Creative Journeys to Freedom, Growth + Resiliency with Karrie Christen (part 2)

Karrie, our inspiring guest, shares how she turned a sudden spark of creativity into a thriving community, all within just 24 hours. Discover how her quick decision to start a Facebook group resonated with others feeling lost, highlighting how rapid action can unlock new opportunities. This episode is all about catching those subtle signs from life and taking the leap before waiting for a bigger push. We unravel the importance of making those first imperfect steps, whether it's registering a domain name or creating a platform for connection, and how these actions invite growth and inspiration into our lives.

Join us on a journey of manifestation and personal evolution as we talk about the magic of visualization paired with action. Dive into stories of overcoming personal hurdles and the freedom of rediscovering one's passions after years of focusing on others. Learn from our exploration of unique paths to happiness, whether through consulting, speaking, or even navigating the dating world after a break. Carrie's insights remind us of the power of embracing the new and unexpected, from micro-dosing psychedelics to exploring ancient wisdom like Kabbalah. This conversation is a powerful nudge to act with urgency and openness in pursuit of our personal and professional dreams.

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• 0:06 Reignite Resilience
• 6:59 Manifestation Through Visualization and Action
• 13:51 Exploring Personal Growth and Opportunities

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:06

All of us reach a point in time where we are depleted and need to somehow find a way to reignite the fire within. But how do we spark that flame? Welcome to Reignite Resilience, where we will venture into the heart of the human spirit. Resilience where we will venture into the heart of the human spirit. We'll discuss the art of reigniting our passion and strategies to stoke our enthusiasm. And now here are your hosts, natalie Davis and Pamela Cass.

Natalie Davis: 0:41

Welcome back to part two of our two part conversation with Carrie. Welcome back to part two of our two-part conversation with Keri. In our last segment, keri shared the importance of doing as much as you can in the first 24 hours, of getting that little nudge from the powers that be. But once you get the nudge and you take the action, how do you really determine what you really want? Let's listen in to hear more of Carrie's story, some tools and techniques that she has used to bring her success in her life, and we'll wrap up by learning how we can start to dance with opportunity. We hope you enjoy.

Karrie Christen: 1:18

I need to find this new path. But finding a new path and being lost are two different things.

Pamela Cass: 1:23

Mm-hmm, tell us what you mean by that. But finding a new path and being lost are two different things.

Natalie Davis: 1:25

Tell us what you mean by that.

Karrie Christen: 1:27

It's so easy to feel lost. I hear it from everybody. You know I started the Facebook group initially. I started it that night because I'm a big believer Do as much as you can when an idea comes to you, do as much as you can within the first 24 hours. It signifies to the universe, to the creator, to God, to whoever, that you are going to take action on the prompt. And then you want more of that prompt. You want the rest of it to come through. You are going to take action, and so I did. I took action. I got a domain, I created a Facebook group, I created a YouTube channel and then I invited.

Karrie Christen: 2:07

I didn't even have, I did no graphic design, I did nothing. I did no banner on the top of the Facebook, but I went in, I curated through my list of friends and I sent an invite to join the group to all of the people that I felt could be there that could either bring to the group, to all of the people that I felt could be there that could either bring to the group or be inspired by the group. And, unlike anything else I've ever done, there was no business model, so it was a little different. Everything else I've ever done is a business model. This is no business model. This is purely, at this point, just about creating a space where I can interview people. I want to learn from, try new modalities of getting to that next level where I want to be, and sharing in that journey.

Karrie Christen: 3:01

Because, holy smokes, did everybody join that group fast? I mean, there's hundreds of people in there already and there's no banner, there's nothing. But they all resonated with you're not lost. And so many people messaged me. That night alone I think I got probably 50 plus messages. Oh my gosh, what are you doing? I always feel lost. Is that about that? Yeah, it is. So. Whatever it is, I am providing value, so it resonates with people. You got off on another tangent.

Natalie Davis: 3:37

No, that's a perfect one. Well, and that's just to let our listeners know you're not lost is the name of the podcast. I called that the tap on the shoulder moment, but you said it's not a tap on the shoulder. There was a clear message. You heard it over and over and over again.

Karrie Christen: 3:55

Yeah, it was coming in the two by. You know, I always say the two by. Four messages come when you don't listen to the tap on the shoulder. That's right? Yes, Unfortunately, most of us don't listen to the tap on the shoulder.

Pamela Cass: 4:05

We don't.

Karrie Christen: 4:07

Yeah, we get pushed off the edge Right. We all want to learn with ease. You know how many times I have prayed. Please, God, let me learn with ease, With ease.

Natalie Davis: 4:23

Ease and grace. That was the mantra for so many years. Grace it's.

Karrie Christen: 4:29

I don't seem to pay attention to it. That's right. Yeah, ease and grace would have got me out of my first marriage. You know, my only marriage, probably after three months. Exactly grace would have gotten me not to let a man move into me that didn't have car insurance.

Natalie Davis: 4:46

You know those were taps, but I think those were. Those were flags, those weren't taps. But that's okay.

Karrie Christen: 4:53

Different day, different discussion oh my gosh, I love it, it's so true. Oh my goodness, on a two by four.

Natalie Davis: 5:05

Yes, so that's and, carrie, you said something that is. It just hit home and struck a chord with me. When you get the tap or you realize that you just got hit with a two by four 24 hours, do something, because we are always in a position that we can do something. And for you, securing a domain, starting a Facebook group, you started to take action. And then it's that yes, thank you, I'll take more of that. Yes, thank you, I'll take more of that.

Karrie Christen: 5:34

Yeah, honestly, I think, in everything that you do, if you, if you are prompted to move forward, understand that you are either saying yes or no to it within the first 24 hours.

Karrie Christen: 5:45

Yeah, whether you realize it or not Whether you realize it or not, but you know how many of us have started to move forward. I think most of the time the momentum doesn't even start. There's no option for momentum. People just hear the prompt and they let it go. Then we might take minimal action and we let it fizzle. You got to really start to decide.

Karrie Christen: 6:12

One of the things that I have really focused on trying to solidify in my mind and this came to me through one of my meditative conversations while walking was I got asked what would you do if you knew you would be successful if you hit a series of benchmarks? Well, shoot, I would hit those benchmarks. If you knew, at the end of hitting and doing, let's just say, 50 steps, that you would have your ultimate goal, would you do those steps? Yeah, we would, but we don't think about it because we don't map it out and say what actually does it take to get here? What does that look like? So, for me, I mapped out the podcast.

Karrie Christen: 6:59

I knew that number one I had to create content. Even if I suck, I had to get guests on. I have to create additional content that can create engagement, get people aware and want to engage, and so what does that look like? I mean, you know, because I do own a marketing consulting company or a business development consulting company. You know I was blessed to know certain things, but it's really funny because when it's for you, it's very different than doing it for a client. Yeah, so, but everything that I know, if I chose to move forward and didn't know it, it is all learnable on Facebook or on YouTube. At this point, there is nothing that you cannot access. I just started watching a couple of videos because they caught my attention and it was how to grow a YouTube following and monetize it after 40.

Natalie Davis: 8:02

After 40. That's very specific. This is a very specific.

Karrie Christen: 8:07

And so it was really interesting because it was just an hour of simple, easy steps and I thought this is awesome. They simplify it so nice and easy. It's a great option for you to just even start. You know, and I watched a couple of videos about people starting their podcasts, their vidcasts on YouTube and, and you know, the biggest thing was you've got to just create content. You've got to push forward every single day, even if none of that content makes any sense in six months. What've actually done? Change your channel name, do whatever, but practice. You know imperfect actions is all that is needed, but they are actions, yeah, and when you set that intention and you actually take, you're checking off those boxes of what it takes to hit success.

Pamela Cass: 9:08

Yeah.

Karrie Christen: 9:08

Because hitting that success might include a pivot, but you can't pivot if you don't start.

Pamela Cass: 9:13

I love it. This is such a perfect timing, when you know we're coming to the end of the year, we're doing everybody's doing these business plans and we're setting these goals for ourself, but then that's where it ends. It's like great, set a goal and then that's where it ends. It's like great, set a goal, and then that's it, and I'll wait.

Natalie Davis: 9:27

So how it's going to happen right, it's going to manifest.

Pamela Cass: 9:30

If I just write an affirmation, it's going to happen. But they forget that there's got to be some kind of action that goes along with that to get to the success that you want. Otherwise that goal's never going to happen.

Karrie Christen: 9:41

No, well, and here's the thing, there's a lot that's going to come into my mind and my life while I am doing this that are going to take me away mentally from what I'm doing. So my big thing on that is this is another way that I meditate. I will actually take the outcome, but I will take specifically how excited I am about that outcome and I put myself at the end. So I did this when I was trying to get the house in my name. So I was given five years to put the house in my name A little bit of an icky story around that and it was a crappy situation. But the universe was working for me. As ugly as it looked at the beginning, it was God and the universe making it so that I had the opportunity and was not forced to sell the house. I was given five years, so every day. I got to about six months and I started panicking. I'm never going to be able to do this. I have to show that I make this much money and I have to increase my credit score by this much. I did not realize that my ex-husband had been taking out credit cards in my name. My credit score was horrible, so I wrote on a sticky note and I still use this today, whatever and, to be honest, I do one at a time because that's what works for me but I put on it.

Karrie Christen: 11:07

The house is officially in the name of da da, da, da, da. I don't blah, blah, blah and I put it in several places. And so every time I walked by it, I would touch it and I would feel it. I feel it, meaning, I felt it in several places. And so every time I walked by it, I would touch it and I would feel it. I feel it meaning, I felt it inside. I felt what it was going to be like at the end.

Karrie Christen: 11:25

The house is in your name, the title is solely in your name, the loan is solely in your name, like, nothing can mess this up except you, that kind of thing. And so when I meditated, I made that huge, I made the feeling huge, and all I focused. I didn't focus on how I would get there. The how did not matter. It did not matter at all, because I'll tell you what how that house went in my name was nothing of what I could have imagined. But every single day, for just a few minutes, I sat there in complete silence. I got myself peaceful and I imagined it. I imagined signing my closing documents. I imagined seeing the title with only my name not my former, not my married name, but my name. So I had five years.

Karrie Christen: 12:18

I didn't know how I was going to do it. Like man, when you're self-employed, getting that loan solely in your name in such a short period of time is a hard thing to do, but I felt it. I got that house in my name in two and a half years. All the bank did was one day they called me and they said we know you're divorced. Now You're the only one paying this mortgage. Did you know we have this plan? Tell me more Exactly? Yeah, and that's all I said. And within three months that house was solely in my name. Wow, mm-hmm, that's huge, holy smokes.

Pamela Cass: 12:57

Yeah, yeah, that is such a key thing the visualization piece of it. You can't visualize what your life is going to look like when you've reached or attained that goal. Then it's really hard to be able to achieve it. Oh yeah, I love that.

Karrie Christen: 13:14

Yeah. Well, since I don't know how I'm going to get out of this lost feeling, I don't know, is it helpful for me to tell you guys some of what I've been doing. Yes, please. So I have been journaling extensively and this is not necessarily meditative journaling At times it is. But I have been really getting clear on what I want, this, this stage of my life.

Karrie Christen: 13:40

You know there was the, the pre-kid stage, and you know which you have. Really, you don't have a whole lot of control over that. You're kind of just barely growing up and realizing you're a human being and then you've got your. At least for me, that middle stage was me being a mom. It was, was, and even as a kid, nothing was mine, right, nothing mattered. I was living for my parents, I was living for an education. Then I reached this middle stage and I'm living for my husband or my significant other. I'm living to be a mom, I'm taking care of a house. That stage, in all reality, that is what I wanted to manifest at that time and I made it the best I could. I made it pretty freaking awesome. But this stage, holy smokes, so different than the other two. I have no strings attached to me None, it's all for you, it's all for me, yeah, and when you've lived an entire life for other people, that's a kind of crazy period to go through. And how do you optimize it? I definitely don't want to go through it on autopilot, and I think that's why I started to kind of break down a little bit, because I needed to break down so I could wake up to what my opportunities were.

Karrie Christen: 15:00

So I have been journaling very specifically what do I want my experiences to be in this season of my life? What do I want? A lot of people they have the option to, you know, maybe change their job or to change their business. My businesses we have a lot of. I can't just leave my business, right, my business pays people, it, you know, it provides a lot of services for different people. I don't get to leave, but I want to experience something different professionally, and so that is kind of where this has come in.

Karrie Christen: 15:43

So in that journal, as I wrote out, I asked myself questions what do you want? What do you want to experience? What makes you the happiest? So everything I wrote kind of made me ask more questions what do I want to experience? What do I enjoy doing? That was the big thing. What are the things that I'm the happiest doing In my business? I'm the happiest when I'm consulting. I'm the happiest when I'm speaking on stage. I am the happiest when I'm networking. Those are the things that make me the happiest. What I'm not happy dealing with anymore I'm not happy dealing with technology. Holy smokes, it's going so fast and I'm a tech nerd. It's going so fast. I don't want to deal with that, I want to just deal with people. And then I'm kind of connecting. I'm asking myself well, where, where could I make a big difference? I don't really necessarily know how to feel not lost, but I am accepting that being lost is something you go through many times during your life. Because of what it is, you're not lost.

Pamela Cass: 16:58

You just have a calling for something for an adjustment.

Karrie Christen: 16:59

yeah, and when you have that calling, the calling is going to get bigger until it is a massive two by four breakdown shit show. Yeah, so yeah, I'm getting the things that I'm working on right now is getting clear. I'm getting clear on what type of relationship I want, because I started dating again. Holy smokes, that's not fun, but you know what? Here's the thing it can be amazing if you're I was going to say it can be. It can be. And, ladies, the first guy I started dating asked me for $60,000.

Natalie Davis: 18:32

Not a day. We're're done, we're done here wow but here's what I did.

Karrie Christen: 18:39

I said thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me the opportunity to turn down a crappy opportunity yes, and add one more thing to the list of things that I know that I want.

Karrie Christen: 18:55

I request better than this, but I'm getting more clear on it. That is so awesome. I love that. Yeah, I'm excited to bring in, you know, some of the people that I'm going to be interviewing are. There's a company that does micro dosing of psychedelics, yeah, and I think I'm going to try it for a little while interviewing them. But I'm also interviewing a person that's an expert in Kabbalah and understanding how the universe works through Kabbalah Wow, kabbalah, and understanding how the universe works through Kabbalah.

Karrie Christen: 19:26

I am talking to a bunch of women who I have found just online that have done these amazing things. One woman, she kind of went through this and she sold everything and bought a boat and she now lives in the Caribbean on a boat. I love this, but we don't know what our path is. I've had some opportunities. You know, I've been dating somebody that lives out of Colorado because I thought I'll date somebody out of Colorado, because I maybe want to move out of Colorado. So why not date somebody out of Colorado? Yeah, and I realized in that, with as much time as I've been spending away, I don't want to move out of Colorado, I just want to travel.

Pamela Cass: 20:05

Yeah.

Karrie Christen: 20:06

I travel a lot. I was going to say you just got back. I've been in a bunch of different. I've been traveling for two weeks, so yes, to all the tropical destinations.

Natalie Davis: 20:19

And I'm not mad at you. Yeah, I love that. Well, carrie, here's the thing, and as you say it, I've become more comfortable with it, but I know I've, I've shared it on the show before. That question being posed like what is it that you want? Like that, at one point in my life, was probably the most crippling, paralyzing question that you could ask me, because I too, I had no idea. The great majority of my adult life I've been a mom, so someone asking what do I want was never a priority, right, it's what does everyone else want, or what does everyone else need. So being able to ask that question.

Natalie Davis: 20:56

But you've taken it a step further. Not only what is it that you want, what impact can you have in the world? What do you enjoy doing? What brings you joy? And so allowing yourself to not just like land on it, but discover it, feel it, taste it, test it out and see. Is this really what I want? And is that going to be the stepping stone that takes me on the path you know for this next season? Yeah, yeah, that's huge.

Karrie Christen: 21:22

I mean I don't know. I mean maybe there's another season after this one.

Natalie Davis: 21:26

Of course there is no, I know there is.

Karrie Christen: 21:30

Just be prepared. Yeah, this season I mean, I've got an amazing season coming up. Yeah, I may hit a stage at another point where I'm like. My mother is. She's about to turn 76 years old and my stepdad passed away five years ago and she was a mess. She was so distraught she never thought she could get over the grief. She was sure she needed to find another man. You know what she's doing right now.

Natalie Davis: 21:57

Well, I know what you posted, that she's done, but what is she doing right now?

Pamela Cass: 22:02

We won't talk about that, mom we won't talk about that, mom.

Karrie Christen: 22:07

She is getting rid of everything in her house and she is moving into an rv, live the rest of her life driving around the us in an rv oh my god for her I have a good friend that just did that last year and it's been the most empowering thing.

Natalie Davis: 22:21

She's now a nomad. She has embraced that. I have understanding that she that last year and it's been the most empowering thing. She's now a nomad. She has embraced that of understanding that she's a nomad. It's a great congratulations to your mom. That's awesome.

Karrie Christen: 22:32

Yeah, she in all of this, she decided, well, if I'm in, I will never have another companion. Mostly, you know, that's what she believes. I don't know if that's true.

Natalie Davis: 22:41

Also not true.

Karrie Christen: 22:49

We don't know. But yeah, she's like I'm living broke in Colorado and I'm still working at this age, so she is in the process of closing down her small business and selling everything and yeah, it's pretty cool, that's awesome.

Pamela Cass: 23:02

She's always been 76.

Karrie Christen: 23:04

Yeah, when she leaves on the road, she will have turned 76 years old. It's incredible and she's hilarious. She's like. You know, I'm dying on the road. Like you guys will get a call to come pick up my body.

Natalie Davis: 23:17

That's okay just put the emergency contacts on the fridge. We're fine. We encourage and embrace this journey for you, good for you.

Karrie Christen: 23:29

We just have to make sure you've got a. What is it? An air tag on your keys, and that's it. That's it, we just want to know where you are.

Natalie Davis: 23:36

Yes, perfect just I would just drop one in the utensil drawer, just drop it in there. She maybe, if you place it yeah, you just place it, don't, don't charge her with that.

Pamela Cass: 23:51

No, because she might lose her keys.

Natalie Davis: 23:52

So yeah, that's true, yeah, oh my gosh, I love it. Well, carrie, you have given our listeners a lot of tools and modalities in terms of facing all of life's changes that come our way and, like you said, it's it's constant, it's ever changing, and you have given us a little bit of a taste in terms of the podcast. If people want to join your Facebook group, does that specifically for your podcast and can you share?

Karrie Christen: 24:16

that You're not lostorg is the page and you can find everything from that. If you want to follow our podcast, it is forward slash watch and then if you want to join the Facebook group, it's forward slash FB. So you're not lostorg. Forward slash watch or forward slash FB. If all you can remember is you're not lostorg, you can find everything. Click around and you'll find your way to. You can remember is you're not lostorg you can find everything.

Natalie Davis: 24:47

Click around and you'll find your way to whatever it is that you're looking for, and we'll make sure that we add that to our show notes as well, for our listeners that are not able to jot that down. Any last thoughts, words, nuggets of inspiration for our listeners that you want to leave us with today.

Karrie Christen: 25:04

Yeah, I do. I think the biggest thing that I've learned in the last couple of years is that you know I was always trying to fix things, fix myself, overcome baggage from childhood. You actually are never going to do it, and it's okay. Psa it's actually awesome. It's kind of more about learning to dance with it and turning it into something amazing. It's all an opportunity.

Natalie Davis: 25:36

Learning to dance with your childhood baggage.

Pamela Cass: 25:40

Yeah, I have a vision of that.

Karrie Christen: 25:42

I do too, and I love it. Everything we consider negative is nothing more than an opportunity to increase the size of our vessel to receive. So when we enter these, lives and we have these challenges. You might ask yourself why did I have this happen? Great things happen to great souls. Great things meaning great opportunities are given.

Karrie Christen: 26:08

Opportunities are not given without cracking you open so that there can be more space. You are a vessel that is looking to hold the most amount of opportunities, energy and experiences. If you can't overcome what you're here to overcome, then you don't have space for those things. Yeah, yeah, we're given opportunities. That's why I say thank you. Thank you for this anxiety, thank you for this breakup, thank you for this challenge with my house, thank you for thank you for all of it yeah, beautiful, beautiful.

Natalie Davis: 26:43

Oh my gosh, I love it. Thank you, keri, for sharing your story, your insight, your expertise and a little teaser about your podcast. It has been an absolute pleasure. I'm so glad that we were able to get this to come together so quickly. Yes, perfect, it was meant to be. I'm not surprised.

Karrie Christen: 27:04

Well, again 24 hours. You set those goals, man, Look at what you did.

Natalie Davis: 27:08

I did, and if we have any listeners that have not read Year of yes by Chandra Rimes, I encourage you to do so. If you I mean only if you want to like change everything in life, Feel free to do If you don't, because the book will do that for you, it will.

Natalie Davis: 27:25

But, carrie, thank you, thank you, thank you. It has been an absolute honor. We will make sure that we put all of your contact information in our show notes so that our listeners can get ahold of you, and then, by the time this episode comes out and airs, you will have your podcast fully up and running. We will make sure that we connect them to your podcast as well so they can come on over and listen. But you are welcome to come back at any time. We would love to have you, love to hear more of your story, your journey, because there is so much more, just because I know there is so much more that we didn't dive into, but what you shared today was absolutely fabulous. So, thank you, thank you, thank you, you're welcome Thank you and for our listeners, as usual.

Natalie Davis: 28:04

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Speaker 1: 28:30

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