Episode 262: She Turned Loss Into a Meditation Practice That’s Changing Lives | Kelli Heald | Meditation Coach
Kelli Heald is a meditation coach and wellness entrepreneur who turned personal loss into a practice that now helps others heal. In this episode, she and Kara talk about grief recovery, brain science, and how meditation can be a lifeline in the face of chaos. They explore starting a wellness business later in life, raising a daughter with Down syndrome, and why meditation is for every body, not just the calm and focused ones.
“I’m really inspired by other women who are reinventing themselves and creating new projects, new journeys, and new businesses for themselves.”
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Elissa Goodman - Holistic Nutritionist in LA
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Chapters:
(00:00:01) – Why Meditation Felt Impossible, until It Didn’t
(00:04:15) – Surviving Loss and Rebuilding as a Single Parent
(00:10:30) – Traumatic Menopause, Healing, and the Search for Peace
(00:13:45) – Starting a Business From Her Living Room and Garage
(00:18:00) – What Science Says About Meditation and the Brain
(00:22:00) – Gratitude, Energy and Shifting Your Mental State
(00:28:00) – Raising a Child With Down Syndrome and Planning for the Future
(00:33:30) – What Powerful Ladies Means to Her and How You Can Get Started
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Why I'm doing what I do is because the benefits of meditation are so profound and it's something that we all can do. And I had so many missteps along the way and I Thought I was doing it wrong. Didn't think I could do it. So I kept quitting.
That's Kelly Heald. I'm Kara Duffy, and this is the Powerful Ladies Podcast.
Welcome to the powerful ladies podcast.
Hi, Kara.
Let's jump in and tell everyone your name, where you are in the world and what you're up to.
Great. My name is Kelly Heald and I'm in Newport beach, California. And I'm a meditation coach, and that's just the real simple basics of me, but it's a, it's a journey and a story that got me here.
And I'd love to share some of that today.
If we jump right back to eight year old you, would she have imagined that this is your life today? Not in a hundred million years. What were you imagining your life would be like then?
You know, honestly, Kara, I think I wouldn't, and it gets me emotional to think about it.
I don't think eight year old me would think that I could have survived the adversity that I've I've been challenged with in my life. So boy, you're getting, you're getting, you're getting me emotional right off the bat. I honestly think that and I don't think eight year old me knew that I had it in me to survive what I've survived.
And what have you survived?
A lot of loss, a lot of loss. I lost both of my parents young. I was 20 when my dad passed away. I was 47 when my mom passed. I have a daughter with special needs with down syndrome, who truly is a blessing, but eight year old me would have thought, wow, how are you going to handle that?
And then most recently I lost my husband nine years ago. So both of my parents and my husband, those are pretty substantial losses. For somebody I'm 57. So for some. Buddy, my age is pretty substantial losses. I would say.
And are those losses? What led you to meditation?
Yes, a hundred percent. And it really wasn't the loss.
I really, I wish I would say that when I was 20 and I lost my dad, I would, I jumped right into meditation boy. What I've had a lot smoother road, but I didn't. It really wasn't until my husband's illness that I was even introduced. To meditation. I think like a lot of people, I I've taken yoga classes and the last pose of yoga is called Shavasana or corpse.
And that really was my only experience with this concept of of being still and quiet and going inward. So But during my husband's illness, he he was getting a a bone marrow transplant. And the social worker at the hospital who you had to meet with she suggested it because she, I explained, you know, what I was going through, that I was going through a lot, I had a lot of anxiety and fear with what was happening.
And I tried it a little bit throughout his illness. I tried it a little bit after he passed away. I really dabbled in meditation, but it never stuck and until about three years ago. And really why I'm here today, why I'm doing what I do is because the benefits of meditation Are so profound and it's something that we all can do.
And I had so many missteps along the way. I had so many preconceived ideas of what it was, and I thought I was doing it wrong, didn't think I could do it. So I kept quitting and it wasn't until I learned some of the basic foundations that realized that I realized. Everybody can do it. You don't have to turn off your thoughts.
And really that's why I'm here is I want to make meditation accessible to everyone. And by accessible meaning, I want you to know that you can do it. I can't tell you how often I run into people and they just simply say, Oh, you know, I can't do it. I just got this really busy mind. I can't turn off my thoughts.
And I just smile. And I explained to them, that's not what meditation is. And, and that's really what I'm here to do is to show everybody, you know, everybody from I've worked with as young as seven years old up to 85. And I love, I love all ages and I love just really exposing people to this amazing practice that's changed, really has changed my life.
What was your life like before meditation and what was it like after? I didn't
live in the present moment. I was always looking to what was next. I was always, I wasn't really present and a very startling moment happened after my husband passed away. I was at home and a friend had come over to visit and I was walking her out and we stood at the front door and she just said, Kelly, just remember to keep your head where your feet are.
And I listened and she left and I stood there and I thought, wow, right now where my feet are is a really beautiful place. I had other family members in the kitchen waiting just to be with me. And love me through this experience I'd gone through. I was in a home. I loved all my needs were being met and taken care of.
The present moment really was beautiful. If I looked back, there were so much sadness. If I looked forward the way I always looked at life, there was so much fear. And so really meditation has been this beautiful practice to bring me into the present moment. Appreciate where I am, appreciate where, what I have.
And I do reflect back. We all do. It's normal. It's good. There's great lessons to learn. Of course, I look forward. You have to look forward, but I don't spend my life there. I spend more of my life. being present and bring in the present moment.
When you found out about your husband's diagnosis, obviously you were afraid of losing him, but what else were you afraid of?
Like what else was giving you anxiety? Cause I think. We don't always talk about the full, like how many things it impacts and how much of your life it disrupts.
So I was afraid of being the only parent. We have two children. As I mentioned, I have a daughter with special needs, a daughter with down syndrome, a son who was 17 years old was just entering his senior year in high school.
When my husband was diagnosed and the fear of. How was I going to be the sole parent and be responsible for the rest of their upbringing? How could I do that myself? How could I do, you know, my husband and I had a, a very, a great partnership and there were, he was in the investment world. He was in the financial world.
He was responsible for that part of our lives, our marriage. And now that was suddenly, if he was gone, how was I going to manage all that? How was I going to do all that alone? Not to mention you know, as I mentioned, he, I gone through the loss of my My father and my mother, he'd been with me. We were to have been together for a very long time.
So he was my emotional support system. How could I go through life without that support, that energy that I got from him. So it was a culmination Kara of all those things swirling around in my mind, I think.
And now that you're on the other side of that, like which parts are surprising you that. You are managing them and which parts have surprised you that you weren't expecting to have to confront.
You know that the surprising part has been how I have been able to manage on my own, I have been able to, you know, do it all from a, you know, taking care of the finances, you know, all of that, those, those roles that my husband had. How I've been able to step into that role. That has amazed me that I was able to do that, that I had those skills that I didn't know I had.
That's a surprise. That was a surprise. And I think the other surprising part is where I am right now in. My, in my journey, my grief journey is still the part of how hard it still is to be a single parent, and I don't think that's ever going to go away. Just that is the good and the bad, the, the celebrating the victories, celebrating the milestone.
Bones doing all that. I I really, I have an amazing family support, extended family that supports me. But it's not the same. It's not the same as your spouse who is, you know, loves them as unconditionally as you do. So that I don't think I thought about that part. And quite frankly, I'm grateful that I didn't think about that part when he was diagnosed, because that really would have Okay.
That, that would have been so much scarier to think of how this still nine years later, that still is really so difficult
from his passing to starting a business in meditation. How long did that take and when did you realize that you wanted to share this with other people?
It took about five years.
And, and really, really how it started was going to be open here with you is I went through what's called what my doctor called traumatic menopause. And it was, it was just a few months after my husband passed away. I was 49 years old. And It was just such the trauma was such a shock to my system And that for me was such an eye opening fact because I realized how much our emotions affected us on a physical level and it scared me and I thought i'm These you know, I have these two children.
I'm their only living parent I better do everything I can because I don't want them to be left without any parents. I need them To do everything I can to make sure I am the most healthy that I can possibly be. So I just started doing so many different deep dives. I did everything from, from a physical standpoint to, I always was a healthy person.
I always ate well. I always exercised, but I'm probably too much stress. So I really tried all different kinds of modalities. And I mean, even went so far as You know, doing, working with energy healers working with a shaman doing, I mean, I tried it all astrologists, human design experts. I've done them all.
And meditation really is the one I do love all those practices, but meditation is the one practice that really has made the most difference for me in the whole of my being. And so I. As I was recovering and really healing, I started, I'd gone to a couple of meditation classes here in Newport. There was a woman who was teaching them a little bit sporadically and I'd gone with a friend but it wasn't with any regularity.
So COVID happened. And after COVID, she and I were talking and it was just about the time that I thought, you know what? I need to solidify this, my meditation practice. I know. I just knew that was the missing piece. And so she said, well, let's go to that woman that we went to before. And I said, well, she's not teaching anymore.
I said, but you know what, come to my house. We'll figure it out. I'll get an app on my phone. We'll do a guided meditation together. Let's make a conscious effort. Let's commit to each other that we're going to do this. So she said, yes. So I set this very room we're in right now. I set it up. I had candles. I got it all prepared and she wasn't able to make it.
But it didn't matter because it got me thinking, it got me thinking about doing this and really making this practice more a permanent part of my life. So I I, part of my journey was, I was, I'd gone to Hawaii for some healing work and I was in that process. I had such a profound experience that I wanted to share it.
So I did a couple of retreats in Hawaii to share the experience of that amazing, amazing place. And I was working on one of the agendas, one of the itineraries, right around the same time that this girlfriend and I had talked about starting meditation practice, and I thought, you know what, we need to add a meditation practice to our mornings on this retreat.
And so I you know, that's going to be my piece. I'm going to, I'm going to lead it. I'm going to do it. So I honestly just sat down and Googled meditation training and found one through unplug meditation that was starting right around the time I needed to start, I started it and wow, was it profound and what I had mentioned in the beginning about the lessons that I learned, what I learned through that training, how it impacted me, not just to be able to.
Teach, but for my own personal practice was profound. And so I taught it at that one retreat. I. The very last day of the teacher training, I felt so bold. I sent an email out to about six girlfriends and I said, I'm going to start in my living room. I'm going to start Monday evenings doing a group meditation who wants to come and they came and we started that way.
That's really how we started. And it grew and they asked me to start if I could work with their kids. So I started working with some of their kids and I had one evening where I had a few. Very big high school, six foot tall high school boys. And my living room was simply feeling very small. And I was thinking to myself, what am I going to do?
I had a studio that I worked out of once a month and, but I thought, you know, there's from a revenue standpoint, you know, if I'm going. Somewhere else. I'm having to pay rent and I really didn't want to have to charge what I would have to charge to cover those expenses. So I just started getting creative and I thought, you know what, I've got this garage.
And so I turned my garage into a studio and that was just about a year ago. And that's really kind of a big. Shift in my business is I started really doing it with more regularity and bringing me to where I am today. And I am doing really any kind of meditation that you can imagine. I'm doing it. I'm doing private class, private sessions.
I'm doing semi privates. I've been. Last, the beginning of last month, I did a birthday party on the beach for a woman. I've been working with some athletes. I worked in January actually in December, for a girl's softball retreat. I, I guided the girls on a meditation day. During their retreat. So I'm really and interestingly enough, Kara, I don't really set a goal that I'm going to do.
I'm going to work with these people. It's really just been, I've been open to what's meant to me and what's coming to me. And that's really kind of how it's, how my business has evolved and is evolving.
You know, so many people talk about meditation and how important it is. I think a lot of people are agreeing.
people are trying to incorporate into their lives. I know that it's a tool I use when I need it. It's always, I'm always working towards using it more consistently. But I think that there are some people who are, there's so many things that we're supposed to be doing right now. And meditation, I think, is easier than people think it is.
And you mentioned like, are we doing it right? Are we doing it wrong? So how would you tell someone who's on the fence, who's not sure? Who's like, I'm just sitting here and I'm just, you know, running through my to do list in my head. Does that count? How would you help someone go from unsure to making it consistent and knowing that they're doing it right?
Right. First I would start off with, and I do like to share this with my students, is the science. That backs it up why we should do it literally the brain scans that prove how it changes your brain So I always share I share that literally that there are scans that show that the hippocampus enlarge has enlarged for people with a regular practice our our memory our emotional regulation the amygdala our fight or flight area You Shrinks that that matter shrinks So I always like to show or to share with people that there is science to back it up.
That's the first thing the second thing is I always say if you're doing it, you're doing it, right? There is no right or wrong way to meditate there is no right or wrong time to meditate if you're doing it, you're doing it, right and when you notice that That you're having a thought you're not it's not to judge yourself.
It's not too. Oh, I'm doing it wrong again Oh there I go You just gently bring yourself back You just notice that you have this thought that you're starting your shopping list that you're starting your to do list and think oh, okay There I am. Let me come back What you come back to is some type of an anchor.
I always suggest choosing an anchor before you start your practice. Your anchor could just simply be your breath, it could be a mantra, or if you're listening to a guided meditation, it could be the words of the person that's guiding the meditation. So when you notice that That you're having a thought, you just gently bring yourself back.
And this back and forth really is where the good stuff is happening. Your brain, it's like a bicep curl for your brain. So it's not, you're not doing it wrong. You're doing it absolutely right. And I, you know. My meditation practice evolves, has evolved, but it changes every day. There are some mornings that I feel like I'm doing that dance constantly.
Like, okay, come back. Okay. Come back. And other times where it's, I drop it easily and there's no right or wrong way to do it. One thing that I've really noticed. For me and how it translates into daily life is that awareness of having a thought is that translates for me into I'm in my day. And I noticed that my mind's going somewhere that's not healthy.
Maybe my mind's going to a place of negativity, a place of fear. I have more ability to, to, to make that quick, quick change and bring myself back either back to the present moment, finding something positive trip. Usually it's just the present moment, whatever I'm doing, but that's one way. That meditation, other than all the amazing things it does for your brain, but one way that I believe that it does just help help you on an everyday basis, not to mention sleep, that what it does for, I think almost every single person that I've worked with comments on how much, how much their sleep has improved.
Because I think you kind of, the chitter chatter slows down a bit and that translates throughout your day and then into your evening.
When I think sometimes we, we overvalue that chitter chatter because the, all the noise that's going on in our head, it's, it's not us, right? It's really, we have to, it's a crazy thing to think about sometimes, but it's, it's another thought process.
It can be usually it's always small based. It's fear based. It's ego based. It's not there to serve us. It's just there to keep us alive, which we're more capable of than it thinks. But it's, it's really interesting to start developing a practice where, you know, whatever you're feeling or whatever that chitter chatter is, is not actually what's best for us.
And that to your point, you can turn it off or turn down the volume. Or, you know, I often have to say, thank you for being worried about that. I got this. Like, there's a level of, it's very much to me like the inside out Pixar movie. You have to make sure all those emotions are, know that you heard them and, and they can calm down.
Like, we've got this, you can take a back seat, not a front seat. That
awareness of not shutting it off, I think helps that not, and I always say to you are not your thoughts.
Yeah. Well, and I've been talking to a lot of clients lately about, like, we are also not our feelings. It's something that my coach says all the time.
It's something that was reiterated at a conference I was just at. And even being tired, like being tired is a feeling and our feelings are untrustworthy. So yeah. Anything that can change instantaneously because a song comes on or a friend shows up or like, there's so many ways to just shift it in a moment where you're like, that's not actually real.
It's not concrete enough for me to make choices on. And with my clients, we've been talking a lot about, you know, stepping into honoring what we really want for ourselves. And the biggest battle is with that voice. So when you, you know, you've talked about letting go, you've talked about the component, you've talked about being more present.
You know, how has it changed how you're showing up for yourself doing meditation?
So, you know when we talk about that voice when we talk about that chitter chatter and how unreliable it can be It a lot of times it's been there for with us for so so long It's I like to think of it as like this line in the sand That we just go those places.
That's where our mind goes. We just go and it gets deeper and deeper. And that's our, just, that's kind of way our, our brain waves have been going. And so it's really shifting those thoughts during meditation, during hot, bringing in positive affirmations and doing it over and over and over again. And so that you start to.
That starts to become the new narrative that you're telling yourself that starts to become you start create those new neural pathways in your mind of where you want with the life you want to create the life, the person you want to be, and that's really I heard something recently that is so powerful to me, and that is that the brain Doesn't know the difference between something that actually has happened and something that we imagine and it I don't know why that should be surprising to me because fear when you're afraid of something it feels as real as if it's happening So starting to you know, some people believe Believe that this is kind of just a form of manifestation or, but it's really about seeing those things you want to happen, feeling those emotions you want to happen.
And that's one of the other huge benefits that I think meditation can bring to your life and to really your, your Mind space your mindfulness.
Yeah to your point of the science behind it I love that things that have been considered woo woo are having Western science Studies and research and and validation.
I have yoga teacher training in psychotherapeutic yoga teacher training and it's like no science psychology and yoga It's one of the great program, highly recommended. I can connect you to it. Later. But what's so interesting about that side too is when we tell our brains, we have a billion dollars and our brain goes, you're a liar.
I've seen your bank account. It's it doesn't believe that we tell it something that's. untrue. So it keeps looking around, like, how do I make this true? How do I, how do I align this back to truth? Which I think is so interesting that we can use our subconscious that way, and that ties back into that manifestation concept.
But the other one I think we miss sometimes is our brains don't hear the word no or don't. And so if you say, Don't slam the door. Chances are the kid is going to slam the door because all they heard was slam the door. Right. And we so often say what we don't want or what we're afraid of instead of saying the opposite.
And I've, I try so hard with myself, my clients, of course, correct. So we're saying, what do we want instead of what we don't, because we don't realize that, you know, even saying things like, I want to lose 20 pounds. It's a very different mindset than I want to be the healthiest, the most fit I've ever been at.
Because it's again, talking about loss that it's talking about something in a not good enough negative space as well.
It comes from a place of negativity, right? And you know, I, I believe everything you're saying is all really based on energy. And I feel like it's energy that you're putting out If you're putting out if I get up in the morning and I look at my schedule And i've got so much to do today and I think oh my gosh, this day is going to be awful This is going to be so hard.
Guess what chances are pretty good. That's how it's going to go but if I look at it and look at these, you know, what's on my schedule today as opportunities and Things I get to do, you know, you know, coming from somebody who's suffered, you know, the people closest to me in my life didn't get to live really long lives.
So the fact that I'm still, you know, my husband and my dad weren't alive at this age, the fact that I get to do these things, maybe some of the things are not some of my favorite things, but it's just the way you turn it around and look at. Things. And I believe ener energy is huge and, and we don't, I think, talk about it enough and give it enough credit for really how it changes the trajectory for our day.
Yeah. And, and being thankful for, to your point, all of it. Yes. Thank you for this bill. I received . Thank you for Right. You know, and so many of us, you know, you don't have to be an entrepreneur or self-employed to control how your day goes. And I think it's also something that we, we step over and whenever myself or clients are complaining about the day, I'm like, who created this day?
We did. It's exactly what we were, you know, hoping would happen and praying for manifesting 5, 10, 1 year ago. So like, this is what we created. We can change it. We can appreciate it, but we have to come from that space of gratitude. And I also don't think people realize how tied to overwhelm and exhaustion and fatigue, not being like, When you are not being grateful, when you're not meditating, I think it really does add to that overwhelm, frustration, fatigue, low energy space.
It does. It's what I call, I call it like a low vibrational, you know, those emotions, low, low vibrations, and, you know, to your point about gratitude, I think gratitude is one of the most underrated practices, and I firmly believe it is the one emotion that is, can override everything else. I think it's very hard.
I, I've, I've not been able to do it to be grateful and still feel sad, mad, angry, afraid. You know, one of the one of the healers that I worked with after my husband passed away, encouraged me to, you know, do the, the gratitude work and writing down a gratitude journal. And it was so helpful for me.
And some of the things were very, very, very simple. It was, you know, that I get to go to bed at night, that I survived another day, but guess what? As the journey went on and my days, things would still come up and be hard. I'd look back at what I had survived and what I was grateful for in those early days.
And the. fact that I was able to find gratitude in the beginning gave me so much hope and so much peace. But I just think gratitude is it's one of my favorite meditations to do with people. And it's as I call it, as I say, it's the over, overriding emotion.
Yeah. Well, and I would love to know in a practical level too.
I mean, just managing day to day with a child with disabilities is, I can't even imagine like what extra steps you have to have in your routine or what that looks like. And even long term planning, how do you manage that? How have you created like happiness and flow with. You know, supporting your daughter in, in a way that she can have her best life.
Well first of all, my husband really helped set me up in that he always believed that we look at her as what she can do and not what she can't do. And, you know, every teacher we ever met with, we always, you know, Ask them to assume she can do everything. And then if she can't, then we'll course correct.
And so that's really how we've lived, how I've parented her. And she, she's truly the brightest light What we went through through my husband's illness, what she brought was truly such an amazing gift to me. But you know, there is she's 20 turning 21. And so, you know, there are a lot of responsibilities that extra responsibilities that I do have.
And I, Just, I can't figure it all out on my own. And so what I've just been able to do is find people, find a special needs attorney that can help me make the right choices, find people that have gone down this path before me. So that's really. From a, from a big standpoint, from a, like a planning standpoint I, I told my son recently that my, when, when my, my daughter's name is Lauren, when she was little, my husband and I were on a walk in our neighborhood and there was There was a home with like a garage apartment and I, I pointed to it and I said, Oh, well, maybe we could do something like that.
And he stopped and he looked at me and he said, if she's still living with us when she's an adult, we haven't done our job. And that really stuck, has stuck with me. And, and she has every intention of living independently. And I know she will in some way, shape or form. I know she can. So I think the day to day is something that I have it so easy compared to other, other people.
She doesn't have any health medical issues that I have to manage on a daily basis. She's not in and out of the hospital. I really, I know other single moms that have to deal with that. So I really, I even hate talking about it too much because I feel like I have it so easy with her. But I do have people that remind me When they see how are, you know, what I'm doing for her, they, they remind me that the extra steps I'm doing, but it just, it's become second nature to me and it's not she she's very, very independent.
She cooks, she takes care of herself. She's been, she can stay at home alone. She can stay home overnight alone. She does not drive. That's probably the biggest challenge that I have right now is getting her places. That part of it. But I just it's I think it's it didn't doesn't happen overnight. So you just as it goes, you kind of adjust when you need the support and you need.
But I guess the biggest answer is When I don't know when I is finding an expert to help me navigate the big things and just taking that off of my shoulders, that responsibility, because that gets scary to when it's, when you're talking about, there's big things like conservatorships and, and all these things that I've had to learn about a whole vocabulary and things that I had my husband still been alive, he would have taken the lead on those things.
And so I just. Know as much as I can know and then know who the experts are to go to to help me, you know, navigate and make the right decisions.
When you hear the words powerful and ladies, what do they mean to you? And do their definitions change when they're next to each other?
So I do think they change when they're next to each other, but you know, when I hear the, the term powerful ladies I think a powerful lady is someone whose voice we want to hear.
And I think we want to hear that voice because we, we believe there's a sense of wisdom behind it. And there's a sense of knowing that I believe women who are powerful know who they are. They, they know their voice. They're not trying to compete with someone else. They're the first ones to cheer on another woman, support another woman, Not look at her as competition.
I think that's so powerful. And I do, I do think they are different, you know, power sometimes can have negative connotations. It can, you know, it can be too much, it can be too strong. And. And ladies, powerful ladies, just to me are, you know, just wise, wise women that have have been down a road and they've fallen and they've picked themselves back up and I want to hear from them.
I want to learn from them.
When you look at your community, how have other powerful women in your life gotten you to where you are today? Oh, yeah.
I couldn't, I wouldn't be where I was without the powerful women that, that I have modeled, have emulated, who just give me so much hope. There's was one woman in particular her name is Alyssa Goodman, and she's a holistic nutritionist in Los Angeles. And I heard her speak a couple of years after my husband passed away. And this was when I was on that, you know, being as helpful as I can journey. And that was really what I was about. I was, her books was called cancer hacks, how to prevent getting cancer. And so that was why I was there, but I found out she was a widow and she's a few years older than I am the most healthy, light, healthy, Build beautiful soul.
And when I saw her, I thought I can do this. I can survive this. And she's just one. I have friends who are business owners who are reinventing, you know, that's another piece of my story, Kara is I, I was, you know, stay at home mom, and I was proud of it and I loved every minute of it. And so this is really new for me.
So I have, I'm really inspired by other women who are either reinventing themselves and creating new, new projects, new journeys, new businesses for themselves, or younger women who are, who are doing it as well. I, that's who is inspiring me right now.
When you, we ask everyone on the podcast where you put yourself on the powerful lady scale, if zero is average everyday human and 10 is the most powerful lady you can imagine, where would you put yourself today and on an average day?
I feel great today. Today. I'm, I'm, I feel I, I would give myself an eight today. But I'm not going to lie. I have plenty of four and five days. And those are the days that I have to dig deeper. Those are the days that I have to I've learned the power in reflecting on how far I've come. And that gives me that gives me the boost when I'm feeling the four or five to help bring me up to where I'm feeling today.
You know, you have so many fun things that people can participate here locally in Southern California. Yes. What are all the ways people can come hang out with you, meditate with you, follow you, support you?
Yes. So I, I also, I haven't mentioned is I do have a, I do have an online course that I created that really is just a basic 12 module course to just teach anybody how to Meditate.
So that yes, I am in Southern California in Orange County, but that's, you know, anybody can, that's for anybody. To find about all my offerings, my website is healed with meditation. How ironic is that? That my last name is healed H E a L D a little bit different than the healing healed. So healed with meditation is my.
And I'm on all platforms just as my name, Kelly healed Kelly with an eye and I share everything I do on that's really my best way to get my, the word out is I do. If you go on my website, you can sign up for it. For I have a monthly newsletter and I always share kind of tips and things on on mindfulness.
I'm just getting my YouTube channel backup. I have two free meditations on YouTube. That's my name, Kelly healed. So I. You know, and, and if I'm missing something and somebody wants another way to, for me to, to be able to interact with them, I'm open to it. I don't want anybody to feel like I'm I, they can't get to me.
I want to be able to help anybody in any possible arena that they that they need.
We've also been asking all of our guests, what do you need? What's on your wishlist to manifest lists, whether it's big, small, something silly that kept you stuck. How can we help you?
I want to get in front of more people.
I really want to get in front of more people. I want more people, which is why I was so excited to be here today is I want to, I want more people to hear my message that you can do it. You can meditate and it's going to change the quality of your life. And. I promise you it is going to improve the quality of your life.
So really just helping me get, get in front of more people to share that message.
Okay. All right. So step one check and we'll keep going. Perfect.
Thank you. Thank you.
Well, thank you so much for your time today and sharing your wisdom with all of us. It's been so nice to meet you and I look forward to getting a chance to meet you in real life soon.
I would love to have you for one of my meditations, Kara, we'll have to set something up.
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com or Kara underscore Duffy on Instagram. I'll be back next week with a brand new episode until then. I hope you're taking on being powerful in your life. Go be awesome and up to something you love.
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