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Hi, I'm Jasmine Nicole. Welcome to the Motivational Mystic, a space for authentic higher conscious conversations to motivate, inspire, and empower. Thanks for listening. Each week I'll drop a new conscious raising episode. Let's dive in. Hello everyone. As I record this on March 30th, I am certainly looking forward to spring. The first day of spring did happen. I believe it was March 20th. We're experiencing some really good weather here in the DMB area. Uh, 60-degree weather. Uh, and I hope it lasts. Because if anyone out there is listening from the DMB area, you'll know that about two weeks ago we had two 80-degree days, and then it snowed the next day after an 80-degree day. And that was quite shocking to literally experience all the seasons in a matter of days. So I'm hoping Mother Nature works with us, sticks with us, and stays consistent because not a big fan of the cold. So definitely ready for you know Mother Nature to want to be consistent with us and keep the the good weather and the good times that come along with good weather uh rolling. So um so for today I do want to speak about the importance of speaking your truth. It's okay to speak your truth, even when others don't like it. As long as you're not trying to intentionally or maliciously hurt anyone, then it's out of your control how other people receive your words. Your words are very powerful, so you want to be mindful of how you use them and the energy you put out to the universe through the words that you speak. How you choose to use your voice, now that is up to you. Do you want to use it to educate or agitate? Do you want to use it to spread love or hate? How you use it depends on the individual. We really need to start placing the focus back on that. Placing accountability on the individual, rather than sinking into this groupthink or hive mindset I spoke about in the last episode, of needing people to all think the same and canceling those that don't. It's important to protect free speech. America is one of the few remaining countries in this world that still has it. However, you can still hold people accountable if they use their First Amendment right to hurt or harm someone, but we can't just completely censor or block out people's ability to express themselves. Especially at this time, where it almost seems like there's a concerted effort across multiple global governments to eliminate free speech. There was a study done in 2025 that I'll link to this episode, where in 2023, in the UK alone, over 12,000 people were arrested for social media posts. That ranged from people posting things that caused annoyance, inconvenience, or anxiety to others. Essentially, mean tweets. People were literally arrested for mean tweets. Crazy. Granted, if you're engaging in illegal activity, threatening or discussing harming someone, those are justifiable arrests. But to arrest thousands of people a year for social media posts is excessive. It's beyond comprehensible. We have started to see multiple world governments making gradual attempts to censor free speech online. I believe some countries have or have tried to ban their citizens from using X, formerly known as Twitter. Policing online social media accounts and arresting people for posting their thoughts and opinions. What happened to just letting social media companies regulate what's acceptable behavior on their own platform? Once we have the government dictate how we interact with each other online, via demanding digital IDs associated with profiles, or banning people for mean tweets, it starts to become like an online surveillance state, and that to me is a slippery slope. If you're on there threatening a public official or someone else, doing illegal activity, there's going to be consequences for that, and there should be. However, there's a thin line between censorship and surveillance. We've even seen a crackdown on free speech in America that was happening on college campuses in 2025. The previous administration was big on social media censorship, which we saw play out in the first half of this decade, and had multiple social media CEOs speak out about the pressure they were facing to censor and regulate speech online. Since that was already set in motion, we see the current administration continuing with this agenda of censoring free speech, dismantling grassroots organizations on college campuses in 2025. That might not be as easy to monitor or track until they make their message or stance known publicly. Actual colleges have been targeted for not cracking down on certain types of free speech on their campuses as well. There is a concerted effort, domestically and internationally, to censor free speech. The question is why? Use your voice responsibly. It can make a difference. I love that a lot of parents in schools across America refuse to let LifeTouch, which is the largest photography company in America, take photos of their children for Picture Day because the co-founder was named in the Epstein Files and was an alleged close associate of his. LifeTouch photographs millions of kids every single year for Picture Day. How scary is that? People are starting to wake up from this illusionary world they've been living in and using their voice to demand change. This is the way we usher in change, using our voice. If you want to defeat systematic deception and oppression, you have to dismantle the systems in which they're using to oppress and deceive you. Not through getting in the streets, protesting, fighting, having all out anarchy. They want that, so they'll be able to usher in a police or a military state, because people are responding to the psychological and emotional abuse of the system in a reactionary way. It would just give an excuse for someone to come in and systematically restore peace and maintain law and order, especially with protesting. And who knows, once that police or military state is implemented, if it would ever go away. So, like the parents that revolted against Life Touch, taking their kids' pictures for picture day, if people are profiting off of others through predatory practices or oppression, you have to go after the systems they're using to profit off of you. That is how the little guy fights back. Nothing gets someone's attention more than losing money, that's for sure. So, use your voice responsibly and speak your truth. I used to remain silent and suffer in silence, as I let the feelings of others dictate what I would say, or how I acted at times. I was unknowingly playing small and not honoring myself. Everyone is not going to agree on everything all the time. That's life. Words are a transfer of energy between people, and sometimes messages get lost in translation because you're speaking at different frequencies. You may upset people by speaking and standing in your truth, especially when they're not used to you doing it. But that's okay. They'll get over it. One of the most accessible ways people are able to voice their opinion and speak their truth to a broad audience is social media. Like I mentioned before, social media is a tool, but you want to make sure you are using it and not being used by it. Because even though we have instant access to it at all times, right on our phones, we're getting to a point in society where it seems people are becoming disconnected from reality. The lines are becoming blurred for some people between real life and their social media digital life. It's important to stay grounded and tethered to the real world. Don't let online narratives and discourse dictate how you navigate and interact with people in your real life and in the real world. Make your real life interactions the baseline of your understanding of reality and not social media. Reality is your family, coworkers, friends, the people you interact with in real life. The people that matter. Social media is just an extension of that. You can use social media as a tool to get your voice out there on a broader scale. Speaking your truth is important, but obviously, you want to do that in a manner in which you're going to be taken seriously. Don't go making stupid threats online, engaging in hate speech, or doing something that is going to discredit you and won't be universally understood by the masses. We need to focus on coexisting. We ain't got to like each other all the time, but you can coexist with people. You mind your business and they mind theirs, rather than focusing on what other people have going on and making it your business. For the most part, social media has given power back to the people, allowing them to amplify their voice. But you have to be very selective in how you're using your voice and the energy that you're conveying through your words. What message are you trying to relay? What frequency are you trying to cast out to the people that you want them to be receptive or responsive to? I'm a big proponent of protecting free speech. I'm aware hate speech unfortunately falls under the umbrella of free speech, but I mean you have to take the good with the bad. The irony of people who spew hate speech is that they often become a victim of their own rhetoric. If you don't use your words wisely, you can become susceptible to the very thing you want to speak out against. A person can't spew negativity into the world without that negativity coming back to them in one form or another. That's just physics, the law of conservation of energy, to be exact. The tongue is powerful. Words are very powerful, so you have to be mindful of how you use them. And don't be afraid to use your voice to speak your truth. There's a lot of people out there, they're used to staying in the safety zone, the comfort zone, right? They don't want to stand out from the crowd. External validation means more to them than authenticity and truth. Not everyone is like that, of course. But if you are a person who, you know, uses your voice, you speak your truth, you look to make change in this world. With that, you're gonna have to be prepared for a lot of hate. It takes a brave person to not just speak their truth, but stand in their truth, right? Because most people are out here cosplaying as something they're not for attention and approval. If you're brave enough to be an authentic person in this world, be prepared to be heavily envied.

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Because a lot of people rather stay in the in the comfort zone, the safety zone of external validation. Well, everyone else is doing it, so I'll do it too. And you know, that's fine. Not everyone's a leader. You do have followers out there. But I feel like if you're listening to this podcast, you are definitely not a follower. We we talk about a lot of things on this episode that the average Joe and Jane would tune out within 30 seconds of listening to it. So, you know, I know the fellow mystics listening to this podcast are way showers, light workers, leaders, authentic people. And standing in your truth, living authentically, is not for the weak of heart, right? Because it's just easy to submit to the safety of acceptance and validation and going with the crowd. But, you know, an authentic person can't do that. You know, it's just not in your makeup, it's not in your being to just go along to get along. You have to follow what is authentically true to you. And I believe that is a wonderful trait to have, but it's not for the weaker heart, you know? If you stand in your truth and you're someone that doesn't go with the crowd, yeah, the crowd's gonna look at you like you're crazy. But the other side of that is when you stick to your convictions and you stand in truth and authenticity, eventually the crowd comes around and sees you as a visionary, right? You might just be someone that understands or grasps concepts a little quicker than the status quo, because you look for the deeper meaning in things. You don't just go with what you're told, you actually go with what actually feels authentically true to you. And that's something that should be celebrated. So to everyone out there who is a leader and not a follower, who is a way shower who lives authentically in their truth, kudos to you. And that's not celebrated or acknowledged enough. Being an authentic person, being a person that stands in their truth, speaks their truth, and doesn't apologize for it. That's something to be celebrated. So, kudos and congrats to everyone fully embodying their authentic, divine essence. So if you are a a way shower, a light worker, a visionary, a leader, if you were someone that's never fit in, it was probably intentional, right? You were born to stand out, you were born to not be a follower because you will lead by example. And sometimes it takes a lot of people who might kind of fall into the minion mindset of being a follower to really recognize that, oh, there is a different path, oh, there is a different way, or you know, this person does things a bit differently. I don't know why, but I'm intrigued by it. You lead and live by example, and those people that stick out and who were born to stand out, it's for a reason. You have a purpose here, and you're meant to lead by example. So speaking your truth, being your authentic self, it will all serve you. So don't shy away from it or don't try to conceal it in an attempt to be accepted or for acceptance because you stand out for a reason, and it's up to you to kind of do the work to figure out why. And you don't have to prove anything to anyone, of course. You can prove it to yourself, but you just want to make sure you're not dishonoring yourself by not truly basking in your authentic divine essence and trading that in for external validation and approval of people who don't even know who they are. They're just looking to follow someone so they don't stand out because they don't know how to deal with being an authentic person or they don't know how to look at themselves. Right? It's easier to go along to get along than it is to stand out and carve your own path. And I know people listening to this podcast, we are not followers. We're way showers, we're leaders, and we lead by example. So don't be afraid to use your voice and speak your truth. You may very well be the spark that ignites the change that the world needs. So don't count yourself short. You're a leader, you're a way shower, you're a visionary, you're an innovator. And we need more of that in this world more than ever, than a bunch of followers, minions, just looking for their next order, who are too afraid to live life authentically. Well, that's all I have for today, everyone. Until next time. Goodbye.