Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened

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Today we're going to talk about different ways you can expand and connect more deeply with your consciousness.

And joining us to help us dive deep is Dr. Dane here, who's a bestselling author, speaker, and the founder of International Being You Day.

Dane is also the co-creator of Access Consciousness, one of the world's largest personal

development organizations, and he has helped tens of thousands of people around the world

reconnect with who they truly are beyond judgment, trauma, and limitation. His unique approach

combines energy work, emotional freedom tools, and radical kindness.

He's been featured on Good Morning, Washington, Maxim, GQ, Elephant Journal, and more.

Dane, we're so happy to have you join us. Thank you for coming on Enlightened Empaths.

Thanks for having me. It is a pleasure.

We're excited. Can you start us off by explaining what happened to you that day you found an article in your local newspaper that said, all of life comes to me with ease, joy, and glory call Shannon?

Yeah, my life was pain, suffering, and gory. I got so angry, I threw the paper away.

And, but, you know, it's interesting.

Anything that really is for you, the universe will find a way to put it in your face again.

And so I was leafing through this paper.

I was living in Santa Barbara.

And I had gotten to a place a week or two weeks before that where I was like,

I am done. I'm out of here. You know, I'm a seeker like the people that listen to your podcast.

And I was reading every book I could. I was going to weekend workshops, filling up my credit card,

using every tool I could find and I was still unhappy.

And at one point, I just had enough.

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