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Jacky Clarke: Oh, my gosh! I am so excited to have you here
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Jacky Clarke: welcome to the diary of discovery a brand new podcast. That is literally
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Jacky Clarke: a piece of art in my world. I have wanted to create this podcast for so long. I cannot even tell you how excited I am. If you have no idea who I am. My name is Jacky, and I am so glad that you have found the podcast and that you are going to come and join us on this healing journey.
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Jacky Clarke: I have got my own story of healing.
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Jacky Clarke: of depression, of grief, of redundancy.
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Jacky Clarke: of so many things that felt so hard to move through, and so many years of
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Jacky Clarke: squishing and like trapping all of these emotions inside me, feeling like I would never be able to deal with them. And actually, if I just didn't look at them, everything would be fine.
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Jacky Clarke: And
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Jacky Clarke: the real reason that I wanted to start this podcast is because I wanted to share with so many people, like as many people as we possibly can in the whole world.
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Jacky Clarke: that that is not what the healing journey is about that
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Jacky Clarke: we can't just
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Jacky Clarke: push things down and hope for the best and wait it out.
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Jacky Clarke: It's just not how it works. So my whole mission as we go through this incredible journey is to find the most amazing guests
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Jacky Clarke: to come on and share their own personal healing journeys with you. And it's gonna be interview style. I'm gonna be asking them questions, getting them to share what their journey was like, how they coped and dealt, and the tools that they use.
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Jacky Clarke: and just the truth about what it really takes to heal, because
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Jacky Clarke: there are so many falsities out in the world, so many stories as to what it could take and what you might need to do. And
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Jacky Clarke: I just want you to understand that healing is such a personal journey. Every single guest that I interview has a different story. They have a different path to the point of breaking, and then they have a different path of
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Jacky Clarke: rediscovering who they are, and putting themselves back together.
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Jacky Clarke: the only
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Jacky Clarke: sort of key fundamental truths that I've found as I've gone through this journey, and I have been working with women starting their own businesses all the way back. Since 2,019 I've had this conversation with so many people about like becoming like coming back to themselves, figuring out who they are
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Jacky Clarke: dealing with the traumas and the things that are keeping them small. And
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Jacky Clarke: it's so important to understand that there are key fundamentals to healing.
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Jacky Clarke: But those fundamentals aren't about how we heal. They aren't about.
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Jacky Clarke: you know. You have to do journaling, or you have to go and see a counselor, or you have to go and do this like. None of that is true.
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Jacky Clarke: The fundamentals
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Jacky Clarke: that really people have to understand
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Jacky Clarke: is that when something happens when trauma happens.
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Jacky Clarke: whether it is grief, depression, you know some kind of trauma. Ptsd, whatever it is.
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Jacky Clarke: there's a fundamental shift in who you are as a person.
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Jacky Clarke: and when you go on a healing journey there is a fundamental shift again in who you are and who you be in the world.
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Jacky Clarke: You have this
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Jacky Clarke: unique opportunity to be able to come further back to yourself, to be able to
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Jacky Clarke: rediscover who you are in the essence
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Jacky Clarke: and
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Jacky Clarke: healing is an active process.
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Jacky Clarke: so many people would say to me.
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Jacky Clarke: especially after my first loss of losing my aunt back in 2,017. So many people would say to me, time heals everything. Just give it time, you know. It'll be fine if you just give it time.
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Jacky Clarke: and I can absolutely tell you that
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Jacky Clarke: if we jumped forward a couple of years when depression massively took hold, and I'm not going to tell my whole story on this first episode, because I am going to be sharing my full story later on in a in a later episode.
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Jacky Clarke: But
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Jacky Clarke: when depression absolutely gripped me
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Jacky Clarke: and I finally admitted
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Jacky Clarke: where I was.
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Jacky Clarke: It was like
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Jacky Clarke: almost 3 years later.
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Jacky Clarke: Time hadn't done anything for me.
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Jacky Clarke: and it was in that moment that I realized that healing is an active process like I have to decide consciously that I don't want to live like this anymore. I have to decide consciously that there is something bigger and something better, and I am not going to settle and stay in this place.
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Jacky Clarke: and when you make that active choice.
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Jacky Clarke: something shifts inside you, and then you can go and figure out how you personally heal, and as we hear from guests, you will hear multiple different ways. Every guest has used different ways, different people to support them. You know, different tools, different skills. They've learned different things. It's so incredible that everyone goes on the same
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Jacky Clarke: path of discovery. But they all do it in their own unique way. And that is what I really want. This podcast to become
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Jacky Clarke: is
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Jacky Clarke: a toolbox of just so many unique ways of dealing with anything that presents itself in the realm of healing
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Jacky Clarke: and just making sure that we're telling the truth
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Jacky Clarke: that we're opening up. And we're saying, actually, I wasn't. Okay. This is what I needed. And if you're feeling the same, I want you to know that you've found your place. You have found a place where people get it, where we understand where we're willing to have these conversations, we're willing to step into these places of being uncomfortable
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Jacky Clarke: the moment that the trailer went live for this podcast I messaged my sister and told her that I was
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Jacky Clarke: like, I was having such complex feelings.
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Jacky Clarke: I felt so excited that this piece of art, this like expression of me, was coming into the world. This like amazing thing that I wanted to do for so long was coming into the world.
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Jacky Clarke: but at the same time I felt truly petrified.
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Jacky Clarke: I felt truly petrified
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Jacky Clarke: that I was going to be so vulnerable
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Jacky Clarke: for so many people
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Jacky Clarke: and random strangers could find. This I hope that they do, and they could have an opinion on my healing journey.
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Jacky Clarke: and in episodes where I'm speaking to different guests. I'm sharing small pieces of my healing journey.
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Jacky Clarke: and I was saying to my sister, like it feels really scary, but I also know that I'm so ready for this next level of healing. I'm so ready for this next step of actually saying
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Jacky Clarke: this is me unapologetically. This is what I've gone through. This is what I have survived through, and I am so strong.
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Jacky Clarke: and I would not have been able to say that about myself before I went through this journey I would not have been able to stand in my power and say, actually.
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Jacky Clarke: this is who I am. This is what I've gone through. This is the baggage that I've carried, and I'm okay with it.
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Jacky Clarke: I'm okay with all of the things I felt. I'm okay with all of the thoughts that I've you know, gone through. I'm okay with all of the dark places that I've existed. But I'm also so excited for the light that's come out the other side of it.
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Jacky Clarke: and I know that for so many people
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Jacky Clarke: feeling feels like it's something that will last forever, like that weight, that heaviness, that darkness that, like trauma, it just feels like it's gonna have you stuck and suffocated for so long. But I want to tell you that that doesn't have to be your truth. That doesn't have to be where you stay. You are completely in control of this journey.
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Jacky Clarke: and if you want to use me and the rest of these guests as inspiration I really implore you to, because our guests have achieved so many incredible things.
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Jacky Clarke: and on my own journey I have achieved so many incredible things. When I think back to the person I was when I was in depression I was in debt. I was living in a country I didn't want to be living in. I was away from my family and friends, and everything inside me felt broken.
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Jacky Clarke: Now as I sit and talk to you and start this journey. We live back home in South Africa, surrounded by our family and friends.
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Jacky Clarke: constantly involved in the community that just gives me so much life and so much purpose.
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Jacky Clarke: We are mortgage free, we are debt free. We have the most incredible life
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Jacky Clarke: that me 5 years ago would never have even thought was physically possible.
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Jacky Clarke: She would have thought that I was insane to even dream of this life, to even think that this life could be possible for us.
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Jacky Clarke: But yet here I sit.
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Jacky Clarke: here I am in this moment, knowing
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Jacky Clarke: that I can bring so much more forward that I can have so much more in my life.
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Jacky Clarke: And it is so empowering. And that is the essence of this podcast
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Jacky Clarke: so
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Jacky Clarke: you have the ability
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Jacky Clarke: to listen to our podcast episodes on any of your favorite platforms.
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Jacky Clarke: We have a dedicated instagram where you can pop over and see guests that are coming up, get short clips of the show and fully immerse. You'll be able to talk to me and the guests.
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Jacky Clarke: and I literally cannot wait to have you guys form part of this community.
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Jacky Clarke: I also want to put out the amazing, amazing invitation
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Jacky Clarke: that if you feel like you have a story to share, if you feel like you want to help other people from your own healing journey, and you feel like you want to tell people how you went through this process
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Jacky Clarke: would love to have you as a guest on the show. So there's going to be over on the Instagram page a form that you can fill in
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Jacky Clarke: to request to be a guest. And I will get in touch with you.
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Jacky Clarke: And we can have a chat about whether you are perfect for the podcast
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Jacky Clarke: so i'm gonna leave it there today. And I'm gonna invite you to jump into our first 2 episodes with the wonderful Alice and the incredible holly, and listen to their inspirational stories as to how they have navigated so many challenges in their lives, but still come out as strong, incredible women, who can share so many stories, and so much advice
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Jacky Clarke: for how you can move forward in your own life, enjoy your discovery.