271 - I Call Bullsh*t

On this episode of the Karen Kenney Show, we're talking about... what do you do when you live in a world where there's just so much bullshit?

Stay tuned to find out!

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Hey, welcome to the Karen Kenney show. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to be back. It has felt like forever, forever. It's only been two months, eight weeks. I took a little pause,

I took a little break, and we're back, though, and I gotta say, I'm gonna say a couple of things, and we're gonna dive into today's episode all about why I'm calling

bullshit and what we can do about it. Okay, so first of all, thank you so much for those of you that wrote to me and told me you missed the show and that you were super

duper excited that it was coming back. Me too. I'm so excited that it was coming back the first couple of weeks not doing a show. It was wicked we had and those of you who

are loyal listeners, first of all, thank you so much. I appreciate you. You know that I I've talked extensively about how I need to fafo, right? F, A, F, O. I like to fuck

around and find out about things and how I feel about things, and that's usually how I discover what I think, what I feel, whatever is I gotta give it a shot. I gotta

experiment. I gotta follow that impulse when I feel like lit up about something, or like my in a teacher is giving me some guidance. I gotta listen to it and just see I often

say, I won't know until I do it, taste it, see it, feel it, talk to that person, check it out myself. So this has been a really good experiment for me to take these eight

weeks, these two months or whatever, off to see how it felt. And there were times, in the beginning it was wicked weird, and then I also noticed how I would see things out in

the world, or I would hear stories or whatever. And I would literally in my head, go, I gotta do a show about this. I gotta do a podcast about this. And I was like, you're

on break. You're taking a little sabbatical, a little pause. So I'm just so happy to be back. Thank you for you know, be being in the in the in the downtime zone with me. And

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little donation if you want to. Okay, now, thank you. Thank you for listening to all that. Now, let's dive into this episode. I was a little torn about what I wanted to

call this one. I had two great titles, but I think the one I'm going to stick with is simply, I'm calling bullshit, first of all, because it makes me laugh. Also it makes me

makes me laugh, saying I'm calling bullshit, while Bob Ross is behind me and Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers is back there, too. Oh my gosh, is and but here, here's the thing, here's

the thing. I'm going to give you a couple of examples, or a few examples of things that I have experienced lately heard about that are just a little bullshitty. You know what? I

mean that I'm just like, What? What is happening? So here's some examples of the kind of bullshit that I that I have personally experienced, or a friend has

shared with me that they experience. He has one, somebody, a friend of mine from my childhood, from Lauren. Goes in to get their car repaired, and when they go in, it is

literally like the car repair people are making things up that are quote, unquote wrong with the car. Double Amen, hands, if you have ever experienced this yourself,

now, especially if you are of the female persuasion, right, a lot of times car people think that you're stupid. Now, I'm lucky enough that I have had the same service

adviser for my because I've only ever owned Toyotas, right? So I've had the same service provider for like, 20 some odd, 25 I don't know, even now, 28 years, whatever it's

been. So I'm lucky in that, and I trust, I trust my guy. Okay, shout out to s2 Sean snow. But a lot of people, right? They just use, like, a local garage or whatever. And

I'm not, look I I'm some of you will probably say, Oh, they do that all the time at Toyota or Mazda. I don't know. I'm only telling you about my own experience. But my

friend said they went in and they were just like, trying to lob on these, like, Phantom charges, you know? And I was like, What is that about? Like, what makes you want to

take advantage of your fellow brother or sister, like, or your fellow human being? Like, this is not cool. Like, not cool. I'm like, I'm calling bullshit on that, right?

And then, oh, here's another thing. So we were having some issues with the internet, right? With the interwebs. Like, I line wasn't consistent, and we called them and it

wasn't on our end. We weren't doing anything wrong, right? It had to do with the modem, or whatever the thing was, and they couldn't figure it out. They're like, we need to send

a tech out. Okay, great. So they're like, they're going to come out between, like, this four hour chunk of time. And I'm like, great. I cancel my plans. I gotta be at the

house, because obviously I use my internet to run my business and do things. And we wait and we wait and we wait. And as it's getting to the last few minutes of the four

hour window, I'm like, This guy isn't coming. I'm like, nobody is coming to our house today, so of course, I call them up, and I get this whole rigmarole, this whole

runaround about how, oh, the Tech had an emergency and he had to go home. So immediately, right, like you're the asshole for getting your panties and a bunch about

somebody having a family emergency, my big thing wasn't about him not showing up. It's the fact that, because life happens, I get it. It's that nobody bothered to tell me. So

I sat around and wasted my whole day waiting for this person to come so that I could, you know, let them in the house. People had to be here. It was just like, Oh my God. I'm

like, I'm calling bullshit on terrible, terrible customer service. Okay, here's another thing. When I was getting my septic pumped a few that sounds funny, doesn't it?

Okay, Paula, and we're back. I should say, when we were getting our septic pumped, the septic guide came out, and when you know, they put the big hose in. And those of you

who are on like, like, city water, like you don't have wells. You don't have septics. You may have never experienced this before in your life, but when you have a well,

right? And a septic tank, like you the earth provides you, it's water, and you put in a tank and all this stuff, you gotta get that thing pumped out, like every few years, or

whatever, depending on the size of your household. Okay, so while he's I'm fascinated. I am fascinated by, like, so many jobs that I don't have. So of course,

I'm always out there watching everything that they're doing. So we're out there, and he's got the big hose off the truck. It's like, making all this noise, and it's

sucking up, like, all this stuff. And then they get these wicked long like, like metal CRO about looking things, and they're like, pushing down all the float is all the stuff

that's down in the thing. I find, again, find the whole thing fascinating. So one of the things he says is he notices that there's, like, these roots and branches that

I'm going to get to my point, but there's these roots and branches that are like, kind of, we're growing into the septic. He's like, we gotta take care of that. Blah,

blah, blah. And then he found this wet wipe, this whitish, this white wet wipe attached to the thing. So, you know, I have plumbers in the family, and one of the things that

they have always told the women in the family is, don't flush your tampons down your septic. If you have a septic like it is so bad for the septic, it's going to clog it

up. So you think, like, okay, toilet paper can go down. And, of course, of course, those flushable, quote, unquote, blushable wipes can go down there because it says so

right on the package, right? Right on the package, it says, approved for a septic safety. Totally, totally safe for your septic attack, right? You know what all the

Plum is in my life? Tell me, though, and I didn't know this until that the guy doing the thing, he's like those. Things. They're like, you, you want to pay us to come back

because of all the damage it's going to do. He's like, don't use those. They're not flushable. I said, But, but it says right on the package, me, my, my, me and my, my

naiveness, right? My naivete. I said, it says right on the package. He goes, it's a lie. And I'm like, oh, Liar, liar. Pants on fire. Shame on you flushable Kleenex or

whatever the company was. I was like, that's a lie. So here's a little PSA, a little public service announcement, do not flush the quote, unquote flushables down the Plum

is in your life. Will Thank you. So no tampons, no pads, obviously, and no fussible wipes, because it's a lie. It's bullshit. I'm calling bullshit on that too. Know what

else I'm calling bullshit on? I'm calling bullshit on all and I'm not naming names or, like, pointing anybody out, but I'm just calling bullshit on like, coaches and

programs and businesses that make these outrageous claims and then don't follow up. I know so many entrepreneurs who are so discouraged, feel defeated, feel

downtrodden, write all these D words disappointed because they were sold a bill of goods. They it was a racket. It was their experience of that course, that coach, that

program, was a racket, and there's a lot of that going on out there. So you guys, I'm calling bullshit on some of that. And do your homework. Another little PSA. Do your

homework before you give your hard earned money, or your easy earned money, your resources, to somebody do your homework, ask around, have a call, make sure it's a good

fit. Make sure that it you know that there's a history there of good faith. You know what I'm saying? That's important. Last thing I'm going to call violence on, just for today,

is violence. We are a world. I can't even say country, nation, um, we are a world of humans who are hell bent on destroying each other. We are We are destroying our planet.

We are destroying all the animals, the ecosystem and each other. There is so much violence. And I'm not just talking about, like, the wars that are going on, the awful

things that are going on, where people and children and women are being raped and brutalized and murdered and young men and like all this stuff. And you know, however

you feel, however you feel about Trump trying to kill another human being, is just insane to me. It's just insane to me. I do not condone violence, especially, especially

as the kid of a murdered mother. I know the deep I just know the Deep Impact, like you can't take it back, kind of impact that, that that kind of violence that murder just

has on not only a person, but a family, a community and the people that are left behind, so and so, I just wanted to give you some examples of the things that I was

calling bullshit on, and you maybe can check some of these boxes of what I said. Maybe you've had a service provided that was, like, just not, not holding up their end of

the bag. And maybe you've dealt with a coach or somebody who really let you down and you like, regret spending all that money and not getting what you thought you were getting

right, etc, etc, etc. And the thing is, is that when we have multiple experiences, or ongoing experiences, of of, call it violence or bullshittery, when there is just so much

bullshittery happening all the time, it can feel like, right? It can feel really easy to start to have a sense of like, overwhelm, or even like, even slip into despair. And when

we start to feel that way, when we start to feel overwhelmed, or like in despair, or like, like, we're just consumed by all the awful, quote, unquote, awful things that are

happening in the world, all the terrible things where we don't feel like we know how to navigate, or we don't feel up to the task or up to the burden of trying to wade

through all the shit. Here's one of the things that can happen, okay? Is it can be so tempting to stay hyper focused on the out there and everything that's happening out

there, everything that's happening out there in that world, where we think that that is the cause, right, that all of this bullshit is the cause of our suffering. This is

something that we often experience, right? So much stuff is going on, and we just think, Oh, my God, the world is a shit show. There's so much crap going on, right? And we

feel at the mercy of the world, and it feels like that's the cause we're at the effect when we start to get caught up in that POV, that point of view, what? Happens is, is we

often will start to point fingers. We'll often start to say it's their fault, or it's that thing, or that company, that business, that President, that whatever, that that

political party, that whatever right somebody outside of me is now responsible for how I'm feeling right. And as soon as we do that, as soon as we start to point

fingers and like, assign blame and start to feel a little extra righteous, you know what I mean, we try to put the problem out there on them, like on other people. And when we

start to do that, it's really easy, right? And who here double Amen hands. If you've known somebody who chooses or prefers to focus on everybody else's bullshit and what

everybody else is doing wrong, mostly so that they don't have to look at their own stuff, right? We've all done it. We have all done it at some point. Got yourself a little

project, right? Got yourself a little project right? Whether that's a partner, a sweetie, a lover, a boyfriend, a girlfriend, whoever that, you can just be like, Oh yeah,

they're so or you start looking at your family members. You start looking at everybody else but the mirror. You start looking everywhere else, but except in the

mirror. And what I like to do is, right? The one thing, because we can't control so much of what happens out there in the world. I'm going to talk about the things we can

control in a moment. But we there's so much quote, unquote, out there that we can't control. All we can control is ourselves. So for me, when I start to feel like the

bullshit meters get like, the bullshit buckets getting a little too full for my taste, one of the things I do is like, I don't want to feel helpless. I don't want to

feel hopeless. I don't want to feel at the mercy of something outside of myself. So that is the perfect time to take a look at yourself, because this is how you actually

change it. Remember at the beginning I said, What do you do when you live in a world like Stay tuned to find out I'm about to tell you, this is one of the things that you can

do, is you start to turn the reflection on yourself. And it reminds me of a client that I once had who was in a relationship, and they were always, like, kind of

passive aggressively, like complaining about the other right? The other person, the other one. And eventually that relationship, no big surprise, failed. It fell apart, right?

And so when everybody's playing the blame game, they've forgotten they're on the same team. You know what I mean? So as long as everybody insists on being right and making

the other one bad or wrong, and giving the ego that fix of like, Yeah, I'm superior. I'm so special, whatever that That all leads to separation, which we can I'm going to

talk about in another episode. But so no, no big surprise that that relationship didn't, didn't, didn't make it right. And there was a lot of this is not a condescending thing,

a mean thing, a bad thing. I'm just saying, right? And I have said what I'm about to say to many people. So this isn't an identifier of anybody, but what happens is, when a

relationship ends in the other person is now no longer in the picture. What happens is, and I remember the conversation, and I remember them saying, well, all those things

I used to complain about, whether it's like the house was never clean, or they're always leaving their stuff around, or they do this, they do that, they do this, right? They were

kind of thinking about it. And they said, well, now I'm going to have a chance to and they pause, and I said, find out how full of shit you really are, right? Because when

there's nobody else around to blame, what often happens is pretty quickly, some other stuff starts to come into clear focus, and we start to realize that a lot of the stuff

that we complain about, we are either complicit in or we are the cause of it. So when we're willing to take a look at our own bullshit, and that's what I always say,

right as a mentor, like you, gotta be willing to own both your brilliance, like your brilliance, and your bullshit. Because if you don't look at that quote, unquote

shadow side, or that part of you that that is crying out for love or need your attention, if we don't look at it, it's like, it's like a child, right? I know so

many adults, it's like, I'm having a temp they're having a temper tantrum right now, right? It's kind of like the ego has a little temper tantrum when it's like,

looking out there and blaming everything on everybody else. Okay? We can't control what others do. We can't choose how they're being. We can't show like. We can't We can't

change who they're being. All we can do is ask ourselves, okay, and this is, this is the key here. Let's listen up. Listen up. This is the key. All we can do is. Is ask

ourselves as we take a look around at all the bullshit and all the chaos and all the stuff that we don't want, we don't like, we don't prefer, but we find ourselves still

experiencing all we can do in that moment is is ask ourselves, who am I being amongst all of this stuff. Who am I? Being amongst all of this bullshit, all of this chaos, all of

this violence, all of this stuff that isn't working, because that is the only thing that you really have any autonomy, authority, agency over. That's what you can actually

change your own mind, your own heart, your own thoughts, your own beliefs, your own stories, right? And when I say change our stories, it's not like we're going back and

pretending that awful things didn't happen, or that bad things didn't happen. What we're when I mean when I say change your story is we're going to change the meaning that we've

assigned to it, and we're going to change the way that we look at ourselves in relationship to those stories, because it's so important that we go back and look at our

own behavior and our own again, complicitness and our own ways of showing up, and when We find ourselves steeped in a little too much bullshit. The question is,

how much I wrote this down? So don't forget, here's the question asked, am I contributing in some way? Am I contributing in some way to filling up that bullshit bucket? You know

what I'm saying? What part of this is mine to own and what can I do? And this, to me, is like where it actually gets really exciting and interesting when things get

really hard. Now, look, I have been going through my own season trying to figure a few things out. None of us, none of us, are exempt right from growth opportunities. Let

me put it that way, none of us are exempt. So in mind, tend to be usually around like my business or my creativity, and what I'm creating in the world and how I'm feeling,

you know, called to serve, or what I'm offering, you know, all that stuff. So I've been in my own little season where I've been bumping up against myself and like, trying

to, like, oh, like, stretch a little bit outside my comfort zone and take a look at some things. So in A Course in Miracles, right? I kind of think of it. There's this

image that I often get when I think about A Course in Miracles, and I feel like, call it God, source, the divine the universe, right? We have each been given our own individual

curriculum. I'm going to do a whole podcast on that sometime, but we've given our own little pot of the garden. We have been given like our own little corner of the garden to

tend to, and if we're too busy looking out there what everybody else is doing in all their bullshit. Our own garden does not get like plowed. The seeds don't get planted,

the Weeds don't get plucked, and nothing grows there. And that's the place that we want to put our attention, in our own little corner of the garden. And maybe what you do

in your coordinate little corner of the garden is you do your own spiritual work, you do your own personal development, you do your own mindset stuff, you do your own

forgiveness, right? Your forgiveness work? That's a big one. That's a big one. I should do a whole. I should do a whole. I should do a series of podcasts on forgiveness, right?

But that's the thing, when we find ourselves kind of like, you know, chin deep in it, I can't change that some crazy person like, you know, is out there shooting up little

kids or going to malls or blowing up, like, I can't control what so many other people are doing. But I can look at myself. I can look at the quality of my own thoughts. I

can look at what's been in my mind, right on my mind and in my heart lately. I can take a look and see if I need to clean up my side of the street, my backyard. Do you know what

I'm saying? Like, take a look at like, my little corner, and sometimes we'll be called to do things like go vote or volunteer or start a support group or be a helper in some

way, you know. And that's always the next step. I say when we think about Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Rogers mom famously said to him, you know, whenever big, scary things in the

world happen, look for the help is, and I'm like, That's great. Look for the helpers. Calm down your nervous system by knowing that there are people who are getting off

their ass and doing stuff. But hey, you can also maybe become a helper, take the next step and get involved and do something. So I always think like when we're looking out

there and where. Like, okay, there is so much bullshit out there. And one of the things that I realized is this, I can either go out there and bitch and moan and try to

do like cancel culture and call people out and point fingers and name names and tell tell everybody how everybody is doing it wrong. Or, here's the big takeaway, here it

is, here it is. Or you become the alternative to what's going on. So when the world is lost in a frenzy of fear, you become the love that is the work when

everything is going crazy and the ego is shouting, fire, fire, fire, fear, right, fight, fight, fight, this is when we draw on our own inner strength, which hopefully we

are cultivating, right? Creating What ashwaran My teacher, is a Sanctum Sanctorum, that place within you that cannot be shaken, that sturdy, steady place like if you're

watching this, you can see me. I'm doing my alignment, right, my alignment hands right. The assignment is alignment, getting ourselves aligned through a DSP, a daily

spiritual practice, so that we can tap into that well of love, that deep, deep, deep well of the truth of who we are, that well of love, because that's what we're going to

water our garden with, and that's what we're going to go next door and help our neighbors water some stuff with too. Is that that well of love is available to us,

but we have to, like, do something sometimes, to remember, oh yeah, oh yeah. Instead of looking at all the things out there I don't want, I can become, I can be

the love that I want to see in the world. Right? As Gandhi supposedly said, I can be the change that I want to see in the world. Because if we're just sitting around waiting

for everybody else to change, we're going to be sitting here for a long ass time. Because not only do people often resist change, so does the brain, and most people who are

walking around making decisions in positions of power and living in the world. They usually this sounds kind of funny saying this, because I'm being a little sarcastic,

but they usually have a brain in their head, whether or not they use it in service for the for the whole good, that remains questionable, but you certainly can do that

yourself, because here's the thing, one of the things that, of course, in miracles has really taught me is that projection, right? What you are projecting from your mind out

onto the world is what you will see. Projection makes perception, okay? So another way of saying it, from A Course in Miracles, is the world is an outward picture

of an inward condition. The world is what we think it is what we project onto it. So when we want to change what's out there, less violence, more compassion, more kindness,

more mercy, we wait a little more time before we start spewing quote, unquote facts over the internet, when awful things happen and Everybody's rushing to be the first one

with the news, right? It's like this. You just see such a lack of spiritual discipline online, in the news, on social media, people lack some basic spiritual chops. Okay, so

much of the work that I do right in the nest, in my one to one programs, when I teach yoga, anything that I'm doing, I'm trying to infuse it. That's what this whole

show is about, telling stories that we can apply everyday spiritual principles too, right? I do some storytelling we so we can relate it to our lives and say, hey, here

are some spiritual principles down to earth applicable to those stories. If you found yourself, you recognize yourself in this, right? Here's some stuff you can do to help

that's what this whole show is about, spreading more love in the world, and one of the ways that we can do that is to get our minds right. To get our minds right, to

shift our minds from a thought system of fear to a thought system of love. How do I do that? And again, not Hawking my wares, but it's honest. You do it by you can come

and join my group, mentoring program, the nest. It's 50 bucks a month. You come in, it's like less than, like a small dunks. I don't even know it's like, like $1.50 a day,

right? And you get to be in a group of change makers, of people who are trying to be better human beings and to nourish. Spiritual selves, so we show up in the world

differently, so that we become the alternatives. Like when you look at your family trauma, your family history, it's like you get to be the one that says, hey,

this shit stops here with me. I'm gonna do it differently. I'm gonna become more self aware, I'm gonna take ownership of what I'm saying, what I'm thinking, what I'm doing,

who I'm being, the choices that I'm making. I'm not going to pass the buck. I'm not going to keep blaming who I am today, at 55 on my childhood. I'm going to choose right

to become the alternative. You go to your job and everybody else is bitching and moaning, right? Be the alternative. Do it differently, right? Don't pass the buck.

What's that saying? The buck stops here. I'm going to take responsibility. I'm going to show up a little early, I'm going to do my job to the best of my ability. I'm going to

take pride in my work, etc, etc, right? Because here's the thing, and I can hear, like, in the back of my head, right? I can hear this little voice like, oh, I can hear

somebody saying, so what do you mean? If it's projection, makes perception that you're saying, I'm responsible for all that violence. I'm responsible for these awful

things that happen in the world, not you, may be singularly, personally, okay, but all minds have joined. It's part of the collective consciousness. And let me give

you an example to make my point, right. We look around the world now you personally might not think that child sex trafficking is okay, or child pornography is okay, or

starving children is okay, or abusing animals is okay. Or, you know, the way that animals are and, hello, you know my vegan hat, right? I find, I find the way that

animals are treated on this planet, it's disgusting and it's awful and it's horrible and it's brutal, and it breaks my heart, to be honest, I'm always It breaks my heart.

Fact, okay, so here's the thing you might be thinking like, so I don't agree. I don't agree with so and so, you know going through this thing or I don't agree with hungry kids

or right? But enough people do, and that's what makes it possible out there, is that enough people in here, and I'm pointing to my head, my brain, enough people in here, in

their minds, find that okay, and that's why it hasn't changed out there, because if enough people said enough is enough, it would change out there if enough people

align their minds with love and enough people said, I'm not okay with the unhoused homeless, right situations that we have. I'm not okay with the level of the you know,

whatever, when we see something that is predominantly whether it's the way it whether it's a politician getting voted into office, or these things that we were just

like, why is it that we're the only country that doesn't have, like, health care for all right, free health care, or university like tuition free for all when we see things on a

major scale, It's because enough people are okay with it. Enough people have decided that it's not something that they want to change or think needs to change, and this is

why it's so important that when you start to feel disgruntled and you feel your bullshit bucket getting really, really full, we have to ask ourselves questions. So whenever I

see violence that I find disturbing. I always ask myself, where in me does violence still live? Where in me am I withholding love? Where in me am I holding a grievance?

Where in me Do I have any kind of violence, violent thoughts? Now, violence isn't always like you're going to go and hit somebody or stab somebody or physically altercate

somebody, but where have I been having attack thoughts? Where have I been having, like, really big judgments? Who am I not forgiving? Because those are the only things

I can actually do anything about. So I often say to say to my clients and people in the nest and stuff, if we want to see a less violent world, we have to choose to be less

violent in our own thoughts, words and actions. One of the reasons why I'm vegan is because that is a powerful way for me to make a difference by not participating in

the systems that keep animals in suffering, in rape, in slaughter, in in the most abusive conditions, right? I make a difference by what I put on my plate and

what I don't put in my mouth or in my body, what I don't wear on my body, what I don't wear on my skin, right? So there's all kinds of different ways, and if enough people do a

little bit, a lot gets done. And. That's how, right? That's how we push back against the bullshit. Is that it has to be enough individuals to collectively make a

difference. So the question isn't, well, what are they doing? And they did this. The question is, what am I doing, and how am I contributing to the bullshit? How am I

contributing to the problem? Not in a guilty way, not to sit there and, like, beat yourself up so you go into shame and regret and blame that I'm not saying that. It's

taking an honest look and saying, like, Yeah, I haven't been very kind lately, right? I have. My thoughts have not been on the on the bright side of life or whatever,

right? We have to take a look inside. We get to become the alternative to all the fear, because that's all that violence and all the bullshit and all the all the lazy, all the

stuff that we see that we're like, what the all the chaos that is the playground of the ego, right? And our job is to align ourselves more fiercely than ever, with

conviction, with faith, with conviction, right? With love. That's how things are going to change. And I often say like, I don't know if I'm going to be around to see,

to see, you know, I

think, you know, I'm not going to get the quote exactly right, but you know Martin Luther King, Jr, who says, you know that the act of justice, right, right? It bends. The

Act bends towards justice. And I'm just hoping. I'm hoping because I have, I have, I have great nephews. I have, you know, nephews. I have people in my life who are

having babies, you know, and I'm like, I want the world to be a better, more beautiful, more kind and merciful and compassionate place. And, you know, I'm 55 I

don't know how much longer I'll be around. So hopefully the world, I mean, I just think, like, man, we've gotta, we've gotta do our part. So if you are, you know

tempted, you know, whenever you're tempted to kind of focus on everybody else's bullshit, this is when we can take a look in the mirror. I call it taking a look in the

soul mirror and just really being as they say in 12 step programs, they say, like, take a fearless moral inventory. And that, to me, is one of the best things that we can

do. And when you start to recognize like, oh yeah, there's some places in my life where I'm a little full of shit, where I say I want to do a thing, or I say I want this,

but I actually don't take any of the steps to make it happen, right? Because it's really easy. This is a whole other podcast for another day. It's really easy to say

that you want the thing without doing the work to actually get the thing or be the thing. So you guys, I hope this was helpful in some way. I hope that you are envisioning

in your mind your own little corner of the God and what that looks like for you. And it might be your home, it might be your family, it might be your workplace. It might be, you

know, if you are some an entrepreneur like your business and how you serve the world, it's yours to tend to. And things grow, trust me, things grow in a much better

environment of love than they do in fear, you know. So I hope this is helpful in some way. I am so happy and delighted. I'm a little bit giddy to tell you the truth, I'm

so happy to be back. Feels like coming home like in the best way. So thank you so much for being here. My sweetie and I might be playing around with the intro, so stay tuned

for that. I don't know if it's gonna happen on this episode or another one. I just am like, yeah. I just want it to be more simple and fun and easy, you know, and to really

represent like me and my personality and how I feel about things. So we might, we might tweak that sucka, too. But look, if you feel like you've got something beneficial from

this episode, that there's somebody in your life, you think, who could, you know, it would, it would be good for them to hear this, you know, maybe they've been a little

down the dumps of how things have been. Share this. That's a great way of spreading love is share this with somebody that you care about, somebody you love, somebody that

you're thinking of, somebody who you just think might enjoy it, whatever. Right? Somebody's got long car rides, and they could do some do some easy listening on

their car rides. Sharing the show is one of a great ways to help spread more love. And if you want to try out the new tip, ja, I'm not going to stop you. I'd be wicked happy.

So just remember, go to Karen kenney.com/tipjat, we'll see what happens. I'm playing with it. I'm doing an experiment. But some of you may remember

from my last episode that one of the reasons why I took a hiatus is that, you know, I, for a long time, had had a producer that I paid to do this show, and over the last five

years I've chipped out like, quite a bit of cash, like over $25,000 and so I was like, Okay, we're gonna hit pause, and we're gonna find some ways to maybe support the show. So

if your hat feels called to support the show and what I'm doing and what I'm trying to do in the world by spreading more love, I would be so grateful to just thank you so much for

that. Okay. Okay, you guys, wherever you go, keep your eyes on your own paper, right? It's tempting to look out there, but wherever you go, okay, may you, may you

leave the people, the animals, the places, the environment, the world, better than how you first found it, wherever you go, may you and your presence and your energy be a

blessing. Bye. You.