Season 2: Episode 16 - Faith, Feminine Power, and Financial Freedom

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Welcome to the Joy-Inspired Podcast. I'm Mickey Cruz, and I'm thrilled to explore with you what it means to walk in a faith-infused business. This is your space to find powerful tools and insights, to build with resilience and to create impact through your unique purpose, discovering a joy that only God can provide. Together, let's embrace a business journey anchored in faith and empowered by joy. Let's jump in. Well, hey there, amazing friends, family, fellow entrepreneurs, kingdom entrepreneurs. Welcome back to the Joy Inspired Podcast. It is so good to be back with you this week. And in case you don't remember, this is the place where clarity, faith, joy all mixed together to fuel your purpose, to move you forward and to fuel that momentum because we each have a purpose. God designed us with something beautiful to bring into the world. And so often we uh forget to find the joy in the moment. And today, you are going to hear from somebody who does not forget that. So just a reminder: do you have your pen? Do you have your paper? Do you have your coffee or beverage of choice? Because as we talk about joy and other things today, we're reminded that joy is your strategic advantage. Remember, it's not the fluff that comes at the end, it's the stuff that gets you to the end. And wherever you're listening in from, just settle in because the guest I have today is an absolute powerhouse. She's a powerhouse of purpose, feminine leadership, and kingdom-aligned wealth creation. Wow, doesn't that sound amazing? Well, it is, just the same as she is. Friends, help me welcome Monique Harm, founder of real estate investment goddess, a best-selling author, edit speaker, investor, and a woman on a mission to help wait for it. One million women achieve financial freedom through real estate. Yes, it's possible. If you haven't heard about it before, you haven't met her soon enough. So Monique owns over a thousand rental doors across 13 different states. But what I love about her most is her heart. She teaches wealth building in a way that is aligned, peaceful, joyful, and deeply spirit-led. And you know what else? She has recently been on a joy mission. She has now gone way over 365 days of doing something fun every day. And we might touch on that. But there is so much wisdom in this lady. Let's talk more about her entrepreneurial journey. Because you know what? It wasn't a business plan. She didn't sit down and plan to become an entrepreneur and do the two-year, the five-year, the ten-year step. This was a divine reroute by God. And you know how sometimes God does those things and you feel like your world's falling apart because you're choosing not to see the joy or the gift in the moment. She was fired from her corporate law job. Yeah. And she was five months pregnant at the time. She could have just crumbled, given up, but instead, she turned around towards God and she asked God for some alignment. And she turned towards the calling that would one day unlock freedom, financial freedom for thousands of women. And she is doing that at the moment. Her story is one of faith, feminine power and surrender. Don't you want to be like her when you grow up? I do. So, you know, she's seeing supernatural provision. And this is the kind of testimony that reminds us that when God closes one door, it's only because he's building a bigger one. And we just have to keep our eyes on that. So let's dive into faith, feminine power, and financial freedom with the incredible Monique Holm. Welcome, Monique. Thank you, Nikki.

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It's such a pleasure to be here. It's always so much fun to be around you. You just exude joy.

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So it's a joy to be with you. Well, that goes both ways. So take us back for a moment. What did that divine re-root that we just mentioned look like when God shifted you from corporate successful law into purpose-led entrepreneurship with a baby in your belly, too? Yes.

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It was very divinely guided. Didn't feel very fun or joyful at the time. As you said, I was five months pregnant. I was working in a law firm. My boss called me into his office one week after I told him I was expecting. And because I'd been working so many nights past midnight, I was working so hard. I was, you know, I went in going, how big of a bonus am I going to get? That's what I thought we were going to be discussing. My bonus. And instead I got fired. So it was a one of the biggest blessings I've ever received. It did not feel that way. Sometimes God gives us gifts wrapped in sandpaper or barbed wire. It's a little like painful to get to the to the gift, but then you do. And why it was such a gift? In part because he fired me right, you know, the it was literally the week my belly popped out. And I started to look pregnant. Before that, I just looked like I was getting fat. And I was like, oh no, I can't wait till I look pregnant instead of just fat. And then it was like, oh no, I look pregnant. No one's gonna hire me. So I just said, okay, I'm gonna wait until after I give birth and take a maturity period. Then I will look for another job. Well, a month within a month after my daughter was born, and she was born late August of 2008. A lot of people might remember what happened in late August or the fall, September of 2008, the markets crashed, everything went, the economy went into free fall. Terrible, terrible time to look for a job. And this this was definitely, I feel like the hand, because if it had not been for that, even though I really did not like being a lawyer, um, I probably would have looked for another job because that was what I knew. That was what I'd been trained for. That I, you know, I was that had been the main breadwinner in my family. So I would, and now we had another mouth to feed. I definitely would have gone and found another job and been miserable, um, and not found my purpose. But because all these things happened, when they did, I I had to be redirected on this other path. And so I went on this path of entrepreneurship, which was nothing I'd been taught. Nothing that um, you know, I was always taught, go, you're gonna go to school, you're gonna get go to graduate school, you're gonna get the best job you can, and and then you're going to work till you're 6570, get a gold watch, you play golf till you die, right? And the only thing I'd been taught about real estate was you buy a house to live in at some point. So um prior to getting fired, I actually tried to buy a house in very expensive Los Angeles where I live. And in order to be able to do that, I ended up getting a house with more than one unit. I lived in one, rented out the others. And that was how I could buy that house that I was supposed to get. Um, and I became an accidental landlord. But these people were paying my mortgage, and I was like, this is great. They're tax on this. This is nice. I like this. When I met my husband, he had a duplex. And when I was fired, couldn't get another job, economy was crashing, his graphic design business went down 90%. Um, we had these duplexes, and I ended up, we sold one of them, and then we started to flip houses and um when and houses were on sale. So it was this really good time to get into real estate and start doing that. And then learned about bringing groups of investors together and doing larger things, so started doing apartment buildings and bigger projects. Then as I started to really get into this real estate world, um, I remember going to this conference and there were 120 people there. Maybe I think there were six, maybe eight women in the uh out of the 120. Two of them were working there. So and between doing what I do now and um no, well alongside the the real estate, I was I became a coach. I got a coaching certification, and then I somehow started to do money coaching for women. So I was really, you know, I'd kind of tapped into this, you know, how do you uh you know alchemize with my it's called money alchemy. So how do you just kind of switch the the flip, flip the switch? That's it. Flip the switch that money would come. And and that was part of my own process where I'd gone from it really, I had to retrain my relationship around money, and we went from being sixty thousand dollars in debt to having six hundred thousand in the bank, and um just within within six weeks, it's a lot of sixes, but it was like all it's it felt like this quantum leap miraculous. And also with the real estate I got in, and especially when we started to partner with other people and bring investors together, we went from two doors in one year to over a thousand doors in um in one year, and that it's like these quantum leaps were happening. Um but I going back to that conference where there were so few women, and we were the the people were talking, and it was a it was a conference about how you bring investors together for for deals. And they were talking about who do you want to work with? Um, you know, what's your what's your brand, what's your network. And I was at the I was in the hotel gym and that that next morning I was on the elliptical, and then I got this divine download. It was almost like God said to me, Here's your mission, should you choose to accept it? Um and I was like, bring women into this room and this mission to help one million women create financial freedom to real estate. That's what came to me there. And I had this full body because like chill, you know, chills, and I had this yes inside. It's like, but god, I don't know how to do this. Um if you just show me the next step and then the next step and then the next step, I am willing. And and that was how it started.

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Beautiful. And you know, you've said so many things in that story, in that testimony, and your faith comes through in there because you didn't just give up, you just kept going, you just kept going forward, even though in the natural it looked yucky. All the odds looked like they were against you. For heaven's sake, even the economy crashed just to accommodate your transformation. Now that's how important to God. That's that's how important it is to God that He puts us in the right places. And you said something interesting there that I just want to expand on. Sometimes those gifts come wrapped in sandpaper. And I got an image as you were saying that of because as we're unwrapping that, it hardens our hands so that they are able to carry whatever's gonna go into them next. That is the that is the strength in that gift. The hardness that you have to deal with in those moments equips you to steward it well later. Does it mean it's always gonna be bad? No. But it means that often, and we've spoken about this quite a bit recently, that you know, there's a disappointing before the anointing, you get the appointing, the disappointing, then the anointing. No correction. You get the anointing, then the disappointing, then the appointing. I think that's the right way around now. Because often when God equips us with something, he anoints us for something, we're not ready to steward it. And we learn that in the disappointing. We don't just run round nuts. That's what happened to Joseph. He had these incredible dreams and he got thrown in a pit for it because he didn't know how to deliver them correctly. God taught him, he stewarded him, and the same's happened with you. You didn't stop because oh, now you could provide for yourself. You saw the huge impact you could make and how you could transform the lives of others. And uh, you know, real estate. You were gonna say something a moment ago.

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Oh, I was just gonna what came to me was God doesn't um quali, he doesn't call the or choose the qualified, he qualifies the like qualifies the chosen, right? So he'll and there's so many times where I've been over my head and didn't didn't know, but I I've learned over time that I don't need to know, I just need to be willing and follow. But that's my prayer every day. Um, just I'm willing to show me show me your will as well that I might do it.

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Um you know, use Imagine if we did have to have all the answers. What a burden to carry. There's so much freedom in being able to trust God and letting go of that control. Yes, you know, it it really is. I mean, at the end of the day, it means that you can rely on the one who controls it all instead of being the one who has to control it all. Yeah, how freeing. Now, real estate investors goddess is such a movement, it's not just a little business over here, it's a movement. And who do you serve and what transformation do you help women step into?

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Yeah. So I serve women um that are they're they're wanting to create streams of income. There, I you know, I really want to help women create what I consider financial freedom, which is when they have enough passive income that it equals or exceeds their expenses. It's not necessarily to the you know the baller level, but there's like there's first there's their financial freedom number, then there's like the dream life number. So we we first we get to the financial freedom, then we go beyond that. But the financial freedom number, what that does is when you are when you have that, then you work because you want to, you work because you're called, you work to share your gifts. You don't work because you have to, right? At that point, you don't have to trade your time for money, it's a choice. And I want well, there are two reasons why I do this. One is we we need to be able to share our gifts, right? Like the world needs us um to be to fully share our gifts, to solve the problems, to you know, that this is why God, that's why we were born, right? This is so I want to help erase that excuse of I don't have the money from anyone doing and sharing the gifts that was why they were born. So that's the first thing. But the the next thing is because I know that when women have more, not even tons more, just a little bit more, they give back. They give back to their families, they give back to their communities, they give back to the world, and the world needs us. So this is my helping women is my shortcut to help the world. Because uh a financially empowered woman will she'll take she educates her kids, she hires her friends, she does like it. There's a ripple effect when women are are financially empowered that serves everybody.

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So that's why that's what I do, but it does, it echoes back. It all it's like in a small room, that woman's echo bounces back, but it reverberates beyond that room. And you know, I've never thought about it like that, I've never heard it expressed like that. That a woman with a little bit more money empowers everybody because she's different when she's around. Okay, she also gets to have the odd shopping spree, which makes any woman smile that she wouldn't otherwise be able to have. You know, the frivolous spending that we all want to do just because we're women, and you help people do that.

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So yeah, you can definitely have the pleasure with that. But they, you know, this is there have been all these studies. It's been like third world country, they do these microloans and they do it and they give it to women or they give it to men. And this is another, this is a sad thing about men, but the men when they're given extra money, they tend to spend it on cigarettes, alcohol, or prostitutes. The women, when they're given extra money, they educate their kids, they hire their friends, they they really transform their communities. And this isn't just in third-world countries, this is they find this again and again. Um, so really helping a woman helps generations.

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Yeah, yeah. And it, you know, having more money isn't about the dollar signs in the bank, the the movement Monique's creating here. It's not about having a big bank balance. It's about, as she said, bringing transformation. And you talk so beautifully about alignment over hustle. One of my favorite things. Hustle is one of those things that um I call it unholy hustle. Because it doesn't mean you never have to take action. Yeah. There is action that you get to take. But the hustle is the overwhelm, the grind, the unpleasantness of doing things just because it's expected or because it's the only way you can get to your goal. And it usually makes you lose your joy, definitely, your authenticity. You step out of alignment with your faith because can I tell you a secret, folks? God didn't give you a purpose so that you would have to hustle through life, making it make a difference. And you talk about that. How did you learn to lead from a place of surrender and feminine flow instead of pushing and hustling?

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Yeah. So I think back in 2004, I picked up this book, um, School of Womanly Arts, by this woman named Regina Tomishauer. And it was about um helping women to use the power of pleasure to have their way with the world. That's what it was called. Um, that I did study this and I just started to learn about really like for especially for women. So this is oftentimes this masculine paradigm is we need to man up, muscle through, hustle, no pain, no gain, right? That's what we learn. And when I learned This other way was like, no, especially for women, we need to not muscle through, we need to pleasure through. We need to tap into that which feels good. And then there's this ease, and things just show up with you know, there's that ease, grace, and flow. Like that allows the higher power to come in. So it was partly, so it was through pleasure, but also through intuition, like learning to listen, listen to the voice of the vine, and and and being able to trust, and sometimes it's sometimes we listen, sometimes we hear, we see. I mean, there are different ways in which that guidance will come to us. But being able to tap into that guidance so that we don't have to hustle and grind. It's almost when we are hustling and grinding, we're going contrary. I find more contrary to the will of the divine. We're we're so that is almost, yeah, all the time. Like you said, there is work to that needs to be done. There is action that needs to be taken, and sometimes there's a lot of action that needs to be taken. But it's when it feels like a grind, we're in resistance. We're in resistance to the divine flow, we're in resistance to what our higher power is calling us towards. And when we can go into that flow, into that and take that in those intuitive steps when we move, uh, especially as women, then um yeah, things show up with ease, and those quantum leaps happen.

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Yeah, yeah. And then the energy you're putting out is so different, and everything isn't resistant to coming back to you. Yes. What wants to be attracted to hardness and grind? Let's face it. Your money's gonna look at you and go, bye-bye, I don't want to live here. I never thought about it like that, like that. But you know, it it's it's true. When you start just being in that place of ease and grace, when you feel the flow, that's where the Holy Spirit can flow. That's where you can hear from God for your next steps because you're not so busy trying to make it happen. And it comes back to that being in that place of you being in control or letting God be in control. Now, you have a really good story. Can you share that Albuquerque story? The one about the property, the challenge, the surrender, and the divine timing that followed from that. My the my my miracle sale.

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That was so I had bought we bought this this uh apartment building in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That was a bear. I mean, literally the day we closed, there was a shooting kind of uh that it was you know, which we didn't find out until after, but it's like right out. It's like there's there's a shooting there. Um, there were multiple shootings at that property. There was fires, there were like our property manager got held up. It was it was every we spoke to our property managers once a week. And every time I'd get on the phone going, we just couldn't create a cringy wage. Oh, what happened now? What are they gonna tell them?

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So that's when you rent the apartment up to cops and security guards.

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They didn't want to live there. Are you kidding me? So um it was, yeah, we were we were trying. We tried a lot, and you know, we did a lot to fix it up to we added this this like security gates and things, and then like the tenants kept keeping it open. It was just like we paid all this money to have this gate that would keep you safe, and then they put stones in there that so it wouldn't fly. Anyway, it was this like constant, constant uh challenge, let's just say. And uh, and I was was flying to Albuquerque, and it was really, we were at well, I mean, I was at the my wits end, I didn't know what to do, I was running out of money to fix it up, and I needed to get the income. We just we needed to sell it, and but we I thought, okay, I'm gonna have to do all of this stuff so I get to this place where I can, you know, sell it so I can make enough. And I was I was on the flight and I prayed and I said, God, help. Just help me. I could use a miracle just about now. Please help. It wasn't that, it wasn't a very complicated prayer. It was like, help, help me, please, please, please. And um, and so we land and we go to the buildings, and we had a couple apartment buildings, but this one in particular was the bear. And then we're we're we're going and we're visiting, and then that evening our property manager takes us out to dinner and says, Um, hey, would you consider selling these buildings? And I went, um, yes, I would consider it. Think about it. Let me think about it. It has to be at a certain price because we, you know, we have investors and we we need to make a certain amount of money, but yes, I would consider it. And he said, Yeah, we have this 1031 exchange buyer from out of California who's and would might be interested, would be interested in your property. So you just tell us like what how much would you want for them? So we're like, oh my god, what what? So I go home and we start looking at the numbers and we go, okay, well, um, it will have to be like maybe if we we offer we we give this crazy number and then he'll negotiate us down. And then at that negotiated down number, that'll be okay. Right? It will be like fabulously great, but it'll be okay and it'll be better, and then we'll be out of this, and we'll, you know, not at all, and we'll have we'll have made a little money with so um uh yeah, we go and we say, okay, yeah, this is how much we're we're gonna we want. And the guy took it. He didn't even negotiate us down. He took the big, he took the top on. I was like, thank you, God. Thank you. Thank you for that. And I pray to this day that those I was like, I pray that that property turned around. I pray that it's going well for him. I pray that it was a different experience for him than me. I wish him so well. That that fire, I hope it was an amazing thing for him.

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Um there is absolute proof, ladies, gents, that you don't have to have fancy prayers. Oh, God hears that help, help me, you know. God has just gonna reach out to him. That's all you gotta do. And especially as entrepreneurs, we're so used to planning and strategizing that we begin to plan and strategize our prayers. You know, when God just wants us to talk to him. And communication in business is key. Well, communication with God is key too. And very often we don't think we're hearing God and we don't remember who he says we are because we start to struggle with worthiness because things aren't going our way. And a lot of women struggle with worthiness around money in particular. What inner shift helped you step into wealth without losing your peace?

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That's such a great question. So a couple of things. So one, I I I really had to um shift my relationship with money. I remember seeing this speaker. Um, she came to my my church and her name was Mary Morrissey, and she was talking about how back in the 70s she started, she saved up$1,400, which was a fortune for her at the time, to go see this spiritual teacher. And she went to see him, and she gets into this big, you know, auditorium or conference where he's where he's on stage and he he takes out this uh, you know, he takes out this wad of money out of his out of his wallet, and he says, I love money. I love money. Oh, and he's kissing the money. And then she's going, Oh, I thought this guy was spiritual. What is what is happening? And then he puts the money back, and he says, You don't have to raise your hand, but who here was disgusted by what I just did? And she she didn't raise her hand, but she had definitely been disgusted. And he said, Money felt that money felt that he said there's this energy around money, and you have to show up to money with love and acceptance, and you know, and so she started talking about this relationship that we have with money, and then I went home and I started thinking about my relationship with money, and I realized, my goodness, I am a um my I I just either would ignore my money or I would be kind of abusive to money. I was not, I wasn't very like loving and excited about money. I didn't steward it with care. Uh and and so I started to shift. I would have this money date with weekly money date with my husband, where we started to um first get feel really good, get in a good state, and then we would deal with our money with gratitude. We would be we have bills and be very grateful for all of all of the creditors, everybody who's given us their services and um and trusted us to pay. We would write that with gratitude, right? I you know, I give thanks that this amount is but a um a symbol of the inexhaustible supply of the divine, and I know that 10 times, 10 times as much is now on its way to me, will manifest under grace and imperfect ways. And I'd write that on on the checks and on the bills, and and that's when we went from 60,000 in debt to 600,000 in the bank in six weeks. It was doing that process and really shifting around my relationship with money, and then um you know, and then learning and throughout just really tapping in and tuning into that that the energy of money, um, and it has has shifted so much, and and that's something that I've that transformed my uh my ability to have because I was able to not think of money as um, you know, there's a lot there was a lot around money and root of all evil and yeah, so when you talk to people about money, their first thought is money, why?

SPEAKER_00 34:09

Money is a beautiful tool God has given us. And you know, we talk about gratitude. Gratitude opens doors to things. So if your attitude to certain things can shift the energy of things, why can't your attitude to money, folks? And if you're not used to working in the energetic area, God created energy, right? Everything works together. And you know, your attitude makes so much difference, and your attitude to money makes a difference. So what is attitude? Attitude is your emotions, your actions, and those things that you put into place with regards to money reflect your attitude. It's not just your thoughts, it's not just your feelings, it's your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. How do you handle your money? It's not good enough just to handle that. What are your emotions towards it? And boy, sometimes we have to have some huge mind surface, especially as a Christian woman. We've grown up with so many erroneous beliefs about money. Can I tell you something, folks? Money isn't evil. The love of money is evil. Money is an incredible tool that God wants us to live in abundance with so that we can pour back into the kingdom. We can bless other people. And sometimes we start taking on beliefs particularly about money that we don't know where they come from. And we get to break those beliefs. Why do you believe certain things about money? Why do you believe that women should earn less than men? Perhaps it's because you adopted that, because that's what you saw when you were growing up. You know, don't believe everything you think. You get to question those things and you get to go back to scripture because I do believe, as entrepreneurs, this is a huge thing that holds us back. And Monique is the person to speak to this, really. That's why I'm emphasizing it, because if you hear it from her, you'll think, well, this is just her jam. Well, I'm learning that this is my jam too, and it should be your jam. Everybody's bread gets buttered with jam. And that jam is their attitude to money. What is your attitude to money? How does it line up with scripture? If you think money's bad, when you are living in lack, when you are struggling, how does that reflect on the mighty king who is your father? How does that reflect on God, on his promises of abundance? So, guys, just stop. Ask God where do I need to shift my money mindset? Where do I need to create a new, a kingdom outlook on money? Not what your pastor says, not what your church preaches. What does God teach? Because you may find things coming up that God is asking you to surrender and change that you would never have imagined. So you you've taken women along these journeys. I just had to emphasize that because that's been something God has been telling me to excuse me. God has been telling me to emphasize that to people who don't even realize that they have a strange attitude to money. They just think there's there isn't an attitude to money. Yes, there is. You have a relationship with money, and you teach women this and bring them freedom. And sisterhood plays a huge role in your brand. How has community supported your growth as an entrepreneur? Oh my gosh.

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Community is so important. We're not meant to do this alone, we're not meant to play this game alone. And so, sisterhood, and it is there, I think there's nothing more powerful for women. I can even get into the biology of it. But we really are wired for that. That when they talk about stress and the the stress response fight, flight, or freeze. Um, a study at UCLA showed that's a male stress response. Women, how we deal better with stress is we tend and befriend. So for us, when we're in stress mode, what serves us is to be in community with others, to tend to our little ones, to tend to each other, to be tended, to be around friends. So that is how that's what lowers our stress response, our stress levels is to be in community. And we learn better around um groups of other women. We are we we have we release oxytocin, this the feel-good hormone around groups of other women. It's a lot of reasons why sisterhood is good for us and serves us, but it's not just sisterhood. You said community, and community in in um general is so powerful for us, it's so needed, especially as entrepreneurs. It can feel like such a lonely um, or if you're a solopreneur, even if you like a small business, there aren't very many of you, can feel like you're out here all alone, suffering these issues, not knowing what to do, feeling like you're the only one that has to deal with this. And when you can be around others and say, Hey, how did you deal with this? Or even just share this is happening, and somebody says, I've been there, that's happened to me too. And you know, keep going. You've got this.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

It's it's priceless, absolutely beautiful, and so true. And when we started off this episode, we were talking about purpose and how you went from doing stuff but not really living your purpose to finding your purpose. What inner shift do you believe unlocks the greatest breakthrough for women stepping into purpose?

SPEAKER_02 40:50

That's such a good question. And so sometimes it'll come like this. So I got this divine download, it's like came down for me that way. Um for some others, it may not be so clear, right? So if you're in that place, you're like, I don't know what my purpose is. Um, how do I find it? What I find is that if you tap into two things, one is your curiosity. What are you curious about? Um, and follow that, but also what feels fun? What raises your energy? And follow that. So if you go in those directions, you will find it, and it might not show up right away. I remember hearing this talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote Epre Love and um was that Big Magic? I think that's the the name of her book. She written the second one.

SPEAKER_00 41:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:50

E Prey Love is a big one. But she was talking about this because she knows she always knew she was going to be a writer, and she talked about find your purpose. No, you were, and somebody came up. I don't know what my purpose is, or I have no idea. Uh, there's also another book called Range that talks about that. But sometimes, you know, just you might have flitted. Some of us are like jackhammers that go down and we we know what our purpose is, and we go deep and we and that gets clear. And other of us are like we we butterfly and we flit over here, we flit over there towards our curiosity, and then somehow it all kind of winds together and creates something very and unique and very you know beautiful and interesting. So different God will send us on different paths, just trust that where you're where your your curiosity is guiding you, where your fun is guiding you, where your energy is guiding you, that's God guiding you towards your purpose. So you don't have to stress if you don't know what that is yet. But if it if you do have a sense of what it is, and you and if you do get a strong sense and you need that courage, then to follow it, it's the same advice. Follow your curiosity, follow your fun, follow your energy. And if you just keep taking baby steps in towards those things, you will be living your purpose and you will get there.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

Beautifully said, just follow it. You don't have to have, and I don't believe God gives us the whole picture now because then we would often just turn and run. But folks, now you see why I love this woman. She brings so much wisdom, so much beauty, so much grace to every conversation I've ever had with her. And Monique, where can our listeners connect with you? Where can they join real estate investor goddess?

SPEAKER_02 43:51

Yeah, you can go to re i goddesses.com, plural. I'm not the only guy, I think all of us uh Women, we each have at least a drop of the divine. I think we're all divine beings. Um, and so that's that's why it's ri goddesses.com. And you can you can find me there. I have some gifts, free gifts for you, and you can listen to the podcast and check out the blog and find out about our programs and offerings there.

SPEAKER_00 44:22

Some and for those of you, because I know you are so eager not to miss out on that connection, scrambling for a pen and can't find one, it's okay. It's in the show notes. You can go and look in the show notes, and the connections and the links to connect with her will be there. Because boy, you want to stay tuned into this lady. What she's doing is incredible in her own life, but the way it's causing those golden ripple effects out to the rest of the world is huge. Money, thank you so much for being here with us today. I always love having you around. And friends, if something stirred in you today, or if you think of somebody who gets to hear the story and that little match that says share it out, don't forget to share and invite them in. And any last words for our listeners.

SPEAKER_02 45:22

Yeah, just keep following your joy and your fun. This battle. I love I love everything you're about, Nikki. So keep doing what you're doing, and everyone, yeah, keep keep reaching for joy.

SPEAKER_00 45:36

Thank you so much. And remember, folks, as always, watch that smile on her face. Follow her example of choosing fun, choosing joy every day. Remember, it's not a feeling, it's your supernatural strength. Walk boldly, build faithfully, and keep unleashing that powerful purpose God placed inside you. I'll see you on the next Joy Inspired Podcast. Don't forget to share it with a friend. Blessings all. Bye. Thank you so much for joining me on the Joy Inspired Podcast at www.joyinspiredpodcast.com. Make sure you hit that subscribe button so that you can get this and every other episode that comes out. We have lots of great stuff coming, and you don't want to miss it. So make sure to hit that subscribe. I am so grateful for all the reviews and comments, and I look forward to serving you in next week's episode.