Seasonal Planning & Feminine Energy in Business with Larissa Russell
What if your success as a woman in business wasn’t about pushing harder—but aligning deeper? In this episode, I chat with Larissa Russell, founder of Heart-Centered Academy, about how reconnecting with your natural energy cycles and the divine feminine can transform your life and business.
We explore how women have been conditioned to operate in a masculine-energy-dominated world—and why reclaiming your intuition, creativity, and seasonal rhythm is the key to sustainable success. Larissa breaks down the energetic differences between masculine and feminine energy, the power of seasonal and lunar planning, and how entrepreneurs (of any gender) can start honoring their unique energetic flow.
✨ Bonus: Larissa shares a free New Moon Intention-Setting Workbook to help you harness lunar energy and manifest more intentionally.
https://www.heartcentered.academy/
This conversation is a breath of fresh, feminine air for anyone feeling burnt out by hustle culture and craving a more harmonious way to grow their business and themselves.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Looking to harness the divine feminine, to take your life and business to the next level. Our next guest is all about how to harness, the divine feminine energies to transform businesses and personal lives. Hi, and welcome to the you world order showcase podcast where we feature, life, health, transformational coaches and spiritual entrepreneurs being the change they seek in the world. I'm your host, Jill Hart, the coach's alchemist, and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: helping
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: entrepreneurs amplify their voice, monetize their mission and get visible leveraging podcasts and our huge agnostic TV network platform. Today, we are chatting with Larissa, Russell. She helps women use feminine energy to build and grow their heart-centered online businesses and bring more self-awareness to their lives and healing journeys. Welcome to the show, Larissa. It's great to have you here.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Thank you. It's great to be here.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So, Nope, are you ready for the big question?
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I am ready. I'm ready for any question.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Okay, well, we'll start with this one and see where it takes us.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Okay.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: so what's the most significant thing in your opinion, as individuals we can do to make an impact on how the world is going.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I would have to say, Show up, use your voice, speak up
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): all too often, especially as women. We stay quiet.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): and we have so much wisdom, and we're not sharing it nearly enough. So I would say, that would be the number. One thing is whether it's in your community or online in your company, whatever, wherever it is, use your voice, show up and and speak your truth.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I think that's kind of the message, for the season is being authentic.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: We've.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): And just yeah, but show up and use it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Not just show up.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Use your voice. Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, I I hear you. So we're gonna talk a lot about seasonal planning and not for planting your gardens, though it's that time.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: but that it kind of goes along with what we're gonna be talking about in terms of energies and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: moons and cause
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: human beings are not too dissimilar from plants, in that we all run on cycles and energy cycles, and we have ebbs and flows and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: a different ways. Energy works for us like nobody's. All one thing or the other
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: that we have masculine and feminine energies. And do you want to talk about how we came to be in the situation we're in where everything is like masculine energy dominated, and the feminine energy is just like discounted and thrown to the side.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): That's a whole history lesson unto itself. Suffice it to say that it has been building for many, many years hundreds of years
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): to the point where we have lost our voice. Right as women, we've lost our voice. We're not connected to our own energy, our own feminine energy and and seasonal planning is just a part of that. But, like you said, the cycles right? The cycles that we're on
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): are not the same as the masculine cycles, and I'm not talking about men and women. I'm talking about energy, but for women
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): we have been so disconnected from our feminine energy. In fact, all of us have been.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): But the patriarchy really does, you know, benefit more? So the masculine.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): And and so men.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Is anybody really winning in in patriarchy? Maybe that 1%. But that's about it, right? It's not working for anyone but to get back to the feminine energy that has been squashed
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): to the point where there's like a fear there's a fear around
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): feminine energy, and all of that it entails.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): And so bringing ourselves back to that. Now I work specifically with women, but really everyone, we all need masculine and feminine energy. We need a balance, and it's not a 50 50 balance in nature. It's actually more of a 2 thirds feminine energy to 1 3rd masculine energy. And so, as humans should be fairly similar, right? Because we're part of nature, we're part of that cycle.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's interesting to me if you look back in history about when the Feminist movement started, really in the sixties after the Civil Rights act, and they were. They were promoting feminism, which was just another
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: another disguise for masculine women embracing masculine energy, and that, instead of looking to our own cycles and women have very different cycles than men. It's it's our DNA. It's just how we're created. I I'm sorry I'm not trying to be gender
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: exclusionary here, but
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: each gender has its its rhythms and cycles, and you know, and it's beyond, just like a menstrual cycle. It's you know, we we go through puberty with childhood and then puberty. And then we have our menstruation years. And then we have a lot of years after that, where we're not menstruating anymore. And we're like.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: we're different human beings. But it's it's an evolutionary process, and our cycles still all the way through our lives run on a 28 to 30 day cycle like the moon, whereas men, men run on like a 24 h cycle.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: That. That's just how their their chemistry is set up. So when you're you're setting up
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: working outside of the home you're they're they're designed to work 8 or 9 HA day and then get some rest, and they're good to go the next day. They don't have these ups and downs of energy and their bodies doing different things and getting ready for different things that are. They're natural. That's how our species was created.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And so when we talk about the masculine and feminine energies. I think that there's a lot of
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: a misconception about genders, and then the energies that are associated with the gender labels.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): There absolutely is. And as women, we tend towards the more feminine energy. Right like you said, we are very much matched to the moon. And so we we do run on that 28 day cycle, typically or very close to, although it's been so skewed by trying to run on the 24 h cycle that we've been forced into, and so we may not be as aligned as we ideally would be.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): But that that is our cycle, whereas you're absolutely right. The masculine is very much the 24 h cycle. So that works very well for them.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): And and so, like you said, you get up and go to work every day and do the same thing every day. And you know, work.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): you know, 8, 1012 h, not a problem, whereas women have very different cycles because of the 28 day, from one day to the next, from 1 h to the next, and so, being able to be much more flexible is really important.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: That's why I think we should all be entrepreneurs
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: could not agree with you more, and it allows you to take the time that you need to take, because sometimes during a month women just need to
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to regroup, and sometimes you need more sleep. Sometimes you need less sleep, sometimes you are like full of energy, and you could get everything done in 2 h and other times. It's like wading through mud up to your chest. It's like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: what took you like 5 min yesterday is taking you forever today, and it there's nothing wrong with you. It's just how we are.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): But we've been taught that there's something wrong with us because we don't run on the same cycle. And so then that's so indoctrinated into us that there's something wrong with us, and there absolutely isn't. We're just being forced to work in cycles that don't work for us. And so when we can step out of that and start to realign ourselves with our own cycles. It makes all the difference. And and we can
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): switch up, you know, and use our optimum energy where we need it. Yeah, absolutely.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And so let's talk about the types of energy. What? What are some
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: characteristics of masculine energy? And then what are some characteristics of feminine energy.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yes, absolutely one of the main ones that we use, because, you know, I do. Business coaching mostly is
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): masculine energy has wonderful structure. Right. It's about structure and processes and
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): making taking action on things healthy masculine energy, but taking action on things, whereas the feminine is about creativity, it's about intuition. It's about self-care and rest. So there's many more. But
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): those types of things are not put into our typical work life
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): that we we have in our society right? And so when you can step out of that and start to look at, where are you using your creativity? Are you using it at all. Are you using your intuition?
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Intuition is so important, and we have been taught not to pay attention to it. We've been taught we don't know anything. We don't, you know. We always refer to somebody else. Our parents know better. Our spouse knows better our teachers, our bosses, doctors, whoever it is we don't know.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): and we absolutely do know it's inside of us, and we just need to tap into it. So those are just some very distinct, you know, differences.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): But we're again. Our society is all about, you know, produce produce very masculine energy that doesn't work for us
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): when we are in our maximum energy, and we're in that flow using creativity, taking care of ourselves, watching our energy, then we can actually produce a lot more and fit into the world that we need to without burning ourselves out. But we have to relearn our cycles.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And respect them. And and it's it's masculine. It's men and women that both experiences. We just expect that guys are going to be like masculine energy. They're going to be, go, go a lot of guys that they need permission to just hey, chill.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's okay to to
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: explore the creative side of who you are, and and to that'll actually make your production more effective
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: if you will.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And you were talking about like 2 thirds of of our energy should be in the feminine. And and it's not just for women. This is like across the species.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): -
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): yeah, absolutely. Because that's the balance of nature. And so if we could lean more into, and we've gotten so far away from it right so
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): to bring that feminine energy. It feels like an attack, I think, for for many that you know, we're trying to squash the masculine. And it's not that we're trying to bring balance back. We're trying to bring Harmony back into how we move through the world. And so bringing that feminine is so important because we already have the masculine. We've got that in, you know, in spades. So, yes.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And and I think we sometimes
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: get into the gender wars over over energies instead of like understanding that we're talking about 2 different things. You. You have genders, and you know I don't know how many genders there are, and I don't really care. We're all human beings, and we all possess both types of energy. So when we talk about, you know feminine energy, it's
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to both men and women, or whatever combination of that you are and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and having balance. It's really empowering for everyone. If we could recognize that there are 2 dominant types of energies and they work best
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: when they're when they're allowed to flow in the in the natural state rather than in a forced
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: yeah manufacturing state.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Which has been, you know, so indoctrinated in us for so many years that we really don't know the difference. And so it takes a lot to start to.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): to change things for our own selves and then not get caught up in the stories we've been told, you know, like, I'm not producing enough, or, you know, creativity is a big one, is that? Oh, well, you know, I have to create to produce something I have to be able to sell it. I have to make the money back. No, you need to create, just to create, because that's how we get the flow going. That's how we can do better in other areas.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): So different things like that right just really allowing the differences to come in
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I think the feminine energy is is about growth as well as creativity, because creativity in itself is the process of becoming
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: it. It starts from nothing, and it becomes something else, and that something is then you're able to sell it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: But you can't just sell an idea. You you have to actually bring it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You have to birth it. And you know men and women both have to birth these ideas and have a fully formed thing that they're they're trying to share with others. And hopefully, it's going to be in a way that helps people. Because really.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: this, what we're here to do is help each other and work together and collaborate, and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: in that way the world becomes a better place for everyone rather than
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: everybody having to be the very best, which is very masculine energy, that I have to be the best at everything. I can't. I have to make all A's. I can't just be really good at one thing, and let somebody else be really good at that other thing.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: No, we're taught. You have to make straight A's, or you're like worthless, or you'll never get into the college of your dreams. You know, colleges really should just be about teaching you to be really good at one thing, because you're only here for one thing.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and somebody else is going to be really good at something else. And if you can just appreciate other people's gifts and appreciate your own gift, and just stay in your lane.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Then then, when you come together, the picture is much better. It's much richer, and then you've got 2 people that have specialized, and they're so good together. It's like going to a symphony. You know, the guy that plays a violin is not trying to be the best piano player in town
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: probably knows how to play the piano.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: But that's not, that's not his thing. His thing is playing the violin. But when you get them together oh, my!
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's so moving.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah, it absolutely is. And and that's 1 of the things about our world, right? We've become so competitive over people. And like we have to. We think we have to push people down to to get up. And it's no as a collective. We can build each other up and imagine the world we could live in if we all were doing. That
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): would be amazing.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It would be amazing. And and I really feel like, that's where we're going it. Yeah, I agree.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): With that.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: The people that I talk to. They're they're they're my people.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's probably why I like.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Oh, yes, is that? Yes,
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Let's talk about simple steps to get started, aligning with the energies of the seasons.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Right.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Maybe we should talk about the energy seasons. To begin with.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yes. So we typically have 4 seasons, you know. Ideally, we have 4 seasons that have different energy, right? That flows through them. And you know, spring is for starting things. It's for getting things going. Summer is for
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): action, like really taking action and doing. You know, that busy work fall. We're starting to wind down. We're starting to wrap things up, and then winter is our rest time. We should be resting in winter, and our society is very much ramping up when it comes to winter. Right? We have all of those busy holidays and the big sales and all of the things.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): and it's such a busy time.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): And so, as we start to work with the seasons.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): we can start to map out.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): When is the best time for us to do things, and within that, then the cycles of the moon as well. When is the best time in a month for us to do things? When is the best time for planning when is the best time for taking action? And so each season.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): and and then the cycle of the moon is sort of like a mini version of of that of the year.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): We can. We can map out ahead of time. So it takes some planning, right? So you've got that masculine structure
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): and planning that goes into it, and then moving with the flow. And then within, that you may have to tweak it based on your own energies. Right? Because we all move slightly different. We're not going to all do the same things on the same day, just because the moon is in that place. Typically, that's the energy. But then you also have to pay attention to your own self. And we often don't pay any attention to ourselves and and how we're feeling and how we're moving. And
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): you know, and we start tracking those things to be able to see what is best for us, and whether you know, if you still have a cycle, you know, if you're still getting your period. Some of us are in menopause already, you know it changes
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): drastically compared to my my cycle, since, you know, being in menopause is not as harsh before there was certain days I absolutely couldn't do things. There were certain days that you know, and that was based on my cycle
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): as I've gone into menopause. It's it's mellowed a little bit, and there's not quite the big up and downs. And so you need to track what's happening with your own self. You need to know, you know, how you're feeling. What's your energy like? Is there certain times of the month that are better for you to do certain things?
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): And and the the moon cycle and the seasonal cycles can help with that.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): and then you can find what's best for you in that.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): And it's so. It takes a little bit of
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): changing of the way we look at things right because we're so used to the calendar and the year, and so like our quarters
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): are seasonal. So we're off by about, you know, 3 weeks or so we do our year planning in February, not in January or December. We do it towards the end of February. So
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): those sort of things, you know.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): looking at what is the best energy for you and just starting to feel we don't do enough feeling we need to feel into.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I love that, probably because my birthday is the end of February, and so March is a natural time for me to
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to actually implement things that I've been thinking about. December, January, and February, and then
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: then we start the process.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And and then in the summer things ramp up, and then a fall. There's the harvest, and then
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: then winter comes. And
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: at this point in my life things are are less hectic around the holidays, because I've just decided. They don't have to be everything to everybody. They can just be what they are used to feel like. It was important that I use China
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: for for the holiday dinners. Now we eat on paper plates at my son's house.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): With you. Yes.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: More time for the grandkids.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah, we get together and cook together. Now, my daughter and I, and we make it super simple instead, we do that for all the holidays instead of that huge meal that you you know, all day, and then everybody eats it in 20 min, and you're all annoyed, and you know all the good dishes are out and they have to be hand washed. And all of those things. Yeah, I'm with you on that.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Hours to cook minutes to eat, hours to clean up. And
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: yeah, I I've learned so much from my kids over the years doesn't have to be like this. It can just be simple and.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Is good. And I think, from from what you're saying, that you know, just tracking your tracking your own personal cycles, whether you're a man or a woman. It's it is important, but it doesn't have to be cumbersome. And we're not saying, like journal 20 pages about how you're feeling every single day, because that's not going to work. But you can just take your phone and and keep a note. But you know, even if you did it on a calendar, you know, today I felt like this, and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you know this is this was my predominant emotion all day, you know 2 little things, but as you look back on your calendar, it'll it'll help you in terms of planning ahead, and it might take a year. It might take a whole year for you to really get enough data to say, Okay, this is this is how I should work my cycle.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So how how do you do your coaching? Is it group coaching? Is it one on one? How do? How does all of that look in terms of how to implement what we've been talking about today?
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I do both group and one on one. We have a mastermind of business women that are all on this now seasonal planning cycle, and so we all come together. At certain times the new moon, the seasonal changes, the midseason to look at where we're at and how to move forward, and there's a lot of discussion around, you know.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): doing things differently, doing things differently because you have to step out of what we've been taught for so long, and sometimes it can be a little bit. The structure doesn't seem quite like it's there, but it is, and but usually, after about 3 to 6 months of working with the cycles.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): It it really does.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): You know, most of the women, because I work with women say that it's a lot easier
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): to go with the energy it takes a little bit sort of to get used to, and because our brains are not wired for change, they don't like change. They want everything to stay the same, because they want to keep you safe, and anything different means that you're not safe according to our brains. And so it does take a little bit of work to to change things up, but once you do.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): what a difference! What a difference! Right? There may be certain days that you're you're better at showing up to speak for things, or better days that you should be, you know, planning, you know, events and things like that. And so really starting to, to lean into that for your own self, and yes.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): for men and women, but especially women, because our cycle is so different.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Men. It's easier for men to fake it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: But women it. It always shows up. If you don't.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Anxiety, and you know, number one on the list of what knocks us out. Yep.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah. And then, instead of just respecting your body and and your needs for the day, if your needs are to just go and lay on your bed all day. Well, then, sometimes you just need to go and lay on your bed all day. Does it make you a bad person? Does it make you anything? It just means that today. That's that day where you lay on your bed. And you need to allow.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Capacity for other days.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And other days, and and you don't need to say, well, okay, well, today's Saturday. I have to, or today's Sunday. I can't, you know. Maybe it's Mondays when you just can't.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Maybe it's Mondays one week and Thursdays the next week.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Hence. Why, I think we should all be entrepreneurs.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah. But even as entrepreneurs you can get caught in that trap of that's true
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to be. I've got to be busy all the time I've got to be working, working, or I'm I'm
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I'm not doing enough, and I could be further along, or you know all of the the things that we're taught
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to believe about about what it is to make money, that it has to be hard, and you have to always be putting out. And you know.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I know lots of entrepreneurs, myself included, that, you know, Burnout is a real thing, because we're.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Absolutely.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: We're very driven people, and we we do live in the masculine energy a lot. I recognize that about myself.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and I have to give myself permission to shut my computer off and just like and turn my phone off and just have a day.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I often with the women I work with when they're doing the 12 to 16 h days.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I challenged them to do a week of half of whatever it is. Just go half of those hours, and they all freak out.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): but when they do it they get more done.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): get more done working half as much time.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): So we think we have to do that. But we're actually not as effective when we do it. We've just been. It's been so indoctrinated in us that we have to produce, produce and go go, and it doesn't work for us. And so we think we're being productive.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Returns.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah, and we're not. Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: For sure, and just having having good boundaries for yourself.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You know I'm not talking about other people. It's like, sometimes we just need to set our own boundaries like I have a hard boundary. I like to walk every morning, so I have to like put it in my calendar, so people don't schedule stuff in that time, so I'm sorry I've got an appointment. Then it's with me.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yes.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And I don't like to work after certain hours at night. I it's just like I.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I'm not sorry.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I I have appointments. They're with me.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yes, I have scheduled my day around what works for me. I'm an early riser. I don't recommend it for most people, but I'm an early riser. So my 1st class is at 6 Am. My time.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): but I'm done by 3 o'clock at the latest, and usually it's just like some admin stuff in the afternoon. I don't have anything left then.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): So I've I've worked on that to see. And typically I'm done way earlier.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I I'm the same way by by 4, at the very latest. I I have to be doing something else. I I can't be.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I just. I don't have the energy or the focus. And
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I watch television at night by myself up in my room. My husband does this thing downstairs, and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I just I want that 2 or 3 h
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: of of letting my mind just not have to focus on anything else. Sometimes I read. But honestly, I really just like to binge watch shows.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I'm a binge watcher as well. Often I'm creating at the same time. But I but I do. Yeah, I binge watch, although I'll go through periods of time where I also don't watch anything. So yeah.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I just sort of allow myself to be wherever.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It. It's giving yourself permission to allow your brain to like.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Sometimes I just watch, I binge watch so that my brain has something to do so that my subconscious can like get in the creative mode. And if you ask me what the show was about, I couldn't even tell you. I can't tell you what the names of the characters are.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: But
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: other stuff has been like cycling through my head. But if if it's trying to get like into the intense thing oh, no, I'm watching television.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, like tricky in your brain.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): I have an Adhd brain. And so I do need that sort of distraction to be focused.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): And so that's often a thing that I, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah. It's not bad.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I know you have the new Moon intention setting workbook. How does that work? And how can people get it?
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yes, so you have the link. I'm hoping you're going to add that. And then yes, it is a workbook that we have that just allows you to sort of start gently. So you're going to start. The new moon is when we set our intentions. So you kind of look at what you've been doing for the last month, and then what you want to do for the for this month coming forward, and you can reuse that every month to set your intentions. And then we ask that you.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): we yeah, we ask, I guess, on the full moon is a good time to do a check in and just see. Is everything still aligned, you know? Should I keep going in the direction I'm going? Have I gotten off track?
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): So just do a little check in, and then keep going, and then you can use that every month to set your intentions. And that's a really good place to start, and then you can move into the seasonal as well.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I once manifested $50,000, new man to New Moon.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Love, that.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: new moons are a great time to set an intention, but also to set an intention to manifest something, and I thought that I was had built this workshop, and I was going to do the workshop, and it was going to end on the certain day, and I was just certain that it was just gonna like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I knew how it was all going to work out. And then, a week before the new moon, my father-in-law got really sick.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You have, Covid. And during that
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: that process he ended up passing.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): On the new moon, and left us $50,000.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Was, yeah.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): You never know where it's gonna come from.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You never know, but it's really powerful to use new moons for setting intentions and and envisioning and feeling the all the feels for actually having it
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: manifest in your life. And then.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and recognizing when it happens, and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: no matter how many times I'm like, I'm going to manifest something, and I'm going to. It's gonna happen this way.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Happens that way.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): No, you need to let that part go right? Yeah, because you never know how it can happen. And and the more you try to make it happen a certain way, the less likely it will actually happen.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, so how do people find you and work with you?
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Heart centered Academy. So it's heartcentred. Dot Academy. We don't have a.com orca, and
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): we have. Excuse me, we have business programs. We have empowerment. We have a lot of programs for women doing self-awareness work and things like that. So we have group. We have one to one. We have workshops. We have courses, all sorts of good things, and yeah, heart centered. Academy.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Awesome.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Thanks. So much for joining us today, Larissa. It's really been great chatting with you.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Yes, thank you for having me.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: To learn more about Larissa and get access to the new moon. Intention, setting workbook, visit heartcenter dot Academy, forward, slash, new dash, moon, dash workbook.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and I will put those links in the show notes so that you don't have to write them down right now, especially if you're driving.
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::Larissa Russell (she/her): Thank you for tuning in with us today. If you have a podcast or are interested in starting one to get your message in front of our huge and active audience. Be sure to reach out to us at jill@gnostictv.com. We love to help spiritual entrepreneurs and coaches amplify their voice and monetize their mission and offer a variety of ways to do this on the Gnostic TV network platform, join us for our next episode as we share what others are doing to raise the global frequency and remember, change.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: With you all the power to change the world, start today and get visible.
