Closing 2022 be like...

 

What is happiness? What is spiritual?

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Who can I talk to? –.

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Breathwork for me as more than a practitioner.

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Sitting down and shooting the shit.

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What’s coming up for you in 2019?

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Where are you at in this journey?

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If you know somebody who would make a great fit for this podcast, reach out to me!

Brandon Handley 0:00
Hey, what is happiness? Spiritual dope, Happy New Year. Merry Christmas Happy Holidays. Get the fuck out of here. 2022 right, y'all. Look, I'm sure. For a lot of people. It was, it was a fine year, I think it was like a recovery year. You know, I'm saying like, let's get let's get over, let's get over the pandemic year. And I think I don't know about you, for me, it went by pretty quick. was fairly uneventful. And, you know, wasn't the worst. Just one of the greatest? No, I'm saying, maybe, maybe, you know, what do I know? Right? What do I know? I will tell you this, though. I want to say thank you to the listeners out there. Thank you to my guests this year. Thanks for hanging out everybody. We started this podcast off with the whole idea and intention that you know, what's it look like to integrate a spiritual awakening and do it in a way that successful that is still keyed into, like everybody else, right, because there's a, there's all kinds of people that that experience, these awakenings that connect with spirituality, but then they cut everything else off. Everything else is cut off, and it's nothing but it's nothing but like their spiritual life. And I think that what happens there is that you end up missing out on a on a pre cool opportunity, right? You end up missing out on the ability to integrate spirit, body and mind, if all that you're doing is is saying, Hey, this is a spiritual bit anyways. So that's how the podcast started off. It was like, hey, well, who can I talk to? I needed to know I had had, you know, an awakening and gone through this spiritual reconnection to the self called whatever, call it whatever you need to, I really don't care what you guys call it. That's what I was calling it. And I'm still calling it that. And throughout my many of these conversations, I think they've all been pretty cool. Pretty good. And there's been some really awesome ones. And I've got some great feedback where there's been lots of help for you the listener. And did this year did not listen this year did not go the way that I'd like to say as well as I would have didn't go the way that I had wanted it to. Part of that's on me. Right? Well, it's all on me. Right? It's my podcast. I'm the one doing it, but it went pretty well. And, you know, we had we had our conversations this year around, you know, psychedelics and spirituality. We had energy work, we had breathwork we had shamanism. I forget what else we had. I'm sure we had a couple other ones that were amazing. It but I got to the end of the year, and I realized I hadn't taken or given myself any breaks. I hadn't kind of step back and let, I don't know we'll call it like, let the universe help out. Whatever. It's like, when you're planting a seed of corn, you don't go out there and keep ripping it out of the ground and see how it's doing. Sometimes you leave and you come back and you're like God, isn't he hi in July.

So thank you to those who have been a part of this journey. And there's a number of you out there, spend some repeat guests. Some amazing guests this year. We saw some really cool stuff. Srikumar Rao I think bookended it for us actually came on I think it was it was it this year. Well, anyways, I ended up I ended the interviews with Srikumar Rao, Ralph, and his book already ready to succeed in his course, creative personal mastery online. I contributed a lot to my journey thus far. So really excited that I was able to talk to him and have him on. I was able to have you know, Bill Gladstone, Master Shaw, New York Times bestsellers. Geez, who else that I have on that was just you know, that some people that like I wouldn't have thought would say yes to being on the podcast. And to that end, it's just been, it's been really cool. You never know who's gonna say yes, and kind of what's going to happen as you come along. This year also saw breathwork for me as a as a more than a practitioner, right as a teacher and being able to go out and teach it to people, everyday people, right? Who could use breathwork to just improve their lives, there's so many benefits, I'm not going to dig into it. for that. There was the breath work at the Novak house and working with the guys at the Novak house with these people and the gentleman going through recovery. And do so all that's been super powerful. It's been a hell of a year, certainly nothing to complain about. And it was started off kind of lukewarm. warmed up to it. I'll throw out another thing for you, too. You know, I haven't done I haven't done one of these. And, man, I don't know when the last time it's been been a while since I've done a solo podcast is sitting down and shooting the shit with you. And it's fine. I got the same old a little bit of fear a little bit of butterflies before maybe anxiety, anxiousness. I don't know if all those words fit anyways, look, but I have a year. Podcast didn't go exactly the way I wanted it to. But we did have the buckets I was looking for. And we did I think a nice job here. Next year, we'll be looking at you know, they'll still be some. Listen, people reach out all the time to be on the podcast. And sometimes I think it's a good fit, and it's worth having a conversation, I'll toss them in no bucket unnecessary. The other side of that is I'm going to be looking for and there's plenty of them out there, saints plus sinners and the saints, right, like, look, if I had to tell you like my late teen years into my 20s and 30s, I was a jerk asshole even like an even even mid to late 30s I wasn't the best person I wasn't, I wasn't a terrible person. But then this change kind of came about and into my life. And there's like a whole new realm of who I could and would and should be and who it is I'm becoming all while being grateful for the asshole that I was at one point in time, right accepting your shadow. Because that's simply a part of part of it part of the journey. So you'll you're I've got, I've got a couple of lines up already, Brandon Novak is going to be one of the first guests next year. I've got his guy that he knows very well in the same space Darren prince who he is PR agent for some of the top talent in the world. Really excited to have him on. And I'll be looking for others to have and share their stories. And then I'll also be teaching more breathwork next year doing wellness, just general health and wellness. I'm looking to be doing it in the sports, and I'll be looking to do it and oh geez, where else were we looking at doing that? Maybe corporate, we'll see. And recovery. So those are gonna be the areas that I'll be working on for spiritual dope, podcast as well as kind of in real life as it relates to continuing with the breath work. So be on the lookout for that stuff. Next year. If you haven't shot me any messages to say, hey, feel free to do so. Hit me up at spiritual things spiritual underscore dope. at Instagram, you can hit me up at Brandon at spiritual dope.co Let me know what's going on with you. Like, where did you join in on this journey? Where are you at in this journey? I don't even know where guy I am. All I know is that I'm on the journey. And, you know, Steve Jobs has has, I think it was a speech that we can only connect the dots looking backwards. And, and so that's really interesting to be able to do you kind of take a look and see where you are now. And you can tell almost like this linear story. But really, you couldn't have forecasted that story if that makes sense. So being able to look backwards and you can connect the dots. There'll be some stuff coming out about that. What else we have in store for for you? In 23 I look it's just gonna be a continuation. We're gonna keep doing it. We're gonna keep moving forward and keep doing spiritual dope. We're gonna keep doing body mind spirit, continue to do Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I'll continue to do my day job. And I'll continue to reach out and connect with people who I think that will make for for good conversation. And I think that's what I'm saying. I'm about to, you know, the other piece of this year that's been really great. It's just having some just amazing people surrounding spiritual dope community, in person and in the ether. So for those of you out there, you know, thanks for the doughnuts thanks for I forget the name of the doll right off top my head. But one of the commitment to the commitment doll that you color in one eye, and then once you reach a commitment, you'll be coloring in the other eye. So I'm really excited for that. There's a number of online, Facebook friends that have been friends now for several years. And, you know, it's been great to cultivate those relationships and continue those relationships and they continue to grow. I like I said, if you and I, if you and I have not connected, reach out to me, we should connect me and let me know again, like, How'd you find the podcast? What do you like about the podcast? What would you like to hear about on the podcast? Your spiritual journey is similar to mine is a different? What's your dark night of the soul? And like, I'm always interested in hearing these things. And if you know somebody, if you know, somebody who you think would make a great fit for sinners in the saints, connects me it doesn't have to be like, this person's doing anything. They don't. Look, you don't gotta be famous to be on this podcast. I think I think that much has been shown throughout the years. But it's a good story. And then you know, this person has been, you know, has like a good story. I'd love to have them on interview them and show Hey, you know, we may not have all of what seemed like the these great, virtuous qualities all throughout all the time. But who we've been in the past does not necessarily make us who we're going to be in the future. And those are the people that I want to talk to you. Alright, y'all. Happy New Year. Happy holidays. Let's jump right into 2023

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