Discovering the Afterlife: Annette Marinaccio's Journey from Skepticism to Spiritual Awakening

What if the afterlife is closer than you think? This week's episode of the Spiritual Spotlight Series invites you to explore that possibility with our fascinating guest, Annette Marinaccio. As a certified public accountant and healthcare executive, Annette’s journey from skepticism to belief began with an unexpected and deeply personal experience involving her late mother-in-law and a set of colored pom-poms. 

This episode promises to transform your understanding of the metaphysical world and offers you a unique blend of heartfelt storytelling and profound spiritual insights.

Annette’s story is not just about the discovery of the afterlife but also about the profound connections we maintain with those who have passed on. She shares intimate details about communicating with her mother-in-law and how these experiences brought new responsibilities and revelations that led her to write "Your Soul Focus." Listen as we discuss the concept of soul contracts, the idea that our earthly existence is only a fragment of our larger soul experience, and how these insights can guide you on your own spiritual journey.

We wrap up this enlightening episode with actionable advice on how to connect with the afterlife and navigate your soul's purpose. From practical tips on requesting signs from loved ones to the importance of self-awareness and kindness, Annette’s wisdom provides comfort and guidance. 

Tune in to hear touching stories of connection and reassurance, and discover how understanding our soul's broader journey can bring peace and clarity to your life. 

Don’t miss out on this compelling conversation filled with transformative experiences and spiritual growth.

Chapters

• 0:50 Discovering the Afterlife Through Signs
• 14:06 Uncovering Soul Connections and Guidance
• 18:12 Unlocking the Soul's Perspective
• 21:31 Connecting With the Afterlife Through Signs
• 30:53 Navigating Your Soul's Purpose

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:50

Hello everyone, welcome to Spiritual Spotlight Series. Today I'm joined by Annette Marinaccio. Annette is a certified public accountant. She is an accomplished healthcare executive and she is the author of your Soul Focus. You Believe in the Afterlife, don't you, annette? Thank you so much for coming to Spiritual Spotlight Series. I'm so happy you're here.

Speaker 2: 1:08

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm very happy to be here, Rachel.

Speaker 1: 1:17

So can you share with us the story of how your mother-in-law led you to discover the existence of the afterlife.

Speaker 2: 1:20

Sure, and I'll also say that, although she's the one who started me on the path, after I understood that there was an afterlife, I spent like four years entrenched in everything metaphysical because I was an accountant, a CPA. I'm like I need to understand this. What's going on? So, and CPAs are not the traditional, I think, spiritual types. Oh man, so when my mother-in-law died in 2006, and after she died, so she was on the other side that's when she decided to prove to me that she was still here. So she didn't teach me about the afterlife when she was here on Earth with me. It wasn't until she was crossed over, which makes it really fascinating to me. So she's on the other side. And then she did for me.

Speaker 2: 2:17

She left me what I call a series of breadcrumbs and I followed those breadcrumbs, one at a time, and I understand now a little bit more about the way the universe works. And, being an accountant, I think the other side knew that I needed to digest every little breadcrumb before I got to the next one. I couldn't be overwhelmed. I needed to take that one step at a time. So the steps that occurred right off the bat is she had died in October of 2006. And the following week I was with my 13-year-old daughter and we were having breakfast before she goes to school and I go to work, and she, very matter-of-fact, said, guess what? I got a gift from Grandma Lucille yesterday. Grandma Lucille was my mother-in-law who had just died. And I'm thinking, okay, that's not possible. But I have to listen to her and understand what she's saying.

Speaker 2: 3:10

So I was like, what do you mean?

Speaker 2: 3:12

And she explained to me that in her art class the day before they had made 3D cards and she decided to make cards with red and green pom-poms. So she went over to the pom-pom or art supply closet and took out a Tupperware with all different color and size pom-poms. And took out a Tupperware with all different color and size pom-poms and she pulled out and counted 11 green and 11 red and she double, triple counted and she's very, very meticulous to this day, so that doesn't surprise me. And she went and she put the container, the Tupperware, back in the closet and she said and when I came back there were my 11 green and my 11 red and one lavender and one ivory the same color as the balloons that we let go at grandma's grave site. So I know grandma is saying she got the balloons. Thank you for the balloons.

Speaker 2: 4:07

So I and I was just shocked and I assumed you know, I don't know if I would say I was skeptical I would say that I hadn't really thought about the afterlife prior to that, and so I think I assumed that she was going through some kind of really deep grief that I didn't understand and that this was somehow a coping mechanism for her, and so I said well, how did they get there? And then she was really fascinated. She was just like that's it. I don't understand if they just appeared or they flew through the air. And I said well, was anybody else around your desk? She said no, and I said could you have taken them out by mistake? She said no. I could see she had played through all the possibilities already in her head and the only possibilities for her were they just appeared or they floated through the air.

Speaker 2: 4:54

So I then she said to me um, do you want to see them? And I said okay, and she ran up to her bedroom and came down with them and they were the exact colors of the balloons. They weren't even like purple and white, they were lavender. And I like the exact colors. And I was like I didn't know what to say. So I said a very stupid thing for a mother to say I think. But I was like I didn't know what to say. So I said a very stupid thing for a mother to say I think. But I was sort of in shock and I said well, all I can say is this if these are really from Grandma Lucille, then when you die you should be buried with these, because that would be an absolute miracle. I know stupid thing to say but that's what I said, and she was like I know it's so exciting.

Speaker 2: 5:30

And she went and she tucked them away. And what happened after that is, I started telling so many people the pom-pom story all my professional colleagues, friends because I was trying to make sense of it and also I was assuming something was going on with my daughter who was very close to her grandmother, my mother-in-law, and so I figured maybe I could help in some way. But as I was telling various people the story, my neighbor up the block, good friend of mine, who I'm still very friendly with, she said to me she listened to my whole story and then she just very in very matter of fact way, said you believe in the afterlife, don't you? Which is the subtitle of my book. Right, and that's what really started me, because now I had a very credible, close friend who was very matter of fact about it and I was like you believe in the afterlife? And she's like, oh my God, of course. And then she proceeded to tell me how she frequents a medium Josephine G on Long Island. Whenever she is stuck in a real life problem, like should I sell the house, should we move mom? She taps into her deceased father, which now I understand you can do, but at that point I'm just my jaw was on the floor like what you know, and so, at any rate, I now is digesting that.

Speaker 2: 6:55

And then, later that week, my husband, my recently widowed father in law and my son went into town for dinner and we were seated in a restaurant and we were seated by the window and facing this the outside, but we could see through. It was this big thing that said dinner and medium show with josephine g, the exact name that my girlfriend had told me about. So that's, you know the breadcrumbs, right? Yes, and she wasn't going to be there for another three or four months. Uh, it was april. The last sunday in april she was going to be there of 2007. So I called my girlfriend when, when I got home, I'm like, do you want to go? And she said yes. So myself and two girlfriends went and I made the reservations Not that I was thinking anything at the time, but I know the reservations I made. I said net, party of three, and that was it. And we got there and we were seated in. You know, I don't know, maybe a hundred people in a in a restaurant and we all have our meal, like you would see on TV and we'll say we all have your meal.

Speaker 2: 7:57

And this medium comes out, josephine G. She looks very, you know, sweet and everything, and she starts reading you know, one table right off the bat with a fallen police officer and they're crying and whatnot. And I'm thinking, oh, they're probably planted, that's, you know. Whatever you know, she obviously knows them. But then she comes over to our table and she says, um, okay, I have this woman here. Her name is, uh, lucille. That's my mother mother-in-law's name. And I'm like I'm not taking this microphone, I'm mortified. I'm in my head thinking what information did? They don't have my credit card, they don't even have my last name.

Speaker 2: 8:33

I said a net party of three, maybe. My girlfriend Maria told them about, like, what is going on, right, right, and my mother-in-law was really trying to come through. So Josephine says maybe, lou, something with an L, she's got black hair, she's holding her stomach. My mother-in-law died of pancreatic cancer and I didn't take the thing and my girlfriend's kicking me under the table Like that's your mother-in-law, what are you talking about? So I didn't, I didn't take the bait and she retreated out and she ended up.

Speaker 2: 9:04

The woman at the table next to us, raised her hand, said my name's Elizabeth, and she said has an L in it. And she said Elizabeth, did you just book a trip to Italy, which I had just booked a trip to Italy for my family? So Elizabeth's like, well, I just came back from Florida. And so then Josephine like retreats out, reads somebody else. And this is where I really have to credit my mother-in-law, because she was determined and so she came back determined, and so she came back and Josephine G said this woman is back and, um, she's saying her name is Lou Lucille, you know, and she's holding her stomach like she died of something like stomach cancer.

Speaker 2: 9:41

My mother-in-law had died of pancreatic, so now I raised my hand, took the microphone and then many people not all people, because many, many people have the gift from early on, so they don't know exactly when it changes, but for me this was the one line that just shot me into. Oh my God, I have to figure this out been diagnosed with cancer within days of each other in 2005. My mother-in-law was pancreatic and she spent the year fighting for her life and succumbed to the illness. My mother breast cancer and she spent the year fighting for her life. She did not end up dying at that point. She died in 2022 at 90 years old. Then she was 75.

Speaker 2: 10:32

So my mother's name was Rita and my although I changed the names in the book and my mother-in-law was Lucille, and so Josephine then said oh okay, yes, this is definitely for you. She's asking me how is Rita Rita's still here, isn't she? And that was it, because not only had she pegged both of their names yeah but when they were both fighting for their lives, going through chemo radiation surgeries, every time we visit one or the other, they would ask how the other one was how's lucille, you know? How's rita? Because they were going through such a small thing. So I know my mother-in-law knew that if she said that line, that would get it would click in just clicked.

Speaker 2: 11:16

It was like it was like a switch, and then I went home that, and then she, and then I had a very evidential reading after that. Yes, I went home. After that woke my husband up. You know, he was like Are you awake? And he was like Well, you know, I was like you're never gonna believe this. I think your mother's still around us, Like I don't know what's going on. So it was very fascinating to me. But the long and short of it is so.

Speaker 2: 11:41

those are the breadcrumbs that started it to me, but the long and short of it is. So those are the breadcrumbs that started it. But the next four years I was entrenched in all things metaphysical. I took classes, I read books, I spoke with hundreds of people, um, and I had dream downloads. I tapped into my spirit guides which I didn't even want to comprehend what Steve Bear guides were before. All of this I was like what? But that whole I got dream downloads from them. It was a really cathartic experience for me to learn everything I could about I don't even want to say everything I could about the afterlife, because I had just one main question Once you get involved in metaphysical and in the afterlife, there are so many avenues yes it's not, you know.

Speaker 2: 12:29

There's just so many things like I know you have um an affinity to the akashic records, yeah, so you know it's like that's a whole path in and of itself yes and spirit guides whole path. Yes, everything, but I had one question, and that was if we go on, what the heck are we doing here? That was my question. What Like what?

Speaker 1: 12:54

It's a great question.

Speaker 2: 12:56

And I needed to understand why we were here. If we go on, what is this about? It seems so important to us. What is it about? And that was my question. So, after about four years of just soaking everything I could in, I felt like you know, sometimes I have a good handle on it now and I sort of made the way the universe works very, very different than I initially thought, and and that's it so that's how, that's what started my path, and that was 2006. She died, and that was 2007.

Speaker 1: 13:34

I have to say that, as you're speaking about your mother in law and then your mom, the energy that's coming in for them is so intense and I love that you didn't just put it away on a shelf, like you know what your daughter was saying, like okay, we'll read. I love that you still remained open and had a spirit of curiosity and still was like, okay, maybe there's more to this than what meets the eye. I respect you so much for that Cause. I feel like some of you are like. You know what I mean. Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2: 14:05

Thank you. It felt like a responsibility, because if she were grappling with something that I didn't understand, I felt like it was like my responsibility to figure it out and understand it. Right, but it was the tip of an iceberg, isn't it? Yeah, it was like one thing after another. It was like oh my God, oh my God, it Isn't it. It was like one thing after another. It was like oh my God.

Speaker 1: 14:27

Oh my God. It was like everything's so eyeopening and it is fascinating when our loved ones are in spirit. They are very similar to their personalities, how they are, that's how they present to you. So I would want to know was your mother-in-law, does she have a very like outgoing personality that she was like I'm going to get you, like I'm coming through?

Speaker 2: 14:47

So it's interesting, one of my girlfriends, after I put the book out which was pro, I put the book out three years ago, so it was four years after that even. But after I put the book out, my girlfriend said to me your mother-in-law must've been so strong, like such a strong, like you're saying strong. And I said you know she was strong, but I wouldn't say she's that much more strong than anybody else I knew. Um, she was really a grounded, very grounded, solid individual. And then she said, well, you two must've been so close and we were, we were close, but not, you know, not any more close than a lot of other people. And my girlfriend said well, why did she pick you to come through to? And I was like I don't know. And then I learned afterwards.

Speaker 2: 15:35

And then my girlfriend came to me right afterwards and she said I figured it out because she knew you'd write a book, knew you'd write a book. And I was like I figured out afterwards that a lot of times the other side will come through with a purpose and they're going to come through at is able to share, correct. So I think that, um, I think that's what why, why she came through to me. I think she was very determined because she, you know, I probably have a sole contract and I was meant to help what I mean? I'm an accountant. I'm not like a nurse or a doctor where you get like, oh my God, you saved my life. It's nothing like that. So for me to put something out, you know, in a book, when I don't have that spiritual inclination, it helps. It's helped many people at this point, of course, but it's whether it was one or it was a hundred or it was a thousand, right.

Speaker 1: 16:39

It's people in a way that otherwise know it helped them on their journey and that's really why I think my mother-in-law was she's very determined I love that I'd say that, more than anything else, a very determined individual, strong, determined I love that and I would probably take it even one step further that she's probably part of your soul team now, like guiding you along the path. So I would I would take that one step further. So your book, your soul focus, explores, you know, intricate aspects of our souls and our journeys, like we've been discussing. Can you maybe elaborate on some of these complexities that are shared in your book?

Speaker 2: 17:16

Well, it's interesting because when, when the others, during that four years, as I was learning about the other side, the the side, because she enlisted my mother-in-law, enlisted not only my spirit guides but my other deceased relatives, and they really walked me very slowly through things, just one thing at a time, just really knowing that if they overwhelmed me I might just shut down completely, not really understanding it. So they made sure I understood and digested, understood and digested and a couple of things that the overarching theme that I learned very early on was that here on Earth we're living one tiny, teeny sliver of our soul. Oh, good point. But we're intentionally, intentionally, by design, born with almost like a dunce cap on, yeah, blinders. So we, we are not distracted. The purpose of the blinders is, so we're not distracted from doing our, our soul's purpose over here, right, you know you have to do.

Speaker 2: 18:26

If you were, if you had the perspective that you'd have on the other side here, you wouldn't focus enough to get your um right done. So you have these blinders on. So you end up thinking and feeling that this is it. You know this is ever important. And uh, the the word ego, uh, ego has a negative connotation, but it's really. You know this is ever important. And the word ego has a negative connotation, but it's really. You know it's a matter of Einstein's.

Speaker 2: 18:49

You can relate to what you can only relate to what you can relate to. And when you're here, you can relate to yourself and your community in your small world. So, when you understand that your soul is just a, your human experience, here is a sliver of your whole existence, right, whole perspective spins on its on its head. It's like oh, my goodness, um, it's not that it's not important here, but it's not nearly as important as we all think it is um and feel that it is. We all feel it as a human experience that we have this sort of depth of dependency and um depth of relationships and depth love. It's not um, you know it's part of the human experience, but it's not really part of your soul, right, it's a part of your soul's experience, so, um, or it's a sliver of your soul's experience, so that that when I learned that that was pretty, you know, like eye opening to me, and I also learned that the other side is literally right there and that helps.

Speaker 2: 19:50

you can like, note, like really, at the end. So I have this, this analogy in my book, where I say, let's say you're, it's a snowy morning and you walk outside on your porch and you see just snow glistening as far as the eye can see and glistening in the trees, and it just looks absolutely like this beautiful, beautiful winter morning. And then, if you picture, just at the end of where your eyesight ends, an acrylic dome like a snow globe you know, and your loved ones on the outside, just of that snow globe.

Speaker 2: 20:25

You know, and your loved ones on the outside, just of that snowball. They see everything we have going on right outside of our eyesight I mean our energy level, but our eyesight so we don't see them, but they're, they're able to see absolutely everything. And so when you start, when I started learning that that you don't have to worry about them, like quote unquote, resting in peace, peace, they want to help if they can they do, you're never alone.

Speaker 2: 20:48

So that was an eye-opening thing, too, when I think of um things that I went through in my life that were horribly horrible, difficult times and times where I felt so alone and then, to understand that you're never really alone, that your loved ones and your spirit guides and angelic angels are really always trying to help.

Speaker 2: 21:06

You've got a team of people it's not just you. So that was eye-opening, but one of the most intricate things I learned about. I also learned you can tap into the other side whenever you want, like if you need proof yes ask for something specific.

Speaker 2: 21:25

Ask for something specific and if they can show you, they will. So it's really quite simple. I I'll give you a story, but, and I'll tell you, but they're very interesting. But, um, you know, one of the stories is my, in my book is just ask for something specific.

Speaker 2: 21:40

And I had this woman in the middle of the country. Uh, read the book and she reached out to me and she said I just have to share this story with you. And I was like, oh my God, it was a great story that her brother had died when she was young. She and he were younger and she had a young child, now eight or 10 year old daughter. And that daughter had never met her uncle Jack, the woman who wrote to me, his brother.

Speaker 2: 22:04

And so when she after reading my book, she said let's ask uncle Jack for something specific, we're going to meditate on something specific and ask for it. And so the little girl said I want to ask for Finn the cat. And so the mother said who's Finn the cat? And she said last summer, when grandma was over here babysitting me one day, we saw this cat came over and let us pick us up. Pick it up, and it had a little tag on it with Finn.

Speaker 2: 22:29

And so the mother said, ok, that might be too specific, but let's, let's meditate on a cat. What color was? So? The little girl said it was orange, you know. So she said, ok, let's ask for an orange cat, let's ask Uncle Jack to show us an orange cat. So she said, okay, let's ask for an orange cat, let's ask Uncle Jack to show us an orange cat. Now I'm thinking to myself. Uncle Jack on the other side, been waiting for 30 years for his sister to know he could tap into him. Right, right, right. So they meditate on this orange cat. A couple of days later, the mother is putting the garbage out and she hears meow behind the garbage can. She runs in, gets her 10 year old daughter, they run out and the cat crawls out and they pick up the cat and, sure enough, the tag is finn.

Speaker 2: 23:12

It's the same cat that she saw the year before with the, with the grandmother, and so I'm thinking, I like, I think of it from this uncle jack Jack side, like finally I get to show them. I'm really yeah so she was so thankful to me and she's and the woman and she's like I just can't believe that he's been so accessible this whole entire time, yeah yeah, so I found that out and I thought that was amazing also.

Speaker 1: 23:44

I have another really intricate story, but I really like the analogy of the snow globe and I always liken to our. Like you said, we're never alone and I always say death is just a doorway. So when we just have to like, just know that death is just a doorway and it kind of takes away some of the sadness and the grief because even though they're not in a physical body, you know you still can tap with them on a soul level, which I, you definitely, are teaching people that. So, in your experience, how can the knowledge of the afterlife help people during times of grief or curiosity, help them out?

Speaker 2: 24:18

well, I think one of the biggest things is once you become comfortable, knowing that you can tap into the other side if needed. Yeah, that's very helpful because, if you're really going through something and you really trust that they're there or that they can help you. You know that's that's very powerful, yeah, but in terms of really helping, helping someone through grief, I always feel like there's two kind of two levels of grief. One grief is when you think your loved one is gone and that's it.

Speaker 2: 24:53

You'll never see them again, You'll never feel their energy again. They're gone. Who knows if they're okay, and that's very, very difficult to climb out it is. But if you trust that they're still there and again, if you just look for a sign or ask for something specific, and then at least you feel like that level of grief is easier to come out not come out from, but to learn to live with, Because you never come out of it.

Speaker 2: 25:21

When you lose someone you love, your life is different and you wouldn't want it to. You'd want to go back, maybe, to the way it was, but you wouldn't want to have the grief go away because, um, you wanted to lessen a little bit, but you, you understand that you have to learn to, to live with it. Right, and that's it's part of who you are. Now you know it's shaped who you are, so, um, but once you know that they're there and they're safe, that should give you some solace to go on.

Speaker 2: 25:56

It's still grief because you don't have them in the way you used to have them. You want to converse with them, you want to hug them and you can't do that. You can speak a mile a minute to them and they'll hear you, but you don't get the response back. So it's still grief, but it's a different level of grief once you know that. It's like you said, stepping through a doorway. I heard some people when I was in that four years of trying to figure things out, that they said it's like being pulled out of a crappy, dirty apartment into the Ritz Carlton. That's what it's like.

Speaker 1: 26:37

So and I think to your point, like if you're asking for signs from your loved ones and you want to connect with them and maybe you're not receiving what they're sending to, you, ask for a clearer sign, like ask for a sign that you're going to understand, and like fin the cat, your loved ones, your angels, your guides, your team, they're going to make sure that you get the message. Like, but you just got to ask that's right.

Speaker 2: 27:03

And when I say be very specific in the book. And I had another friend, another woman who read the book, a friend of a friend, and she said she asked her mother for a blue cameo which was pretty specific. And she's thumbing through a magazine and she finds an ad with four different cameos and the one's a blue cameo like.

Speaker 2: 27:21

But I also say this this isn't the out, because one of the very common questions people say but I'm not getting signs, I don't. You know, I asked you something specific, I didn't, I didn't receive it. The out, I'll say, is this they will do it if they can, but they will not. They absolutely will not interfere with a soul's path. True, any soul, your soul, somebody else's soul. It won't interfere with your growth or your path. That's a good point. So if you are you know I'm making this up but if you're really desperate because you miss them so dreadfully and you can't sort of see, you know in front of you and you're hanging your life on wanting this one particular sign, but your soul needs to get to another place of solace. Without that sign you're not going to get it.

Speaker 2: 28:23

That's a good point that's a really good point, and it may not even just be your soul path. People come to earth for all different kinds of people and purposes, so it's not always about you either. But if you can't, if they feel it's going to interfere with your growth or the growth of another soul, they're not going to give it to you. And then of course there's also sometimes it takes them a while to figure out how to get it signed to you. It's not like so easy, like they don't go over there like all of a sudden. They're magicians and they can do a lot of things. They can do a lot more, but it takes them a while to get into the frequency that can dialogue with us. That's very true. So there are reasons that you may not get what you want. But if you're persistent and if they can, and if it doesn't interfere with your soul's growth or somebody else, they will give you what you're asking.

Speaker 1: 29:20

Absolutely. That's a really, really good piece of advice. So before I ask you the last question if anyone's interested in learning more about you purchasing your book, what is the best place for them to go to?

Speaker 2: 29:30

um, I have a website, uh, annettemarinochiocom, and I set it up initially when I put the book out because I knew that, um, I was going to. I know, I know that the book has its own energy, but I knew that if anybody asked me to talk about the book, I would be like, absolutely so. I have wonderful people who've interviewed me on podcasts, or this podcast will be on there, and I tell people, you know, in the middle of the night, if you just want to hear some great afterlife discussions, don't, don't only go to the podcast that I've done, but go to the hosts podcast, because they've interviewed other people, definitely. You know so and there's a lot of information out there. So I have a really great, robust website and I also it's my book is on Amazon and and Barnes and Noble and so, yeah, those are the play and I have it in audio and I have electronic, because my objective was just to really just to get the book out there to help.

Speaker 2: 30:35

It's not like I love my job and I have a great job, so it's not about the book. I knew that the book would help people and that's my purpose in it. I love that. I love that help people and that's what I, that's my purpose in it.

Speaker 1: 30:47

You know, I love that. I love that. Finally, could you maybe share a piece of advice for our listeners who are seeking to connect with their soul's purpose or navigate spiritual questions they might have for themselves?

Speaker 2: 30:58

Yeah, sure, um, I, I. What I like to say is um, if you're moving forward in kindness, then you're moving forward in the right direction in terms of your soul's purpose. But I'll also say this that I've learned, which is a little bit uncomfortable sometimes for people to hear but if you find things that aggravate you and other people like boy, that person does this and it's so irritating to me, especially especially your family members boy, that person does this and it's so irritating to me, especially your family members when you find the-.

Speaker 1: 31:31

Never irritated.

Speaker 2: 31:33

Or when you're irritated or you are repeating patterns. If you can look for patterns in yourself that you're repeating over and over, that's usually a good clue that you may have come here to earth to try and conquer something, something could be something very small, a compulsion, that's very small, but um, but that's a good sign of really why you may have come here. And, of course, you can do all sorts of other things like look the akashic records, go have your chart read. There are lots of ways to determine what your divine purpose was. Purpose is here, but that's a good way to tell. But I will also say I like to tell people this because I think it's just an overall great piece of advice to help your soul and to help you on earth.

Speaker 2: 32:31

And that's try to lose the feeling that comes with the word compare, because we have a tendency as humans, from a very young age we grow up observing everything around us and everyone around us, and then we grow up very, very comparing ourselves, and not only to other people, like somebody might say oh, I don't have to worry about that, because I'm not an envious person. I don't really envy other people, but you probably still compare yourself to yourself. I used to be, you know, different. When I was younger, I used to have more energy. I wish I was this at this point in my life.

Speaker 2: 33:21

Compare yourself to what you had hoped you would have been now. Forget comparing yourself. Don't compare yourself to others. Don't compare yourself to yourself when you were younger. Don't compare yourself to where you want to be. Just really try to appreciate where you are right now. People know that. You know I have to meet someone where they are. Meet yourself where you are now also. So if people can just shed away the feeling that comes with the word compare, it really helps open your soul up.

Speaker 1: 33:53

That was such amazing advice. Both of those pieces of advice, both very amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you, Annette, for coming on the Spiritual Spotlight Series. It's really been amazing to speak with you today. Thank you again.

Speaker 2: 34:06

Thank you, thanks so much for having me Very excited to be here.