Jeremy McDonald is a dynamic Learning and Development professional, mindset coach, and transformational speaker with over 25 years of experience. He holds a master’s degree in adult education.
He bridges the corporate and spiritual worlds as a New Thought Speaker, intuitive soul guide, and Reiki master, empowering individuals to overcome blocks and unlock their full potential. A three-time bestselling author and host of Mystic Dialogue on Ethereal TV, Jeremy shares thought-provoking insights that inspire personal and professional growth.
Jeremy will discuss the role of spirituality in his life; the influences that bring him to his current work and focus; what it truly means to be in alignment with our soul; finding our inner voice.
Further discussion will focus on the daily practices that prepare us for connection with our soul's wisdom.
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Host Linda Marsanico welcomes transformational speaker and intuitive soul guide Jeremy McDonald, who shares how his spiritual foundation was shaped by his mother—a nurse, healer, and elevated shaman who became his mentor even beyond her passing. Jeremy reflects on how true spirituality is less about mysticism and more about finding peace in how we show up to life’s challenges, transforming drama with compassion and presence. He also discusses building a relationship with one’s inner voice by silencing limiting external messages and choosing to nurture the voice of authentic love within.
Jeremy McDonald shares that our soul often communicates through synchronicities, physical sensations like anxiety, or persistent inner nudges—subtle signs that call for deeper self-awareness and alignment. He describes how even physical diagnoses or emotional disruptions can be invitations to explore unresolved energetic imprints, particularly from childhood, and how honoring these signs with reflection can lead to healing and clarity. Through tools like animal symbolism, metaphysical texts, and mindful awareness, Jeremy encourages us to view life’s moments—mundane or mystical—as soulful prompts guiding us toward balance, purpose, and peace.
Jeremy McDonald shares a pivotal moment when his soul guided him to abandon a seemingly successful but unfulfilling life in corporate leadership, leading to a transformational journey of healing, spiritual awakening, and inner peace. Through personal revelations, metaphysical studies, and profound experiences—including a vision of Jesus inviting him into self-love—he came to understand the importance of aligning with one’s true essence and reclaiming joy. He reminds listeners that soulful guidance often arrives through everyday interactions, emotional prompts, and symbolic moments, encouraging us to listen deeply and live authentically with love, balance, and self-worth.
Jeremy McDonald discusses how fear of making the wrong choice often stems from past trauma, external programming, and “cross-purposing,” where soul and ego pull in different directions. He encourages listeners to embrace perceived failures as growth opportunities, trust in synchronicities, and use daily spiritual practices—like meditation, journaling, nature walks, and intentional stillness—to connect with soul wisdom and reclaim inner peace. By surrendering to divine timing and quieting the mind, he reminds us we open ourselves to joy, purpose, and a deeper relationship with the universe and ourselves.
00:00:53.160 --> 00:00:58.330 Linda Marsanico: Hello, everyone! Welcome to the A. Train to Sedona broadcast.
00:00:58.620 --> 00:01:00.350 Linda Marsanico: I'm Linda Marcannico.
00:01:00.790 --> 00:01:08.200 Linda Marsanico: The A. Train to Sedona is also the name of a memoir, I wrote about my journey to love and compassion
00:01:08.490 --> 00:01:14.869 Linda Marsanico: in it. I share my failures and successes in the hope that my journey will inspire yours.
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00:01:42.020 --> 00:01:48.029 Linda Marsanico: One of the exercises is a breathing exercise. I call it 4, 4, 8.
00:01:48.190 --> 00:01:49.769 Linda Marsanico: Breathe in for 4.
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00:02:29.980 --> 00:02:33.009 Linda Marsanico: Today. My guest is Jeremy Macdonald.
00:02:34.420 --> 00:02:40.619 Linda Marsanico: Jeremy Mcdonald is a dynamic learning and development. Professional mindset coach
00:02:40.850 --> 00:02:46.100 Linda Marsanico: and transformational speaker with over 25 years of experience
00:02:46.740 --> 00:02:59.249 Linda Marsanico: holding a master's degree in adult education, Jeremy has led impactful initiatives for top organizations like Metlife, Hsbc. And New York life.
00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:10.179 Linda Marsanico: He bridges the corporate and spiritual worlds as a new Thought speaker, intuitive soul, guide and reiki master.
00:03:10.790 --> 00:03:16.930 Linda Marsanico: empowering individuals to overcome blocks and unlock their full potential.
00:03:17.690 --> 00:03:32.409 Linda Marsanico: A three-time, best-selling author and host of mystic dialogue on ethereal TV. Jeremy shares thought-provoking insights that inspire personal and professional growth.
00:03:33.670 --> 00:03:40.230 Linda Marsanico: He is also the co-founder of the lamplight group and spirit, heart cruise.
00:03:40.420 --> 00:03:50.270 Linda Marsanico: and a producer of the Beyond, the veil and Inner Temple symposiums known for his empathic approach.
00:03:50.410 --> 00:03:54.300 Linda Marsanico: creative energy and transformative healing work.
00:03:54.450 --> 00:04:02.210 Linda Marsanico: Jeremy is a sought-after speaker and mentor who leaves a lasting impact everywhere he goes.
00:04:02.660 --> 00:04:05.759 Linda Marsanico: Jeremy, welcome to the A. Train to Sedona.
00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:10.810 Jeremy McDonald: Well, thank you so much. That's a great introduction. Thank you, Linda. Thanks for having me.
00:04:10.810 --> 00:04:13.870 Linda Marsanico: I think we're going to have a very inspiring conversation.
00:04:14.090 --> 00:04:16.610 Jeremy McDonald: I think so too. I'm looking forward to it.
00:04:17.050 --> 00:04:26.050 Linda Marsanico: My 1st question is, when you look at your past, your youth, what are the influences that bring you to where you are today?
00:04:27.770 --> 00:04:28.550 Jeremy McDonald: Oh.
00:04:28.870 --> 00:04:42.780 Jeremy McDonald: my mother! My mother is one of my biggest influences, her kindness and compassion, and how she saw the world. I was kind of the emotional hothead when I was younger, and
00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:48.699 Jeremy McDonald: my mother's patience with me and and kindness, and she was a registered nurse, and then
00:04:48.820 --> 00:04:50.629 Jeremy McDonald: also a healer herself.
00:04:52.240 --> 00:05:13.439 Jeremy McDonald: She was my biggest motivator in in life, and her encouragement that was my biggest things I always remember. I always go back to my mother's teachings, and it's funny because I didn't really listen to her when I was a teenager up until I always said she she got smart around 27, or 28, and she got dumb around 13, and she didn't find that quite as funny as I did. But
00:05:13.909 --> 00:05:19.889 Jeremy McDonald: but she also had a great sense of humor. So yeah, my mother was one of my biggest influences, and
00:05:20.060 --> 00:05:36.120 Jeremy McDonald: you know, and then I was a big believer. I loved to read when I was younger. My mother encouraged that in me, and so I was always lost in stories of history and mythology and psychology. When she was in nursing school. I confiscated her psychology book.
00:05:36.260 --> 00:05:56.545 Jeremy McDonald: her textbook, and and read it. And she goes, how many 14 year olds read a psychology textbook? Well, I did, because I just I like the idea and history and the way I love the way the human dynamic and and the way humans work. And so and that led me into the career I have on both the spiritual and corporate side. So I think that that's
00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:04.419 Jeremy McDonald: I was fell into the correct careers, you know, by design, of course, because we're, you know, everything happens for a reason.
00:06:05.220 --> 00:06:07.580 Linda Marsanico: And I understand that Mom was a shaman.
00:06:08.410 --> 00:06:14.900 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah, my mother in her forties she came to me, and she says, Jer, I love you.
00:06:15.110 --> 00:06:29.819 Jeremy McDonald: And she said, and she'd already been pursuing. You know all the reiki and all that kind of stuff, and she said, and I've been a son. I've been a mother. I've been a daughter, and I've been a friend, and I've been a nurse, and I've been everything. But I haven't pursued the things that I've always wanted to do.
00:06:30.230 --> 00:06:34.590 Jeremy McDonald: and she goes. So I'm getting ready to go another path, and I'm going to start apprenticing as a shaman.
00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:41.420 Jeremy McDonald: And she had found a teacher here in Florida, and she started taking classes and apprenticing with them. And
00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:56.199 Jeremy McDonald: so very fortunate I she was. She was elevated, Shaman, and she was my teacher as well, so, not just as a mother, but also as my energy healer and my, I guess my I apprenticed with her.
00:06:56.390 --> 00:07:03.450 Jeremy McDonald: and so, and then, interesting enough, she transitioned in 2,012. I had a shared death experience with her.
00:07:03.910 --> 00:07:05.240 Jeremy McDonald: and
00:07:05.470 --> 00:07:15.299 Jeremy McDonald: I didn't even know what that was. All I knew is that I raised my body raised my soul, or energy or spirit raised out of my body, and from there, after that I could hear her talking to me.
00:07:15.690 --> 00:07:22.580 Jeremy McDonald: and so she's been a great teacher even beyond the flesh. So.
00:07:22.870 --> 00:07:24.439 Linda Marsanico: How beautiful! Jeremy!
00:07:24.440 --> 00:07:24.860 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah.
00:07:24.860 --> 00:07:25.790 Linda Marsanico: It's quite beautiful.
00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:27.010 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah.
00:07:27.010 --> 00:07:31.149 Linda Marsanico: So my second question is, what is the role of spirituality in your life?
00:07:32.850 --> 00:07:41.919 Jeremy McDonald: You know, I've had many different definitions on that until over the past 5, 6 years. I realized that spirituality is about finding peace and how you show up
00:07:42.320 --> 00:07:50.949 Jeremy McDonald: in your life. And so I really started. You know, spirituality just meant many different things. And I think that's part of maturing, just as a person
00:07:52.230 --> 00:08:01.350 Jeremy McDonald: in in the beginnings. When I 1st started doing, I was just curious. I thought it was just a cool thing, you know. I thought, how do these people having all these changes in their lives and
00:08:01.740 --> 00:08:11.910 Jeremy McDonald: and the mysticism? Of course I told you excited me so, but then I realized, as I got older, that the more and more peace I found the better my life got.
00:08:12.270 --> 00:08:15.450 Jeremy McDonald: And so to me, spirituality is about how you show up.
00:08:15.980 --> 00:08:30.019 Jeremy McDonald: and so that because everybody's always trying to avoid the hard parts of their life, and you know I have clients all the time. Tell me I'm trying to. I avoid drama like the plague I'm like. That's impossible. That's impossible. To avoid drama.
00:08:30.180 --> 00:08:39.079 Jeremy McDonald: However, you can show up to drama with peace in your heart and peace in your mind, and then that really changes the dynamics of how you react to it.
00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:51.900 Jeremy McDonald: So you know, I had a friend of mine over the in our last cruise, he said to me, he said, I thought spirituality was supposed to be all uplifting and positive. I'm like no spiritual. If spirituality was that.
00:08:52.160 --> 00:08:56.909 Jeremy McDonald: then everybody would do it so. But it's about how you show up
00:08:57.350 --> 00:09:00.489 Jeremy McDonald: so. And in that particular case he had to end his cruise early
00:09:00.670 --> 00:09:06.210 Jeremy McDonald: because his partner was was had something that we had to fly them back to Florida
00:09:06.697 --> 00:09:13.859 Jeremy McDonald: in the middle of our cruise, and so he was naturally a little upset, but the transformation that happened
00:09:14.110 --> 00:09:23.179 Jeremy McDonald: as a result of that in his life, you know, the the trust that it took to fly home and go to the hospital in Tampa.
00:09:23.290 --> 00:09:35.769 Jeremy McDonald: I mean, the reality is is that these things happen to us all the time. You know, there's things that you know somebody could say something bad to us, you know, or mean to us. How are you going to respond to it? So spirituality to me is.
00:09:36.390 --> 00:09:43.380 Jeremy McDonald: you know, there's a lot of crazy things going on in the world, and you know, how are you going to approach it? Are you going to approach it with anger.
00:09:43.610 --> 00:09:54.579 Jeremy McDonald: and there is a certain type of anger that motivates you. But I think it comes with a sense of peace in your life, and then, when you have peace, you have clarity. So to me, that's spirituality.
00:09:54.890 --> 00:09:55.440 Jeremy McDonald: So.
00:09:55.440 --> 00:10:07.469 Linda Marsanico: And in hearing you talk, I'm thinking, showing up with a peaceful heart, and love in your heart allows the energy that we have to be very beautiful and positive, and that attracts the similar energy.
00:10:07.980 --> 00:10:08.390 Jeremy McDonald: Absolutely.
00:10:08.390 --> 00:10:10.850 Linda Marsanico: How we show up is what we get back in return.
00:10:10.850 --> 00:10:27.340 Jeremy McDonald: And then likes attract, likes. So what are you going to bring into your life people that have peace in their heart, and the people that don't. They may be on the perimeters. And and so and I mean, those are the one things where people come into my life, and they're not necessarily peaceful, but what I do
00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:29.810 Jeremy McDonald: is, I still treat them with compassion.
00:10:30.220 --> 00:10:42.749 Jeremy McDonald: and because love and compassion brings peace to people's hearts, and so it not only helps you build your peace and make it stronger. But it also helps you touch other people's lives.
00:10:42.900 --> 00:10:46.949 Jeremy McDonald: So, and that's where people got people got a mistaken impression about
00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:57.699 Jeremy McDonald: how these things work, and so you cause, you'll say to somebody, find peace in your heart. But I have to get out there, and I have to fight, I'm saying, well, what if you went out there? And you spoke your truth in peace?
00:10:58.190 --> 00:11:01.429 Linda Marsanico: With strength. Wouldn't that be the same thing.
00:11:01.700 --> 00:11:05.670 Jeremy McDonald: Just. The only difference is is you didn't come in with fear in your heart.
00:11:05.790 --> 00:11:10.738 Jeremy McDonald: You came in with peace in your heart, and so you know, it's interesting. I had a
00:11:11.310 --> 00:11:18.609 Jeremy McDonald: an experience. I had a teacher tell me. I was probably like 23 years ago, 23 years old, and she says, Jared, when things get tough.
00:11:19.160 --> 00:11:25.890 Jeremy McDonald: what I want you to do is I want you to start saying in your mind, in your heart, and breathing peace of my mind, peace of my body, peace on my soul!
00:11:26.170 --> 00:11:29.799 Jeremy McDonald: And she says, keep saying that over and over again until you really believe it.
00:11:30.610 --> 00:11:33.910 Jeremy McDonald: so I'd kind of forgotten about that. And probably
00:11:34.040 --> 00:11:49.449 Jeremy McDonald: about a year ago I was sitting on the Clearwater beach just meditating, and I remember her voice. She was. She was Polish. So she had that thick Polish accent, and she I hear her saying in spirit, don't forget peace of my mind, peace of my body, peace on my soul!
00:11:49.680 --> 00:12:04.140 Jeremy McDonald: And so I sat there, and I sat with the wind and everything, and the waves from the beach and everything, and I remembered that, and there was an empowerment that came over my mind, body and soul in that moment, because peace opens you up to your own divinity.
00:12:04.900 --> 00:12:10.610 Jeremy McDonald: So there's a lot that's a that's a rabbit hole. We could go down, but so.
00:12:10.610 --> 00:12:12.429 Linda Marsanico: Have many questions to ask you
00:12:13.310 --> 00:12:26.160 Linda Marsanico: because you you talk about soul alignment. So I wanted to ask you, how can someone begin to build a relationship with their inner voice. If they've spent most of their life ignoring or doubting it.
00:12:26.890 --> 00:12:33.059 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah. So that's a good question. Because think it. When when I really think about this, our lives have been geared towards
00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:58.030 Jeremy McDonald: looking outward, you know, looking outward for acceptance, looking outward for people to give us love looking outward for the ideas of success. So we're constantly looking outward and paying attention to other people's voices, about what success and what love and what security and what you know, empowerment and self-esteem is all about, and the reality is, if you bring it in.
00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:26.749 Jeremy McDonald: and you start looking within yourself and really paying attention. So that takes some work because you've now had all these different voices, you know. I remember I wanted to be. My dream was to be a I played 7 different 7 different instruments when I was in high school and junior high, and all the way going into college, and I wanted to be. My dream was to be the maestro of the New York Philharmonic. Seji Ozawa was one of my big heroes when I was when I was younger.
00:13:26.860 --> 00:13:48.409 Jeremy McDonald: Well, anyways, long story short is that was, I had my grandmother's voice saying, well, that's gonna be really difficult. So I lived with that voice for a very, very long time now very well intended, not meant to be mean or harmful to me at all. But the reality is is that when I 1st start, when I started saying, Grandma, I love you, but I'm the one that's living now.
00:13:48.680 --> 00:13:53.340 Jeremy McDonald: and now I'm 51 years old, and I get to live life the way Jeremy wants to.
00:13:53.610 --> 00:14:20.020 Jeremy McDonald: And so then I started saying, Well, show me. The next I started paying attention. What ends up happening is when you start saying No to voices that may be well intended but limiting. And you start listening to that voice inside. There's 2 voices, and the old story says, which wolf are you going? To? Which Wolf? Are you going to feed the dark one or the light one, and I always say the fearful one are the one that's full of love and the authentic love.
00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:33.400 Jeremy McDonald: And so when I start serving that authentic love and making choices and setting boundaries in my life. Then what ends up happening is then you're really starting to listen, and that inner voice starts going. Finally, finally, I wanted a relationship with you all this time.
00:14:33.570 --> 00:14:35.760 Jeremy McDonald: and then you start listening more.
00:14:36.220 --> 00:14:44.959 Jeremy McDonald: And then one day you'll have to hear this soft, loving voice, and you'll be having a conversation with it. It took me a good 8, 9 years to get there.
00:14:45.482 --> 00:14:58.499 Jeremy McDonald: And finally, when I heard it. I was like, Wow, and it doesn't have to take that long. I'm just saying that I was a very stubborn student. So, but it once you get there, it doesn't matter how long it took.
00:14:58.500 --> 00:15:04.239 Linda Marsanico: True. Now we are getting ready for a break, Jeremy, but when we come back
00:15:04.830 --> 00:15:14.129 Linda Marsanico: I would like to ask you about the common signs that your soul is trying to speak to you. How do you know it's not just your mind. So, listeners.
00:15:14.310 --> 00:15:18.250 Linda Marsanico: we'll see you after the break with this very impressive question.
00:15:19.330 --> 00:15:19.920 Jeremy McDonald: Good, good.
00:17:02.350 --> 00:17:06.860 Linda Marsanico: Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the A. Train to Sedona.
00:17:07.109 --> 00:17:11.490 Linda Marsanico: I'm Linda Marcannico with my guest, Jeremy E. Mcdonald.
00:17:12.700 --> 00:17:16.739 Linda Marsanico: as I promised. I will be asking Jeremy the following question.
00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:24.420 Linda Marsanico: what are some common signs that your soul is trying to speak to you? And how do you know it's not just your mind.
00:17:26.015 --> 00:17:32.890 Jeremy McDonald: One of the biggest things is synchronicity. You know, the one of those things that happen and how to how we can explain synchronicity. There's
00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:42.249 Jeremy McDonald: or there's these subtle signs that that'll happen. So one of the things I use is when I start seeing things that happen 3 times
00:17:43.010 --> 00:17:50.569 Jeremy McDonald: that happened 3 times over and over again. It's the same thing or similar things. Then I stop and I go. Okay. What am I not seeing here?
00:17:51.407 --> 00:17:53.950 Jeremy McDonald: The other thing is, is your own body.
00:17:54.260 --> 00:18:05.620 Jeremy McDonald: So if your body is in pain or anxiety, guess what anxiety I don't think anxiety is something to run from. I think anxiety is saying, Hey, you're not listening. Pay attention.
00:18:05.750 --> 00:18:10.280 Jeremy McDonald: And so I start to go and look at it and say, Well.
00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:31.989 Jeremy McDonald: okay, what am I not seeing here what is out of alignment? And I know that people some people, will argue with me about this. I've had people say, well, no anxiety comes from my trauma when I was a kid. And there's a buildup of you know, whatever. And I'm like, you know, I'm not disagreeing with that. What I'm saying is this, I'm saying. If you have an overwhelming amount of anxiety and all these signs start coming up.
00:18:32.190 --> 00:18:43.509 Jeremy McDonald: Guess what your soul's trying to talk to you. I just had this happen recently to me. I was I was so overwhelmingly busy from January, February, March, and even part of April.
00:18:43.800 --> 00:19:04.009 Jeremy McDonald: that I had like 20 speaking engagements on top of teaching a 6 week course. So there was days where I was just coming home, and I was just exhausted. So I took about 3 weeks to really do nothing, and I mean I still was busy. I mean, I had other things going on. But the times I had to take time for myself. I was really just taking that time and resting
00:19:04.390 --> 00:19:15.010 Jeremy McDonald: well, one of the signs was, my body was not feeling good. So and so it was also a sign from my soul to say, it's okay to continue doing your work.
00:19:15.380 --> 00:19:41.359 Jeremy McDonald: but don't overwhelm yourself. You can say no sometimes. And then also, what happened is, I'm writing a new book right now. And so recently I had this almost like angsty feeling going on inside of me. And so I thought, Well, what does that mean? And I thought, Am I getting depressed like what is going on so? And I asked these questions of myself. Well, really, what it was is, I needed to sit down and start writing. My soul
00:19:41.540 --> 00:19:57.049 Jeremy McDonald: was saying, sit down and write. So I was getting all these big, beautiful ideas for the book, and I'd been saying I was blocked for like 6 months that I couldn't write so over the past week. What have I been doing? Sitting down and writing?
00:19:57.460 --> 00:20:12.579 Jeremy McDonald: And I've been getting chapters of the book done so it's that angsty feeling was a sign for me that there was something out of alignment between the soul, body, mind, and soul, and the soul was saying, Hey, I got a whole bunch of downloads to give you. It's time to pay attention.
00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:21.139 Jeremy McDonald: But also I use. I use a bunch of different things. I study a lot of things like Ted Andrews animal speak. I don't know if you've heard of that book.
00:20:21.140 --> 00:20:22.570 Linda Marsanico: I do. I have it on my shelf.
00:20:22.570 --> 00:20:27.680 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah, I do, too. I got back here, and I also use a book called The Metaphysical Anatomy.
00:20:27.910 --> 00:20:57.590 Jeremy McDonald: by Yvette Rose, and the reason why I use. That is because last year I was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic. And so one of the things I learned from that book is not to say I am a diabetic. I have a diagnosis of a diabetic. So people I'll say that on stage, and people will go. Oh, I'm like no, it's a good thing. There's a reason, because diabetes energetically, metaphysically, I'm not talking about the medical side. I'm not a doctor, but what I will say is this is that metaphysically, what it's saying is.
00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:12.330 Jeremy McDonald: there's anger going on inside of you, and you know, Louise, Hay would have said, life is not sweet enough, and that's that's true to a point. But when you get deeper into it there's an anger going on inside of you. Well, it comes back to my childhood.
00:21:12.660 --> 00:21:17.499 Jeremy McDonald: You know I was born to a 15 year old, father and a 16 year old mother in 1974,
00:21:17.780 --> 00:21:43.319 Jeremy McDonald: so you can just imagine the energy of what was going on inside of my mother being 16, and then going and being raised, and not, you know, being on the poorer side of the family, and you know those kind of things, and not being able to have the life that the 7 year old boy thought I should have, or the 10 year old boy I would have. I was also diagnosed with a learning disability called dyslexia, and the I was 6 foot tall when I was 12 years old.
00:21:43.500 --> 00:21:45.510 Jeremy McDonald: so the amount of
00:21:45.700 --> 00:21:58.380 Jeremy McDonald: being picked on as a kid was a pretty substantial well, what does that do? The sign for me? And that diabetes is to go and say, I need to let go. Of all of this.
00:21:58.600 --> 00:22:10.319 Jeremy McDonald: there is time, because letting go isn't about saying it's okay for those people that picked on me, or it's okay for the feelings I had when I was a kid. What it's saying is, it's now time for me to find peace
00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:16.989 Jeremy McDonald: in this and start to find peace, and and allowing those souls to be let go.
00:22:17.130 --> 00:22:24.480 Jeremy McDonald: All those kids that picked on me as a kid. They're adults now. They don't even remember me. Or if they do, they're not thinking the same things. We were kids.
00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:50.519 Jeremy McDonald: And so those are the things that we have to start looking at. And so I use the I use diagnosis or things that are going on with my health, or I use angel numbers, you know, to start. If you start seeing the same number over again, like 3, 3, or 2, 2, or 1 1, look it up. Look up, angel number. What does Angel number 1 1 mean? Or if you see the an animal and it just, you know you see this cat walk across your path.
00:22:51.030 --> 00:22:52.370 Jeremy McDonald: Look up a cat.
00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:59.123 Jeremy McDonald: you know. I just my cousin called me the other day. She lives in the Ocala National Forest, and she had a bear in her
00:22:59.560 --> 00:23:00.770 Jeremy McDonald: in her shed.
00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:15.889 Jeremy McDonald: So I said, Hey, let's look up what the bear means, and you know it's about, you know, security and home, because bears protect their cubs, and you know so metaphysically what it said to her said, Where do you not feel safe?
00:23:16.310 --> 00:23:26.599 Jeremy McDonald: Where do you not feel like your home is safe. And so those are the type of things we have to ask ourselves. And it really came back to childhood where she's never felt safe in her life, and now she's in her sixties.
00:23:26.840 --> 00:23:38.399 Jeremy McDonald: And so there's a subconscious that happens. So you use these signs to really pay attention and go deeper within yourself to really start saying, Okay, that's still affecting me on an energetic level.
00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:59.820 Jeremy McDonald: because we only look at the surface. We only look at the conscious. We don't necessarily look at what's going on subconsciously in our in our psyche. And that's stored in our energy field. And so that's where we really kind of get messed up. And so if you use these signs, you can start to really pay attention. Some people would call that intuition. I just say it's the universe talking to me.
00:23:59.820 --> 00:24:17.999 Linda Marsanico: Reminds me that we're never really alone on this path. We have nature helping the universe directing. And when we're open we get many prompts. There was one woman who wrote. She was walking down the street. A car swerved, a book fell out. She picked it up, and it changed her life forever.
00:24:18.730 --> 00:24:24.180 Linda Marsanico: We're accompanied, and it's not such a lonely path. It's actually an adventure.
00:24:25.280 --> 00:24:27.440 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah, those those things happen to
00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:47.630 Jeremy McDonald: countless people. I mean, think about the people, that have had near death experiences and how it's changed their lives, and or it doesn't even have to be that profound like I said, the ordinary daily things can be just as profound as the metaphysical or spiritual things. So look at everything, look at everything that's going on in your life, the interactions that you're having.
00:24:47.630 --> 00:25:05.810 Jeremy McDonald: Did you accidentally snap at somebody you loved or a friend. Well, why did you do that? What did it trigger inside of you? And so but what we do is we look at it, and we, of course, apologize. But then look at it and say, what was that all about? Self-awareness is the key, I think.
00:25:05.860 --> 00:25:13.459 Jeremy McDonald: to really healing ourselves? Well, we've been like, I said before, we've been taught to look outwards and create this persona
00:25:13.870 --> 00:25:24.860 Jeremy McDonald: that we're all, you know, great, you know, as a spiritual teacher. When I 1st started I had one teacher say, don't talk about all your vulnerabilities, because people will use that against you.
00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:26.115 Jeremy McDonald: and I'm like
00:25:26.890 --> 00:25:41.200 Jeremy McDonald: I think we should be vulnerable on stage as speakers and teachers, because that makes us real, and it tells the people that are sitting in the audience that they hey? This person went the same path that I'm facing right now.
00:25:41.360 --> 00:25:46.599 Jeremy McDonald: and they're being vulnerable. And what they're telling me is that, hey? I have hope that I can heal.
00:25:46.970 --> 00:26:07.900 Jeremy McDonald: that I can make work my way through this, and find something in my life to find peace, or find abundance, or find love, or whatever it is that I feel like I'm lacking. A lot of people have a worthiness issue going on in this world. So that's definitely something that I had in my own life a worthiness issue. And I finally, I just say you're worthy of everything.
00:26:08.820 --> 00:26:20.180 Linda Marsanico: We need to remind ourselves of that. And, Jeremy, I think that when we're on stage, when we're talking, when we're writing, our vulnerability inspires others. Oh, she went through that. Oh.
00:26:20.290 --> 00:26:25.639 Linda Marsanico: and she got through it. And how did she do that? Wow! That's a recipe for me that I can use.
00:26:25.820 --> 00:26:27.650 Linda Marsanico: It's quite inspirational.
00:26:27.930 --> 00:26:30.700 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah, yeah, it definitely is definitely is.
00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:44.780 Linda Marsanico: Now I know we're getting ready for another break, and we'll have a question when we come back. But I'm just looking at your backdrop. How beautiful it is! We were talking about that before. There are 2 dolphins, Yin and Yang. Could you just tell us a bit more about it?
00:26:45.130 --> 00:27:08.880 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah, so well, 1st of all, I'm a Pisces. So I was really just drawn into it. And I love dolphins. And I have a whole story about dolphins, but that's that'll be. That'll take another 15 min. So, but the idea is that I was at a I was a speaker at this event in Sarasota, and I walked up to the vendor, and I said, Really like that, how much is? And she goes? Well, it's really not for sale, and she goes. But I was like, All right. Well, okay, thank you. It's beautiful. So at the end of the weekend she gave it to me.
00:27:08.930 --> 00:27:30.879 Jeremy McDonald: And so I'm it's going to be the background for my show on ethereal TV. And so there's parts of it. You see the balance there in the background. But it actually has this beautiful stuff, and I got some archangel Michael stuff that I'm going to hang on it. So I'm waiting for those to come in the mail. But yeah, I love it. It's really about the yin and yang the balance within all of us.
00:27:31.530 --> 00:27:38.699 Linda Marsanico: I see something behind the the Dolphin that's on the low side a circle. Is that the moon.
00:27:39.190 --> 00:27:47.129 Jeremy McDonald: Yes, yeah. Yeah, as the moon and the sun, there's well, there's the sun and the orange, and then there's the moon and the the upper part of it.
00:27:47.430 --> 00:28:00.279 Linda Marsanico: What I'm looking at is the sun the one that's right on your right side, next to your next to the Dolphin's eye is the sun. So you have Yin Yang, male female, you have a lot going on. It's it's quite beautiful.
00:28:00.810 --> 00:28:04.310 Jeremy McDonald: It really just brings joy to me, and the story behind it is just.
00:28:04.470 --> 00:28:25.919 Jeremy McDonald: I think, gorgeous. And so the funny part is, I I have a the balance. I couldn't figure out how to hang it up. I'm not super like good with that kind of stuff. So I had my friend Michelle come over and said, I need you to help me. I get this balance. And she was. She just laughs. She just laughed. She goes. That's why I'm in your life, dear, and I just bought her dinner. And so it was fun.
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.140 Linda Marsanico: Lovely exchange.
00:28:27.140 --> 00:28:28.410 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah, absolutely.
00:28:28.790 --> 00:28:41.080 Linda Marsanico: See also some circles outside the main circle are some. There's a black background with little circles and half circles. What do they represent? Jeremy.
00:28:41.560 --> 00:28:44.389 Jeremy McDonald: I always think of those as like the bubbles in water.
00:28:44.940 --> 00:28:50.050 Linda Marsanico: You know, because the dolphins are are floating, and they could be the cosmic bubbles.
00:28:50.050 --> 00:28:50.580 Linda Marsanico: Hmm!
00:28:50.580 --> 00:29:00.339 Jeremy McDonald: When you really look deep, when you find that balance within, and that's a that's a whole other story like in the Bible, where it says their path gets narrow in Matthew 7.
00:29:00.390 --> 00:29:28.840 Jeremy McDonald: I always see that as the balance like, you're dancing with God. And so you know, if you let God lead, you know God will swing you, and you'll never fall too far on either side, and you'll always be in balance. So when God swings you one way you'll get. Gather the lessons and opportunities from that side, and you'll get this cosmic awareness. So then that's the does. The different thought bubbles, or in the cosmos. I guess that, or fractals, whatever you want to refer to it as so.
00:29:28.840 --> 00:29:48.740 Linda Marsanico: All of it is lovely. Thank you for that. So we are going to take a break now when we come back. Listeners, I'm going to be asking Jeremy, can you share a time when listening to your soul completely changed the course of your life, and how you knew it was the right choice. Stay tuned listeners, let's take it away for a break.
00:31:35.020 --> 00:31:38.979 Linda Marsanico: Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the age range of Sedona.
00:31:39.550 --> 00:31:44.660 Linda Marsanico: I'm here with my guest, Jeremy Mcdonald, and I'm Linda Marcannico.
00:31:44.820 --> 00:31:53.739 Linda Marsanico: So, Jeremy, I posed a question, and then I went off to do something. I'm being quite vulnerable here.
00:31:54.569 --> 00:32:03.789 Linda Marsanico: Let's see. Now, I think this is it. Can you share a time. Now I asked you about how it completely changed the course of your life. Did I ask you that question?
00:32:06.350 --> 00:32:12.020 Jeremy McDonald: I think you're gonna can you share a time when listening to your soul completely changed your life?
00:32:12.020 --> 00:32:23.010 Linda Marsanico: Okay, so, listeners, let me restate it. Can you share a time, Jeremy, when listening to your soul, completely changed the course of your life, and how you knew it was the right choice.
00:32:24.290 --> 00:32:31.190 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah. So I was a it was in 2,006, and I was
00:32:33.130 --> 00:32:40.409 Jeremy McDonald: I was the vice, our chief operating officer of a mortgage company in Baltimore, Maryland, and I had
00:32:41.170 --> 00:32:47.849 Jeremy McDonald: was sitting in there and looking in the mirror. I was 32 years old, and I just thought I had arrived in life. If that makes any sense.
00:32:47.850 --> 00:32:48.219 Linda Marsanico: It does.
00:32:48.220 --> 00:33:15.239 Jeremy McDonald: But I was miserable. So how can you arrive in life if you're miserable? But I had the the cute office, and I was close to the inner harbor in Baltimore, which is a beautiful area. I had the relationship that I thought I wanted, but it was all surface. You know. It was the relationship with the person I thought was, let's, I'm going to choose the words hot, sexy, and but they we didn't mesh well together.
00:33:15.410 --> 00:33:28.890 Jeremy McDonald: and it was the the title. I thought that I wanted the office I thought I wanted, and I the cute little place to live, and all that other kind of stuff, and I would buy. Everybody drinks at the at the bar, and you know I just thought I'd arrived in life.
00:33:29.290 --> 00:33:35.069 Jeremy McDonald: but the reality is as I was feeding. Those were all distractions from what was going on inside of me.
00:33:35.450 --> 00:33:40.150 Jeremy McDonald: and so I remember looking in the mirror one day and thinking, I'm miserable
00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:44.719 Jeremy McDonald: and and and so, and my soul said.
00:33:45.190 --> 00:33:47.639 Jeremy McDonald: Are you ready to hear and listen?
00:33:48.520 --> 00:33:52.100 Jeremy McDonald: And I thought to myself, Yeah.
00:33:52.210 --> 00:34:00.120 Jeremy McDonald: and I had literally just a year beforehand. I'd been studying metaphysics at that point in time, probably.
00:34:01.170 --> 00:34:02.680 Jeremy McDonald: I guess 10 years.
00:34:03.010 --> 00:34:18.619 Jeremy McDonald: And in the last couple of years before that I had watched the movie. What the bleep do we know, and the secret and all that other kind of stuff? And but I really hadn't really resonated. I mean. It was life changing in a sense, but I really hadn't really studied it.
00:34:18.830 --> 00:34:45.760 Jeremy McDonald: You know the law of attraction and natural law and universal law and quantum physics. And so I started diving into that, and my soul kept on dropping things in my lap. I'd be just sitting. I don't know if you ever had this moment. So you start going on this Google searching campaign and you find books and you find videos and you find things that you're going to relate to and watch to. And when I tell you that in 2,006 everything fell apart after I said that in that mirror.
00:34:45.980 --> 00:34:48.719 Jeremy McDonald: and I, basically, my soul said, Get ready.
00:34:49.310 --> 00:34:52.900 Jeremy McDonald: So within 3 months
00:34:53.380 --> 00:34:59.720 Jeremy McDonald: I was living, I moved to Pennsylvania for a short amount of time to live with my family.
00:34:59.910 --> 00:35:07.760 Jeremy McDonald: I lost my job, got another job. Got fired from that job ended up moving back to Florida to live with. My mother
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:15.480 Jeremy McDonald: enters the time when I start working with her and learning from her about healing work and mainly healing myself.
00:35:15.870 --> 00:35:26.990 Jeremy McDonald: And so a new teacher came into my life as on top of my mother, and so it was. Literally they had to kind of the energy had to kind of tear away the old
00:35:27.410 --> 00:35:29.490 Jeremy McDonald: in order for me to bring in the new.
00:35:29.940 --> 00:35:43.120 Jeremy McDonald: And what I've learned is it's nothing's really torn away. You're transmuting it. You're transmuting into a new form because energy never really goes anywhere. It just trans you transform how you see the world.
00:35:43.740 --> 00:35:57.109 Jeremy McDonald: And then, on top of that, about 2 years after that, I had an experience with what I what I would call Jesus that stood behind me. Now I am not necessarily a Bible thumping Christian, but I would be. Consider myself a Gnostic
00:35:57.290 --> 00:36:01.199 Jeremy McDonald: Christian, and I always say I follow the religion of love.
00:36:01.560 --> 00:36:02.870 Jeremy McDonald: And so
00:36:03.270 --> 00:36:10.670 Jeremy McDonald: I started studying everything from Buddhism and everything else. And when Jesus came in, I said, what are you doing here? I don't even like you.
00:36:10.790 --> 00:36:16.139 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah. And so his response was, well, when you learn to love yourself
00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:21.129 Jeremy McDonald: you'll learn to love me, and I'm here to get you to help you learn to love yourself.
00:36:21.130 --> 00:36:21.780 Linda Marsanico: Hmm.
00:36:21.780 --> 00:36:23.169 Jeremy McDonald: And I was like Whoa.
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:28.419 Jeremy McDonald: So then I would hear this voice. And really, when I think about it, because we're all one.
00:36:28.670 --> 00:36:42.299 Jeremy McDonald: that's the higher consciousness coming through and manifesting as Jesus for me, because it was something that I hated. So it's an aspect of ourself and one of the in the Mayans, they say, and Lakesh and Lakesh is, I am another you.
00:36:42.650 --> 00:36:50.540 Jeremy McDonald: And so when you start looking at that and saying, Okay, well, I'm hating an aspect of consciousness. It means I'm actually hating myself.
00:36:50.540 --> 00:36:50.930 Linda Marsanico: Yes.
00:36:50.930 --> 00:37:01.320 Jeremy McDonald: Liking myself. And so really, what it comes down to is that I really started looking at. Why do I not like myself? Well, I wrote a book in 2012 called Peace be still!
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.100 Jeremy McDonald: And it was really about the fact that
00:37:06.450 --> 00:37:30.920 Jeremy McDonald: I hadn't found peace in my life. Now, Linda, when I tell you, and then people that read the book, they'll find out in the very 1st chapter that I was a functional drug addict meaning I would go to work. I would do all the pay my bills and do everything I was supposed to, but I was still doing methamphetamines and ecstasy, and drinking a lot, and you know. And so when I looked in that mirror and said, I'm so miserable.
00:37:31.010 --> 00:37:42.259 Jeremy McDonald: the reality is is, I was doing everything possible to avoid what was going on inside of me, and what was going on inside of me is, I really didn't like myself. I really didn't think I was valuable.
00:37:42.420 --> 00:38:12.120 Jeremy McDonald: and the reality is is that your inner world is what's active in your life. You know we think that it's the outer world, and how people are responding to us and how we're interacting. But your your inner world is how you interact with the world. So if you think that you're not good enough that you're not loving enough, or that you're not attractive enough, or you're not smart enough. I mean, I have clients now that have 6 master's degrees, and a doctor, and they still don't think they're smart, and I'm like, how many degrees does it take until you feel you're smart.
00:38:12.670 --> 00:38:32.541 Jeremy McDonald: and but what it comes down to is that they don't feel worthy, just like I didn't feel worthy and like a lot of us, didn't feel worthy because we paid more attention to what's going outside. So my soul guided me into these experiences, including, you know, fast forward. 6 years later, my mother transitioning and
00:38:33.040 --> 00:38:35.960 Jeremy McDonald: in reality that I thought that I needed her.
00:38:36.470 --> 00:38:41.039 Jeremy McDonald: but that was her her soul's way of kicking me out of the nest at 37,
00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:45.669 Jeremy McDonald: and saying you got this, and I'm still going to be here with you.
00:38:46.020 --> 00:38:54.579 Jeremy McDonald: The truth is is that the soul guided me to find my own inner self, empowerment and self self expression, my
00:38:54.650 --> 00:39:17.410 Jeremy McDonald: self-esteem, whatever you want to refer to it, and so to me. That was the best decision I ever made. I could have stayed there I could have continued to go and pursue things that weren't fulfilling to me, and didn't bring peace and abundance and love and joy to me. But the reality is, if you have peace, love, joy, and a type of abundance that supplies all your needs.
00:39:17.730 --> 00:39:19.560 Jeremy McDonald: then you're successful.
00:39:20.090 --> 00:39:28.799 Jeremy McDonald: and we look at all the wrong things. We've been trained to look at our accomplishments as opposed to what's going on in here.
00:39:29.140 --> 00:39:29.690 Linda Marsanico: Yes.
00:39:29.690 --> 00:39:33.089 Jeremy McDonald: And so my soul guided me to have a relationship with myself.
00:39:34.060 --> 00:39:39.949 Linda Marsanico: Most important relationship we have is with Creator, within, which is one which is with us.
00:39:39.950 --> 00:39:40.470 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah.
00:39:40.470 --> 00:39:50.110 Linda Marsanico: So I wanted to ask you. When I get information I get information, different ways. But one is for it telepathically to come across here. It's like a quiet ticker tape.
00:39:51.272 --> 00:39:57.540 Linda Marsanico: How, and then there are other ways. But how do you get information, Jeremy? I think it could be informative to our listeners.
00:39:57.540 --> 00:39:58.020 Jeremy McDonald: Jobs.
00:39:58.020 --> 00:39:58.580 Linda Marsanico: This.
00:39:58.580 --> 00:40:06.795 Jeremy McDonald: That's a good question. I I I feel like the world in the universe is always talking to me. So my, yeah, I get I get
00:40:07.410 --> 00:40:19.729 Jeremy McDonald: I'm what is considered claircognizant and clairsentient, and so I get a knowing and a feeling. I do get audible stuff. But I'll tell you. What I really get is, I watch the world unfold.
00:40:20.020 --> 00:40:29.359 Jeremy McDonald: and I just it's the best way I can describe it. I remember I was probably about 7 years ago I was sitting at a I was at a happy hour with a group of people.
00:40:29.470 --> 00:40:55.279 Jeremy McDonald: And one of the guys that was there is just this really tough guy, you know, bad boy, a type. And he was. But he was a big softie. And so you have this tough exterior big, soft. Well, we've had at that point a few drinks, and he was definitely intoxicated. But there was something that when he was talking to me it was almost like our hearts and souls came together at that moment. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it just was in that moment.
00:40:55.390 --> 00:41:02.819 Jeremy McDonald: and he was. He was saying something to me that was very deep, but it was basically it's time for you to speak up.
00:41:03.240 --> 00:41:12.240 Jeremy McDonald: And what that meant is, you know, opening up your throat, Chakra. That's how I that's not what he said, but to me that was the universe speaking through him.
00:41:12.240 --> 00:41:13.670 Linda Marsanico: Yes, indeed!
00:41:13.670 --> 00:41:38.300 Jeremy McDonald: And so, and it resonated with my soul. So the reality is is that this world is talking to you all the time. So if you get that moment where you can. Really, it's almost like the whole world stops. And you're really in this moment where you're interacting with whatever it is, I had another experience like 3 months ago, and I was walking. I was walking downstairs of, and I went outside, and I saw a bluebird that had literally fallen on the ground.
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:45.360 Jeremy McDonald: and it was flopping around on its back, and it freaked me up. So I was just like I put. I put my hands over it because I didn't know what else to do to give it energy.
00:41:45.640 --> 00:42:13.650 Jeremy McDonald: And so, after about 10 min, it flipped over on its side. But it was breathing. It was really heavy, heavy breathing, and laboring for breath. And so I said, What is that all about? And so I just kept on giving an energy, and I had to leave for like 30 min and come back. And I said to the Bluebird, I will be back to come and check on you. So I went back upstairs, came back down 30 min later, and I went to go. Try to put my hands above it again, to give him more energy. But this time it wasn't laboring for breath. It was just sitting there
00:42:13.890 --> 00:42:17.380 Jeremy McDonald: and it and it jumped up and flew off.
00:42:17.630 --> 00:42:33.519 Jeremy McDonald: And so I was, and I remember the the other blue. There was another bluebird that was squeaking and screaming like you could just tell it was scared because you find out when you look up, Ted Andrews, a bluebird is about family and love, but it's also about. Don't forget about joy.
00:42:34.130 --> 00:42:38.299 Jeremy McDonald: What's the point in pursuing all these goals. If you forget about joy
00:42:38.450 --> 00:42:44.199 Jeremy McDonald: and happiness and connection with the people that you love and family. Well, bluebirds are all about family.
00:42:44.530 --> 00:42:50.189 Jeremy McDonald: So when I looked that up and I realized, I'm I'm working towards all these goals because I feel like it's a mission.
00:42:50.720 --> 00:42:59.939 Jeremy McDonald: But the reality is is that divine timing, divine order, divine plan, make it easy. And here's the other cool part about that. A few weeks later
00:43:00.190 --> 00:43:02.129 Jeremy McDonald: I was teaching a class.
00:43:02.260 --> 00:43:18.639 Jeremy McDonald: and there was a gentleman there, and I like I mentioned before, I used to. I used to play several different instruments. Well, all my instruments were stolen from me right. About that time, in 2,006 my entire storage locker was raided and a bunch of things were stolen out of it. One of them was a Gibson les Paul Guitar.
00:43:19.090 --> 00:43:24.479 Jeremy McDonald: Well, this man, I said one day, you know, if I was meant to come back into my life it'll come back.
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:29.620 Jeremy McDonald: Well, this man gave me a Gibson. Well, an epiphone les Paul.
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:39.160 Jeremy McDonald: almost 20 years later. I haven't played in 30 some odd years, but the reality is, music has always brought joy to my heart.
00:43:39.330 --> 00:43:43.359 Jeremy McDonald: And so what have I been doing? I've been practicing and getting back into playing guitar.
00:43:43.500 --> 00:43:50.460 Jeremy McDonald: because don't forget about joy. Because what if you arrive at your goal and you get there? And you forgot about joy? What was the point.
00:43:51.130 --> 00:44:18.109 Linda Marsanico: Absolutely. Quan Yin, through the woman who channels her lee. Lizak always says, Create your energy through dancing and playing joy. It creates the most wonderful energy. And we do want to be creating energy because the earth really needs the solid energy. Now, before we take a break, I'm very interested to know what the instruments are that you play 6 instruments, Jeremy, you're tremendously gifted.
00:44:18.110 --> 00:44:28.359 Jeremy McDonald: I played the bass trombone, I played the trumpet, I played the guitar, the piano, the saxophone, and I played the clarinet.
00:44:28.850 --> 00:44:50.120 Jeremy McDonald: So I just. I'm 1 of those types of people that when I want to learn, I want to learn. And so what music did for me. This is the other. I've been on 3 tours of the United States, 2 as a musician and drum and bugle core. So I played the the contrabass and the euphonium, and I toured all over the country, and then I also did one tour as an author.
00:44:50.230 --> 00:44:55.400 Jeremy McDonald: So somebody asked me, How did how did you do all that in your life. I said, well, I never had kids.
00:44:56.523 --> 00:44:57.650 Jeremy McDonald: I'm sorry.
00:44:57.650 --> 00:44:58.654 Linda Marsanico: And plenty of time.
00:44:59.646 --> 00:45:04.169 Linda Marsanico: Did you take lessons in these instruments?
00:45:04.170 --> 00:45:08.670 Jeremy McDonald: I took lessons in trombone, the other ones I got books, and I started teaching myself.
00:45:09.198 --> 00:45:33.059 Jeremy McDonald: That's 1 of those things where I was the trombone and the guitar were more on my instruments. The trumpet was I could play okay. I wouldn't say I was an expert at it, but I could play it. Okay, I just kept on picking up instruments and trying to play them. And I thought it was fun. And so but I'll tell you what it did for me. Music gave me a self-confidence that I would have never had
00:45:33.140 --> 00:45:46.262 Jeremy McDonald: if I hadn't actually explored my musical side, and so, performing in front of 20,000 people at Foxborough. Stadium really helps your self Esteem because you either do it or you don't.
00:45:46.660 --> 00:45:54.239 Linda Marsanico: Well, you certainly have a gift for it, and it reminds me that Eric Clapton, the great musician, taught himself the guitar.
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:59.109 Jeremy McDonald: You just have that gift and you go with it. It's it's a wonderful thing. Now I'm.
00:45:59.380 --> 00:46:03.499 Linda Marsanico: Advise that we're ready for a break when we come back. Jeremy.
00:46:03.700 --> 00:46:11.939 Linda Marsanico: we're going to talk about. Why do so many people feel stuck when it comes to making decisions? And how does soul guidance help dissolve that fear.
00:46:12.230 --> 00:46:12.700 Jeremy McDonald: Okay.
00:46:12.700 --> 00:46:13.789 Linda Marsanico: Take it away.
00:46:14.110 --> 00:46:16.670 Jeremy McDonald: Alright awesome. We'll see you back at the break.
00:46:16.670 --> 00:46:17.380 Linda Marsanico: Yes.
00:47:50.560 --> 00:48:08.450 Linda Marsanico: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the aid train to Sedona broadcast. I'm Linda Marcannico with my guest, Jeremy Mcdonald. So, Jeremy, why do so many people feel stuck when it comes to making decisions? And how does soul guidance help dissolve that fear.
00:48:09.270 --> 00:48:38.479 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah. So one of the things that people do like I mentioned earlier is we get we get. We've had traumas in our life. Where. Let's say that you made a decision. It didn't work out, you know, or somebody's told you. That was a dumb idea, or you know, we've been. We think it's going to be too hard, and we don't want to take that step, and we get caught up. And then, you know, I get clients all the time that sit in front of me, and they say, Well, I'm just afraid of making the wrong decision, and I said, and I always tell them, I said, well, that's going to happen.
00:48:38.760 --> 00:48:47.010 Jeremy McDonald: You know. The reality is is you're gonna make wrong decisions. And if you think you're not, then you're you're misguiding yourself. However.
00:48:47.840 --> 00:49:07.969 Jeremy McDonald: when you make mistakes, don't look at them as a failure. Look at them as the opportunity to help yourself grow into who you are. When I went on my book tour in 2012 I went 22 States. I sold a little over 2,000 books, and so by all rights, a 1st time. Author.
00:49:08.160 --> 00:49:33.379 Jeremy McDonald: That was pretty successful, you know a lot of 1st time authors. They publish their books, and then they end up. They buy about 50 of them. They sell them to their family and friends, and the rest of them sits in the garage or in storage for many years, and that's not to put them down, but that's just kind of what happens. And so but my! When I came back and I had to go back to work, there was a part of me that was like, Oh, man, I have to go back to work.
00:49:33.820 --> 00:49:35.910 Jeremy McDonald: But the truth is is that
00:49:36.160 --> 00:49:39.189 Jeremy McDonald: success came from just taking the leap of faith
00:49:39.410 --> 00:49:55.840 Jeremy McDonald: and growing from it. I knew nothing about getting a book out there, and I just happened to run into my publicist by accident, and have the same publicist that Neil Donald Walsh has, and Richard Bach and several others, and she's taught me more about this business.
00:49:56.423 --> 00:49:59.960 Jeremy McDonald: Then I could have learned without her. And so
00:50:00.380 --> 00:50:15.040 Jeremy McDonald: what ends up happening? I made, took the step, made the mistakes, and then somebody was already in my life, and helped me through all that, and taught me every step of the way. So was that a failure, or was it a success? And I want to say it's success. Because
00:50:15.100 --> 00:50:30.659 Jeremy McDonald: then I started looking at more and started looking at things that I could do to improve, and how I could build my social media presence, and how I could do these things. And so you know, and then my other books that have come out, which I've been in collaboration books. Those have been successful.
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:36.770 Jeremy McDonald: And so when you start looking at things instead of saying that was a failure, don't do it anymore.
00:50:37.493 --> 00:50:44.590 Jeremy McDonald: Say, well, okay, how do I refine that and grow that, and your dreams will morph into new things.
00:50:44.770 --> 00:50:52.999 Jeremy McDonald: They will literally grow. What I thought was going to be what I was going to do back in 2,006 is drastically different 19 years later.
00:50:53.150 --> 00:51:04.730 Jeremy McDonald: and so allow yourself to shift through all that. So what ends up happening is the soul is trying to say, Hey, I call it like lily pads, you know, like a frog jumps from one lily pad to the next.
00:51:04.730 --> 00:51:23.390 Jeremy McDonald: and you go from that lily pad to the next, and you start to grow with that. And you start saying, Wow, that's that's really cool. That just happened. And then I'm writing a book right now. Another book with a group of friends of mine, and I won't say the word, because I don't want to cuss on your radio station. But you can't make that S up.
00:51:23.500 --> 00:51:30.209 Jeremy McDonald: And it's basically because the reason being is because I know all of you have had things happen in your life. And you're like, did that just happen?
00:51:30.690 --> 00:51:37.009 Jeremy McDonald: And how did that happen? Well, spirit, so to go back to your I believe your original question. That was about
00:51:37.680 --> 00:51:42.960 Jeremy McDonald: you know. Follow when to follow your soul and how to how to. Why are we stuck?
00:51:43.150 --> 00:51:48.229 Jeremy McDonald: Well, we're stuck because we're stuck in. We're stuck in this idea. It's called cross-purposing.
00:51:48.350 --> 00:52:08.869 Jeremy McDonald: where you have 2 minds on everything. Well, I really want to do this, my heart and soul says this. But my mind and all my programs say to go this way. That's what's called cross-purposing. And it's interesting in the Bible. It says you can't serve 2 masters. So you're trying to serve these 2 ideas. But they don't work.
00:52:09.330 --> 00:52:14.670 Jeremy McDonald: and because it's like having one foot on the brake and one foot on the gas. The car's not going anywhere.
00:52:15.020 --> 00:52:17.280 Jeremy McDonald: and so, but if you just allow
00:52:17.650 --> 00:52:28.550 Jeremy McDonald: and do the dance, so to speak, like I was talking about earlier and allowing the universe to guide you and swing you and and grow, help you grow and understand things on a greater level.
00:52:28.900 --> 00:52:36.680 Jeremy McDonald: You're gonna have so much success that it's almost over. It'll be like, I said, that the beginning of this year was a little overwhelming.
00:52:36.850 --> 00:52:41.010 Jeremy McDonald: but the universe never gives you anything that you can't handle.
00:52:41.290 --> 00:52:52.010 Jeremy McDonald: and even through that success. That is a new lesson, because the opportunities and the lessons, as Charles Fillmore said, spirituality is a lifelong process it never! You never just arrive.
00:52:52.150 --> 00:52:58.609 Jeremy McDonald: The soul is constantly growing, the universe is constantly expanding. So why wouldn't you constantly expand?
00:52:58.720 --> 00:53:03.479 Jeremy McDonald: And so that's what's exciting. So instead of getting stuck, get excited
00:53:03.890 --> 00:53:10.320 Jeremy McDonald: and start saying, I'm going to make mistakes, I'm going to have things that happen in each one of those
00:53:10.590 --> 00:53:16.180 Jeremy McDonald: are more exciting. So now what I do is when I make this what I would consider to be a mistake, which is really an opportunity. I'm like.
00:53:16.694 --> 00:53:19.059 Jeremy McDonald: I'm excited. It's something to learn.
00:53:19.060 --> 00:53:23.549 Jeremy McDonald: It's something I get to to discover about myself. And
00:53:24.120 --> 00:53:28.649 Jeremy McDonald: what what amazing things is that I had a I was traveling for a year and a half.
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:33.080 Jeremy McDonald: and kind of renting out a room from a friend here in in Florida.
00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:37.220 Jeremy McDonald: and had a what I would consider to be my dream apartment.
00:53:37.330 --> 00:53:54.640 Jeremy McDonald: and I had to let go of it and and move into into that room. But I was traveling and went out to Colorado, California, all these other different things and lots of speaking engagements and things that were happening. And so that was all going. And then, at the beginning of this year. It's like it's time for me to get a place to live.
00:53:55.193 --> 00:54:05.270 Jeremy McDonald: I really want my bed back. And so I was sitting there holding on to this one complex apartment that I knew I should apply for.
00:54:05.750 --> 00:54:08.429 Jeremy McDonald: But everybody was saying it was like a year waiting list.
00:54:08.790 --> 00:54:31.100 Jeremy McDonald: and so, even when I came in. There's like it's a year waiting list. And so I finally just put the money down the $50 for the application. And, Linda. They called me in one week and said, we have an apartment available. And so that's 1 of those things where you have to say. You can't make this up. That was the universe said, it's time for you to have a place. Well, what happened in that year and a half? I was humbled.
00:54:31.850 --> 00:54:37.299 Jeremy McDonald: I was. I learned a lot about myself. I learned that I was taken care of.
00:54:37.793 --> 00:54:53.119 Jeremy McDonald: you know, living under your car, traveling and going to different places and having your your car with just clothes in it and not necessarily organized, is definitely a lesson in where your mind and energy is at. So yeah.
00:54:53.120 --> 00:54:59.829 Linda Marsanico: How courageous of you to embark on that, and how beautiful for universe to give you what you needed
00:55:00.090 --> 00:55:17.219 Linda Marsanico: in a week to know. Now we have just a few minutes, and I wanted to ask you just if we could spend 2 min, how to help our listeners know what daily practices, like stillness, meditation, or journaling help connect us with soul wisdom.
00:55:17.870 --> 00:55:22.809 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah. And that's 1 of those things where your soul is always talking to you.
00:55:23.140 --> 00:55:36.120 Jeremy McDonald: So start journaling, even if it's just a few minutes a day to write it down. Meditate, set a time for yourself. I have. I have 5 to 10 min every morning when I wake up, and I just lay there.
00:55:36.240 --> 00:55:37.750 Jeremy McDonald: and I just breathe.
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:53.180 Jeremy McDonald: and before I even get my coffee or get up and do anything, I spend 5 to 10 min waking myself up and just breathing. What it's doing is it's relaxing my energy in my body. And I always say, then I say to the universe, I say, surprise me.
00:55:53.180 --> 00:56:12.929 Jeremy McDonald: and I give it with this energy and feeling of like when you were a kid, and you were getting to walk out and see the Christmas tree in the morning on Christmas morning, that excitement, so that you can say to God, surprise me, meaning that every nugget he's going to give you, he or she, whatever you pray to is going to give you that day is going to be a gift like Christmas morning.
00:56:13.260 --> 00:56:28.619 Jeremy McDonald: and then I go throughout the day, and I have a conversation. It's like a walking meditation all day long, and saying, Hey, thank you so much for that. Thank you so much for that, and then, at the end of the night, I meditate for at least an hour to 2 h every night. It's my reward to myself.
00:56:29.435 --> 00:56:39.529 Jeremy McDonald: I also take a walk, you know, 2 or 3 times a week in nature, so that it connects me, and I'll touch the trees, and I'll do everything. And so it really gets me in my mind.
00:56:39.660 --> 00:56:40.630 Jeremy McDonald: quiet.
00:56:40.740 --> 00:56:44.410 Jeremy McDonald: And so what it does is it gives you a better relationship with yourself.
00:56:44.730 --> 00:56:52.200 Jeremy McDonald: We're constantly on doing, doing doing? I got to get the laundry done. I got to get this done. I got to get this done. You can take 5 min for yourself.
00:56:52.390 --> 00:57:00.779 Jeremy McDonald: and so, and people will say, Well, it's impossible, and I will say to the ego, because the ego wants to be constantly active, so you can give me 5 min of quiet.
00:57:01.863 --> 00:57:06.260 Jeremy McDonald: And so that inner, the inner ego is like, Okay, I'll give you 5 min.
00:57:06.610 --> 00:57:07.930 Linda Marsanico: Well, you're the boss.
00:57:07.930 --> 00:57:18.429 Jeremy McDonald: Yeah, so well, it's my body. That's the way I look at it. And so and so I look at it. And I've been just as busy as everybody else. But you have to take that time for yourself.
00:57:18.630 --> 00:57:26.290 Jeremy McDonald: Otherwise you're you're not being guided by the soul. Then you're caught up in the world as opposed to being in flow with it.
00:57:26.730 --> 00:57:27.250 Jeremy McDonald: Indeed.
00:57:27.250 --> 00:57:32.779 Jeremy McDonald: that's and and it also helps you pull up all the things that have been blocking you. So yeah.
00:57:33.190 --> 00:57:35.839 Linda Marsanico: Jeremy, as we come to the close of our
00:57:35.990 --> 00:57:38.679 Linda Marsanico: conversation, how can people find you.
00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:43.490 Jeremy McDonald: So my website is very easy. It's jeremymcdonald.net.
00:57:43.660 --> 00:57:51.149 Jeremy McDonald: and it's JERE MYMC DONA ld.net, and on there is the links to all my social media.
00:57:51.658 --> 00:58:19.999 Jeremy McDonald: There is you can get onto my mailing list on there. I have workshops on there. I have my inter Temple Symposium recordings, one with Marie Diamond from the secret. I've got one with Raymond Moody on there as one of our keynotes. There's lots of cool, different products and things that you can get. Get my book there. But, more importantly, you just want to connect. Just get on my social media and so and we'll we'll connect and and interact and engage with each other. So.
00:58:20.200 --> 00:58:25.619 Linda Marsanico: Well, Jeremy, thank you so much for being my guest. I'm sure that our listeners will be very
00:58:25.990 --> 00:58:28.889 Linda Marsanico: enlightened to hear all that you had to say today.
00:58:29.210 --> 00:58:31.000 Jeremy McDonald: Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure.
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:41.110 Linda Marsanico: It's been a pleasure. Next week, listeners. My guest will be Candace Mckim, a very spiritual woman, who talks about
00:58:41.680 --> 00:58:46.200 Linda Marsanico: many spiritual things, including intuition being a choice.
00:58:46.720 --> 00:58:49.210 Linda Marsanico: So we'll see you next week. Bye. Everyone.
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