Podcast Summary: “Ep. 383 - The Return to Magic: How to Cut Through the Noise and Get Your Spark Back”
Podcast: EXPANDED Podcast by To Be Magnetic™
Host: Jessica Gill (Chief Content Officer), with Lacy Phillips (Founder)
Release Date: November 26, 2025
Episode Overview
This episode marks the kickoff of To Be Magnetic’s Return to Magic Challenge, a 15-day manifestation and inner child reparenting journey intended as both a year-end reset and deep energetic self-nourishment. Jessica and Lacy discuss the necessity of reconnecting with one’s inner child as the core route to authentic manifestation, self-worth, creativity, and resilience. They map out the revamped Inner Child process, explain key developmental themes, and contextualize these practices within larger spiritual, psychological, and societal shifts. The conversation is intimate, story-driven, and gently urgent—urging listeners to embrace authenticity as the path to “real magic” amid shifting global and technological landscapes.
Key Discussion Points & Insights
The Core Challenge: Reclaiming Inner Child Magic
- Why Inner Child Work?
- Most blocks in manifesting and personal fulfillment stem from unmet inner child needs: safety, trust, creativity, and belonging.
- Reparenting the inner child is the key to breaking life patterns, genuinely holding abundance, and stepping confidently into one’s desires.
- The Return to Magic Challenge:
- A revamped, community-driven version of TBM’s original Inner Child workshop.
- Combines neuroscience, somatic work, Internal Family Systems (parts work), and deep imagination to address core wounds and unlock authentic magnetism.
“[Your inner child] is actually the one who is quietly running the show. Your triggers, your relationship patterns, your blocks, the decisions you make, even the level of success you’ll allow yourself—all root down to whether your inner child feels safe.”
— Jessica (49:35)
Why Now? Context & Energy of 2025–2026
- Channeling and Astrological Energies:
- Lacy and Jessica discuss how this era is one of “stripping” away everything not meant for our highest, most authentic selves—including identities, careers, relationships, and even cultural paradigms. (09:34, 41:31)
- Capricorn/New Year energy brings momentum for action and reinvention.
- Social, technological, and educational structures are “dissolving” (especially via AI and shifts in collective paradigms), requiring individuals to anchor themselves in authenticity.
“The universe’s only intention is to get us back into that whole, worthy, authentic self... now it’s like, alright, let’s go through every single phase of childhood that developmentally contributes to your compass...”
— Lacy (13:45)
The Process: Stages and Needs Reparented
(Timestamp references indicate where each phase is discussed.)
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Pre-Week:
- Purpose & Soul’s Essence DI: Review past “tests” and triggers as nudges from the Universe; clarify your purpose and inner guidance. (19:29)
- Magnetic Home & Family: Visualize and create internal safety by designing your dream “magnetic home.” (21:05)
“That warmth, that magic... I have gone on now personally to manifest multiple, like, perfect, magnetic, what could be childhood homes.”
— Lacy (21:05)
Main Stages & Core Needs:
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Trust & Safety (Phase One)
- Foundation for manifestation across money, relationships, and home.
- Healing hypervigilance, people-pleasing, perfectionism, overspending, and attachment wounds.
- “If you have controlling patterns... the root is usually trust and safety not being met.” (29:38)
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Autonomy & Boundaries
- Developing confidence to set boundaries, say no, and not lose oneself in others.
- Learning to act from intuition rather than people-pleasing or over-caretaking.
- “I can give it to myself now.” (25:18, 27:16)
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Creativity & Play (Preschool Phase)
- Rekindling joy, playful experimentation, and discovering unique gifts.
- Recognizing childhood interests as a roadmap for adult purpose.
- “What was your fringe interest? What made you unique and different as a kid? This would have been the phase where that was alive, if it was safe enough to be.” (32:16)
“I dressed up as a witch probably ten Halloweens... of course I am now working at a manifestation brand, bringing alchemy back into the real world.”
— Jessica (35:29) -
Competency & Confidence
- Building resiliency through effort and failing forward.
- Overcoming instant gratification culture to value mastery and process over quick wins.
- “This phase is what’s going to get us comfortable with the journey, the playfulness of the process, rather than needing it to lead to success.” (40:01)
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Authentic Identity & Belonging (Teen/Adolescent)
- Holding one’s values amid group pressure and avoiding inauthentic conformity for social belonging.
- Integrating all previous phases for true, stable self-worth and community connection.
- “When you are met with people that have opposite perspectives... you stand true in your boundaries. You stand true in who you authentically are.” (49:29)
Integration Tools: What’s New & Unique
- Somatic and Parts Work: Now directly included, not as add-ons.
- Shadow Work Merged: Instead of distinct sequential programs, all key methodologies merged for deeper impact.
- Community & Accountability: Challenge is guided in real-time with other members for collective support.
- Real-World Embodiment: Each phase includes both internal visualizations and tangible, sensory self-soothing exercises.
“If you can do those two things—both the real world practices and the deep imagining—you’re literally rewiring your nervous system to feel as if you got that need met.”
— Jessica (25:18)
Societal Shifts & Manifestation in the "New Paradigm"
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Moving Beyond Social Media Dopamine Loops:
- Both hosts predict cultural fatigue with “contrived, performative” online life (especially AI-generated work).
- There’s an upcoming mass craving for in-person, analog, deeply authentic experiences and relationships.
“We are going to have to become very, very comfortable with process, because we’re recalibrating to an entirely new system of how things work.”
— Lacy (43:31) -
The Age of Aquarius & Education:
- The move away from institutional/traditional structures (including schools, corporations) toward individualized, community-centric, and purpose-driven life.
Member Success Story
Jessica shares about a woman who, after deep inner child work, shifted her dream from being a famous singer (to please parents) to a new, personally fulfilling use for her talent, resulting in a “multi-million dollar farmhouse for $400,000.”
(15:45–18:40)
“She was like, Jessica, I spent two years reparenting this part of me. … Now, she’s using singing in a way that feels so good to her. She just manifested this gorgeous farmhouse... She was beaming... it wouldn’t be possible without this work.”
— Jessica (16:54)
The Urgency & Hope of This Work
- Endings & New Beginnings:
- 2025 is a year of “ego deaths, transformation cycles, and having your core safety shaken.”
- Return to Inner Compass:
- The challenge is meant to be a “soft landing” and “nourishment” for navigating uncertainty ahead (economic, cultural, technological).
- What Follows:
- “This is the year you’re going to feel more grounded, clear, confident, and back to your magnetic self again.”
- “The more I can really be in myself ... the more magic is going to unfold. Not with ease and not gently, but in a big way. That’s the way that I see it.”
— Lacy (58:37, 59:31)
Notable Quotes & Moments
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On Authenticity vs. Persona:
“So many people... hear the word authentic... but there’s still this Persona... that’s what you think you should be... How much of our authenticity is from us, and how much is because it was rewarded or developed in us?”
— Jessica (14:54) -
On Future-Readiness:
“I can’t stress this phase enough because... knowing your gifts... is going to be really defining... moving into 2026, because of where things are going.”
— Lacy (32:16) -
On Hope:
“For anyone not living their dream life, a lot of times it’s that inner child that’s still coming up... there’s so much hope that in giving it to yourself now, you can completely change the game.”
— Jessica (25:18) -
On Technology & Community:
“Even with podcasting... all this stuff, I’m like—so, if all these people don’t like it—but they feel like they’ll be left behind if they don’t do it—that’s ripe for something new happening.”
— Lacy (44:42) -
On the Depth of Manifestation:
“When you manifest from this place—I can’t underline, bold this enough—this is how you actually make things alchemize. Sure, you can manifest not from this place, but it’s not going to be fulfilling.”
— Jessica (54:17)
Important Timestamps
- Intro: You Can’t Manifest Without The Inner Child — [00:02–02:00]
- Why The Challenge Now? Astrological/Collective Context — [08:23–11:17]
- Story: Jessica’s Own Inner Child Transformation — [00:20–08:23]
- Revamped Stages & Tools Overview — [19:29–29:38]
- Home, Safety & Nervous System Rewiring — [21:05–25:18]
- Phase Deep Dives - Needs & Blocks — [29:38–41:31]
- Cultural/Technological Predictions & The Value of Authentic Creation — [41:31–48:40]
- Preview: Upcoming Tools & Community Nourishment — [53:33–56:56]
- Hope, Preparation & Being “Led to More Magic” — [56:45–61:41]
Closing: Call to Action and Encouragement
Jessica and Lacy invite listeners to join the Return to Magic Challenge, emphasizing that it’s not just about manifesting outcomes but transforming one’s foundational self from within, reclaiming all the “magic” that’s been lost to distraction, fear, and cultural programming.
“Let’s be on board. Let’s just zoom through this... in an anchored, fully open, surrendered, excited way... the more magic is going to unfold.” — Lacy (59:31)
The challenge and Pathway membership are now open, with details available on the To Be Magnetic™ site.