I have lived in Miami now for the past six weeks or so and I got a sams so happy that I am here.

I had a lot of fear leaving LA where I have lived for seven years and that is where I met my husband and just so much gratitude for that city in place.

But this quarantine really got us thinking with my husband's business being shut down, working the music industry and my business being online of,

do we need to be here? Do we want to be here? Where would we prefer to be? And that got us thinking of so many different places and really landing on Miami because I love the tropical weather and the beach and just living closer to a beautiful turquoise ocean that I can swim in and for him he loves the music and the city and being able to see lights at night.

We found this beautiful place that's right on the beach and also has a beautiful city skyline so it has been amazing being here and one of my biggest fears was losing touch with my community.

I am someone that has a four in my human design meaning I'm all about community, you know, I'm the founder of Rose Gold Goddesses, the sacred sisterhood collective all about embodying the goddess within and community is something that really really really matters to me.

I feel my best when I am around friends doing rituals, diving deep masterminding just I really get my best thoughts when I'm around people and it's something that I've learned a lot about myself through the years of, you know, doing this podcast and how much I prefer doing that to just writing alone and how much deeper I can get to my own truth when I'm in that communication.

So I had a lot of fear around leaving LA having made so many friends and people who are just doing such great things with their lives and the great thing I have to report is that since moving to Miami, I have actually been able to see more people than I have been in LA because Miami is such a kind of like holiday spot for so many people so people will stop by be here for a couple days I'll get to see them.

And it has been amazing because I've seen so many of my friends from LA and including the two who will be on the podcast today, Christa and Lindsay from the almost 30 podcast.

So I met Christa and Lindsay. I want to say three, four years ago, like three and a half years ago and it was like right after I had started high self podcast so at this time my first book it is guy to Ayurveda was coming out and linked up with them.

And they had me on their podcast and I had them on mine and we just became friends and it has been amazing to just witness their spiritual growth journeys their personal growth journeys over the past couple of years and to learn more about their backgrounds and when I was writing discovery your Dharma, which is a Vedic guide defining your purpose, I was really trying to think of as many different examples of people living their Dharma as possible.

I feel like oftentimes when we think of someone finding their purpose, it's like they quit their job and they like lived in a van and then suddenly they they thought up of Uber and here they are living their purpose and it's worth a billion dollars and it's like that's awesome and that someone's story and it's not everyone.

So I wanted to offer as many different perspectives as possible different ways that you can find your service and in this book, I mean you can really tell that I have an Ayurvedic background because everything I'm like well there are different archetypes for this and there are different archetypes for that.

So for example, I list out there are three paths to finding your Dharma. There are four types of Dharma. There are nine Dharma archetypes. There are five stages of Dharma discovery.

There's a five part Dharma blueprint process like it's like all of these different frameworks that you can really plug into to, you know, the point of it is so you can understand yourself better and you're not going to be totally able to be defined by one thing but you'll be able to see yourself in something that is so much greater than you and see the synchronicities and the commonalities between yourself and your journey and other people.

So when I was writing discovery or Dharma, I really wanted to share also the story of someone who didn't take this big leap, who didn't just quit their job and try to make their thing happen, then it just happened.

I wanted to also share the story of someone who transitioned, someone who step by step was building their thing and understanding what their Dharma is and trying to get it off the ground while having a nine to five job.

And I feel like we don't hear that story that much. We don't get to hear those success stories and I immediately thought of my friend, Krista, who is one of the hosts of almost 30 because that was her experience of meeting her and then finding out she had this nine to five job for me. I was like, wait, what?

Like, how? Like, you have this amazing podcast, but I was like, oh, that makes total sense because the podcast is still new. And as we know, it takes a long time to monetize something like a podcast, social media platform, blog, etc. So it was amazing for me to witness over the course of the year, her finally growing her podcast to the point that she could quit her job and be supported by the podcast.

So I wanted to include that story in the book and then have them on the podcast today to talk about both of their journeys towards their Dharma, which are unique and intertwined and beautiful.

So this episode is really like three girlfriends telling their stories and talking about their fears and what has held them back.

And then also where we are today as female business owners, as content creators, as people who are focused on bringing spirituality and wellness to the world, the roadblocks that we still experience today because that never fully.

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