Can A Stylish Card Deck Help You Heal Emotional Blocks? Her Over 100K Followers Say Yes
A raven started it all. Cara Elizabeth suffered emotional trauma in childhood, blocked until a raven led her to truth. What she didn’t know was how this would inspire the creation of a modern day meets mystical animal apothecary deck to help others overcome emotional blocks and manifest their desires. Cara explains it all.
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BIO:
Cara Elizabeth is a beacon of empowerment and transformation. Her journey from overcoming personal sexual trauma to becoming a celebrated author, speaker, and teacher is a testament to her resilience and dedication to healing. Cara created the legendary Animal Apothecary card deck with Hay House in 2022 selling all over the world and in multiple languages. With a follower base that spans over 100k across platforms, Cara uses her voice to inspire and guide individuals through their own paths of self-discovery and empowerment.
As a certified breath coach, kundalini yoga instructor and classically trained dancer her expertise merges a diverse range of modalities, including movement, dance, sound healing, breath work, yoga, in combination with Animal Medicine through which she facilitates workshops and private sessions. Cara's innovative approach has not only made her a staple in the wellness community but also garnered the attention of celebrities and influencers, underscoring her influence and reach.
Cara’s passion for the animal kingdom has now lead her into the word and power of the human body. She is currently creating her second deck called Body Tech an empowerment deck, a revolutionary system that recognizes the human body as the most advanced technology. By aligning specific postures and movements with clear intention and thought, the Body Tech deck amplifies the body's natural ability to heal and manifest. This method empowers individuals to access their innate power and rewire their identity through deliberate, physical expressions of self-worth, allowing for profound personal transformation and manifestation through an oracle deck.
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Jody Teiche: We know our pets help us heal.
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Jody Teiche: Their health benefits have long been documented.
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Jody Teiche: We all know this.
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Jody Teiche: But what about animals we don't know?
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Jody Teiche: Mystical animals, can they help us heal too?
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Jody Teiche: I'm Jody Teiche, and you're listening to Bark And Swagger on Pet Life Radio.
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Jody Teiche: My guest today is Cara Elizabeth.
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Jody Teiche: Her story will resonate with any of us who have overcome abuse or terrible hardship and triumph.
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Jody Teiche: It'll resonate with those of us looking to heal, who understand the power of animals and their connection to us as guides and as holders of wisdom.
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Jody Teiche: Cara is an author, a speaker, and a teacher, and she's the creator of Animal Apothecary, which is a special card dance that's sold all over the world in multiple languages.
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Jody Teiche: And over 100,000 people follow Cara because she uses her voice to inspire and guide others through their own paths of self-discovery and empowerment.
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Jody Teiche: And we're going to show you today how these cards, this deck has a very meaningful place in them.
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Jody Teiche: So we're going to take a short break, but don't go away because when we return, you're going to not only be introduced to the deck and all it makes it special, but to these mythical animals and what they could mean for you in your life.
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Jody Teiche: So grab that favorite beverage, get comfortable and we'll be right back.
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Jody Teiche: Welcome back, we're listening to Bark And Swagger on Pet Life Radio, and I'm Jody Teiche, your host.
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Jody Teiche: My guest today is Cara Elizabeth.
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Jody Teiche: She's designed and created a wonderful self-discovery and healing tool for all of us who appreciate what animals have shown and given us throughout the ages.
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Jody Teiche: Animal apothecary is what it's called, and it looks like this beautifully illustrated deck of cards on the outside, but there's so much more on the inside, and Cara's here to explain it all today.
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Jody Teiche: Hey, Cara.
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Cara Elizabeth: Hey, Jody.
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Cara Elizabeth: First of all, thank you so much.
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Cara Elizabeth: Thank you for having me as a guest on here.
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Cara Elizabeth: That is so cool.
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Cara Elizabeth: Thank you.
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Jody Teiche: It is my pleasure and honor.
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Jody Teiche: I'm excited to introduce my listeners to what you're doing, because I think it's super cool.
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Jody Teiche: So tell everyone what is animal apothecary.
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Cara Elizabeth: Okay, so it's tons of different animals that come to us as different teachings and medicines and act like a prescription for empowerment and to uplift you.
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Cara Elizabeth: But what does that even mean?
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Cara Elizabeth: So I'll just briefly share a story of the inspiration of animal apothecary.
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Cara Elizabeth: So when I was younger in high school, my mom had a couple of friends with Native American heritage, and they taught her about this philosophy called animal medicine.
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Cara Elizabeth: And my mom taught me.
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Cara Elizabeth: And it's this idea that when certain animals appear in our life, if we study their behavior, their mythology, if we study how they appeared to us, that there is a teaching and there is a medicine that can help us move forward, that can help lift us and help us in aligning with our purpose.
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Cara Elizabeth: So I've had really interesting experiences with animals in my life on my healing path.
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Cara Elizabeth: And one being when I went to college, I had this dream of hundreds of thousands of ravens coming at me, basically sharing that I was molested as a kid, which I didn't know.
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Cara Elizabeth: And after that dream, I mean, all the feelings, but also remembering like, wait, my mom taught me about that animal medicine thing.
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Cara Elizabeth: Let me look up raven.
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Cara Elizabeth: And I started researching raven and realized that it's been known throughout different cultures and through its behavior as this like messenger of dark truth.
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Cara Elizabeth: But I don't want to give a bad name to raven because he's also like holds magician and manifesting powers too.
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Cara Elizabeth: But I just thought it was like, it just hit me like, wow, the thing that told me about my dark history, the thing that I covered up is also known as like, this messenger of a dark truth.
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Cara Elizabeth: So I fell in love with animal medicine.
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Cara Elizabeth: And then years went by and I dealt with really intense complex PTSD because of that more memories surface and it just like kept going on.
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Cara Elizabeth: For 18 years, I dealt with complex PTSD.
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Cara Elizabeth: And then it was like, it got so bad.
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Cara Elizabeth: It was like, and I was looking to everyone outside of me, every kind of healer, shaman, alternative, normal, like everything.
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Cara Elizabeth: And I was like getting worse because I kept identifying with like a victim, with a broken person, with someone that needed to be fixed.
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Cara Elizabeth: And I was like, I'm either, I'm going to try something I've never done before.
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Cara Elizabeth: I'm going to try doing this by myself.
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Cara Elizabeth: And I was led to and inadvertently started creating these cards, which I had no idea is what I was doing.
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Jody Teiche: One second, I have to ask one thing because these cards, they're so beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: And did you do all the artwork for these cards as well?
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Jody Teiche: Okay, so everything, inside and out.
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Jody Teiche: Okay.
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Cara Elizabeth: Yeah.
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Jody Teiche: I just want to say that sometimes dark truths, and you and I have talked about this, dark truths are so important to be revealed to us because they are the door to our healing, right?
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Jody Teiche: The portal.
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Jody Teiche: Yeah.
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Cara Elizabeth: To our light, really.
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Cara Elizabeth: Yeah, there is.
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Cara Elizabeth: We, our darkness means that we get to know that side of light if we choose to.
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Cara Elizabeth: So yeah, I started creating these cards.
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Cara Elizabeth: I didn't even realize what I was doing.
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Cara Elizabeth: Like I had no idea that this would be a card deck.
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Cara Elizabeth: I had no clue.
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Cara Elizabeth: This was not, I didn't know.
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Cara Elizabeth: But I noticed each that I would then search for the animal that I thought represented maybe detachment or empowerment, and I would study their behaviors and go through the mythology.
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Cara Elizabeth: And like each card became a medicine and a prescription for me.
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Cara Elizabeth: And then I started sharing it with people and they were into it.
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Cara Elizabeth: But what's funny is the beginning of when I started creating this, it was around my birthday and I'm in the forest and there's this vulture, which I know means an ending to suffering.
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Cara Elizabeth: So I follow the vulture and it leads me to this dying raven.
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Cara Elizabeth: Oh my god.
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Cara Elizabeth: Yeah, I pick it up and I knew that this meant that that was the end of that 18 years of hell, of living in that kind of victimization of my past.
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Cara Elizabeth: And it was just funny.
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Cara Elizabeth: It was right when I started creating the deck and on my birthday and I get to hold a dying raven, which usually I can't handle animals dying, but this felt like it was life communicating with me that this was an end of a phase of my life.
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Cara Elizabeth: And it was.
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Jody Teiche: I have goose bumps from that.
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Jody Teiche: That is an incredible story and there's no accidents.
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Jody Teiche: There's no coincidences.
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Jody Teiche: At least I believe that.
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Jody Teiche: And so for you to come across this at that specific time in your life, I mean, that is huge.
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Jody Teiche: So, okay, this was a message to you.
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Jody Teiche: So now, where did all this information come from?
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Jody Teiche: You know, this sort of lexicon of animal apothecary.
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Cara Elizabeth: First and foremost, you know, it's it and I want to honor and it's inspired by, you know, this Native American philosophy, which I clearly understand from the outside.
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Cara Elizabeth: It's like, once a culture has an understanding of something, someone from outside of that understands it to their own degree, which I myself understand it to my own degree.
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Cara Elizabeth: But it led me to then, I also grew up in the Baha'i faith, which is very into unity and diversity and collaborating all different spiritual teachings, scientific teachings.
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Cara Elizabeth: And that's kind of what I did with this deck.
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Cara Elizabeth: I looked to the ancient Chinese I-Qiang divination system that is based in Taoism, and then that's based in understanding how nature is a reflection of us.
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Cara Elizabeth: I looked to certain psychological and scientific properties and everything, and just tried to merge as much information into how this animal could hold that and represent that.
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Cara Elizabeth: And even from our American story time of The Wizard of Oz, there is even reference to that.
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Cara Elizabeth: So it's just taking just, you know, there's so much information, and then kind of uniting these different beliefs and understandings and coming up with the medicines of animal apothecary.
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Jody Teiche: Amazing.
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Jody Teiche: How did you decide what animals to choose, Cara?
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Cara Elizabeth: Sometimes it would come to me in a dream.
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Cara Elizabeth: Other times, I would just be attracted to an animal and then go down the rabbit hole of like, like just even the octopus of like, it's so multi-dimensional, it's so complicated, like what could this mean?
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Cara Elizabeth: But then other times it would be, I was looking for something like, what would represent victory?
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Cara Elizabeth: And then going, like, searching through things and kind of, oh, falcon seems to be related to victory a lot in different cultures.
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Cara Elizabeth: And, you know, so it was just through different ways, either my own or my dreams, or just searching for like what, you know, even my ideology and understanding of bee is nothing that anyone says, like sometimes you can look up spirit animals.
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Cara Elizabeth: What I discovered about bee is that bees share with us that we have a gift of service we're meant to share with humanity that is important for the survival of humanity, because bees like purpose has allowed humanity to survive because they pollinate about 80% of the crops that we eat.
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Cara Elizabeth: So their purpose is a gift of service to humanity.
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Cara Elizabeth: So I'm like, well, what's the metaphor in that?
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Cara Elizabeth: The metaphor is that they're sharing back to us that we have some gift that we're also meant to share that also uplifts humanity.
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Cara Elizabeth: So the idea of everything that I do with sharing this wisdom of animals is that I understand life as a mirror reflection.
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Cara Elizabeth: I understand it as a metaphor.
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Cara Elizabeth: It's like understanding poetry.
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Cara Elizabeth: So it's like this animal, so the viewers at home, if there's an animal that shows up in your life, especially one that's kind of like random, you don't see it a lot, how did it show up?
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Cara Elizabeth: What circumstance were you in when it showed up?
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Cara Elizabeth: What behaviors and traits does that have?
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Cara Elizabeth: And then you can find what this means for you, and that's the medicine they can share with you.
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Cara Elizabeth: And our pets also share a lot of cool things with us as well in a different kind of a way.
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Jody Teiche: Well, yeah, I mean, I think that our pets is sort of a launching point, right?
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Jody Teiche: Because we know that we're very connected, we're affected by each other's frequencies, really.
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Jody Teiche: And they're very intuitive, and pet parents are often very intuitive about their pets.
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Jody Teiche: And the healing aspect of when you're sad, when you're depressed, when you've experienced loss, and your dog or your cat or whatever your pet is, who's close to your heart, they're there.
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Jody Teiche: They are the ones who are helping get you through.
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Jody Teiche: And we do the same for them.
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Jody Teiche: So that's, I think, a launching point to kind of expand our consciousness into animals that we may not come into contact with very often or ever, but what they mean mythologically and what they could mean in our lives.
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Jody Teiche: And this is a perfect point to take a break because, well, we have to for our sponsor, because they keep the lights on.
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Jody Teiche: But when we come back, not only are we going to talk to Cara about some examples of animals and what they mean and maybe a couple of readings that, you know, she has gotten feedback from people who have purchased her deck, but number one, I pulled the card right before I started our interview, and it was so perfect for right now in my life that I want to share it, and Cara is going to do a reading for all of us.
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Jody Teiche: So you'll be able to see that because we'll include the piece of video from that reading, so you can see the cards and everything, and we're going to do all of that when we come back.
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Jody Teiche: So don't go away.
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Jody Teiche: Welcome back, if you've just joined, you're listening to Bark And Swagger on Pet Life Radio, and I'm Jody Teich, your host.
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Jody Teiche: My guest today is Cara Elizabeth, and we're talking about her inspiring, healing animal apothecary, a card deck, and so much more.
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Jody Teiche: Cara, give us some examples of cards people may draw on this deck, and maybe a little story behind them, maybe a little story about what the animal represents, or something that comes to mind from something someone has shared with you, that sort of thing.
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Cara Elizabeth: Yeah, I mean, I'm looking down at the Claim Your Power, the tiger card.
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Cara Elizabeth: So an example of like, well, why would, what is it with tiger and why would they mean claim your power?
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Cara Elizabeth: So tiger in the jungle is all about his boundaries.
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Cara Elizabeth: He's gonna say no to living near other tigers in the neighborhood because he wants to have the food for himself.
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Cara Elizabeth: He's gonna say yes to living near water because he's one of the only felines who loves to play in water.
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Cara Elizabeth: So he not only shows his boundaries for saying no to what doesn't serve him, but going for and asking for and claiming what he wants.
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Cara Elizabeth: So what does boundaries have to do with power?
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Cara Elizabeth: And then as a reflection back to us, you know, it is so empowering to have boundaries on the outside, but this card goes even deeper and asks you to have boundaries with yourself and boundaries with your thoughts and saying no to...
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Cara Elizabeth: Because, you know, we're all being inundated by so many thoughts and programs and whatever happened to us in the past, whatever TV is telling us and all this stuff.
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Cara Elizabeth: And most of the time, our thoughts are mastering us.
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Cara Elizabeth: But when we learn to have mastery over our thoughts and boundaries with our thoughts, we can actually lead ourself to empowering ourselves in the way of claiming who we really want to be.
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Cara Elizabeth: So it's this idea of saying no to thoughts that don't serve me and saying yes and aligning with thoughts that are uplifting and empowering, and that's how you claim your power.
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Jody Teiche: I love this because you and I have talked about this.
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Jody Teiche: I am a firm believer in we become what we think about all day.
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Jody Teiche: And it's part of what I teach as a health coach, the mind part of thinking to think and grow young.
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Jody Teiche: And so yes, and it's a lesson that so many of us can take to heart, because most of us allow our subconscious minds to run us.
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Jody Teiche: And then we're not happy with the results in our lives.
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Jody Teiche: And we don't realize just how much control we do have over our minds if we train our minds like we would train our bodies in a gym.
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Jody Teiche: We train our minds to think what we want them to think.
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Cara Elizabeth: Also, those thoughts that are cruel to us aren't our true self.
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Cara Elizabeth: Our true self would never look in front of the mirror and be like, you're ugly, or you're not good enough, or that big dream can never happen.
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Cara Elizabeth: Our true self would never say that.
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Cara Elizabeth: It's thoughts that were never ours, but we just are a part of everything and get around.
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Cara Elizabeth: There's just so many thoughts.
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Jody Teiche: The paradigms from our youth, the things we may have overheard, maybe we didn't have the most responsible parents, things we were told, things we noticed, we saw around us that just planted these thoughts in our minds that became paradigms of how we live.
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Jody Teiche: Absolutely true, great point.
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Cara Elizabeth: Okay.
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Cara Elizabeth: You asked about people's feedback.
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Cara Elizabeth: Yes.
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Cara Elizabeth: They freaking love it.
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Cara Elizabeth: I mean, if you have people listening to this and like, you know, I'm not really one for like, I don't like woo woo whatever.
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Cara Elizabeth: I want science.
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Cara Elizabeth: I want it to make sense.
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Cara Elizabeth: I want it to be practical.
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Cara Elizabeth: So I think the thing about animal apothecary is it can take something that has this, sorry if you heard that helicopter flying over.
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Cara Elizabeth: Exactly, Brooklyn.
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Cara Elizabeth: So that you can take this, and for someone who's, you know, more logical, like it will apply to everyone.
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Cara Elizabeth: You can kind of think of anything you're dealing with that might be a difficult challenge and pull a card and be like, wow, I can apply that to this situation.
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Cara Elizabeth: So it's practical too.
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Cara Elizabeth: It's some like airy fairy kind of, you know.
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Jody Teiche: No, and just to use myself as an example, my own experience, before we started the interview today, I showed you the card that I pulled.
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Jody Teiche: This card, you have it in you, right?
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Jody Teiche: Just last night, I'm talking to my friend and we're talking about not playing small, you know, really manifesting large our dreams.
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Jody Teiche: And then I pull this today, right before our interview, which is all about, explain this card.
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Cara Elizabeth: So if for your viewers that are, if you're not seeing it, it's the lion, the courageous lion with the Emerald City behind him, who used to be the cowardly lion.
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Cara Elizabeth: So there's a couple different things going on within this card.
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Cara Elizabeth: You know, the whole journey in The Wizard of Oz to get to Emerald City, because he wanted this thing outside of him, he wanted the badge of honor of courage.
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Cara Elizabeth: But little did he know he had courage the entire time.
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Cara Elizabeth: He had it in him, what he sought out for outside of himself.
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Cara Elizabeth: So this is this idea that you might have this big picture of this thing you're seeking that might represent.
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Cara Elizabeth: Like sometimes if we're looking for a lot of money, it might really deeply mean we're looking for some level of security to feel safe, to feel like, you know, we're protected in our life.
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Cara Elizabeth: But there's this thing that on your journey of looking for that thing outside of you, one, it's already in you and you just have to claim it now.
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Cara Elizabeth: You have to align with it and become that identity because you're going to, your life is going to show up as any identity that you say.
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Cara Elizabeth: So on that journey of, you know, towards what he was calling himself cowardly, he had so much freaking courage because it's not about being confident and doing the thing you're scared of.
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Cara Elizabeth: It's about being scared, doing the thing you're scared of and doing it anyways, and just doing it scared regardless.
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Cara Elizabeth: So this card also represents like, there might be this moment in your life where, you know, you're kind of like not, you're on this path, you're not really sure, but it's like, keep going, you got this, but also you already are it and claim that you're that you're that person now.
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Cara Elizabeth: It's not something you attain, it's in you now.
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Cara Elizabeth: And once you claim it, then it will show up on the outside.
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Cara Elizabeth: So once you claim that you are a big freaking star, then everything starts aligning and rotating around you as if you are the star.
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Jody Teiche: Absolutely.
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Jody Teiche: It's visualize your life the way you want it, as if it's already here.
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Jody Teiche: And that energy, that frequency that you send out into the universe by doing that is met.
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Jody Teiche: It's a law of the universe, universal law, like attracts light.
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Jody Teiche: So yeah, super, super cool.
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Jody Teiche: So you are also a certified breath coach.
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Jody Teiche: You're a Kundalini yoga instructor.
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Jody Teiche: You're a classically trained dancer.
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Jody Teiche: Talk about how this informs your.
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Cara Elizabeth: Well, now the next deck I'm working on, it's called body tech, where it's understanding that we're in this rapid evolution of AI and tech.
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Cara Elizabeth: And what most of us have forgotten is that we're the OG tech, our bodies are the original technology.
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Cara Elizabeth: And that when you have an intention and align it with a movement, a breath, your sound, your voice, that you can manifest, you can heal, you can transmute, you can create, you can destroy.
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Cara Elizabeth: And it's all about coming back to this wisdom within our bodies.
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Cara Elizabeth: So I've kind of went from animals and now kind of circling back to like our own bodies, our own, you know, human experience that we are the ones creating our own reality and that we can do it when we use certain specific movements too.
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Cara Elizabeth: So just kind of like animal apothecary of colliding lots of different modalities of movement teachings from different places and then smooshing them together in a card deck that's going to uplift you and then teach you a body movement to do.
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Cara Elizabeth: So that's probably coming out in 2025.
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Jody Teiche: I like that smooshing.
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Cara Elizabeth: Yeah, the smooshing is great.
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Cara Elizabeth: We're smooshing the animals, we're smooshing them.
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Cara Elizabeth: And then my workshops, it's always, so now it's like, it's just animals and movement.
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Cara Elizabeth: It's animals and movement and really uplifting and fun.
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Jody Teiche: That's connected too.
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Jody Teiche: Movement and animals and what it means for them and how it allows them to be who they are.
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Jody Teiche: And us too, in ways that feel right for our individual bodies, souls, whatever, it's all aligned.
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Jody Teiche: So where can people find you?
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Cara Elizabeth: Okay, so on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, at Cara Elizabeth Speaks.
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Cara Elizabeth: I mean, I know you called me Cara, and I'll tell you guys the same thing.
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Jody Teiche: Cara, sorry.
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Cara Elizabeth: No, but listen, listen, because thousands of people are gonna hear this.
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Cara Elizabeth: I grew up as Cara, so I always like, it's fine.
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Cara Elizabeth: And then, like when I moved to New York City, I was like, I wanna kind of shift into like a harder name.
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Cara Elizabeth: And Cara felt like a different level, like a little bit more sophisticated.
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Cara Elizabeth: So it's both.
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Jody Teiche: I got it, no, now I got it.
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Cara Elizabeth: But people call me, no, I totally take it.
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Cara Elizabeth: My parents call me Cara, all my best friends.
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Cara Elizabeth: So it's totally fine.
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Cara Elizabeth: Everyone calls me one or the other.
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Cara Elizabeth: It doesn't bother me.
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Cara Elizabeth: But Cara Elizabeth Speaks, the channel's cross all platform and my website.
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Cara Elizabeth: I do lots of workshops and stuff too that you can just check my website, get on my emailing list if you want from my website.
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Jody Teiche: That sounds amazing.
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Cara Elizabeth: Oh, and Animal Apothecary, Amazon, everywhere.
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Cara Elizabeth: But I know most people love an easy click and it delivers the next day.
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Cara Elizabeth: So Amazon, and it's a great gift for the holidays coming.
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Cara Elizabeth: It's super affordable.
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Cara Elizabeth: And if you're wanting to uplift someone and empower someone or anyone you know who's on their growth journey, this is the deck for them.
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Jody Teiche: And great stocking stuffer.
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Cara Elizabeth: Oh yeah, fits right in there.
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Jody Teiche: It's right in there.
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Jody Teiche: Thank you so much Cara for being with us today and sharing this beautiful deck.
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Jody Teiche: This is a show about animals, yes, and also living stylishly.
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Jody Teiche: And these are beautiful cards.
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Jody Teiche: Before we go, do a reading, yes, really quickly for everyone.
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Jody Teiche: And we can include everybody listening in what is coming up for us in math.
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Jody Teiche: So go.
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Cara Elizabeth: So if everyone could just think of what they're working towards manifesting and overcoming.
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Cara Elizabeth: So just get a clear vision of who you're blossoming into, and see yourself.
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Cara Elizabeth: You've overcome whatever current challenge you're currently dealing with.
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Cara Elizabeth: And I want to get a message from your most empowered self, what they want to share with you on this journey of just really overcoming this current challenge and manifesting your heart's steepest desire.
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Cara Elizabeth: I'm going to pull three cards.
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Cara Elizabeth: Of course.
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Cara Elizabeth: So we got little pig who's all about your self-worth, self-love, self-acceptance.
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Cara Elizabeth: So there's something about there's first of all, having so much compassion and love for everything you're doing and also giving yourself a lot of credit for like, wait, you have been trying, even if you're not seeing the results you want, like you've been putting in the effort and there's an aspect of you that needs you to like own and even have a conversation like, wow, you did do that.
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Cara Elizabeth: Like you have been getting up, you know, 10 minutes early to do that extra thing.
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Cara Elizabeth: You have been doing this.
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Cara Elizabeth: You did ask for that raise, even though it didn't happen, but it took a lot to like use your voice.
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Cara Elizabeth: So there's some kind of honoring of yourself and really just giving yourself credit and compassion for how much work you have been doing.
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Cara Elizabeth: White Owl comes and is like, you totally have your back.
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Cara Elizabeth: Your highest self is guiding you to this thing that you want to create, even though it might feel like, I don't know the next steps.
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Cara Elizabeth: I'm kind of in the dark right now.
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Cara Elizabeth: You're being asked to, like, safe to trust, and it's you are safe to trust.
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Cara Elizabeth: You have your own back in whatever you're creating.
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Cara Elizabeth: And this thing, Woodpecker comes, whatever the thing is you're going for, it's like, don't give up, keep efforting, because Woodpecker knocks its head on a piece of wood, like, 12,000 times a day.
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Cara Elizabeth: So there's something about, like, your efforting will be a return on investment, and there's this opportunity that's gonna come from you persevering towards this thing that is also aligned with your purpose that will feel really fulfilling for you.
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Cara Elizabeth: So that's a really short, quick read.
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Jody Teiche: Yes, but I love it.
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Jody Teiche: It's very uplifting and powerful, and I think everybody could take something from that and, you know, find meaning in their own life.
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Jody Teiche: So Cara, this is super cool.
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Jody Teiche: This deck is beautiful.
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Jody Teiche: You did a beautiful job artistically, spiritually, you know, sending out this information to everyone.
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Jody Teiche: That's important and a great empowering and healing tool.
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Jody Teiche: So thank you so much for being with us.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, my God.
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Cara Elizabeth: Thank you for allowing me to share my voice and thank you with all my heart.
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Cara Elizabeth: Thank you so much.
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Jody Teiche: It is my pleasure.
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Jody Teiche: And thank you.
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Cara Elizabeth: My pleasure.
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Jody Teiche: Oh, and thank you all for listening.
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Jody Teiche: Thanks to our producer, Mark Winter.
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Jody Teiche: Mark, you make us sound so good.
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Jody Teiche: We love you for that.
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