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The Spiritual Hustler
How to Design an Optimal Home to Manifest REAL Abundance using the Power of Feng Shui with Kristina Hollinger
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Welcome to the Spiritual Hustler Podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Zweig, multi seven figure serial entrepreneur, best selling author and branding and business coach. And this is a show where we are redefining the word hustle. Reclaiming our true feminine nature of magnetism and putting down the self judgments and shame around loving to work and making a lot of money at it. On this show, you're going to learn how to stop hustling and start spiritually hustling. By pressing play, you are now part of a new movement of women who don't hustle for money. We hustle for meaning. We don't hustle from lack. We hustle for love. We don't hustle from survival. We hustle for humanity's thriving. We hustle toward healing the ancestral programming of fear and step into a new understanding of safety in the body to receive this shift isn't going to only heal your life. It's going to make you a whole lot richer too.
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This is the Spiritual Hustler Podcast. Well, hello my beautiful spiritual hustlers and welcome back to the Spiritual Hustler Podcast. I'm in a mood today. I'm in a great mood. I'm feeling so obsessed with this time of year. Now, if you're listening to this in real time, I'm coming at you in the gorgeous, perfect, flawless, delicious month of October. Now, I am a Leo. I'm a summer baby. And the summer is my season. But there is just something about the change of the season and the way that the air just hits different, it smells different, it's so crisp and fresh here in Nashville, at least where I am based. I'm obsessed with Nashville. I make the joke that Nashville should pay me a marketing royalty because I'm a walking billboard for it and I'm convincing everybody to basically move here. The point is, the weather has just opened my heart and has gotten me so grateful to be grounded at home in this beautiful season. After I've been on the road basically all year doing my book magic tour across the country, I got to meet so many of you. I was on multiple podcasts promoting my new book that came out this year. Light work, reclaim your feminine power, live your cosmic truth and illuminate the world. And you know, to be home is just the best. And this is going to come out the week of Halloween. And okay, fun fact, my husband hates Halloween. We've only dressed up once together in like 12 years together. Yeah, don't judge me, judge him. He is just not into it. So, like, I used to Be really into it. When I was single, I used to dress up like a. And like, do all the things, go to all the bars. And then, like, got married and we don't really celebrate Halloween anymore. Well, this year because of where we're living right now in my beautiful home that I'm renting while we build our real home, which won't be done until next year. We're in this beautiful neighborhood in Nashville called 12 South. And it's just Halloween city over here. It is the biggest parade of houses on houses on houses on houses with the most epic decorations I've. I've seen like somebody put up two blowup full size, like as big as their house dragons. Unreal. The house next to it has like a full graveyard. People cover their whole houses in cobwebs. It's just insane. And it's so fun. And so I am especially excited because we got some decorations too. Well, I put like some pumpkins and gourds outside of my front stoop. And I'm gonna probably go to Walgreens this week and get even more like sparkly, glowy, cool things to put in our yard so that the trick or treaters know that they can come to my house and there will be candy and I'm gonna make my husband wear something. And I'm dressing up my two little dogs. I don't know what I'm gonna be yet, but I'm just so excited because this time next year we're moving to the woods and we don't really have any neighbors. And this is effectively my last year living in a house where we'll get droves and droves of kids and trick or treaters. And I'm just. I'm just into all of it. I'm into all the leaves, I'm into all the pumpkin, I'm into all the cinnamon. I'm into all the warm, yummy food that just feels so good to eat. Soups. Does anybody else just really get into soups this season? Tea. I'm really here for the cozy vibes because it has been a very intense year for me and to just ground in a seasonal change just feels really magical. So I hope that wherever you are in the world listening to this, if you celebrate Halloween, if you don't, that you just. Or if you have a husband that somehow doesn't. Doesn't celebrate anymore and you now don't either. Maybe that's just me. I just am wishing you just some real magic, some real cozy, grounding, nourishing, snuggly Internal time, not just for the sake of October, but for the sake of your soul. And today we're actually talking about the power of creating an environment, a home, a space that you call your own, whether you live in a house or an apartment or a townhouse or an Airbnb. Truly, how to activate your space for more manifestations and abundance. And you know me, here on the Spiritual Hustler podcast, we're all about hustling in a new vibration. Not hustling from a vibration of go, go, go on, on, on, stress, stress, stress, execute, execute, execute. But allowance, surrender, receiving trust, right, the feminine. This is why this show is called the Spiritual Hustler. Because I, for a very, very, very, very long time, was that kind of go, go, go, Hustler. And it nearly killed me. And that's not an exaggeration. I often say that when I was killing it, according to everyone outside watching my life and my business, I was killing myself. And we're not playing that game anymore. Not here on this show. On this show, we talk about, of course, business and leadership, creating impact. And we also talk about the consciousness that we should be doing it from, that we can be doing it from. Because we're not designed to work at the pace of this insane system called the patriarchy called the Matrix, called, honestly, just 2024, modern day reality, where we just are inundated with millions and millions of pieces of data coming our way every single day. We have 70, 80,000 thoughts a day. Many of them are the same thought we had yesterday with the technology and the pace and the demands and the notifications that come our way. This is a relatively new development, right? Like, we didn't live like this for hundreds of thousands of years. We've only lived like this for the last, I don't know, 15 years, two decades maybe. Definitely has become hyper intense at a fever pitch these last five to 10 years. And so here on this podcast, we're all about ease. We're all about taking a deep breath and setting up our businesses and setting up our lives and setting up our bodies and setting up our relationships and setting up our relationships to our former self or our inner child, and setting up our homes to do it in a way that allows us to thrive in a brand new way. It's actually not a brand new way. It's how we always used to exist. We're coming home to our original DNA and makeup, especially as women. And I'm so excited about my guest today because I've never had a chance to talk about how we can optimize our physical spaces with the magic of feng shui to create that money, to flow in, to create that abundance, to come in with more surrender and trust and allowance. And yes, magic Feng shui is magic. And my guest today is not only my podcast guest, she's actually my feng shui practitioner consultant. I've hired Christina Hollinger multiple times for every single one of my moves. I had her feng shui my Chicago apartment, my Airbnb that I rented on and off for two years in Nashville. She's feng shui. This house that I'm sitting in right now that I'm recording this podcast in that I'm renting. She will be feng shui ing my entirely brand new house that I'm building. That won't be done for a little while, but I'm bringing Christina in. I will never not work with Christina. She is a master. And I am so excited for her to walk you through some of the core codes of what I like to call Christina. She is pure codes, this girl, and how you can optimize your home. Because when we get feng shui, I don't want to say right because there's no real right particular perfect way to do feng shui. It's an art, but when we really work with it, it works it. It has insane results for our lives. And I will talk about some of the results that I've had today working with Christina. But Christina is especially special, not only because I'm a client of hers, but because Christina is also a client of mine. Christina read my book, my first book be many years ago. And she'll tell the story of how she manifested, making me her client. And then she became a part of my social media. And then last year she signed up for my claim your Light retreat in Santa Fe. And I, I really, I was so excited that she signed. She was actually the first person to sign up for that entire retreat. And we ended up having 16 women jump in after her. But I watched Christina go from, I, I call her this, I've said this to her face like a little buddy of a rose to a full blossomed flower in five days. And Christina hired me as her one on one coach after that retreat to help her with her business. And then she joined my seven sisters mastermind, which is a mastermind that I only invite and open to the women that come to my retreats. And I don't market my mastermind publicly. And Christina has gone on a journey with me just like I've gone on a journey with her. And I have watched her not only blossom, but quantum leap fly in her business. When we started working together right after my retreat, she had her incredible 12 month manifesting journey, this 12 month program that she launches every year. And she was about to launch it a few months after our work together. And about 20ish women had signed up in 2023. And after working with me for a few months, she launched it again and she had over 50 women sign up. It was the biggest launch of her business. She has since brought on a team to support her. She is expanding her product suite in a multitude of ways, launching a mastermind of her own. She's built beautiful process and systems with her funnels and her email and her business is soaring and she's activating so many clients in their homes through her one to one consulting sessions. And I just, I just want to share that before we get into the interview, because the woman that sat across from me here in my studio a couple weeks ago is not the same woman that came to my retreat a year ago, isn't the same woman that came to my house a couple years ago in Chicago when she first feng shui'd my space. And I'm just so grateful that we get to come on today as one another's clients, but really, truly one another's sisters. And this is how I roll. This is my life's work, this is my mission. This is what I'm actively building my entire business around, which is going narrow and deep with my community and going on the journey together. And when you commit to going on a journey within a true sisterhood, not only do you expand your revenue and make more money and become each other's clients and get to be on one another's podcasts and grow in the 3D, which is what I would call all of that, but you grow in the 5D. Your life enriches your heart, expands your world, becomes more full and multidimensional and empowering and eclectic and healing when we ride together as sisters. And for that I'm most proud of this conversation because you will witness in so many ways what happens when two women trust each other and take chances on each other. And if you're interested in taking the chance on me, I would love to take the chance on you and ride with you, sister who's listening to this at my upcoming next claim your light retreat that I do once a year, and it is by far and away the most sacred thing I do. And it's January 26th through the 30th in Riviera, Maya, Mexico. We're close to being completely full. I have a few spots left. Doors are closing on November 15th. We've put in place incredible payment plans. So if you've already seen it and you've said to yourself, I don't think I can afford that, we've put in place 6 month, 12 month, 18 month payment plans so that you can easily make this work. I am fully dedicated to the returning and reclamation and remembrance of the divine feminine codes that live inside of ourselves and how we bring that into our modern day 3D businesses as powerful female leaders who are making real money and real impact. And if you are feeling the call, please apply. Please book your call. You will talk to me. You're not talking to anyone else from my team. This is a deep invitation and a sacred commitment that I am making in you and you are making in me. So if you are interested in Claim youm Light in January, now is the time because these final spots are going to go and they're going to go fast. So head to jessicasweig.com retreats or you can find that link right there in the show notes to book your call with me. All right. My dear soul sister, Christina Hollander, feng shui expert, spiritual guide author, featured on hgtv, shares manifesting wisdom through the power of Feng Shui with simple and modern methods. She's got a bevy of services programs. She's got her own podcast. We'll leave links to it all in the show notes. You're going to want to go follow Christina when this podcast is over. You're going to want to listen to her show Modern Feng Shui and jump into her mini masterclass. She's got a three part free mini masterclass on feng shui that will take this episode even deeper for you. So you know exactly how to apply very foundational methods that have instant, instant results. So take it from me, take it from everyone who's worked with Christina. This girl is codes. She's codes on codes. So without further ado, here's my amazing, amazing interview with Christina Hollinger.
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I'm so happy you're here in my studio. Christina Hollinger, welcome to my podcast.
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Thank you. Jess.
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You are not only a soul sister and a client and a friend, but you're also a teacher to me. And I have been profoundly impacted by your work. And I cannot wait to dig into all things feng shui today and you and your story. But I gotta ask you the first question that I ask all my guests, which Is what are you spiritually hustling for right now, Christina?
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Well, luckily, I listen to your show all the time, so I knew this was coming. And there are two things. I am spiritually hustling for abundance, and I am going to unapologetically claim that. And I'm also spiritually hustling for peace.
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Me too. It's always the. That is the heart of the spiritual hustle, isn't it? You said something, actually, when we were all together at the Seven Sisters Mastermind a few weeks ago about your work with feng shui and what you really help your clients ultimately do. And you're like, everyone comes to me for, like, the. The money adjustments and to call in more wealth, but really what I'm helping my clients do is find peace. Used. Do you remember saying that?
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It sounds like something I would say, but you know what I love about feng shui, and that's why I said I'm spiritually hustling for abundance. And I truly mean that because, I mean, we live in a 3D world and a reality where we do need money not only to survive, but to thrive. It's just part of this. This matrix, this part of the world. And I truly believe that everyone can tune into more abundance. No matter what your occupation is. I've been practicing feng shui for over 12 years. I've been working in public education for over 18 years. And yes, people come to me looking to call in more money. And luckily, feng shui has so many adjustments. There's an adjustment for everything and a lot to call in more money. And I think that's amazing. And I really, really want to empower, especially women to claim that for themselves.
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Yeah.
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And then when it comes to the piece, one thing I didn't know about feng shui until I really studied it is that professor would say that you can move your furniture around, but unless you balance your personal energy, you will not be successful manifesting with feng shui. Yeah. And so balancing your personal energy and having that inner alignment is a big part of what I teach and what I offer people. And honestly, without peace, the money doesn't mean as much at all.
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What's it all for, exactly? So you mentioned professor just now. Can you explain who that is? But also just your education, your journey, and how you studied this sacred practice, and just the approach that professor had that you are now living out.
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So Professor Lynn young brought the BTB School Feng Shui to the United States in the 1980s. I did not have an opportunity to meet him because when I got certified at the Feng Shui School of Chicago with Lori Poly. He had since passed. So I've been Certified for over 10 years. Red Ribbon professional of the International Feng Shui Guild. But what I'd like listeners to know is that, you know, professor teaches a specific school feng shui called BTB School. And basically we work with this tool called the Bagua Map, which is my favorite thing. And what it does is it divides your home into nine different areas of life. And with the BTB School feng shui, we always start at your front door. And it's very user friendly. And you know, there is a traditional method, it's called the compass method and it uses a lot of cardinal directions. That's just a different school feng shui. But professor taught a different way, which is the BTB School feng shui using the front door. And I love the accessibility, the simplicity of it and truly like what I've designed for my clients and with like my free mini course is I just want to be a space where people can go and get consistent, a consistent approach to feng shui because it can be very complicated, especially if you're googling it and you're getting all these different schools of thought. So I think it is important to mention that, that I teach the BTB school Feng Shui and it's been around in the US since about the 1980s. Although Feng Shui in general has been around for thousands of years, I know it has been. Yeah.
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And that's one of the things I love about the way you teach it. And I think your public education background has served you in this space because I work with Christina and I've taken your courses and you've come to my house and we've done virtual consults. And every time I work with you, I'm always amazed at the depth of knowledge that you have. But, but just truly the depth and nuances and ever evolving, not complexity, but there's so much you can do with feng shui. It can sometimes feel overwhelming and you have a way of just really articulating it in a way that's so empowering and clear for your clients. So I, I feel like my audience is familiar enough with Feng shui, but maybe some aren't. The. The Bagua Map. Let' if somebody is just like wanting to take those first few steps to optimize their house, let's maybe start with the front door. What, why the front door? What is so important about the front door? And what can people do with their front door?
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I'm actually so glad you're asking this question because I. I go to a club, Pilates, and I go every single week. And the receptionist stopped me the last time I went there, and she said, like, you teach feng shui, I didn't know you could manifest with feng shui. I thought it was just about design. And I. It's like such a misconception that feng shui is just about how you design your home. And it's actually, it's all about manifesting. So if we were to start at the front door, the front door in feng shui is considered the mouth of qi. It's where all the positive energy opportunities and money flow into the home. And ultimately let's. I do want to touch upon the Bago map because people always want to know, like, where's my wealth area? And I'm going to help everyone identify that. So when you walk in, there's nine different areas of life we can identify. The far back left area of your home is the wealth area of your home, and the far back right area of your home is the relationship area of your home. And I like to point those out because if you can identify those spaces, then all the other pieces fall into place a lot easier. And the wealth area in the far back left and the relationship in the far back right, those are considered like command positions. So they're really important anchoring spaces to identify. And then the front center area of your home is your career area. So if you can identify those three spaces, I feel like you can identify all the rest of the areas of the bagua. And then you can basically activate those spaces. And each area is activated by a different element in feng shui. And so that's kind of like the Feng Shui 101, how you get started. And then it's like from there, it's just a total rabbit hole, as you know, because it's so much fun. It is fun and it's fun to apply from a design angle, but then it's really fun when things start to manifest and you're like, what? How did this happen? And sometimes it happens literally overnight.
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Overnight.
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Really fun.
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Yeah, that's happened to me. So elements represent like metal, water, fire, wood, but then also color can reflect an element as well. So the. The front door is. Is water, right? Am I remembering this right?
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So it just depends, like if your front door is in the front center of your home, it's the career area, so it will be activated.
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I'm thinking about my front door.
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You are. Your front door is in the career area. So that's the perfect example of the career area is one of my favorite spaces because it's the only space that's activated directly by water. And the water element in feng shui is really important because it represents money and emotion. So water can really be very telling of what's going on in somebody's life. And the best part is, if something isn't feeling great in a certain space, you can have the power to change it.
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You talk about. I mean, you can adjust your home with, like, paintings and rugs and, you know, but there's invisible cures that you have really taught me that you can do all throughout your house that no one sees. I'll give a quick example of mine, and then I'd love for you to share a few others because, again, you're the master at this. But I'm just going to get really vulnerable with my audience. I've never shared this before, but at.
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The beginning of the year, we were.
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Applying for our construction loan for our house. And Brian and I are both entrepreneurs, and, like, we have a very kind of unique financial picture. And you have to kind of have a traditional financial trajectory when you're applying for a loan of any kind, but especially a loan of that size. And the bank was kind of like just two steps forward, one step back with us. It was highly stressful. And I had a session with you right around this time, and we looked at my helpful People corner. It's helpful people in travel, right? And the metal element. And you told me to buy, like, a metal jar, which I got on Amazon, Like, I overnighted it, and to write down on a piece of paper, a fresh white piece of paper with, like, a fresh pen, and write it as though it's already happened. And so it's like, thank you to these loan officers.
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Thank you to the mortgage banker.
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Like, thank you, thank you, thank you for a speedy and efficient loan approval process. Whatever. Folded it in, put it in the jar, went to bed, and the next morning we got our loan, and we almost weren't getting it. And, like, that's just. I think about that often because you've helped me manifest a lot of things. But the invisible cures are really fascinating. And so what are some other powerful and empowering invisible cures that no one.
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Has to move their furniture to do?
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I love the helpful People jar. I'm so glad you mentioned that. Helpful People Travel is in the front right area of your home. And when you look at the bagua map, it's actually like, directly diagonal from the well health area. So what we say in feng shui is that it takes a village to experience the wealth and abundance that you desire in your life. So helpful people travel impacts your wealth. So I love that. You know, a lot of people don't come to me looking for more helpful people in their life, but little do they know that when we do a feng shui consultation, we're going to go to that space to help to improve your abundance. And that's just such a beautiful story and example. I mean, I use the helpful people jar to lose £20, and I kept the £20 off, and it was like, it was. It was something that I had set an intention for. And it just like I kept hitting roadblocks with my personal health journey. And then it just like things unlocked, you know. And so that's just one example. And you can use the helpful people jar for so many different things. I just absolutely love that one. Jess, I'm going to put you on the spot here because you became a client of mine, actually, when you lived in Chicago.
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Yes.
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And then you moved to Nashville to an Airbnb. And that was a unique situation because when you were in the Airbnb, you couldn't necessarily, maybe you could move some furniture, but the artwork was kind of already there. So there was. We did a lot more invisible adjustments for you there because you couldn't necessarily change the aesthetic a ton, which is fine. So do you remember the. This is for your audience, too, and for the listeners, because I know you want to, you know, just give them a little something to try. One of the suggestions I gave you during that time in your life, which, by the way, you were still CEO of the Simply Be Agency. I had you boil water with basil leaves and salt because just for listeners, this is so, so fun. You can use basil, cinnamon, rosemary, any of those types of herbs are going to not only clear energy, but they're also going to make space for money energy. So you're clearing and neutralizing the space, but also infusing that abundance. So I believe you just use probably basil, maybe. I told you add some rosemary. And I told you to clean your kitchen because your kitchen is the hub of abundance. There's so many pillars of the kitchen that represent your capacity to receive and save money. So your stove, your refrigerator, dining room table, all those pieces are important. And I believe you did follow that. Do you remember?
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I do remember that. I washed my whole kitchen with basil water. Like, I boiled basil and salt, and I, like, let it cool and then I put it in a spray bottle and I cleaned my whole kitchen counters with, with that, that water. And it, I felt like my, my money situation was shifting. And you, you've also. I have a stick of rosemary downstairs in my kitchen right now. I, I light it up to clear the energy and every single time I do it like something manifests.
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Get a wink from the universe.
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I get a wink from the. I love the wink from the universe. That's so good. I also use the different stove burners. You taught me that. Can you share more about that?
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Yes. So the stove burners represent money flowing into your life from sources expected and unexpected. So you know, I like to recommend the two minute wealth adjustment which is when you stand at your stove for two minutes, everyone take precaution and be safe when you do this one. But you just turn the stove burners on for two minutes and visualize money coming in from sources expected, unexpected, and then turn it off. And you can do that like every couple months, you know, just to kind of boost the money in your life. And I think that that's the fun part of manifesting with Feng shui, as long as you don't get fixated on where the money's going to come. Because I feel like so many times this is why I started my 12 month manifesting journey is to help people with their Feng Shui practice and to help when they start to feel blocked. Because what I've noticed is a lot of not only my clients, but even people in the 12 month manifesting journey, when things don't manifest exactly how they envisioned, they think it's not working. But a lot of the time the money will flow in and sources way unexpected than you thought and we have to be open those creative solutions.
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Yeah.
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You know, the work that you really.
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Do is the spiritual hustle. Christina. No, really, I mean it's, it's magic. It's. It's putting in the work and then like, and the work is fun, it's creative, it's inspiring to move things in your house or bring in new elements or put invisible cures down and then letting the universe do its job. It's a, it's a game of, of like trust and co creation all at once. I mean really, like I think about, I don't really know what I would do without feng shui. It has helped me let go of needing to know the outcome and controlling how it's going to happen and just trusting that my, my environment is that powerful and that my intention is that powerful because that's really A huge part of how you approach this work. It's so much fun to work with you. Like, I'm just gonna say, it's just. It's so stimulating the way that you think, and then you deliver. I call it your codes. Like, you have feng shui codes that just allow your clients to feel really empowered and to have fun with it, because if it's not fun, it's not gonna flow well.
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I feel so grateful that the universe literally delivered you to me in so many ways. I will just tell you. So I read your book the Light Work, of course, and it was really interesting to me because in it, you talked about a lot of different things. First of all, that Dr. Wayne Dyer was one of your very first spiritual teachers, and he wrote the book the Power of Intention. And I. He was also one of my first spiritual teachers. And I just feel like, yeah, feng shui is spiritual, and I didn't even, like, realize it when I stepped into it, but it's helped to build my spirituality as well. You also talked about, even before I met you, you've always kind of dabbled in feng shui with maybe not even knowing it. You talked about how you got a Lakshmi statue. She's the goddess of abundance. So you've always kind of had it in you.
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I have, yeah. But I. I, like, read some books and saw some YouTube videos, and then, like, I met you, and it's like. Like a whole different level of consciousness and mastery. I want to talk a little bit. I want to come back to feng shui. I have so many more questions about the Year of the Dragon and all the things, but.
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But before we get there, you have.
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Been on your own journey from scarcity into abundance. You really found the power of this work for yourself first, and that's what lit you up to bring it to so many people. So can you kind of tell us a little bit about who Christina was before? Christina was this beautiful feng shui master that everyone sees. Like, when you first moved into your apartment in Chicago, like, take us back.
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D
This. Actually, the story came to me while I was on the flight from Chicago to Nashville. And I know I have to share it with you today, because I was having a moment as I was flying here to come on your show. So, first of all, I was a mom in 2018 who barely had any time to herself when my daughter was, like, 3 or 4 years old and my son was almost 1. I was working full time in public education, and the only time I ever had to myself was at night after the Kids went to bed, and I would like, you know, maybe pour myself a glass of wine, sit on the couch, turn on hgtv. And I would watch Alison Victoria on Windy City Rehab. And she was updating all of these beautiful brownstones on the streets that I knew and loved. And I was so inspired. And like I said, I was just like a mom working full time public education. But I remember she, like, had one episode where she started at Club Lucky. It's like one of my favorite Italian restaurants in Bucktown. And I would just beg my husband, like, can we just go down there and just have a date night? And we would go down there and I would just, like, walk down the street while we were waiting for our table. And, like, you could see the houses that were on HGTV season one. And it really sparked my excitement and interest. And I don't know why, but it just did. And it was after season one, she had 14 episodes. I felt called to, like, meet her. And I don't know, somehow I got on her show, season two, season finale. And I didn't just get on her show, but I got on her show to do a feng shui space clearing, which was something that I was so excited about, to share my gifts. Just a public education teacher doing it. Right. The point was I. What I wanted to share is I thought that was the epitome of my career. And I was like, this is it. And it really. It actually wasn't. It. It wasn't the end of it. It was actually just the beginning of my journey. And I didn't even know who you were until Allison was on your show. And I tuned into the Simply Be podcast when Allison Victoria was getting interviewed from you. And what I find so interesting about just the way that the universe works, it's like, oh, my God, like, I feel like part of me feels like I needed to go on HGTV and meet Allison so I could be guided to you. Because I think Allison saw something in me and she really appreciated what I had to give her, which that's a whole other story. Because literally, a space clearing is not just about clearing energy. It's also about setting your intention. And so many good things happened after that, but for her at least. But I just wanted to share how, like, that journey, just, like, it's. It kind of just amazes me how the universe works. So. And I, you know, my intention today was that I could help women to see a little bit of themselves in my story. And my message really is like, I mean, I worked with you because you put a story up on Instagram because you were looking for a Feng Shui practitioner to help you with your apartment in Chicago. And so again, just saying, like, part of me was just having this really full circle moment of like, I learned about you, Jessica, when I listened to your podcast. And here we are three years later. It's gonna happen three years regardless if you dream or not. I'm so glad I didn't give up, because here I am right now having a conversation with you and talking about this and hopefully inspiring other women to step into the abundance that they deserve, even if they're just sitting at home at 9:00 at night watching HDTV. Like, you can do it too. Oh, you could get on the TV or whatever you want to do and.
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C
To step into their power and to take risks. Risks and to bet on themselves and to believe in themselves. And that is something that I have obviously witnessed you do in quantum leaps the last year and a half, working with you. But that is what's so beautiful about finding women in the space that you connect with, that clients can become friends, can become sisters, can become collaborators, can become one another's sisters. And I just think that the magic of the spiritual arts is available to all of us. And your, your work, I mean, I remember when you came to my house in Chicago and I was like, this girl's legit. Like I've. There's no space I'll ever have without you helping me to feng shui it. And not only have I worked with you, so many of my friends have in like your one to one consultations, but you have a beautiful online part of your business and I want to talk about that. You really have, you know, your 12 month manifesting journey.
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B
You do your beginning of the year.
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C
Rituals around the Chinese New Year, launched a mastermind. Tell us about your product suite, Christina, and all the ways you serve your clients.
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D
I'd be happy to, but I also want to just share too. Like you had mentioned sisterhood and, and having worked with me in the past year and a half. And I just really do want to say that, like when I went to Santa Fe with you for your retreat, your Claimer Light retreat, it was an activation in me. That's something I've never experienced in my entire life. And it was through that retreat that I knew I needed to work more with you in a one on one capacity. And it's been a true activation and I just want to thank you for that. And so in regards to, you know, how I help people it's been such a beautiful journey. I've really intentionally built a product suite that really can support people at any level. I really want to share that. I do have a free mini course.
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B
Go for it.
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C
Great.
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D
Ultimately, I wanted to just give somebody a roadmap on how to manifest with Feng Shui. And if that was the only, only thing you ever did in your entire life in regards to, you know, manifesting with Feng Shui, your life would be completely changed forever if you just followed the three steps, which is to get your hands on the bagua map, manifest with the five elements and declutter. Yeah, you know, those are the three steps. That's it. And if you follow those three steps, I walk you through it. I really think it could just change your life. So I think that's so important. And then I just try to like identify. Of course, working with me one on one is so sacred and I feel like I have a sole contract with my one on one client. So absolutely, I love doing that. But I've also found that, you know, Feng Shui is a practice. I've been doing it for over 12 years myself. And it's not just like a one and done because your environment's always changing and your intentions are always changing. So that's why I created the 12 month manifesting journey so that you could really tend to all 12, nine areas of your life, plus go deep into space clearing and all of that. And just kind of work with me throughout the year to have a completely transformational year. And then truly thanks to you, I was in your Seven Sisters Mastermind. And I've been in a couple masterminds before, but I knew this was, this was percolating. And you knew that from our one on one work together as well? Yes, it was this divinely inspired idea. But to have an idea and then to actually activate it are two different things. And I just feel like the support I got from the women inside the Seven Sisters Mastermind really was just the energetic boost that I needed in order to hold space for women in that capacity. So I do now have a three month Mastermind program and I'm already. We're starting. I don't know when this is airing, but the first one, we're already almost full, which is really exciting. I know, it's amazing. And that's where I'm going to be revealing some of the most high level advanced wealth adjustments. Because my intention with the Mastermind is, is especially to help female entrepreneurs to work softer and make more money.
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C
That's it. Spiritual.
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D
And that's what it's about. That's just. Yeah, it's very aligned to what you teach.
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C
So beautiful.
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D
But we use Feng shui, of course, for that. So in.
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C
In this particular mastermind, I'm obsessed with your product suite. I actually want to. This is a great segue into talking about the Year of the Dragon, which we're in right now, and we're coming into the Year of the Snake, which I want you to tell everyone about. But you do this thing. Are you going to do it next year?
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B
Because.
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D
Oh, yes. Welcome the Wild.
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B
Okay, great, great.
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C
Well, explain welcome. Because welcome the wealth is the online experience that I took. I made my husband take it, told that story on the podcast, and man was that powerful. So welcome the Wealth. Explain what that is.
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D
It's something I've been doing for over nine years now, and it's a ritual that you can do during the Lunar New Year. And it's a visualization, essentially, where you're welcoming the wealth gods into your home at the Lunar New Year. And once you do it one year, I don't think you'll ever want to skip it again, because each year, I feel that my bank account is growing exponentially, and I just feel so supported by the universe because of the welcome the wealth ritual. So I haven't skipped it in nine years. I don't intend to. And now I share it with other people, too. And then involved in welcome the wealth is also like talking about what to expect during the universal energy. And I think that's really important because, like, for example, 2023 was the year of the Yin Water Rabbit, which was a year of interception and going within. And if we tried to push too hard in 2023, we're kind of going against the grain, and you're going to feel burnt out and exhausted. So it's really good to know what to anticipate. So in 2024, year of the Yang Wood Dragon, this is the year when we're actually called to take a lot of action, and we want to invest in ourselves, invest in our business, double down, because it's going to come back to us tenfold. It's a big year to, like, take calculated risks. Right. And so the universal energy can really help to determine the actions you take. And I do believe that, like, part of the reason why I went to Santa Fe is because I needed a spiritual retreat to go within. Part of the reason why I joined the Mastermind is because I needed to go all in on myself and, like, be supported by other Female entrepreneurs who are doing big things. So I just feel like knowing the universal energy can help you to just make really great business decisions.
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C
So, I mean, really, when I learned that from you, the reframe of what the Year of the Wood Dragon really was about, everything came online. It was like spiritual leadership, feminine leadership, reaping the harvest. Don't get burnt out. Like, you know, like all the things that you have taught. The Lunar New Year starts in February of every year.
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B
Ish.
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C
Right?
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D
Yes. This year it will be on January 29th.
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B
Oh, wow.
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C
Okay. Damn. I'll be traveling, but you can help me with that.
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D
I can't. Oh, Brian's gonna love this. Just wait, Brian.
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C
But okay, it's gonna be the year of the snake. What element?
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D
It's the wood snake. So the elements are two year cycles.
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C
They are.
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D
So we have two years of wood.
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C
Okay. And a snake. Masculine or feminine?
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D
This is a feminine yin year that we're going to be heading into.
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C
Oh, that's music to my ears. Tell us about the snake. I would love to get the heads up before everyone else. Am I so with my audience.
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D
Oh, I am so excited about the Year of the Snake. And I just. I'm already starting to feel the energy shift. And I have to tell you, I'm a big numerology buff too.
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C
Yes, you are.
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D
So I always tie in the numerology. And a little fun fact about about me is that, you know, we all have our personal year number as well. And so my personal year always aligns with the universal. So I feel like I'm very in tune with what we're feeling as a collective because it's like. You get what I'm saying?
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C
Yes, I do.
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D
Double numbers. So, like, for example, the year of the Wood Dragon, we're in an eight. Universal Energy. It's all about leadership, money, all of those pieces. So that's why it's a great year for leaders to step up and be seen. Right?
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C
Yeah.
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D
Next year, we're heading into universal nine energy. Nine is that number of completion. And what we're going to find is we don't have to lose the eight energy. We can still, you know, tap into abundance, but really it's the year to align with our ikigai. So the. Your ikigai is a Japanese term for when you really find something that you're good at, something that you love to do, and something you can get paid for. And when you find the intersection of all three of those things, that's your ikigai. And so the year of the snake in 2025 is all about finding your highest life path, doing something that feels so purposeful in your heart and in your bones, and knowing that you can make a good living doing that, because that's part of why you were put on this planet. So isn't that I'm, like, getting chills about it too. And I just feel like, you know, there's so many women that I talk to, so many clients, and I just feel like they know in their bones, like, they have this side hustle or they have something that, like, really drives them, but they just don't see how this can make be their livelihood. And I just want more and more people to see that, like, this is possible for them. It's possible for you to get paid doing what you love. I think if more people would just follow that whisper in their hearts, this world would just be such a better place.
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C
I could not agree more. So the snake is feminine. I felt there was a big distinction in 23. Personally, maybe my audience can relate. Like, that felt like a feminine year. This has felt like a masculine year. And so I'm excited for the feminine yin energy coming through. And speaking of the ikigai and, like, all of the different elements of that and really stepping into what we love to do that can make us money, that is purposeful and in a feminine vibration. This is at least what I want to manifest, and I'm going to say it now, that it is gentle and that it is easy and that it is soft, and that it is more embodied in a feminine vibration than we often allow ourselves to be as female entrepreneurs. And I know we're all struggling with that. And that just got me so excited about next year. What does the snake mean? Like, is there meaning to the snake in feng shui?
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D
The biggest thing that I can think of, and I'm probably going to come out with so much more. But when you think of the snake, of course, you think about shedding skin. Yeah. And that's the biggest thing I think is, is it's like we. We are gonna. Sometimes it's a little bit painful, though, that to, like, step into, like, that new version of ourselves, because we've just outgrown certain situations.
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C
Yeah.
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D
It could be a home, a relationship, a career, and that is not always comfortable. Right.
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C
Yeah.
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D
But at the same time, it's like, I also. I feel like you have this huge gift of being able to zoom out and look at the world from a totally different vantage point. And so one of the things that I think we need to do in 2025 is to really zoom out on this life and like really realize like in a hundred years from now, someone else is going to be living in your home and you're not even going to be here. Right. Which I know it's like wild to think about, but it's like, I think as humans sometimes we get so fixated on what's in front of us that we forget to zoom out and like really ask ourselves what why did I come here and what is it that I want to do? And I believe it's these Tibetan monks. This. So my numerologist, Felicia Bender, she's the in house numerologist for the astro twins. Absolutely love Felicia. She always contributes to their horoscope book every year. And I get my yearly reading with Felicia because I always want to know what to expect for the year. Big numerology boss over here. And when she describes the nine year to me, she talked about how these Tibetan monks would sit around and they would create this beautiful mosaic using sand. And it takes them days, weeks, just creating this beautiful art on the floor. And at the end of it they just destroy it and it becomes dust. And it's like, you know, something that they worked so hard to build and create, it's just that reminder that all the beauty that we have to create like it. You know what I'm saying? Yes, like that. So I just, I feel like the 9 can be a very deep year. But it's also like, what are you here to build? What are you here to create? And like, what do you have to lose?
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C
Codes, Christina. Every time I'm with Christina, I'm like, girl, codes, codes on codes on codes. You're so multilayered. You know, you have the connection to obviously all of professors teachings and you do your own work on understanding the modern day teachings of it. Plus numerology. You're also very connected to the moon and astrology. How does that play its part into feng shui or how can it.
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D
Thank you for asking this question. Yeah, because you're all about the spiritual hustle, right? And your. Everyone's asking me, you know, I'm here in Nashville, got my hair and makeup done. They're like, what are you here for? And of course I'm telling them about Jessica Zweig and the Spiritual Hustler podcast and you know, just saying how like, well, Jessica is, you know, she helps people work softer and make more money. And that's actually what I help them do too, in a different way.
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C
Right, right.
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D
And the moon phases are so important, especially in 2024, year of the Dragon, to avoid burnout, we need to follow the moon phases a little bit, which every month there's a new moon cycle, and every month there's a full moon cycle. And the new moon is when the sky is at its darkest. And this is the time when the universe gives all of us permission to go within and to have some grace with ourselves, because nobody was designed to be go, go, go, 247 and hustle all the time. I personally have a moon in Aries, which is a fire sign, and I have a lot of drive, a lot of Capricorn in my chart as well. So I. It took me a long time to learn this because I've always been very go, go, go. And when I realized that the new moon is a great time to go within, it's helped me a lot because I can really channel my energy more during the full moon. The full moon, the sky is at its brightest. And this is the time when it's a great time to show up and be seen and take action and write the pitch or reach out to someone you want to collaborate with.
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C
Yeah, I love it. And I know your mastermind, your quantum leaper has been really intertwined with not just feng shui, but such seasons as the moon and Mercury retrograde. And I mean, you really pay attention to what's happening on a universal realm and how it impacts us on a daily basis and especially in our homes. And there's like, no one like you.
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D
Oh, thank you.
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C
I mean it. There's no one like you in the market, in the world, in the universe. Christina, I'm serious. I so see you. I've always seen you since the second you came to my house in Chicago. And now here you are in Nashville.
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D
I know it's true. I want to tell your listeners, like, so I. Here I am, Christina, little Christina, just going to Jessica's house. Yes, I had been on hgtv, but mind you, I was very, you know, still fresh in my career as a feng shui practitioner. And after the feng shui consultation, Jess, you were, you know, the CEO of the Simply Be agency. You had written your book. B. It was funny because at the end of the consultation, you told me, you're like, by the way, I wrote this book. Would you like a copy? And I was really good. I, like, hid it from her the whole time that I was a fan. And I pulled out my copy of the book. It was dog eared and underlined and I had her sign it. But, you know, after the consultation, Jessica just, like, jumps on Instagram and, like, does, like, 10 different stories about how great the feng shui experience was. And it was so genuine. And just. That's just a huge example of how you do see me. And, like, it was just genuine, like, excited about what you had just experienced. And I just will be forever grateful.
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C
Well, I will forever be a client and a sister. Thank you for dropping your codes today. I have a few final quick fire questions for you. Do you have a favorite spiritual book that has shaped you the most?
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D
I'll just say the one that came to mind. So I think I've told you this before, but Louise Hay, who founded Hay House, her and I have the same birthday.
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C
Okay.
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D
She's, you know, in heaven now, but she wrote the book you Can Heal youl Life. Life. And that was a really great book. I think it's a great entry point. She's all about the affirmations and the mirror work, which I could probably be better at, but it's just. I love that book. You can heal your life.
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C
I love it. Christina. It's one of the classics, one of the best. Do you have an angel or a deity or a goddess or an archetype that you work with or feel particularly close to lately or in general?
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D
Yes. I love working with the archangels. Archangel Michael, for sure. Archangel Metatron, Archangel Gabriel. Those are particularly some of the archangels I work with for not only protection, but also they help you with your creative endeavors. And I just always have been very ambitious in my career. Just really, I've had this huge dream for my career, and it's actually kind of wild that it's starting to manifest into what I've always dreamt it could be. And I definitely feel their presence and that they have helped me for sure.
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C
Beautiful. I feel them right now. Do you believe in aliens?
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D
Interestingly, I did pull. So I. Kyle Gray has a card deck that I got, and I picked a card saying I was a Venetian. And then you posted something. This was before your book came out. You've said something about being a Palladian, and I was like, yeah, I really am a Venetian. And the more I've learned about star seeds, and I even did a past life regression. I've done all the things right. Apparently, I've only been on Earth seven times, which is a very new soul. Many souls have been on Earth hundreds of times. But I guess to say maybe I. Maybe that is possible that I was on Venus at one point. So the universe is so vast, so huge. I Can't even wrap my brain around it. Who would I be to say that there's no other life?
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C
Right. Right.
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D
Universe.
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C
Do you know that the Venusians are all about beauty and design and aesthetic?
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D
And I'm a Libra, which is ruled by Venus. And my north node is Taurus, which is ruled by Venus. So there's something there. Connection. Yeah. Venus for sure.
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C
Final question.
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D
Okay.
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C
What does it mean to you to be a co creator of the new Earth?
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D
Well, you know, as. As someone who is so spiritual, I feel like I've been co creating and manifesting with the universe for a long time now. And feng shui one way that has helped me to do that. You know, I believe that there's a yearning on our heart. It's not always the easy path. Right. It's kind of like the road less traveled.
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B
Yeah.
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D
And I believe that if we can just keep following that, follow the joy, follow the inspiration, I believe that that is how the universe guides us into what is of the highest good for this planet. So I guess, I think that's what it means.
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C
Codes. I'm so happy you came on my show. Where can people find you? Get involved in your work.
- [57:02]
D
I'm@christinahollinger.com Christina with a K. Kristinahollinger.com and, and I'm on Insta.
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C
Yeah. Follow her on Instagram. Your podcast.
- [57:11]
D
Oh, yes, I do have a podcast. It's called Modern Feng Shui with Christina Hollinger.
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C
So it's an amazing show. Yes. And get involved with her three part mini course. Yep.
- [57:21]
D
Plug it in and just go on your own time and just start manifesting that money, that career, whatever it is you're calling in. There's nine areas of life. We did not cover all of them. So there's lots to cover. Just check it out, you'll enjoy it.
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C
I love you. Thank you for being here.
- [57:38]
D
Thank you for having me.
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B
It.