Week 7 Transcription

And it may just I understand that Peter is overseas, Katie.

Katie Albee

00:00:05

Yeah. He’s in Taiwan.

Don White

00:00:07

Do. Do you know if he’s gonna try to join us this evening?

Katie Albee

00:00:10

He’s not going to be able to. He’s like knee deep in dao principle, embracing Dow.

And so they some Taiwanese people paid for Peter and a few other of our friends to go to Taiwan to really embrace doubt. And so yeah, he’s having lots of fun. And he was like, Let’s meet these days, and we didn’t meet at all till this morning, and I said, he’s like, I’m gonna stay busy while I’m there. I gotta like work on my stuff. I said maybe you could just go there and enjoy yourself.

Don White

00:00:40

That’s good idea. While you’re there. Take advantage of the experience. Good for you.

Katie Albee

00:00:44

Yes, yes, everything will wait for him. So yeah.

Don White

00:00:47

Yes, it will. And for the recording, this is soul of technology. Assignment 7. We’re in week 7 already. It goes fast. And, Katie, it might just be you and me this evening, Melissa.

Katie Albee

00:00:59

It’s gonna be.

Don White

00:01:01

Has a work emergency. Rene Beth is off doing whatever she’s doing. Parker has got bandwidth challenges. We know he’s challenged science band.

Katie Albee

00:01:10

I can’t wait till he listens to the recording.

Don White

00:01:13

If I insult him enough, he probably will. That’ll be a motivation. You saw what he did to me on the zoom the other day. We we like to have fun.

Katie Albee

00:01:22

Yes, and Rodina appreciated it as well. We talked.

Don White

00:01:25

Excellent.

Yeah. Dana has a good sense of humor. She she likes.

Katie Albee

00:01:32

Yeah, she does.

Don White

00:01:33

So just because we’ll free. Flow it, Katie, jump in, and and whatever.

Katie Albee

00:01:40

Did you have questions that you curated for today? If you want, we can start there.

Don White

00:01:45

I do?

Katie Albee

00:01:46

Let’s start there and then I can jump because I do have some stuff that I was just.

Don White

00:01:51

And I’ve got stuff, too, from your notes. I think you had a couple of really good pieces in your notes that we’ll we’ll touch on in a little bit.

So, oops I didn’t share this I’m looking at.

Let me share.

Katie Albee

00:02:03

Sounded very professional the way you said so, though no.

Don White

00:02:07

Oh! Here we go!

Katie Albee

00:02:09

Okay, perfect.

Don White

00:02:11

And we. I gave everybody a sneak preview of this

at the end of the last class. So just imagine Katie

technology over the next 20 to a hundred years, and that’s pretty tough. Given the way the changes are going

and and beyond. And just what are

what are some of your thoughts about that.

Katie Albee

00:02:31

I feel like that.

The collective consciousness is raising and quickly.

oh, here’s our friend Parker. And so I do believe that because we’re raising our consciousness as technology expands

and evolves, it will raise with us.

And I do feel that because I do believe that we are already in the age of Aquarius, and that we’ve gone through this threshold, and a lot of my community has been they like they’re like, I don’t know what’s going on, but I feel really weird. And I see weird stuff. And I’m like, it’s okay. It’s normal.

So I just, I created, well, actually, I started a new

course that I launched on Tuesday. And I said to the one gal, I said, Do you think I should create another Facebook private group, but a space where we can share this weird stuff. Because, you know, we want to celebrate each other and see the weird stuff. And she was like, yeah, we definitely need to. And so I think that it’s going to really help us to expand in our. So okay.

Peter and I talk about this. And actually, when I think about it, I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, especially as a waitress. I watch a lot of people right? And so it’s like all these people have all these problems. So they’re so focused on having a boyfriend and paying their mortgage. And and I have like the same things right like my car engine light came on, and blah blah! And when we’re so fragmented we actually can’t live our souls purpose. At one day I was waitressing, and I said to the girl.

if and I shared this with you guys a couple weeks ago about the thing with my psychologist, and if all these things are happening at this time, this is just the only one that we can be aware of. And the woman looked at me and said Katie. Your questions are too big. I’m just wondering how I can pay my mortgage next month.

And so I think that what technology as we use it for the better will enable us more time, freedom, and financial freedom. Honestly, I spent so much money trying to have people help me build stuff

and chat Gpt is way outperformed anything, anyone and I feel bad. But also it’s like I spent thousands of dollars wasted thousands of dollars. And so I think that as we grow collectively with our consciousness, and it evolves with us, I think that it’s going to be for the better.

Don White

00:04:48

Really good points. Especially the point for the comment from the gal that said.

I’ve got to pay the rent next month. I’ve got to buy groceries.

a large percentage of the people that live in the United States. That’s how they live month to month, week to week.

So

what we’re doing by helping as many as we can try to see a bigger picture and and raise consciousness.

I think it’s a a big deal.

Katie Albee

00:05:18

Me too.

Don White

00:05:19

And welcome. Parker. How are you, man?

Parker iphone

00:05:24

Yeah, I’m good. I’m sorry, guys. I’ve

I’m at a get my my tires rotated, and

and the Wi-fi here is a pain. It’s just

I thought it was working before. And now it’s not so. I had to jump and move. That’s why I’m sitting there.

Industrial zone here.

Don White

00:05:45

Well, thanks for joining us. It’s just gonna be the 3 of us today. Parker. Melissa’s got some work thing going on, and Peter is overseas, and Rene Beth is off doing whatever she’s doing. So it’s us 3 chickens today.

So thanks for fiddling with the connection until it worked, and thanks for joining. Katie just talked a little bit about imagining the changes in technology over the next 20 to 100 years and beyond. And you don’t have to go on that if you’d rather talk about something else that’s related to the content today.

Fine. So, Parker, you’re on.

Parker iphone

00:06:23

Well, I mean. So the question is.

what’s the specific question, Don? About the 120 years.

Don White

00:06:30

Well, it’s it’s imagine the changes enabled by technology.

and just try to get your head around that. And it’s really hard, because I mean in 20 years. It’s going to be such a different world with the rate of change, with technology. And what are your general thoughts about that? And it can be, and it’s a free flow, whatever you think.

Parker iphone

00:06:49

Yeah, I’ve really been jamming this last month on anti technology.

And some of it has to do with my.

and what do we call it my

digital immigration, and some of it has to do with a hundred 1,000 years of genetic engineering

or natural selection as well as let no.

A 100 or a thousand generations of

analog type of interfacing with our environment. Right?

We we haven’t had a thousand generations. We’ve had one generation of interfacing with digital.

So the really meaningful stuff

may not be improved by technology like. So

if I imagine, like, what is it that Chat Gpt is going to do for my ability to understand

trust and loyalty and value and friendship. And,

yeah, all the deepest kinds of questions what it means to be

a woman, or a man, or a friend, or a parent?

Yeah, and I don’t. So so from that point of view, and I think that’s the really valuable stuff. I mean, I have no doubt the technology will just be mind blowing and exponentially increase and etc.

I don’t. I don’t think that’s an issue. I think the the issue is the stuff that

is actually the really valuable stuff.

you know, in a way like ideas and information I heard this ideas and information will become literally free. Implementation. Will is will, but will differentiate.

So creative creative ideas will be just free there’ll be.

there’ll be more ideas than necessary, and there’ll be great strategies. But the issue is, what can you do with that? And and then it goes back to like, what do we actually value? So, yeah, what do you value in a hundred years, when

let’s even imagine a Utopian, because it’s actually the Dystopian Utopian question comes up a lot.

Do we become this kind of Utopian Star Trek scenario, where

all all material needs are provided for for everybody. And really you’re just there to explore the extent of your drive and energy and creativity and passion, and etc.

For the starship for the Federation, and goes explore the universe. Or

maybe you just want to be a gardener, or whatever it is.

Study study study plants on a when I say, just, I don’t mean just because actually, that’s pretty cool.

But

so that stuff is gonna be done. So then I go back to what’s the really the stuff that I’m gonna value

in my life certainly isn’t going to be

another iphone, right? I mean, we’re already to the point where what’s another iphone like, has that? Does that really improve my life? Getting the latest iphone?

Not really at all. And so yeah, gosh,

I don’t think that there’s going to be that much change in what we value

a hundred 20 a hundred years from now than what we value right now, because

it’s kind of what we’ve always friendly, evaluated, isn’t it?

And actually let me just put another fine point on it.

Yeah. A friend you know, a mentor of mine said to me recently, the idea of

transformation happens.

Well, transformation happens in a lot of places, but the bottom there’s a bottom. There’s the rock bottom, and there’s the cliff top.

And, interestingly enough, Will Smith had a had a George, a Youtube short, where

you know. Few minutes, 3 or 4 min, where he talked about reaching the top of material and fame and everything. He got to the top, and he said literally.

He started valuing the really simple stuff in life.

friendships and loyalty and all these kinds of things. I mean, it’s had a bit of a catharsis, I think, in a revelation since

his little stunt on stage. But who cares about that? I mean it was public. That kind of stuff happens all the time. So what? He slapped his buddy in the face and they got over it. Well, maybe they did.

It’s minor, in my opinion. It’s relatively. What’s more interesting is, are these superstars that go through some sort of transformation? Well, how few do? Actually, Jim Carrey is an example. Will Smith’s an example. I think Mike Tyson is another one, the abhorrent, you know.

sexual abuser. Who’s become this

like enlightened soul who knew who knew that was gonna happen? I certainly didn’t see it coming. So

is that a rock bottom or cliff top and we can all transform along the way. But I still, I guess what I’m getting back to is.

yeah, this analog simple, these, these.

Hmm.

What we value in our life is not going to be much different. And I don’t know how much technology is gonna help it. If any.

Don White

00:12:42

I think what you just said. Parker ties to what Katie said about barely surviving and people living paycheck to paycheck, and I think that’s 1 of the gifts where technology might make a real difference to a lot of the masses. If we generally have enough food and enough energy and a place to live, and all that based on our ability to create all that much more easily for everybody. And if we choose to do that.

then people can pick their head up

and think about how they want to live and what they want to do versus. Oh, my God, I’ve got to go buy groceries, and I don’t have enough money. What am I going to do?

And and Parker? I I tend to certainly agree with you about what’s really important.

I think it’s it’s our loved ones. It’s our family, it’s our friends, it’s the.

It’s nature, it’s what do we care about.

It’s peace of mind. Certainly health and wellness.

And and I think if we can pick our head up and not have to be working as hard just to survive based on new technologies. There are technologies that are

supposedly not that far out there

that are going to be able to get energy out of a cubic centimeter of air. That’s just phenomenal. Now, will they? We’ll see. That’s a future. But Nikola Tesla had a way of doing that back in the late 18 hundreds, early, 19 hundreds. And then the powers that be wrecked his labs because they didn’t want power to be free. They wanted a meter, and they wanted to make money

so that that kind of gets back, I think, to a big point

in this whole lesson. And certainly the course.

Where’s the soul.

Parker iphone

00:14:35

Where are the ethics?

Don White

00:14:37

Where’s the integrity? And that’s going to come from the individuals. And, Katie, it goes back, I think, to another piece of what you talked about in raising consciousness.

Katie Albee

00:14:48

Because the more we.

Don White

00:14:50

Are able to pick our head up and think about more than just ourselves and surviving till next week.

I think the the more likely we’re going to be to

to try to help others, at least a lot of us, not everybody.

So cool. Thank you, Parker.

Katie Albee

00:15:10

I agree with you and like, even like for myself, because I am in the middle of transition, right? And so, without having a platform to trust and to have people to have these conversations with. I’d probably go back to waitressing. Honestly.

there’s like my check engine light, and my car came on, and it’s like.

Well, I either need to buy a new car or fix my car because my car is really old, and so then you get in all these stress thoughts. And then it’s like, Well, I should just go back to waitressing, because I know I can make money quickly. And I actually, I have a little bit of money. It’s my mom’s money, though.

So I don’t want to spend it, because I’ve already spent a lot of it. And it’s okay. So it’s like

funny, because I get to experience both sides because people don’t know that there’s a difference. And they don’t know that there’s another side, and until somebody’s been through it and can share with them, you know it is scary, and it sometimes does feel shitty. But

it’s beautiful on the other side. You just have to get through the scariness. And you have to be in community people that are like minded in that

think the weird stuff that we do.

Don White

00:16:18

I agree with you, Katie, about the scary part. Sometimes life is really hard.

and a dear friend of mine that helped me get through some of my big challenges, especially around divorce.

One of our lines was, well, we grow the most when we hurt the most.

and I would agree with that.

Katie Albee

00:16:37

Summer. The other day she got on, our life will call, and she was smiling so big, and she’s like pain is the pathway. I’m homeless again, and pain is the pathway. I said. Summer! How many people do you meet that are going through what could be perceived as a really hard time.

That would just be smiling like that. And technology has helped us because it has helped us to be in these communities. It gives us tools because she has like 16 disciplines a day that she has to do, and I know she couldn’t do them without technology. And so and it keeps her accountable. There’s so much. But also I can see, because I have noticed that Parker’s been like

anti technology since we’ve been doing this. And I actually like it, cause I enjoy. And he did. He’ll maybe he’ll watch this. But even my neighbor. He started on the patches, and he said, Katie, I gotta talk to you.

And when he says that it’s usually pretty serious. And so I said, Okay, and we go out on the front porch, and he’s like. He’s my tenant and my neighbor. And he said, You know I slept for the last 2 nights, and I haven’t slept like that in so long. Blah blah, and it’s like

So I don’t remember where I was going with that. But I do believe that technology is helping us all come together and learn new ways, to do things differently, raise our consciousness, and like, when we can sleep better, we can think better. We can make better choices. And actually I was watching the recording

from

when you guys did this course before. And Don, you talked about choices. And right now I bought the book. The

advanced energy anatomy of energy by Carolyn Mace, the lady that did the archetypes. And she’s talking about how everything is based on choices. She’s like when my work, when I look at you and see where your life is at, I can see all of the choices you made through all of your life. I’m like, Wow, that’s so cool to think about because we can right and people don’t even realize it.

Don White

00:18:26

It’s interesting that you bring Carolyn Mace up. There was a time back in

like 2,007 to 2,010, or 11. When I read all of her books.

I even went to one of her presentations. It was, Enter the castle, and she’s really good in person, if you like her work, and she’s in your area. You might want to try to go to one of her presentations. She’s you know how brilliant she is. She’s off the charts.

She’s very outspoken. She may be.

Katie Albee

00:18:55

I’ve noticed that.

Don White

00:18:57

She may overwhelm some people.

But yeah, she she’s not going to blow sunshine at you. She’s going to call it the way she sees it. And if you’re okay with hearing full strength, you probably like.

Katie Albee

00:19:08

Which.

Don White

00:19:09

Like her material, and if you’re not good, with full strength, probably not a good fit.

awesome, awesome content, though, and and I agree with her. It’s a choice. We get up every day. And are we gonna be smiling today? Are we gonna be in the dumps? And we choose in every moment throughout the day what we’re gonna be feeling and projecting in in that moment.

Katie Albee

00:19:34

Yes, and I don’t even think people realize how much their choice of what they, how they see, perceive life like my niece. She came over yesterday, and her trailer on her property got broken into. Somebody tried to steal her whole trailer like a shipping container.

and they realized that it was probably empty and broke the bar and left it and she was so sad. And it’s like and it is sad and is crappy. And also everything’s happening for a reason. And when we can see that there’s a bigger picture and bigger things. And it’s like, okay, it changes the way that we view life and the way that we experience life. And then the choices that we make, and then our entire 3D world changes.

Don White

00:20:12

Good one, yeah. And and and being aware of that, what you just said, Katie.

how many of your friends do you think are really aware of what you’ve just commented on.

Katie Albee

00:20:23

I think that I used to think more people thought like I did, and in the last couple I’ve been told for the last few years, but I think it’s really settling that

I do think differently than a lot of other people.

Don White

00:20:35

And and we all do. But and a lot of people don’t go to the deep stuff. They’re not comfortable there for their own reasons, and

that’s why a lot of people you’re out wherever and they’re talking about the weather. There’s some stupid thing on the news, and they’re not having a what I would call a substantive deeper discussion about whatever it could be about the weather. But it’s like, Oh, gee! I’m doing this this and this, and

and to each their own. And there are times to have a light conversation. We can’t be in the

step up.

Our brain will explode.

Okay, cool. Tom Chi, founder of Google x. 1 of his comments.

nature is our teacher. Well, holy Moly, I’m certainly a big believer in that.

Any comments from either of you about Nature being our teacher.

Katie Albee

00:21:31

Well, everything that we are is biomimicry of nature right? And if we pay attention to what’s around us, then I think it tells us different things, too, and this is not something I was thinking about, but

I got bit by spiders a couple of times like bad bites in different years, and when I look up the meaning, the spirit. So if we tie everything together, spiritual meaning behind spiders is

mastering your craft, and I’ll often avoid mastering my craft. And so so it’s cool to see. But yeah, even yeah, it’s interesting to see. I liked in the last videos how they showed the seashells being or not the seashells. But whatever kind of shells being built with the carbon, I think.

Don White

00:22:14

Yeah, yeah, but I think it was mother of pearl pearl, or something like that.

Cool.

One of the magic terms was autopoisis self-creating.

We’re constantly self creating ourselves. And you were saying that a minute ago, Katie, via our thoughts and our choices. We’re creating ourselves in every minute of every day.

And, Parker, you usually have deep stuff. What? What are some of your comments about nature as our teacher.

Parker iphone

00:22:47

Kind of pretty,

Yeah, wow, we. So we

yeah, to Katie’s point, we grew up. We don’t grow up in a vacuum. We grew up in an environment. And the environment is nature. So therefore we’re

we’re attuned to it. We’re in a way, we.

It’s like the the whatever the fish in the water kind of scenario. We don’t realize just how connected and attuned to it we are because

we point out, we probably think about the differences, not the

what works right? Why is it that

all these plants around us make our body feel better?

I like they take away cuts and infections and pain and right, the basic stuff.

Don White

00:23:36

Yes.

Parker iphone

00:23:37

The weed of the world. Yarrow, right is A is a polysporin, natural polysporin. There are thousands of examples. We have more receptors for cannabis than any other, almost any other

plants on the planet. What is that about? How did that happen? It’s not just a little bit.

Don White

00:23:55

Explain a little bit. I don’t understand that. What is that about.

Katie Albee

00:23:58

I don’t know what that means, either.

Parker iphone

00:24:01

Well, I’m not an expert in this. But my buddy is one of the global leading experts. And when I say global, I mean

he synthesized the genome or cannabis.

He’s he’s a globally recognized super expert in marijuana

cannabis, but not just marijuana that make you high like the cannabinoid dials.

Cbds that are the medicinal parts, and started a very large research plant with

his brother. The guys I grew up with in here in Canada. And and they’re doing research into the medicinal effects of all of the 60 different types of Cbds.

And it turns out that the cells in our body have receptors in our membrane. I believe in the cell membrane

that attuned to these different

proteins from the cannabinoids and from the marijuana plant.

But it’s not just a little bit like that. There are more of them than any other plant in the world like it’s by a factor of 10 like it’s insane. It’s like the body was designed to receive marijuana

or Cbds.

Don White

00:25:18

So yeah, go ahead.

Katie Albee

00:25:20

My buddies used to work for a company, and he talked about they had, like so many different cannabinoids for exactly what you’re saying, because when they work together as soldiers, then they do something different in your body.

And the guy that helps my dog. He actually has a a farm, and he makes different products. And he said that

the research that they’ve done has shown that. And maybe it’s your buddy’s research that Cbd helps with reducing inflammation, and Thc helps with cancer.

So it’s a good thing I like marijuana so much. No, just chilly.

Don White

00:25:53

Well, I.

Parker iphone

00:25:54

Well, and it’s.

Don White

00:25:56

I’ve heard those types of comments, too, Katie, and go ahead. Parker, finish up.

Parker iphone

00:26:01

Well, on the other side is that there are. There are something like 60 different types of

cannabinoid dials, Cbds.

and they’re now isolating them as medicinally. They’re isolating them. That’s what my friend’s lab does. It’s

It’s called the Anandia Labs, and it was sold to Aurora, which is one of the 2 largest

cannabis companies in well, one of the some of the 2 largest in the world. But

yeah, they built a plant over in Vancouver Island. And yeah, they do research on this. But I think it’s it’s fascinating. I mean, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s all kinds of other plants we don’t really know about or understand

extensively, or maybe others. Do you know?

I think I think these are known about?

I think it’s the lost science of of

I guess. What do we? What plant biology whatever that is, whatever that that whole field of.

Katie Albee

00:27:04

Bonnie.

Parker iphone

00:27:04

Botany. Thank you. That was the word I was trying to catch. Yeah, botany. And but also like, like,

yeah, back to your point. I guess I wanted to kind of go back to your original point,

Katie, about safety and security. Right?

we’ve it’s actually a bigger theme about having

our internal, our own agency sense of independence, ability to cope removed from our lives systematically.

you know. Go back 500 250 years

300 years, maybe whatever. Whenever Europeans showed up on the American continent, 1,61550,

right? Native people, indigenous people, were obviously independent homesteaders and settlers became independent.

then started figuring out there was lots to learn from each other.

yeah, I mean how to survive, how to live and how to heal and how to love. These things have kind of been. I just feel like all kinds of this stuff has been systematically removed. I’m not conspiratorial particularly, but I am.

you know. It’s not even about that per se. It’s just these are the habits I notice.

You know we get away from

what? What our great great grandparents all knew about how to

deliver a baby when there was no doctor around, because he was at the next farm, and it’s 30 miles away, and it’s or it’s 10 miles away. And it’s blowing. You know it’s it’s a snowstorm. It can’t get there. What do you do? Everybody learns everybody had the way to deal, or to deliver calves, or whatever it is. So

that agency, that removal, I mean, it’s like what you talked about like the safety and security.

And then the reliance. Yeah, that seems to be a lost. That’s something that’s lost to me and

that feels like at the core of what’s what was great about the United States like for me personally, I mean, it happened in Canada, too, with the Brits and the French coming over and colonizing. We did all the nasty shit, too, that you guys did. We all did that I mean our ancestors.

But I think I think there’s a there’s a

Yeah, I think that this concept like I was talking about the analog. But you’re right. The technology back to your original question. The technology feels like

it hasn’t has a place to to deliver safety and security on the one hand.

But nature, as our teacher. Well.

that’s that’s part B, so one is to get back to yeah, back to the garden and and get back to nature to me. That’s actually about re

creating literacy somehow like to to reestablish what literacy is.

Don White

00:30:17

Well, and I want to jump in for a second here. And what you just said, Parker, the technology and the understanding of botany and all of the natural world. They’re connected.

Your friends work with cannabis and

the scientific tools to understand all of what you explained about the receptors in our body, and etc. Etc. And

I think some of the conspiracy theories to do a little sidebar here. There’s some validity there, old man John D. Rockefeller in like the 19 0, 4 time frame. They knew

that plants had the answers

in terms of medicinal properties, they knew, and he said, We’re going to trash that we’re going to totally discredit all of the natural paths. And we’re going to do this chemical stuff, and we’re going to make a lot of money, and that was the beginning of pharmaceutical companies, and they’ve done it.

and they’ve been very successful at it. And now they’re beginning to feel some pressure.

And how’s it going to play out? And how long will it take to play out? Well, we’ll see.

I think farm is in for a very rude awakening when enough people wake up, and fortunately I

had a chance to understand Univer and Stephen Chernitsky and I started hearing about side effects and of any medicine that you take. You’re going to get a side effect if you use it long enough consistently, and I’m like, Oh, I no doctor ever mentioned that to me, and they don’t, because they’re trained at a university that’s funded by the pharmaceutical company. So it’s insidious, and and I think

it is a conspiracy, and it’s about

about greed, and they’re they’re screwing the general public to make money, and it’s very, it’s it’s very upsetting. And when it all comes out enough. Then the things will really begin to change, and we’re not there yet. We’re starting. We’re not there yet.

so sorry about that sidebar, but it’s.

Katie Albee

00:32:25

No, actually, it’s all perfect conspiracy actually stands for. Well, what I’ve heard is cone con stands for with and inspire. So conspiracies were inspired situations right? So they were inspired to keep us all dumbed down, for whatever reason. Yes, to make money

and money. It’s greed. Yes, yes.

and what you’re saying, Parker. It’s interesting to think about how quickly we got into so much fear, because how long were we living off the land? And in only 250 years they were able to enforce so many thoughts into our programs of society that now, like my friend Anna and I went to Canada last year to stay on a permaculture farm.

And our friend Chad was like, Yeah, the kids. We have them camp out all night long by themselves. They build this little hut that they build by themselves like tucked into the side of the wall of the mountain, or whatever or hill, and then they have a little fire, and their job is to keep the fire going all night, and we come check on them throughout the night, and we like tell stories and stuff like that. And Anna and I were like, that sounds terrifying. And we’re both grown adult women, and we’re both terrified to be in nature by ourselves.

and I’ve talked to friends my age, and I’m like I don’t know what it is, but I’m afraid that if I’m in nature by myself there’s going to be some person there hiding to kill me. Why would a person even know that I was going to the mountains that doesn’t even make sense, and my girlfriends that are my age from Utah, where I’m from.

They’re like we have the same fear, Katie. So we decided it’s from

America’s most wanted, because when we were young, that was a popular show. And so you saw all these people killing people right? And so we got this crazy fear that’s like so illogical. And so yeah, it’s funny to. It’s not funny. It’s funny to see how badly we’ve been programmed. And Parker, with what you said. It made me realize how quickly the fear has set in, and we’ve been taught to live on our own independently. But in community is how we truly thrive right and in

when we separate from each other, they say that sin is separation, and so when we separate, then we start to fall apart.

so.

Don White

00:34:34

Cool.

Well, that’s probably a good segue for moving on to the next one. Thank you, Katie.

Katie Albee

00:34:40

Have something to say. I did see that he unmuted. But unless we need to move on.

Don White

00:34:43

Good. Go ahead, Parker, if you want to add on.

Parker iphone

00:34:48

Yeah. Well, I guess I was just thinking about what we?

It’s a whole other topic. But I’ll leave it as just a PIN.

And another thing to PIN up on the board, which is

you know the gurus, the Tony Robbins say what we focus on becomes our reality, and

in a way

Oh, I remember, my friend, I told you, my friend, who often is sort of a life coach, gives me vice, and

what did she say yesterday or the day before?

we used to use the phone. And now the phone uses us, and you know

we used to use phones. And now the phones use us.

Don White

00:35:40

If if we let it, if we let it do this, not everybody.

Parker iphone

00:35:43

Right.

And so if the focus is, if our focus is our reality, and we allow the phones to determine that focus by

what it pushes in front of us. And it’s not just the phone. It’s everything that’s inside the phone and where it’s coming from and where that comes from.

You know what’s the message we’re receiving? Does it influence a Us. Election or a Canadian election?

Yes, it is, apparently. And does it tell us

how to think about immigrants, or how to think about the

how scared we should be, or the

the fear we have about our jobs, our families, or whatever it is right as opposed to being empowered

and positive energy and creating.

Yeah, thinking about expecting the outcome. We want to see happen. So

yeah, anyway. Poof! That was a big one. But I hear you, Katie.

Don White

00:36:38

Parker. That’s a beautiful point. Thank you for that. And it’s a perfect segue into what I wanted to say a moment ago. It’s like, we’re syncing up here, guys.

I was Parker before you just said what you said, I was going to ask the question, can we build technology with soul. And you were just addressing that with what you said.

I mean, these devices based on how they’re programmed, and then the content they’re getting either they can be programmed and enabled

and equipped to give us positive

suggestions, or they can be programmed and equipped and enabled to rig an election.

We’re gonna brainwash us to go buy XYZ product or

get upset because somebody will benefit from that, or we get so disheveled we forget about what we’re all about, we get distracted. So we take our eyes off of what’s really important. So someone

can misuse us or misuse the country for their own personal gain, possibly, or a group of folks can do that.

So back to the question, can we build technology

with soul? What do you, Katie? What what do you think.

Katie Albee

00:37:55

Yes.

and also I do believe, in some conspiracy theories, and so I do believe that there hasn’t been always the best people in charge. I also do believe in the monkey, the 100th monkey theory. So I do believe that

you know you think about it. And

so if we go into like conspiracies and spiritual stuff. If they didn’t want us to know who we truly are, which is pure consciousness, then they would do things to keep us from being able to focus on that we’d focus on if we’re a boy or girl rather than if we’re pure consciousness and what we can create from that space.

And so I do believe that

the powers that be, because I do believe in conspiracies dumbed us down and like took women out of power on purpose and left them out of all the spiritual texts, not all of them, but a lot of the really powerful ones on purpose. Women can grow babies that’s like the most alien stuff that you can think of right like that’s crazy.

And so

then, if you think about it, and they depressed a whole bunch of people and made them. So. I went to a convention right after Covid happened. It was in July of 2020, and it was at a place that’s called Eceti, which stands for enlightened contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.

And it was a conference where people that like do astral traveling and remote viewing for the military. And one of the guys, from what the bleep do we know was there.

And they were talking about how we’re in this consciousness shift, and how people are just waking up like popcorn like somebody wakes up here, and then a few people here, and then a few people here. And so now I think that we’ve like moved past a lot of that.

And if you think about it, if you were to want to make a whole bunch of people become slaves and robots, then you would program them to memorize, stuff and work for somebody else for their entire life, and then

retire. Go, sit and eat breakfast every day, and talk about the same thing until you die. And so, if you think about like, all these people are super depressed, and all these people are waking up from all their trauma, from their childhood, and whatever beyond, and realizing that pain is the pathway, and that trauma actually is our our triggers are our treasures or our treats? Is what the lady said on the dow today.

Then all these people are gonna wake up.

Don White

00:40:15

Can we pause on something just for a second, please? I want to. I want to pause on what you just said.

Pain is a pathway.

Katie Albee

00:40:24

Hello!

Don White

00:40:25

And why do you say that.

Katie Albee

00:40:28

Well, because most people don’t realize that pain is the pathway. So they have something bad in their life. Happen. They’re like, Oh, I lost my job. This is the end of the world instead of Oh, my! Lost! My job! Maybe there’s a new door opening and so, and go within to see. Oh, what am I being stretched to become

right instead of being like? Oh, my God! The whole world is ending! And so even like talking with Peter and his brother. They both

are like, we’re here to learn lessons, and we’re not really taught that in everyday society we’re taught to look at like Pete Parker was saying. Earlier people look at all the bad things. We don’t look at our ancestors anymore and say, what power did they give us? We say, oh, my gosh, what trauma did they give us? And it’s like

somewhere we’ve really shifted in the last few years, and I think that we will shift back, and I do believe that pain is the pathway, like I tell my clients often you have to break down to break through, and it really sucks when you’re on this side, but when you’re on the other side, it’s beautiful. It’s just something you’ve never seen before, so you don’t know what it’s going to look like. And so we fear this unknown, and we have to go through our shadows to get to that unknown. But unless we’re actually willing to look at the here and now.

Then, we actually can’t ever transcend. And then we’re stuck in this 3D world living stress and struggle and strive for our life, but when we can break out of that we can see that

there’s something more. And so what I feel like is, all these people are waking up to their trauma and realizing that it was actually a treasure, and that this is our way to help other people to see that they can do things easier, and they don’t actually have to suffer like we did. They can make a different choice and learn from our. But if we’re not sharing our stories, and we’re not

Then we’re not learning as easily right, like one of the pastors at the church said you could read the Bible and learn from other people’s stories, or you can go out and experience it for yourself. But the accelerated pathway is to read the other people’s stories and learn from their mistakes, and then make a different choice. And so here we come back to choice.

and I do believe that we’re all awakening to seeing that the pain is actually our our purpose oftentimes.

Don White

00:42:30

Beautifully said, Thank you.

Katie Albee

00:42:32

But maybe on the soapbox for some.

Don White

00:42:34

Beautifully said.

Katie Albee

00:42:35

And so, because enough of us will awaken will impact technology because there’s so many people waking up right now, I do believe.

Don White

00:42:42

There’s another. I completely think you’re right on a key point, as more people wake up more creators of whatever platform and the software that enables it will be to do positive things and to help people, and to enable us to do more, to improve quality of life for the masses, instead of for a few people with with the billions.

and I think we’re on the way. I think we’ll get there probably won’t be in my lifetime, but you never know that could.

Katie Albee

00:43:10

I think it will, because it could change in a second. Right? I was telling a couple of people this this morning. Greg Braden says my mom taught me a disservice, she said. When I cut my finger it takes time to heal. It doesn’t have to. We’ve just told ourselves that for so long. And so we believe that’s the truth. And I believe that we can believe differently. And there’s something else. But I can’t remember.

Don White

00:43:31

Good point. So, Parker, what do you think of paint is the pathway man.

Parker iphone

00:43:43

Well, the Nlp experts say that people do things for one of 2 reasons.

Either the carrot or the stick right

pleasure, or avoiding pain or seeking pleasure.

yeah. And okay. So I guess you can find all.

all motivation. You could probably push it into either of those 2 areas.

Personally, I find that

I mean, I seek out the pain now.

the pain of climbing a mountain.

Because I know that that

well, I wouldn’t even call it pain, I would call it discomfort.

And, in fact, now I have reframed that discomfort as pleasurable.

I love to feel the the fatigue in my quads

right, and my breath kind of hitting the edge of its

my ability to speak conversationally with the person I’m with or on the phone with while I’m

because it. It just it feels like running the engine properly. Right? It feels like that’s the the growth edge is somewhere there. Somewhere along that pathway is the growth edge

from a from a mental point of view I’ll just touch on.

I I never would have. I never bought the woo woo stuff because I grew up in such a harsh, science-based

reality. But

we’ve all had them. But the greatest of all for me was my son, who Ethan, who fell on my bottle of Glen Fitch, the container one of those cylinder containers you put the Scotch bottle in, and they’ve got a hard metal top with a lip, and he fell on it. He split his lip right through both sides.

Is it hit his teeth and

gushing blood? And it went literally. It was like. Oh, this is a definite trip to the hospital stitches.

Scar will probably go away by the time he hits 20

and it was past the lip. Actually it was probably one or 2 past the lip like it was a nasty one for a baby.

and my mother-in-law grabbed some honey and threw it on there, and and then, about a half an hour later, she put some more on, cleaned it up a bit, put some more on, woke up the next morning.

not even 18 h later. Gone? Not it! Not a trace nothing, not even the smallest like. You couldn’t see a scap. Nothing.

Don White

00:46:29

I mean, wow.

Katie Albee

00:46:30

Cool.

Parker iphone

00:46:31

Yeah. And I just what like this is Amalia’s mom right? And he was 2, 3, I guess he was probably 3.

I couldn’t believe it. I’d never seen anything, but I also believed that I could heal myself from the time I was young, like I had this idea that I could heal myself by the next morning, mostly because I never wanted to be sick. I was gonna miss out on shit.

and so I had this idea. No, no, if I just go to bed early and have some soup and veggie soup and drink some orange juice, I’ll be good.

sure enough. Next day I’m healed, but whatever I mean.

Don White

00:47:03

It’s Lipton.

Parker iphone

00:47:04

Are you fucking.

anyway? Back to where we were? The original question, Don was, remind me again, because I got sidetracked. On that that healing yourself.

Don White

00:47:15

Is paying the pathway.

Parker iphone

00:47:16

Paint the pathway. Thank you. Paint the pathway.

I mean, I think pain is too much of the has been too much of the pathway like.

that’s the thorough kind of massive men lead lives of quiet desperation. Well, why is that?

Is that? Because we choose to

yeah, in a way we do like any any despondency or depression or

loneliness. Or you know these things

in some ways they’re a choice, right? They’re they’re often a choice.

Don White

00:47:53

Oh, I think they’re always a choice. We choose those weeds to learn.

Parker iphone

00:47:57

What, whether we feel like we, we can get out of that choice or not is a different kind of question. I’m not saying everybody has the power to do that. I’m just saying it is that these are choices. Given the right circumstances

we could engage people to make, including ourselves, to make different choices. So what? What? That’s actually what I’m doing today this week, you know, I turned 57 in a week or 2. And

My, my, my life coach friend has asked me about what I am

committed to changing, improving in my life

in not so many words. But the the idea is okay, yeah.

is it? It’s not about seeking pain for me. It’s about seeking.

It’s actually moving towards. And some of that moving towards involves, you know, shifts, patterns, new patterns. And

yeah, so that’s what I’m committed to.

Katie Albee

00:48:57

Do you know your answer? So your answer is, what is it committing to tell me again.

Parker iphone

00:49:02

Who’s shifting the patterns, shifting the patterns that haven’t been serving me like? What is it that is not serving me? Is it

the way I eat, the way I exercise. Not enough so for for sure it’s for me, I know, for a fact. It’s the balance. So one is the mind, body, heart, spirit.

body, side. It’s like the balance between

fitness and rest and food and and flexibility. And

also so yeah, those 4, those kind of all come together.

and and then like in terms of

mind, it’s like not being addicted to distractions, so cutting out the distractions so that I have, and creating and saving the space for my for whatever it is that I choose to want to engage in new language.

My favorite program of books that I want to read, connecting with my phoning my mom. Right

like like, have you prioritized in the point where

I don’t let any distractions ever distract me, or very, you know almost

I’m not talking about your friend calls you. If you haven’t heard from any of that’s not a distraction that’s actually welcome

talking about the the regular distractions. And then, from the heart point of view, yeah, what kind of a what kind of a relationship life am I really living

and, for example.

it’s a really, it’s the point that’s kind of been hitting me over the head. Because, if nature is our teacher

right? I mean, if the trees help each other, then why are humans not

in Canada? We like to think we’re

sort of morally superior in our politics to the U.S.A. Because we support universal health care. But if we compare ourselves, if we, if if we compare ourselves to Scandinavia, we are

sadly lacking.

And so I guess I’m going back to this. This kind of oh.

I’m better than you, is not the question we should be asking. It’s a what can we do right now?

Can America afford healthcare for for everybody? God.

Don White

00:51:09

Yep.

Parker iphone

00:51:10

Absolutely. Why can’t it not? And can Canada afford to

improve the way it treats people with mental illness? So we don’t have a guy run over

you know, 30 Filipinos at a festival like last weekend.

Yes, we can. And and why aren’t we? Well.

because people haven’t done the work

or they have it there. There isn’t the leadership. And this is back to the very point I was trying to make earlier.

that what we value today has been twisted by

has been twisted by the wrong influences. We’ve allowed those distractions to to influence what we value.

not what we know to be true, and we knew, you know everybody knows it. We all know what’s valuable like. What the hell!

Seriously.

Don White

00:52:07

And and a comment about what the hell, Parker. I think you’re right on it, man.

It’s about. We don’t have enough conscious leaders.

That are manipulated by the powers that be. Often it’s the money powers that be. Somebody’s got agreed, stake in something, and and instead of taking care of

the greater good like you just suggested with healthcare and with other

other big societal challenges, mental health.

they don’t spend the money they don’t deal with it, and then the and then the tragedy happens, and a bunch of innocent people die.

I think it ties back to consciousness once we get enough conscious leaders out there, supported by a conscious electorate that they have to elect these people to begin with.

Then

I goes back to what Katie said. It can change in an instant, and I think it’s from what I’ve

read in some of what I’ve been interested in, I I think it will change really quickly when we get to that 100th monkey moment, and the whole thing goes. Whoop! Look at how stupid we’ve been for the last 300 years done as a post, and we didn’t need to do things the way we did. And now we have the means and the technology and all of it tied. It’s all connected to

to make life quality of life better for everybody.

And then and then I do want to jump into

What I think is the really the reason we’re all here to begin with. And these courses and living the potential it’s about getting assistance and the inkling to develop. How are we going to play in this network to make a difference, to help people get conscious?

And we’re all doing it in our own way with our families, with our friends, with the people we interact with daily.

But let’s have a little talk about what you want to do. And, Katie, you’re doing it. Let’s start with Katie.

Your programs going forward have the chance to really go places depending on where you want to go.

Katie Albee

00:54:15

Yeah, I don’t know where I’m going. No, just kidding.

Don White

00:54:23

I think you have.

Yeah, maybe not the specifics, Katie.

But what what do you know about where.

Katie Albee

00:54:30

So. What I do know is that I think it’s very important to educate humans. And so

what I’m doing beyond myself is, I’ve been recruiting peer assistance because I have too many things for one personal assistant. And so I’m just gonna have peer assistance.

And so a lot of them are using lifewave, but not all of them. And we’re going to like May 17.th We’re going to do a tapping class right and educate people on tapping, and then there’s tapping usually is for emotional release. But we’re going to do it for morphic field manifestation. And then my dog got a tick. So yay, nature teaching us stuff. And so I reached out to this guy and I said

it was really hard to get the tick out, and I’m kind of concerned that he might get like Lyme disease or whatever. And he’s like, you just need woodworm stuff. And so he said, I’ll trade you some woodworm stuff for a detox foot bath.

And so he gave me some, and so I said, and people can use it too. And so I said, let’s do an event of and teaching people the importance of detoxing. I drank some of it earlier, and then I ate something, and my belly felt really weird. And I thought, Well, that makes sense. There’s a battle in my stomach right now of this stuff killing this other stuff.

So it makes sense that my stomach here, but then the next month we’ll do a class on fasting, and another class on the importance of grounding, and I have different people leading those classes, and then I’ll be there to support them.

and it will help grow our network, and it will, and I’ll do guided meditations. And then what I found was a lot of people in my network have small networks, and so, if we can help them expand, it will help all of us.

And then the masses will start to learn more things about how to take care of themselves and be part of community. Because if you’re not part of community. There’s a lot that happens with sickness and stuff.

And then for my own personal self, well, I’m doing the archetypal awakening with Peter, and that’s helping people to understand the different roles that they play and that they have conscious choice in their responses. They can go from reactive or resonating. And then I did my Chakra course in

October of last year.

and I was going to redo that. And then Peter was like, Stretch yourself, and also I know part of the reason I want to redo it is because I want to do it a couple of times, so I can get it perfected where I can record it, and then just sell it as a thing that’s recorded, or as a personal one, and then charge more or whatever. And then what? I launched this Tuesday is the thing that Peter invited me to stretch myself into, and I was like, Oh, maybe I should wait. And I was like, Katie when you launch things last minute, people sign up. So I already have 10 people signed up

and the 1st week, and I don’t know what we’re doing every 12 weeks. But it doesn’t matter, because Chat Gpt and Peter and Jj. Her talk are helping me and Carolyn, Mass. So, or Mace. So we’re getting there. And so we did the 1st week, and like last year on

the Lions Gate, I had a live meditation at my house.

and we sat around the fire, and 3 people in the Meditation had the same visions. And then, like that night, Jen, who works for HP. And she doesn’t drink, she doesn’t. Well, she drinks like very rarely. She doesn’t smoke. She doesn’t do any bad things. She’s very clean eater, clean thinker, very spiritually aligned, and that night she saw 2 moons and another day, Lori, we did work and she saw 2 sons. So people are seeing weird stuff. And so this week, when we did the route to radiance. We talked about

the light, 2 light bodies, the electromagnetic and the epikinetic, but just briefly. And then how chakras, meridians, light bodies, and archetypes are all interconnected, and then we did a guided meditation, and then I invited them to decide which archetypes they want to step into in the next 12 weeks.

and Jen woke up and she’s worked for HP. For years. And she woke up to a letter an email thanking her for all of her hard work. They put so much on her, and she’s never received anything like that. And she also does astral travel. And so it’s really cool, because when we do these courses, people open up a lot, and I know that one of my gifts is helping people open up to their spiritual gifts, and then use them and not be in fear about using them. And so there’s a lot of different things going on.

Don White

00:58:37

Awesome. How does it make you feel when you, when you recognize some of the effects of the work you’re doing, how how do you feel.

Katie Albee

00:58:43

Very, very good. And then I wonder why the heck do. I even question my worth? And I still do. And so that’s funny. We’re getting there.

Don White

00:58:51

Well, we’re all a work in progress.

Katie Albee

00:58:53

Yes, we

and my friend Yvonne has tried to teach me to love myself. And she I’ve made a lot of steps.

Don White

00:58:59

And we’re a work in progress.

Katie Albee

00:59:02

Well, and I tell myself, see yourself as your clients see you. And then yeah. So I just probably should meditate on that daily.

Don White

00:59:10

Hey? Feel good, feel good, and and and celebrate your wins.

it’s important. Every one of these wins you have with a client doing whatever it is, or with a group, or you and Peter have a breakthrough about what might be next.

Go out and celebrate that wind in some way

that just helps you soak it all in.

and you’ll feel you’ll feel better welcome. And you know what I’m the biggest. I I didn’t do that for most of my life. I finally started doing that maybe 5, 8 years ago.

because I was always heads down. What’s next? What’s next? I didn’t celebrate the win.

Katie Albee

00:59:50

Yes,

Also, I want to tell you guys, that’s another thing that I think is gonna help with the shifting of consciousness is having people that see other people, because, like Don, you and Parker both see the value that other people bring, and you don’t. It’s not

based on any credentials.

And I think people need that like, yeah.

Don White

01:00:16

One day. I hope we’re all like that, Kate, or most of.

Katie Albee

01:00:19

Well, I think that we will. I think that we will shift into being more like that, and I think it takes people like the 4 min mile, right? Somebody has to do it 1st for other people to see.

Don White

01:00:27

Excellent point.

Katie Albee

01:00:29

And you guys are doing it. So thanks.

Don White

01:00:32

Oh, you’re welcome! And and, Parker.

you’ve got so many bloody talents. How do you want to play in the network to make a difference in whatever way you

choose.

Parker

01:00:48

Yeah, I’m not sure. Don.

Don White

01:00:50

I sense that? And that’s why I’m asking the question.

Because you’ve got Parker. You’ve got a bazillion choices. The good news is you can do so many different things. Then the question begs, what is it that really gets you jazzed, that gets you passionate, that you want to do.

Parker

01:01:10

Yeah, I mean, I guess.

I guess you get to a point in your life where affecting change on a small scale is

it’s I mean, it’s it’s important. I mean, I see the importance of that helping the

the 80 year old grandmother across the way, or the single mom

further up, or you know, these are people in my neighborhood, right?

My immediate neighborhood.

And then you look at the the bigger picture stuff.

It’s easy to just be despondent or be discouraged by

what’s it? What? What it’s like trying to affect change at a municipal or State level province level.

But.

on the other hand, people do it all the time. You know they do it all the time. It happens all the time, and we’re just not. We don’t have the channel right? There isn’t a news station that. Well, there is. I think there’s actually one. There is a there’s a Youtube channel that puts out stuff like that.

So yeah, Don, I guess I’m thinking.

Don White

01:02:20

Parker, I’m going to reel you in. Those are all fine examples. But what do you? What gets you jazzed.

Parker

01:02:25

Yeah, yeah, no. I’m just.

Don White

01:02:27

Have an answer right now. You don’t have to say it now, but please consider it.

Parker

01:02:32

Yeah, I mean, I want to see a real change happen to the way that our society treats the disenfranchised. So that’s elderly and children and the economically vulnerable so like that to me that could that will change society.

And we we, I think collectively, we are doing a shitty job of that in the West.

and which is just beyond my belief system. I can’t, can’t even fathom it when you talk. Because, Katie, this goes back to your point about from the very beginning of this.

You know, people are vulnerable, people are, and it’s not just physical safety. It’s emotional, mental. They feel lonely, disconnected. It’s a whole rethink of our of our society.

So I mean

I you know i 1 of my clients, is earth literacies, and they promote all kinds of courses for very inexpensive amounts, for

understanding how we relate to our world from cosmology to inner work, to

environmental kinds of ideas and sustainability stuff.

But I think you know, Ltpn, that’s you know, its goal is intergenerational. And so it feels very connected that way. So I would say, you know, I’ve pointed out my, you know, part of the reason for being here is that I think

the goal of Ltpn is highly admirable, and it’s a bucket that can attract all kinds of people.

And I want to see us do that. A better job of that.

Katie Albee

01:04:20

I think a good way to get more people to get onto the network would be. So I wanted to create a light worker alliance like Directory. So.

Parker

01:04:27

A directory for energy workers.

Katie Albee

01:04:29

Right. So if we had like a page where maybe this would be different platforms like Ltpn, because I think that being in

like any business, you wanna work with your

competition? And then so we could have different areas. So then, if people want to buy in to be a part of the network. Say that I have a whole bunch of people that do reiki and theta and sound bass and blah blah, and they all want to be a part of this directory. They pay a small fee to be a part of the Directory, and then they’d find out about living the potential network. And then if they wanted to put one of their programs on living the potential, then Rene could charge and make more money, and then maybe we’d get an affiliate

so like if my friend Jen.

Don White

01:05:11

80, I think brilliant.

Katie Albee

01:05:13

Well, and Jen, she would be a great person to help lightworkers understand how to do business. And Jen, last night, when she called me, she said, when I asked her what her feedback from the event was.

she said, Katie, I think that you’re here to help me to step into my spiritual gifts, and so like. Then she would show up. I would invite her to Rene’s platform, and then she’d be like, Oh, well, now I want to do my reiki healing on Rene’s platform, and then I would get an affiliate for bringing her in right so, and if they only pay a tiny bit to be on the network. Then we gather their information, and then they’re part of the collective. And and then when they see what we’re doing, they’re going to want to be a part of it, because we’re awesome.

Don White

01:05:55

I think those ideas are spot on. It’ll they’re brilliant.

Parker. I think your ideas are spot on, and and it doesn’t matter what it is, it’s do you have the passion to do the best you possibly can at it?

And I I look at the dots in my life. It goes back to the the spiral

that we did early on.

And my life’s best work are my 2 kids

by far. And, boy, I put a lot in because I wanted to. I was a I’ve been an involved dad the whole way. I’m still a pain in their ass

pushing them. I was doing it with, and I say that as a figure of speech they they think I’m okay. But Harrison had a face to face with the managing director of his office in New York the other day.

Katie Albee

01:06:43

Hmm.

Don White

01:06:44

And he told me about it before he sat down with her, and I challenged him. Later that night I just had a few quiet moments, I said, Dude, this is a great opportunity to get face time with Kim.

And what are you going to do with it?

So I I encourage you to ask yourself.

what is it that Kim can help me understand that? Maybe I don’t right now, or maybe just get her opinion on something to show Kim

that you’re thinking about the business and you, and to hopefully help him differentiate, differentiate himself because he’s in Manhattan in the financial world. And it’s dog eat dog.

It’s very challenging. And they’re all competing in a good way. They help each other, and they’re really competing. And he wants to get this promotion. So

why do I say that it gets back to enabling my kids and empowering my kids? And I like doing it with other children’s, too other

kids. It doesn’t matter who they are where they come from. I love helping kids go do whatever they heck they want to do.

And I did it in snow skiing classes, and I helped to connect families

because I could see the parents didn’t know how to have fun.

So I’d invite the mom or dad to join the ski class and have their son or daughter lead, and the and the parent would be like Holy Moly. That’s my kid. Yeah, it is. Look at what they’re doing.

And

I had some really cool emails along the way from people that started to get it. Some of the parents. And they said, We really appreciate the magic that happens in your ski classes.

and I want to do more, and I will do more of that. I’ve done it. I did it with a swim team as a deck official to lighten things up, you’d get these competitive type, a parents that didn’t have a clue about what summer swim was about. It’s about having fun. It’s about some exercise. Get the families to have some fun, and they’re worried about is my kid going to win the race. Well, that’s part of it. But it’s in my opinion it’s

it’s kind of the small change.

So I’m going to do more with this whole

helping youth piece. And I think there’s more. It’s connecting youth and their families in ways that maybe aren’t

aren’t as viable as they could be.

I can’t fix it, but maybe I can be a springboard to get them to look at things a little differently.

And then who knows what can happen.

I’m going to go speak at an Arrow conference. It’s an alternative education group

up in New Hampshire. It’s it’s

Rene. Beth has the connections. And we did the Minecraft presentation last about a year ago now.

and it was really well received. And this Peter

what’s whatever? Peter’s last name, I forget his last name but Peter Berg, or something like that.

He and Rene Beth are are cooking up some of the

some of the content that I’ll be presenting. And it’s it’s what we do at living. It’s intergenerational learning, that’s what it is.

So I feel I’m on my way, and then I haven’t gotten off my backside and written the book.

And will I? Well, I haven’t yet.

We’ll see.

Katie Albee

01:10:03

Well, you can have accountability partners. You could be like, hold me to writing this many pages a month or something, and then you can just tell us if you’ve done it. And if you haven’t, it’s okay. It’s your own accountability. It’s reality.

Don White

01:10:14

Yeah.

and I’m not sure that’s the key yet, Katie. That’s I think some of the reason I haven’t. And some of it’s laziness. Some of it’s procrastination. It’s all of

the above and more.

Yeah, that that’s it, Parker. And where that’ll take me I don’t know.

I’m going to lead a podluck

the pod look in June, and it looks like my friend Yvonne will be part of it.

She’s off the charts brilliant.

She’s 1 dissertation shy of a Phd. In organizational psychology, and she got it sideways with the one of the professors reviewing her Phd. Work and the Professor Black boulder.

and I don’t know all the particulars. But the point is, Yvonne is is fun, practical, charming.

really brilliant and spiritual. Off the charts. She’s got mad skills. She’s the gal that channeled my family members after they passed away for me.

And so

I’ve got a I’m cooking up a program with Yvonne, and hopefully our schedule will allow her to participate. If it’s not June, it’ll be another time whenever that

schedule allows.

So that’s some of what I’m up to, and it’s I’m excited.

I’m excited for you guys.

And how about a closing comment, Katie, would you like to start us with a closing comment of what today did.

Katie Albee

01:11:47

Well, just really quick, because we were talking about people avoid pain or seek pleasure. I think that’s the past. I think that people are looking at pain differently is it’s not a good or a bad thing. It’s like part of the ebb and flow of life.

And so that would just be. My closing comment is that I’m grateful to be in this ebb and flow with you guys as we help create the new earth.

Don White

01:12:08

Thank you. Katie Parker.

Parker

01:12:10

Yeah, what’s the life work gonna be?

I remember thinking something similar, Don, back when my kids were 6 and 10,

would I ever do anything better with my life than raise 2 kids.

Not yet, I mean, I’ve had some contributions to some organizations.

That have had effects and impacted people. So that’s felt good.

But I guess it’s like, Okay, that’s passed. What are you going to do next? Right? And

yeah, I feel like some some of that’s emerging now.

Don White

01:12:49

And Parker, I’m gonna ask you a question back. Is there anything better than raising your 2 kids.

Parker

01:13:00

I haven’t haven’t got any grandkids yet, so give me give me 20.

That’s it’s like.

Katie Albee

01:13:12

I hadn’t thought about that. Have you thought about that, Don? About if your grandkids are gonna become.

Don White

01:13:19

Expensive.

You know me. I’m a piece of work.

Katie Albee

01:13:24

But.

Don White

01:13:25

And Skylar and Rachel are going to be getting a little dog a little Shih Tzu, probably in the July timeframe, and I was having a dinner with them a few weeks ago, and like, so you’re beginning to practice the kid thing, aren’t you? And they both practice.

They both start laughing. And they said, Yeah, we are.

Parker

01:13:44

And a couple gets a gets a dog that’s usually a good sign.

Don White

01:13:48

Oh, that they’re practicing! That’s that’s another kid on 4 legs.

Alright. You guys, thank you for the sharing today.

Parker

01:13:58

You don’t.

Don White

01:13:59

That’s good.

Parker

01:14:00

Good, fantastic as always. So appreciate it, man.

Don White

01:14:04

Thank you, Parker. Thank you, Katie.

Katie Albee

01:14:06

If you’re great facilitator. Thanks, guys.

Don White

01:14:09

Thank you. Guys.

Have a good night.