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So it was a beautiful lesson for me at that time, for example, that each of us has a specific journey. And I also realized in my life, at least in my relationship with her, that she's been a beautiful teacher. So sometimes we have these expectations of you need to do well in school, but when you don't fit in, what is the other purpose?
And so for me, she's been a probably one of the most relevant teachers about acceptance about fully loving and conditionally that being that is right in front of me and I started to receive that lesson then she started to get better
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Welcome back to the ownership game after our two week break. We hope that you guys didn't miss us too much, but I'm gonna try to make it up to you with another great episode this week. Today's guest is Giselle Marzo Segura.
Giselle is a spiritual guide, a transformational coach, and a medicine woman. She's also the co -founder of Tierra Amor in Homestead, Florida. But before she was all of that, she was a mother who embarked on a mission to help her daughter with special needs, navigate life, and the mental health problems that she was struggling with. In this episode, Giselle opens up about all the challenges that she faced.
And the many gifts that came along with those challenges, once she got quiet, asked herself some tough questions, and really, really listened.
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I was born in the Dominican Republic. My father is from Cuba. My mother is from the Dominican Republic. And we moved to Venezuela when I was about five years old. So part of my childhood, I lived in Venezuela and it was a beautiful experience. My father had business there. And then we moved for a couple of years during a difficult time in Venezuela back to the United States.
I lived here for a couple of years, went to school in Miami. I didn't speak English, so I kind of learned right there. I was thrown into the fire and I just learned while I was in school. And then how old were you then at that point? I was about it was eighth and ninth grade. So I must have been maybe 13 around. Yeah. So you were already a little person.
I was a little person, but I have to deal with a lot of different culture. It was very, very different than what I was used to. And also the humor and the cynicism. Sometimes I just took everything personally back then. And so it was a challenge. But I learned. And then we moved back to the Dominican Republic and I finished high school there.
And my dad was at that time very controlling and just so I needed to leave. And so I went to school, I spent a semester in Tulane and then moved back here to Miami to finish college. I ended up doing college for I did my four years in two and a half years. So I packed up credits, I graduated by 19.
Wow. Yeah. And so fast forward, I was married at 21, married my beautiful husband now 26 years this year, and we have two children. So you met Gabriel here in Miami, in the Miami area? We met in Miami, yes. Okay. Yes. I invited him. Okay. I asked him to dance. Really? Yeah, and that was it.
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That was it. I love that. That totally makes sense because he's a little, he's a little shyer than you, right? Like I can totally see that. No, no, no, no. He's not? No, he's totally not shy. I'm the shy one. I don't know what happened at that moment. Really? It was very much out of character. Yeah. So, so yeah. So we have two children and now they're adults, but my daughter,
Since the time she was born, she's had a really hard time trying to land here on earth. I think that's just like the perception and trying to fit into the way we do things, the way we learn, the way we speak. So learning for her was very, very challenging and growing up for her was very, very, very difficult. So we did a lot of therapy and...
and all kinds of things. And the challenges, what we were doing and following all the recommendations of psychologists and things were just not working. She went from school to school. We ended up taking her to a special school. And at some point in the middle of the year, she was in sixth grade. They said, we can't help her anymore. And I said,
Okay, so what am I supposed to do? Because you are the specialist and I am just a mother and I don't have. And so they said you need to homeschool. And I'm like, what is that? I didn't know what homeschooling was back then. And so I was left in the middle of the year was December. She started, we started homeschooling in January. I had checked with the therapist as well to.
to make sure that we were actually doing the right thing. And they said, yeah, homeschooling is a great option. So that really raised a lot of questions. How do I, and throughout our lives, you know, like what are these challenges? Why are they coming into my life? Is there something I need to learn from this? Is there something I'm not seeing? And...
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And also parallel to that. Were you asking, sorry, Giselle, were you asking yourself those questions back then as well? Or this is you now looking back. No, no, I was asking. I've always been very curious about life and about the experiences of life, especially because these things for me, just certain things just didn't make sense. Didn't gel. And there must be something that I'm not seeing. And...
At that time, also my daughter had this capacity to have conversations with, call it spiritual beings. I couldn't see them. And if you look, if you take someone to a psychiatrist, for example, they may say, oh, this is schizophrenia or whatever. So I had like this.
Let me just pause before I move into going in that direction. There must be something I don't know. And that was her way of managing is to get in her room and just have conversations. And at that time I was very, I didn't have a spiritual life. I grew up Catholic. And for me, some of the symbolisms and...
I just couldn't relate to them in the way they were taught to me. And so I just didn't know what spirituality was and I just was really resistant to anything spiritual. But the challenges with our daughter raised those questions. And when I started homeschooling her, I also had a professional background in marketing.
I used to work for a cable television conglomerate that catered to Latin America. I also had my own business of design. And so I had to let that go to be able to take care of her. And so at that time, just being a mother, taking care of my child, educating her, but I couldn't develop myself professionally. And so I'm like, why, why?
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I have so many gifts, so many talents, so much to offer. And so part of my prayer was like, please show me a sign. Let me put me into service. How can I be of service? And so I also wanted to write. And so I started writing. Writing was part of my way of also managing my own grieving.
of all the changes, having to quit my profession and take care of my daughter, trying to find my identity. And I signed up for a writer's retreat in Sedona and the whole way of how that came about was very magical. Like at some point, like that was a moment where I was very rapidly manifesting certain things and I was surprised about how
that was happening. Like, like I went to an airport and I said, Oh, I think Pamela, which is the wife of my, my, my mentor, my, my brother from the Navajo nation. I think Pamela, she's a, she's a writer actually, and she works with entrepreneurs. And I had read some of her wonderful books. And whenever I, I read books that I enjoy, I make friends.
I friend them on Facebook or look for them on Instagram and I follow them and she posts a lot of things about her family. And so I knew that she was married to a indigenous medicine man from the Dine in Arizona. And so at one point we went on a vacation and at the airport in Phoenix, we're with our family. And I said, I think Pamela lives here in Phoenix and
It would be so wonderful if we ran into each other here at the airport and literally like five seconds. Come on. No, like I turn around and she's come on. She's there. It was like spectacular. Wow. I'm like, OK, OK. So then after that, I we went up to our.
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to Utah and in Utah, I took a road trip with my daughter to Archer's National Park. We drove for like four hours and seeing all these rolling hills in Utah. And since I'm homeschooling, I'm telling her and making up these stories. Back then, the indigenous people used to live in these plains and the buffalo used to roam around freely.
And I'm just telling her all these stories. This is you like instinct. Instinct is just guiding you and you're just like sort of sharing whatever is coming out for you. Like, yeah, yeah. And and and then and then I said, it would be so great if Pamela organized a retreat for writers. And in the next day. Are you kidding me right now? I receive an email.
The next day I receive an email. Writers retreat with Pamela Slim and Betsy Rappaport in Sedona. And I'm like, wow. I'm like, okay. And at that time, the price for the retreat was a little bit more than I could afford, but I asked for it. So, I have to sign up. So, I signed up and then it would be so great if Pamela
had a space for her husband in this writer's retreat so that we can listen in and learn about the diner ways. And months later before - You had a curiosity about that. It was calming you. I had, but it was just a curiosity. I was just, I just want to learn. I love to learn. I love to learn about cultures, different cultures. And when the agenda came out,
she had that space for him. So when we met at the retreat, the moment we met and I shook his hand, it was this instant connection, a recognition of an ancient being or ancient soul that I knew before. I had never experienced that. It was very profound and...
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That retreat weekend became a spontaneous ceremony for me. I came to him when he shared about the different philosophies, he was answering my questions and I'm like, what is going on? And so I went to him and I explained about my daughter and this and that and the answer ended up being that I ended up
being in a spontaneous ceremony that I didn't even know. I didn't know these ways. But I just allowed that special moment to occur and allow myself to receive. And during that time, when that special moment happened, I started crying uncontrollably. I just couldn't explain it. But I allowed myself to feel whatever was taking place.
And just to receive whatever that was. So at the end of that ceremony, it was like time and space had stopped and there was no plant medicine, no nothing. It was just the energy of the universe. And at the so when that at the end of that ceremony, he said tonight you're going to dream, pay attention to your dreams. And I didn't dream back then when I.
went to bed, I would close my eyes and I wouldn't remember my dreams. So I was like, okay. And so that evening when I went back into my room, I received a gift. And it was a gift of a this embrace and embodied experience of this unconditional love that sustains us all. And
For those of us who, for example, been to church or go to church, there is this saying that would say, Lord, I'm not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed. It was that significant. And I just felt that I really wasn't worthy to be. It's one of those, it's that back then that kind of unconditional love is the kind of love that I had read in stories of
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people who have had like a near -death experience and come back to tell their story. But I didn't even think it was possible for me. I didn't even think I deserved it. And I also received vision as well. I wouldn't call it a dream because up until today I hadn't had a vision like that. Everything became blue bioluminescent, a place that we had been to.
to meditate with the writers of the group in one of the mountains, it was like just revealed itself in stars and just was breathing life and it was so vibrant that I thought I was going, I didn't know what is this? What is this love and this bliss, this joy? And I understood probably weeks later or maybe
later on that that that is the love that is where we come from all all of it all of us nobody no matter what you believe in who you are your color what you've done it doesn't matter it's all of us but having that direct experience of that love created a compass for me that that i said to myself i
I'm going to become an instrument of this love and whatever doesn't reflect that, I'm going to start to release it. And so that became that experience marked a turning point in my life where I started to do my own personal work of remembering who I am. And also I had the blessing of reconnecting in this lifetime with this
beautiful brother that I have known from other lifetimes, places and spaces. And he's been walking beside me through very challenging moments in my life throughout my journey and also passing on these ancient ways that I now carry as part of my medicine and that I put now into service many years later. Wow.
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Okay, I just, and I think it's just really important to take a moment to really highlight that all this experience that you're having is really outside of your wheelhouse. You know, like you have never experienced anything like this before. You don't have vocabulary for this. Like you don't even like.
You grew up in a Catholic church, so it's very sort of formal in its teachings and in its experience of spirituality and relationship to God. So this is like completely like a whole, like you just literally stepped into this whole different world and all this weird stuff started to happen. Weird because you don't know what's happening, right? So it could only be
experience that's weird. So it's really radical what you're talking about and I'm just really sort of impressed with your ability to be with the weirdness, if that makes sense? Like, because all this stuff is happening, you could very easily dismiss it. Because I think what Soto came up for me, you know, the experience of youth having the thought saying, hey, wouldn't it be interesting if I see Pamela here?
Wouldn't that be great? The truth is, as radical as that is, we have all had experiences like that, right? Where we thought, you know, when you go down this tunnel, you start to really learn thoughts are powerful. We are powerful manifestors and our thoughts have power, our words have power. So it's really not that unusual or, you know, but.
I think most of us, what happens is we just go, oh, what a coincidence. You know, we just brush it off as no big deal. Like, oh my goodness, what a coincidence. Whereas like, well, is it? Right. Is it really a coincidence? Yeah, that's why it's very important to pay attention to what we're asking because it's not just the magical or the mystical, but it's everything. So it's about.
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in a way and that I learned over the years is to really listen. Yeah. We talk about listening to each other, but I don't think we talk that much about listening to ourselves. Listening to what is our prayer. Yeah. Paying attention to what we're asking. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, I find myself speaking about this a lot lately and...
It's just, I don't even know where this came from. It was just like a download, but I keep saying that our nervous system is under attack these days. Our attention is under attack. Like we never in the history of humanity have we ever been so stimulated and all these devices are constantly trying to get our attention. And we just don't have a lot of space for quiet anymore. And...
You know, I even myself, I've been sort of reflecting on this because I in my own process and my own journaling, just realizing that there's always background noise. There's always music. There's always a TV. There is always a computer, some kind of screen in front of me. Right. And and so I've been actively working at creating more silence so that I can be with.
the prayers and actually listen in. But I think it's a skill that we're gonna have to develop now intentionally because we live in this society where we just have all these devices and we have addiction to these devices, right? Like they're just always in front of us. So what I just think like what a, I'm just so, I think what I'm trying to just say is like the allowing that you allowed yourself to have this experience.
I can see very easily how you would have suppressed it or brushed it off or, you know, oh my God, what a weird dream and just moved on, right? But you really allowed yourself to have this experience and set with it and reflect it and listen to the calling. And listeners, if you're listening, I think you're getting callings all the time, but we just don't listen.
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You know, we are getting these messages, we're getting these signs, we're getting this inspiration, these callings all the time, but we just don't listen. And how lucky or how great, you know, I just, I think what I'm experiencing right now is just gratitude that you did, you know, that you allowed yourself. Cause I also am familiar with the work that you're doing now and wow, what came from you really listening. And that was the first step, you know? Okay, I'm done.
No, no, it's beautiful. I mean, you touched on quite a few important topics. One is, I don't see necessarily the attack. Yeah. I think, I mean, yes and no. Yes and no. It's not an absolute. But I think most, we've just grown accustomed to a lot of distractions. And...
And a lot of us are deeply uncomfortable with going inside ourselves. We think, for example, when we take a trip or a vacation to a beautiful place and we marvel at the beauty of the mountains or the rivers or whatever it is.
We have this capacity to be in awe and create that openness. But when it comes to ourselves getting to know who we are creating those questions, who am I really? Sometimes we are not willing to go there because when going inside required or the invitation is to really evaluate, for example,
our belief systems, our attachments, to see ourselves how closed or open I am. And so, but our, who we are is such a miracle. This life, this mystery, what is it that is breathing through me and as me? What is this? How do I function in this? So,
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sometimes we have to get uncomfortable. So for example, in that moment when I met Daryl and when that ceremony was occurring, like my belief systems could have said, no, I don't want to experience this. But there was a degree of openness to say, okay, this is taking place in my life. How do I welcome it and say yes to this moment? And so we don't grow up also with
certain capacities. We're not taught about what it is, what it means to be human. A lot of us want to feel the positive emotions and then we just reject anything that doesn't feel good and makes us feel uncomfortable. And so I think in a way we are moving into a direction or the invitation of this time is to become present, is to listen, to open.
to this universe of possibility, to question, to ask questions. And then that's how we can start to really experience what this gift of this life is. Beautiful. Okay, so you have this awakening. You meet your brother who becomes your mentor. So talk to me a little bit about what happened next and...
Do you just go right into like training like or did you take some time like how did that how did that develop? There is no such thing as Training you like going into a certificate program and getting it or you're getting into a program and signing up and getting a certificate for it That's my coaching that's my coaching world
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Right, more certificates, please. Yeah, yeah. So the training happens in the everyday. You see, we are, I've learned to realize or I remember to because these are all memories. We all know this. We really do. We just don't make space to connect with that. And it's a process of remembering. So I had this beautiful brother who...
From the very beginning, he says, I am not your teacher and you're not my student. I am your brother and I'm just going to walk beside you to help you remember. And that's what it's been. So, life after that started to put all these different challenges and I had to and those challenges were important moments that became a catalyst.
for that movement into a direction that is in alignment with who I am and why I am here on earth. So we had, our daughter became profoundly depressed and we had an attempt of suicide. And so that became, that was a very loud
call. I had done back then everything I could as a mother. She had all the single option, every possibility, all the support, just a beautiful life, loving parents. And I had done, I'm like, I don't know why this soul wants to leave. And I had to sit in one of those moments of grief and...
and first connect with my emotions to allow them to flow, allow myself to cry and to get to know what each emotion was whether it's this sadness, is this guilt, is this fear, is this what is this? get to know like discern what they were and allow them to be but also at that moment and this may sound really harsh for some people I said
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I need to let her go. If she wants to leave, that's her choice. I set you free. And what happened after that was a complete shift. Then things started to flow again and she started to get better. It's the strangest thing. Just doesn't make sense. But it's the strangest thing. I'm like...
So it was a beautiful lesson for me at that time, for example, to that each of us has a specific journey. And I also realized in my life, at least in my relationship with her, that she's been a beautiful teacher. So sometimes we have these expectations of you need to do well in school, but when you don't fit in, what is the other purpose? And so for me, she's been a...
probably one of the most relevant teachers about acceptance, about fully loving and conditionally that being that is right in front of me. And I started to receive that lesson, then she started to get better. She also taught me about understanding the lenses through which I see life. I had seen her for such a long time as a broken person based on
and like something that needs to be fixed based on all these evaluations and all these medical recommendations. And I spent so much time trying to fix her. At one point, I just said, no, these lenses were missing something. How do I see the beauty in this person beyond the labels? How do I see beyond the labels? And so that was that was profound. And then later on,
We had other, the loss of work and three years ago, for example, I had a diagnosis with cancer, stage four cancer. And I understood there's no stage five. And so that was also one of those things like, why is this coming into my life? But when I stopped asking the why and I started to ask,
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the what for, then I started to receive the answers of all these beautiful gifts that are coming into my life and life itself transforming me into the person that I am today. So, yeah. Wow. Okay. So first of all, I think we need to just check in. How is your health and how are you doing? I'm doing wonderful. It's been...
Thank you for asking. My process of healing has been very beautiful. And I've been also blessed that I have had the tools to help me get to a different level of perspective, different layers of perspective, to understand the reason or the purpose why this is in my life and how to take care of it.
And one of those tools is working with living sacraments or plant sacraments. And they have helped me understand the mystery. Like in the... What is the path? And how to be true to myself so I can truly listen, tune the noise. We were talking about the noise and the distractions. So tune the noise down.
to really listen to myself and to walk my path and also to be of service so they've also part of the instructions of these sacred plant teachers has been to be of service. One very clear message that I received was the way you're going to heal is by being of service to others and that's what I do and so my process of healing has been really beautiful.
Almost the cancer in my bones has practically disappeared and I'm still healing but I'm serving as well. I'm still healing. I haven't figured it out in the sense of healing completely but I have been able to recover beautifully. I live in that process has helped me.
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truly live and like really like it's been like a loud call to like really slow down and pause and move at a different pace and let go of all these distractions so that I can really tune into my path. So you this calling to be in service when I guess I'm curious about.
When specifically did you get that calling and how did you figure out what that was going to look like or what that meant for you? Because I feel like a lot of times we get caught in the how, right? We get stopped in the how am I going to do something? What does that look like? And it stops us from answering the call. So I'm wondering, I'm curious about your process and how did you sort that out?
So that the calling I've had of being of service, I've had it for a long time from a very, very young age. And then when all this shift happens, the shift happened. For example, when with my daughter, when I had to home school her and I asked that prayer of
Please, I have so many gifts, please put me into service. And sometimes we think that being of service is some big thing, like let me start on a foundation or let me do this big project or no. But the way the calling was being slowly revealed through the experiences of my life in that present moment.
So we have to go and take care of the simple things first to get to these bigger things. And so life is giving us that guidance. Every event or every experience that is in our realm of experience is exactly what we need in that moment, which is part of our journey. At least that's what I know to be true for me.
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And so, I had to be with my daughter at that time. That was my way of service. I wanted to be somewhere else. I wanted to do something else. But I needed to take care of that. And then I needed to be present in my life or I needed to be more, I don't know, just present with just the simple things like washing the dishes. And so, part of the invitation in my journey has been to take care of me first.
It was, the calling starts to reveal itself when we start to make space within ourselves. And then we take action and we integrate. And then we expand that way of being into your, the family circle. And so naturally everything started to happen to take, to unfold naturally. I was asked to be of service with my dad, to hold space for him, to, and, and.
And then that unfold, his healing then led to us gathering with my brothers and sisters from my dad's first marriage and my brother from his second marriage. And we gathered together as a family to heal together. So the invitation has been like, take care of here first, take care of family.
and then expanding it into the community. And it's kind of like a ripple, like that drop of water. It starts, everything begins and ends with me. And then as I take care of me, then there's this natural unfolding that takes place. And that's how it became for me. So I had to be really present with this moment in every moment. That's so powerful. And then how did it become?
How did it turn into Tierra Amor? How did it turn to Tierra Amor? Which is the church, sorry, for the listeners, Tierra Amor is the church that you and your husband founded to support others in this journey of healing and discovering some of the gifts that you've been sharing. Yeah. So when I met Darryl, we started doing retreats in Sedona. Every year we would go to Sedona.
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I would take a group there and I always wanted to invite people in the community and for some reason, the group that showed up was immediate family and immediate friends. So that was part of like, why, you know, we have this retreat, why people can't show up and you know, but it's like, no, the group is the group that needs to be here right now. This is part of your journey, your process. And over the years, as he passed along some of these beautiful
tools that I now put into service. I dreamt of being able to have a space where I can gather people and we can create community and go back to the circle, listen to one another. So that has been a long time dream. And so at some point our daughter left home. She decided to...
to fly and become independent and start a new journey for herself. And so my husband and I were left alone at home, the two of us. It's like, what do we do now? So what do we dream? And we're like, well, I would like to move away from the city and have a piece of land.
And okay, so what does that look like? And it's like, well, for me, it needs to be a land that is not only our home, but it's also a place where we can come and gather. And so finding this land was very magical too. And so we moved to this land and started to, and the cancer itself was also the, you know, like,
the spark that's like of the spirit of that loud cause like, okay, so you know that you have a lot to offer and for some reason you're also holding yourself back from doing what you're supposed to be doing. So now is the time, do or die kind of thing. And so, yeah, that became that extra push that said it's kind of like life or death.
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And so we finally gave me the courage to finally step into what I've always known I was supposed to be doing but didn't have somehow maybe the courage or the determination or whatever it is. I don't know what it is. And it's been so beautiful. We hold space for people using the tools that have been the most relevant in our personal journey.
to be of service to others and hold space so that we can all remember who we are. And we release all these baggage that we've decided to carry. It's time. We don't need that stuff anymore. We all deserve to have a joyful life. We all deserve to remember the love that we are. We all, this is a time.
when we are remembering moving from being an unconscious creator to a conscious creator. So, we don't create the same, you know, what we just, you know, like so that we don't create the same things that we've been creating as a humanity. The same crap that we've been creating as a humanity. This is a time for us to really remember we're part of the same human family. Yeah.
And there are universal principles. But we need to, it begins by looking inside. At least that's how I know, what I know to be true for me at this moment. So beautiful and we can, I think it's a good place to kind of wrap up there. The thing that really, you know, that I kind of want to end with highlighting is,
your process really was personal in that you started, I love that you started with like, let me take care of me. Let me look at healing myself and what do I need? And then it's like, okay, now family and my bigger circle. And then, and I love that because I feel like that part often gets missed and being of service.
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it's like somehow collapsed with being a martyr. And the truth is if you're not whole, if you're not complete in doing your work, it really does impact your ability to be in service, right? Like you just, you can't give from an empty cup, you know, to coin a famous phrase. So I just love that that was part of your journey and that that's sort of the message that we're ending with.
So I wanna have you back. I wanna have you and your husband back. Cause I really wanna talk about some of the work that you guys are doing in Tierra Amor and I love to share some of my personal experiences there as well. I think you guys are doing really fantastic work and the space that you have created is just so loving. I mean, I think that's a palpable work.
The word for me, it's like you walk in and there's just, this beautiful container of love and I love that your philosophy is really about supporting people and remembering who they are. So, because very often a lot of these experiences or a lot of the people that facilitate these experiences I think can create the notion of like, let me help you fix yourself or let me, you know, I have the answer or,
but you guys are very humble and I don't think you position yourself as teachers as much as like space holders. And I think that's relevant in your philosophy of just, we just help people remember who they are. And that's beautiful to me. And I'm so grateful for our friend Jennifer Garcia as bringing us together and and having you be part of my life.
Because you guys are doing really beautiful work and I can't continue, I can't wait to continue being a part of your community. It's such a blessing. Thank you so much. For us has been also I think a key point is to be an integrity. You know, like we, our life is our message. And so it's about in a way just modeling so that we can, because we're mirrors of each other.
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And so if you're seeing a beautiful thing in the mirror, that's who you are. That's exactly, we're just reflecting who you are. And you are reflecting also who I am. So it's so beautiful when we start to realize what that is. Yeah. Thank you, Giselle. It's been wonderful having you on the show. Thank you. The theme to today's podcast for me is listening, not just listening to others.
The act of listening is often envisioned, but also listening to yourself, listening to your instincts, listening to your intuition, and listening to the lessons that our struggles are often here to teach us. I think that we're being spoken to all the time, but we often doubt it. We ignore it. We brush it off as just silly thoughts, coincidences, or figments of our imagination. But maybe, just maybe, it's more than that.
Think about how many times you wish you listened to your gut, to your instincts. How many times have you been getting a call to do something and you push it aside and you ignore it and you ignore it until one day it just lands there ahead and you can't avoid it anymore. When it comes to learning how to listen, I think there's two things that we have to consider. The first, we aren't really trained to listen. There's a great deal of effort put into learning how to communicate learning how to influence, learning how to lead.
But when it comes to listening, we're mostly taught to listen just so we know how to respond. It's an automatic reactionary type of listening. The second thing is, it's important to acknowledge that in today's world, it's actually difficult to listen. We're constantly being spoken to. TV or music is always playing in the background. And when we step away, we plug earphones so that we can carry the noise with us.
Our attention is constantly being grabbed one way or another. We are adverse to actual silence, like the boogeyman coming to get you at night. We run away from it. So it's difficult to listen. This week, I want to invite you to create some quiet. Turn off your devices, spend some time alone in the quiet with yourself. Allow your nervous system to rest and ask yourself some of those important questions that you've been...
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Have the courage to listen and receive your answers. As always, thank you so much for joining us this week. If you've enjoyed this episode and you want to support the podcast, depending on the platform that you're on, you can click, you can like, you can follow, you can leave a comment. And most of all, please share the episode with someone you think will benefit from this message. I will see you next week. And until then, happy listening.
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