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Show up for yourself
In this episode of No Nametags, we dive into the importance of showing up for yourself and the power of leaning into what inspires you—because when something truly moves you, you can’t go wrong. It’s a reminder that following your true heart space is often the first step toward finding your purpose.
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All right, everyone welcome back. This is no Name Tags the podcast where we go beyond resumes and job titles to uncover the real, inspiring stories of breaking into your dream job. This isn't about corporate buzzwords or rigid strategies. It's about real experiences, the wins, the losses, the what am I even doing here? Moments that shape who you are personally and professionally, because, let's be honest, the professional world can feel overwhelming at times, and it's not about following a perfect plan. The key is to lean into what makes you you, and that is where you'll reach your full potential.
Beth:And, yes, for those that are fiercely loyal listeners or maybe just finding the show for the first time, we are thrilled to have you here. A quick reminder for our new audience we won't officially introduce you to our guests until the very end of the episode. Why is that? It's all about immersing you into the authentic stories of our guests, without the distraction of their name and their title. By focusing solely on their journey, we highlight something we all share professionally, that is, starting from ground zero and crafting a unique path. These journeys are often filled with trials, tribulations, but, of course, success along the way. So let's get started.
Mike:All right guest, happy to have you here today.
Mystery Guest:Hi, I'm glad to be here.
Mike:Mystery guest. What I would really like to start with, just a simple question, what is it that you've always wanted to do? Your earliest memory, what was something that you just you really wanted to do with, with your life and career?
Mystery Guest:as a kid. Yeah, as a kid, I think one of the main things was always for me I wanted to work in fashion.
Mike:Okay, fashion.
Beth:What was it about fashion that kind of piqued your interest?
Mystery Guest:Oh, it was just typically the girly stuff, you know, just all the accessories and getting dressed up and looking cute and fun, and yeah, I loved all of that.
Mike:Did you put on fashion shows with your friends?
Mystery Guest:Yes, I sure did. All right, we need to resurface these.
Beth:Like dolls, like Barbie dolls. My daughter, Emmy, she, is getting into Barbies and she got her first Barbie doll for her last birthday in November. And, I still am, I'm intrigued still by the little tiny shoes that come with them. But they're all over the house, yeah.
Mike:So that's, crazy.
Mystery Guest:So cute yeah. Where did you grow up? So I grew up in Germany.
Mike:Okay.
Mystery Guest:In the north of Germany, directly at the North Sea, with my mom, single child.
Mike:When did you come to the United States?
Mystery Guest:In 2016. So not that long ago.
Mike:Wow, okay, so you spent the majority of your life in Germany, yes, correct, and you went to school, like I don't know what. They call it primary school or elementary school.
Mystery Guest:Yeah, it's similar yeah.
Mike:Okay, got it. And did you go to college or university in Germany? Yes, okay, yes, where did you go?
Mystery Guest:So I moved from Cuxhaven, which is the small town I grew up in. I moved to Hamburg, probably for a lot of listeners, maybe something they know.
Beth:Okay.
Mystery Guest:Hamburg is like one of the major cities in the north of Germany.
Mike:What did you study?
Mystery Guest:So I actually ended up studying fashion management. Oh, okay, so it aligns with that childhood dream of mine.
Mike:So you followed your passion.
Mystery Guest:Yes, I did.
Mike:Okay, and what sort of classes did you take in the fashion world?
Mystery Guest:So the program was basically very focused on brand management, but it also had these, this very huge component where it was really design-based. So we had to, starting from the beginning, always create collections according to different themes, different topics. So it was always both it was like focused on marketing but also on actually creating the collection. So there is a bunch of the people that I went to college with that ended up being designers Wow.
Beth:That's a blend of the creativity right but also the business acumen. I'm like getting flashbacks of Project Runway that I used to watch. Do you watch any of those? I have not. Okay, I always like you get sucked in and then you're like, oh my gosh, what are they going to create? But it's so interesting that there was the business focus and was that something that you knew would be a part of your journey, like going into college, that you would have to think about the business side and maybe like how you would brand your specific line?
Mystery Guest:Yeah, and I thought I really loved this about the program that it was really focused on also getting whatever you created out into the world and actually market it in a way where people are just like fascinated about it and want to buy it.
Mike:What I find interesting about fashion in general. I can think of no other career that is more focused on hey, what are other people doing in the market in terms of fashion? I have to be better than them. I have to stand out. I have to be different. Would you say that that's a huge element of your current work, as well as the fashion world, like standing out.
Mystery Guest:Yeah, I would say there's definitely always something I always think or I think it's very interesting, even with other brands that are not fashion focused. It's just very interesting to always see how, like little tweaks on certain products make a huge difference in the way they are seen.
Beth:Yeah that's so interesting. I'm curious where you have looked, and maybe you still look for inspiration because there's so much creativity behind fashion. Do you have like a favorite designer or inspired elsewhere, like nature? What is that?
Mystery Guest:still really, and I'm still really into fashion. I feel like ever since I moved here, everyone can always tell I'm the European because I'm dressed very different.
Beth:You are very sleek. I will tell you that. I agree, it's very different yeah.
Mystery Guest:Yeah. So there is still definitely. I still love fashion yeah.
Mike:So I'm picking up some context clues here. You are not currently in fashion for your career, is that correct? No, I'm not picking up clues and just helping the audience along this path. Um, so was. Was there a defining moment for you that made you I mean, you're still interested in fashion? But um, was there a defining moment for you that said you know what? I'm not going to do this for my, my current career. I'm going to do something else.
Mystery Guest:So, um, if we backtrack a little bit, so before I studied fashion management, I studied art direction too, okay, so I was always very focused on like the marketing side of things in general. So when I finished up my fashion management program, I worked for a public relations agency and I worked as a brand manager for two cosmetic brands in Germany and I loved it, but there was still like this personal connection missing where I felt like it would be cool to work for a brand that actually has like an impact on people personally and that was leading me a little away from fashion. I got it.
Mike:So the personal aspect, connecting with people on a personal level, yeah, so what brought you to the United States in 2016?
Mystery Guest:yes, my ex-husband.
Mike:Got it Okay.
Mystery Guest:Yes, so we actually we did not move here to Pittsburgh, we moved to Texas. So back then he was stationed with the army in Germany and then we moved for his next station to Fort Hood, texas, and this is where I had my son, and then, when he got out of the army, we moved here.
Mike:Okay.
Beth:Yeah, so let's backtrack a little bit. You know you are obtaining your degree in college focused on fashion, and it obviously has the design background as well as this new business acumen. What was the immediate kind of next step after college? Was it the PR, was it an agency, or was it for a brand?
Mystery Guest:So it was a public relations agency? Yeah, so they were working with different celebrities in Germany as well, as they were one of the main agencies that were responsible for the German Fashion Week.
Beth:Okay, Okay. And what was your kind of experience there?
Mystery Guest:Like I love that fashion aspect that was really just like. I was always that girl and I still to this day. I'm the person I love to set everything up, but I don't want to be like in the spotlight. I like to have everything together and organize and be that person where it's just like everything is perfect but then you just let other people shine yeah, it's like behind the scenes, yes, yes, setting up for success, yeah I love that.
Beth:I love that. Okay, so how long were you at the agency?
Mystery Guest:um, I think it was two, two years okay, yeah, all right.
Beth:And then you said you moved on. What was next again?
Mystery Guest:it was um, it was um.
Mystery Guest:It was first um a cosmetic brand Bobbi Brown cosmetics okay, yeah, very popular yeah, I know, I know I and I I love the spirit all about it, but it was like it was in Munich, it was just not. I was not that connected to the city, so I didn't didn't stay that long. Um, yeah, but after that I worked um for one of the most popular fashion brands in Germany probably to this day I don't even know, since I'm not connected that much to the fashion world in Germany anymore but it's called S Oliver and there I worked as a fashion designer actually, and not in marketing okay, yeah, so you've had a little bit of a fun trajectory, experiencing a lot of new.
Mystery Guest:Yes.
Beth:What was maybe your takeaway as you moved to the United States? Did it leave you kind of hungry to get involved in fashion in Texas or somewhere around here, Like kind of what was that next step for you?
Mystery Guest:Honestly, that was really hard for me. I mean, coming here to the United States I had my son the first year we were here. So for me it was clear that needed to be this cut where I just wanted to also just be there for him. But still it was really hard for me to just let this go, because it was really like a dream of mine to work in fashion. But back then in Texas it was really hard for me to just let this go, because it was really like a dream of mine to work in fashion. But back then in Texas there was nothing like that. I would have just been needing to move probably closer to Austin. We were pretty close to Austin, but with like a one-year-old it's just not possible.
Mike:Yeah, I was going to say I was actually not to give anything away, but I was on your LinkedIn a little bit before this and you have a line that specifically says motherhood for a particular period of time. So what does that mean to you? I think it's amazing that you have that listed there.
Beth:Not a lot of people. It doesn't end. It never ends.
Mike:It's an incredibly important job.
Mike:So what does that mean to you?
Mystery Guest:I honestly feel like that. My son really inspired me to just do what feels right in my heart. Yeah, yeah.
Beth:That's amazing.
Mystery Guest:Yeah.
Beth:I think it's interesting because our previous guest had some similarities, where she also married into the military and, you know, prioritized the family first and taking care of her son and she slowly but surely has made her way back into working where she established her own business and then she is a coach for CrossFit. So she's very busy. But that time was an opportunity for her to reflect and really figure out like what is my passion and start to kind of map out the legacy that she wanted to leave behind. I'm curious if that moment of maybe time away from the grind made you think about like, oh my God, what do I want to do? Like what is my legacy, that I want to have?
Mystery Guest:Yeah, I mean I was. I was not really so focused on that, it was just really, like I said, like my son brought me back to my heart space and I always knew I wanted to be like a very involved mom. So I knew like something in fashion like I've done previously. So my very last job in Germany was actually a fashion buyer. So I really did like the whole spectrum from marketing to design, to buy.
Mystery Guest:I could have never done it Like I think like from all the different positions I had in Germany, buying was really the most interesting to me, but I could have never done anything like that and be the mom that I wanted to be for him at the same time. That's amazing, yeah. So for me it was really more like what can I do that feels right in my heart, where I can still show up for my son as the most best or the best version of myself and still have like this calm, even when I work?
Mike:Yeah, and I think it goes past just having that simple flexibility. I was on your website a little bit as well and just finding balance, as you put it in a lot of different areas on the site. And I'm just curious what does that word balance mean to you and what would you hope our audience and people you know starting out in their career finding this balance Like what does balance mean to you and what would you hope our audience and people you know starting out in their career finding this balance like what does balance mean to you?
Mystery Guest:I think really balance means for me that you can work towards your goals but still show up as you want to for yourself and the people that are closest to you. Yeah, and.
Mike:And putting that work forward. You know, having that balance is really important because if you don't have that, you're not going to be your best self with being a mom and in your career. So I think that's really important.
Beth:Yeah, I also think that's just amazing about you. It seems like you just want to be better, right, Like I think a lot of people don't take up pause sometimes and say how do I make myself better each and every day? I started saying that to my son. I was like what have you done to make yourself better today? You know like he needs to read more, so we're trying to get him to do that.
Mike:But bring him in here. We'll tell him right now yeah, he's here, he's on spring break, but you know it's.
Beth:I think it's always good to have that self reflection and it's not always top of mind, especially when things get busy. It's kind of the last thing to go, I would say.
Mike:Yeah, yeah. So what is it you do right now? Can we do this?
Beth:What happened? What was your journey from Texas to Pittsburgh? Or was there anything in between? We should maybe ask that.
Mystery Guest:No. So my ex-husband. He got out of the Army in Texas, okay, and he actually had which is funny, because it makes no sense actually but he had one friend who lived in the neighborhood where I still live now. Oh well, so that that was the only connection that made us move here okay yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, I know do you like it here?
Mystery Guest:yes, I do love it here yeah actually so the switch, because my um, my last hometown in in in germany, was um bavaria and was this beautiful town, like in the wind yards, with like a castle and a church on top of hills. So moving to texas, that felt very foreign to me. But moving here with like the hills and the woods and everything around that helped me find my yeah.
Mike:Yeah, see, that's a. Really. I'm always interested to hear what people think of Pittsburgh who might not have grown up here, and especially someone who, like, lived in Germany. What is your yeah, what is your perspective of Pittsburgh? Is it similar to how you grew up, like you said, or yeah?
Mystery Guest:I mean, texas is very different. Yeah, it is. It definitely is very different and I, in all fairness, I got to say so. I live in the suburbs here, so I do have the countryside. Do you live in the?
Mike:South Hills, north Hills, north Hills. Okay, I live in the South Hills, but that's where I grew up. Yeah, but that's cool. Yeah, I always say that Pittsburgh is a very hometown city. Yeah, I grew up you know most of my life here, and then I lived in New York for a while, which was extremely different. And then back to Pittsburgh.
Mystery Guest:So, like I said, I'm always just fascinated to to anyone who's from Pittsburgh that I think it's very interesting that everyone who tells me they're from Pittsburgh and moved away, they always come back. Yes, that's a common theme which speaks for Pittsburgh.
Mike:Yeah it does Boomerangs we had a guest on that specifically said that it was whatever guest it was that lived in Colorado or something. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, he said, he came back.
Mystery Guest:So it's cool. There has to be something to it, right?
Beth:Yes, for sure. Okay, so now you officially have moved to Pittsburgh. What was your kind of next steps?
Mystery Guest:Well, so when we moved here because we knew like we had to do the move and we both needed to have jobs to make everything work, so I actually was an analyst with HCL for Google for a couple months- Okay, yeah, and what did? That pertain. So back then it was about research optimization Okay.
Beth:For one of their newest products. Oh, okay, amazing. And how long did you do that?
Mystery Guest:I think I did it five or six months. It was my son that did not work well with the full-time work. Oh, okay, because it was his first experience being away from me and it did not. It was really bad actually, okay.
Mike:Data analyst. You said yes, yeah, so that's very focused work.
Mystery Guest:Oh yeah, I actually loved it, but my son was struggling really bad. He was one and a half and it just he was constantly sick. I think within six months I used all my vacation days, so I was just like, well, there we are. This doesn't work.
Beth:And then what Is it kind of where you are right now? Yes, okay. Well, I think now is the time we get to play our fancy music. Our mystery guest please introduce yourself who you are and where you work.
Mystery Guest:Okay, I'm Janne Alexander, my company is called Tanatera Healing LLC and I'm a mind-body coach and offer nervous system regulation, breathwork and sound. That's amazing. I wanted to reveal it.
Beth:Mike is so excited.
Mystery Guest:I system regulation, breathwork and sound. That's amazing.
Mike:I wanted to reveal it.
Beth:Mike is so excited.
Mike:I love this stuff so much and I wanted to reveal it right away, but I couldn't for our audience. So okay, now that we're here, tell me all about this. Just spill. What is it that you're passionate about? What makes you do what you do?
Mystery Guest:Yeah, so I feel like I got to backtrack that to my childhood. So I always had a lot of like health issues where my immune system was just very weakened. So I had asthma when I was a kid, then I had eczema, so I had all those things and then I had different food allergies.
Mystery Guest:So there was always something where my nervous system was very dysregulated very out of balance health issues, which made me see there's other ways than just normal medicine that you can like look into two that are really beneficial for you.
Mystery Guest:And I would say, after my divorce, I really knew I needed to find something to heal from that divorce, but also to find my balance so I can show up the best way as a single mom for my son. So for me, the first thing was I would go to many, many yoga classes, many, many yoga classes, and then I experienced online since it was the lockdown, I did some sound healing sessions virtually and I was just like, oh my God, this is absolutely amazing and the changes it creates in the body when you just listen to crystal balls, to a gong, for an hour, it's just amazing. Yeah, so this is actually how I got into my journey and did the training with the same sound healer that I found online. Wow, because I was just like I gotta do this, do this. So I traveled to Austin and that was like really my step into yeah, like the holistic healing industry.
Mike:That's. That's really fascinating, I will say. Um, so we gave a presentation, uh, here at Gatesman a few months back and it was all about focusing on doing better brainstorms with, with teams, and I spoke specifically specifically to a section about focus and getting into a focus mode, and there's these sound waves, binaural beats like a 40 hertz frequency binaural beats that help you get into focus mode. So, as I researched that a bit more, just seeing and actually doing the, the, you know, listening your work improves so much so I can only imagine sounds that that you might practice. It could help with healing so much that people might not even be aware of Um, so I'm just super fascinated about you know, the, the sound element, uh, as well, Um, yeah, so, uh, there's also uh, also on the Calm app specifically, they have the soundscapes and they have just this like white noise and it's very healing. So have you ever had anyone? I'm sure you have but people come to you and say, like, how transformative these sounds are.
Mystery Guest:Yeah, yeah, most definitely yeah, and I do have the same approach, like you said, no-transcript, that's what's supposed to be doing yeah because that is like on the one hand, it makes you very focused, but on the other hand, it makes you completely relaxed.
Mike:This is how you can have more input coming in do you have a um like, let's say, someone came to you and they had a prior trauma in a specific you know thing. Do you have a uniform approach for sounds that you have with with anyone that comes to you? Or maybe someone's experiencing some specific thing and maybe one sound is right for them or or, you know, maybe another one might work for them. Like, what is your approach? Is it a uniform approach or is it you try different?
Mystery Guest:So it depends. So I do offer Reiki, I offer sound healing and I offer breathwork. Trauma depends on what it is. If it's like some body sensation or an ache, sound is very beneficial because it just goes where it needs to go. No one has to think about it, it just does what it needs to do. This is why people come to my sound baths and just like, oh my god, my hip was on fire and it hurts really bad and out of a sudden it was gone. It was just like.
Mystery Guest:That's exactly because the sound just travels where it needs to go and just releases whatever needs to be released that's amazing yeah, but if it's more trauma, where it's deeper, where it's really just like an experience that we need to work through, sound will not help you get there. This is where you really need to utilize the breath and work intentionally through certain issues, and this is really guided specifically how it is needed. So if I do one-on-one breathwork sessions, it's really about working with that person and really seeing what they need. Yeah, yeah.
Beth:We had the opportunity a few of us, a few of us ladies at Gatesman had the chance to experience Jane and her element in her studio, which I definitely want you to explain in a minute. But I personally have never done anything like that and it was definitely an eye opening experience for me. So, obviously, you put your phone away, you go and you're supposed to relax and my challenge was I couldn't turn off my brain and it probably took me I hate to admit it, but the first half of the session and be like you need to shut down and you need to absorb this and you need to be here for the experience. And then, once I did, I just like I don't, I feel like I blacked out, Like I don't remember what happened, but it was.
Beth:I know it was. It was definitely a healing experience and I think, for me, a reality check of like be present in the moment. You don't need to be connected all the time, and we all know that, right, I'm not saying anything that we don't know, but I think if there's an opportunity to like get in a regular practice for that, it will be so beneficial, right? So I feel like I'm so curious Could you like explain your setup for our listeners, because maybe they don't understand, like what?
Mystery Guest:is it? How do you go about sound healing? Yeah, so there's definitely very different approaches for people that offering sound classes or sound baths. My setup is really focused on like the somatic approach to healing. Somatic soma meaning the body. So we really want to work with the body. My breathwork technique is also somatic breathwork. It really is is all focused on deep body healing.
Mystery Guest:So for my sound baths, what I like to do and that comes what you said bath because I know most people have a hard time shutting off their brain and just being present because we're all stressed, we're busy. So then coming to a place and be like, no, you can be quiet for an hour, that's very triggering for most people. So my approach is really first letting them settle in, bringing awareness to the body, seeing what's actually happening in the body. By bringing awareness to your breath, feeling into your body. It's like step one. Step two is doing some gentle breath work where you really connect with your breath, go a little deeper, allow your nervous system to actually come to a state where just like, oh, we're relaxing here, I didn't even know, um. And then we would do like a guided meditation that is already led by sound before it's just sound, because from my experience it's very triggering for people if it's like a short amount where people are guide you and then it's just like now it's 45 minutes of sound. Deal with it or not? Yeah.
Mike:Yeah.
Beth:It's just a lot yeah.
Mystery Guest:Yeah, so that is basically my setup, really allowing you to tune into your body so you can also see after what changes. Because the awareness aspect is so important in this, because most of the time, if you don't tune in, you think after yes, something changed, but what did even change? I don't know yeah so you want to tune in in the beginning, tune in the beginning in the end, so you can see the difference do you feel like people have a really tough time separating mind and body?
Mike:I feel like the concept of wellness in general, people think like, oh, I'm just going to go to the gym and I'm just going to be physically fit, but I feel like there's a whole aspect of mindful wellness versus the body. So, in your career, what separates the mind and the body? Are they two separate entities? Do they, you know, operate functionally together?
Mystery Guest:Well, I mean, they should work functionally together. But, most of the time when we're stressed, we are just in our mind, and that makes it really hard for us to be in the body and to be present what is happening in the body. This is why it's also so healing for most people to just tune into their body, because most of the time, people don't even know how they're feeling. You would ask them and this is why we keep saying oh yeah, I'm good, I'm fine.
Mike:Yeah.
Mystery Guest:Because no one actually pays attention how they're actually feeling.
Mike:Yeah, because no?
Mystery Guest:one actually pays attention how they're actually feeling. Yeah, yeah. So it's really like, especially with the gym, where you said, most people do recognize, though, they feel better after they leave the gym, yep, but it's mainly because they move back into their body.
Mike:I mean that speaks to me for sure. Yeah, I've been really trying to be much more focused on my mental well-being. I've always used this very basic analogy If you're out of shape physically going to the gym one time, it's really not going to do anything. It's sustained, repetitive, over and over for years, and then you notice a difference. The same thing with the mind. You have to put these into practice and you have to put you know, put these into practice and you have to focus on bettering your mind as well, just like you would with your body. So I think everything that you do and sounds like you're doing is incredibly interesting to me, as you can probably tell.
Beth:I love this. What can guests like expect when they come to see? You Like explain your actual setup, because I know when I went I you like explain your actual setup because I know when I went, I was like, oh no, what am I doing? Like I I first of all I didn't want to do anything that was weird and like disrespectful, but, like you have an actual studio, talk to us about it yeah.
Mystery Guest:So I mean, it's really no matter if you're coming for reiki, if you're coming for sound, if you're coming for breathwork. It's really you being on your mat and there's just stillness, because it's supposed to be your journey going inward and actually seeing what's happening inside of you and through this connection you come back to yourself because everything outside of you this is why I also always ask people just keep your eyes closed. It's, it's your inner world that is important here. This is how we come back to balance, because we focus our attention always outward, outside of us, and this is how we got get disconnected, yeah yeah, that's amazing will you talk to me a little bit about reiki.
Mike:What is that?
Mystery Guest:so um reiki is a modality that actually uses universal energy that is available all around us. I mean, everything is energy basically around us and we're an energy body. So it really taps into the universal available energy and allows, through specific hand movements and symbols, to guide that energy through to the participant.
Mike:That's really fascinating. So how did you start this? It's business. So you started your business. What was the first jump into it? You know how did it all start.
Mystery Guest:So it really started, so I did. The first step was the, the sound healing, and I did my training certification. Yes, yes and I did that in austin texas. So I started offering it here in yoga studios and back then it was just. Not even yoga studios would come to me and be like maybe we try this once. It was before. It was like popular, oh that's okay, that's interesting.
Beth:And were you still dealing with covid too? On top, of that like yes, yes that would be a challenge in and of itself, just to break in somewhere, you know, yeah, yeah so you would have all these in, you would go to specific yoga studios and it would be a part of what they're doing there.
Mystery Guest:Yes, yes but it was yeah, it was challenging like the first year to really get people into it. So it was really sharing a lot what it actually does and sharing about the benefits to really spread the word on it, and I feel like now it's so common that every single yoga studio has a sound healer. But, yeah, it was really that what started it. Then I got my Reiki certificate, and breath work was something I did a year ago.
Beth:Okay, yeah, I'm just curious. Um, we do have a special treat for our listeners, but before we get there, I'm just thinking if you have any kind of partying advice, like you talked about reflecting about what was right in your heart and connecting to what was good for your life. Um, do you have any advice for maybe someone that might be at a similar crossroads and how they can just kind of navigate that and work through that?
Mystery Guest:I think it's really like it would always start with just grounding yourself back in your body. That can be simple awareness practices where you do like a quick meditation to really like connect with yourself, because I feel like if we really put it out there, what would be, what should be our next step or what feels right?
Mystery Guest:we need to feel connected to our body first to actually see what feels aligned and then go from there and that might just be like little things that just come where you're just like, oh my god. Yeah, this seems really interesting, or that is something I would like to try. And this is how it starts showing up by you showing up for yourself first.
Beth:I love that.
Mike:Yeah, a lot of our listeners are, you know, they might be just starting out in their career, really trying to figure out what it is they want to do. And I feel like a lot of times people are just, you know, oh, I just need to get a job, just need to get a job and I'll figure it out later. I mean, that was sort of me. And then you know you can't help but have your passions still. You know they're burning. You know that, you know. So maybe people want to jump and do a different career path and they just don't know how to do it or they're scared to do it.
Beth:So I think that even get started yeah, so I think that even get started, yeah.
Mike:So I think that approach to grounding yourself back, being in tune with your body and what it is you really feel inside, I think is really important and people might overlook it, yeah.
Mystery Guest:And I feel like for me, adding to this, it's just like I felt the same way. I mean, it's just like, it's like a lot when you decide what you want to do with your life it's like a lot when you decide what you want to do with your life. But you can't go wrong if it feels right, like in yourself, or it inspires something within you.
Mike:Yeah.
Mystery Guest:Rather than just going. Oh, this makes me a lot of money, or this is something what my dad and my mom used to do, 100%.
Mike:And it'll catch up to you later. Yes, you know Exactly.
Beth:Well, we noticed that you came in with a very interesting bag. What is it? What's in the bag? What's in the box?
Mystery Guest:like a little guided practice where you can just tune into your body, going through every single body part, while I'll play the crystal ball that is connected to the heart, so you can just tune in and feel grounded and centered in your heart space.
Beth:Oh my gosh, what a special surprise and a treat. Thank you, thank you for doing that.
Mike:So we're going to start, are we just?
Beth:going to sit back and listen and close our eyes, so our listeners close your eyes.
Mike:We're going to set this up for you guys.
Beth:Find a safe space, I guess. Make sure you're sitting and not driving, for those that are driving and listening.
Mike:That's a good point. Yes, maybe listen to this at home.
Beth:Pause and pick it back up
Mystery Guest:So allow yourself to close your eyes and just slowly tune into your breath, allowing yourself to take deep breaths in and out of the nose and allowing yourself, with every breath that you take in, to breathe deeper and deeper, all the way down into your belly.
Mystery Guest:Just becoming aware of how your breath is flowing, how it is moving through your body, allowing yourself, with every breath that you take in, to fill yourself up with what is needed, nurturing your body with your awareness and your breath. And with every exhale, allow yourself to let go. Allow yourself for every tension you notice to just let it go and exhale it out. Let the stress go. Just allow for the sound to move all the way through your body, slowly, bringing your awareness to your toes and to your feet, to your chins and your calves, to your knees and your calves to your knees and your thighs. Feeling into this area and breathing into the space. Feeling into this area and noticing any uncomfortable sensation and allowing yourself to exhale it out, slowly moving the awareness upward, into your lower belly, into the space around the navel, into your ribcage. Moving this sound into this area here and feeling into the space, allowing for the breath to fill up the space, replenishing this area, letting go of anything that weighs heavy here, slowly moving your awareness upward into your heart, into your shoulders, into both of your arms and both of your hands. Bringing awareness fully to your heart, space and your arms and both of your hands. Bringing awareness fully to your heart, space and your arms. Breathing into this area here and connecting to it, tuning in with your awareness. Breathing into this space to opening your heart, anchoring your awareness in here. If you notice any uncomfortable sensation or any unserving emotion here, can you allow yourself to exhale it out. Can you allow yourself to be with it and then let it go slowly moving your awareness upward into your throat, into your head, space and the space right above your head.
Mystery Guest:Feeling into this area here and the space right above your head, feeling into this area here and filling this area up with the sound. Allow it to travel here, filling up the space. Feeling into this area and noticing any discomfort here, can you allow yourself to release in your headspace, allow yourself to exhale it out. Any unserving beliefs, any unserving thoughts, can you exhale them out and let them go. Allow yourself to create space with your exhales so with every inhale, you can create more peace and stillness here.
Mystery Guest:Keep taking deep breaths in and out of the nose, allowing for your breath to travel all the way through your body, grounding you back into the present moment. Allowing for your breath to travel all the way through your body, grounding you back into the present moment. Grounding you back into your body. Allowing for the sound to travel from your headspace into your throat, into your chest and into your arms, into your belly, into the base of your spine, into both of your feet. Spending another moment to go inward, feeling into the changes that you're creating by simply focusing back on yourself, focusing back on your breath, bringing awareness back to your body. Whenever you're ready, you can slowly open your eyes again and come back to the present moment and notice the changes.
Mike:Welcome back everyone. I hope you enjoyed that.
Beth:You might be sleeping. Yes, that's okay. Yes.
Mike:I hope you enjoyed that sound exercise. That was absolutely incredible. So, Janne, thank you so much for coming in.
Mystery Guest:Where can our audience find you Website, social media yeah, so I post all my events and my classes on my social media. On Instagram, it's Tanatera Healing, and you can also find me on my website it's tan-atara. com
Beth:Okay, awesome and where can they find us?
Mike:yes, they can find us at um. Well, you can shoot us an email at gatesmanagencycom. Um, you can find us on instagram.
Beth:Yeah and uh, yeah, shoot us a dm no name cuts podcast gatesmanagencycom yes, that's the email it's that sound bath it it grounds, you really does it.
Mike:You can just go home for the day yes, all right.
Beth:Well, thank you so much, gene, for joining us a pleasure. It's good to see you. We'll see you again soon all right, thank you.