Hello Harry Potter and Sacred Text friends. Before we get to the episode this week, I just wanted to remind you that we as a community, as a not sorry community, are going to camp the summer to 9th through 11th at Camp Kenny Broke, which is an upstate New York.

We are going to be gathering to do all the traditional fun camp things. There'll be campfires and smores and swimming and all the fun things that you love to do a camp.

Plus all the amazing things you love to do with your friends at not sorry, all the whole not sorry community will be gathering there will be people you know from the podcast here will be offering classes and activities will be in conversation will be treating different textus sacred all your favorites from the company me and Vanessa and Casper and many of our guest hosts from the various podcast will be on site at Camp Kenny Broke in community with you reading textus sacred doing camp stuff.

It's going to be great and if you book your spot before January 31st, you will get 10% off. So don't wait go now to not sorry works.com and make your plans to join us at Camp Kenny Broke.

June 9th through 11th.

So 33 the Princess tale Harry remained kneeling at Snape side simply staring down at him until quite suddenly a high cold voice spoke so close to them that Harry jumped to his feet.

The flask gripped tightly in his hands, thinking that Voldemort. I'm Vanessa Zoltan and I'm Casper Terkyle and this is Harry Potter in the sacred text.

So I'm going to shout out to the Queen City Quibblers from Charlotte North Carolina led by Elena Smith. I feel like there are a lot of cities called the Queen City because since that is also known as the Queen City.

So Queen City Quibblers, I hope you don't meet any other Queen City Quibblers and that you have some sort of rumble maybe instead you'll create like a matter group that spread across all Queen cities. Now that's something I'm into the Queen of Queens.

So if you want to join Elena and her wonderful crew go to Harry Potter sacred text.com and find out more about local groups.

Before I moved to America Vanessa, I was a young professional in London and you know those movies where it's like I was thinking of Anne Hathaway in the Devil Weas Prada where she's like young and she feels like she's got it all together and she's like working for her boss and it's great because she finally figured out all the systems.

I was that person but after a little while I was starting to feel a little bit stuck and just not quite sure where I was going and what my professional life would look like and that comes around now and then when you're like what am I doing with my life.

And at that moment I met this wonderful woman called Charlotte who was about 10 years older than me and I was in my early 20s so she was maybe early mid 30s my age now.

And we were working together on a project and I kept being late for meetings and you know London's a big city and you can get stuck on the tube or whatever but at some point she sat me down and she was like what's going on with you being late all the time.

And I was like oh I'm just you know me and like London and she wasn't buying it and after well she just said Casper I'm going to be your coach because you're never going to ask for help.

And I was both a little bit like astonished that she just said it but more than that I was relieved because here was someone who was kind of inserting themselves into my life wanting to help me and she was so wonderful as a mentor and as a coach and help me explore my kind of interest in spirituality that I hadn't really talked about anyone with.

And so a huge part of my life is indebted to her because I don't think I would have gone to divinity school I wouldn't have met you I wouldn't have been doing this podcast had she not said I'm going to sit down with you and I'm going to help you figure some things out.

And for me that was one of the most beautiful experiences of accompaniment because it wasn't that she was trying to get me somewhere specific.

She was just going to sit next to me and ask me questions and share resources until I figured out what I needed to figure out for myself but I knew that she would be there next to me while I was figuring it out.

And that experience of accompaniment of being loved into the person that you can become not in a software in a strong way.

I just think it's the most wonderful gift that we can give each other and it's something one day I hope to be able to pass on to other people.

I find that like dauntingly admirable I am now in my late 30s and I cannot imagine looking at someone and being like I'm going to fix this I just like can't imagine being that confident or ever seeing someone so well and I think that you know I don't know Charlotte but that sounds like her gift that she was able to see you and I'm always afraid that I'm not seeing someone properly.

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