S2 Write Your Legacy: Transformative Storytelling for Your Third Act

WEBVTT
00:00.995 --> 00:04.910
Welcome to The Prosperity Generator. I'm your host,
00:05.007 --> 00:08.505
Dina Marais, founder of Soul Purpose Publishing
00:08.698 --> 00:12.036
and Coaching, and this podcast is devoted
00:12.469 --> 00:16.449
to the energetic and strategic path to prosperity,
00:17.203 --> 00:20.172
where we explore how identity,
00:20.654 --> 00:24.233
alignment, authorship, and leadership come together
00:24.746 --> 00:28.245
to create a life and business that truly
00:28.742 --> 00:29.208
thrives.
00:33.688 --> 00:36.348
Good morning, good evening, hello, how are you?
00:37.090 --> 00:40.799
I'm Jan Edwards coming from Huntington Beach,
00:40.847 --> 00:44.582
California. And, um, same here,
00:44.663 --> 00:48.106
good morning. It's afternoon here and I'm
00:48.155 --> 00:51.473
from Cape Town, South Africa.
00:52.791 --> 00:56.219
So we are here to
00:56.604 --> 01:00.551
introduce ourselves for those of you who know us and
01:00.600 --> 01:03.039
for those of you who don't know us. Um,
01:03.665 --> 01:07.355
Dena and I met about 8 years ago online through Facebook,
01:07.500 --> 01:10.484
and we— gosh,
01:10.549 --> 01:14.384
2018, 8 years ago— and we were doing some
01:14.496 --> 01:18.091
videos together. My mind's blank on what we called
01:18.591 --> 01:22.199
them. Something about coming alive, isn't it? About that
01:22.699 --> 01:25.601
coming— permission to come alive. There it was. Yeah.
01:26.853 --> 01:30.418
They were awesome. I know, they were so much fun.
01:30.707 --> 01:34.690
That was when I lived in Santa Barbara. And so we've kept in touch and
01:34.722 --> 01:38.866
we've worked together and connected
01:38.898 --> 01:42.254
personally together over the years. And, um,
01:42.335 --> 01:45.547
we've seen each other through a lot. Actually, that's a
01:46.047 --> 01:49.867
great way to start this, is just in the last 8 years,
01:49.980 --> 01:53.803
how much have we gone through? How much have we witnessed
01:54.303 --> 01:57.517
and how much have we experienced as ourselves changing
01:57.858 --> 01:59.139
and the world changing.
02:01.360 --> 02:05.102
Absolutely. And I remember, I remember in COVID times, remember we
02:05.183 --> 02:08.132
also had a group, or you started a group or something,
02:08.197 --> 02:12.702
and I joined in, and there were other people, and we all supported
02:12.735 --> 02:16.105
one another. Daily appreciation calls.
02:17.742 --> 02:21.120
Yeah, yeah. And, uh, then Dena
02:21.620 --> 02:26.226
started her publishing company, and you just went
02:26.900 --> 02:30.256
into publishing book after book after book and co-author
02:30.756 --> 02:33.933
books and solo books. And, um, I think it was,
02:34.671 --> 02:38.348
wow, early '24 when
02:38.525 --> 02:41.704
you reached out and asked me if I wanted to write a chapter in your
02:41.752 --> 02:43.775
book. I'll let you kind of take it from there.
02:44.910 --> 02:46.952
Yes, I'll show it to you. Excuse me.
02:47.740 --> 02:50.683
Okay. Sorry for the camera,
02:51.198 --> 02:52.308
but yeah, here it is.
02:54.690 --> 02:58.045
You wrote a chapter in I'm So Glad You Left Me. Yeah.
02:59.223 --> 03:01.837
Beautiful. Do you want to share what it's about?
03:03.544 --> 03:10.585
I'm So Glad You Left Me was really about about
03:11.085 --> 03:13.622
a previous version of ourselves that left us,
03:15.440 --> 03:18.992
also about grief, also about,
03:19.573 --> 03:23.641
you know, divorce, any kind of something that
03:24.255 --> 03:27.256
our relationships and our life has basically,
03:27.805 --> 03:31.225
you know, changed irrevocably. And, um,
03:32.338 --> 03:36.196
when I started this book, I thought it was about my husband passed away
03:37.941 --> 03:41.069
And I wasn't glad that he left me, but I saw it as a very
03:41.101 --> 03:44.407
spiritual thing that he moved on so
03:44.907 --> 03:47.162
that I can fulfill my purpose here.
03:48.754 --> 03:52.325
But then it morphed, it morphed into maybe it's not
03:52.373 --> 03:55.877
just about that, maybe it's about illnesses,
03:55.990 --> 03:58.560
maybe it's about, you know, uh,
03:59.283 --> 04:01.340
divorce, not just death.
04:02.400 --> 04:06.170
And, um, And so in the end, it was about a previous
04:06.186 --> 04:10.322
version of ourselves that we actually transcended.
04:10.980 --> 04:14.410
And that— and if you think about it, Jan,
04:15.164 --> 04:18.835
doesn't matter what kind of huge experience
04:19.335 --> 04:22.987
like that we go through, the old version of ourselves that upheld
04:23.083 --> 04:26.498
that reality is now not there anymore.
04:27.027 --> 04:29.143
We have become someone new.
04:30.956 --> 04:34.565
Yep. Yeah, I love the way you put that out there because
04:35.065 --> 04:37.517
in the beginning when you first introduced this idea to me, the first thing that
04:38.017 --> 04:40.148
came to my head was the death of my son.
04:41.287 --> 04:44.753
Um, not that I would say I'm so glad you left me, but so
04:45.253 --> 04:48.443
many, you know, so much healing and so many shifts
04:48.943 --> 04:52.004
and awareness came to me as a result of that, as, as a result of
04:52.036 --> 04:55.133
the soul contract that we had, I will say. Um,
04:55.502 --> 04:59.851
But then I had also, a few months earlier,
04:59.915 --> 05:03.365
had a split with my life partner, my soulmate. And so
05:04.232 --> 05:07.378
my chapter became more focused on, you know,
05:07.522 --> 05:10.652
how he left and how I was grateful
05:11.152 --> 05:14.118
for the gifts and the awareness and the epiphanies that came to me from that
05:14.618 --> 05:17.793
transition. So anyway, we're not here to talk about that book
05:18.293 --> 05:21.597
necessarily, but it's kind of like I, I wanted to talk about it because it's
05:21.982 --> 05:26.044
introducing this theme that's running through this conversation
05:26.156 --> 05:28.789
Dena and I are having right now, which is, you know,
05:29.527 --> 05:33.059
what have you experienced that's
05:33.284 --> 05:37.297
changed right now, um, that you can
05:37.797 --> 05:41.375
share with the world? And, um, I am an editor and a writing
05:41.407 --> 05:45.084
coach and an intuitive guide guiding people
05:45.180 --> 05:49.563
through conscious recreation of knowing
05:49.675 --> 05:53.657
themselves and letting go of the parts of themselves that
05:53.706 --> 05:56.226
no longer exist, versions of themselves.
05:56.820 --> 06:00.514
And I've worked with Dina, and I'll let you
06:01.014 --> 06:04.528
share what you do. So I'm a publisher,
06:05.395 --> 06:09.232
and I publish multi-author books. I publish solo
06:09.569 --> 06:12.845
author books, even children's books. And,
06:13.102 --> 06:16.725
um, And yes, I agree with Jan,
06:16.936 --> 06:20.427
you know. Um, if someone needs to share
06:20.475 --> 06:23.838
a story, there's always a, you know, a choice.
06:24.777 --> 06:27.869
If you want to write a full book on it,
06:28.888 --> 06:32.206
if you need writing help with it, that's Jan is your girl.
06:33.412 --> 06:36.984
If you, um, need to write a chapter in
06:37.484 --> 06:39.026
a book, I'm your girl.
06:42.060 --> 06:45.304
And, um, if you have a book written that you would like to publish,
06:46.895 --> 06:50.923
then of course we both work together on that. I'm the publisher,
06:51.004 --> 06:53.582
and if you need editing, I'm sending you to Jan first,
06:54.533 --> 06:57.571
and after that it comes back to me, and then we send it for the—
06:57.766 --> 07:01.077
for formatting and the COVID design and
07:01.125 --> 07:04.392
uploading, depending on what you need. So we
07:04.474 --> 07:06.764
are like a one-stop shop, hey Jan?
07:08.290 --> 07:11.782
Hey, yes. Hey, Dena. Yeah, actually, we've worked on
07:12.282 --> 07:15.887
4 books together, and not counting the one where I wrote a chapter
07:15.951 --> 07:19.587
in your book. And, um, it's just we've received
07:20.087 --> 07:24.893
so much— what would I say— gratitude
07:25.393 --> 07:29.706
and appreciation of the value that our authors
07:29.739 --> 07:32.936
have experienced through working with both
07:32.969 --> 07:36.026
of us. Because we know each other. Deanna and I have
07:36.074 --> 07:38.836
known each other, like we said, for 8 years. We've worked together.
07:39.623 --> 07:42.914
It's just a natural kind of— doesn't matter if you
07:42.995 --> 07:46.736
start with her and you contact her or you contact me and what you need,
07:46.913 --> 07:50.204
you know, we, we work so well together. And I think
07:51.489 --> 07:55.230
one of the other things that we wanted to reach out and express
07:55.358 --> 07:59.196
is we're both about the same age. Did you Do
07:59.696 --> 08:03.063
you, do you want to divulge your age? I don't know if you— I don't
08:03.224 --> 08:06.000
mind. I'm 66, born in 1960.
08:07.220 --> 08:11.248
Yes. And what was your birth date again? I mean, the 23rd
08:11.748 --> 08:14.859
of May. Ah, okay. So you're
08:15.359 --> 08:19.096
an Aries. And so I'm a Gemini. You're only about— you're a Gemini, that's right.
08:19.176 --> 08:23.043
You're on the cusp. So we're only a few months— I'll be turning 66
08:23.543 --> 08:27.038
in a few months. So we're at that age where I call it the
08:27.538 --> 08:31.142
third third of the life cycle
08:31.642 --> 08:35.133
of being a human, where, you know, the first third we're
08:35.633 --> 08:39.429
kind of being introduced to the world and we're receiving all the conditioning
08:39.477 --> 08:42.651
and all the beliefs and all the experiences, including the traumas,
08:43.325 --> 08:46.531
including the joys. Um, and then the second third,
08:46.595 --> 08:49.721
we're navigating, you know, what do we do with that? We build a life,
08:49.737 --> 08:52.911
we build a profession, we build a relationship, a marriage,
08:53.087 --> 08:56.533
build a family, we build our career and our dreams. And then
08:57.033 --> 08:59.933
when we hit this third Third, we are,
09:00.479 --> 09:03.992
many of us, looking at ourselves and
09:04.492 --> 09:09.029
our lives and our experiences and our beliefs and saying, wait, that's really
09:09.285 --> 09:12.734
not true for me, and that's really not the way I want
09:13.234 --> 09:16.295
to express myself anymore, or that's not the choice I want to make anymore.
09:16.360 --> 09:19.696
And so we're kind of looking at what are we really doing here for this
09:20.306 --> 09:23.706
last third, third of our life? What are we wanting
09:23.738 --> 09:27.559
to understand? About ourselves in the world? What are we wanting to share
09:27.689 --> 09:31.712
with the world about our experiences and what's changed and how we've
09:31.971 --> 09:35.710
ridden that, you know, roller coaster? And what
09:36.210 --> 09:38.954
are we leaving? Are we leaving— you know, who are we going to be remembered?
09:40.282 --> 09:43.896
Does anybody really know us? I mean, we can get into lots of
09:44.396 --> 09:47.623
it here, which we may, but, um,
09:47.929 --> 09:51.045
that's what Dean and I kind of work on together. That's kind of
09:51.545 --> 09:54.640
our passion, and that's what we want to invite people to kind of
09:54.850 --> 09:58.587
ponder and consider. What are you here to be
09:58.652 --> 10:01.759
remembered for? What are you here to share
10:01.904 --> 10:04.315
that you knew and that you discovered and that you experienced?
10:07.010 --> 10:10.400
So yeah, and as I said yesterday to, to Jan,
10:10.658 --> 10:14.243
is that, you know, nobody's life is unremarkable.
10:16.037 --> 10:19.778
We, we might think, oh, but, you know, just ordinary, you know, maybe I
10:20.278 --> 10:23.485
was just in corporate, maybe I just brought up my family. Maybe I,
10:24.180 --> 10:26.509
you know, did nothing out of the ordinary.
10:28.356 --> 10:32.338
But that's absolutely not true. We don't
10:32.838 --> 10:36.401
see ourselves in that way. But once we start writing
10:36.450 --> 10:40.306
our story, we actually realize the
10:40.322 --> 10:44.227
amazing things that we have experienced. And just
10:44.727 --> 10:48.803
from this age, I mean, wow. We have
10:49.643 --> 10:51.500
done a few lifetimes, I think,
10:53.422 --> 10:57.147
in one if you are in your late
10:57.647 --> 10:59.961
50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.
11:01.150 --> 11:07.012
And we also know that becoming
11:07.270 --> 11:08.706
older in age,
11:11.094 --> 11:15.103
our mind doesn't, our heart doesn't. We have
11:15.137 --> 11:18.677
the same aspirations, we have,
11:18.726 --> 11:21.865
uh, you know, we have the
11:22.365 --> 11:25.665
same urgencies, we have the same things. We,
11:25.730 --> 11:29.519
we feel like we still, you know, the mind is eternal,
11:29.778 --> 11:30.879
is always young.
11:32.676 --> 11:36.652
And, and I think that, that already is,
11:36.865 --> 11:41.294
is like an, an opening to what
11:41.794 --> 11:45.386
do I want to do for the rest of my life? What, what are the
11:45.500 --> 11:49.122
good things that happened? What are the bad things I learned from?
11:49.461 --> 11:52.949
And what if I
11:53.449 --> 11:57.599
could leave a legacy for my children
11:58.424 --> 12:01.805
and my grandchildren and
12:01.837 --> 12:06.198
the generations to come that We
12:06.698 --> 12:09.765
were not here by accident. We actually
12:09.797 --> 12:13.337
created all of, all of our, um,
12:15.155 --> 12:17.653
the generations, you know, after us.
12:19.836 --> 12:23.508
Yeah. And then yesterday when we were talking about
12:23.896 --> 12:27.132
what we were going to say on this call, it reminded me of
12:27.246 --> 12:30.752
my client Sam Hashizu, um,
12:30.915 --> 12:34.025
and his book that we did together called The Unmuting.
12:34.607 --> 12:38.556
And at first, he just wanted to write
12:39.056 --> 12:43.307
about who he was and his Japanese ancestry
12:43.646 --> 12:46.876
and, you know, all the
12:47.376 --> 12:51.638
details of his ancient ancestral lineage because his
12:51.816 --> 12:55.291
kids didn't really know who he was. And that's why I was saying
12:55.340 --> 12:58.993
in the beginning, does anyone really know who you
12:59.009 --> 13:02.753
are? All of who you are? Because we hold ourselves back,
13:02.834 --> 13:05.951
right? Depending on who we're with, we share this part, we share that part,
13:06.080 --> 13:09.549
but the whole part and all the back parts— where are
13:10.049 --> 13:13.736
we sharing that? Who's going to know us when we
13:14.236 --> 13:17.428
leave? Are we just going to disappear, or are
13:17.928 --> 13:21.220
we going to have something that we left behind? Whether it's our
13:21.720 --> 13:26.033
message that we want to leave the world, or maybe it's a method that
13:26.533 --> 13:30.302
we discovered that works for our health or our career
13:30.511 --> 13:32.180
or our personal growth.
13:33.640 --> 13:37.428
And so along the way with writing this book with Sam,
13:37.989 --> 13:41.183
you know, I asked him a couple of times, you know, you sure you don't
13:41.683 --> 13:43.767
want to publish this? Because he didn't want to publish it. He just wanted this
13:44.267 --> 13:47.025
to be, you know, a book that he was going to print out at his
13:47.057 --> 13:50.668
friend's printing shop and then distribute the copies to his families
13:51.070 --> 13:54.183
and his cousins and his kids. And by the time we got 3/4 of the
13:54.199 --> 13:57.870
way through, he's it was just this masterpiece of a book.
13:57.966 --> 14:01.651
And he said, I do want to publish it, Jan. And, um,
14:02.356 --> 14:05.849
you never know. You never know, like, where are you at with this?
14:06.218 --> 14:09.630
What are you wanting to leave? And sometimes you don't have to know. Sometimes,
14:09.743 --> 14:14.213
in fact, most of the time, it's just the process of the writing that creates
14:14.713 --> 14:17.754
your next reality. And I call it conscious creation writing.
14:18.139 --> 14:22.032
What are you writing that brings your life and your dreams and your awareness into
14:22.224 --> 14:26.313
actual reality, physical existence. So that's just
14:26.813 --> 14:29.665
one thing that happened. It's just beautiful because, I mean,
14:30.819 --> 14:34.604
you know, authors working with me, uh, and I'm sure with you
14:35.149 --> 14:38.244
too, Jan, um, if, if you,
14:38.837 --> 14:41.772
you, you write with people, it's a huge transformation.
14:42.590 --> 14:45.973
Authors contributing a chapter in, in my multi-author
14:46.053 --> 14:49.469
books, like, you know, our latest one, Soul Evolution Journeys,
14:50.575 --> 14:52.283
finding our way home to ourselves.
14:54.718 --> 14:57.087
Um, it's a transformation. Any, any,
14:57.587 --> 15:00.924
um, entrepreneur— because of course the multi-author
15:01.069 --> 15:03.688
books are really for entrepreneurs, um,
15:04.514 --> 15:08.057
coaches, healers— and when they
15:08.202 --> 15:12.301
write their story, it's your next level transformation.
15:12.898 --> 15:16.386
You cannot help but not transform. So it's not
15:16.434 --> 15:20.175
something just to tick off. You really, as you really
15:20.207 --> 15:24.093
remember, you really go back. And I think
15:24.221 --> 15:27.674
the richness of that,
15:28.300 --> 15:32.234
of that experience of going back, because often we
15:32.250 --> 15:35.991
have an idea of
15:36.167 --> 15:38.913
a surface idea of what happened.
15:41.290 --> 15:45.303
But when we really write about something again, we go back
15:45.529 --> 15:50.302
deep to that. And that
15:50.802 --> 15:54.128
actually is really a transformation in itself
15:54.160 --> 15:58.034
because it gives you a total new perspective on what
15:58.534 --> 16:00.933
happened. On yourself,
16:01.404 --> 16:05.720
looking at yourself, looking at every other person involved.
16:07.368 --> 16:10.628
Um, it's really very enlightening to do that.
16:11.768 --> 16:15.204
I love that you, that you pointed that out because what I've experienced
16:15.284 --> 16:18.641
over and over again with clients who are writing
16:19.074 --> 16:22.655
parts of their history and their life experience, because I
16:22.687 --> 16:25.979
work with people who write about all different kinds of things, but, um, in particular
16:26.479 --> 16:29.913
these people who write about their life stories and their experiences, when we go through
16:30.413 --> 16:33.783
the first interview or the first batch of,
16:33.992 --> 16:37.781
of writing, you know, they often say it like
16:38.281 --> 16:41.876
this. This happened then, and then this happened then. And, and then when we go
16:42.376 --> 16:44.525
back and we review it and we start, you know, editing, and they say,
16:44.605 --> 16:47.865
oh wait, this actually happened then. Oh, I forgot that that happened
16:47.897 --> 16:51.028
then. And then we go through it again and we're going— and each time they're
16:51.528 --> 16:55.283
kind of like unpeeling the layers and the memories are
16:55.783 --> 16:59.490
coming up. And it's basically just a
16:59.522 --> 17:02.954
really I don't know, it's like a spiritual cleansing, I want to say.
17:03.229 --> 17:06.101
Yes, in some ways. Um,
17:06.553 --> 17:08.296
and then what came to mind also is,
17:10.625 --> 17:13.968
you know, writing a book. I used to think when I was,
17:14.546 --> 17:18.515
I don't know, maybe 30 years ago, when I— maybe 40 years
17:19.015 --> 17:22.520
ago, I don't know, 30 years ago, when I thought one of my
17:23.020 --> 17:24.896
goals is to write a book, I had no idea I was going to,
17:25.267 --> 17:29.159
you know, be a ghostwriter and an editor, but it
17:29.659 --> 17:33.078
was like this big thing, just like this big thing on top of a pedestal,
17:33.110 --> 17:36.306
right? And it's not. So many
17:36.806 --> 17:39.871
people are writing books, and I know if you're watching this video, you probably are
17:39.919 --> 17:43.100
aware of that. But what I want to say is
17:43.614 --> 17:46.954
it's, it's not a big thing. I mean,
17:47.227 --> 17:50.809
the process of writing a book, it's easy when you have someone
17:50.905 --> 17:53.379
there supporting you and coaching you if that's what you need.
17:57.292 --> 18:00.526
Um, and anybody can do it, and you don't have
18:00.558 --> 18:05.096
to have this magnificent story or this revelation
18:05.144 --> 18:09.039
or this experience that no one else had. You know, for example, this one woman
18:09.539 --> 18:13.475
I was working with during COVID and she had this amazing miracle
18:13.507 --> 18:18.063
experience, and her book was about spirituality meets science,
18:18.982 --> 18:22.388
but she had been raised in the
18:22.888 --> 18:26.621
UK, I think. And so she had been conditioned to really
18:26.653 --> 18:30.389
minimize her existence and her importance and her value. And the thing
18:30.501 --> 18:34.141
there was like, don't stand up too high. Like, what's the expression?
18:34.814 --> 18:38.021
The poppy thing. The poppy syndrome. Poppy thing or
18:38.521 --> 18:42.030
tulip. I guess it's poppies. Yeah. Like, don't stand taller
18:42.530 --> 18:46.583
than the rest of the poppies. And so through our writing process and editing
18:46.679 --> 18:49.277
process and all the work and the guidance we went through,
18:50.363 --> 18:54.144
Um, she really just started kind of feeling
18:54.644 --> 18:56.676
the effects of that conditioning, like, who am I to write a book?
18:59.308 --> 19:02.972
That imposter syndrome. Who are you not to write a book? Who are you not
19:03.085 --> 19:07.247
to write a book? This is your self-expression. This is you just
19:07.344 --> 19:09.613
basically talking, saying, here I am.
19:10.821 --> 19:14.234
It doesn't have to have any magnificent weight in comparison
19:14.347 --> 19:18.000
to the rest of the world. It's just you, and that is enough,
19:18.016 --> 19:21.622
and that is magnificent, and there's no one like you. Why not share
19:21.737 --> 19:24.706
your story? Absolutely, absolutely.
19:25.349 --> 19:29.046
I think, you know, it's, it's something that,
19:29.352 --> 19:32.823
um, that can hold many people back,
19:33.466 --> 19:36.905
this thing that, you know, nothing is not dramatic enough,
19:36.985 --> 19:40.873
my story is not dramatic enough, or it's not
19:41.323 --> 19:44.364
basically not good enough. And that is really not true.
19:45.415 --> 19:49.011
Everyone's story is beautiful. It's absolutely beautiful.
19:49.108 --> 19:52.935
It's significant because, I mean, we wouldn't be
19:53.064 --> 19:56.733
here in this life just,
19:57.264 --> 20:01.314
just because we're ordinary. We are all extraordinary. And I think
20:01.523 --> 20:05.236
what is often mistaken is that, you know,
20:05.960 --> 20:08.629
because we find things easy and we,
20:10.061 --> 20:13.479
you know, living our talents and doing our thing we don't
20:13.496 --> 20:16.316
see actually how other people sees us.
20:18.977 --> 20:22.559
That the things that is easy for us, other people, is not easy for
20:23.059 --> 20:26.963
others. So whatever you,
20:27.271 --> 20:29.154
you know, experience in your life,
20:30.775 --> 20:34.383
it's amazing and it needs to be told. And we would
20:34.883 --> 20:38.322
love to help you tell that. So whether you've
20:38.338 --> 20:41.848
already written it and you want it published or whether you need help to
20:42.348 --> 20:47.218
write it, Or go
20:47.718 --> 20:49.822
to Jan if you have already published it,
20:50.857 --> 20:54.454
written it. Come to me, we'll see what you
20:54.954 --> 20:58.833
need in terms of publishing services. And if
20:58.897 --> 21:02.135
it's not edited, I'll send you to Jan anyway first. So,
21:03.634 --> 21:07.726
but yes, stories are important, you know, and I think especially
21:07.792 --> 21:12.511
as we get older, Because younger
21:13.011 --> 21:16.683
people only see old people. They don't have
21:16.797 --> 21:18.857
no clue what we went through,
21:20.269 --> 21:22.118
what we lived, what we accomplished.
21:24.688 --> 21:28.749
And I think it's so important that our children and our
21:29.249 --> 21:32.049
grandchildren and the generations actually know us.
21:34.814 --> 21:36.123
I think that's really important.
21:38.127 --> 21:40.454
Otherwise, we're going to become a whole lost generation.
21:42.460 --> 21:46.285
Oh my gosh. Yeah. And you're writing
21:46.334 --> 21:49.174
a book. Can I, can I say that? Yes.
21:52.797 --> 21:55.883
And you— I'll probably edit it.
21:56.879 --> 21:59.901
Yes, you're probably— you're definitely going to edit it. I'm going to need your,
22:00.174 --> 22:04.317
your amazing expert insight in there. To stretch
22:04.446 --> 22:08.360
me to my limits or beyond, definitely beyond my
22:08.860 --> 22:12.515
comfort zone to make it better. Yeah, yeah, it brings
22:12.627 --> 22:16.124
me back to when I said whether it's a message you want
22:16.140 --> 22:19.766
to leave or the method, yours is more along— actually,
22:19.830 --> 22:22.878
yours is both. I love that. Not that we're going to give it away,
22:23.118 --> 22:26.423
but yeah, no, it will be both. Definitely.
22:26.808 --> 22:30.682
Yeah, no, I like that. I've got a few books that I
22:30.747 --> 22:33.952
still want to write. I think
22:34.178 --> 22:37.374
one of the things that we do together is when,
22:37.713 --> 22:41.524
you know, the editing part that most people think is done, and we send it
22:42.024 --> 22:45.551
to the publisher who does the formatting and, you know,
22:46.275 --> 22:49.447
getting ready to publish, is— and it goes back to me
22:50.123 --> 22:54.143
because I've noticed with a few other publishers, not with
22:54.209 --> 22:57.343
Dina, but that the layout and
22:57.359 --> 23:01.102
the format of the way it looked when we were finished with the manuscript before
23:01.150 --> 23:04.058
sending to publisher doesn't get transferred that way.
23:04.733 --> 23:07.656
And lines are on wrong pages, quotes are,
23:07.801 --> 23:10.339
you know, scattered, things are uneven,
23:10.516 --> 23:14.002
uncentered, the message gets, you know, kind of
23:14.502 --> 23:18.179
scrambled. So we work together back and forth through
23:18.388 --> 23:21.263
the end if the client wants. This is not something that has to happen,
23:21.295 --> 23:24.840
but, you know, it's just an option to let people know that
23:25.161 --> 23:28.958
if you want your finished product to be as pristine
23:29.615 --> 23:33.573
as the value of your message, then that's available
23:34.073 --> 23:36.601
to you through Dina and me.
23:38.027 --> 23:41.248
Yeah, very high quality product.
23:42.113 --> 23:46.103
And, um, so my publishing
23:46.215 --> 23:49.516
business is called Soul Purpose Publishing, a name given
23:49.580 --> 23:52.827
to me by Jan. Remember you gave me the name?
23:54.609 --> 23:58.053
Um, so 2021, we were on a Zoom call, right? You said
23:58.553 --> 24:00.123
you're starting your publishing company. Yeah,
24:00.203 --> 24:04.036
2022, beginning 2022, late 2021.
24:04.084 --> 24:06.298
Yeah, so, um,
24:07.995 --> 24:11.329
so yeah, so we publish inspirational,
24:11.945 --> 24:15.644
inspirational books, books that inspire other
24:15.676 --> 24:19.742
people. So my website is janedwards.org,
24:19.758 --> 24:23.429
which is just my name, janedwards.org. And I'm a life
24:23.509 --> 24:26.138
architect, so I have 3 different spheres that I work in.
24:27.212 --> 24:30.178
I work in the soul self, I work in the space surroundings, and then I
24:30.242 --> 24:33.560
work on the self-expression story, which is what we're talking about here today.
24:33.624 --> 24:38.209
So just click on the, uh, story tab of janedwards.org and,
24:38.257 --> 24:41.431
uh, send one of us a message or both of us, you know. Um,
24:41.559 --> 24:45.038
we'd love to work with you and answer questions, even be on a call
24:45.150 --> 24:48.292
with you. We've often done that. We've been on— in fact, with every client
24:48.792 --> 24:51.727
we've worked with together, we've been on mutual calls where all 3 of us are
24:52.227 --> 24:56.157
on at the same time. So we can really iron out the questions and articulate
24:56.657 --> 25:00.331
the process. So yeah, no, absolutely. And you'll
25:00.831 --> 25:04.472
find us both on social media as well. So if
25:04.568 --> 25:07.874
you— and we'll put the
25:07.939 --> 25:11.951
links below the video to actually find
25:12.451 --> 25:15.916
us. So if any of this resonates with you, if we resonate with
25:15.964 --> 25:19.611
you, you would like to explore your author
25:19.692 --> 25:22.922
journey, reach out.
25:23.729 --> 25:27.705
It's just a conversation and to maybe
25:28.205 --> 25:31.408
show you, give you some clarity on what,
25:31.473 --> 25:34.400
what your next step is to do. Okay.
25:35.614 --> 25:38.979
Thank you. See you soon. Thank you for watching.
25:40.371 --> 25:41.439
See you soon. Bye for now.