OMG, can you believe it's been 6 months since I started hosting the Radiant Soul podcast? I can't! It's been a blast, and in this special celebratory episode I take a look back and discuss how its been, what has emerged, and basically mine it for all the gems. Its an episode full of gems for you, in opening up to your own fully expressed emergence, and will inspire you to take those first steps. Its longer than normal, a whopping 30 minutes! but well worth your time, so grab a cuppa or your walking shoes and dive in.
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Hi. I want to welcome you to the 53rd episode of the Radiant Soul Podcast. So why is that special? Well, because this podcast is a biweekly podcast, which means there's two episodes every week, which means that on Wednesday just gone, we had our 52nd episode, which is exactly like six months, halfway of the year, of releasing and like putting out the Radiant Soul podcast. And I want to celebrate that and not only celebrate it, but I want to kind of like have a little reflection over the last six months and the journey up before that point so that we can really like gleen the lessons like, and, you know, sort of mine it for the treasures basically.
this is part of our personal and evolutionary growth, right? We have to like look back. We have to keep congratulating ourselves and sort of really honoring the steps that we've taken and the journeys that have, you know, have unfolded because of that. And so the Radiant Soul Podcast didn't actually start six months ago.
It started maybe nine months before that. Like, well, nine months from now, maybe, maybe even longer. I don't know, timeframe, maybe even a year from now. And it started as a little pipe dream, right? I used to have a podcast and it was called This Artful Life, and I loved it, but it, I never really sort of was ready to, to do that, and it didn't really, like, I don't know. At the time it felt like a good thing, but then it felt like I was just doing it for the wrong reasons, like just doing it because I was told I had to do it or it would be a good thing for my business or whatever. And so I put it on hold and that was years ago and I stopped it and then it kept coming back to me to do a podcast and I kept getting these little sort of inklings that it was time for more to emerge.
And I really had reached a point in my life, my business, as I had known it, had had great success and then suddenly had dropped off, right? And everything was kind of asking me to stop and to pause and to question what the next unfoldment of my life was. What's the next emergence of my life is going to be? Um, I'm slightly distracted cuz my cat is playing with Lego
Like, I'm like, what's that noise? It's my cat. You can't hear it. Cuz his microphone magically cuts that out. Um, Right. So back on track. Yeah, and I've been a follower of Derek Rydall for many, many years. He's now my mentor. I'm in his membership and his whole premise is about emergence, and I totally have like the minute I sort of started hearing about this concept, it was like click, click, click.
That's exactly right. That's exactly what makes sense. And the more that we bring of ourselves, the more we open that flow of abundance, right? The more can come through us, can come to us, can be, we become a channel for it. And I really felt like I had gone down a path with my business, it wasn't quite in alignment, wasn't quite right and didn't quite fit well and it felt like I was not sort of, yeah, maybe being miserly with it, not consciously, but like making decisions about how I wanted to show, partly because I didn't have time and energy for other things, 'cause I was studying full-time as well.
But also because I'd kind of got involved in this group of like coaches and business people and it was the kind of trend of what they were doing. And I felt at the time it was like, Oh yeah, yeah, this is right. Gotta do this. And then afterwards, you know, on reflection it was like, no, it felt always off for me.
There was this little part of me that felt like this doesn't sit right. And part of that was being like, you know, sort of exclusive and elitist and sort of not available for, for everybody. And. While I understand there's a huge value and price tag on my personal time and channeling and the expertise and the skill and the talent that goes into the paintings and the artwork that I produce for people, it felt kind of stingy to kind of keep that only for those people and to keep those transmissions and those spiritual journeys and those soul journeys we were going on with my private painting clients.
Kind of, it felt wrong and off to keep that just for them and not be able to offer that to people. You know, I still have people that follow me that were my patients back when I was a homeopath, like 14 years ago, 15 years ago. So , there's, you know, there's people who have followed me through every kind of incarnation of how I present to the world and the story and the messaging and the journey has always been the same.
It's always been one about coming home to oneself, finding soul alignment, and be that with homeopathy, like with, you know, looking at energy medicine and sickness and disease and, and be that with my art. It's always been this understanding. When we are in alignment with our soul, when we are in this power of allowing fullest expression of ourselves, then we flow, then we are in health, then we are in our truth, right?
So, It's always been the same. And so I found, you know, with my artwork, I was kind of holding back these pieces of myself and not allowing them to flow. And it started coming to me that I needed to bring the podcast back and various things happened and gave me messages. And so I started like getting into the thought process and like, well, what would that look like?
What would I want it to look like? How would I want to show up with that? And so I spent six months literally visioning how I wanted this to be, how I wanted it to grow, what purpose I wanted it to serve, and what all those pieces would be. And I would vision it and I would feel into it. And I would listen to podcasts of other people and, and really sort of absorb and allow the visioning process to happen before I even did anything. And then when my university studies stopped for the year, it was like, right now is the time. And so I launched this podcast, I think back in April, 2022. Yep. This year six months . Gotta remember that. And what happened was, you know, I initially started and I completely felt like a fraud.
I completely felt like, who the hell am I to start talking about this stuff? And at the time, my life seemed quite a bit of a mess, right? My life was, you know, my business wasn't thriving. I wasn't really thriving. Yet, I had all these deep truths. I had this wisdom, I had this level of, of self expression that totally wasn't being expressed.
And so, you know, and I've talked about this in many of the episodes as well, like start before you are ready, like become who you wanna be and, and this was the journey I literally have taken for the last six months of stepping into this process, of showing up every week, you know, twice a week and really building that trust muscle.
And I really have seen that trust, that self-trust really grow and grow. The more I have, the cat's still doing the Lego, um, , she's really disturbing me. I'm gonna hear all kinds of chaos going on. Um,
You know, I even was sat with my partner the other night and I said to him, I said, Oh my God, all my life I have had all this self doubt. You know, like, can I trust my decisions? Can I trust what I'm thinking? Can I trust my truth here? And. Like through the process of doing this podcast, through the process of six months of showing up twice a week, bringing forth these expressions and, and really I am a channel for God, you know, I totally take it for granted that I'm not the doer here, like the divine is the doer and I am just the tool. I am the channel for it. And really allowing that exactly as I do with my paintings, allowing myself to be that.
And it has developed this level of self-trust that I never had before and not just in, you know, my ability to show up every week, my ability to to be held accountable for what I said I'm gonna do, but also in the -cat's now on the table. So, excuse any knocking or noises or any tails that come into the shot. Um, yeah, like being accountable for who I, who I, Oh, I've lost track, and here comes the cats. So, In a minute, Misfits is gonna walk through. You saw her
Um, but like showing up every week, being accountable for showing up every week. But not only that, in the wisdom I'm bringing through and in the deliverance of it and the lessons that I'm learning from it. You know, and really, you know, the universe does teach us what we need to learn as we are teaching it, right?
And so the transmissions would come through after I would be living them and experiencing them. So a lot of the episodes that have been recorded so far have literally been lived experiences for me. They have been me going through that journey and understanding it at a deeper, deeper level.
And, you know, in order to teach something, They do say, if you want to learn something, to teach it, if you want to bring forth something, to teach it.
Because through doing that, you really develop an understanding and the lessons come and you really take it deeper and deeper and deeper To the point now where it's like, I have such self trust in the decisions I make. I have such self-trust in my. Truth in how I'm showing up in what this podcast is becoming in how it's help, like helping and aiding and becoming a whole bigger picture for my business and the artwork and everything, and this self-trust.
Like you, you can't, you can't create that without doing the work, right? You can't just sort of magically be like, Right now I trust myself. Like, you can. But until you start proving time and time again with your actions, there's still gonna be those layers of doubt. And so that's one of the gifts that this podcast has given me is like this pure understanding that like, A) I can show up. B) I can be an authority on these things that I know, like I have these inbuilt wisdoms.
It's almost like I literally, I've always said, I came to this planet, like with this complete knowledge of the absolute and all is one. And. And connection and bliss and love, and then couldn't ever, you know, really struggled to sort of be in the physical reality of separation and duality and things that aren't bliss and love.
Right. I've really struggled with that all of my life and through doing this podcast, it's really enabled me to bring those lessons in and ground them and understand them in a way that's very practical, very grounded, very 3d because we live in 3d, like that's creation. If not, we'd all be just spirit and we'd all be like living blissfully up out in the clouds or what, Whatever you wanna believe.
That's the first thing that six months has bought, you know, six months of doing the Radiance Soul Podcast has bought and there's been like this real emergence as well.
And that's like back to the emergence stuff that I do with Derek Rydall. You know this understanding that if we want more in our lives, if we want to be wealthy, if we want to have abundance in our life, it doesn't come from without, right? It comes from within.
And one of my lessons that I've been really learning is this like, , you know, where is giving, giving, giving in martyrdom different to emerging and giving from one's self, giving one's truth from one's self. And that's been a real journey that I have been under the last six months of understanding that and understanding like burnout and fatigue and where I'm overgiving because I am coming from a place of duty, responsibility, guilt, shame, like a lower frequency to where I'm literally giving because I am becoming the tool, like I am literally the vessel through which the divine speaks through me, and we all are this, we all can be this.
And it comes from surrendering to the divine to understanding we are all one with the Divine.
And that's been a real gift, right? That's been a real gift of this podcast for me, is understanding that and understanding that like, you know, when you start, you will feel a fraud. You will not feel like you deserve to do this, or you should be doing this or that you are an authority on this, but you gradually build that muscle.
You gradually build that sort of character of who you are, where you are, what you know, what's your truth, where are you coming from? And it's, it's like learning self realization, right? But also non-duality at the same time. Cuz your truth is, is the absolute, your truth is pure love creation, God particle, right?
And allowing that to come through, but through your unique lens, right? Because otherwise it would be boring and we'd all be the same and no one would have any interest. Like it would just be like, blah. And so we allow, uh, individuality to be like the filter, the lens through which something can come through in a different way that might speak to different people, right?
And so, Um, yeah, I dunno where else I'm going now. , I should have written a list. I was lying in bed last night and all these ideas were coming and I was like, I should really write this all down. And then I was just like, I can't be, I'm tired, I'm cold , I don't wanna get out of bed again. We'll just, we'll just like open up to the divine and allow it to come.
So, yeah. What else have I learnt after six months of doing this? So the emergence, right? I have noticed that the more I show up, the more I stand in this truth as this voice, as this person who can deliver these, these like nuggets of wisdom or whatever, you know, the more I understand. That it does come from me. That there is an emergence that it literally allows more abundance to flow through me, and I actually feel icky and physically not good when I'm holding stuff in, when I'm not allowing my true self to emerge. And that's become really visceral and a really powerful, visceral understanding has taken place by doing this practice, by showing up, by doing this work.
And I was talking to someone yesterday and, and over the weekend, and they were feeling stuck and it was like, well, you need to open something to just allow life to come through you. You might not understand what that is right now. You might not know what your next step is on your soul path. And you know, I talked about this in the last episode on the Soul journey, but the more we kind of just step up and say, I'm willing, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna allow this to come through me. Yeah, the more doors open, the more life can get to us. The more the universe can give like, to, to come through us, right? To bring forth what we need and what we, what we desire.
Because we're not closed off. And so like, we might wanna sit at home and, and, and not open up. But even if we do something that doesn't seem like we wanna do it or doesn't seem relevant, you know, I was reading a book and it said like, what's the most attractive of the least attractive options or something? It was something like that. So it was like, you know, you have three options and you don't really wanna do any of them, but which is the most attractive of them, Like, and he just said like, Start there because that at least opens a door, right?
It opens a door and it opens a channel and it has to come from within you. Within you. It has to come from you taking that step. And when you do that, you become a vessel for life to get in. You become like this place where life can happen, you know? And I talk about like the, the biodome of the soil. You know, like when you, when you let soil be and you allow it to regenerate without chemicals, without interference, without farming in industrialized ways, you know? And you support that biodome in the soil, like life literally just flourishes because it goes, Oh my god, life can get in here. And that's the same with ourselves. And we have to create those opportunities from within, and we have to create them by just starting and starting wherever we are.
And you know, if you have a big vision for where you wanna go, brilliant. Work with that. Like allow that vision to come and then allow those starting steps to be whatever they are. Knowing that whatever they are, they will lead to that thing eventually. Right. Um, So that's one of the other things I've really learnt is this emergence and really, really living and embodying it.
Not just theoretically, not just like halfheartedly, you know, I've really had to like own these lessons. And also everything that I talk about on these, um, podcasts, right? I've had to live, I've had to learn. I learn over and over and over again. I'm human still. I may be spirit, but I'm also human. And so I am constantly having to relearn these lessons or take them, no, it's not relearning, but it's like taking them to a deeper level, a deeper understanding, a deeper, more authentic truth of that.
And, and it's just like, you know, my son at the moment, he's been struggling with his math and he's been having tutoring and you know, he was missing some key steps and I was like, we were talking about how with math, you kind of build on, build on, build on build on build. And it's no different with our spiritual soul journey, right?
And it can feel like we are taking a step back, but we are actually building on what we've already learnt. We're building on what we've already learnt and going to deeper levels. So it's kind of like growing up and going down at the same time. , which is, Which is non-duality, right? so, yeah, that's like six months of doing this podcast has just been this absolute joy and I wanna celebrate that.
I'm celebrating myself hard for this because, you know, when do we stop and celebrate the steps we've taken? Especially if you can't necessarily see the results. Like, for me, the six months, like, you know, watching my results over those six months has been, Slow. If I look at the results, if I look at like the number of listeners or if I, you know, I think it shows me unique listeners or whatever, and it was like four for most of the six months, and then suddenly it shot up to 16.
Um, but you can see that. But when you open up and become like this channel to emerge forth, like, you know, the divinity within you, the, the God State, when that becomes your sole purpose and you allow that to emerge from you. The results really don't matter because the joy isn't in the results and, and it's almost like you just know that eventually the results will add up.
Like it, like to me, it's like completely inevitable how I envisioned what I want to be would become because I envisioned it and I set that intention, and now I'm just filling in the steps. It's like I'm literally just going back in time. From the end result, I'm already at the end result and I'm literally just going back in time and filling in those steps.
And those steps are a joy to do though. A joy to fill in.
And that's what really feels miraculous, right? When you start opening up to allow this emergence through you, it becomes this really magical journey. And you know, I'm not saying it's always happy, happy joy joy. Like it's not , you know?
Oh my God, you should see me stomping around house -I've got another episode I'm gonna record a bit later, um, about, uh, you know, kind of wanting to go off into a cave and be like a spiritual hermit away from my family and how that doesn't serve anyone. Um, so I'll talk about that in a different episode. And what else have I learned about six months of doing the podcast?
I'm trying to think. Like, it just feels great. It feels great to give, It feels great to know that you're touching people's hearts. Like I've had so many messages from people just saying, Oh my God, like this really, you know, helped me, This touched a nerve. This like really sort of opened something up for me. This was exactly what I needed to hear.
And when you, when you start getting those messages back, you know, those are the results, right? Those are when you start realizing you are a channel for God. You are you. This unique, perfect, amazing, beautiful seed just bursting fourth.
You know, I don't like the word star seed. It's always a bit like, Well, actually you're a star, right? You're not a freaking seed. But most of us live our lives pretending we are in this little seed, pretending we are nothing much, we're not important, and yet inside of us, there's this whole universe right inside of us. There's this life, the universe, and everything.
It's how much are we willing to let out? How much are we willing to allow to emerge from us?
Um, you know, and the other thing is, you know, the podcast has led on to other things. For me, the more I showed up here being recorded, you know, the more I got comfortable with speaking, the more I've been able to now do lives on Insight Timer and show up in a different space and, and really, Find those people that need to, It's not even like finding, that's the thing, right?
When you start being who, who you are meant to be, you don't even need to go out and necessarily find people. People find you and you just need to show up and then keep finding those places where you can show up, right? Where you can be this version of you, you know? And I was, when I was talking to my friend, it was like, you know, even if you just go to a meetup group or whatever, like, whether it's what you wanna do or feels in alignment or not, the mere fact that you went, opens a door. And the more doors you can open, the more life can come through. The more life can get to, you know, can, can use you as this vessel for life, For love, for, for giving.
And your life becomes this like beautiful service, that doesn't feel draining. It doesn't feel like you're giving too much. It just, it, it feels like a joy. It feels like it feeds you. And that's the difference. Like that's the difference between like giving from a place of resentfulness or like guilt or shame or like having to, versus allowing more and more and more of yourself to come through and to emerge, and giving that part of yourself to the world, because that's the gift, That's the medicine.
That's why I say at the beginning of this podcast, you know, you are this radiant soul. You are this magnificent being, and yet you show us like a fraction of it, but you don't need to suddenly show us all of it, right? But you can take little steps. And I've always said, I am not a diving deep headfirst person, I am, dip my toes in super slowly and takes me like half an hour to get up to my knees in the water, especially if it's a cold lake in Canada, right?
It doesn't matter because you are, every time you, you open that door a crack or you know, you are, you are opening up and you are becoming and allowing more and more of the true magnificence of who you are to emerge. and you start where you are at. And that's exactly what I did six months ago. I started where I'm at.
I am a completely different person, I guess, to who I was six months ago in the sense that I now have all this evidence behind me that I can do this, I can show up, I can have this understanding and an ability to teach it or speak it, or to, you know, to be the channel of. And you can't, you can't buy that kind of level of deep knowing, right?
It comes from practice. It comes from allowing yourself to emerge. It comes from just opening that door a crack. Even if it, Even if you think like, Oh, that's not what I want. You know, If you're in a crappy job now that you hate, you know, you give it your all, you show up as if it's the job you love.
And when you do that, doors start opening, you know how many success stories have we heard where people have been discovered cuz they were waitressing or waiting somewhere and you know, they were giving it their all and someone spotted their potential. Right? And it's no different. Wherever you are, you just gotta show up and open that door and, and be that person already.
You know, when I started the podcast, I did not feel like I was an authority on any of this. Like I didn't feel confident in talking about this stuff, even though like, you know, I literally studied this and practiced it and been obsessed with it my entire life. And, you know, spent eight years studying homeopathic medicine and, and health and disease and, and understanding the, the difference between someone who's ill and not, and, and how that is related to the soul and how that is related to the emergence of our own truth.
Even though I'd done all of that, I did not feel like I had the authority. I did not feel like I was able to, but I still opened that door. I allowed it to open, and I stepped through it. And gradually over time, that's become what it's become. And I've emerged more of myself. And there's still more. There's still more, you know, it's now like, well, what's next?
What's the next six months gonna bring? And yeah, it's just been an absolute joy. I've absolutely loved showing up every week with you. I've absolutely loved doing the soul shots. They're like one of my favorites cuz they're super short and snappy and, but then I also love rambling a bit longer and you know, it was a real conscious decision for me not to bring in guests, especially initially because to bring in guests would be to sort of undermine my own voice in some ways while I was building that trust muscle.
You know, at certain points I will be bringing in guests for sure, but primarily, you know, I am here as the channel. I am here as the vessel through which the divine talks through me. And I'm not saying anything radical here. I'm not saying anything new. I mean, you, you read all of the spiritual texts, all of the spiritual books, listen to all of the spiritual thought leaders. We're all saying the same stuff, but we are just saying it in our own unique way of saying it that maybe helps open it up for people.
I mean, as a planet, as a species, we are having to evolve much quicker now, and we really are. And it might not look like it cuz the world looks like it's gone to poop. Right? But that is because all of the darkness, all of the, the systems in place that were holding us stuck and broken and, and kind of programmed to function in one way, are breaking apart, They're coming to the surface, they're being seen, you know, and there's always, there needs to be destruction before there can be new creation.
If you want to create something new, you have to destroy the old, Right. And that, that was something I had to go through in my podcast. Right. I had to. And my business, it was like my business literally kind of destroyed itself. It didn't, it didn't happen for several months and it was like, what the hell, , Because while it was still very successful and while it was still doing everything I thought my, you know, I wanted it to do, from a materialistic point of view, it wasn't fulfilling the purpose of more emerging for myself and it wasn't fulfilling the purpose of being the better, greater channel for God to flow through. Right, and so that business, while it's still going and it's still strong now and it's coming back, it needed to take a backseat so that I wasn't relying on it and that I wasn't sort of coasting on it.
Right? Because we do that, we coast on things and we, we get lazy and we get in our comfort zone and we allow less of ourselves to flow through us. And that's one of the things that this podcast has done. It's like, well, where can I emerge more? Like, where can I be a fuller expression of myself? And for me it was definitely around showing up and speaking and, and sharing the soul journeys, the spiritual transmissions, the, you know, the divine connections.
Sharing those with people, sharing them with you so that you have those little aha moments or those little things that click into place, allow you to become more of who you are, allow you to remember who you are to, you know, to remember your own divinity, magnificence, radiance, and start giving the world that. Start showing up a little bit more as that.
And again, You don't have to do it all in one go. You don't, you know, the seed doesn't go from a seed to a, a like oak tree over overnight . It has a process, right? It grows and grows and grows, like allow yourself the same grace, but you have to crack open that seed, that casing that door, and then more can emerge.
So thank you ever so much for being here for six months with me. There's plenty more to come. I'm not stopping anytime soon. Um, I don't even wanna stop for a break. I'm going away at Christmas for two weeks and I'm like, No, I'll prerecord . I love you so much. Um, keep listening. Join me on Insight Timer if you wanna come in on lives with me.
I've also just started on a little app called Wisdom. Which shares knowledge and is all about decolonizing knowledge and wisdom and allowing access to mentoring that wouldn't necessarily be allowed. So this is a really beautiful app. I'm, I'm just, I literally just joined yesterday after some chats with the people and invite and, and research and so now I'm just gonna like, Again, I'm not going head first in, I'm dipping my toes in and slowly figuring out the app, but if you wanna find me, it's, I'm there under Shirley Harvey, my name.
Um, and also it links to the Radiant Soul Podcast, so I think, you know, you can also find it from the podcast. But anyway, the app's called Wisdom, but, I have loved being here with you. I am so, so honored and grateful that every one of you has listened and shown up and supported me, and, you know, the very first person and to the, to the 20th person, to the whatever person.
I think I've got 550 downloads now, Like every single one is so valued to me and honored. and just a joy that I, you know, there's no way I'm stopping, Like, I'm loving doing this. And if you wanna have any subjects, like, if you want me to talk about anything in particular or subjects like, Oh my God, send me messages.
Like, just go to soulbyshirley.com on the website and you can just send me a message. Just contact me and I'll happily, like, you know, add it to the list of episodes to talk about if it, if it feels resonant with me and something I can talk about. Um, And if not, I'll do some research . So I have loved having you here.
Thank you ever so much. I'm going to go off and record some more episodes now, which will keep the juice coming and I wish you all the most beautiful week and the start of your emergence or the continuation of your emergence because the world needs you and you are the medicine, right? Your fullest expression is the medicine.
And we need you, and we love you, and you are fully accepted. There is nothing you need to prove. There is nothing you need to do or change. Like you are already perfect and amazing and whole and wonderful as you are. So just allow that to be shown, right? Show us that, open that door, open those curtains and wave at us because we are waiting.
I love you. Have a great week. Bye.