakra system of the body.
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It's kind of like that in a way.
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But around your, your home.
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So, say you're looking to improve your relationships with other people, there is an area of the home that we can connect with that.
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Um, your health and well-being.
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There's an area we can connect with that.
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There's also, you know, like, like, um, uh, wealth and abundance.
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If and if maybe you're studying something, you're're heading back to school and there's a great place to focus that on.
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Is that the same Like is like the kitchen, wealth and abundance.
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Is it the same area in each house or is it the per the layout of the house.
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Oh, I want to read a feng shui book, which is great, and there are so many great tips, and that's what my podcast is all about.
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I want to empower people to realize how easy it is to improve their space and to alter their space to support them.
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But if you really want to go deep, it's important to look at your specific home because you're OK.
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So somebody is like oh, my neighbor says I'm supposed to put a plant wherever, ok, yeah, well, your neighbor has their home layout.
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Maybe they live in a ranch, maybe they live on an acre, maybe they have trees out front, maybe they're home, maybe they have five kids and maybe they have, you know, native American roots and have certain practices or beliefs that you know that's their own life.
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You have a totally different story.
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You might live in a two-story and have like a little post-it stamp plot, right, and maybe you're empty nesters, right.
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Everyone's home needs to be looked at separately how your home is laid out, seeing if there's any areas missing.
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This can be really impactful and also then how we can enhance it to support what you're looking for in life.
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In the energetic flow of the house, like I think, what I've seen mainly on TikTok OK, ok, that's OK Are like bed placements around the door, like that feels like the, or mirrors or things like that.
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Are those true?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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A lot of those tips.
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That's where I'm saying a lot of these tips are really powerful.
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I mean, if you want to go deep and have major change, you need to really get someone in there to look at your space, to really dissect your floor plan.
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But there are so many great things.
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The bedroom is really powerful.
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A lot of people are like oh, I'm just sleeping in it, I don't care about that.
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But we all know, if we don't get good sleep, we're not going to be able to be ourselves, to be functioning well the next day.
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So it's important to have your bedroom really support you for restful sleep and your head against a solid wall.
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So we always want a solid wall.
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We want to put ourselves in the command position, so we have a solid wall and a view of the door.
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So we don't want the door opposite our feet, we want it off to a side.
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Okay, got it and we'll really be able to protect.
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Give your body a sense of protection.
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But also see, so the ancients believed, you know, back 4,000 years ago, when they were doing feng shui and they were living on mountains, they had this mountain behind them to protect them, right, and then they could see any of their enemies coming right.
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It just puts our body at ease to put it in this position, which helps us fall asleep faster.
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I mean, that makes sense from a nervous system perspective.
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Yeah, yeah, exactly, I mean, that's what we're doing.
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We're calming your nervous system down and you know telling your subconscious it's okay to go to sleep yeah, okay.
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What about mirrors in the bedroom or facing the bed?
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so I'm gonna pair the mirrors and television, so a lot of people get angry at me because they love their tv at night.
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And and if you really want a television in your room, I always recommend putting in a cabinet with doors so you can close it.
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When I go to a hotel I love, one of my guilty pleasures is climbing in bed at a hotel like a bar of chocolate the last I want and I flip through TV because I don't have a TV in my yes, but when I'm ready to go to bed I always travel with like a wrap or a scarf.
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I always throw the scarf over it because we don't want that reflective quality of the television or the mirror that keeps our body from resting.
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Also, televisions bring in a lot of different energy, so be mindful of what you're watching.
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Are you watching a scary movie and then your room and the energy of your body is connecting with a scary movie versus something calming and peaceful.
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Mirrors reflect and amplify.
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So what are they reflecting and amplifying?
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Good things, maybe piles of laundry that you have yet to be folded, or is it a nice tidy space?
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But either way, anything with the reflective quality is kind of frowned upon.
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And and I always tell people, try things for six weeks.
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You don't have to commit forever, but I think if you try it for six weeks, you will, you'll feel it.
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So that's my, my plan is six weeks with all my clients and if they decide they want to move it back, they can move it back.
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There's no feng shui police, but they will more than likely notice how they feel.
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Here's another big bedroom thing, if you don't mind me sharing.
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Yeah, go for it.
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It's storage underneath the bed.
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I see it all the time People want to store everything under their bed.
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They're like, oh, it's extra storage space, and I get it.
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A lot of people are tight on storage, but if you think about sleeping there for eight hours hopefully eight hours a night you're sleeping above stuff.
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That has meaning, that has symbolism that can you know you may go to sleep and not see it, but your subconscious knows that you know okay.
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So I had a client who had stacks of books that she wanted to read under her bed, like you were sleeping on top of a to-do list that you're feeling guilty about that you haven't gotten to this whole story.
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She was angry at him and I'm like, oh my gosh, so I recommend nothing under your bed.
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I have one extra blanket for really cold nights, and that's it.
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Okay, under mine.
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Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
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And then, so, going back to the mirrors, are you saying?
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No mirrors anywhere, or just no mirrors.
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Wow, I love mirrors.
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I mean.
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So.
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I love mirrors, just not in the bedroom.
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So place one maybe, if needed, you know, in the.
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I have one in my closet.
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Closet Okay.
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Right, that works great.
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A lot of you remember when everybody had the dresser and the mirror on top.
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Yes, it was a nineties thing, yeah.
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I tell everyone get rid of the mirror and put up a beautiful piece of artwork, something that makes you smile, something that you love, and you won't even miss the mirror.
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Okay, what about like mirrors and like hallways?
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Oh, that's fine, yeah, okay, the only place that we want to be very mindful of placing a mirror is at the front entry.
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So the front entry in Feng.
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Shui, the front door, and this is the architectural front door.
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A lot of people are like well, I use my garage door, but I want you to focus on your front door.
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This is considered the mouth of sheet, or mouth of where energy comes into our home.
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So we want this, we want to draw things and we want to suck good energy and we want it to come in and fill our home.
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So when you have a mirror, it will literally just reflect that energy back out.
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So oftentimes people are like, oh, I want to check my lipstick right before I pop outside, you know, head out somewhere, but that's not the place.
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If you really want a mirror, maybe inside the coat closet, that's a great way, and then you can close the door and not have it there.
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But we really want to avoid mirrors at the front door and also make sure you use your front door.
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That's another big one.
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How come?
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So again, this is the mouth of chi, right, we want fresh, new energy, fresh new opportunities coming towards us, and if we're always just using our garage door.
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Then this front door becomes stagnant, which we don't want.
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So I always tell my clients come up with a plan of how you can use the front door.
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Maybe you walk your dog out the front door, Maybe you go on your evening walk out the front door, you go get the mail.
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Come up with something so you can keep this door opening and closing and keep energy flowing here.
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Well, I'm in the trailer on the side of my house, so I usually go through my garage.
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I go through two doors through the garage and then I have a gate and then I open this door.
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I love that, but I could definitely go to the front door and then come around the front.
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Yeah, I love that.
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Just come up with some reason to use it.
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I mean, I really couldn't find a reason to use my front door.
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Honestly, the mailbox is all the way down the drive and I always take the dogs out the back, but I walk by every morning.
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So I walk up to the door, I open it, I stick my head out, maybe go outside if it's nice and just like take a breath of fresh air and close it behind me.
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Yeah, Well, so many people work from home too, that it's like, which, I think, is another important aspect of looking at the energy of your house, because we're in it a lot more.
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That is so true.
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That is so true and a lot of people have noticed a lot and realized how their lives maybe need to shift or how their home needs to be arranged.
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I know I had a lot of people when everybody was working from home.
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They loved these open floor plans.
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But then they're like oh my gosh, we're just on top of one another.
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Yes, I was going to ask you about that.
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Is there for energy, for energy for feng shui open versus like closed spaces?
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What's the opposite of that?
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Energy for feng shui open versus like closed spaces.
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What's?
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the opposite of that.
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So more, I guess, divided up, I don't know I can't think of the words, okay, but um.
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So we want energy to flow.
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I think about water.
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Water is a great way, so if energy is coming in your front door, you want it to flow and meander around.
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So we do do want some things, right?
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If your home is completely empty and sparse, right, it's not going to flow, it's going to go straight out the back door and be done.
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Right?
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We also don't want the opposite, where there's so many angles and so many walls and so much clutter that energy can't get through.
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So we want to find a happy medium.
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When arranging especially open floor plans, I found it to be very beneficial to have more rounded furniture.
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It also lends itself to better flow, following feng shui.
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So more rounded, curving pieces, a barrel chair versus a big boxy chair can feel more comfortable.
00:26:11.993 --> 00:26:15.028
Also, you need to be mindful of the scale, right?
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If you have an open floor plan, the scale of your furniture needs to match the scale of the room, right?
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You don't want little wimpy furniture, right?
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And also, if you have you know, I work with people in small spaces too and condos and apartments, and they might downsize and they have these grand wingback chairs that take up the entire room right.
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We need to have balance of the scale of the item in relation to our room.
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And then how does that work with the elements part?
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So there's the energy, there's the flow, and then what are you seeing?
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I think maybe some trends right now that are people needing more earth elements or more grounding.
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Are they what's yeah, what's happening in the world?
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I mean, everybody needs more grounding these days.
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Yes, more earth element yes, more earth, more earth, but we are, we're actually moving.
00:27:14.090 --> 00:27:36.648
So, you know, in feng shui we follow these cycles of nature, right, it's all it's using, utilizing the five elements, but also there's cycles of everything, right, and we're in fall now and a lot of people, you know, getting into winter before long and a lot of people are like, oh my gosh, I'm getting so stressed out, knowing winter's coming, it's going to be a cold winter and I'm just not looking forward to it.
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I'm already feeling depressed.
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And here's something I always tell them that actually really helped myself it's once you understand that we need those cycles of nature.
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It's kind of following yin and yang.
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You need you wouldn't have daytime if you didn't have nighttime Like we need this going within the flowers, have, you know, come back down into the earth and there's the bulb, right, and we're in that season of fall and we're preparing to kind of hibernate for winter, right, but we need this so that we can feel rejuvenated and be ready for the spring, energy to grow and be bright and have these bright, beautiful flowers again.
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Right, our bodies are just like that.
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We need these cycles.
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So once you can understand the importance of this cycle to bring balance throughout the rest of the year, then that really helps.
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For me at least I found some other people.
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They understand it.
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That way it just makes it easier.
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But yeah, grounding is very important right now too.
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A lot of earth element.
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So the earth element can be brought in through the colors of beige, tan, brown cream, chocolate, but then also any thick, chunky textures, like I always love to pull out the big chunky throws this time of year, right yeah, and curl up on the sofa.
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A lot of textural stuff, but then also squared shapes and anything kind of low to the ground.
00:29:03.865 --> 00:29:09.674
Do you change your decor upon an element or a season?
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Well, I do.
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I mean I think we do that in America.
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A lot of people do, right?
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I mean we also.
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Just if you think about it.
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I think it's kind of fun thinking about the seasons and decorating for the holidays and stuff like that, and we were bringing in these oranges and browns for this fall Thanksgiving We'll be here before we know it and like all these types of colors and it's really supporting our body as we're trying to get into this winter mode and you know, it's kind of been gray out where.
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I live and it doesn't feel so lush and everything.
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So it's a gentle way to ease into that.
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So I think we naturally do a lot ourselves, but once we understand we can do more.
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So that's I do.
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I decorate for every season.
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In the summertime I bring in a lot more blues into my space.
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It's cooling, it's calming on those high hot energy days, and then in the wintertime I get the winter blaws and so I always bring a lot of fuchsia and maybe pops of red and pops of orange and yellow.
00:30:19.140 --> 00:30:28.776
Yellow is a really powerful color, but even on my desk chair I have a bright fuchsia throw that I just leave back there in the winter months and then I'm feeling extra blah.
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I'm sitting there typing along and I'll just drape it over my shoulders and see it out of the corner of my eye and it just helps.
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It helps so much.
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It isn't just surrounding your space but also, I believe, having it near your body helps.
00:30:42.313 --> 00:30:48.731
Yeah, I feel like color theory for what you wear is like all the rage right now too.
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It is and it's powerful, it's fascinating, and your home is the same way.
00:30:53.425 --> 00:31:06.506
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, it is and it's, it's powerful, it's fascinating, and your home is the same way.
00:31:06.506 --> 00:31:07.188
Um, what about the fire elements?
00:31:07.188 --> 00:31:08.932
Fire water can kind of go through them briefly, yeah, um, so we talked about the metal.
00:31:08.932 --> 00:31:24.384
Um, the earth element, spring, connects to the wood element, so the wood element is great if you're taking on a new task, starting a new routine, starting a business, starting something new, or you want to grow or expand or reach some goals.
00:31:24.384 --> 00:31:33.068
If you think about the tall trees growing up to the sky, right, it's onward and upward, so the wood element element is great.
00:31:33.068 --> 00:31:36.806
A lot of people think brown, but brown connects to the earth element.
00:31:37.267 --> 00:31:44.752
The wood element is represented by the color green okay so any color green doesn't have to be bright green, like you see on the trees.
00:31:44.752 --> 00:31:50.030
Sage greens are so popular right now and also really deep forest greens.
00:31:50.030 --> 00:31:55.540
I swear the 90s are back but yeah yeah, yeah, forest greens are really pretty.
00:31:55.540 --> 00:31:58.227
Also any type of vertical line.
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So if you have a throw pillow with stripes, place it vertically.
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That's a great way.
00:32:03.804 --> 00:32:14.009
Plants, flowers are a great way to bring in the wood element and also artwork.
00:32:14.009 --> 00:32:16.878
So if you're not, you don't have a green thumb, that's okay.
00:32:16.878 --> 00:32:20.309
Maybe a painting of some flowers that works well.
00:32:20.309 --> 00:32:28.939
You know, I think back to when everyone was working from home and stuck at home and they all bought 25 different plants for their home.
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Do you remember?
00:32:29.820 --> 00:32:30.883
I don't know if you took part in that.
00:32:30.883 --> 00:32:31.983
I did'll admit it.
00:32:31.983 --> 00:32:39.422
Um, no, because it's because we were craving being outside, being connected to nature, getting out of our space.
00:32:39.422 --> 00:32:43.634
So, um, the wood element can be really good.
00:32:43.634 --> 00:32:53.030
I will say this for those of you that bought 25 plants too much we remember we want balance of these five elements for the activity happening in the space.
00:32:53.030 --> 00:32:58.680
So the energy of a spa is different energy from, say, chuck E Cheese, right?
00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:01.308
So you have to figure out where, on that scale, you kind of are.
00:33:01.308 --> 00:33:05.951
But the wood element is really great to lift our energy.
00:33:05.951 --> 00:33:14.692
But too much wood element, too many green plants, 25 plants in one room, can actually cause an energy of feeling of frustration in your body.
00:33:15.273 --> 00:33:19.587
Oh interesting, so I recommend separating them up.
00:33:19.587 --> 00:33:21.989
There's no reason all your plants need to be in one room.
00:33:21.989 --> 00:33:23.727
Place some plants in each room.
00:33:23.727 --> 00:33:28.587
I always recommend no more than three per room, but kind of depending on the size.
00:33:29.108 --> 00:33:29.951
Got it Okay.
00:33:30.151 --> 00:33:30.551
Yeah.
00:33:30.711 --> 00:33:32.394
Wow, that's good to know.
00:33:33.141 --> 00:33:36.604
So we went through the wood and then the metal element.
00:33:36.604 --> 00:33:43.674
So I actually designed this space following a lot of metal element for focus.
00:33:43.674 --> 00:33:54.050
I have this white gray wallpaper behind me with a metal pattern on it, but yet it has a triangular shape which brings in the fire element to keep me awake and focused.
00:33:56.883 --> 00:34:00.172
I used to even breathe this stuff, but it's so powerful and it works, that's why I do it.
00:34:00.172 --> 00:34:03.108
But the metal element is great for focus.
00:34:03.108 --> 00:34:10.248
So if you are having a hard time focusing, you have a deadline, gray white pastel is your friend.
00:34:10.248 --> 00:34:15.831
Even if you have a deadline at work and you work in a cubicle, that's okay.
00:34:15.831 --> 00:34:25.445
Maybe wear gray, maybe bring in something, something you can put on your desk right Gray, white pastel, also any metal object.
00:34:26.126 --> 00:34:27.309
Okay, any color of metal.
00:34:27.309 --> 00:34:29.614
It can be copper, it can be gold, it can be silver.
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That will work for the metal element.
00:34:31.847 --> 00:34:40.010
And then the fire element is really fun fuchsia, bright red, triangular shapes, which is kind of cool.
00:34:40.010 --> 00:34:54.335
If you think of a triangular shape, it looks like a flame, yeah it's white at the bottom and then the flame goes up so the fire element is like really high energy, lifting the energy of your body, waking you up.
00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:56.880
Here's where we want balance.
00:34:56.880 --> 00:35:01.813
Too much fire can cause, you know, we know red, it'll burn.
00:35:01.813 --> 00:35:05.280
Yes, red raises our blood pressure.
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.023
Red does.
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It lifts the energy a lot, so we have to keep it within balance.
00:35:11.751 --> 00:35:14.291
We want some to wake us up.
00:35:14.291 --> 00:35:14.860
Yeah.
00:35:14.860 --> 00:35:16.326
We don't want too much.
00:35:16.326 --> 00:35:21.112
I actually just worked with someone with a fuchsia bedroom, the whole thing.
00:35:21.112 --> 00:35:29.652
Yes, it was really cute and I felt bad, but she was sleeping and that's why her body couldn't relax, couldn't come down.
00:35:30.780 --> 00:35:36.824
I feel like the color on color has been trending for a while and it is very cute and very designy.
00:35:37.264 --> 00:35:38.168
It is fun.
00:35:38.168 --> 00:35:38.829
It is fun.
00:35:38.829 --> 00:35:46.226
You just have to be mindful of what color you're doing and also bringing in.
00:35:46.226 --> 00:35:50.963
So, for example, I had a client with a monochromatic scheme that was all white White room.
00:35:50.963 --> 00:35:56.882
So that would see a lot of metal, not very much creativity, not very, very fun.
00:35:56.882 --> 00:36:02.813
People just really focused, yeah Right, not very flexible type people.
00:36:02.813 --> 00:36:05.586
That's okay, but that's what that would kind of say.
00:36:05.586 --> 00:36:09.786
It's not encouraging you to you know if they're not going to be an artist, right?
00:36:09.967 --> 00:36:15.101
Yeah, we say probably you know an accountant and calculating numbers right.
00:36:15.101 --> 00:36:17.686
But you need to have balance.
00:36:17.686 --> 00:36:36.132
So you can do that if you love this like one color kind of scheme, or like beige or taupe or whatever you like, bring in other elements through, other things beyond color, so for example, patterns or texture shapes, right.
00:36:36.132 --> 00:36:39.666
So every element also has a complementary shape.
00:36:39.666 --> 00:36:42.873
The wood element has those vertical lines.
00:36:42.873 --> 00:36:46.469
The metal element is represented by circular shapes.
00:36:46.469 --> 00:36:47.112
Okay.
00:36:48.094 --> 00:36:51.284
The water element is represented by wavy lines.
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So if you did a monochromatic white room, I would suggest bringing in sort of wavy pattern to bring in a water element to loosen it up a bit.
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Maybe a little bit of fire, maybe a single candle, maybe a pair of candles would be nice.
00:37:05.728 --> 00:37:08.987
And then also plants.
00:37:08.987 --> 00:37:16.126
Every room, especially when you're doing one color, needs plants, just for that ground.
00:37:16.126 --> 00:37:19.231
Ground, that kind of earthy just brings life in.
00:37:19.813 --> 00:37:25.431
Yeah, Can you tell me about my background, what vibes it has?
00:37:26.101 --> 00:37:27.005
So I love the green.
00:37:27.005 --> 00:37:35.835
The green is like a moving onward, upward wood element reaching your goals, taking on new, new projects, fresh new energy coming towards you.
00:37:35.835 --> 00:37:37.945
I love your plant too.
00:37:37.965 --> 00:37:58.375
He's a happy plant and we always want to wait oh okay, I know I'm not usually one, but it's, I just come in here and work and I will never I had one that the other all fake yeah, so here's a little thing interesting in feng shui is a lot of uber traditional.
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:05.579
I practice a little more westernized version because I believe like we just we're on the internet right.
00:38:05.940 --> 00:38:14.322
We live in different cultures and melting pot of different people and lifestyles and we don't live like they did 4,000 years ago of different people and lifestyles.
00:38:14.322 --> 00:38:15.563
And we don't live like they did 4,000 years ago.
00:38:15.563 --> 00:38:18.905
But Uber, traditional practitioners would say no fake plant, that represents a fake energy.
00:38:18.905 --> 00:38:26.391
Oh yeah, I believe I work with so many people who travel, who just who have cats digging plants.
00:38:26.391 --> 00:38:31.615
The plants, the beautiful silk flowers of today are not like grandma's silk flowers.
00:38:31.615 --> 00:38:32.677
That's true.
00:38:32.817 --> 00:38:33.396
The dusty.
00:38:33.396 --> 00:38:38.148
So if you love it, then that's okay, and that's my whole thing, is it I?
00:38:38.148 --> 00:38:41.583
It's nice that there are all these rules, but there's a time we have to break the rules.
00:38:41.583 --> 00:38:45.324
Right, if you really love it, then we will break the rules and we'll make it work.
00:38:45.324 --> 00:38:47.652
Um, but I love your sofa.
00:38:47.652 --> 00:38:55.449
It has that Brown color and it's also kind of more horizontal, so it brings in a grounding energy, which is really important in like a camper trailer.
00:38:55.449 --> 00:39:03.934
I work with people who live in their rv full time and it's really important to have this like low energy to really bring a sense of grounding.
00:39:04.978 --> 00:39:18.864
um, your pillows are kind of aqua yeah it looks like, yeah, so, and they're, they're rounded, so it kind of bring in blue, brings in the water element for a little creativity and a little focus back there, but then it's so cool.
00:39:18.864 --> 00:39:20.065
You have that pink pop Right.
00:39:20.065 --> 00:39:23.989
That's a little higher, a little more playful, fun, energy, not quite fiery.
00:39:23.989 --> 00:39:26.271
Yeah, yeah, okay.
00:39:26.632 --> 00:39:27.351
All right.
00:39:27.351 --> 00:39:29.795
Well, yeah, Astrology wise, I'm all fire.
00:39:29.795 --> 00:39:32.617
So this feels you know.
00:39:32.617 --> 00:39:40.427
I guess that's the question, Like, is designing your home in balance to who you are important?
00:39:41.670 --> 00:39:45.364
Definitely, because if it's not in balance to who you are, you're not going to want to be there.
00:39:45.364 --> 00:39:48.893
Right, right, yeah, you need to create it.
00:39:48.893 --> 00:39:57.599
You know a lot of people to think well, I'm either designing or I'm implementing feng shui, but it can all go hand in hand.
00:39:57.599 --> 00:40:07.534
We're just selecting, maybe, a brown sofa versus a green sofa, or a sofa with boxier shaped arms versus a more rounded shaped arm.
00:40:07.534 --> 00:40:16.320
Right, and there's easy ways you can do that, ways you can do that.
00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:21.050
There's also an element, too, that a lot of people think that if they're going to employ feng shui, that they have to remodel, invest all this money.
00:40:21.050 --> 00:40:28.090
And one of my first teachers ever she had an amazing book and it's not even in print anymore.
00:40:28.090 --> 00:40:33.771
I dig at the old used bookstores for old copies of it, but it's feng shui with what you have.
00:40:33.771 --> 00:40:43.755
And this really set me on this path, because I want to help people know that they can adjust and improve their space without spending a lot of money.
00:40:43.755 --> 00:40:45.467
You don't have to spend a lot of money.
00:40:45.467 --> 00:40:51.648
Like I said, a lot of people have stuff in their closets and I'm like just shop your home, you probably have something you need.
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:54.606
Or even just rearranging things.
00:40:55.068 --> 00:40:55.409
Right.
00:40:55.750 --> 00:40:56.010
Yeah.
00:40:56.340 --> 00:41:09.630
Just simply rearranging Sometimes taking a chair from like one direction and turning it just a bit can completely transform the energy and make you feel settled and comfortable where you didn't feel before.
00:41:10.672 --> 00:41:23.027
Are there any trends that go against feng shui that feel like, do you ever work with clients like I love this trend, I need this, or you ever see something you're like, oh no, that is terrible for feng shui.
00:41:23.588 --> 00:41:35.956
The only thing that's really stuck out to me in recent years are these light fixtures, and I, I, um, there's a name for them, but it looks like a starburst, it's like a pendant.
00:41:35.956 --> 00:41:39.608
It's a pendant that comes down and it looks like a starburst.
00:41:40.088 --> 00:41:54.641
It looks super cool Like it has different arms that come out, different arms that go in different directions and it looks super cool and I keep seeing different variations of this right and different like arms coming out and it looks really cool.
00:41:54.641 --> 00:42:02.121
I get it, I get the appeal of it, but in feng shui we have this thing called a poison arrow.
00:42:02.121 --> 00:42:11.885
So this is when we have a point coming towards our body for a long period of time that it's like coming towards our body that doesn't put our body at ease.
00:42:11.885 --> 00:42:23.766
Right, like I said, we want those soft, rounded shapes, not harsh angles, which would be a poison arrow, and so we want to eliminate these if possible.
00:42:23.766 --> 00:42:28.621
So those interesting, cool light fixtures are not putting your body at ease.
00:42:28.621 --> 00:42:35.592
The other big no-no which I try to tell I hate telling people you have to get rid of something, right that's not what.
00:42:35.612 --> 00:42:36.032
I want to do.
00:42:36.032 --> 00:42:41.068
It's not what I'm about, it's let's rearrange, let's figure out how we can make it work, but also.
00:42:41.068 --> 00:42:43.503
But, cacti.
00:42:43.503 --> 00:42:47.291
Cactus are just not our friend Cactus are cool.
00:42:47.291 --> 00:42:50.507
They are not our friend Because look at, think of all the little poison arrows.
00:42:51.460 --> 00:42:52.943
All those points coming at.
00:42:52.943 --> 00:43:00.394
So my sister-in-law actually had this in her foyer, a picture of my two nieces, my beautiful little nieces, and they were little.
00:43:00.394 --> 00:43:08.614
And then this cute cacti and I walked in one day and I was like the cacti is cool, but not next to the three little girls.
00:43:08.614 --> 00:43:20.023
I'm like we got to remove this, we got to put it somewhere else and I let her move it to another location, but not in the entry and not next to child energy and children Right.
00:43:20.023 --> 00:43:22.246
So those are my two.
00:43:22.688 --> 00:43:24.893
The two big ones, yeah, the two big ones.
00:43:27.500 --> 00:43:29.061
I guess I'll tell you my third big one that I see a lot.
00:43:29.061 --> 00:43:35.009
If I had a dollar, for every time I saw a Peloton in a bedroom.
00:43:35.009 --> 00:43:38.052
Yeah, yeah, and I'm not nixing Peloton.
00:43:38.311 --> 00:43:40.896
It's just the brand I always see because it's so popular.
00:43:40.896 --> 00:43:52.112
Our bedrooms are a place for sleep and rest, maybe a little romance, but they're not the place for a high-energy activity such as working out.
00:43:52.112 --> 00:43:54.726
I also see a lot of laundry.
00:43:54.726 --> 00:43:55.980
That's a to-do list, right?
00:43:55.980 --> 00:43:58.505
We want very calming in your bedroom.
00:43:58.505 --> 00:44:09.034
Maybe you want to journal, maybe meditate, maybe some gentle yoga, but we don't want these high energy activities in our bedroom.
00:44:09.034 --> 00:44:09.559
Yeah.
00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:12.661
So get the treadmill out, get the bike out there's.
00:44:12.882 --> 00:44:19.766
there's better, more appropriate places for this and even like a lot of computers.
00:44:19.766 --> 00:44:23.889
I think a lot of people work set up home offices and that can be a huge shift in your space.
00:44:23.909 --> 00:44:40.065
It can be a huge shift in your head right to set yourself up to work.
00:44:40.065 --> 00:44:44.012
Work this way um, it definitely.
00:44:44.012 --> 00:44:48.867
I mean I can't tell you how many people needed help.
00:44:48.867 --> 00:44:57.398
They weren't getting focused, they weren't getting their work done and they're sitting at the dining table next to their kids who are trying to do school.
00:44:57.699 --> 00:45:01.128
Yeah, and somebody else is trying to eat and you need a dedicated space.
00:45:01.128 --> 00:45:02.606
And we got really creative.
00:45:02.606 --> 00:45:14.994
You know I work with people in small spaces apartments, condos sometimes and I know we turned a couple closets, like bifold door kind of closets, into office spaces oh smart.
00:45:14.994 --> 00:45:24.014
And then we took the doors off and then we hung drapery panels there so they could close it, but it looked really cute.
00:45:24.014 --> 00:45:24.842
I love that.
00:45:25.742 --> 00:45:26.786
It was a really fun way.
00:45:26.786 --> 00:45:41.574
But I love helping people set up home offices just because I've had my home office for so long and I've done it on my own and I find it fascinating how we can help ourselves be more productive and more focused.
00:45:41.574 --> 00:45:48.012
And it's fascinating once you learn about these little things you can do.
00:45:48.012 --> 00:45:51.931
Like one thing I always share is set up a routine.
00:45:51.931 --> 00:46:03.780
One thing I always share is set up a routine and really like when I walk in my office, I turn the light on, I go over and open the blind, I light the candle, I turn on my music, I sit down in my chair.
00:46:03.780 --> 00:46:16.284
So at the end of the day, I push my chair and blow out my candle, turn off my music, close the blinds, turn off the lights and close the door and when you get your body into this rhythm, you walk in.
00:46:16.284 --> 00:46:21.422
Eventually you'll walk in and be like oh, I'm just in work mode, like my head is there, Right.
00:46:22.525 --> 00:46:28.063
And then there's a whole other problem at the end of the day where you need to get out of work mode.
00:46:28.063 --> 00:46:33.521
Because I know how hard it can be to be like ah, I'm just going to run back up and do one more email.
00:46:33.762 --> 00:46:34.483
Right yeah.
00:46:34.844 --> 00:46:39.291
And then my husband's downstairs like are you ever going to be done working right?
00:46:39.291 --> 00:46:39.972
And it can be hard.
00:46:39.972 --> 00:46:48.204
So if you set up that routine, it can be really helpful to cue your body into work and cue your body out of work I love that.
00:46:49.007 --> 00:46:53.257
Okay, what about lighting like overhead lighting versus?
00:46:53.257 --> 00:47:05.684
I know we talked about the pointed poison arrow, but like the um, like the light, not lightness, the harshness, I guess, of lighting versus like softer lighting, does that?
00:47:05.885 --> 00:47:06.184
matter.
00:47:06.184 --> 00:47:07.206
Sure?
00:47:07.206 --> 00:47:12.202
I think we all feel better in warmer light than cooler light.
00:47:12.202 --> 00:47:18.010
I always kind of call cooler light hospital glow yeah, yes, yes, yes.
00:47:19.233 --> 00:47:21.775
The warmer really just warms up our body.
00:47:21.775 --> 00:47:41.514
I love more of a sunlight or big lamps when you need to see things on a cloudy day, but it's also nice to have smaller lamps, maybe a desk lamp or a decorative lamp, just for extra lighting, to have that warm glow.
00:47:41.514 --> 00:47:46.570
And this is something if you work in a cubicle, take a lamp with a warm white bulb.
00:47:46.570 --> 00:47:48.601
You probably have those fluorescents overhead.
00:47:48.601 --> 00:47:59.847
They're so bright, they're so white, they don't make you feel good, and putting just a small lamp on your desk with that warm glow can really warm up your body.
00:47:59.847 --> 00:48:03.871
Mm, hmm, I love that.
00:48:03.952 --> 00:48:04.713
Okay, let's do.
00:48:04.713 --> 00:48:09.483
Okay, I want to do like a quick I don't know.
00:48:09.483 --> 00:48:11.327
I want to do color.
00:48:11.327 --> 00:48:22.554
I want to switch to color theory real quick and maybe go room by room of what the best color would be for the activity of that room.
00:48:24.201 --> 00:48:27.288
Okay, does that make sense Okay, yes, how fun.
00:48:27.507 --> 00:48:29.773
Okay, there are no wrong answers here.
00:48:31.101 --> 00:48:33.025
Well, let's start with the bedroom.
00:48:33.025 --> 00:48:41.500
Okay, so, following feng shui, the best colors for a bedroom to put your body at ease are the colors that are closest to skin colors.
00:48:41.500 --> 00:48:42.681
Oh.
00:48:42.681 --> 00:48:49.391
So cream, ivory, beige, peach, apricot, tan brown chocolate.
00:48:49.391 --> 00:48:49.972
Okay.
00:48:49.972 --> 00:48:54.422
And then I also like to use soft blues.
00:48:54.422 --> 00:49:00.333
This isn't exactly following feng shui, but I'll also use some soft greens.
00:49:00.333 --> 00:49:05.548
One of my favorite colors to use in a bedroom.
00:49:05.548 --> 00:49:09.744
It's called Sea Salt from Sherwin-Williams and it's the most beautiful.
00:49:09.744 --> 00:49:14.528
Pale, pale aqua, and as you go through the day it changes colors.
00:49:15.422 --> 00:49:29.865
So, in the bright light it's aqua, and then at night, when you have the lamps on, it kind of turns sage green and then when it gets nighttime out and the lamp you know it's just the lamps it turns to gray and it's really, really beautiful.
00:49:29.865 --> 00:49:31.170
That's cool.
00:49:31.460 --> 00:49:33.519
So, there are certain other colors.
00:49:33.519 --> 00:49:47.467
I have also used a really soft, soft blush color in a bedroom, so those are really good soft, soft blush color in a bedroom, so those are really good I love to use in the dining room or a kitchen.
00:49:47.467 --> 00:49:49.755
I mean, I feel like our kitchens are more communal spaces now.
00:49:49.755 --> 00:49:55.161
That's where we host people and that's where we all stand around the island eating everything right and drinking and laughing and talking.
00:49:55.201 --> 00:50:12.333
So the kitchen, those areas where you want to entertain, maybe, serve a really great fun dinner or you're hosting a holiday dinner, bring in the colors, since it's appropriate for this time of year, but like oranges and yellows and browns, because it will help people feel grounded but also lift their energy.
00:50:12.333 --> 00:50:15.949
Yellow is a great color to place.
00:50:15.949 --> 00:50:21.740
Yellow is the ideal color, following feng shui, to place in the center, most area of your home.
00:50:21.740 --> 00:50:29.791
So if you're looking down at a floor plan drawing of your home, find the center and yellow is the ideal color to place there.
00:50:29.791 --> 00:50:31.976
Yellow connects to the earth element.
00:50:31.976 --> 00:50:37.989
But what's really cool about yellow is it's grounded but also lifted energy.
00:50:37.989 --> 00:50:43.085
Right, it's not chocolate brown, the depths of chocolate, milk, chocolate brown, it's lifted.
00:50:43.085 --> 00:50:45.711
So yellow is really great for that.
00:50:45.711 --> 00:50:48.804
Activities.
00:50:48.804 --> 00:50:50.092
What about living?
00:50:50.112 --> 00:50:50.253
rooms.
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.021
Active rooms, living rooms.
00:50:52.021 --> 00:51:00.050
I do a lot of yellows, a lot of greens, soft greens, a lot of greens, soft greens.
00:51:00.050 --> 00:51:01.710
You can do blues in here.
00:51:01.710 --> 00:51:07.077
I don't love bright red or bright oranges.
00:51:07.077 --> 00:51:22.128
Right, because living rooms is also where we host a lot of guests and if you want to create the space for you and your family, but you also want to be mindful if a guest is going to feel miserable, you know, anxious in your red room, they're not going to come back over.
00:51:22.128 --> 00:51:25.253
Yeah, very true yeah.
00:51:25.574 --> 00:51:27.922
Yeah, bathrooms are.
00:51:27.922 --> 00:51:28.605
Typically.
00:51:28.605 --> 00:51:36.184
I loved there's a lot of water element already in bathrooms so we don't always want to make them blue and add to more water.
00:51:36.184 --> 00:51:45.784
I love to bring in a wood element, so a plant in bathrooms, or the green coloring, a beautiful green color on the walls.
00:51:45.784 --> 00:51:49.471
Yellows are also neutrals.
00:51:49.471 --> 00:51:55.387
Peachy, orangey colors, browns, bathrooms you can get away with a lot.
00:51:55.387 --> 00:51:58.355
I just recommend no excess blue.
00:51:58.355 --> 00:52:01.021
If you really love blue, we'll figure out a way to do it.
00:52:01.061 --> 00:52:06.460
But yeah, I did want to mention a big trend we're seeing are these dark, moody colors.
00:52:06.460 --> 00:52:11.773
We kind of joked about the 90s hunter green right, and burgundy burgundy is everywhere.
00:52:11.773 --> 00:52:13.742
I love this trend.
00:52:13.742 --> 00:52:14.505
It's really fun.
00:52:14.505 --> 00:52:26.398
So when we look at these deep, moody colors like navy blue, hunter green, charcoal, burgundy, maroon, it also has the season of winter kind of connected, like that time where we go within.
00:52:26.398 --> 00:52:34.610
Like during wintertime I like to curl up on my cell phone, I don't want to go out a lot, right, and those colors kind of encourage that feeling.
00:52:34.610 --> 00:52:39.539
So you're not going to feel the most motivated to get things done right.
00:52:39.539 --> 00:52:45.072
So you're not going to feel the most motivated to get things done right and get up and go do your things and go exercise and do the things you need to do and run your errands.
00:52:45.072 --> 00:52:51.311
You're going to want to like stay in that room, but it's important if you do want to take on those bold, moody colors, to bring balance.
00:52:51.311 --> 00:52:57.831
I love to bring that middle ground, like caramel or like a camel color.
00:52:57.831 --> 00:53:01.666
It's really pretty and then you can add some pops of some lighter colors too.
00:53:02.086 --> 00:53:02.807
Cute.
00:53:03.289 --> 00:53:03.869
I do.
00:53:03.869 --> 00:53:04.391
I love that.
00:53:04.391 --> 00:53:05.293
I think you're right.
00:53:05.293 --> 00:53:05.641
That's how.
00:53:05.681 --> 00:53:08.110
I like, especially when they do tone on tone.
00:53:08.110 --> 00:53:16.230
It's almost like the whole, like the ceiling is burgundy, the walls are burgundy, the trim's burgundy, and it looks so beautiful and very cozy right now.
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:24.827
But, like in summer, that feels too heavy for me, you know, yeah, exactly yeah.
00:53:24.827 --> 00:53:29.865
That's why I think it's it's it's cool to take on these trends, but you need to be very mindful of how that's going to impact your body.
00:53:29.865 --> 00:53:44.836
I'm actually working on a class that I'm going to do in january all about all these current design trends and, like what you can expect, how they're going to affect your body, because people need to know this before they go and, like, paint their you know color drench their room in green.
00:53:44.836 --> 00:53:46.961
How is that going to affect their body and?
00:53:46.981 --> 00:53:48.284
their nervous system.
00:53:48.284 --> 00:53:52.101
Okay, two more rooms uh what about the office?
00:53:52.922 --> 00:53:55.327
my favorite color for an office is yellow.
00:53:55.327 --> 00:53:57.351
Yeah, there's a lot of yellow.
00:53:57.351 --> 00:54:00.344
So here's the thing because it's a, it's a great color.
00:54:00.344 --> 00:54:05.085
It's grounded, which we need so much of, but also lifted energy.
00:54:05.085 --> 00:54:16.362
Right, I had a home we moved into years ago and it was yet the room I was going to use as my office was yellow, and I'm like I'm not a yellow person, but I moved in.
00:54:16.362 --> 00:54:18.106
I'm like I'll figure out the paint color later.
00:54:18.106 --> 00:54:19.548
I have work to get done.
00:54:19.548 --> 00:54:29.871
I'm going to set up my office, do my thing and then I'll figure it out, and the more time I spent in there, the more I found myself productive and focused.
00:54:29.871 --> 00:54:32.577
I loved that office.
00:54:32.577 --> 00:54:33.981
I don't have a yellow office now.
00:54:33.981 --> 00:54:38.869
My office is green, but it was really good for me.
00:54:38.869 --> 00:54:49.409
After you know, when you go through a move, you're stressful and you're worrying about everything in the house, but then you have to work, so yellow can be really good for that.
00:54:49.409 --> 00:54:52.757
I also love green if you do struggle with focus.
00:54:52.918 --> 00:55:06.188
Gray or white or a pastel color okay what about's rooms like young kids and then teens, Because I feel like they might need something different, but I'm not sure.
00:55:06.992 --> 00:55:13.427
So often we see bright primary colors for kids Bright red, bright yellow, bright green.
00:55:13.427 --> 00:55:17.766
This intensity of a color isn't always calming to all children.
00:55:17.766 --> 00:55:20.496
Some children love that, others don't.
00:55:20.496 --> 00:55:22.342
I recommend going softer.
00:55:22.342 --> 00:55:25.054
I always recommend going a softer tone.
00:55:25.054 --> 00:55:39.717
So if you look at I don't have a fan deck here with me, but if you look at a paint fan deck, you spread them all out there's the bright, bold colors and then there are some that have like a grayed out kind of sense, like in the middle, and that's where you need to go because that will help them settle and relax.
00:55:39.717 --> 00:55:46.972
So I had a client years ago who called me and they had a daughter who wasn't sleeping in her room.
00:55:47.833 --> 00:55:53.032
Oh right Every night she would, just if she did fall asleep in her room, she'd wake up screaming.
00:55:53.032 --> 00:56:05.250
She was six and she'd had a lot of health issues, and so they were letting her still sleep with mom and dad, but it was causing problems, right, and when she wasn't with mom and dad she'd go sleep with the older sister.
00:56:05.250 --> 00:56:28.222
So they called me and we'd actually worked together on a few other things, and then we talked about this room and the mom had also told me that when the little girl was really young she'd had multiple surgeries, and the very first time she had surgery, the mom said I told the doctors I wanted to be there when she woke up so I would be right there.
00:56:28.222 --> 00:56:32.202
I told her I would be there and I promised her I would be there and I wasn't there.
00:56:32.402 --> 00:56:34.485
They didn't get me in time and so the little one woke up, scared, terrified.
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And so the little one woke up, scared, terrified, crying, you know, understandably.
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So I walk into her room it's neon, green and bright pink everywhere.
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Wow.
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So if you think about a little one waking up from surgery bright lights, bright reflections, scary brightness, and then so much pink I mean it was cute, right.
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I get these lime, green and pink bedrooms.
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It's really cute.
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But this wasn't supporting her, so we toned it down.
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We did like an off-white color on the walls.
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We did a soft, soft sage green color in there and then a softer pink.
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So we could still work with those colors, but just revamp them because no wonder she was waking up in a room terrified yeah it was so sad well, it was really fascinating to to help her with this then yeah, yeah, she's doing well, she's sleeping in her own bed.
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Yes, yeah my mother is very happy.
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Yeah, there's just.
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It's just so interesting to think that there's so much more than just design and and you'll feel that in your own room or in your own home and when you go to other people's homes too.
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Like does do I feel at home here?
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Does this feel weird, Does this feel rigid, Does this feel like there's a flow here?
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And so it's just super important to kind of keep track of that.
00:58:01.539 --> 00:58:06.431
You'll also notice too, I find really interesting the minimalism versus maximalism.
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Those both are like opposite trends but they're both popular.
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You know, I lean a little more minimalism, but then I have a friend who is like a maximalist, like fuchsia sofas and like I mean it's beautiful but I couldn't live there.
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I can't spend a long period of time there, I need more clean lines and just I need a different vibe.
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So that's really interesting to see.
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I also say too if you're not sure how people are receiving your space and again we always want to design it for us but if you're not sure how they're receiving it, how they're feeling when they walk in the door, then I have an experiment I send all my clients to do Uh-huh share.
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You know, go to the store and grab a coffee, come back, get really grounded, take some deep breaths, and then I want you to walk in your front door as if you were a guest.
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Walk into the front door and see what you see, because we don't even see our space anymore.
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We go to, say, a hotel.
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We look at the carpet, oh, wow.
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Look at the wild pattern on the carpet.
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Oh, look at the artwork, that's really interesting and interesting, and oh, those draperies and then you open it up and look at the view.
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But we don't do that to our own home, so yeah when you can slow down and walk in and see.
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Just be curious where your eye goes first when you walk in.
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What do do you see?
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Where do your eyes go?
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What are you drawn to?
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What direction are you drawn to as?
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you enter.
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That's so interesting because I went to my parents are moving and there's like new luxury apartments by our house and so I went with them and, of course, it's the model homes.
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But we walked into the second one and I was like I love this and I was almost getting teary.
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I was like I love this and I was almost getting teary.
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I was like what is happening right now?
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But it was like chocolate browns and, um, very soft, like plush, like uh, textures, and maybe it was the layout, I don't know, but I was like and I've never feel, felt like I've had that experience before.
01:00:21.342 --> 01:00:22.206
I'm like what is?
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And then I had to like pick this apart.
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I'm like I don't really love brown.
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Why am I so?
01:00:26.422 --> 01:00:31.451
Wow, I love that space yeah, it was.
01:00:31.471 --> 01:00:52.972
you know, what would be interesting is go back and take some photos and then go, you know, with eyes like a day later, look at the photos and see exactly what was there and maybe you'll see those things that really cued your body to like grab your shoulders and take a deep breath, be drawn in.
01:00:53.434 --> 01:00:55.262
That's a good idea and I think you could.
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I wonder if you could do that at the stores you know, like I mean it's kind of chaotic, like if you go to Ikea or like you know a furniture store.
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Um, and that was like you know, I was walking into somebody's warm home and I was like can I live here?
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This is great.
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Oh my gosh, so interesting, funny, I love it.
01:01:12.545 --> 01:01:21.661
that is a great way to get inspiration is go to look at some model homes and see, you know, even even go to Ikea and walk through the displays just to get a little inspiration.
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Yeah, what you like, what makes you feel good.
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You know you do not.
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Trends are fun, but you do not have to follow any trend.
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They're just simply there for a little inspiration, a little fun something to think of.
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Am I ready to refresh?
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Maybe this is what I want to do, but I don't want anyone to ever feel like they have to be trendy or follow a trend.
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You need to design a space that you love.
01:01:51.686 --> 01:01:55.614
Yeah, lisa, thank you so much for coming on the show.
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Can you please just talk about how people can work with you and what that looks like?
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Sure, so you can go to my website.
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It's purelivingwithlisamortoncom.
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You can find me on social media too, but I offer an hourly virtual or, if you live in Northern Indiana, I would love to come and see you from Chicago, indianapolis and an online or virtual or in-person consultation.
01:02:24.195 --> 01:02:29.570
I do a lot of virtual work feng shui work because it's now.
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I mean, I can go to Google Maps, I can get floor plans of your home.
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It's amazing the amount we can get just from working virtually, that I don't have to be in the space.
01:02:40.034 --> 01:02:47.878
So I offered that I also do distance energetic space clearings, which is it's pretty woo.
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I love it.
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But it's.
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I probably do more of that than anything else.
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Yeah.
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It's since I really got into feng shui I really learned to find my intuition and connect with that, and so I do these beautiful space clearings to reset the energy of our home.
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So before a big event in your life, or maybe you just bought a new home and you want to rinse out the energy of the space before you move your family and your belongings into it.
01:03:19.688 --> 01:03:20.090
My gosh.
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Why don't we talk more about that?
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Dang, I love that.
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Yeah, it's really it's beautiful, beautiful work.
01:03:28.050 --> 01:03:33.146
But then I also really excited about my um, my trainings.
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I started a school called elevated living school.
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It's elevated living schoolcom where I'm listing all of my classes I'm getting ready to do and it's your design basics class.
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If you're building, remodeling and just want to know those few basic things you need to know.
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That's what that is about.
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My next feng shui certification is in May.
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Starts kicks off in March.
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Cool.
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The retreat portion is in May.
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So so many amazing things.
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I feel so grateful to be in this point in my life and my career that just to be able to do this.
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Well, that's what you're here to do, so thank you for listening.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, all right, lisa, we'll put all of that in the show notes as well, and thank you so much for coming on.
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It was so great.
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Now I'm like racking my brain of how I got to change my house, so I appreciate it.
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