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In this inspiring episode of “Supercharge Your Soul’s Transformation,” we explore the transformative journey from a legal profession to a life of somatic wellness with our guest, Rae Guyse. Rae, a former attorney and now a somatic yoga and dance teacher, shares her personal journey of leaving her career in law to pursue her passion for holistic wellness in Maui.

Rae’s story is a powerful testament to designing a life aligned with one’s true passions. She discusses the challenges and realizations that led her from a stable yet unfulfilling career to a life where she could merge her skills as a lawyer with her love for yoga and dance, creating a unique niche in wellness specifically tailored for stressed professionals.

Key Points We’ll Explore:

  • Career Transformation: How Rae shifted from being a cannabis and alternative medicine attorney to founding Golden Sun Somatic Yoga, a venture that combines her expertise in law with her passion for wellness.
  • Overcoming Challenges: Insight into the hurdles Rae faced during her transition, including societal expectations and personal doubts, and how she overcame them.
  • Designing a Fulfilling Life: Practical advice for anyone looking to make significant changes in their career or personal life, emphasizing the importance of alignment with one’s values and passions.

Join us as Rae delves into how she crafted a fulfilling new career path that respects both her professional background and her passion for healing and wellness. This episode is perfect for anyone feeling stuck in their career and seeking inspiration to make a profound life change.

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Transcription

0:08
So can you really design your life your way?

0:12
Yes, you can.

0:13
Because if you think that you cannot and you have all these roadblocks and setbacks and past failures, maybe past betrayals in your life that you feel that you cannot do.

0:25
This next one thing that is going to make you alive than this podcast is for you today.

0:32
Our topic is from a lawyer to a somatic professional design the life.

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Your way.

0:39
Our expert today is Ray Alexandra who is a somatic yoga and dance teacher and a wellness entrepreneur.

0:48
We founded Golden So Somatic Yoga in 2023 an online and Maui-based yoga and dance studio.

0:56
She creates unique and healing classes that gives us space to explore our, in our world to heal through movement.

1:04
Rae is also a practicing cannabis and alternative medicine attorney.

1:09
We are going to find out from Rae how exactly she is living her life, from a lawyer to a somatic professional all the way in Maui.

1:18
And how did she design her life her way?

1:22
Is it even possible?

1:23
Welcome to the show, Rae.

1:25
It is so exciting that you are here from all the way from Maui.

1:30
Right.

1:31
Yes.

1:32
Thank you so much.

1:33
So glad to be here.

1:35
So, just for our listeners to really understand where you come from.

1:40
So you’ve been a lawyer for so many years and now you are a somatic wellness professional all the way in Maui.

1:46
Obviously, we know that you designed your life your way.

1:50
I’m curious what inspired this significant career shift in, you?

1:56
Sure.

1:57
So it was all about actually coming into a point in my life where I started doing some soul searching and just having this overwhelming sense that I wasn’t living this life for me.

2:13
I was really living a script of what I had been told and combined from others and advice from, you know, past teachers, past mentors who, you know, I think were all well meaning, but I really realized I didn’t know myself as fully as I had thought.

2:36
And I started to know that law wasn’t gonna be fully aligned for me when I was still in law school.

2:44
And so it was kind of a hard realization to be there, you know, obviously spending money on law school and just having the sense of, oh my gosh, I don’t wanna do this, but I have no idea who I am and I don’t know what I want to do and this just seems like, ok, at least I’ll have money, maybe that will solve my problems and it didn’t, of course, but it did start me on the path to doing some soul searching for the first time.

3:15
And this was when I was still in law school, I was because coming to this realization, as well as some other things in my life had set me into a space where I was really depressed and I didn’t know what move to make.

3:29
I was feeling really stuck.

3:31
I felt like if I dropped out, I was a failure.

3:34
But even continuing on, I said, I felt as if, you know, if I could go into the law when my heart’s not in it, I’m not even going to be a good lawyer.

3:42
So, what do I do now?

3:44
And so I started to explore a little bit while still in law school.

3:49
I started taking like dance classes.

3:51
I started getting into somatic healing.

3:55
I started a dedicated yoga practice and all these things.

3:59
And that was just to get to a place where I felt healed and regulated and could start like exploring who I actually was.

4:09
And it was in that process that I realized, wow, this is such powerful medicine and it’s something that is so needed in the law.

4:18
And so when I actually started practicing law, you know, not a big surprise that I didn’t love it.

4:27
Like from the start, I was like, oh my goodness, it didn’t, it didn’t feel aligned for me and it was so many hours and my plan was to, you know, work for a few years and save money and maybe transition and that’s kind of what has happened.

4:44
But feeling very stuck in that process, I did find a lot of joy in sharing what I knew and getting involved in attorney wellness and initiatives at my firm and speaking about wellness for lawyers and just the power of being present of listening to our internal worlds and chatter and all of the anxiety that we tend to deal with as lawyers because we take on, you know, our, our job is literally to take on the most stressful situation for everyone else.

5:17
And so I actually did my yoga teacher training in my first year of law practice.

5:25
and I started just by teaching other lawyers and busy professionals.

5:29
And it was a way for me to say, you know, give back to that community and provide space to really slow down.

5:38
And that’s like the opposite of what the law tells you to do.

5:41
It’s usually like, you know, you just grind it out all the time.

5:45
That’s kind of the culture of the first firm I was at and in the profession in general.

5:52
So after I fell into just holding space for professionals, I just really fell in love with that process.

6:02
And it made me get more curious about somatic healing and I started doing other certifications and trainings and learning.

6:11
And, you know, I I’m glad that I had started as a private, you know, teacher, you know, I wasn’t teaching at a studio at the time because it really gave me that entrepreneurial spirit and was like, you know, even if I was really small and only teaching a few classes, I could do it on my own and find my own voice and relate to people in a different way because I was also living the life they were living.

6:35
I wasn’t like this, just this yoga teacher where, you know, my clients at the time may have been like, what do you know about how busy I am and how stressed I am because I was right next to them.

6:47
It gave me sort of that confidence.

6:51
And I still focus largely on people who are experiencing stress burnout.

6:56
All those things that come from really stressful careers and professions.

7:00
I think I have a unique voice for as I’ve lived it myself.

7:05
So I love that.

7:07
Yeah, that is really cool because you, you basically niched down to helping other people, lawyers, busy professionals who are experiencing exactly what you experienced.

7:18
Being a lawyer and being in that community, you knew their issues and their, and their problems.

7:23
But tell us a little bit more about that, which is you are in Maui now.

7:30
But were you in some other place before when you felt like, hey, you know what?

7:34
That’s it?

7:34
I need to move out of the, I need to move out of the space and I need to move to a place which, which is where my calling is.

7:43
So I will say I was living in Texas.

7:46
for, I’m not from Texas.

7:48
I’m from Missouri.

7:49
Originally I went to law school at University of Austin.

7:52
I started my career at one of the biggest firms in Dallas, Texas and was living in Dallas for about four years.

8:01
I knew that Dallas was not a great fit and for me, I wanted to get out of the hustle and bustle of being in a city.

8:09
, but my transition to Maui was more of a personal transition.

8:15
My boyfriend is actually from here.

8:17
He got the calling to come home and we made this big decision together, you know, let’s sleep.

8:25
And I’m very happy to say, you know, his family has been wonderful.

8:28
We stay with them and help them out right now.

8:33
And Maui has just been such a good fit and it was really that turning point of ok, this is where I go all in on my own.

8:40
And the people here, the nature, everything adds into what I’m doing.

8:46
I feel so fed back by the nature and the slowness and it really affirms like the lifestyle that I want to live.

8:56
But it wasn’t like I just chose Maui on a map and it was like there, it was like trusting that that was going to be the next step for us.

9:05
So that’s how I got here.

9:06
Good for you, girl, you, you know you wanted a slower life and you got it.

9:11
Basically, you manifest this because that was your true calling to even come to Maui.

9:17
So what would you tell a woman who feels lost in her career?

9:21
Because looking back, you were a lawyer, you obviously felt lost and stuck and then you found to be, you basically found somatic healing, yoga, mindfulness, meditation as you’re calling and you’re living that life right now.

9:36
So how do you feel like, what would you say to that girl?

9:40
How can she start finding her true path?

9:44
Yes, I think everything comes down to going within because if this woman is or the people listening or anything like me, You know, I realized that like this, this busy high powered career and, you know, hustling it out and, and being this, you know, quote unquote what society calls this boss or you know, it was like a dream that was fed to me and I was chasing ideals of happiness that were outside of myself.

10:15
You know, I put the down payment on a house.

10:17
I had these like nicer cars that I was going into debt over and then I just kind of from that, I was like, OK, are these actually from me though?

10:30
What does success look like to me?

10:33
And so what happened was the process of going so deep internally that my own idea of how I wanted my life to feel, look what mattered really started to emerge and it comes from slowing down.

10:49
So slowing down comes first literally sit with your thoughts and then you can use different tools like journaling specific reflections that are all on this same topic of what is my purpose, what is my path?

11:05
One thing that I love to do and I think is so important to this is exploring our natural desires.

11:13
What’s lighting us up in this moment?

11:15
Because I will believe that our desires are given to us for a reason and they’re tied to our purpose.

11:20
And so I would journal what is wanting to bloom within me.

11:25
What topics are seeming super exciting for me right now and they didn’t need to be, you know, I wasn’t trying to meet anyone else’s standard and, and you know, some people whenever it would, I would bring up, oh, I think I want to dance.

11:39
So I think I wanna, you know, create these like dance classes.

11:42
People are like, are you crazy?

11:43
Like you’re not even a trained dancer?

11:45
These are certain things, but I had to let myself lean fully into that excitement and I would literally write out, OK, if there was no limitations, what would my life look like?

11:56
What would I be doing every single day?

11:58
How do I want to feel.

12:00
What pace do I wanna live at?

12:02
What environment do I wanna work on?

12:04
Do I wanna be at a desk figuring out things, you know, behind the scenes or do I wanna be in person with people?

12:11
And I still do these exercises today, but let yourself really dream again and it can be so exciting when we frame that transition point from, oh my gosh.

12:22
I have no idea what I’m gonna do.

12:24
I don’t know what I want to say.

12:25
Actually, you know what I do know what I want, what’s getting in, what’s blocking me is that fear?

12:30
Because I don’t see how it’s possible yet.

12:33
I don’t see the pathway forward.

12:35
But I think internally we all know what that spark is.

12:41
And so I would say take that time and let yourself explore, let yourself write out the best case scenario, let yourself write about your excitement and the things that you wanna lean to and the topics they are calling you right now and then just make micro movements in that direction.

12:57
It doesn’t need to be quitting your job right away.

13:00
For me.

13:01
It started with, I’m gonna let myself do these trainings and these workshops and then eventually these certifications and like these areas that I was so interested in that it didn’t feel like work that it was like, even though I had to, you know, get through my course after my day job at that time, it was so exciting to me because I knew.

13:21
Wow, this feels so authentic to me.

13:23
This is the knowledge that I really want.

13:25
I have no idea how I’m gonna make this a career, but at least I’m excited to be learning through it.

13:30
So you’re gonna find as you let yourself go down those pathways and daydream and then make micro steps that the next step will emerge.

13:38
And that’s how you get from being stuck and feeling like, I don’t know, like, what should I do to asking yourself and letting yourself lean into your highest excitement as that looks today and it may change.

13:53
And I’m very much a proponent of my path is still unraveling.

13:57
I think that there will be shifts in the way that I bring my offerings into the world and I’m no longer afraid of the shifts coming out because I think we’re meant to shift and change.

14:09
So I think every little thing you said, I was like, looking back, I’m like, yeah, that’s exactly what I did.

14:16
Check, check, check, check, you know, that’s exactly what I did because I also was stuck at a job that I hated.

14:24
And this is like growing up.

14:25
And I’ve said this many times on the podcast, but if you’re new, listen, started working at the age of 10, took up these odd jobs worked.

14:34
And I remember my last corporate job, it was at Verizon Wireless and I had headaches, neck aes I was obese and I was like, and I was in New York and I hated it.

14:45
I was like, I hate going to work and, you know, and then I had,, I had a vision that what would my life look like?

14:54
And I was like, I wish I could just be in California and I wish I could be by the water and I wish I could just do yoga for the rest of my life and teach yoga and teach mindfulness, teach meditation.

15:03
That’s all I needed to know.

15:05
Just that one thing.

15:06
And I just moved from that shitty job.

15:10
I, I actually my boss just paid me like so much money on, I think two weeks before I moved to California and the universe is just happened.

15:20
I wanted to quit my job and my boss was like, you know what?

15:23
Here’s a lot of money, girl, you’re really good.

15:25
You better just, you know, go and study or go get married.

15:29
And I’m like, is he firing me?

15:30
You know what?

15:31
Good.

15:31
Thank you for firing me because they found another manager who was cheaper than me and I was more expensive.

15:37
I’m like, thank you for laying me off.

15:39
I really appreciate it.

15:40
Two weeks later, I’m here in California.

15:42
So all I needed to know was I want to do yoga for the rest of my life is what I needed to know.

15:48
And then I took these micro steps and micro steps.

15:51
And so I totally understand what you’re saying.

15:54
And it’s great because two of us have lived that life, which is awesome.

15:59
But I want to know in your perspective and I got this question so many times, which is you were a lawyer and I’m sure you got, you get asked this question a lot.

16:09
If you are a lawyer, you probably make so much money.

16:12
But now you are this yoga teacher, Semitic professional.

16:16
What about the money?

16:17
You know, because that is one of the roadblocks.

16:20
So many women.

16:21
Have they have this fear of?

16:23
Am I gonna make enough?

16:24
Am I gonna be able to pay my bills?

16:26
So, what would you say to that woman who has an insecurity, that fear when it comes to money?

16:32
And that’s why she can’t take the next step.

16:34
Yes, that was me so hardcore because I was bound and determined that I was gonna work my butt off in big law to pay off 100% of my law school loans before I let myself switch.

16:46
But every single day in that process, I was growing more and more miserable.

16:50
I was feeling more and more disconnected from myself and I had less and less time to explore anything that I felt passionate about.

16:57
And I knew that even my little side yoga business really wasn’t gonna continue because I had to build like 50 plus hours a week.

17:03
Otherwise someone was mad.

17:06
I felt like, oh, this is so irresponsible.

17:10
What am I doing?

17:12
And that I could never figure it out.

17:14
But what I will say on the other end and I don’t have, like, I don’t wanna speak from a place of like, well, I just have completely replaced my salary and all is financially abundant because that’s not true.

17:27
But what I’ve learned in this process is how much abundance you feel when you’re living from a place of inner excitement.

17:36
When it’s easy to get up and share in the morning, there will be so many things that make you feel wealthy that have nothing to do with money.

17:45
Obviously, we still have to figure out how to make ends meet.

17:51
And for me, it was about deciding I’m getting creative.

17:55
I, you know, I, I sold my cars that I had loans on and I bought cash cars.

18:03
I downsized.

18:04
I got rid of my three bedroom house and these things are really scary.

18:08
And so I understand these things are scary, but what it has allowed me to do is open up that space in my budget that I’m sustaining.

18:19
And when I tell you that living in a place that lights me up and even though I have less possessions, I sold most of my things to get here.

18:27
Oh, my goodness.

18:28
Do I feel like a level of abundance that more money absolutely couldn’t buy.

18:34
And I would never even consider going back to that salary.

18:38
, to have that salary because to me it really didn’t mean anything when all I was doing was spending it all to make myself feel better, you know, eating out or buying the shoes just because I didn’t feel happy in my life and it’s now I don’t need a whole lot at all to feel happier.

18:57
So,, and I’m still, you know, I have financial goals for my business that I’m still trying to hit.

19:03
But by taking that step into fear and, you know, not needing the, the car that makes me look like a lawyer or not needing, you know, these different things has been just so freeing.

19:19
And you know, you can do with less than you think and you might even be a lot happier with less than you think.

19:27
I would say.

19:27
1000%.

19:29
A 1000% right?

19:31
Because years ago, 14 years ago when I left New York back in the days, I came from a six figure income, I was miserable to the first year when I moved to California.

19:42
And a lot of my students know this, I only made $7000 in the Bay area just $7000 annually teaching yoga full time.

19:50
And I was so happy that the clients that I had, they were like in tech and they were making, you know, 567 figure income and they’re like, how come you’re always excited and happy.

20:01
I’m like, cuz I teach yoga, I do yoga and I meditate and I feel, I feel like and I lived out of a hotel, I lived out of a hotel and you cannot have a lot of belongings when you live in a hotel.

20:12
So I totally understand we need less possession.

20:15
So it’s just because we need to shed our identity of what makes us feel successful.

20:21
And you’re, I love that because you are literally saying like speaking what I used to be and you’re actually sharing that in your own beautiful way.

20:31
My next question is, tell us about somatic healing for those of our listeners that have no clue what that is because I know this word has been going around in alternative healing.

20:44
I know I personally know what that is, but I would love to know from your perspective.

20:48
What is that?

20:48
Really?

20:49
What is a somatic professional?

20:51
What is somatic healing?

20:52
What does it do?

20:52
Tell us all about it?

20:54
Yeah.

20:54
So I’ll break down the word first.

20:57
So somatic practices comes from the base word soma, which is actually the Greek word for body, meaning of the body.

21:06
And so somatic practices are all about healing that involves not only the mind, the intellectualizing, but actually going deeper into how our emotions, our traumas, our energy gets stuck in our body and influences our day to day life.

21:27
And I, as I learn more about somatics, I realized how much our mind and body are not separate things.

21:35
We may feel like we’re living in our head.

21:37
Like our problems are in our head.

21:39
Our fear is in our head.

21:41
But when you look at the nervous system and you look how the brain is connected, it is literally every single thought that is coming into your mind is being told to every cell in your body through your nervous system, going down the spinal cord into all of your nerve endings.

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These things are connected systems.

21:59
There’s certain places in your body that traumas get, suck, that certain energies get stuck.

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Things that we don’t allow ourselves to feel and suppress, literally get hidden away and stored in the body.

22:11
And so with somatics, we bring in the body into that healing process where we do certain movements, certain movement patterns, different ways of breathing that can move this stagnant energy and help us to heal.

22:29
Yoga is actually a somatic practice.

22:32
And I actually call myself a somatic yoga teacher even though I think it’s a little bit redundant because it’s supposed to be mind, body spirit, right?

22:42
That’s the union which is the definition of yoga to union or to yoke to unite mind, body and spirit.

22:51
But I make that distinction because I think so many studio classes don’t feel that way to me where I’m very intentional on queuing you to come back to the sensations that you’re feeling, queuing you to move authentically what needs to be moved, allowing space for exploration.

23:11
Because I think that’s the best medicine.

23:14
There’s also ways to practice somatic movement where it’s more intuitive.

23:20
And I think there’s so many practices that can be done on your own, even just letting yourself dance and move freely for me has been a life transforming practice.

23:30
Now, I’m not a somatic therapist, but I have done work with somatic therapist.

23:36
And I think it’s amazing if you’re looking to go even deeper into healing, to find a therapist that understands that body healing component to, you know, traditional talk therapy or traditional you know, therapeutic practices that our body is always gonna be involved in that healing process.

23:57
So that’s what it’s all about.

24:00
There are certain movement patterns and, and things like shaking and you know, stomping and moving energy in our body that I like to work with and incorporate in my practices as well.

24:16
But that’s kind of the overview.

24:18
Cool.

24:19
Thank you.

24:19
Thank you for sharing that with us because we never had a somatic professional expert on our podcast.

24:25
So this is brand new for our listeners, shifting the topic just a bit.

24:30
So we talked about, you became a lawyer, you were stuck, then you became a somatic professional yoga teacher.

24:37
And obviously, at the moment you have designed life your way.

24:42
So for someone looking to design life, their way that the life that this this super duper love.

24:49
What are the first steps that they can take to start this transformation?

24:55
I definitely, I think I touched on this earlier, but I would really begin to write out and design a life and not let your own limitations of what you think is possible.

25:08
Stop you when you allow yourself to explore that question.

25:13
That is literally, I think that letting yourself dream again, letting yourself realize that there’s infinite possibilities that those secret desires that you’re holding on to those passions, those things that you really wanna explore, but don’t give yourself time for, that’s where the healing ends.

25:34
And I think that you are given those interests, those desires for a reason.

25:40
And if you can let yourself open up to them being possible for you, even whenever you’re just writing them down, then you can start to embody that it’s possible in your life and it may take a lot of time.

25:53
It’s not gonna change overnight, but that is how I would recommend someone to start is sitting down and really let yourself design your life your way on paper.

26:05
What does that look like?

26:06
Maybe vision board but keep that journaling practice alive.

26:13
Ask yourself what wants to be, what, what, what is wanting to bloom from you?

26:20
What do you want to share to the world?

26:21
What gifts do you do?

26:25
You know that you have and maybe don’t speak up about or maybe you don’t know, but you’re just really interested in.

26:31
Wow.

26:32
I wish I could do this for people.

26:34
Let yourself explore that a little bit further.

26:36
So, not to be redundant.

26:38
But,, I think it’s a really good first step, of course.

26:42
So, journaling and putting it on paper.

26:45
Yeah, you could also, you know, another thing that really helped was just talking to more people.

26:51
Like, once I realized what I wanted to do, I started changing my network, you know, I started, you know, getting away from groups that made me feel constricted because maybe everyone was like, in that same career or felt constricted themselves.

27:07
You know, there’s people you can reach out to or hey, I’d love to, you know, meet with you.

27:11
I’m really interested in what you do.

27:12
You know, I would, I would re reach out to people who had,, you know, who are in like somatic practices and I’m still friends with them today because they were the first people I was like, how did you do this?

27:22
Like, what does this look like?

27:24
What did your training look like?

27:26
And whenever you start to hang out with people who are showing you that it’s possible that’s gonna rub off on you as well.

27:33
And so just taking the step to have more conversations to meet more people,, and let yourself get inspired by them, change your network.

27:41
Don’t listen to people who question because it will trigger people who feel stuck themselves whenever you make changes to get unstuck.

27:50
And that’s not like, you know, we don’t have to treat them any sort of way but don’t take those doubts, those questions, those comments about what you’re doing, being crazy.

28:02
Too hard at all, or you’re going to stay right there.

28:05
You really have to find the people that make you feel like it’s possible and who,, are doing it or who are gonna encourage you to do it.

28:14
Yeah.

28:14
Ignore the naysayers, totally ignore them.

28:17
Shut them out of your spear.

28:23
And I would love to know what challenges you faced.

28:27
And you talked about your home, you talked about your cars, but what other challenges did you face during your transition?

28:35
Especially when it comes to like family, you know, or friends and how did you overcome them?

28:42
Yes.

28:43
Oh goodness.

28:44
So there is definitely challenges and I still feel like I’m in this transition period because I’m still trying to get my income up.

28:52
I’m change, you know, even just last week, I changed my class schedule to add two classes that have a dance component for the first time ever because my voice is developing as a facilitator.

29:05
So I think it’s just about, you know, staying authentic to yourself and letting yourself like pivot and just like, figure out like, what is your niche?

29:16
You know, one of the things that I heard and it wasn’t meant to be bad.

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But, you know, people would comment, well, there’s so many yoga teachers, like, how are you gonna make this work?

29:26
Like, you know, like what makes you different?

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And I had to like own the fact that no, I did have something different to offer.

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I do have this niche and this voice here and I can relate to specific people on issues differently than other people can.

29:40
So I saw my own value.

29:41
, I’m so lucky that the greatest gift in my life is that the people who raised me in the family that I’m closest to.

29:50
, never once told me I couldn’t do anything.

29:54
, they always said if I put my mind to something I could do it.

29:58
But this is really the first life decision that raised eyebrows for my nana.

30:04
Really?

30:04
Well, ok.

30:07
Well, I believe that you can do where I can just tell that they were just being supportive, but like, did not understand what I was doing and that I had gotten to this place of, you know, what seemed to be,, stability with income and things that I think we, well, meaning they didn’t want to see me lose or walk away from.

30:25
But I really had to explain like I am making myself more and more miserable every single day and every single day, I’m continuing to build a dream that’s not my own and make more people money that doesn’t feel like my own.

30:38
, and if not now when, because I’m only getting older.

30:43
, and so I would say, you know, if you have family that’s not as supportive or friends that’s not as supportive, you still have to live your life for you.

30:54
, as hard as that can be.

30:56
, and I think that we get in this mindset of like, oh, it’s so late but there’s people who make changes all the time.

31:04
There’s people who are going back to law school with me who are in their sixties, like, and that could be a line for them at that point as they had, you know, known themselves, not one career is better than the other.

31:14
It’s about finding what’s authentic to you.

31:17
And if you’re continuing to stay in a place that’s inauthentic, you know, I don’t mean this as like shade, but I will say, do you really think that you are going to thrive and be the greatest at this thing that you’re doing with a sense of resentment and regret and not joy?

31:36
Because I really think where I’m gonna be most abundant and where you’re gonna be most abundant is where you find that joy and that want to give of yourself.

31:48
And I think it allows me to develop so much as a professional.

31:52
We talked about the money thing and that has been a challenge and just like getting creative and being happy with less.

31:58
And just knowing that I’m doing it so that I have a chance to live a life that’s authentic to me.

32:06
And you know, my income is growing so that feels good, but it still feels scary because whenever you do anything for yourself, you have to know that there’s gonna be an up and down, there’s not like a salary that you’re gonna be able to pay yourself right away like you’re gonna be like this.

32:21
So hold on, hold on.

32:24
I love that there are a lot of speed, speed breakers on the way, but you got to hold on and keep continuing one step at a time.

32:32
Thank you so much.

32:33
I loved every little piece that you shared about your journey and how we can design our life our way and where can our listeners find you?

32:44
Sure.

32:46
So the best way to connect is on my Instagram, which is at Golden Sun Somatic Yoga.

32:54
You can also practice we with me at Golden Sun Somatic yoga dot com.

33:00
So I would love for you to join me there and keep in contact to reach out to me with any questions you have.

33:09
Absolutely.

33:09
I’m going to also link it down in the show notes.

33:12
So if you have, if you really wanna practice Somatic yoga, so please make sure that you follow her Instagram.

33:19
It’s beautiful.

33:21
I personally loved it.

33:22
That’s how we got in touch and I feel like more women need to start harnessing their power and understanding that anything that they want, it’s totally possible.

33:31
And Rae, you are one of them.

33:34
So hats off to you for designing your life your way.

33:37
And thank you so much for coming to our show.

33:39
Yes.

33:40
Thank you so much.

33:42
So glad to be here.

33:43
This is a really great fun conversation and I hope the listeners enjoyed as well.

33:48
Yes, we absolutely did.

33:50
And everyone always remember metamorphosis, not medication and the state.

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Let’s see, for all of our listeners.

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34:13
Thank you so much and see you on another episode.