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This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Spiritual Teacher, Author and Finance Mentor, James Weeks.
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James is the author of Meditations Across The King’s River: African-inspired Wisdom For Life’s Journey and the producer of the upcoming documentary film, Across The King’s River: Finding and Fulfilling Your Life’s Purpose.
James is also a babalawo, or priest in the Ifa spiritual tradition of West Africa and helps clients with strategies for emotional, spiritual and financial wellness. As a journalist, James has published in Parenting magazine, the S.F. Weekly, Reggae Beat, The Virgin Islands Daily News and the St. Croix Avis.
Always in demand, James has provided more than 1,500 readings/consultations to clients during the past decade. He is also a private pilot, scuba diver, a guitarist and an avid student of FOREX, or foreign exchange trading and crypto-currency.
Tune in and join the conversation as Sam and James talk about the how anyone can find their life’s purpose in this modern world.
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Today's episode kicks off with Sam sharing a passage titled "We are so much more than the sum of our parts'' from his book, Everyday Awakening, which can be found at everydayawakeningbook.com. Sam welcomes a special guest, James Weeks, a Spiritual Teacher, Author, and Finance Mentor. James also holds the esteemed role of a babalawo, serving as a priest within the Ifa spiritual tradition of West Africa. With his expertise, James supports clients in cultivating strategies for emotional, spiritual, and financial wellness.
Weeks shares the story about his journey to West Africa and the profound discovery of his spirituality. He recounts a transformative experience during their trip when he encountered challenges with his troubled son. It was in this unique setting that Weeks found solace and transformation, attributing the powerful healing properties of African medicine to the shift in his life. He also enlightens us about his book, "The Kings River," which undoubtedly holds further insights into his spiritual exploration and the wisdom gained from his experiences.
James shares the positive reception of his book upon release, and we're thrilled to hear it! Currently, he's in the production phase of his film, and he sheds light on the distinctions between the book and the upcoming movie. During our conversation, James reveals that Leaders in west Africa show hesitance in adopting indigenous spirituality, opting for Islam and Christianity instead. Additionally, he elaborates on his client healing process, emphasizing a person-focused approach that transcends their beliefs.
James passionately details his role in guiding individuals who seek his counsel, firmly believing that life is a continuous training ground for fulfilling our ultimate purpose. Reflecting on his personal experiences, he reveals how they've enriched his journey and steered him toward the right path. Presently, James concentrates on financial healing, intricately connected to spiritual healing in his belief. For more information, visit acrossthekingsriver.com or reach out to him directly at 510-388-5500.
00:00:27.740 --> 00:00:42.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good afternoon, my conscious co-creators. Welcome to another edition of that conscious, consultant hour awakening humanity. I am very, very pleased with that you are all here with me today.
00:00:42.450 --> 00:00:58.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Whether you're tuning in live or on on the live streams or the recordings, or you're hearing a re-broadcast, or you're catching the replay on talk radio that Nyc, I appreciate each and every one of you. thank you for tuning in.
00:00:58.470 --> 00:01:15.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I hope you had a chance to catch my show last week. It was one of those me only shows I had no guest last week. and I just kind of talked about pretty important topic. And that's our relationship with money. So if you haven't had a chance to to listen to that yet.
00:01:15.240 --> 00:01:31.939 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: make sure you go to talk radio and and check it out all right. So let's get started, as we always do with this little section from my book. Everyday awakening which, of course, you can always find@www.everyday Awakening Bookcom.
00:01:32.180 --> 00:01:35.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: This section this week is entitled.
00:01:35.580 --> 00:01:44.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We are so much more than the some of our parts we have a heart ahead, a spirit
00:01:44.990 --> 00:01:46.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and a body.
00:01:46.660 --> 00:01:49.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yet we would, are more than our heart.
00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:52.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: head, spirit.
00:01:52.170 --> 00:01:59.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or body. and it makes a huge difference. When challenges show up.
00:01:59.070 --> 00:02:05.459 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we could respond, using only one or 2 of these aspects of our beings, of our being.
00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And a 4,
00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:14.649 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we can try to think it through. We can meditate and pray on it until inspiration comes.
00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:22.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We can look to our heart and seek connection and community with the people we know, like and trust.
00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:27.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We can rely on our body to take the physical actions necessary.
00:02:28.100 --> 00:02:32.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We are not limited in how we respond.
00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:36.890 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It never has to be one way over another.
00:02:36.990 --> 00:02:43.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or to the exclusion of the others. We are much more than the sum of our parts.
00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:52.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Indeed, when we call upon all of ourselves, our heart, our mind, our body, and our spirit.
00:02:52.660 --> 00:02:56.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We can show up more fully to the challenge
00:02:56.750 --> 00:03:03.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: by bringing the fullness of our being to meet the challenges and the opportunities of our life.
00:03:04.770 --> 00:03:06.330 Life gets better.
00:03:07.210 --> 00:03:13.599 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: our relationships get better. our businesses get better. our health gets better.
00:03:14.260 --> 00:03:16.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we blossom and we grow
00:03:17.550 --> 00:03:21.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so, why would we ever limit ourselves to being less?
00:03:22.380 --> 00:03:23.629 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Then we are
00:03:24.430 --> 00:03:28.719 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yes, we are a heart, mind, body, and spirit.
00:03:29.950 --> 00:03:33.219 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we are also so much more
00:03:34.620 --> 00:03:37.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: are you bringing all of yourself
00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:39.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to your challenges in your life?
00:03:41.370 --> 00:03:48.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I wrote this section. probably around 7, 8 years ago.
00:03:48.470 --> 00:03:51.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: after I started doing the ceremonial work that I do.
00:03:52.130 --> 00:03:55.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and I really started to
00:03:56.130 --> 00:03:58.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: integrate this filter
00:03:58.920 --> 00:04:00.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of
00:04:00.620 --> 00:04:03.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of heart, mind, body, and spirit.
00:04:04.250 --> 00:04:06.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because so much I see.
00:04:07.020 --> 00:04:14.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, the first thing I see is is just in in Western civilization. We're all about the mind.
00:04:14.860 --> 00:04:21.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We're always trying to think our way out of things. We're trying to figure out solutions. It's all about using our intellect.
00:04:23.530 --> 00:04:28.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And yes, our mind is is an amazing, amazing tool.
00:04:29.830 --> 00:04:33.279 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But it's only one of our gifts.
00:04:33.930 --> 00:04:36.790 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and when I really started to see
00:04:37.010 --> 00:04:40.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the more complete picture and sort of using this filter, and
00:04:40.950 --> 00:04:46.829 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you know, I use sort of the 4 archetypal elements that go with each of these aspects.
00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:54.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and it really started to resonate on a very deep level with me
00:04:55.120 --> 00:05:00.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that I realized. You know so much. We we tend to. Everybody has.
00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:19.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: let's say, a primary aspect of themselves. They lean on, you know, for people who are very intellectual. It's the mind for people who very emotional. It's the heart for people who are very physical. It's the body for people who are are very connected to spirit. It's it's very spiritual.
00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:31.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And the thing is, we don't have to limit ourselves to just one of these aspects. We have all of them. We have access to all of these aspects of ourselves.
00:05:32.310 --> 00:05:34.499 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so I kind of
00:05:34.610 --> 00:05:42.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: look, this section is just a reminder that we don't have to only use one piece of ourselves.
00:05:43.340 --> 00:05:47.679 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And indeed, when we call upon all of ourselves.
00:05:47.940 --> 00:05:55.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we're so much more than all of it put together. that when we understand that.
00:05:55.740 --> 00:06:12.650 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, sometimes we need to dig into the details. And we need to get to work on something. And we need to get really physical, like going to the gym, or or doing Aaron's fixing things around the house, going shopping like, yeah, that's when we want to be in our body. But we're not just the body.
00:06:13.620 --> 00:06:27.389 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and when we feel lonely, or we want to connect with people, or even we, we're doing business, and we want to connect with potential customers or vendors that we're talking with strategic partners and joint venture people
00:06:27.670 --> 00:06:32.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we want to be in our heart. I mean, that's how we connect with others is with our heart.
00:06:33.690 --> 00:06:58.139 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And look, this is not to say that we shouldn't use our mind. Our mind is an amazing thing when we do meet with certain kinds of challenges. We do need to figure things out. We do need to use the mind, you know, if we're working on a business plan, or a budget, or or I mean, there are just so many things. But yes, we use the mind. But we're not just a mind. We're not just our intellect.
00:06:59.390 --> 00:07:17.949 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And there are some very spiritual people out there, and they're wonderful. But they're all up in spirit, and they're so up in spirit that they're not even grounded. But but spirit is tremendous. It's our inspiration, it's our connection to the rest of the universe. It's it's a that greater aspect of ourselves that
00:07:17.960 --> 00:07:20.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we feel like we're being faced with
00:07:21.320 --> 00:07:32.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: challenges that are way beyond our capability like that's when spirit comes in and and we're able to meet that challenge in ways we never even thought possible.
00:07:36.020 --> 00:07:41.419 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And when we bring all 4 of these aspects together in our consciousness.
00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:50.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: then we're a force of nature. then we're beyond anything that that we've ever imagined.
00:07:52.630 --> 00:07:53.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so
00:07:54.460 --> 00:07:58.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we're much more than any of our individual pieces.
00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:03.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we don't have to limit ourselves.
00:08:05.610 --> 00:08:19.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and who knows? Maybe in the future there'll be a a fifth element, or or a fifth aspect that that'll come to be that that's not integrated into my my, my filters yet.
00:08:21.090 --> 00:08:26.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But when we bring all of our being, when we show up in presence with people.
00:08:27.610 --> 00:08:30.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: there's real magic we can make in life.
00:08:33.870 --> 00:08:36.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know someone wants to ask the
00:08:36.429 --> 00:08:38.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: creator of the lineage that I follow.
00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:45.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, from doing this work does life get better? And he said, No, but you do.
00:08:46.980 --> 00:08:50.169 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that when I heard that I just thought, oh.
00:08:51.650 --> 00:08:58.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: such wisdom in that! Because life is life. no one can ever guarantee that life gets better.
00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:05.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But when we do that, deep in our work, when we are doing that self exploration, when we are
00:09:05.400 --> 00:09:09.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: facing our challenges and really coming into our own.
00:09:10.280 --> 00:09:11.859 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we get better.
00:09:12.520 --> 00:09:19.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so when we get better, then we're better able to handle the things that life brings us.
00:09:20.300 --> 00:09:24.529 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm I'm a big believer that life doesn't bring us anything we can't handle
00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:29.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so the more we're able to handle the more that comes to us.
00:09:31.090 --> 00:09:37.749 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But I believe like that's so true for doing any of this sort of deep, inner, spiritual, personal work.
00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:51.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's not that life gets better, but we get better. And how do we get better? We get better because we're more able to call upon all different aspects of ourselves. And then we show up
00:09:51.800 --> 00:09:55.459 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: as more fully human beings
00:09:55.870 --> 00:09:59.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: who are capable of so much, more.
00:09:59.460 --> 00:10:01.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so much more than we
00:10:01.270 --> 00:10:06.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: give ourselves credit for, so much more than we truly imagine in our lives.
00:10:07.700 --> 00:10:15.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: All right. So that's my section of of my book. The section is entitled, We are so much more than the some of our parts.
00:10:15.830 --> 00:10:35.539 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and that's from my book Everyday Awakening which, of course, is available at everyday awakening book.com, which again just takes you to the Amazon listing. And if you want to get buy it from your local bookstore, like I do, you can always ask them to order it. We're in a major distributor.
00:10:35.610 --> 00:10:41.869 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: All right. So now let's get on with our show. It is now my pleasure to welcome to the show
00:10:41.970 --> 00:10:47.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: spiritual teacher, author and a financial mentor, James Weeks.
00:10:48.050 --> 00:11:05.269 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: James is the author of Meditations across the Kings River, African-inspired wisdom for life's journey, and the producer of the upcoming documentary film across the Kings river, finding and fulfilling your life's purpose. James is also a
00:11:08.130 --> 00:11:30.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Thank you or priest of the Ifa spiritual tradition of West Africa, and helps clients with strategies for emotional, spiritual, and financial wellness. As a journalist, James has been published in Parenting Magazine, the San Francisco Weekly, Reg. A. B. To the Virgin Island Daily News and the Saint Croy Avis. I was in Saint Croy last year. I love that I'm
00:11:30.460 --> 00:11:40.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: always in demand. James has provided more than 1,500 readings, consultations to clients during the past decade. He's also a private pilot, scuba diver.
00:11:40.900 --> 00:12:05.320 james weeks: a a guitarist, and an avid student at far ex or foreign exchange trading and cryptocurrency. Welcome to the conscious consultant hour, James. thank you for for having me. And you know congratulations, and I'll I'll do work that you have been doing to elevate consciousness? bring people into a deeper awareness of their own spirit, that purpose so synonymous to be on your show.
00:12:05.770 --> 00:12:14.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Thank you. Thank you. I I appreciate that, James, and thank you for making the time to come on our show today. And and so I'm I'm curious.
00:12:15.170 --> 00:12:25.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How did you become a Babalau? And and and like what like were you always on a very spiritual path in your life? Or was this something that developed later in life.
00:12:25.260 --> 00:12:38.949 james weeks: I would answer it in 2 ways. It was part of my destiny. But but no, it wasn't a career path that I was on growing up in the Virgin Island in St. Croy, where I'm from. My my first love was airplanes
00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:40.379 james weeks: right? That was
00:12:40.610 --> 00:12:44.250 james weeks: all that I care about nothing else? So
00:12:44.390 --> 00:12:55.610 james weeks: the I eventually got my private pilot's license. But what happened? How did I end up on this path was because I had a finally crisis when my son was about 17 or 18 years old.
00:12:55.790 --> 00:13:02.909 james weeks: and he he wanted to be a Doug, and and during that time I reached out to someone
00:13:03.010 --> 00:13:21.510 james weeks: who was from West Africa, and he gave me a spiritual reading. During that reading he pointed out that while my son was in crisis, and while my son was going through this rough time, I was meant to do something else with my life, and that led me down a series of events that took me to West Africa that took me to a series of a spiritual initiations.
00:13:21.560 --> 00:13:25.039 james weeks: and that led me to do the work that I I currently do today.
00:13:25.050 --> 00:13:26.669 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Oh, wow!
00:13:26.860 --> 00:13:39.839 james weeks: And how did you first get in contact with this gentleman from West Africa
00:13:40.130 --> 00:13:41.840 james weeks: and
00:13:42.460 --> 00:13:52.859 james weeks: There! There was so much going on in my left at at that time I didn't really want to go, but I felt like I had to go, and so the only reason why I went was, I was hoping to get some insight into my son.
00:13:52.900 --> 00:13:58.909 james weeks: and what I got was more insight into myself and my purpose.
00:13:59.030 --> 00:14:02.240 james weeks: and what he said, I'm here to do, and it
00:14:03.210 --> 00:14:09.039 james weeks: I felt like the cloud had been lifted. I started to look at my son as a messenger, not as a troublemaker.
00:14:09.310 --> 00:14:16.880 james weeks: and that just over time it opened up a series of doors
00:14:16.940 --> 00:14:18.820 james weeks: that led me to where I am today.
00:14:18.870 --> 00:14:26.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: wonderful. Wonderful. Okay, great James, thank you so much for for giving our audience a little bit of that background
00:14:26.990 --> 00:14:45.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so that the that's so interesting. You're originally from Saint cry. I didn't know that this is a beautiful island. I just went there for the first time in May of last year, that this past May the May before, and I had a wonderful time there. It's one people they are wonderful. All right. We're going to take our first break. So when we come back.
00:14:45.410 --> 00:15:11.639 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: let's talk about sort of your path a little bit from after you've got that reading. And and and you know, how did that call to you so much that you went to West Africa. Got initiated. You know what? What sort of let's dig in a little bit more into that journey, and and what brought you to the point where you actually wrote your book, Meditations across the Kings River. And what is the Kings River and all that other good stuff. Okay.
00:15:11.710 --> 00:15:34.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: alright, alright. We got a lot to cover. So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant now awakening humanity. We do this every Thursday 12 noon to one Pm. Eastern time right here on talk radio, Dot, Nyc. And Wednesday mornings at 10 Am. On Kmt. In Palm Springs, California. And we'll be right back with our guest, James Weeks, in just a moment.
00:15:58.100 --> 00:16:04.340 Please join me and my various special guests on Friday at 11 Am. On talk radio and Nyc.
00:17:50.720 --> 00:18:06.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant, our awakening humanity. We're speaking this hour with James Weeks, author of the book, Meditations across the Kings River. So so from that initial reading you got from that that if a priest
00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:33.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and that sort of started you in this new direction. But you know, lots of people, you know, get spiritual readings. They do practice, you know, they they? They have different spiritual practices, but they don't necessarily, you know, it becomes their their main thing in life. How did that sort of evolve, you know, when you said you you actually went to West Africa, and you got into the initiations like, what was it about this particular tradition that that drew you in so deeply.
00:18:34.070 --> 00:18:40.720 james weeks: so well, there, there, there, there, there! There are 2 main things. One is
00:18:40.760 --> 00:18:45.029 james weeks: when when he told me bits of my future
00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:55.710 james weeks: what I I had this feeling like I heard this before. To to be honest in the previous lifetime, it sounded so familiar to me.
00:18:55.920 --> 00:19:08.769 james weeks: I mean, I felt like. If if what this man is saying is true. if he's saying that I could be I I could succeed at this. then I owe it to myself to follow through. I owe it to myself
00:19:09.910 --> 00:19:11.660 james weeks: to do what I must do.
00:19:11.830 --> 00:19:28.479 james weeks: And so I said, Well, let me go to Nigeria, West Africa, which is to create a lift, this tradition, and then my wife suggested that I take my son with me. so that my elders could help him out right. And
00:19:29.310 --> 00:19:42.129 james weeks: and it was also a fear that if I didn't take my son he might be dead when I came back. So this is how this is, how dire our situation was. It wasn't just like, Oh, my son is just acting up, or whatever. No.
00:19:42.530 --> 00:19:53.799 james weeks: this was like every day. We don't know like where our son is. We don't know what he's doing. There's this real fear that
00:19:54.550 --> 00:20:05.959 james weeks: so much of our lives were upside down because this trouble. And so up until the time that that he came on that plane with me, I didn't know for a fact that he would get on that plane. That's how
00:20:06.170 --> 00:20:08.580 james weeks: unstable our family life was.
00:20:08.830 --> 00:20:25.360 james weeks: But so we we went to West Africa. I was stressed out half the time to be honest And while I was in West Africa I was wondering, what is life going to be like when I get back to the Us. When my son gets back on the streets. What is going to happen.
00:20:25.530 --> 00:20:34.230 james weeks: you know. And where were you living at the time? I live in Oakland, and we still live in Oakland. I I live in Oakland,
00:20:34.560 --> 00:20:40.719 james weeks: But about a month after we came back from West Africa to psychologist who was seeing my sunset.
00:20:40.950 --> 00:20:46.319 james weeks: I don't know what happened in West Africa, but your son is new and improved.
00:20:46.690 --> 00:20:53.650 james weeks: and over the years, as I've looked at my son growing mature. He's a different person. He's a transformed person.
00:20:53.740 --> 00:21:05.189 james weeks: He's a successful, this very successful businessman. goes out to this way to help others is the father of 4 children. So when I look at my son.
00:21:05.420 --> 00:21:14.060 james weeks: I'm looking at a miracle. And so every day I'm reminded of miracles can happen, and they do have. Why can it happen for us.
00:21:14.100 --> 00:21:18.810 james weeks: you know, and so it it taught me so much about faith. perseverance.
00:21:18.860 --> 00:21:31.459 james weeks: I believing in the unseen And so when I came back from Nigeria, West Africa, I was still working at corporate America at that time, and I I I ended up working there for 7 more years until I got
00:21:32.020 --> 00:21:35.859 james weeks: forced out of my position right? And that let me down
00:21:35.870 --> 00:21:38.309 james weeks: another that opened another door for me.
00:21:38.380 --> 00:21:51.929 james weeks: because I had a Facebook page, and I was sharing a daily inspiration to support the film project that I'm working on across the kings where people started asking me, Well, do you have a book? People were taking some of my daily inspirations, and they were.
00:21:52.100 --> 00:21:58.570 james weeks: you know, posting it on the mirror so that they could look at it. They were, you know, compiling their own books, so to speak.
00:21:58.620 --> 00:22:02.190 james weeks: and that led me to put a book together so I could.
00:22:02.260 --> 00:22:17.370 james weeks: We just need to that I could inspire people. So the book is is a collection of affirmations and inspirations, but also essays based on my travels and spiritual experiences meeting people throughout the Caribbean and West Africa.
00:22:17.670 --> 00:22:26.719 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, so so what did happen on that trip to West Africa? What was it that changed things so much for you, you, you and your son.
00:22:27.780 --> 00:22:39.059 james weeks: I would say it's it's the the power of of medicines that that that they have there. I mean, Africa is the first continent, you know. So there are very, very powerful things that
00:22:39.510 --> 00:22:41.749 james weeks: are over there that can help, you know.
00:22:42.670 --> 00:22:46.840 james weeks: Healing, you know, on every on every level.
00:22:46.910 --> 00:23:01.760 james weeks: you talking about? I, Bogo, are you talking about other medicine? No, various things. So I focus is is like, I think, specific to one tradition. I can't remember which one it is, but not so much in it, right right in the in the you. But tradition But
00:23:02.570 --> 00:23:04.650 james weeks: what I would say is that
00:23:05.100 --> 00:23:09.340 james weeks: when I look at my life over the past 10 years.
00:23:11.330 --> 00:23:12.850 james weeks: I see how
00:23:13.120 --> 00:23:22.149 james weeks: this higher plan, this higher thing, you know, like manifested. But when I was in Africa. I couldn't see the the, the fullness of it, you know. I was
00:23:22.530 --> 00:23:41.240 james weeks: still, you know, caught up in the stress and the the worries of what's going to happen when I get back. But they told me when I left West Africa you're going to see good things in your family, and I didn't know if they were saying that to make me feel good, or if I would genuinely see good things in my family.
00:23:41.270 --> 00:23:42.329 james weeks: But I did.
00:23:42.570 --> 00:23:47.570 james weeks: you know, and so, connecting to this tradition, connecting more to
00:23:47.610 --> 00:23:51.060 james weeks: My purpose, has brought me a sense of fulfillment.
00:23:52.260 --> 00:23:59.700 james weeks: And it has led me to a place where I I truly believe
00:24:00.350 --> 00:24:14.690 james weeks: I know there's no guarantee that things can get better. that we can improve. you know. emotionally, spiritually, physically, financially. we can find more happiness. We can find more joy. We can find more love.
00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:28.629 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: wonderful, wonderful. So so so people basically through this Facebook page like encouraged you, you know, not not just on the film project, but to turn it into a book.
00:24:28.710 --> 00:24:31.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what is the Kings River?
00:24:31.690 --> 00:24:37.880 james weeks: So the Kings river actually comes from A, it's inspired by a proverb, A, you're a a prophet that says
00:24:37.910 --> 00:24:49.920 james weeks: The problem says that if a king asked you to do something. You can't tell the king. No, that you're not going to do it. And so the problem implies that the king has asked you to cross a river.
00:24:49.980 --> 00:25:06.399 james weeks: and then the problem goes on to say, but the the river is The river is full, and the the when they say the river is full. It's a it's an implication that something could go. Something could go wrong. You could die in the process, say the rivers, and then the problem ends by saying.
00:25:06.530 --> 00:25:13.360 james weeks: but if a king asked you to do something, you can't say no. So the problem starts by saying, the king asked you to do something you can't say. No.
00:25:14.510 --> 00:25:15.500 james weeks: you know
00:25:15.690 --> 00:25:18.869 james weeks: the river is full, but you can't tell the king, though.
00:25:18.890 --> 00:25:26.260 james weeks: And so when I heard that proverb to the the Europeans use that proverb with some of this at the crossroads of life, you know.
00:25:26.270 --> 00:25:28.880 james weeks: They'll say that proper, hey? Well, you know.
00:25:29.450 --> 00:25:33.700 james weeks: the king says this, you know, reverse forward, but you can't say no.
00:25:33.840 --> 00:25:37.409 james weeks: When I first heard that proverb, I I thought about it as a
00:25:38.540 --> 00:25:48.429 james weeks: the king is a higher force. That's asking us to do something, you know it's right, exactly. And for me I look at I think of the King as well God, or
00:25:48.810 --> 00:25:55.170 james weeks: whatever higher force ancestors. What? What? Whatever term you you want to? That's asking each of us
00:25:55.630 --> 00:26:02.069 james weeks: to fulfill whatever it is that we're meant to do to follow through on something. Yes, there are risk, but
00:26:03.280 --> 00:26:07.020 james weeks: we have to do it. But we we we we we should do it.
00:26:07.040 --> 00:26:13.479 james weeks: you know. So it's that challenge. You know that that's where that inspiration that's where that title comes from the Kings River.
00:26:14.460 --> 00:26:15.230 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:26:15.560 --> 00:26:17.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what was the river for you?
00:26:18.410 --> 00:26:22.340 james weeks: That's only things one
00:26:22.370 --> 00:26:28.290 james weeks: one river would be expanding the way
00:26:28.350 --> 00:26:30.400 james weeks: I saw myself, because
00:26:31.750 --> 00:26:46.230 james weeks: by no stretch did I think that I would ever do this, you know, or that even that I could even do this. That would be one river just so many Rivers River number 2.
00:26:46.300 --> 00:26:49.209 james weeks: When my job at corporate the market ended.
00:26:49.390 --> 00:27:09.260 james weeks: being able to survive without ever working for someone else again. That was another river right? The third river would be When I got to the States where I realized that so many people are struggling with financial issues. And I was, too. And so that led me down another river of
00:27:10.410 --> 00:27:14.320 james weeks: becoming a student of finance and
00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:25.340 james weeks: teaching people or trying to attempting to mentor people about finance. And that's why I included a chapter in the book on Balancing spirits and financial growth. Because.
00:27:25.800 --> 00:27:34.949 james weeks: as you you said earlier, when you, when you were talking about your book, you mentioned how sometimes people get so caught up in that they're not grounded. And so I saw finance as being
00:27:35.070 --> 00:27:36.649 james weeks: a powerful tool
00:27:36.710 --> 00:27:39.219 james weeks: that we must become, you know.
00:27:39.850 --> 00:27:49.890 james weeks: Good at you, you know. And so that opened up another door. So there for me there's been many doors that have that have opened and continued to open as I stay.
00:27:50.210 --> 00:27:51.060 james weeks: you know.
00:27:52.110 --> 00:27:54.629 james weeks: because I connect with the inspiration that I feel
00:27:55.210 --> 00:28:00.289 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful wonderful. Thank you. Thank you, James.
00:28:00.500 --> 00:28:03.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm I'm curious
00:28:04.100 --> 00:28:10.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when you you left corporate, or when sort of spear called you out of corporate, I'll say.
00:28:10.650 --> 00:28:24.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And you started doing this at the time. Did you think like this would just be sort of a a temporary move for you, or did you kind of feel inside like this was really going to be like the calling for the rest of your life?
00:28:25.380 --> 00:28:31.960 james weeks: I didn't know. I I I tend not to think
00:28:32.020 --> 00:28:41.219 james weeks: like so so far in advance, so to speak. I tend to be more in well, what's in front of me at the time. I would say this.
00:28:41.230 --> 00:28:51.249 james weeks: There were times when I I felt like, Well, I I actually attempted to get another job, and it never happened. It just like it wouldn't happen.
00:28:51.650 --> 00:28:58.220 james weeks: I would go to the interview that that that never happened for me. I went on several interviews.
00:28:58.560 --> 00:29:04.090 james weeks: 0. And so that taught me that. Well, that's not what you know.
00:29:04.210 --> 00:29:08.459 james weeks: It was what you do. They want me to stay focused in this space to
00:29:08.590 --> 00:29:18.319 james weeks: to counsel others to be of service to others. So I I did make an attempt about several attempts, and that didn't happen. And so so here I am today, and
00:29:18.790 --> 00:29:26.240 james weeks: I, knowing what I know and having the skills that I have, I mean, there's no way that I would consider now at this point to go.
00:29:26.310 --> 00:29:28.929 james weeks: you know, seek employment
00:29:28.980 --> 00:29:39.289 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: somewhere else. And how long now, have you been doing this work full time for the past decade? More than a decade. Now, wow! That's wonderful. That's wonderful.
00:29:39.370 --> 00:29:41.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's great. I mean, it's something that I think
00:29:42.970 --> 00:29:44.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so many people
00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:56.749 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: are looking for their life's purpose, and they feel like they never get there. And yet, isn't it? Sometimes it's always calling to us, but we're afraid to take the steps to face it
00:29:57.130 --> 00:30:01.330 james weeks: absolutely. There's that there's we. We're afraid to take it.
00:30:01.520 --> 00:30:04.000 james weeks: But also what I found is
00:30:05.010 --> 00:30:30.729 james weeks: so many of us. We we we do so so much overthinking, you know we think about it this way. Then we have to think about it that way. Then we want some other signs, and we want another sign, and we want some other confirmation. And then, you know, then we think about it, and then we start to question it. And then as we face the challenges or obstacles along the way. We'll say, Well, that can't be it, because if it was it, then I wouldn't have these challenges.
00:30:30.730 --> 00:30:39.509 james weeks: It would go more smoothly, but none of that is true. it it it may not go smoothly, it may be rough, you will face opposition.
00:30:39.940 --> 00:30:42.629 james weeks: You may face burnout, you know
00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:49.390 james weeks: you may hate it at times, all of these things. but it doesn't mean it's not your calling.
00:30:49.450 --> 00:31:00.199 james weeks: You know. What I've learned is that for some people the slightest inconvenience is assigned for them to stop. You know it's like the wind blows, and it's oh, that's my sign.
00:31:00.260 --> 00:31:03.860 james weeks: It's rating today. That's that's my sign to stop. But no, these are
00:31:04.350 --> 00:31:07.649 james weeks: these are moments to to press forward.
00:31:07.670 --> 00:31:17.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Right? I mean, it's just life. It is like just like happens. And it nothing's ever perfect. Nor is it meant to be, because, isn't it?
00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:28.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: In the struggle like? That's where the real growth comes from. We learn more about ourselves, we find reserves we never knew. We have. We found the inspiration we never knew. We have
00:31:30.230 --> 00:31:38.459 james weeks: absolutely a hundred. And, as you know, it's it's just through those those difficulties that
00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:47.119 james weeks: it just makes it so much more meaningful when we are when we do have those breakthroughs right. But if it's
00:31:47.150 --> 00:31:51.880 james weeks: easily without opposition. It's not as as meaningful. I find it.
00:31:52.850 --> 00:32:03.080 james weeks: Sometimes the the best things are are at time just not getting what we want, so that we can. So something better can come out of us so that we can grow so that we can really really
00:32:03.600 --> 00:32:07.549 james weeks: that the diamonds that we all have inside can emerge.
00:32:10.950 --> 00:32:20.749 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: okay, we're going to take another commercial break when we come back. let's talk a little bit about the response from the book coming out and about the upcoming film.
00:32:20.770 --> 00:32:23.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And also I'd love to talk a little bit about sort of the
00:32:24.190 --> 00:32:34.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: perhaps somewhat unique challenges that that people in the African, American and African communities have when it comes to spirituality, because I've had many
00:32:34.630 --> 00:32:48.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: people who look a lot like myself, you know. Talk about spirituality on the show. But I think maybe there are some differences, some some challenges that are very specific to the culture you come from.
00:32:48.780 --> 00:33:02.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: okay. Wonderful, wonderful. and I do see loyal listener, Patti. listening in on on the Youtube. Live from Washington State. Thank you, Patty, it's always wonderful to see you listening in.
00:33:02.550 --> 00:33:20.940 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And and just a reminder, if you are listening, live, please feel free to comment whether it's on Facebook or Youtube. Ask your questions. Let me know what you are thinking, and we'll get to all that during the show. So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant now awakening humanity. And we'll be right back
00:33:21.010 --> 00:33:22.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: after this
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00:35:26.780 --> 00:35:33.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious. Consult now awakening humanity. So, James.
00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:39.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you came out with your book a few years ago. What was the initial reaction to the book?
00:35:40.140 --> 00:35:41.060 james weeks: It was
00:35:41.570 --> 00:35:46.739 james weeks: very, very, very well received. In the first 12 months, when it
00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:48.630 james weeks: The publisher said that
00:35:48.790 --> 00:35:57.079 james weeks: to book sold more copies than most. Book 7, 5, 6 years, you know. So strong response, so still strong response.
00:35:58.290 --> 00:36:03.079 james weeks: very, very strong response, a huge interest in the book.
00:36:04.030 --> 00:36:20.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: No, you had been making or or started on the documentary film, I think, before you came out with the book. That's right, that's correct. And so that's still ongoing. So I'm still in the production phase of that film. Yeah, how is the film different from the book.
00:36:21.530 --> 00:36:23.880 james weeks: the phone.
00:36:25.930 --> 00:36:29.050 james weeks: It differs from the book and it in and
00:36:29.460 --> 00:36:52.770 james weeks: there there. There are central themes that are similar in the book as well as the film. Which is this, this journey to complete our lives purpose. So in the film, I'll be taking people to Nigeria, West Africa, as well as through the Kerrigan Islands of Saint Croy, for Mei, Bermuda, and Guadalu. So the film will also give audiences a a close up look at at some of the
00:36:53.250 --> 00:37:01.019 james weeks: some of the the healers and elders I work within in Nigeria as well. So there's some some differences in
00:37:01.090 --> 00:37:04.469 james weeks: some similarities, but I would say the
00:37:04.810 --> 00:37:19.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the film has a a narrow, a more narrow focus, gotcha, gotcha. And and do you have a sense of when you'll probably be completing the phone in about 2 years, I would say, 2 more years. Wow! It's a really long project. Huh!
00:37:19.340 --> 00:37:31.890 james weeks: It is for the better. And so this is again one of those things where I would say this if I knew what? Back in 2,008 that would take me this long
00:37:31.930 --> 00:37:34.639 james weeks: to to work in this project, I would have said, No, I'm not.
00:37:34.750 --> 00:37:43.309 james weeks: No, absolutely not. But it's been such a a wonderful growth experience it it it really has opened me up. It's
00:37:43.610 --> 00:37:59.390 james weeks: the film that I am making now way better than what I originally envisioned. So it's it's it's just an instance of how, with time and delays and obstacles, something good comes out of it.
00:37:59.540 --> 00:38:03.740 And I. I like to point this out because so many people are starting projects.
00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:09.620 james weeks: and they're frustrated with delays, and which tends to happen more often than not. And it's just
00:38:10.290 --> 00:38:16.749 james weeks: it's just part of the the journey, you know, and it's it's about trusting that journey and being patient and
00:38:17.420 --> 00:38:19.000 james weeks: seeing what? Just
00:38:19.630 --> 00:38:31.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: keep moving. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. It's all. It's all part of the process, right? It. It's it's it's it's it's it's it's never smooth.
00:38:32.230 --> 00:38:34.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I'm curious
00:38:36.240 --> 00:38:39.519 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: about. you know the the
00:38:39.910 --> 00:38:44.879 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the unique challenges when you're pursuing a spiritual path
00:38:45.060 --> 00:38:46.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: as someone
00:38:46.810 --> 00:38:57.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: whose ancestors come from Africa, someone coming from the Caribbean in the community. How is it different from your perspective from what you see
00:38:57.580 --> 00:39:02.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in the in the Caucasian spiritual community.
00:39:03.050 --> 00:39:04.429 james weeks: so
00:39:04.970 --> 00:39:14.040 james weeks: so one of the challenges. for example, in in on my journey, or or in my path? Right? for people who
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:16.459 james weeks: are looking towards Africa is that
00:39:16.870 --> 00:39:29.330 james weeks: Africa has been so demonized because of of race historical racism that even within our our own communities there's a resistance to embrace things
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:40.109 james weeks: that that that that can benefit us, that come from Africa. Right? And so you find that not only the diaspora, but you'll find that also
00:39:40.580 --> 00:39:51.429 james weeks: in in Nigeria, in West Africa. So you'll find that leaders will not say that they're affiliated with anything that's indigenous. They they won't.
00:39:51.660 --> 00:39:59.299 james weeks: for a political leader will have to say that the Christian or the Muslim they would never, ever say, ever say that
00:39:59.370 --> 00:40:19.519 james weeks: they have any connection or respect for anything indigenous. So it's looked down upon, even though, even though these tradition have so much to offer in terms of like healing in terms of helping us philosophically, even in terms of us having a a deeper understanding of technology.
00:40:19.530 --> 00:40:34.940 james weeks: One of the things I point out in the book, is how these same tradition. These same traditions that emerge out of West Africa influence the history of Western mathematics and also influenced
00:40:36.210 --> 00:40:44.699 james weeks: digital technology because the binary code that's using digital technology can be the root of that can be traced all the way back to these traditions.
00:40:44.740 --> 00:40:46.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Really, wow.
00:40:46.860 --> 00:40:47.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: no.
00:40:48.220 --> 00:40:58.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah. I think it's really important. We tend to be somewhat myopic in in some ways, when we look at traditions and history, and what serves us, and and and I think, like
00:40:59.670 --> 00:41:03.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: society as a whole is such a rich tapestry.
00:41:04.130 --> 00:41:09.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and there's so many colors, and there's so many flavors to it
00:41:09.260 --> 00:41:11.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that to truly
00:41:12.680 --> 00:41:18.839 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: appreciate the richness of life, it's about learning to appreciate the
00:41:19.060 --> 00:41:21.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all the different cultures, all the different
00:41:21.630 --> 00:41:28.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: traditions that we come from. And and it's kind of interesting to hear how
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:33.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know the the indigenous side of Africa is is is
00:41:34.090 --> 00:41:52.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: not so accepted because I know in South America recently it it was sort of a big deal that I think the president of Ecuador recently was someone who was affiliated with in in indigenous tribes and and in Mexico. The the current President has has,
00:41:52.200 --> 00:42:04.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it, said he, his own beliefs and in some of the indigenous practices. And it was like a really big deal. so even though it's been challenging. Do you think that it's
00:42:04.710 --> 00:42:20.610 james weeks: starting? Maybe just ever so slightly to be? It is so it it is shifting, you know. gradually, if there's huge interest in the West. I mean, just across ethnic groups, across race is this huge interest
00:42:20.650 --> 00:42:24.529 james weeks: now in in in, in Africa, and even also
00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:32.449 james weeks: thanks to like blockbuster films like Black Panther. Recently the woman King.
00:42:32.510 --> 00:42:35.099 james weeks: you know these phones have made it
00:42:35.240 --> 00:42:47.100 james weeks: but cool, you know, for many more cool and more sexy to look at these traditions. And as a forward thinking thing to do. So there's definitely more more interest.
00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:52.899 james weeks: way, way, more than the website 2030 years ago.
00:42:53.670 --> 00:43:04.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but yeah, yeah, that's interesting. That's interesting. I I'm curious. When somebody comes to work with you. Is that like
00:43:05.170 --> 00:43:14.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: something that that you you find you have to sort of delically work with them around their sort of biases against
00:43:15.090 --> 00:43:25.789 james weeks: no, no, I I'll explain why, and the reason why not so much is because. the beautiful thing about
00:43:26.730 --> 00:43:29.429 james weeks: our tradition or people coming is
00:43:30.050 --> 00:43:35.280 james weeks: they don't have to. You don't really have to know anything about. They don't have to subscribe to
00:43:35.820 --> 00:43:41.709 james weeks: the the I'm interested. For example, someone Co contact me work for a consultation.
00:43:44.120 --> 00:43:58.240 james weeks: I like to steer them back towards themselves, towards what what aspect of their life they should be focused on. So it's not about the tradition. It's about the person, you know. In a sense, it's no different from taking.
00:43:58.560 --> 00:44:02.810 james weeks: It's not the best analogy. Your car into a a mechanic. A mechanic doesn't
00:44:03.100 --> 00:44:15.200 james weeks: care about what your belief system is right. A mechanic is looking at your car. And you know, how do we get this car to perform properly? So same thing here in in our world is, how do we get this person to
00:44:15.430 --> 00:44:21.209 james weeks: function better? So it's not about me. It's not about the tradition, it's more about.
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:32.509 james weeks: So it could be any anybody from any belief system. How do you? You know what's holding them back? You know I could look at their diet, for example, I could look at what's holding back emotionally.
00:44:32.610 --> 00:44:40.559 james weeks: I could look at the relationship. There's so many I could look at gifts that they may have that they may not be aware of. So it
00:44:41.540 --> 00:44:44.119 james weeks: that's what that's what's so beautiful about it. So it's not.
00:44:44.460 --> 00:44:49.540 james weeks: you know. so I I don't feel so much of a attention there
00:44:49.620 --> 00:44:52.030 james weeks: as when people come to me
00:44:52.400 --> 00:45:03.260 james weeks: right? Because because it's not about a particular belief, it's really about what's going to help the individual
00:45:03.420 --> 00:45:05.269 james weeks: start doing or stop doing.
00:45:05.390 --> 00:45:16.460 james weeks: you know? so it's that's the approach that I take, I mean, for people who do want to know more about the tradition. I can. But it's not the route that I I take 95 of the time. It's about
00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:32.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the person. And what is it that they're struggling with? What do they need? Help with? Right? Right? Right? Beautiful, beautiful. I see a comment on the Youtube. Live from Alicia, says Hi Baba, listening in from New York and join the conversation and take it that somebody, you know.
00:45:32.950 --> 00:45:47.559 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yes, she's a a dear friend of special soul. Yes, yes, yes, glad glad that we can bring her into the conversation. Awesome, all right. So we're going to take our last break of the show when we come back.
00:45:47.560 --> 00:46:02.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I I'd like to talk a little bit more about how does somebody find their life's purpose like, how does somebody, even in the middle of challenges? Even the middle of you know the today's post-pandemic world. How do we find our life's purpose? Okay.
00:46:02.660 --> 00:46:15.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sure, definitely awesome. So everyone, please stay tuned. You're listening to the conscious consultant now awakening humanity, and we'll be right back to wrap up with our guest, James Weeks, in just a moment.
00:48:22.720 --> 00:48:30.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So, James, we live in a very different world than 3, 4 years ago.
00:48:31.080 --> 00:48:34.459 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when someone comes to you today, and is like
00:48:34.640 --> 00:48:42.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I don't know. I feel lost. I don't know what my life's purpose is. I I don't know what I should be doing with my life. But
00:48:42.990 --> 00:48:44.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: how do you help them with that?
00:48:45.850 --> 00:48:51.030 james weeks: Well. I I think number one is.
00:48:53.260 --> 00:49:04.769 james weeks: we would want to start with what we what do they feel drawn to naturally, what? What? What occupies their mind?
00:49:06.160 --> 00:49:15.470 james weeks: That's one of the the areas where we want to start, because that's where we're being led. And so one of the things I I always suggest when I'm working with people is
00:49:15.490 --> 00:49:23.479 james weeks: developing some type of spiritual practice, because that helps us become more receptive to messages that are coming from us.
00:49:23.640 --> 00:49:52.390 james weeks: Right? And without, you know, some type of spiritual practice. We we, we, we tend to stay in confusion land longer than we should, you know, so I would. I feel it's a point to start with W. Where we feel led. You know also, what type of help to people come to us for? what it? When people come to us for help, what exactly are we helping them with? I think it's important to start there.
00:49:52.570 --> 00:49:55.820 james weeks: but I also feel that
00:49:55.930 --> 00:50:00.369 james weeks: that throughout life we're always being trained from
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:04.340 james weeks: for the purpose that's unfolding. So
00:50:05.410 --> 00:50:11.010 james weeks: in my mid twenties I work at a newspaper in the Virgin Island.
00:50:11.020 --> 00:50:14.770 james weeks: So during this writing articles.
00:50:15.040 --> 00:50:39.880 james weeks: and I didn't know at that time that that that work would be used today to write the book, you know, because it wasn't when I came to United States. It wasn't, you know, I didn't end up staying in the same field, but that thing that I did a long time ago is playing a room now, even in my my past job. So I used to work for a fortune. 500 company. I did customer service for more than 10 years, talking to people all day long about
00:50:40.350 --> 00:50:50.270 james weeks: issues with products and things. Even that training is being used now in in what I do here, working with people. So I feel that as we go through live
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:59.080 james weeks: we're constantly being trained either to enhance the the purpose or to move or to pivot in different directions.
00:50:59.530 --> 00:51:19.020 james weeks: so I I look, for example, as being in the financial space as an extension of being a healer. I'm now bringing attempting to bring financial healing, for example. But it's financial healing, different from spiritual healing to me to different manifestations of the same thing. They're they're both necessary. So
00:51:19.120 --> 00:51:25.930 james weeks: that's what I would say, being open to how we feel that. but not questioning it too much, and then also
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:31.870 james weeks: are realizing that we we're not cogs in the machine, you know. we can pivot.
00:51:31.930 --> 00:51:34.659 james weeks: You know. Part of my my purpose was
00:51:35.200 --> 00:51:57.700 james weeks: to be not only a husband, but to be a father, so if I wasn't a father well, I'd probably I wouldn't have had that experience with my son which might not have led me to West Africa. So all of these things are are connected. And so sometimes, when people think about purpose, I think they're thinking about it in in, in, in such a narrow way, when it doesn't have to be, you know, what are you interested?
00:51:57.720 --> 00:52:04.120 james weeks: You know? we're not like what we call still, exactly.
00:52:04.370 --> 00:52:07.530 james weeks: Yeah, yeah, beautiful, beautiful.
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:10.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm curious.
00:52:10.710 --> 00:52:22.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: When people come to you for a consultation these days. Are they coming with different issues? And they have in the past, you know, in the last 2, 3 years, or is it still pretty much the same.
00:52:22.900 --> 00:52:25.370 james weeks: No, not so much. And because
00:52:27.230 --> 00:52:33.180 james weeks: human beings are human beings. they're going to be struggling with relationships. You know.
00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:37.450 james weeks: they they're going to be having some type of emotional turmoil.
00:52:38.870 --> 00:52:45.020 james weeks: they they're likely to have some type of financial issue going on. They're likely to have some type of career. Is she going on?
00:52:45.850 --> 00:53:01.859 james weeks: They're looking for love. They're looking for purpose. So it doesn't matter whether it's Covid going on doesn't matter if there's a war in Ukraine going on doesn't matter if Trump's in office. Biden's out of office. There are certain struggles that are just the the human journey
00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:03.250 james weeks: that will.
00:53:03.820 --> 00:53:13.280 james weeks: So we see different. you know, manifest the same thing. There'll be health concerns. Right? So those things don't don't vary that much, you know.
00:53:13.980 --> 00:53:18.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, people are people. Life is like
00:53:18.300 --> 00:53:21.270 james weeks: it. It continues on.
00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:24.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm curious, you know, a lot of people these days are.
00:53:25.770 --> 00:53:26.840 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or or
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:42.270 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a little more depressed, a little more stressed out because there's so many like big challenges that we're facing with the environment, with the political environment, with war, with all kinds of things going on within society.
00:53:42.510 --> 00:53:45.289 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm curious. Are you
00:53:45.420 --> 00:53:58.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: more optimistic or pessimistic about the future, or or are you more kind of the middle of the road, I mean, how do you do? Do you feel better about like where things are going, or do you have like concerns?
00:53:58.830 --> 00:54:00.430 james weeks: I'm always optimistic.
00:54:00.700 --> 00:54:04.730 james weeks: but I have concerns. But why am I always optimistic? Well, because
00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:19.169 james weeks: because I know I know better. You know I know that for all of these crisis that are going on, they will always go on. There's always the other side that's happening simultaneously. There are people every day that go out of the way to help other people.
00:54:20.030 --> 00:54:29.169 james weeks: There are miracles that happen every single day on planet Earth. Someone is being held healed every single day on planet Earth. Someone is being transformed somewhere
00:54:29.370 --> 00:54:35.610 james weeks: on planet Earth. Every single day, every single day on planet Earth someone falls in love without exception.
00:54:36.740 --> 00:54:48.070 james weeks: Every single day someone is celebrating the birth of a child somewhere. And so there's all this, this, this other narrative that's always there. It it must be. And so
00:54:48.610 --> 00:54:59.890 james weeks: when I think about my own challenges or challenges in the world one of the things that I do. So I like to imagine that I'm at the beach, and then, when I'm at the beach. I'm looking at the way it's coming.
00:55:00.170 --> 00:55:04.270 james weeks: I that I'm looking at the ways that I'm looking at the ways that flow.
00:55:05.090 --> 00:55:11.540 james weeks: just this. This is life, discontinuous journey. There, there, there will always be light. There will always be darkness.
00:55:11.590 --> 00:55:15.359 james weeks: W. Dark will dark. Just continue. I I guarantee you it will.
00:55:15.730 --> 00:55:20.070 james weeks: Oh, well, light continue. Yes, we'll love. Continue. Yes.
00:55:20.380 --> 00:55:30.809 james weeks: you know. And so the present condition of any challenge that we have doesn't mean it. That will continue in different, in indefinitely. No.
00:55:31.190 --> 00:55:33.450 james weeks: there can be a shift. So
00:55:34.690 --> 00:55:40.670 james weeks: I I move towards the space of optimism. I move towards the space of what I can do.
00:55:41.020 --> 00:55:48.030 james weeks: I move towards what I love, and I move towards who I love and the rest. I do what I can.
00:55:49.020 --> 00:55:50.959 james weeks: but I don't.
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:58.479 james weeks: I can't drown myself in every issue, and I I just can't, and I'm not going to do it. I'm going to take a nap.
00:55:58.870 --> 00:56:03.029 james weeks: To be honest, I'm going to have a cup of coffee.
00:56:04.470 --> 00:56:05.890 james weeks: If I I
00:56:06.040 --> 00:56:25.600 james weeks: I think we we have. My position. Is this just life we have. Let's celebrate it. Let's, I mean, let's celebrate, I mean, for what it is doesn't have to be perfect, you know. When I was in, I was in Bermuda recently, and this one of my clients. He! He! He! He! Made a statement, he said. Even a crack calabash carries water.
00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:30.990 james weeks: and I I just love that so much. It's a correct calabash. but it still carries water.
00:56:32.220 --> 00:56:34.220 james weeks: So even with all of these.
00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:40.369 james weeks: it perfect. Whatever you know, the human challenges just just we can all carry water.
00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:42.760 james weeks: or we can carry more water.
00:56:43.990 --> 00:56:46.480 james weeks: So for me, it's optimism.
00:56:46.980 --> 00:56:52.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: beautiful, beautiful Paddy, on the on the Youtube says Amen to that.
00:56:52.620 --> 00:56:58.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yes, so beautiful. All right. Listen, James, we have to close up the show.
00:56:58.860 --> 00:57:21.039 james weeks: If any of our listeners would like to learn more about you, get in touch with you, how would they find you
00:57:21.180 --> 00:57:22.269 james weeks: work with them.
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:47.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful, wonderful! Well, James, thank you again. I truly appreciate you taking the time to come on my show today. It's been wonderful having a conversation with you, and next time I'm on the West Coast I'm in this San Francisco Bay area. We'll definitely have to get together. And definitely. I'd like to thank you so much up together or something. And if you come to New York you gotta look me up. Okay, I will. I definitely will thank you. Very wonderful, wonderful!
00:57:47.150 --> 00:57:59.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And of course, thank you, my loyal listeners, for tuning in every week. It is such an honor for you to share your time with me. I truly appreciate it. Coming up next week we have another wonderful guest.
00:57:59.100 --> 00:58:23.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Also talking about a different spiritual tradition, and so make sure you you tune in, as we always do. And of course, if you missed any part of today's show, you can always catch the replay on talk, radio that Nyc or you can catch the recordings on all of the podcasting platforms, apple, Google, stitch, or spotify bendor, I heart radio anywhere. You find podcast where there, even Amazon music.
00:58:23.590 --> 00:58:29.399 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So make sure to catch us there. Thank you all for tuning in. We will talk to you all next week.
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