Episode 10. Corporate Soul Sucking Is a Myth: How to Reclaim Your Power at Work

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Marie Groover (00:05.219)

Welcome to the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover, of The Corporate Psychic. Today we are going to talk about the myth of corporate soul sucking. Trigger warning. To say that corporations are sucking the souls out of human beings is not exactly true. It's taking the responsibility for the state of the world and the state of business out of the human hand. And today I want to invite that responsibility back in with you.

Businesses have souls. I repeat, businesses have souls. When I started TCP, I knew that the word corporate in the corporate psychic would be triggering to many individuals in the spiritual community. When I started sharing content, I was giving a lot of free readings and people in the spiritual space were really forgiving with my business name, but...

I did get a lot of response on my work related or nine to five content. I remember one conversation of many, by the way, fairly specifically. Someone asked me what other kind of work I do. I said, I work for Microsoft as a business manager. I had been working at Microsoft for six years at that point. And I mentioned my tenure plus the fact that I had been in and out of technical roles for 10 years at that point in the corporate space in general.

They then asked me if working in the space was making me sick, like physically ill sick, quoting that they found that people they had met over the years who work in corporate have health issues from the corporate environment. I responded, actually, no, I love my job. Sometimes it's too much, but usually it's me taking on too much, not my work piling on too much. And the team, my team, the people that I work with, they're probably why and how I'm still here.

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I did add the disclaimer that I have it really good where I work and I do have it really good. And I know and understand that no two businesses and corporations are the same. But the conversation went on where it was acknowledged that many big businesses and corporations will put the bottom line financially over human rights and environmental concern. I am absolutely not here to combat that. But when I am here to challenge

is the failure to take human responsibility in the corporate world and work. It's as if businesses and corporations themselves, without human control or dictation, are responsible for the state of poor ethical business practices leading to unhappy humans and bad environmental conditions. Worse, it's very common to excuse unethical behavior by labeling it with, it's just business, or business is business.

And I'm not talking just at the corporate level. I'm talking about individuals. have friends who are really great people, like really great people, but who, if and when you try to do business with them, a different and acceptable way of interacting becomes okay. And I follow spiritual business coaches online, feminine empowerment, leadership coaches, and a lot of soulpreneurs on Instagram. All of these people who claim to teach me or you how to lead from something other than KPI strategy in the bottom line.

but in their reels and in their content, they'll talk about this feminine body of leadership and then they'll add, quote, but business is business and I'll teach you how to build yours. But what does that mean? Business is business. It's a common misconception of what it means to be, to have or run a business. And it's become far too common of a phrase to excuse things that are maybe not the most ethical practice or maybe not how

a normal human would interact. But here's what I think and believe based on my own experience. You can take it or leave it. First, not all businesses or corporations are bad. Actually, very few of them are. Also, businesses don't suck souls. Corporations don't suck souls. People do. Processes do. Policies do. Conformity does. And businesses themselves have souls.

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Think of them like children or pets or plants or animals, things that you can experience the essence of, that you can empathize with when you look into their eyes, not that you can always see the eyes of business, but things that you can watch communicate with each other, animals, plants, again, who aren't able to speak English directly at you. Businesses do have souls. They are an energy each and of their own. I know this because I talk to TCPs all the time.

I talk to other people's businesses all the time. I know this because I work within the Akashic Records and I'm able to access the blueprint of businesses. And I can tell you that like us, they have lived and reincarnated over lifetimes. I know it sounds crazy, especially for my corporate listeners out there. And it's okay. You can let this one go if it's too much for you. No big deal. It doesn't change the bottom line here. Regardless, a business and the human running the business, they are indeed separate entities. But a business itself,

so incorporated business name building products, not going to suck your soul. The person leading it, the people attempting to be in control of it, the frontline employees who conform to the rules or regulations or processes that don't sit well in their bodies and beings, these are the things that suck souls. Saying something like business is business or my job is sucking the life out of me, it's giving away your power and it's not taking responsibility for your life or your actions.

If you're in a job or a relationship or a life situation where something doesn't feel right in your being and you continue to choose to show up without investigating what doesn't feel right or why it doesn't feel right and you do nothing about it, that will eat you alive. Not your relationship, not your partner, not your boss, not the company that you work for. It's the conflict in your heart that you feel.

when you know you're doing something that doesn't serve you. But then you betray yourself and you're knowing and you do it anyways, over and over and over and over again. That will suck your soul away. And I've been there. I've been in relationships that I knew were not serving me, but I chose not to leave. And I wanted so badly to be the victim. And I've been in jobs at companies whose values did not align with mine. And it is so easy.

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It was so acceptable for me to say my job is sucking the life out of me. I hate it here, but I need to pay my bills. So I'm going to suck it up. I remember actually starting a job in Atlanta and looking around the office. I was chatting with my new peers and I thought to myself, I don't want to be like any of these people, but I was working on my master's degree. I needed to pay for it. I needed to live. I knew that this was temporary.

It was a means to make money while studying and moving in the direction where I wanted my life to move. And I needed this for my resume. Have you ever said this to yourself? Yeah. So I sucked it up. I thought I'll just put my head down. I'll just do the work and I'll do it well. I will see all the silver linings and I will leave when the right opportunity comes when I'm done with my degree. And for the most part, I did do this. I got a lot of amazing experience and learnings from this job.

I got an offer from Microsoft a little over a year later, actually. On paper, everything is great, right? But the truth is, and the truth was, I was so internally conflicted that about nine months in, I needed to switch to a part-time position. Not because I truly needed more time for studying, but because I saw how I was being influenced and shaped by what was around me. And shortly after I quit, because I couldn't reconcile it in my body anymore.

So I moved to a tech startup that was amazing, but it also didn't work for me. And I left that too. If you ever walk into a room and think to yourself, I don't wanna be like any of these people, get out of the room because it's not their fault if you end up like them. And if you stick around for long enough, you will end up like them. It's far too easy to play the victim.

far easier to do that than it is to say no to something that doesn't feel 100 % to you. So do yourself a favor and say no as soon as you can because it only gets even harder the longer you stay in a situation that isn't working for you. Now, that's just one part of what it looks like to take responsibility for yourself. That's also the one that most of you, especially my spiritual peeps, will resonate with. It's the one that helps shape the narrative of corporations suck, leave them, get out.

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get out of a bad situation. But I also want to share this story. July 6th, 2015. It was my very first day at Microsoft and I had no fucking idea if I belonged or what my job was going to be or if I knew enough to do my job or do it well or if I would even like my job or the people or the environment. What I did know is that I was making three times more than I was at the tech company in Atlanta and that my benefits were like nothing I had ever experienced before.

For the first 23 years of my life, by the way, I didn't have health insurance. When I got my first job, I had to pay for my health insurance. When I started at Microsoft, health insurance was one, just one of the amazing, totally paid for benefits that I got just by being there. So while I had no idea if Microsoft was gonna work for me, I was pretty freaking positive that I was going to make it work for me.

But you know the truth in the story? I was actually really unhappy, really confused, and really lost for my first two to three years at Microsoft. I had days that I loved and appreciated my job, and I had days that I was like, what the hell am I doing here? Who am I? What should I be doing with my life? Where am I going? How did I get here? I don't want this. And you know what I did?

I would look at my student loan debt. It was $88,000 by the way. And that would motivate me to show up because I needed to pay for my student loans. And I did. I showed up. I showed up and I showed up and I showed up. Six months in, I was almost like, fuck this amount. I don't know what I'm doing. And I didn't want to be there. I thought I didn't want to be there. But then I watched this internal series that we had where people from outside of the company, outside of our industry entirely.

would come in and talk to us and tell us their stories. And I don't remember who the speaker was, but she was a woman. And she said something that she says to a lot of university students. She said, don't worry about your degree. Don't get lost in the existential crisis of figuring out what you want. Figure out who you want to be and use every single resource at your fingertips within this college to get you there. And I kind of thought about that and applied it to the resources that I have.

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accessible to me at Microsoft and it hit me that I didn't need to quit my job to be the person I wanted to be. I could just use Microsoft to help develop me into the person I wanted to be. I say this because we have speakers like this woman who I could take advantage of and learn from for free. Mentors, managers, role models, resources that I could leverage, trainings. There are so many really cool trainings at my job. And they're there for a reason, by the way. So I started to dig in.

And I did my day job. And when I couldn't motivate myself, I looked at my student loans. When that didn't motivate me, I turned on someone's story to success. I listened as people talked about their passions and their paths and what they learned, and I soaked it in. And sometimes I was still unhappy because I didn't exactly know who I was yet. This is a cross roles, by the way. My first three years at Microsoft, I was on three different teams doing three different jobs.

And I was convinced that I needed to find the right role or the right team to make me happy. And then one day, three to four years in, I was in a role that I loved, new role, and I loved it, but I was still not quite satisfied. And I was still debating on quitting or staying. I had everything. I had money, flexible schedule. I traveled all the time, traveled where I wanted to travel all the time. I taught yoga on the side for fun.

I surfed whenever I wanted to. I was paying my student loans down. I had a nice car, a big house, promotions. I was doing work that I thought was really interesting. Every single thing that I wanted, I could check off my list. And I was still not happy. And let me tell you, I studied philosophy in college. I taught yoga on the side. I did numerous teacher trainings, yoga teacher trainings. I knew and did all the mind tricks to make myself content.

I practice gratitude, affirmations were my go-to, I had little Post-its on my mirror, and I want to let you in on a secret. Gratitude and affirmations, they're not the secret to your success. They don't work. They're not going to make you happy. You're not going to affirm yourself into happiness, fulfillment, self-love, self-realization. I mean, maybe you will, but my guess is that you'll still feel like something's missing. And if you're working a nine to five like me, you're probably going to say something like,

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My job is sucking the life out of me. It must be my job because that's what we hear from everyone. It's so common, right? That's what we've been trained to believe because we buy into the story of quitting your job in order to build your dream life because quote, business is bad. But I'll remind you again, businesses don't suck souls. People do, processes do, policies do, conformity does. You do. When you step into suffering that exists in the conflict of doing something that doesn't feel right,

And then continue to do it anyways. And y'all, my job didn't not feel right. I was awake enough to realize that I was the one that didn't feel right. But even then, it was so easy to blame my job and I did outwardly, I blamed the crap out of my job. But eventually, I didn't want to feel that way anymore because no matter how normal a feeling is, it's really about whether you want to feel it or not, right? If you want to continue to feel it or not, do you do something or not?

totally fine to be unhappy at work, but do you want to be unhappy at work? I didn't, so I hired a coach. First time ever hiring a coach, by the way. And I was hoping more than anything that she would give me permission to leave my job. I was really hoping that she would tell me to quit and lean into the work that I wanted to lean into and that it would all work out. But she didn't do that. She told me something that I knew very well from my yoga practice. She said,

how we do one thing is how we do all things. And instead of working together on building a business so that I could quit my job, we worked together on me. And for the first time in my 26 years, I was able to articulate who I was and what I was here to do. And in that, I could separate myself finally from the stories that I told about myself. And I could separate myself from my decisions and the things that I wanted to do. And holy motherfucking shit.

My entire life changed. Not overnight, but...

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I can tell you this. I do love my job at Microsoft. I do love the work that I do. And I am completely separate from it. I love my life and my lifestyle and all the things that come from it. And I'm completely separate from those things too. Everything that exists in my life right now today is because I choose for it to be present. My job, my home, my family, my people, my work.

And I am fulfilled on a level that I did not know was possible. I feel totally connected and rooted in my soul. I am happy. I am healthy. I laugh every single day. And I work a nine to five. My job never changed. I'm still at Microsoft. I didn't quit. And it was never Microsoft or my previous company or any of the previous working situations that were the sole root of my unhappiness and disease and lifelessness. It was me.

not yet knowing who I was. And I'm not the example for every single being I know this. Situations can be shitty. Working environments can be shitty. I've been in them. And you always have a choice. How you do one thing is how you do all things. So pay attention to the voice in your head when you hear it. Say something like, the company you work for is sucking your soul away.

I meant to talk today. I meant to talk about awakening the soul in business, by the way. So we'll save that topic for the next episode where we'll dive more into the souls of businesses and how we can work with them, co-create and build businesses with extraordinary energy results and ethical success because businesses do have souls and businesses in and of themselves are not bad. So it's all really about how we manage them, how we work with them, how we co-create with them, how we build.

the life or the business of our dreams ethically in the way that we would as a human. Because we are humans and how we do one thing is how we do all things. And no matter the situation, we always have a choice. The question is, do you know who you are? Do you know how you do one thing? And do you realize that you have a choice?

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9 to 5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom, rate the show, and reach out with questions or topic requests. You can find me at hello at thecorppsychic.com. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic, and I would love for you to join our community for courses, containers, discounts, and live events. It's called TCP Community and Courses.

and can find it at community.thecorppsychic.com. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I would love to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind, I hope to meet again, maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 9. You Already Know: Practicing Discernment & Trusting Yourself

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Marie Groover (00:03.554)

Welcome to episode 9 of the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover, from The Corporate Psychic. This episode blends the psychic and the spiritual with the very human self with our very human beliefs. And coming from a psychic reader herself, it invites you to think for yourself because you already know the answers for which you seek.

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I should say right upfront that this episode is not actually about trusting or believing in or consulting with the psychic realm. Psychic, by the way, means of the soul, which is of no matter for the content of this discussion. The meat of this discussion, the point, is about thinking and deciding for yourself. It's about self-discernment.

and about how important it is to practice self-dissertment in the navigation of your own life. If you want to be truly in charge of your own life.

So I'm gonna start with a little bit of psychic talk. And if it makes you uncomfortable, please stick around. Because the spirit is not the point, at least not today. So I felt a dilemma last week and I texted a close friend. Her first response was, have you asked the cards? What did they say? And this is a common response from almost anyone who is aware of the type of work that I do.

I do facilitate intuitive readings and it's a large part of my business. I consult on behalf of myself and others with the Akashic Records, with Tarot. I talk to my spirit team on a regular basis. People pay me to talk to their spirit teams. I listen to and I feel out energy and I translate that to the human form. And this is for a part of my living. And also because it's really fun. I'm really into it and...

I'm always surprised by what I find or how I'm able to validate another human being. It's not me, by the way. But when my friend asked me, have I asked the cards? I hadn't. It's why I was texting her. And when other people ask me what my guides are saying when I'm in moments of distress or conflict, I have to share with you, oftentimes my guides are silent.

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I don't go to my cards or astrology or the Akashic records or even God or the universe every time I have a conflict in my heart or a decision to make. I don't pray, AKA speak to spirit, every time I'm in a difficult situation, at least not for answers. I mull it over with myself first. I ask friends and family and people that I trust, mentors, therapists, coaches, neutral, non-judging parties. I talk about it. I feel it out.

Most of the time, I find that I already know the answer that I'm looking for. But in the times I don't, in the times that it's really tough, that's when I bring in my cards or talk to a spiritual advisor. And I think that that's important. I think it's important to practice your own discernment before and after you've consulted spirit, by the way. Otherwise, you're giving up your agency. You're allowing something or someone else to drive your life.

I know people who seek a psychic or a spiritual advisor, even like a pastor or an astrologer or their card deck or the Bible at every single crossroads in their lives, big or small. And I'm not here to say that that's wrong because what is wrong or right? But I am here to say that if you don't discern and decide for yourself, even when you are seeking, even when you are seeking from someone else or something else,

If you don't discern and decide from yourself from deep within, which by the way implies that you need to know yourself from deep within, at least some of the time, but ideally most of the time, you're not actually steering the car of your life. Even if you work with the kind of person who brings you back to yourself. If you have a session with me, you might notice that I will never tell you what to do. I'll never tell you what to believe. I'll never tell you what's right or wrong for you.

And neither will your guides, by the way, your intuition, your guides, the universe will never say you must do this. You have to do this. You should do this. You need to do this. No, this is a key for recognizing your intuition versus your mind or your ego, by the way. And this is a key into who you should or shouldn't listen to if you're talking to a reader. Your soul is in the business of expanding and no matter what you choose, especially in those crossroads situations.

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You are still going to expand. You are still going to learn the lessons you were meant to. It's just a matter of which way do you want to do it? Do you want to pick the path of least resistance, of ease and flow? Or do you want to pick the slightly pricklier path with some ups and downs along the way? It's up to you. And part of the human experience, I believe, is being in the human experience and navigating life on our own human terms, not from ego, not from pride.

but from a space of knowing that we at all times are fully capable of knowing and moving and choosing the right decision for us from self, because self alone is connected to the divine.

If we look at this from the perspective of a parent and a child, not that divine is like a parent to us, though many philosophies do refer to it this way. But if we look at it from this perspective, if a child is constantly going to parents when they're not sure about something, or when they need something, or when they're in trouble, and parents intervene every single time, and by intervene I mean step in on behalf of child,

not help guide child back to self, not help child think or do, but do for the child, the parent will take away the child's capability to do it on their own. Worse, the parent will take away the child's confidence in self, trust in self, and trust in their own abilities. Now, this doesn't mean that a parent should never step in for a child. And of course, the child should always feel safe to go to their parents in difficult times. But there is a delicate and very important balance in this.

This is also true of spirit, God, the universe, the divine, your parents, society, your education, whatever. To surrender and trust in a great power, being, or energy does not mean sitting on the sidelines and waiting for what we want to come to us. It also does not mean that every time we're faced with a difficult decision we look for and wait for signs from the universe or go see a psychic reader, go talk to

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Spiritual advisor and obviously talking to someone is always great but like looking for the answer is really the thing that I'm hinting at here

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Every time we're faced with a difficult decision, we don't look for the answer and then do exactly what we're told or as we interpret. I mean, sometimes we do and sometimes people do. What I'm suggesting is that we don't do that. Parents, they do have the best interest of their children in mind and heart. And yet still sometimes guide children or decide on behalf of children poorly. Especially as the child becomes an adult, they are the single best decision maker for themselves in their own life.

You are the single best decision maker for yourself in your own life. And if you don't believe that fully, ask yourself right now, who or what has made you feel that way? Who or what has taken your power? When did you give it away? And what do they have to gain? Spirit isn't going to give you all the answers. Society isn't going to give you all the answers. Your education also not going to give you all the answers. You are.

You are the only being entity in your life that you know that can give you the answers that you seek. Who are you? Why are you here? Where are you going? What do you want most in this life? If you seek these answers from anything but yourself, you're not living or deciding from an authentic source. You are instead a vessel for someone or something else. And while I do believe

that we're all vessels of the divine. I also believe that we are the best translators for what that means for each of us on our own terms. And this doesn't just translate to the psychic realm. I'm talking about the importance of thinking for yourself, feeling for yourself, deciding for yourself. How many of you share the same political beliefs as your parents? And how many of you understand the core tenets of those political beliefs? And then how many of you have passed those same beliefs down to your children?

without asking why or where they came from without challenging them once. Or how about this one? How many of you have started a yoga practice, found a teacher that you really admire, and then like started sharing the learnings from your teacher or your classes to other people and have adopted them for yourself without first challenging them and understanding where they're coming from? I'm not saying that they're wrong. I'm not saying that your political beliefs are wrong.

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And how about this one? How many of you believe something, anything, and will not hear or listen to anyone who doesn't believe the same thing as you do? There's a lot of this happening in the US right now, across the world right now. We believe, but where did our beliefs come from? We decide, but where do our decisions come from? And then if you do struggle at all with trusting yourself,

trusting yourself to follow through, feeling confident in yourself, feeling confident in your abilities. You have to ask, did someone else decide for you? Are you believing something that's not coming for yourself? Is that why you're not confident? Is that why you're uncomfortable or maybe don't always trust yourself to follow through or trust yourself to do the right thing or make the right decision? I had a friend who used to challenge every single thing that I said.

They would be like, I don't believe that. I'm going to look it up. And it would be a fact about like cheese or something, something so straightforward, a fact. And they would look it up and it used to infuriate me. I would be like, do you not trust me? Do you not think that I did my research or that I'm smart or that I know anything? And they would be like, no, I don't. But later I realized that it wasn't about me at all.

Knowing something for yourself doesn't come from just believing what you're told. It comes from experiencing it yourself in some way. It comes from the knowing within you, the click of everything coming together. It's the light bulb moment. And I'm not saying question every single thing. I'm not saying don't trust any single person or entity or whatever. I'm just saying practice discernment. Learn how to check in with yourself. Learn how to listen. There's absolutely nothing wrong with seeking help

guidance, support, et cetera. But the answer, the decision, the action, the thing to do, it's best when it comes from you. So seek people who bring out yourself, who mirror to you what's in your heart. Don't give your power away. And if you want to start from within and work your way out, highly recommend. I'm teaching a full seven week course, kicking off on March 2nd. Remember, I will never tell you what to do or believe. Only you can do that.

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So I will only and always guide you back to yourself. We will hone your intuition and sharpen your critical thinking and challenge everything that you think you know until you are sure of who you find within yourself. Because that is what will enable you to guide yourself into the life and the business and the work and the experience of your wildest dreams. That is what's going to enable you to be confident and feel worthy and know what you're doing and why you're doing it and who you are and why you're here, which is a

game changer for your life, the way you live it. So email hello at thecorppsychic.com with the subject line, your soul's purpose. If you want to know more, no pressure. Who are you? Why are you here? Where are you going? What do you want most in this life? You already know. No, really, you already know.

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9-5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic and I would love for you to join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses and you can find it on Mighty Networks. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I want to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind. I hope to meet again.

maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 8. Listening to the Whisper: How to Know You’re on the Right Track (Make Money Being Who You Are, Part 3)

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Marie Groover (00:07.919)

Hello sweet souls and welcome to the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover of The Corporate Psychic. This episode is part three of Make Money Being Who You Are and as promised, we will talk about how to choose or know you chose the right thing to work on, when you are on the right track, and how to develop the fortitude and support for yourself to forge ahead into the unknown continuously. This episode is a bit of a ramble, but it might be the juiciest

the three parts so far and it gets deep. So let's get to it.

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When you have a good idea, quite possibly the idea, there will be a small voice inside your being that knows it. You will feel a whisper inside of you that this could be big. If you lean into it, you'll kind of know what to do. You might even get excited and start doing. Before we get ahead of ourselves, this small voice, this whisper, along with the excitement and the fear that arises,

That's how you know that you could be choosing the right thing to work on, the right thing to monetize. And then after the small voice, there will be many loud voices in your head and from the people around you that will say things like, what are you doing? What are you thinking? No, now isn't the time. Here are all the reasons why this won't work. How could this be possible? If it were,

Someone else has probably already done it or is doing it right now. Why you? And so you say something back like, okay, I want to do this, but maybe now isn't the right time. I'm going to plan or I'll wait for X to happen and then I'll know. Then I'll try it. And then you think you're doing the right thing and you'll think that you're making a compromise for yourself and for everyone around you and that it's a win-win, right? Maybe sometimes, but the vast majority of the time wrong.

Dead wrong. There is no compromise on this one. There is no compromise on your dreams. It will never be the right time. Ask anyone who's had a baby. There are people who plan and people who don't plan and regardless of whether you plan or not, you are never fully ready when the baby comes. You have a whole nine months, but still once that tiny human is in this world, it's go time. There's no

Let's wait a couple of weeks for all of the conditions to be right. Let's wait a couple of weeks and see how we're feeling. Rather it's, wait, how do they let me leave the hospital with this thing? I have to keep it alive. I don't know what I'm doing, but time is of the essence. Like let's get this baby to eat or whatever it is, right? And the same is true when an idea comes to us, when a business comes to us, when a plan comes to us, think of your ideas like babies. They do actually have souls as well, by the way.

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And no matter how ready you are, you aren't, no matter how fruitful the conditions are, you are never going to be fully prepared, but you do anyways. You act anyways and magic happens or you don't or you wait because it isn't a human baby right in front of you. And you think you have the time to sort your life out in advance and you think it's up to you or not how things will come together and who or what your idea will become. thing is the decisions that you don't want to make for yourself.

The ones you push out and hold off, those are the ones that get made for you. And y'all, your dream life doesn't just fall in your lap. 100 % of the time, it doesn't. Even to win the lottery, you have to play it. Nothing is a guarantee except when you don't choose, don't do, and don't show up. Then it's guaranteed not to happen. And I do believe in aligned timing. I believe that everything in my life has happened for me.

has happened in the exact right timing to bring me right where I am today. And I also know that for Align Timing to be on point, I had to show up in every single moment that I chose to show up. I had to meet things where they were. I had to move, to act, to be, to do, in and for my own self. I had to be flexible. This is important. I did not live my life hoping or expecting for Microsoft to recruit me. I leaned

deeply into the things that I was interested in in the moments I was interested in them. I decided to dedicate myself to my master's program in computer science, having no idea, not even having on my radar actually that Microsoft would one day reach out to me. I had an entirely different plan for me. The same is true when I started practicing tarot. When I started intentionally connecting with the Akashic Records, I just did. I didn't do it with TCP in mind, with my business in mind.

I did it for me. I did it because I loved it so much that I couldn't not and I needed people to read for beyond myself because I wanted to do everything I could to learn not for profit, certainly not for a business. I've said this before that I would laugh at you if you told me a year ago today that I would be running a full-blown business on the side of my full-time job, a business with a basis in the spiritual, ethereal realms with the term psychic.

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in the business name. No fucking way. No fucking way, my friend. I did not see this coming and I didn't even want this. I never wanted to run my own business. I did want to work for myself. Yes. I wanted to become a writer or a speaker. Absolutely. Share my work with the world. Totally. Like a business with a team and support and customers. No, thank you. Corporate customers. No freaking way.

I especially never wanted to be a coach. my God. I literally remember a conversation with two dear friends. It was right after a hot yoga class and we were all jazzed on yoga and life. And one of them was talking about stepping into coaching and I was like, I don't want to do that. It's just not for me. my G and with a psychic spin, I would have barfed in my mouth at this business idea a year ago. And yet four weeks after this discussion with two of my dear friends, TCP was birthed like,

This friend literally went out of town and she came back and I had a business and we were all like, what the fuck? The thing is, when it came to me, I sat with it and realized like, yeah, that makes total sense. Actually, it makes total sense for me to do what I've already been doing, but to charge for it. I was already mentoring people in their careers. I was already reading for people and writing and integrating authentic self plus the woo woo into corporate spaces. And yet.

There were a million reasons not to do this. Plus a million reasons that this wasn't going to work or wasn't the right time or that this business was not for me in that moment. There were a million other things that I could have focused on. I could have reasoned and strategize my way right out of this one, but I heard the voice, the tiny whisper that this would be big. Not big as in a million dollar business, by the way, but big as in big for me.

It was declaring an integration of my full self to the work and to the world in a way that I had never done before. It was a full surrender. And it absolutely was, now that I look back on it, stepping into my writing, into my heart, into sharing my heart with the world, all of my heart uncategorized. And I should add this for all of you, TCP, my business is not my forever. I already know this.

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I felt deeply when it came to be that it was something that I needed to do as a next step, not something that I needed to do for the rest of my life. This alone could have been a reason to back out. So many people back out of things, relationships especially, when forever isn't a promise. I have no fucking idea where this work will lead or what this is going to be or how my life is going to all come together, but I know that it will.

And I'm going to keep showing up fully in every single moment while I have it because I knew and I know that this is something that I need to do for me. Just like starting this podcast, by the way, I didn't start the spiritual nine to five to market TCP or attract new clients or for any reason other than I knew I needed to. I wanted to. I heard the whisper and I'm glad I listened because this has become one of my greatest joys sharing and expressing the wisdom that comes from my heart.

which I don't do with the corporate psychic, by the way. TCP is about you or your business, your idea, your relationships, whatever. And it's about pulling the wisdom from those places. Not to mention that I get to charge people money for doing what I want to be doing, for spending my time how I would want to be spending my time anyways. What a fucking magical co-creation with the unseen. You get to choose which voice you want to listen to. When an idea comes to you, when there's something you feel in your heart that you want to do,

It's not going to be the loudest voice in the room. It won't. Stop waiting for it to be. When we have an idea, when we feel the spark of inspiration, when we hold onto a deep desire or a dream, that is spirit.

That is your intuition speaking to you. Spirit, God, the universe, your intuition, your gut, your guides, all the things that we don't see, just like your ideas are not able to be seen until they are created. And for all intents and purposes of this episode, these things are all the same. In that, spirit does not yell at you. It doesn't ever tell you what you need or should do. And especially until you hone in on it and get really good at listening, it will almost always be the quietest voice in your being.

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It's only when you tune into it does it get louder. If any of you out there pray, like for even the people that don't believe in God or prayer or a higher power of the universe or anything spiritual, I know there's still a few of you who have gotten into a pickle and been like, God, I don't know if you exist or not, but if you do, please, can you do this one thing for me? And for those of you that do pray regularly to God, to the universe, to yourself,

those of you who speak into existence out loud the things that you want, have any of you ever gotten an immediate, clear and loud voice response that said, hello, don't worry, I've got you that thing that you want. I'm, I'm working on it right now. Has that ever happened to you loudly? Hell no. If it has, please send me an email right now. I want to hear the story, but I haven't heard of anybody saying this, right?

Stop waiting for the quiet voice to get louder while you simultaneously focus on the loud voices and loudly declare back to the universe that you aren't listening because you are already compromising, already doing or focusing on something else. Waiting for the thing you want to come to happen or come together for you will never ever happen without intention, focus, doing, listening and or co-creating with it.

There is no right time to listen to your ideas. And if that didn't hit home, I'll add this. Tomorrow is not a guarantee. In my intake form for the VA role, I asked everyone what they would do if they were gonna die in six months. If the work you are doing today isn't that, isn't the work that you'd be doing if you were dying, then you probably aren't listening to the little voice. You might be a little off track.

I would even go as far to say that you might not be as happy as you could be. And no, I'm not saying that working at Microsoft would be at the very top of my list if I were going to die in six months. I'm not saying that I wanted anybody to answer in the TCP application, by the way, that working for me would be what they would want to be doing either. If I were going to die in six months, I would maybe or maybe not quit my job. Depends on my need for funds and insurance, right? But.

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I would keep doing the work that I'm doing right now. I would keep recording podcasts. I would read deeply. I would reflect. I would write my fucking heart out, probably try to get published. Read for people, mentor people, work with people, spend time with loved ones, and ensure that in every single moment of every day, I was actively choosing to be in those moments. Because tomorrow is not a guarantee.

even if you only have six months to live. Okay. So I need to add another layer to this and get back on track. We can't expect our dreams to fall into our laps and we can't expect tomorrow or rely on next month, next year or the right time to also fall into our laps. And yet there is divine timing. like you might be wondering how the F do I build a business based on an idea if even tomorrow isn't a guarantee.

What's the point in showing up today if tomorrow might not be here? And if my business might fail anyways? And this is the million dollar question because there are no guarantees. So what is the point? The point is this, that tiny voice in your head, the ideas that come to you, the feelings, the desires or inclinations that pull very gently at your being. Those are the things that will lead you to who you are and who you are.

will lead you to your mission, your values, your worth, your vision, your confidence, pleasure and fun beyond your wildest dreams. It will lead you to a place of undisputed origin of self, where there is no need for shame, because you are true and authentic and whole. And it's so fucking fun and it feels so fucking good. And no, it's not all butterflies and roses, but hot damn, it is fulfilling. No, we don't have any control over outcomes, so we don't

do for outcomes. We do for ourselves because that's all we have. And when we do this, we not only become whole, but we become magnetic. This is how you manifest. This is how you attract what you most want, by the way. This is how you make your million dollars painting or singing or writing or fucking working at a desk, balancing finances or walking across the Himalayas or engineering power lines or working at Microsoft or any company.

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or whatever the fuck it is that you want to do wherever you want to be doing it. You do it for yourself because you believe in yourself. You trust yourself to follow through because you are all you have and everything else around you in your life that you think is your safety net could all disappear and fall away any moment. But you, you are with yourself until the end. So how do you make money being yourself? You be yourself. Listen to the small voice.

The one that scares and excites you. And then bring your whole fucking self to whatever it is that you do with the small voice. And if that means starting a business, start your business. Go all in. If that means being a nurse or an engineer or a professor or a priest, go all in. If that means writing a book or taking care of a dying parent, go, write, be there. Fill yourself with gratitude. Don't let yourself get complacent.

And by fucking geese, stop listening to the opinions of other people. Listen to your heart. And when you get bored, when you get scared, when you aren't sure if what you're doing is it anymore, when you've lost motivation, or when you've let the loud voices leak in, keep going. Find the small voice again. Lean into it when you hear it. And live in each small moment. Live fully. Give 100 % of yourself and stop.

doing shit that you don't want to be doing anymore so that you have the space and the time and the fortitude to show up in what you do want to be doing. In the words of Yana Robinson, if it's not a fuck yes, then it's a no. So listen to the yeses, to only the yeses, follow them and do the things that you want to do. When you show up fully and only what you want, momentum will build and it will become easier to trust in the unknown.

It will become easier to trust in yourself in the unknown. And it will be easier to ignore the loud voices in and around you. There is no right time to listen to your heart and follow through with action. There's no right time to do what you want to be doing, to be who you truly are, to live in the small moments with undisputed origin, free of shame, full of confidence, because you are your safest asset.

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So if you want to make money being yourself, no matter how ready you are, you aren't. Do anyways and allow the magic to happen. If you want specific coaching or to deepen in this conversation, I invite you to join me for monetize your purpose, February 7th, 8th and 9th of 2022, this month right now. It's a three-day masterclass activation. And I would love to hear your ideas, your progress, your fears and your roadblocks.

and to make progress on your dreams together. Email the word monetize to hello at thecorppsychic.com for free registration. When you have a good idea, quite possibly the idea, there will be a small voice inside your being that knows it. Listen to this voice, allow yourself, your true self to come through. You already know what to do. And I can promise you that you won't regret it.

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9-5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic and I would love for you to join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses and you can find it on Mighty Networks. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I want to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind. I hope to meet again.

maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 7. Jumping Off the Cliff: How to Begin Monetizing Your Purpose (Make Money Being Who You Are, Part 2)

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Welcome to episode 7 of the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover of The Corporate Psychic. Today we are continuing our mix of money, desire, purpose, and authentic self. Specifically, we'll talk about where to begin.

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Last week we talked a little bit about bringing your mind along. This week we're going to talk about jumping off the cliff. But first, a reminder. You are your greatest asset and your safest bet. When you are clear and connected with who you are and what you are capable of, you alone can secure and support yourself. And your purpose, it will never limit you.

Your purpose will only ever expand your opportunities and avenues for enriching your life and monetizing your work. You limit yourself only when you try to conform to an existing pathway, opportunity, or system. You limit yourself when you try to be something that you aren't, when you try to be someone that you aren't. Therefore, our focus is going to be on not conforming, not seeking, and not expecting.

paths, outcomes, or opportunities, including results. Our focus is ultimately going to be on doing. getting 100 % of what you want doesn't come by doing what someone else has or is doing. Jumping off the cliff is surrendering to the creation of your own path, which doesn't look the same for everyone. So let's talk about what that means and what that might feel like.

I think I've said this every week so far, and I have no shame in repeating it here. Getting clear on your purpose, on your big why, on the unchanging parts of you is crucial. What I mean by this is your why, your how, and your what. Simon Sinek coins this as the golden circle. I think that's what he calls it. I'm gonna be talking about this more in my masterclass, Monetize Your Purpose. You're invited, by the way.

And I have an entire seven week container devoted to this. Your why, your how, and your what. This is your navigation system and your North Star for life. And it's not necessary for living authentically or joyfully. I mean, it helps a lot, but it is necessary if you want to monetize your work or finish anything related to your purpose and desires. Super necessary if in monetizing your work, you're building or creating a business. The thing is,

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It's so easy to skip this part. It's so easy to look outside of ourselves and to ask, what is the world missing? What hasn't been done before? Or what should I focus on? And then follow that up with, how do I do that successfully? And then not follow through with it at all. Like how many of you have thought about something that you think the world needs and then you decided not to work on it because you didn't think that success was likely or because you saw too many barriers?

my god, there's no judgment right now because this was me literally a few years ago for my entire life. I had so many ideas but no conviction, no follow through, no true belief in the ideas on their own. Yeah, that's because there's no conviction without purpose. Your purpose, your why, your North Star, the one that guides you. It's not a guarantee, it's not results, but it's your why. Because you are your guarantee.

When you're connected to this, when you're connected to your why, when you move from this place, the money and the results will come. I promise. Making money being who you are and doing what you want to do, it's not possible by being someone else's version of you or by creating someone else's expectations, needs, or desires. It's by knowing and expressing your own. So to begin, get

on your why. Get clear on who you are on the unchanging parts of yourself. There are parts of you that do not ever change. Do you know them? Connect with them and then understand how you are yourself. Understand the unique characteristics, habits, desires, activities that make you you and then make a list of all the products and services or offerings that you can bring to the world.

that you desire to work on, that you want to exist for yourself, that you want to bring to the world. And connect to those dots. Those are your what's. Connect those dots to your why.

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I'm here to inspire people to touch the wisdom of their soul. That's my mission. That's my purpose. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm alive. I exist to inspire people to touch the wisdom of their soul. I'm obsessed with wisdom. I live for wisdom. It's one of my top three values. When I discovered my mission statement, I was like, yeah, that is what I'm here to do. And I already do it by

being myself. There's nothing that I need to do or change to be or to fulfill it. I naturally will fulfill it when I allow myself to be who I am. I'm doing it right now. The things that I offer to the world, my what's, are my poetry, my podcast, my writing, my work with TCP. And notice that the corporate psychic is only one way that I bring myself forward into the world.

and it's only one channel for making money and how I bring myself forward to the world. A few years ago, teaching yoga was on this list. It really isn't anymore, and that's okay. What's also on this list is my work at Microsoft. I know how my why is connected to my what at my job. Game changer, by the way. Huge game changer, life changer, career changer, just like happiness factor changer at my nine to five. End surfing.

Serving is totally a product of my truest expression. It's something that I offer the world. I totally count this as a what and no, I don't get paid in the traditional sense, but I get so much more than money when I serve. Plus, have I mentioned that I was recently in the freestyle watch winter commercial, surfing? What you can offer to the world and receive back, even in the form of money, by the way, is infinite.

Your purpose will never limit you. It will only expand your opportunities for bringing your work into the world. And your what's, your services, products, and offerings are allowed to and will change over time. Let them. But this is important. This is huge because you are not your what's. You are not your products or your services. Your purpose

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Also, not your what's your purpose is not your products your services your offerings. You are not born here To deliver something to someone I was not born here to be or own the corporate psychic. I was not born here To surf as much as I would like to think I was I was born here to inspire people to touch the wisdom of their soul and the number of ways that I'm able to do that and make money is infinite

Your purpose will never limit you. So moving on. So you're clear on your purpose. Step two, before you jump off the cliff and into your life's work and into your purpose, into your full self, doing whatever it is that you feel called to do, serving the people with whatever it is that you feel called to bring to the world, ask yourself what kind of world needs to exist for you to be and do everything that you want.

What kind of world do you want to live in? How do you want to feel, be? How do you want to express yourself? How do you want to show up? And this is important. How can you realize that you embodying who it is that you are fully brings us all one step closer to the world that you imagine and most deeply desire? It's your responsibility in fact to show up and contribute to the building of this world.

No, not by dictating how the world should be itself, not by dictating how we should build the world, but by building the world in being your fullest self. And this is a basic piece of your vision. Key word here, vision. Your vision is what will bring your purpose, your North Star, and your work together. Lots more on this in my masterclass next week, but vision is absolutely key.

Okay, so step three, leap. Just start doing. Don't avoid it, don't go around it, don't take time explaining it or researching it, just freakin' do it. You don't need context, you don't need history, you don't need new skills, you don't need to sharpen old skills to take any classes, to do anything prior. You don't need to do anything other than just doing what you want to do.

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This is wisdom from Aristotle, by the way. I'm not just making this up. He says this in his Nicomachean Ethics. He says, if you want to be a painter, you paint. You don't need to read about painting. You don't need to become the best at painting. You don't need to know everything about all the colors or all the tools or all the methods. You just need to paint. And if you think what you want to do requires more, because maybe you don't want to be a painter, but you want to do something that seems a little bit more complex, I offer you this from William Osler.

It's one of my favorite quotes. says, he who studies medicine without books, sales an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. So theory is great, but experience is all that you need. If there is something that you want to do, and if there's something that you want to make money doing, then just start. Go to frequency.

You don't need a degree. You don't need credibility, reputation, brand, a large following. Y'all I closed January at 14.7 K in sales, actually a little bit more than that. And I have 1700 followers on the corporate psychics page, probably less on my personal Instagram page by the way. And I almost guarantee that right now probably only 10 of you are listening to this podcast. You don't need a following. You don't need a strategy.

You don't need to worry about the how. You don't need to worry about who. You don't even need a freaking website immediately. You also don't need to know all the things that you think you need to know. No list, no software, no budget. Let it go. Whatever it is, let it go. The corporate psychic was just a thought in my mind, not even a full year ago. And I went full speed ahead all in months before my website was complete. In fact, by the time my website was built,

I had already delivered over a hundred readings under the name, the corporate psychic. had an amazing website launch because I was already working with people. And actually my site went live in November of 2021, like not that long ago, two, three months ago, which is also when I kicked off and fully filled my first purpose driven group container, your undisputed wisdom. If I had waited for my website to go live, I wouldn't have been able to afford the web development work that I was paying for.

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If I had waited for my website to go live, who knows where I would be right now not doing this, right? But by the time my site did go live, all the money I spent on TCP or planned to spend on TCP, because I didn't have it, was paid for by itself. In fact, every time I invested in myself or my business, every time I showed up, it has paid for itself monetarily, not even in the value that I got in the service or the coaching or the support or whatever it is that I was reaching for. Monetarily, that money has come back.

Just begin. If you are clear on who you are, the rest will fill itself out. Not just because it did for me, not just because Aristotle says it, not just because William Osler, but because it's true. It doesn't have to be perfect. And yes, you will iterate and yes, things will shift and yes, not everything is going to be what you think it is. And yes, it's really freaking scary. And yes, it takes effort to be who you are, to show up every day, to talk about your work and yes,

Your dreams and goals can feel very far away if you let them. Actually, it's natural. And when you want something, when you start something, it's natural for it to feel even further away than it is. It's kind of like when you start to learn something new, you also realize how little you actually know about that thing and how much more you have to learn, right? This isn't to discourage you. It doesn't need to be discouraging. It's actually just your awareness expanding. It's a shift in perspective.

It doesn't mean that you are truly further away from the thing that you want, just like it doesn't mean that there is actually more information than there was before to learn. Nothing has changed, only your perspective. The way to get around this and away from discouragement is to just start taking steps toward the thing that you want. Yes, it really is that simple. But when you hold yourself back,

because you think you need a plan or a solution or a process or some backend context, whatever, you delay the inevitable momentum and progress that could have been available to you. Remember, jumping off the cliff is a surrender to the creation of your own path. And when you surrender to this creation, the end result is always so much bigger and more beautiful than it would have been had you stayed.

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in some pre-planned, pre-designed course and strategy that you arbitrarily limited yourself with. Surrender to the creation of your own path. No, you won't have all the answers. You won't ever have all the experience. You are learning as you go, and you're doing things that have never been done before. Give yourself grace and get to work. And by ghee, if you're still not sold on working with me and find your purpose, please come to...

Monetize your purpose. It's a three day masterclass activation on February 7th, eighth and ninth next week at 7 p.m. EST each night. And it's just so much more than I can put into a podcast. Plus it's FaceTime with me directly to ask all the questions that your heart desires. And if you email the word monetize to hello at thecorppsychic.com, you'll get free access. Tell me, the last time you took steps toward your dreams, did you regret it?

I'm willing to guess probably not. But the times that you dismissed your dreams altogether, those times might haunt you still. So do yourself a favor and email me right now. And then get excited for our next episode, which will examine how you know when you chose the right thing to work on. Or we can even examine how to know if you're choosing the right thing to work on, how to know when you're on the right track.

and how to develop the fortitude and the support for yourself to forge ahead into the unknown continuously. Making money being who you are and doing what you want is inevitable if you show up in aligned action and embodied self. So let's keep it going.

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9-5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic and I would love for you to join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses and you can find it on Mighty Networks. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I want to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind. I hope to meet again.

maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 6. Make Money Being Who You Are, Pt 1: Bring Your Brain

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Marie Groover (00:04.216)

Welcome to the Spiritual 9to5 podcast, hosted by myself, Marie Groover of The Corporate Psychic. Today we're mixing money, desire, purpose, and authentic self. And we are going deep into the mindset and fear that comes up before taking the leap on the thing it is that you want. Because the first step in successfully making money being who you are and doing what you want is bringing your brain along in the journey.

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I have so many things to say about this and I'm honestly not even sure where to begin here. So I'll start by sharing a list of things that I've found to be true and then I'll deepen upon some of it. And I'll probably record like four more episodes if we're being real. So the first thing is what you focus on will expand. This is crucial. Focus on what's in your heart and you won't go wrong. Two,

Your purpose will never limit you, but you do need to get clear on it. Getting clear on your purpose illuminates the infinite pathways to fulfilling it. Three, you are your greatest asset. You are your safest bet. And when you're clear and connected with your purpose, your purpose can and will secure and support you. Yes, financially, but also beyond.

And we can replace purpose with what you want, by the way. When you're clear and connected to what you want, that cannon will secure you. It will support you. And number four, if you want something, going all in is the path with the least amount of risk. Remember, if you want it, it is possible for you. We're not gonna dive super deep into this in this episode, but it's important and we'll come back to it again.

Number five, if you want to live with joyousness, if you want to be and feel fulfilled, if you want to make a lot of money, if you want anything at all, stop looking for a path to follow and create your own. Getting 100 % of what you want doesn't ever come by conforming to another path. More on this as well in another episode.

Number six, keep going. Results are not immediate. If you don't trust the process, trust yourself. I will circle back to this in this episode. And the last thing is if you want to make money being who you are, don't listen to what other people have to say. I will explain why in a few. So disclaimer.

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If you haven't noticed, this episode is a bit more about the mindset, about what you believe to be true, than it is about the specific steps to follow to make money. This is because mindset is the biggest piece to conquer in your journey to making money. Starting a business, securing a job, materially pulling everything together, it all takes effort, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. The part of the iceberg that you don't see

is what's going on in the mind and how you bring your mind along in your journey beneath the material. You see, if there's something that you're holding in your heart that you dream of or that you desire or want to be true, say, to make money being yourself, doing exactly what you want, then it is possible for you, period. And especially if you have never experienced this before, if the thing that you want is net new to you,

then your mind is going to block you because the entire job of your mind, of your human brain is to keep you safe. Let's say that you're in a trauma scenario and actually this is how trauma bonds form. This is how we stay in patterns that do not serve us. We know that a relationship is bad for us but we stay in it because it's what we know. We know that a job is toxic but we don't quit. And even if it's not optimal, it's safe to the brain. So the brain...

will try to stop you from stepping into the unknown because it thinks that it won't be able to protect you. The entire job of your brain is to keep you safe. Whereas in a situation that is familiar, even if it's in trauma or toxic root, even if it's just like average, so it doesn't even have to be traumatic, but it's average, it's not the best thing for you. You're not growing anymore. The brain and your body, by the way, have developed pathways and methods of protection

to keep you safe, even in the trauma. Familiar is safe to the brain. Your brain's job is to keep you safe. This is a beautiful thing. We are alive because of our brains. So even though our brains sometimes keep us from growth, it's important to just take a moment and thank our brains.

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And again, even though this is a good thing that we're alive because this is why we're alive, our brains keep us alive, they keep us safe. But this is also why when you're about to step into something new, anything at all, you have at least one moment of fear. Actually, I'm in this right now. I just hired TCP's second employee under me and I'm about to hire a third. I have never been responsible fiscally for holding this many people before.

It's fucking scary. It literally feels like I'm about to jump off a cliff and I'm not sure if my parachute is going to open. So I feel afraid. I feel fear, which is normal. But the key is what you decide to do with the fear, how you acknowledge it, how you work with it, how you bring your brain and your body and your nervous system along with you, despite the fear, despite the unknown.

And remember what I said at the very beginning of my list. The first thing, what you focus on will expand. If you focus on the fear and spiral out, the list of reasons for being afraid will grow. If you focus on all the reasons that things won't happen for you, you will start to see evidence of all the things that are working against you, of all the things that are going wrong or could go wrong. But if you focus instead on all the possibilities of what could be,

of what could go right, of what is working in your favor, even right now, you'll start to find new evidence that you are safe, that things are going to work out, that you've got this, that the world is working with and for you. And then your mind will move with you because you're showing it evidence that it can. You're giving it proof that you are okay. This is the key to rapid growth, by the way. If you can master your mind,

You won't not be afraid to leap anymore, but you will move through the fear that comes before the leap so much easier, so much more quickly every single time. And then you leap. But some of you still have this question, but what if it doesn't? What if your parachute doesn't open? What if TCP does go under? And I have to let go of the humans I promised I would support. What if that happens? What if you don't make a million dollars doing what you want? What if you don't get the thing, the job, the opportunity, the result?

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What if it doesn't happen? My coach, Shoesh, she would say, but what if it does? And I will ground that with, okay, what if it doesn't? What's the worst thing that will happen? I'll tell you what it is. You will pick your ass up and you'll figure it out and still find that you are your most invaluable asset, your safest bet, the one thing that you can always rely on because you will always show up for yourself. I promise you that.

Whatever the worst case scenario is, I guarantee that you can fucking handle it and that you'll look back and be proud that you did. And then you keep moving in the direction of what you want. If you don't trust the process, trust yourself. You just proved that you can if you failed. I have a client actually who messaged me about her new found candle company. It's epic, you guys. It's amazing. I'm so excited for her.

She shared for the first time on social media that she was making candles and selling them. And she messaged me that she only got four new followers. She said to me, she was defeated. She did the thing that she desired and nothing happened. She didn't suddenly have a massive following. No new orders came in right away. What the fuck Marie? I showed up and nothing. By the way, if this resonates, please come to my three-day master class, monetize your purpose because I will tell you how to make it happen, the things that you want.

as you push out yourself into the world and your offerings and products and services and desires. But in the meantime, I have three things to say to this. One, if gaining four new followers is the worst case, then fuck. I mean, she didn't die, did she? Two, she gained four new followers, which means that someone from one single post, and it was actually a story, so was like not even permanent, right? It was a temporary story. Someone saw that. At least one person saw what she was doing and shared it.

but probably four or five or six or seven people saw what she was doing and shared it. Which is actually evidence that people are ready to share and show up for what's in your heart, for what you have to offer to this world. Maybe those four new followers didn't purchase a candle right away, but I guarantee if she kept showing up, they would eventually.

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And third, I just saw this on Rita Mirchandani's Instagram story. So Rita is one of my coaches. A penny doubled every day for 30 days is $5.4 million. But a penny doubled every day for only 15 days, half of that time is only $163.84. If you show up in your fullness once and gain four new followers, imagine what will happen when you keep showing up in your fullness.

every day while you are simultaneously growing and expanding in your fullness. Learning how to show up better and better, fuller and fuller, literally increasing your odds each time, probably more than double by the way. If you quit on day 15, you could miss out on literally 5 million opportunities to expand, 5 million opportunities to connect, 5 million opportunities to give your service to the world.

The lesson in the post was to trust the process. But I say that when you can't trust the process, trust yourself. You are your greatest asset. And by gee, do not listen to other people and absolutely do not ask for permission, no. Remember when I said that your brain is here to keep you safe and that it will block you from growth? Well, so is literally every other human brain on the planet. You're not alone.

So when you confess your deepest desires to your best friend and she shits on it, it's not because your desires are not attainable. It's because she loves you and she wants you to feel comfortable. She wants to feel comfortable and her human brain cannot fathom the expansion and her human heart cannot bear the potential for your disappointment. And while this comes from such a good place, don't listen to the constraints of someone else's human brain. Do not follow your dreams or don't not follow your dreams.

because someone else's brain is worried that they won't feel safe and comfortable if you fail. Fuck that. Listen to your heart. It is your job to bring your own brain along in your growth. It is not your job to bring your friends and your family or even your partner or trusted advisors brains along too. They can manage their own brains. Bringing your mind along before you jump off a cliff is enough stress on your central nervous system. Please don't carry the world with you. The world.

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your friends, your family, your partner, your trusted advisors, your mentors, the people that are in your outer circle that you don't even know who are watching, they will witness your expansion and they will naturally follow on their own. And so will a lot of other people. When you listen to your heart and follow it, you will start a movement. And it's this movement that will be the very basis for making money, being exactly who you are, doing exactly what you want. This is a lot.

So I will pause. I invite you to come back to all of this, re-listen to this. It's important. And then stay tuned because we're only going deeper in the next episode. This was literally just some of the mindset work around monetizing your purpose. It's like a taste of the work that you do as you start to bring your brain along, as you start to expand in yourself, as you start to bring your value into the world and make money while bringing your value, but while bringing yourself.

I know I didn't exactly illuminate the material breakdown of how to make money being yourself, but I am and I will be doing that and so much more on February 7th, 8th and 9th in a three day master class activation called monetizing your purpose. Email the word monetize to hello at the corppsychic.com to register for free by the way. If you're listening to my podcast, you get free registration. If you follow me or if you hear or see of this anywhere else, you will not get free registration.

message me, email me, or join the TCP exclusives community on Mighty Networks to tap into this, plus many other trainings and deepening discussions. Remember, if there's something that you want, anything that you're holding in your heart, whether or not you believe it's possible, it absolutely is. But if you want to see it, if you want proof, all you have to do is look. What you focus on expands. Focus on yourself. Listen to your heart.

Show up in your fullness. I can't wait to witness your expansion into all the things that are possible for you.

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9-5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic and I would love for you to join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses and you can find it on Mighty Networks. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I want to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind. I hope to meet again.

maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 5. Life on Empty: Tapping into the Hidden Capacity Within Yourself

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Welcome to the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover of The Corporate Psychic. It has been a month over here and in this episode, I want to tap into the chaos that I've been experiencing and talk about what it can feel like to give even when you have nothing left to give. I want to talk about living life on empty and tapping into the hidden capacity within you. So let's get to it.

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The best yoga class that I ever taught was the morning after the decision to get a divorce. It was a long night after many weeks of long, hard conversations. I was exhausted and completely depleted. I walked into the studio with absolutely nothing to give, not even my tears. In fact, I only showed up because I had to. I couldn't find a sub. I remember walking to the front of the yoga room and sitting down.

closing my eyes and having no idea what was going to come out of me and then witnessing as my higher self literally took over. I learned something very important that morning. When you have nothing to give, you have no choice but to surrender to something greater than yourself, to allow the universe to work through you, to pour out of you through your mere presence, your voice and your being.

A well that you didn't know existed suddenly overflows. You don't care about what other people are thinking. It doesn't matter anymore how much money you're making or what the impact or the reward of your service will be. When you have nothing to give except for yourself in a moment of absolute loss or depletion, you find that you alone are so much more than enough. That yoga class, the one that I didn't think I was capable of teaching,

It was my best class ever. It was my deepest opening and offering to my community and to myself. And it came from nothing but from me, from whatever was left of me when I thought there was nothing left of me. And I was left in awe. In January, this year, this January, which isn't even over yet, my partner and I took a few days apart. His dad fell and broke his hip and after surgery became unresponsive.

we had to put my dog Rambo down, one of the hardest days of my life, and bury him in my parents' I rode in the car with his lifeless body and my partner carried him to a hole that my dad had dug and gently slid Rambo into the dirt. His dad got to come home, but is now bound to a hospital bed and hospice has come in. So my partner started staying with his parents to help out and I had been trying to offer support where I could. And then,

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My mom went into the hospital shortly after with a collapsed lung and an excruciating experience. She was left in the hallway for 12 plus hours before they were able to put her in a small corner of the ED before anyone, including my dad, including myself, could visit before I even knew what was going on. When I was able to get there and be with her, advocate for her, it wasn't much better. And witnessing her experience sucked the life out of me.

With everything going on, I had to take so much time away from work. I literally texted my boss the other day that I don't think I worked a full week since I started this new role in January. I juggled my personal life, a little bit of my work life, my business, the corporate psychic, my relationship, and my families. I have never had a harder month in my entire life. With more things happening all at once.

It just hasn't happened yet. And yet I didn't stop showing up, not completely. I nurtured relationships and began working with two new and amazing VIP one-on-one clients. I'm in the midst of recording and launching an intuitive and purpose-driven group container, Your Soul's Purpose. There are still spots if you want to sign up with options to work with me one-on-one. And I recorded plus published for now five podcasts episodes.

I slowed down my responses to my Instagram DMs and my emails and my activity in the TCP community as well, but I didn't stop. And I still answered every single DM and every single question that came my way. January has been my biggest month financially to date with the corporate psychic. And I didn't show up knowing that it would be. I didn't show up knowing even that I could show up. I'm also not a masochist, I should say. Nor do I think I can.

nor do I think we can or anyone can or should do it all. I believe in rest, trust me. I believe in being fully present for those we love. I believe in taking the time when we need it. And I also know that if I were a mom, I wouldn't get a full break. If you're a mom, tell me the last full break you've taken. And I know that when family needs you, you don't get a full break.

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When your relationship is tested, when your life is going haywire, when you're about to go production on a new feature, an update in tech, when you're an exec at a major company, you don't get a full break. There are times where you can't always just step away. And this is in life in general, right? Like rarely do we really get to step fully away from anything. And as a business owner without a virtual assistant, but hiring a VA as we speak, so reach out to apply.

But as a business owner without a VA, when your business needs you, you don't get a full break. I know there are people out there who may disagree with this and yes, it is always a choice and yes, you must always choose you and yes, you absolutely can choose to step away. But sometimes in choosing yourself, you also choose what you're responsible for holding. You also choose to show up. It's not always easy, but you do it anyways.

And I'm saying this, I'm sharing this to be real with you. If you subscribe to my work, you likely subscribe to my saying that authentic work is your life. AKA, there's no such thing as work-life balance. It's all your life. There is just your life. And the question is, are you living and showing up authentically in all facets of it? Are you where you want to be?

Would you choose to hold the things in your life when your life is tested beyond your limit?

all the things that you hold in your life, you are juggling constantly. You may focus a bit more on one thing, but ultimately you never let anything fall completely to the ground. I mean, in reality, we all do sometimes and it's okay when we do, but there's a misconception that you can just step away or step out of the things when you're overwhelmed. But there are some things that you can't drop the ball on, like being a parent or a child whose parent is in need or

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Running a business that requires your presence or working in a high stakes environment, paying your mortgage or your utility bills, eating and drinking sufficient water. Even when you stop and step away, the world keeps moving with or without you. So what are the things that you want to move with? What are the things in your life that serves you? Even when everything else has gone to shit? Take a moment to review all the things that you hold and juggle.

and ask yourself if you want each of them. Ask yourself, can you show up even when you have nothing to give? Things get really hard sometimes. And by get really hard, mean things take effort. It takes effort to be present. We go through divorce, parents die, children die, friendships end. We lose our jobs. We lose our homes. We get checked into psych wards or rehab facilities. We lose control.

As humans, we experience despair at its deepest contraction points. And yet, contraction and expansion is possible at the same time. When you have nothing left to give, show up and give anyways. Not because you're striving for a 10K or 20K or 50K month. Not because you're reaching for a promotion or because you want to one-up your sibling or daughter to be daughter or son of the year.

Not because you want to be the best or because you want to make someone else happy. Show up to show up because it's all you've got. You are all you've got. And then allow the 10K, the 20K, the 50K month. Allow the promo or the recognition or the thank you. Allow the results and the rewards to follow, but do not show up for them. If you're juggling and holding only in all of the things that you want to be.

If you're living in alignment with yourself, then when shit hits the fan, you'll surprise yourself at your capacity, at your grace, at your energy, at what you can give, if you can be fully present. There is a well inside of you flowing from places that you didn't know existed within you. And if you're not there, if you're not only holding all of the things that you want to be, you can still access this well.

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It looks a little different, it's possible if you show up in compassion and total presence. When you give all of yourself to what's in front of you. When you have nothing left to give, show up and give anyways. Give it all. In the right circumstance, you will discover that you alone are more than enough. And that is the truth.

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9-5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic and I would love for you to join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses and you can find it on Mighty Networks. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I want to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind. I hope to meet again.

maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 4. To Quit or Not Quit Your 9-5 and Why I’m Not Quitting Mine

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Hello, sweet soul family. Welcome to the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover. And thank you for listening. This is episode four. And today I'm talking about my 9to5. It's just one of the things that I do when I'm not doing the corporate psychic. And it's been a huge part of my life for the last almost seven years. Today I'm talking about why I'm not quitting my 9to5. At least not right now.

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There is a divide between the spiritual world and any free-spirited space with corporate or the nine to five world. I felt it for so many years. I had one foot in the corporate space and one foot in my yoga community, in my travel community, in my hippie community, and in the community of free-spirited joy and thrill and movement seeking individuals, not to say that people in corporate

are not also dipping their toes and or full body in those communities. And I saw both sides. I get why my free-spirited family is against the corporate desk job, and I respect that. And I also get why my corporate soulmates love their jobs or stay in their jobs or prioritize their career and stability. And for years, I didn't know where I fit.

I struggled if I should quit my job, if I should want to quit my job, if I should travel full-time or write full-time or focus on myself full-time, become a yoga teacher full-time. And instead, or instead, if I should focus everything on my career so that I could one day move up the corporate ladder, make more money, be a decision maker.

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and be a boss. And I watched a lot of people around me struggle as well with the same exact thing. The conflict of should I stay or should I go in corporate and in spiritual spaces, especially when these two intersect, it's real. And for my entrepreneurs, my aspiring entrepreneurs, my career oriented humans who don't know what career is best for them, what path to take in the corporate world.

for all of you basically out there listening, the conflict of what to focus on in yourself, in your career, or in your business, all of these are so real. I'm talking to anyone out there who feels like they are multifaceted, multi-passionate, not sure where to focus, not sure what you love the most type of person. I too felt this and to be honest, it held me back from starting my own business for a long time. This feeling

also held me back from focusing in on one career path or trajectory for a long time. If you're listening and you work with me or you know me well, or you've just witnessed my life for the last 20 years, you'll know that despite my amazing career story and journey to Microsoft, that a lot of my movement, even at Microsoft, has probably been ADHD driven more than anything. And I've been all over the place. I'm constantly, even right now, all over the place.

And sometimes I make decisions because I feel a conviction about what I should be doing. And sometimes I make decisions to suppress my all over the placeness to be more focused. And since I started at Microsoft, this is just one example. I have been in and out of technical roles. One year I fucking love being technical and one year I cannot fucking stand being technical. I miss the business. And to be fair,

I've learned I am better on the business side, which doesn't mean I'm not going to change my mind in a year or two from now. But the bottom line is I, like anyone, can be technical or business oriented or both.

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And anyone can be spiritual and work and thrive in corporate. I've said this before, but I can't emphasize it enough. We can be all the things. You can be all the things. This episode is your permission slip to stop trying to follow all the rules about how or who you're supposed to be when having your own business, when traveling around the world, when becoming a parent, when working your nine to five, when making or spending or saving money.

If you're unhappy or you feel conflict, stop trying to fit yourself into a box or a role. Stop trying to adjust or transform who you are to fit into that box or that role or a stereotype or whoever it is that you feel you need to be to do the thing that you're looking to do. Look at me. I have a psychic business and I work at Microsoft. It makes no fucking sense, but to me it makes

all the sense. It makes just the right amount of sense. So let me pause and back up for a second. I too felt a lot of conflict at one time. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. I didn't know if I needed to quit my job in order to run a business. I didn't know what kind of business I wanted to run. I didn't know if I wanted to be technical or non-technical. I didn't know if I could bring any value in any of the spaces that I was interested in.

I didn't know that I could be all of the things that I wanted to be and instead I spent a lot of years trying to pick one thing to be. I spent a lot of unhappy years trying to pick one thing to be. Then one day I was walking off the beach and I got a message. It said, a union of opposites. You see, I had been pondering this idea, this conflict within me.

this conflict within so many for quite some time. And I didn't buy it anymore that I had to choose. Y'all, I loved my job. I still do. And before I ever even dreamed of starting a business, I never let my job limit me from the things I wanted. I only ever saw it as a way to amplify my ability to get and do the things that I wanted. When I started this particular job, so when I started Microsoft, I first moved to Texas.

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And then I moved to Charlotte. Both moves were for my career. I moved not just for work though. I moved because it sounded exciting to me to move. It sounded exciting to me to move for a job. So I was happy to take the leap for work. I was happy to take the leap into a new space, a new environment, a new place. Then I started traveling extensively for work. And I said yes to this. I said yes to travel because I wanted to travel. And I got to see most of the entire country.

But traveling for work all the time gets rough. And when it didn't work for me anymore to be traveling every single week, despite people at work telling me that it was impossible to be remote and do the particular job that I was in, I figured out how. I delivered over $1 million in services in one quarter while working from my house just to prove that I could do it. So when living in Charlotte didn't work for me anymore and I wanted to live back on the beach,

I just asked. I said, why not? Why not just ask? And fortunately, my manager subscribed to giving his people freedom so that they would be happy because happy people work harder and are more productive. So he said yes. And I moved back to my hometown by the ocean and I only traveled for fun. And because I figured out how to be productive remotely, I started really traveling. I worked from the Philippines. I worked from Costa Rica. I worked from Ecuador. And one time I even worked for my van.

while driving around the country surfing and snowboarding along the way. I never let working in 9-5 inhibit me, only amplify the life that I wanted to live. I never thought to myself, that's not possible because of X. I always thought, how can I make this possible? What can I do? What can I leverage to get what I want? I say this because I know there are some of you out there who are listening right now who are like, huh, must be nice.

who are like, you just have a better situation than most. And yeah, I do have an amazing situation, but to get to the situation, I actually worked with what I had and I continue to work with what I have. I didn't allow what I had to be an excuse. And together my situation and myself, we transformed. We worked together. We changed together. So when I started pondering this concept that we have to choose between either being A,

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Spiritual and free or be soulless and incorporate. I really didn't buy it. I really didn't get it and I really didn't think that I needed to quit my job to be my fullest expression. How many people tell you that? Just this week actually someone, two people, told me just quit your job. You'll probably fulfill all your dreams and goals and more and watch as you expand into your life and your business and watch as everything changes and transforms.

And I believe that, by the way. I could quit my job and I would expand into my business and my whole life would transform. Like there's nothing wrong with that. And it comes from a really good place. But I want to add that it's not the only way, that it's not the way. It's inaccurate. You see, there's a logical fallacy. It's called the false dichotomy. It's the us versus them fallacy. The false dichotomy fallacy.

is one that convinces its subscribers that there are only two choices, that things are black or white, that you are for something or against something. The thing is life isn't black and white and neither are humans. Anytime something seems this or that, like there's only two choices, us versus them, truth or not truth, pause and evaluate my friends.

So anyway, there's a false dichotomy floating around in the soulpreneur, also Instagram coaching space, but really any spiritual awakening, any space that facilitates the spiritual awakening that you can either quit your nine to five and fulfill your dreams or keep your nine to five and let corporate suck the soul out of you. And I have so many things to say about this. The first thing, just like a quick mini tangent, businesses and corporations have souls.

This will be an entire episode, so I won't go super deep here, but I will say that businesses and corporations don't suck the soul out of you. People do. Processes do. Policies do. Conformity does. We do when we give ourselves away. And we are just as responsible, if not more, as individuals, for what of our own souls we give away. More responsible than businesses are for taking away.

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So to say that something else, particularly a business or corporation is sucking your soul or even a relationship is to avoid taking responsibility for the soul that you are giving away. It's to avoid taking responsibility for yourself. And another thing is what about soulful businesses and soul filled nine to fives? What if you want to work for a nine to five that's like totally rooted in soul and totally rooted in

good intention and spiritual awakening or whatever it is that you're super passionate about. Is that not good? Can you not be your fullest expression and live out your dreams? I'm not sure. I know a lot of entrepreneurs who grew and expanded and now they have a team. I often wonder what their work environment is like after spending so many years hating on corporate. How do they treat their people?

How do they ensure that they grow and love and support their people so that their people will work for them and not for themselves? Because that's what you do when you work in nine to five, right? I've heard this quote, you're a sheep, you're building on someone else's dream. I'm being sarcastic because I don't believe that. My business, The Corporate Psychic, we have employees, well, right now I'm just one, but we're expanding.

We touch in with each other personally and on a soul level and we operate from a space of deep connection, not money over human, not process or policy over person. We lean into each other and into discomfort. We show up authentically. You can ask Teagan. The biggest and best compliment I've ever received in my life came from her about how I run my business. It's genuine. It's the most loving place to be and sometimes TCP is even more loving and nurturing.

than some of my deepest friendships are. This is what I imagine and hope and dream for the entire working world to empower and enable and grow together in love and deep connection and compassion while being productive and positively impacting and assisting and solving problems for the world. If I believed that all businesses were bad or big corporations were bad, how on earth could I hire someone and feel okay about it? And I'm gonna be real, I want TCP to be huge.

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I want to be the Microsoft of the spiritual world. Why can't you have and be at all? Why do we have to choose? It doesn't mean that we have to do it all. It doesn't mean that we have to be the best at it all. Ask yourself who's selling you these ideas that you can't be at all, have it all, experience it all, enjoy it all. Who is selling you the idea that you need to have your soul sucked or that you need to wake up if you don't want to have your soul sucked?

Why can't you be awake and choose what's best for you without disappearing for six months and drinking cacao or tripping your face off? And I love tripping my face off. I'm not against drugs, but I also love my desk job. It isn't as simple as quit your job, find yourself, make all your dreams come true. There is nothing externally that can change or come about that will show us who we are on the inside, including quitting your job.

And there's no one path for everyone. I'm not at all saying that your job doesn't suck. Your life doesn't suck. Your situation isn't bad. All of those things might be true. What I'm saying is that it's not this or that. It's not quit your job and be free. Find yourself, know yourself, be successful, or stay in your job and lose your soul. And it's also not stay in your job and be successful and free and happy, like, or quit your job and

Your life sucks suddenly. It's neither of those, right? It can be a mix. It all depends. So that was a big tangent. I was walking off the beach and the idea drops in, a union of opposites back on track. And for me, it was a challenge of how can I unite all aspects of myself and express this in fluidity and express me in fluidity, in comfort and with ease.

How can I be a surfer, a healer, a writer, a poet, an engineer, a businesswoman, a dog mom, a yoga teacher, a retreats coordinator, an average joe lean, a lover of books and music, a singer and a piano performer, a psychic channeler, an explorer of life, of love and travel? How can I be all of those things and make money and share who I am in a way that other people will relate and lean in and understand? And.

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It wasn't very long after this moment, this idea, this message that the corporate psychic was born. Rather than playing it safe, I wanted to surprise and trigger the fuck out of everyone. Psychic is a strong motherfucking word. It's bold. I know a lot of psychics who don't refer to themselves as psychic because of the stigma around it. And I'm not even claiming that I'm psychic, by the way, at least not in the stereotypical fashion.

A lot of payment processors won't even work with me now because I have this word in the title of my business. Didn't know this before, but fun fact. And for people in the spiritual world, corporate is strong as fuck too. Corporate is triggering. It's cold. People in the spiritual space every day question why I don't leave my job, tell me to leave my job, talk about how corporate's awful. Man, the discussion is real on a regular basis.

But you see, I don't wanna leave corporate. It's not perfect, but neither is the spiritual space. Actually, I can't think of a single space on this planet that is perfect. And I wanna transform the way we live and work. I wanna be in the work. I wanna challenge this idea that we have to pick one thing, one space, one skill and hone in.

We are each multifaceted, multi-passionate, multi-skilled, multi-joyous human beings. Why can't we be all of the things? Why can't I have a six figure business as a side hustle? A multi six figure business as a side hustle, a seven figure business, who knows one day, as a side hustle that brings me joy and energizes me rather than depleting me. Why can't I work a nine to five alongside it and love my nine to five?

Why can't I also travel the world at the very same time and explore all of the things that bring me joy, that allow me to express myself fully? Why not? Why can't I? Why can't you? In January this month, TCP celebrated its first 10K month, 11 days into the month. And actually now it's the 14th, as of the recording. And we are celebrating almost 14K in sales this month.

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And I actually haven't even been fully present in this past week with TCP or at my nine to five because a family member was in the hospital, is still in the hospital. I was experiencing deep and painful relationship wounding and I had to put my dog down. And yet my business brought in over $10,000 in sales. Expansion and contraction is possible at the same time.

You can have this and you can have that at the very same time. How are you realizing that it can all work for you and that it doesn't all happen to you or work against you or that you have to change anything to be yourself? You don't have to change it to be yourself.

I'm not quitting my 9 to 5 because it works for me, because it fulfills me, because I learn and grow and expand in it because of it, because my boss is a heart-centered leader whose current biggest problem to solve is how to make our leadership show up in a more authentic and vulnerable way, because my mission with the corporate psychic is to transform the corporate world and to transform the way we live and work and because

I get to learn from someone and work with someone who's actively holding space for authenticity in executives. Because I want to hold space for authenticity in the entire working world, including with the execs of our world, the world leaders, as well as everyday people. I'm not quitting my job because I know that I can have a thriving, successful, energizing, life-giving business and expand myself within my nine to five successfully.

holy and with joy. I'm not quitting my job because I don't want to because I don't have to and because I don't buy this idea that I can't be my full self and live in my fullest expression because I have a nine to five. Your job doesn't limit you, you limit you. And I'm sharing all of this with you because I want to challenge you and by challenge I mean invite you into this game of life and work and invite you into exploration and play.

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within the life that you already have, that you've already built, that you will continue to build and grow and expand in and transform with. I'm sharing all of this with you, not because I give any fucks what you think or if you approve. I'm sharing all of this with you because I want you to stop looking for and trying to choose and stick to one thing. I'm sharing this with you because I want you to have and be and try.

and experience all of the things with joy and fun and play and freedom with ease. You have and are everything that you most deeply desire. Please don't limit yourself by subscribing to any idea that you have to be this or that. You don't have to be anything but yourself and you don't have to listen to anyone but your heart. Quit or don't quit your job. I don't care. I'm not quitting mine.

And I invite you to join me to challenge whatever is limiting your existence, your desires right now by living your fullest expression, despite what your situation is. Thank you for listening. If you're looking for your purpose and you've listened to my other episodes and you haven't yet realized that you just have to be yourself, join my group container, Your Soul's Purpose. It's seven weeks of intuitive and purpose-driven work to connect you with your purpose.

and dust off that North Star of your life. You can decide for yourself if you want to keep your job or leave your job, start a side hustle, monetize what you came here to do, or just be. We kick off in February and I would love to have you.

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9-5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic and I would love for you to join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses and you can find it on Mighty Networks. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I want to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind. I hope to meet again.

maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 3. How to Just Be: 6 Practices in Finding, Knowing, and Being Yourself

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Welcome to episode three of the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover of The Corporate Psychic. Today I'm going to share six practices in finding, knowing, and being yourself. But first I'll talk about what it looks like to live in authenticity and in alignment with your soul and your purpose as a basis for why to even be yourself in the first place.

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When you are living in your purpose, AKA living authentically, being connected and truly embodied in yourself, life isn't easier, but your navigation of it is. And you'll still get off track and you will still live and source from other places. And then you'll come back. But you know you're living in your purpose when you exude steadiness and ease. You move with grace.

You have a sense of confidence and you're in touch with your knowing. You stop paying attention to what other people are doing and you stop asking for permission because you know you don't need to. And yes, it's still scary. And yes, there are still no guarantees, but you don't need them when you're in your purpose. The journey is truly enough. The present is truly enough. Even when you're flustered, you move gracefully.

So the big question is, how do we do that? How do we get started? Where do we find ourselves so that we can live in alignment with ourselves so that we can know why we're here and so that we can express that, amplify that, be that? So for context, listen to the Spiritual Nine to Five podcast, episode one, maybe even episode two. In these episodes, I share my own story of how I got out of my head.

how I got out of my accomplishments, how I got out of my need for constant growth and movement, and how I stepped into myself and into my purpose. And then I want you to think about who is selling you the story that you need a massive transformation in order to be who the fuck you already are. What do they have to gain? What are you giving away?

Ask yourself that next time you sign up for your gym membership or a new diet or feel like you need to quit your job to start your own business or feel like you need to have a career or buy a house or get married or even try a new thing. Are you looking for yourself or are you distracting yourself from what you already are, from what you already have and from what truly matters?

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I'm not against gym memberships or diets or quitting your job or not quitting your job or finding new hobbies or Netflixing your life away. Trust me, I love all of those things. And they all have their place. They are not always a distraction. Sometimes we need these things to keep us in line, to help us connect in, to ground down. And if whatever is calling you is coming from your heart, by all means, I will be your biggest fan and your biggest supporter. But...

And in previous episodes, I've said it, I'm going to repeat it. There is nothing outside of you that can give you the answer to yourself. There's nothing outside of you that can hand you the keys to your life. You already have the keys. You are already in the driver's seat. You're literally driving right now and you know who you are. You know how to drive and you know where you're going. But if you want a checklist of what worked for me in my embodiment of authenticity,

Genuine MG. This is what I advise. Number one, get quiet enough to hear your heart. This doesn't mean to start meditating or to pick a spiritual practice. Remember, there's nothing outside of you that can tell you who you are. What I mean by get quiet enough to hear your heart is to learn what yes, what no, and what maybe feels like in your body.

To learn what these things feel like in your gut. So how do you do that? My advice is to start small. Practice in tiny bits. When you wake up in the morning, ask yourself, do I want to get out of bed? Yes or no. Do I want to put on this robe? Yes or no. Do I want to walk to the kitchen? Do I want to look out the window and see the sunrise? Yes or no.

Do I want this cup of coffee that I make every single day? Do I want it today in this moment right now? Yes or no. Do I actually want to dial into this meeting or meet this friend or go to this engagement or log into work at this exact moment in time? Yes or no. One question at a time though. And just allow yourself a moment to feel and hear the response yes or no.

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Step two, honor what you find and listen. If your heart says no, that means no. If you're not sure how to communicate this to your friends or family or people in your life who might be worlds away from listening to their own hearts, do your very best not to lie, do your very best not to apologize, not to explain or not to make an excuse. Try a simple, can't commit right now.

No thank you. And if you're not sure how to communicate this to yourself, if you're not sure how to honor what comes up, try the same thing. I'm not ready to do this right now. Can I bring myself along in that journey and understand? Or if you can't give that, that's okay too.

Listen to the yes or no. Honor that in acknowledgement. Just acknowledge what comes up, yes or no.

Step three, check in with yourself regularly. Ask yourself, is this me? Am I being myself? And you don't need to know who you are to know that you aren't being you. So just like when you politely decline a friend or a family member, try not to explain to yourself why you are or are not being yourself. Just acknowledge and adjust if you feel called. Number four, hmm.

and stop trying to answer the big questions. Stop holding onto a story or a reason or an explanation behind everything. Just stick to the small questions for now. The questions that you can answer yes or no, the occasional maybe. Those can be complex enough. You don't have to know why to be it or to do it or to experience it. And you absolutely have no responsibility to explain the meaning of life.

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or the workings of the universe, or the underpinnings to your complex and ever-changing being to anyone, not even to yourself. Number five, stop planning. Yes, I mean this, and this might be the hardest thing of all. Like, set a container of time, one month, four months, six months, one year, and do not plan a single thing.

Do not agree to anything in advance. Don't shift your schedule for anyone else. Shift your schedule only for yourself. Get rid of your schedule altogether. Follow your intuition, follow your desires on a consistent, regular, everyday, moment to moment basis. I told you this one was tough. Allow things to unfold and pay attention to how you react without judgment. Simply observe yourself.

Part of getting to know ourselves and part of learning to love ourselves, part of falling in love with ourselves is observing who we are and accepting that.

Which brings me to number six. Don't judge it. Don't categorize it. Don't explain it. Just let it. I actually say this to my partner. We joke. When I feel that he's telling me what to do or imposing something on me, big or small, I'll say, just let me live. But I offer this to you to say with a light heart to yourself and to others, let me live.

and let yourself live, let yourself be. You don't have to have an idea of what living is to do it. You don't have to follow a philosophy or have a philosophy. You don't have to have a routine or a structure around being yourself. Actually, there isn't one. When you set one up, you're limiting yourself. You just have to allow yourself to be without thought, without justification, without judgment.

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without category, without explanation, just you, simply being. When you're living your purpose, AKA living authentically, being connected and truly embodied in self, life isn't easier, but your navigation of it will be. And you'll still get off track and you'll still live in source from other places and then you'll come back. So come back now.

Allow yourself to simply be.

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And that's it for this episode. If you add any of these to your own authentic embodiment practice, if you feel more and more yourself, reach out. I want to hear all about it. And I would be remiss if I didn't invite you to join my next group container, Your Soul's Purpose. It's seven weeks of exploring your intuition, yourself, your purpose, and your joy, so that you can live on your own terms with more fulfillment, more confidence, worth, joy, and ease.

We kick off together in a small and cozy group setting in mid February. Join us if you fill the call.

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9-5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic and I would love for you to join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses and you can find it on Mighty Networks. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I want to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind. I hope to meet again.

maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 2. Amplify Your Existence with Purpose, Values, & Joy

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Welcome to episode two of the Spiritual 9to5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Gruver of The Corporate Psychic. Today I'm going to talk about the importance of articulating your purpose and knowing what you value so that you can amplify your existence and experience true joy and fulfillment.

If you can articulate your purpose and use your values as the parameters for how you fulfill your purpose, then you will experience joy and fulfillment in everything that you do. But knowing your values, that's the most important if you want to be happy in this life. Your purpose, your values and joy. These are three things that are innate to your existence. They are part of what makes you you.

then you're born with them. They're not determined by what's outside of you. Often, however, we get them confused with what's external. And because the key to what's inside of you cannot be found outside of you, these internal characteristics can also not be found outside of you. So let's step through them, starting with purpose. Your purpose is innate to you. It's fundamental to who you authentically are. In fact,

There is nothing that you need to do to fulfill your purpose. You are fulfilling it right now by being alive. You fully fulfill it in the moments that you are your full self, regardless of the situation around you. And you can amplify the outer effects of your purpose and ultimately increase your impact when you connect with it, know it, and can articulate it. But if you don't know what your purpose is, don't worry so much.

Just be yourself and it will come through. Your values, the intangible things that you absolutely cannot live without, are also innate to your existence. Now, it's very helpful to know what you value in order to feel fulfilled. It's actually more important to understand what you value than it is to understand what you're here to do if you want to feel fulfilled. Your values are core to your being and they are the key to your happiness.

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And I believe that what you deeply and truly value the most is part of your blueprint for existence in this lifetime. It's part of what makes us all unique. You see, your values dictate your experience in this world. And if you know them, you can use them as parameters for your life and what you choose to experience. More on this soon. Okay, so joy. Joy comes from within. It can be catalyzed from something outside of you.

but you don't actually need anything to experience it except for yourself. If you aren't sure what brings you joy, connect with your values. And then when you're able to experience your values, that's when you feel joy.

So if you know me, or if you follow me on Instagram, you know that I love surfing and that I live my entire life around the tides and the swells. My top three values are authenticity, freedom, and wisdom for reference. When people ask me, what brings you joy? I used to answer surfing, but what if I told you that it may not be surfing itself that brings me joy, but that it's the experience of my authentic expression.

and the experience of freedom, two of my top values, not to mention the wisdom that I soak in every time I'm in the water. Those are the things that actually bring me joy when I surf. It's experiencing my values in real time because I can have surf sessions that aren't fun. I can have surf sessions that don't feel joyous, actually, that are quite frustrating. How could that be possible if surfing

was the thing itself that brought me joy. It couldn't. The truth of the matter is sometimes I paddle out and I don't get to experience my authentic expression. I don't feel free. I'm not feeling like I'm soaking in the wisdom from the water. Sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's messy. But when I am able to experience my values, everything comes together and it's the most joyous experience of my life. So pro tip.

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When you're able to experience your values, that's when you'll feel joy.

And perhaps a bigger pro tip, a life tip, and the key to amplifying your existence on this planet. If you can articulate your purpose and use your values as the parameters for how you fulfill your purpose, then you will experience joy in everything that you do. And I know I already said that your purpose is innate to you, but in fact, there's nothing outside of you that can be the solution to finding knowing or being yourself.

There's nothing outside of you that can bring you joy or fulfillment or ease or bliss on a deep soul level. Not yoga or a mindfulness practice, not your job, career or passion, common things that are mistaken for a purpose. Not your diet or your routine, not your partner or your friends, not hobbies, not children, not money, not drugs, not books, not podcasts, not your therapist or your healer, not even me.

None of these things can tell you what your purpose is. None of these things can tell you what you value or even tell you what brings you joy. They can help, but they aren't the answer. So remember I said, it's not surfing that brings me joy. It's the experience of my value. So if I said something to you that brings you joy like yoga or a passion of yours or maybe even your children, ask yourself, reflect for a moment and think about

What is it about the experience of the thing that you think brings you joy, that you're actually really drawn to? And what about the times when you practice or do the thing that you thought brings you joy, that maybe it's not so fun. So like, maybe when you go to yoga and you leave and you're not feeling super full or fulfilled or happy or joyous, what happened then? What was different? Think about that. This is important because it's the intangibles.

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the things that exist within us, the things that we have access to, regardless of what's outside of us, those are the things that give us the answers that clue us in.

Yet we often look to these external things, not just for answers, but to guide us. But these things, all of these things are just things. But if we know how to use them, they're also tools, right? They're not our guides. They are not in and of themselves our paths. You are your guide. You know your path because you are the creator of it and it doesn't look like anyone else's.

As much as we resist this knowing, there is not a roadmap or a checklist for your life, your success, and especially not for knowing who you are. And there's not a list of things that you can do or experience or have or be.

All of these things, career, diet, routine, hobbies, your therapist, they can all help you deepen your relationship and connection to yourself, but none of these things are the answer or the solution to who you are, to what brings you joy, to how you can feel fulfilled. I want to make this real to you. If we're talking about career, one of the things on the list, the guidance is not to seek yourself in your career, but to use your career as a tool.

A tool where you are the artist and the builder, where you are the one who uses and directs your career so that it may honor who you are, so that your career may reflect back who you are, so that your career may work for you. Not the other way around. You are not your career. You are not working for your career. And your career doesn't hold any key indicators of why you're here on this planet, despite what society will tell you.

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Your career is external to you and therefore cannot be your purpose for existence. You don't need a career to exist and you are not alive to work despite cultural norms. There might be a purpose in your career itself to get paid or even better to use as a tool to create your dream life, but your career is not your purpose. So let's pick a career together and drive this home. Let's use the career of a secretary.

and I'll talk in first person so that I can sub in my values too. My top three values are actually freedom, authenticity, and wisdom. If I am in a job or career situation where I'm not able to express at least one of these values, I will not be happy on a deep and fundamental level. And if I don't know what my values are, I will not understand why I'm not happy. This is important.

So let's say that I'm a secretary and I really fucking love secretarial work. I'm the best at doing secretarial things. I'm a natural. I'm so good at being a secretary and all of the components of the job itself are things that I find to be fun or have passion around. If all of this is true and I'm not free to do my job as I see best, I won't be happy. Or if I'm not able to be my authentic self and show up as the person that I am, I am not going to be happy.

No matter how many boxes of things that I'm good at or enjoy are checked by the job or by my employer, it's just not going to do it for me. And unless I'm connected with my values, I could be in this job for years and be unhappy and not understand why I'm not unhappy or why I'm not happy. I could even switch roles or companies or quit altogether and start my own business. But if I'm not connected with my values, if I don't know them,

I may be reaching in the dark for what does make me happy for my entire life. This is so important and so core to living your life with ease and joy. If you can articulate your purpose and use your values as the parameters for how you fulfill your purpose, then you will experience joy and fulfillment in everything that you do. So if your top three values are not met in a situation, you will not be happy.

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And if you don't know what you value, you may also not know what truly brings you joy. So even if you know why you're here on this planet, you might still not be happy. Are you feeling me? And this doesn't just go for your career. If we take relationships as an example, if I'm dating someone, if I'm sharing a home or a life with someone, and I cannot experience my values.

If I cannot be authentic, if I'm not free, if I cannot touch into the wisdom of myself and talk about it and share it, I'm not going to be happy. It doesn't matter if I'm with a dream partner. It doesn't matter if they do the dishes or clean the house or take me out on nice dates or make loads of money. Y'all, I've actually been here. I was married to someone and I got a divorce because I was unhappy. And I didn't know why I was unhappy because I wasn't connected to my values.

So I couldn't even explain what I wanted or needed on a fundamental level. If you're in a situation where something just doesn't feel good or something just doesn't feel right or you're not happy and you have no idea why, check in with this because there's nothing outside of you that will tell you who you are, why you are meant to be here, what you are meant to do, or how to be happy.

So rather than changing situation after situation or experiencing life transformation after life transformation or switching jobs or quitting your job or trying something new or I don't know, experiencing new hobbies or work, maybe start with your values. If you wanna know why you are here, if you wanna know what you're here to do, read Simon Sinek, Start With Why.

or book a find your purpose session with me. If you want to be happy doing that thing that you're here to do, figure out the intangibles that you value.

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We also do this in my find your purpose working session, by the way. But I'm not telling you this to sell you my work. I'm telling you this because I want you to be happy. I want you to enjoy your life and live with confidence and ease while feeling fulfilled, while experiencing pure joy, and while making the biggest impact that you possibly can on the world.

Trust me when I say that you cannot do and feel all of these things if you are not connected with your purpose and your values Whatever you need to do to connect with these do yourself a huge life favor and go find out because if you can connect with your purpose and values Then you can start using the things outside of you as tools to know yourself better as tools to be happier to be free and fulfilled to find joy in your life and all of these things outside of you

your diet, your hobbies, your therapist, your healers, your friends, your relationships, your career. Those things won't be paths anymore. All of those things will start to work for you and reflect back to you and honor the human that you are.

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Thank you for listening to the Spiritual 9-5 podcast with myself, Marie from The Corporate Psychic. Save and follow for more wisdom. I also invite you to follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic and I would love for you to join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses and you can find it on Mighty Networks. And if you want to go big on you, reach out. I want to work with you. Wherever you are, whatever is on your mind. I hope to meet again.

maybe in the next episode right here. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.

Episode 1. Purpose, Fulfillment, Joy, and You: How to stop searching for your purpose & let it flow through you.

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Purpose, fulfillment, joy, and you. How to stop searching for your purpose and let it flow through you. Welcome to episode one of the Spiritual 9 to 5 podcast hosted by myself, Marie Groover of The Corporate Psychic. It's a short one and today I'm gonna share a story with you to illuminate the importance of allowing ourselves to be in order to find and embody and fulfill our purpose in this life.

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Do you ever feel like you're constantly moving from one thing into the next? Seeking new experiences after new experiences, trying on different skills, looking into different windows and corridors, exploring truths. Are you on a perpetual mission to find the thing that brings you joy or takes you to the next level or the idea that will launch your dream life? And if you do, do you sometimes feel like you're on the cusp of it?

Like, what you're doing is close but not quite, and yet you still have no idea what quite exactly means or is. If this resonates at all, I'm with you. I feel you, I get it. I've felt on the cusp of something great for years. And for years, I've been on a ceaseless mission to illuminate what exactly it is that lights me up. That thing that I should be doing, that thing that will engulf me with fulfillment and wild success.

There was a time when an old friend said to me once, you are extraordinary. Don't choose what's ordinary. And I felt it or I felt the cusp of it. I felt that I was so close, but I didn't know what extraordinary was or what extraordinary could be. The truth was I didn't yet know how to access the extraordinary within myself.

And I didn't know because I was looking everywhere else. Despite reflecting, setting goals, prioritizing, following through. I was in a nonstop motion of reaching and seeking and discovering, learning, filling, performing, prioritizing, evolving, and even transforming. And even when I was looking inward,

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I was still moving constantly. And I will say it is extraordinary the amount of things that one can accomplish when one is consistently growing. But there is a difference between being busy and being productive. A boss once said this to me. And busyness can also mask itself in the look and feel of productivity. You can accomplish so many things and you can have huge impact.

but be actually being busy instead of productive in the ways that you mean to be. To the outside world, it might look like you're doing so much, but you might still not be connected to who you are. So while I was in cycle after cycle of massive growth and transformation, of knowing myself deeper and deeper, of interacting with the world more and more peacefully and with ease,

I still didn't feel any closer to knowing what the fuck I was here on this planet to do. I didn't know what made me extraordinary. What I was supposed to be dedicating myself to. Where I was meant to go.

Then I stopped reaching and I allowed myself to settle in into the person that I had become into the life that I built that I really loved still love by the way into the things that truly brought me joy and away from the things that felt like obligations. I allowed myself to just be in whatever was I stopped making plans.

I stopped planning completely. I stopped saying yes if I didn't mean yes. And I didn't share what I was doing or working on. I didn't explain myself. Not to anyone. Not even to my partner.

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And let me tell you for someone on a path of constant growth and development, of travel and big life experiences, of transformative life experiences, someone who has never been afraid to completely start life all over again, it feels really scary to settle down. For this type of person, for someone like me, to be stuck or stagnant was never an option. And yet,

Sometimes when we stop looking for the thing that we spent hours, days, months, years, lifetimes trying to find, it presents itself in a way that was so obvious that we have to question what we were looking for all along.

And we also have to find that every single moment that led to this one had to have happened for the light bulb to flicker on.

That's what happened for me. In 2021, I didn't quit my job. I didn't break up with my boyfriend. I didn't go away for six months or a year or any timeframe at all. I didn't make any massive life shifts or changes and I didn't find that thing. You know, the thing that's supposed to fill my life with meaning and joy and success. It turns out I already had that thing. I already knew my purpose.

In 2021, I allowed myself to be myself and in that I started living my purpose. I embodied my purpose. I started living my life and everything shifted but not because I forced it, not because I deliberately chose one path or the other, not because of any rearranging that I did within my own life. I didn't make a decision and then prioritize everything around that decision. This is important because the truth is

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We don't have to choose. We actually can have and be every single thing that we want. People are afraid to step into their truth because they are afraid that they will have to change their life. We both want and are afraid that we'll have to be dedicated to one path or solution. Hello, diet culture and people who eat only keto only forever as if one diet is the solution to everything.

I'm not against keto by the way, nor am I against dieting.

But there is this thing that exists where we want to step into truth. We want to change our life. We're afraid to change our life. And we also want that path. We want that's the list of things to do, the steps of checking these boxes and knowing that if we eliminate all these things that aren't serving us and we know exactly what they all are upfront, then we can be the thing that we want. Then we can find the thing that we want. Then we can live the life that we dream.

We're afraid that we'll have to suddenly prioritize differently for our lives to shift and change and transform. Do you notice this when you're on a path of growth, you say things like, I should do this, but I'm doing this instead.

And we think we should prioritize and that prioritization is the answer to what we want to our dreams, to our goals. And prioritization is great, but it's also a temporary hierarchy of what we think is important right now. But in the long run, we don't have to commit to one thing or one path forever. In fact, we don't even have to commit to one thing or one path to move forward. We don't have to search for it, reach for it, look for it, seek it.

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That thing that is outside of us, that feels like the cusp of us, enticing us to try one more time to find and commit to one thing that will be the solution and the propulsion of our lives accumulated. It's not a job. It's not a passion. It's not a place. It's not an idea. It's you. It's all of you coming together in your authentic and unique being. That's what transforms your life from ordinary to extraordinary.

That's the root and basis for all the success, fulfillment, joy, and eudaemonia that one could possibly seek.

Maybe it isn't our lives that we have to change and restructure. Maybe it's not even ourselves that we have to change and fix and manage. Maybe, and what I'm proposing to be true is that we just have to allow ourselves to be exactly who we are. And that's what I'm inviting you into here. Gone are the days of choosing one thing that doesn't even exist within us. One diet, one career, one partner even.

This is the time, this is the year 2022 that we expand in the presence of who we are, that we expand in the connection and depth and integration with ourselves. This is the year that we realize the extraordinary. This year, we come home.

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If you want to walk with me on this journey, I invite you to keep listening right here on the Spiritual 9to5 podcast for more stories, learnings, and invitations into self. If you want to dip your toes even more into my work, please join our community. It's called TCP Community and Courses, and you can find it on Mighty Networks. You can also follow me on Instagram at thecorppsychic or go big on yourself and sign up for a mentorship to work one-to-one. Wherever you are,

I hope to meet again, maybe next week, right here. Thank you for listening. I'm honoring you and with gratitude, good day.