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Sacred Soul Sisters
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Sacred Soul Sisters
Claire and Her Magical Friends: A Children's Book for Intuitive Souls
Jen and Kate share the magical journey of creating their children's book "Clair and Her Magical Friends," which helps kids and adults alike understand and embrace their intuitive abilities through the adventures of Clair and her four friends representing the different "clairs."
• Both authors met through the Enlightened Empaths podcast and connected during their first mediumship class
• Jen received the inspiration for the book during meditation when her "spirit ohana" outlined the concept featuring Clair and four friends representing intuitive abilities
• The book helps children and adults recognize and value their intuition rather than doubting or fearing their natural gifts
• Each magical friend represents a different intuitive ability: Senti (clairsentience), Audi (clairaudience), Voya (clairvoyance), and Cogni (claircognizance)
• The comprehensive parents' section explains each "clair," defines terminology, and provides discussion questions
• The authors embraced technology including AI as a tool in their creative process while working with illustrator Jessica Lynn Clark
• Their mission is to make intuitive language common, not mystical, so children grow up understanding their gifts
• The book is already attracting interest from therapists, school psychologists, and healthcare providers who recognize its value
Please visit Kickstarter and search for "Clair and Her Magical Friends" to support this important book, or email clairsmagic@gmail.com if you prefer other ways to contribute.
Every pledge helps bring this message to children and adults who need it.
Email: clairsmagic@gmail.com
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Hello beautiful souls, and welcome back to another episode of the Sacred Soul Sisters podcast. I'm your host, justina, and today I am beyond excited to introduce you to two truly magical creators who are bringing light, love and healing to the next generation through their powerful new children's book Claire and Her Magical Friends. This heart-centered story weaves together imagination, energy, awareness and soulful connection, all in a way that speaks directly to the hearts of not just our little ones, but our friends, our teenagers, our elders in our family and each and every human on this planet. Today we're diving into the inspiration behind the book, the journey of creating it and how you yes, you can help make this vision come to life through their live Kickstarter campaign. So grab your favorite drink, open your heart and let's step into this magical conversation. So I just want to take a minute to say how I came across Kate and Jen. It was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1:One of the podcasts that I listened to that I love so much is the Enlightened Empaths or actually there's no the on it, it's just called Enlightened Empaths and it has Samantha Faye and Denise Caro. They are both absolutely amazing. I love that podcast. It speaks to my heart with every episode and they had these lovely two ladies on the show talking about this book and my heart just began to sing as I was listening to them talk. It was absolutely beautiful. I could feel my inner child just sort of freaking out and so excited that if I would have had this book when I was a kid, it would have saved so many nights and so many days of just being afraid of who I am and afraid that there was nobody else that could connect to me or know what I was sensing or what I was feeling or what I was seeing or hearing. So I'm so incredibly excited that you guys are here today and I'd like to just take a moment and have you guys introduce yourselves, jen, if you want to go first.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, okay, guys, I have a horrible cold, so this is not my normal voice, but it can be my normal voice if you want, justina. I'm having a hot flash. Okay, I'm of the age to have hot flashes, but I can tell you what you just said about us. It gives me hot flashes, like both Kate and I were. Like what? That's amazing. Oh my God, my voice. It's incredible what you just said, and so thank you for that incredible introduction. I'm honored to be here. I know Kate is as well. We are beyond grateful for your listening to Enlightened Empaths with Denise and Samantha. They are beautiful inspirations for us. It's actually how Kate and I met and it's just a beautiful story that you told that you're weaving this tale for us to then continue. So thank you so very much for inviting us to be a part of your beautiful podcast. So thank you, I will give you a very quick. Kate will be like she's never quick. I will try to give you a quick introduction.
Speaker 2:So my life is very different than Kate's. My awakening in quotes, because I don't know if it really was an awakening I was in the corporate world. I ran a training communications company for biotech and pharmaceuticals. I ran a multi-million dollar company. I traveled around the world. I was uber corporate, I was on it. I never was home. It was a beautiful life. I loved it until I didn't.
Speaker 2:And when I had my daughter Teal, life changed a little bit. My daughter was in 13 countries before she was two, so we traveled with her, but everything changed when she was diagnosed, so my daughter with her. But everything changed when she was diagnosed. So my daughter was diagnosed with a disability at 16 months and everything changed. And I and I pause cause I get a little, uh, emotional, quite emotional actually, but everything changed for the best. My daughter is powerfully empathic. She's um, a tele she's. She talks with me telepathically. She's nonverbal or verbal ish. Right now she is the most beautiful soul in the entire world. And when my daughter came into my world, she made me realize that life is so much more than traveling on the world, around the world and making money. Life is about connection, life is about higher vibration. Life is about, uh, raising your vibration to change the evolution of our world. And so that is when my world changed and I started.
Speaker 2:I started listening to Enlightened Empaths with a different approach, because they talked about having classes and taking classes and I always thought it was an ability that you were born with and if you wanted to be an intuitive, you had to see told you it wasn't going to be short, you had to be born with it. And they said, no, you don't. And so I started taking a class and I took my first class and I met Kate in this class. Literally, I met Kate in my first mediumship class with Denise and Samantha, and my life has ever been changed from all of that. So I'm not a true born.
Speaker 2:I've always done this. I mean, you can still I'm Kate, will take. Kate will say Jen's the business one, like I'm all, how long is this taking? What's the budget? Cause that's very much me, but I also have like left and right brain, and Denise talks about that with me all the time. She's like Jen, you're so crazy Cause you have both of these brains going and you're totally an intuitive and you're crazy like that in a good way, and then you also have this business mind. So that's my story a little bit. Kate, why don't?
Speaker 3:you take over. Hi Justina, thank you again for that introduction. It was so heartfelt and beautiful. I just want to reiterate that it was above and beyond. So a little bit about myself. Is that what you'd like? Okay, I live in Northern California. I've always been interested in the alternative. I went to a Catholic school, not as a Catholic, and so I was always an outsider. I would bring like astrology books and palm reading books into the classroom and like I was the weird witchy one.
Speaker 2:I love you even more for that right there. I love you even more for that right now. Dude, I was raised in Iowa. If I had done that, they would have burned me.
Speaker 3:Let's just be honest, they would have burned me at the stake right there.
Speaker 3:So I was the little SHIT stirrer in the Catholic school but anyway. So I've always had that interest and dabbled in this and that and the other and found my path. During my college years I was going to school for botany, for anthropology, for studio art. I kind of dabbled in a lot. And one day I was walking past an herbal store and in this herbal store's window they had Intro to Ayurveda and I had, let's see, about a week prior, had a past life regression done and the regressionist said I think you've had a life as she said it in a strange way she said, as a Veda like working with Vedic texts, making elixirs out of gemstones, and I was like, oh, I've never heard of that. Then when I saw that signed intro to Are you Veda, I saw that connection and I was like I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3:Then when I saw that sign intro to Ayurveda, I saw that connection. I was like I should take that. So I took that course and went all the way through and got my practitioner's license in Ayurveda. So dabbled working with that and then also doing massage therapy, herbalism, so all the alternative healing aspects. And then COVID happened and I couldn't do any of that. So at that time I had been listening to Enlightened Empaths and they were teaching classes and I was like you know what? Why not me? Why can't I do more of the psychic stuff that I really want to do? So I took the intro to mediumship class and I think Jen and I, like we, got paired up I don't know, maybe like our first or second time, like they have um dude, and I knew nothing.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's just say this.
Speaker 1:Being paired up with me was like horrid. I'd be like well all right, I'll try.
Speaker 3:I'd be like, well, all right, I'll try. And so that was how Jen and I met and how I started opening up to more of my psychic. You know and I really can't stand the word abilities I wish I wish there was a different word that would just come besides ability and gift. But that's how I started opening up to more of the psychic intuition and how Jen and I met.
Speaker 1:Wow, that is awesome. And you know how spirit works, so synchronistically. All of the time they just crack me up, I I find myself all the time like, oh my gosh, you totally orchestrated this Right. So Enlightened Impulse, yes, definitely a huge shout out, a shout out to them. I mean, look at this, so us three, none of us would have met each other had they not stepped into their power and did that podcast Right. So what a calling. I'm getting angel bumps all over. What a testament to what happens when we follow through, when we listen to the guidance that's given to us, when we get ourselves to a place that can hear the guidance or feel the guidance. I was so scared.
Speaker 2:I was so scared, just you know, when I decided to take like, when I purchased like boom, I'm going to do this. I literally thought who am I? Who am I to do this? I don't. I was not raised in a. I mean, I was Lutheran. I was. My brother called me a witch when I was I don't know 10. And I thought thank you, but I didn't know. I mean I didn't.
Speaker 2:It was. It was like a curse, Like he was cursing me and I was so scared when I took the step. So if anyone is listening and they're saying, hmm, I wonder if I could ever do this, I am like the poster child for for doing this because I'm I'm so, not what. I wasn't raised in a family where they said, oh, what does your intuition say? You know what? What do you have? Clairvoyance. Oh, you had a great dream. It's clairvoyance. I mean none of that. So it's just, I want to empower people to listen to that little voice inside of their head that says, hmm, I'm a little different and that's okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, amen, for sure. I agree with that wholeheartedly. And also Kate Ayurvedic. Am I saying that right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I think of it as a question. I guess that's my California accent Ayurveda.
Speaker 2:Ayurveda. It's a question Like are you Veda?
Speaker 1:I feel like I am too. Are you Veda, wait are?
Speaker 3:you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't even know. So I have been feeling so drawn to that word I don't even totally know what that is, to be honest, and it's it's odd because spirit keeps telling me. They're like no, it's perfect, Like we want you to get training in it because of your nursing background, of your Reiki background, of different healing modalities you've done and we just feel like it would be good for you. So I was actually drawn to a site recently in Asheville, North Carolina, where I freaking love oh my gosh, I've been there twice now and talk about energy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've never been. I've always wanted to go.
Speaker 1:And I know they have a huge Ayurvedic community. Yeah, I have goosebumps all over my body. You have to go. It is unreal and I so, yeah, we're going to have touch base on that. Yeah, I'd love to, for sure, talk about another connection, right? Yes, and Jen, like, as far as like business aspects and you know your background from the corporate world I mean that is so needed in being able to sustain the beautiful spiritual work that we're here to do. Right, Because we still have to function in this 3D world.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's be honest. I have always pushed the boundaries. I've always been that person that pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, just to see, and it's very anti-kate. It's like not kate, kate's like home, like I love you, I will only be with you.
Speaker 3:I've got a lot of fire in me, jen. I guess I just haven't shown it.
Speaker 2:I know you do no oh no, I know that, but you are in terms of me. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3:Like I am.
Speaker 2:Leo. So the reason I bring that up is because I have always challenged and so when I started doing, I would do meetings around the world and I was facilitating them, but I was also teaching them. So part of my role was to make sure that they were comprehending the really high medical information that was being said, to them being conveyed. And yet on my table I had all of my crystals, I had a diffuser crystals, I had a diffuser going, I had sage. So I would like sage the room before. These are business meetings, Justine. So much metaphysical stuff that I brought to the table. But the pre-meeting I always did a pre-meeting with everyone and I bring my bag of oils and all of a sudden, women would walk up to me and say I have horrible cramps. Do you have anything for cramps here? I have a horrible headache. Do you have anything for a headache here?
Speaker 2:Because, here's the thing we're talking about the pharmaceutical industry. I was in the pharmaceutical industry and yet they were open enough to just I don't know. They were open enough to embrace I guess that's the right word, embrace what I was doing, and I wasn't scared. And there's the difference. I wasn't scared. I was like you, either F and take me, or you, F and leave me, and it's fine. You, this is who I am, and so I. There was this whole conflict in the room. I, I mean, I ran huge meetings with 200 people and I would challenge everyone in the room, I challenge you guys, to think differently and I challenge you to to look at a patient as an actual person, and you can, you know, as a nurse, you know this my job.
Speaker 2:my job was to literally say you are not looking at a patient, you are looking at a person. You are helping a person with a family with emotions, with all of these things, and so I challenged them frequently and they didn't like it. And one point there was arguing. There was arguing going on like room, like table to table. They were all arguing.
Speaker 2:And I was like, fine, I was managing it. And I went over to my table and I have a point for this, I promise. I grabbed my Kate's like oh God, jen's going off. I grabbed my rose quartz, a big stone that I had on my table. I grabbed it and I put both my hands on it and I sent love and light and healing into the stone and I just paced the room and the whole room calmed down. Now I didn't, I didn't care that anyone noticed, but two ladies walked up after that little. It was before lunch. They walked up before lunch and they said what was that thing?
Speaker 3:that you put in your hand.
Speaker 2:So they were paying attention and the most beautiful thing is that they were paying attention and they saw me and I said, oh, it's my rose quartz and I grabbed it. And so the reason I say all this is because you can incorporate world. Bring this, you can bring your bag of oils into a corporate meeting and when people think you're great, you're like whatever, I'm just doing it for me. I'm not trying to make you a witch, you can do it, and I just really want to empower anyone who's listening to just say I'm going to be me, this is what I love, this is who I am and I'm going to. I'm going to be me in this corporate world. I'm going to be me Cause I think we're all scared to do that.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. I think that's a great way to pivot, though, into the book even more, because this book gives people permission to not be scared, gives people great upliftment in knowing that there are others out there. Even if it's just in a book, there's others out there, but it kind of sparks that part of you to realize that, oh well, if it's in this book, maybe there's other kids like this, maybe there's other adults like this. You know, and so can you share the inspiration behind Claire and her magical friends, like what exactly sparked the idea Kate, well, jen needs to, because it was her brainchild initially.
Speaker 3:But I'll interject.
Speaker 2:So it was a meditation. I had a very clear meditation.
Speaker 1:So was there, like pre, like before the meditation, did you like set out and like, hey, I want to create a book. Can you tell me what it should be about?
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:None of that. So I this is the farthest thing from my mind I was meditating and my spirit team, spirit ohana they like me to call them their spirit ohana, not spirit team so my spirit ohana said you are going to write a children's book and it's going to be about a girl named claire and she's going to have four friends's book. And it's going to be about a girl named Claire and she's going to have four friends. Now, for anyone who's listening, which most of you are going to be like yeah, duh, jen. So Claire means clear in French. So if you're listening and you're like, stop talking down to me, well, just bear with me for a hot second. So Claire means clear in French.
Speaker 2:And they said it's going to be a little girl named Claire and she's going to have four friends. She's going to have Senti for Claire, sentience and Audie, her friend for Claire, audience, and Voya for clairvoyance, and her last friend is going to be Cogni for claircognizance. And I say I woke up because it actually felt like that. It actually felt that I came out of that meditation and it was an awakening. It was boom, something changed. And I wrote it down and I didn't do a lot with it in the beginning, but I knew I would write a book about Claire and her four magical friends.
Speaker 3:And for me I um, I had, um, I suppose it was a knowing. I knew that I wanted or that I was going to write a book, and I didn't know what, I didn't know how, and I kept hearing children's book, but I like shrugged it off because I was like that's not a real book, which is terrible, but that's like my, my logical side. I was like, oh, that doesn't count, like I belittled it, little did I know it.
Speaker 3:You know, writing a children's book is a really good one is still takes a lot, I mean what we've been doing it two and a half years we've been writing this book, so anyway, um, I think jen and I were doing a practice reading with each other and she she just asked me do you want to write a book with me? Here's my idea, and it's like yes, I've been wanting to write a book.
Speaker 2:This sounds amazing and without any hesitation, yeah, and I got this little voice. I mean it was a total, clear audience where they just said you need to ask Kate right now if she will co-author this book with you. And I didn't even pause, just, and I didn't even pause, justina, I didn't even pause. It was like, oh, okay, okay, you want to write a book with me. I mean, I hadn't thought about it, so okay, from my business persona, I would have been all okay, hold on, is this financially a good decision?
Speaker 2:You know, I would have weighed the pros and cons, I would have done all of that. And I think that's where what you're talking about, justina, is you trust the voice that comes to you, and if all of us can learn to trust the voice that comes to us, we will be so much happier because we'll be so much more confident, so much stronger, so much more beautiful in our, in our being, because we believe that the voice that's coming to us is the higher power telling us. And that's exactly what I did. Boom, kate, you want to write a book with me. And you said, yeah, I mean it was. You didn't even think no.
Speaker 3:I didn't think either. I mean, there wasn't either.
Speaker 2:You didn't even think you were like. I think you went like this Pause, pause, yes, and I'm like okay, good, here here, here let's go. And from then on it has been amazing and powerful and emotionally satisfying and beautiful and everything.
Speaker 3:We've said, we've joked, how lucky we are, Cause I mean we it could have been a terrible choice.
Speaker 2:Like well, dealing with me, are you kidding me? I'm not easy to deal with Kate's? Like okay, I got you.
Speaker 3:We've been a great team.
Speaker 1:That's so awesome. I love that. You guys, I love that you both listened. You know I, we talked a little bit before the recording started and it's not always easy to listen. You know it's. It's easy. I feel like a lot of times our first instinct is to argue a spirit or be like oh, like you said with the children, that's not a room. You know the spirits like okay, okay, once you're done and you get over yourself, um, we'll go ahead and try this again, I'll throw it back out to you and and then here jen gets a hold of you and it's like so, will you write this book with me? And you're like yes, and then you're like, whoa, what just happened?
Speaker 1:you know, when this amazing thing started. Uh, so what is a central message or a theme you hope children and their grownups for that matter will take away from this story?
Speaker 3:I think our main theme was there's so many, but really to trust their inner wisdom and their inner knowing that a lot of times it's the answers are within them. Um, and so that's kind of yeah, I'd say that's the main message, other than learning about the Claire's, but it's really being strong within yourself and not doubting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was. You know we had to work with. One of our friends is a publisher and he's magnificent, and I was just chatting with him about my book and he said my book, did you like how I just said that?
Speaker 3:We're an extension.
Speaker 2:It's fine. You know what our book and, but I'm very cognizant of that. Uh, he said what? What's the conflict? So we were very, very, very clear about how to introduce the friends. It was very easy. It came really fast, the rhyming and the you know the prose, it. For us it came very swiftly.
Speaker 2:I mean, I remember thinking, okay, we're done and then Mark said to me well, it's a children's book and you need to present a conflict. It took us six months to figure out how we were going to introduce a conflict to Claire and it was so hard. We I mean, I remember just sitting on zoom and being like so what do you think? I mean whatever. And it took us so long because we never wanted to pin the conflict of self-doubt, we never wanted to pin the conflict of worthiness, we never wanted to pin the conflict of confidence on someone else, because there's this balance that we all have of are you not confident in yourself because of your thoughts, or are you not confident in yourself because of others? Are you not confident in yourself because of your thoughts, or are you not confident in yourself because of others? Are you not worthy because of your own chatter in your head, or are you not worthy because of what your mom said? And so we played with this a lot.
Speaker 2:But the overall theme of what we bring to the book is do you know who you are and are you okay standing in who you are?
Speaker 2:Do you believe enough in the beautifulness of your soul to stand there and say I got this man, I'm good and you all can bully me and you can all be mean and you can doubt me and you can question me, but I know who I am Because I have these four beautiful friends inside of me that are teaching me and telling me every day that I'm an incredible human being, day that I'm an incredible human being. And so it took us a long time to figure out how are we going to pin and I say pin because we even thought about putting like shoes on the visual. Remember that, kate, we were like okay, could we put some shoes on the pages to like maybe it's from the outside, maybe it's from the inside? And we decided, not because we didn't want to make an aunt or a teacher or a mother or dad or an uncle or anyone, but we didn't want to make anyone bad.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:What they say can be bad. What they say can be hurtful.
Speaker 3:Right and like I think that's the thing is, some of it can be in an like, inadvertently, or it can be, or it can be just mean, downright mean, on purpose. But we didn't want to clarify that that way, whoever's reading the book, it can resonate to them how it needs to for them to get the biggest message out of it. Misinterpreting things or um, something flat out just mean.
Speaker 2:Well, we'll give the example of what your parents used to tell you, and you oh me okay, yeah, oh, uh, mine was.
Speaker 3:It was teachers mostly, it was kate always marches to the beat of her own drum. I was like what does that mean? Like I didn't like it, it didn't feel right. Um, and they weren't like I. Now I'd be like, oh, that's a total compliment, but at the time I didn't see it as such yeah, and every, my, every, my parents.
Speaker 2:So I apologize, I didn't mean to my parents, my parents who, by the way, I love my, my parents, but or, however, let's say that, however, they didn't have any idea how to raise this like me. I was like, whoa, not what they were anticipating. And I would hear over and over she's 12, going on 21. And I heard it over and over and over and I never took it as a compliment. But if they had said Jen, you're wise beyond your years and you're beautiful just the way you are, and you think differently and you know, it's okay if you don't want to hang out with the eight-year-olds, go. It's okay if you want to hang out with us, because you've been here a round or two. This isn't the first time you've been on earth and so you're kind of bored with those kids. If they had said that to me, oh my god, I would have been like thank you, mother Jesus. I mean that's not right, but whatever, thank you, I am okay being me and you know, justina, I think you can relate to that yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:I heard that a lot often it was you know you're, you're just an old soul. Often it was you know you're, you're just an old soul. You know where's Justina. Oh wait, she's like over with someone's grandma and grandpa. Like what, what is she doing? Like come on, you know, come, talk to us. What? What are you doing? You know you're ready for this.
Speaker 2:You're ready for this, Claire?
Speaker 1:Claire Claire.
Speaker 2:Claire, where have you been in another world again? Yeah, that's one of the thought bubbles that comes to her.
Speaker 1:That just gives me so many goosebumps again.
Speaker 2:Where have you been, yeah?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so amazing. So to our listeners, I have not read this book. I want to be very clear. I have seen the cover, I have felt the energy and I have felt the intention behind it and I have already fell in love with it. So I just want to be so clear about that. If it can have that kind of impact on me and I have not read this book I really urge you to go to Kickstarter and we'll also mention that in our wrap-up as well, but to go to Kickstarter.
Speaker 1:Look up Claire and Her Magical Friends from Jen and Kate and please donate anything you can. If it's a dollar, it's a dollar, like anything you can will help and it just it really needs to get out there. Do you feel like along oops, sorry, did you okay? Do you feel like, along the path that you two perhaps had any magical synchronicities, spirit nudges, anything along the way that may have helped shape this book? Something once you got in flow, like different conversations you had do you feel like you know things started to come through? Did you go to any spiritual take, any spiritual avenues in order to get information, anything like that?
Speaker 3:Yes, absolutely In so many ways. I mean so Jen and I wrote the book over Zoom. I think we at that time we'd only met maybe once before we started writing the book in person, writing the book in person?
Speaker 2:We had never. We had been in person one time yeah.
Speaker 3:So, um, the you know, the spiritual chills would happen when, when we would be writing it and we'd just be like you know it was like it was being downloaded as we were working together.
Speaker 2:There were times Hold on. What does that mean for? For people that don't know what?
Speaker 3:does that mean Downloaded times Hold on. What does that mean For people that don't know? What does that mean Downloaded Download? Oh, that the information wasn't our own necessarily, that it was being given to us from our spirit team, higher realm, that the words were coming through us and not necessarily our own. Yeah so, and even now when I read some of it like this is it feels channeled. A lot of times it felt like it was being channeled, which was amazing. I have the same feeling.
Speaker 2:I have the same feeling. I read it today and I was like, can we do this again? Because, oh my God, these are amazing. This is amazing. I don't know if we can do another book.
Speaker 3:And what I remember I think it was writing like clairvoyance when we were working on it. We'd work on it separately and together and then come together and collaborate. But I remember going for a walk out in nature and like hearing the words coming to me and the rhymes just so easily flowing. The only thing that was difficult is we did have to shorten it so it would come more poetically and longer stanzas, longer phrases, and then we would condense it. But the energy behind the words was never lost. So that was one way. And then we did some of our own journey work. So I think Jen did a shamanic journey. I contacted the Akashic Records. The whole process was it was a spiritual process pretty much the whole time. I mean the whole time, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the whole time, much the whole time. I mean the whole time, yeah, yeah, the whole time. And then you know, we we even wrapped our computer in our energetic team, like we, because we were on zoom so much, and then we were starting to contemplate an illustrator, which that's actually the bulk of why we did the kickstarter, because the illustrator, she's amazing's actually the bulk of why we did the Kickstarter, because the illustrator she's amazing. Jessica Lynn Clark is incredible, but she costs a lot of money. I mean just going to be honest. And so we could have just gone chat or whatever I AI and tried to come up with visuals, and we didn't want to do that. However, we did embrace energetically our computer and we because we had a conversation about this, remember Kate Okay, if we're going to do this, we need to bring them AI and our computer into our team, because if we believe that the piece of paper has energy, then we need to realize that the computer has energy, and if we believe that the moon has energy, then a program on my computer has energy. And so we sat and had a very, very purposeful embrace of different technologies and the AI system, and there's a program called Discord, which one of my friends introduced us to and we fought it for a very long time and as soon as we brought the discord into our energetic sphere, we started generating visuals. And it was really cool because we started generating visuals of what we in our mind's eye, in our third eye, saw for the characters, for the friends. Now we knew we weren't going to use those, but it was really cool because both Kate and I were so on the same page.
Speaker 2:I would pull up, I would type in a description of our Audie. So Claire Audience has a friend. So Claire has a friend named Audie, and Audie represents Claire, audie. So Claire audience has a friend. So Claire has a friend named Audie, and she and and Audie represents Claire audience. And so we would put into the program this is who we want you to create, like who is this boy, and we want this boy to play a flute or a lute or you know, like we didn't know. But we would put all this in and we want them to be blue, because Claire audience is the fifth chakra, and we want this boy to have a curly, dark hair and all of these things. And we'd put it into the program and then it would spit out four images and I would wait. I would always say Kate, what do you like? Because I would always know what I liked and Kate would choose. And then I would say me too me too.
Speaker 2:But so then we realized that we were on the same page.
Speaker 2:So then, when we met with the illustrator, it was so much easier to then say, okay, Audie needs to feel this way and actually, Audie is actually probably the most true to what we created. It's very funny that I brought that up. So Audie in the book is so true, but it's not a copy. It's not even close to what was created in the AI program. But I think there's something. There's something bigger in this, where we're all fighting technology, and I believe that Kate and I took a pause and said how can we actually embrace this? How can we bring this into our energetic sphere? How can we make this part of who we are?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was the perfect way to use it as a tool. I had my idea in my mind, jen had her idea, and then we were able to use it as a tool and then show it to our illustrator and she had her own style that was uniquely her own. So it doesn't look anything like it, but it was the perfect use of it in a way that was not, you know, compromising or taking away from illustrators in any way, was a perfect enhancement, really, I actually think it made the illustration process much easier.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, she appreciated it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would encourage people to not look at all of these scary thing AI things as scary, but to really look at that and be like you know I can. I can make use this to make me better.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. It's so great that you mentioned all of that, because so often in my Reiki sessions so, oh, we go through, you know, the chakras, obviously, and the angels come in, and they come in with different colors and different tools and and they bring me to all these magical places and we work through things and we clear things out and and sometimes that's difficult to relay what I'm seeing in my mind's eye in a good enough way I mean, you know, there are colors that the spirit world brings us that you can't quite describe, and there are feelings and vibrations and all kinds of things. And I have often wanted to find a way to create a visual of certain experiences that I've had. I I'm not familiar with discord, but now I will be looking into it.
Speaker 1:Also the embracing the computers. So I fought the computers for a while, especially stepping into this. Like if your arm falls off, I can totally hook you up and help you. Like way better at that. But like if you make me mess with a certain document or a certain computer program oh my gosh, an Excel spreadsheet, yeah, like, call me, call me. It makes me want to turn and run the other way faster than anybody else in this world Like it is insane and I want so desperately to learn to, like you know, those Excel spreadsheets because it is helpful, especially having your own business, being able to keep track of things Right. So I love that you said that bringing it in, and I will definitely be doing that. I will be setting that intention after our call and I will be all kinds of things with that because I need I needed a way to communicate better with it. I actually think it was.
Speaker 2:I think it was so easy once we decided to do it. I mean, as soon as it hit us like hold on, we're asking our astrologer. I mean, just you know, we met with Jen Edwards, who is is on Enlightened Empaths all the time. We met with Jen Edwards and said these are our birth dates. This is everything you need to know about us. What birth date? What sign should we be looking for for an illustrator? We talked with her about when the birth, when the book should be birthed. We met with denise and had a reading with her and said what do you see? I mean, I went to the, I went to the shamanic, I went on a shamanic journey to figure out. We were at a standstill about something I can't remember and I went on a shamanic journey. So once we just I'm getting all hot, it's crazy. Once we said, hold on, why don't we just bring the computer in to this world?
Speaker 2:And as soon as we brought the computer in boom. I don't know, it just happened.
Speaker 3:And I would encourage people to know.
Speaker 2:I would encourage people to not fight it so much. I think it's very easy to fight it, but if you look at it from a different perspective, if you look at it from the Raven's perspective with clairvoyance, and if you look at it from a high level, she, the Raven, will give you guidance.
Speaker 1:That's wonderful, jen. You mentioned that you read the book to someone earlier. Who was that and what was like the age group Like? What was your experience with reading it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's so funny. My ear is freaking out right now. It's ringing out of control. So obviously they're happy with what I just said. I love that when I get those hits.
Speaker 2:So I was reading it to our Spanish exchange student. So I'm very blessed. We're very, very, very blessed that three years ago we had an exchange student in Tahoe, where I live, in Tahoe City, california. She came and lived with us for a year from Spain and we adore her and every year she comes and visits, she comes to the Alps. So currently I am in Val d'Azur, france, the Alps skiing. So she joined us here. Now Candela that's her name. Candela was very curious when she came to Tahoe. I have crystal bracelets, I have crystal rings, I have essential oils all over. You know, I'm very open about it and she was not raised with any of this. She was very curious and so if I had had this book then, oh my God, I would have just been like read this book, because it would have helped so much. I would have said here read this book clear in a magical friends, and we'll talk about it. It just would have helped so much.
Speaker 2:I would have said here read this book, clear and Her Magical Friends, and we'll talk about it. It just would have been so beneficial. She's always been very curious and I adore her for that. So I was reading it to her today, this afternoon before or this morning before we went skiing, and she was looking at all the visuals and she was listening and her English is perfect. So I was reading it to her and she would ask me questions and she said hold on, there's a sunflower for Senti, for Clare Senti, and what does that?
Speaker 3:mean.
Speaker 2:I pulled out my best, Kate, because Kate is the one who knows all of this, the one who knows all of this. But I said well, a sunflower en français. In French, it turns towards the sun. So tourner au soleil, it turns towards the sun. So if you ever watch a sunflower, they turn towards the sun. And if the sun goes left, the sunflower goes left, sun goes right whatever, and you get the idea.
Speaker 2:And there's something really beautiful about following your feelings and that's where the sunflower comes in. It follows the sun, it follows the heat, and so I was chatting with her about that's why we chose to put sunflowers all over Claire Sentience's page, senti's page. And then I said Kate should talk about this more. So go ahead.
Speaker 3:How did I do? You did great. I love that. And you know we didn't put that in the parents page. We really wanted to, but we had to to. So in the book there's the whole back section.
Speaker 3:Explains behind um all the imagery like why we chose sunflower for clairsentience, um the chamomile, why there's chamomile there's chamomile yeah, well, while we have a tiger's eye on Senti's necklace and why that stone's in there, the different animal, claire, each of her friends has an animal guide or familiar that's associated with it. So there's all these beautiful details that we dive into in the back, so there's a reference for people to look up and really understand the power behind the imagery and the words that we chose. So anyway, unfortunately we didn't talk about turn towards the sun, even though we wanted to. So I'm glad you brought that one up. I don't think I need to explain any more than that. But it was also the sun flower as the solar plexus. The solar plexus, the sunflower, and that radiant life force, energy, that's represented by the sunflower.
Speaker 2:Wow, the parents page is so important, justina? Yeah, because it's so important. I read or I showed this book to so many of my parent friends who I thought were full on in the know. They had no idea what I was even talking about. I'm like, well, yeah, clear, sentience, clear, audience, clear, nothing. They had no idea. And so I realized that parents page is going to be so much more valuable than I think we have any comprehension of. So it doesn't just go through, okay. So basically it gives a definition of the Claire and then it goes through the words that we use. So for voyeur, it's, it's. I think it's a really good one, because we talk about second sight, for clairvoyance, and it gives a definition, like if your child says to you what is second sight, and you're all, I have no idea, you go to the back of the book. Thank God, thank God, they defined it for me.
Speaker 2:So second sight you can just get to them. You can be like well Cain. Jen say yeah, you can just get to them. You can be like well kate and jen say yeah, you can pass the buck too, right pass the buck, be like.
Speaker 2:Well, kate and jen say this. I don't know if it's true, but but then there's also imagery, so everything that we chose. So there's why the color, why the image? Where is there a crystal? You know what does that crystal mean? It's all of this beautiful um context for you. And then the last part of it which I think is really beautiful is it also gives questions that you can ask your child to stimulate conversation. And, kate, you know, before we end I don't know how long we can talk, but you, you said, one of the most beautiful things that I think this book allows us to do is, with our children, to say which one of these beautiful friends connects with you most. Beautiful friends connects with you most. And from my verbal-ish, non-verbal child, I can still ask her that I can still say beautiful Teal, who do you most connect with? My daughter loves this book. She only wants to read this book.
Speaker 2:It's so beautiful. But I can ask her, which one of the friends do you connect to most? And it gives you a beautiful place to start conversations from, and that's, I think, what we're really trying to do. The book is not everything. The book does not give you every moment of clairsentience, but it gives you a little snippet. There's my daughter. My daughter just walked in. She's like hey mom Um it gives you a little snippet of what each Claire is, which allows you to have more conversation.
Speaker 1:That's so awesome. You know I'm my gosh. You guys are just making me love this book more and more. It speaks to so many different pieces of the whole thing and one of my biggest things in my podcast is trying to create a sense of community and everything that I hear you guys saying. This book creates a sense of community. This book can give a lonely child, a lonely adult, a sense of community, a reminder that we're not alone in this process, in this thing called life. Like, how incredible is that? Like it's just incredible.
Speaker 1:I do see you guys talked about the Kickstarter campaign. I do want to make one comment about the illustrator. Again, I've just seen the copy, the front copy, guys, so and it's gorgeous, like, gorgeous, like the colors, the clear, like it's just gorgeous, like I just want to hug the book and and I will be hugging the book once I get to the book, just to be clear. So if y'all see me walking around hugging a book, like that's the book I'm hugging. So I wanted to ask when people go to this site they go to Kickstarter, kickstartercom, right. They look up the book Claire and Her Magical Friends by Jen and Kate and what is? Are there any type of like rewards, incentives, anything that are offered to any of the backers. Is there anything in there about that?
Speaker 3:We do so. There's different options there's. You can just make a straight donation without a reward for any amount. And then we're. We're so cute, we labeled them by different crystals. And we're so cute, we labeled them by different crystals. We thought we were so clever. So the first one is Tiger's Eye.
Speaker 2:So Tiger's Eye correlates with Scenty Right. So then you go up to Oddy, which is a blues tone.
Speaker 3:Which we did, angelite.
Speaker 2:We did Angelite, so angelite has its own tier and it includes, you know, I think two books I know there's my tote bag.
Speaker 3:Um, that one was a hundred dollars and then from the, from angelite, it goes up to what's it. Moonstone.
Speaker 2:I think that one was 200. I think, you get, and if you look closely, you can find Rainbow Moonstone in the book Exactly.
Speaker 3:So each of these, each of these, is within the book as well. So, anyway, you have different tiers, I think the one of them you get a reading with Jen and I, an invitation to our, our book signing party.
Speaker 2:You're so flying to California for that and a lot of things right.
Speaker 3:And books yeah, you get the book right, you get a book with each of the tiers yeah, Every, every, yeah, everyone.
Speaker 2:you get every. Tier, you get a book.
Speaker 3:Some we give multiple books and that was our way. Of you know you can gift it to someone, give it to a school, a library so we can circulate it more, right, and I think that's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm glad that you mentioned those other places as well, because I've actually had a couple of therapists reach out to me recently, which is a new thing for me. Had a couple of therapists reach out to me recently, which is a new thing for me, and and they're asking me questions about hey, we're seeing more clients that are having experiences or things happen, and would it be okay if I referred them to you, or would you feel comfortable talking to them? Would you? And I think about and and these are mostly adults that they've been reaching out to me for how great this book would be for them, and in therapy offices and libraries and uh and, and I mean like I could just see it everywhere.
Speaker 2:I love you, so that's actually my. My mom is a pediatric nurse practitioner and she I read the book to her and she said you have to get this in front of school psychologists. School. You want to say hi to my daughter just joined us, do you want?
Speaker 1:to say hi.
Speaker 2:Hi, this is Teal who I dedicated the book to, but she ha, we have to get this in. My mom brought it up. She's like you have to get this in front of school nurses school psychologists, you've got to get this in front of therapists, because kids don't even know what they're feeling. Yes, absolutely. And one of our friends said you need to put it in front of doulas because as soon as that baby is born they need to start talking this language and I was like, oh my God, it it just needs to become common language now.
Speaker 3:Yes absolutely.
Speaker 2:It doesn't need to be woo woo, it doesn't need to be spiritual, it needs to be common language.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Is there any other way that our listeners can help support your mission beyond financial contributions? Are there any ideas of things that they could do to help?
Speaker 3:Absolutely so sharing if they're wanting to share to any of their friends or family other parents who have children who they think would benefit from it, their psychologist who they wish had this book. Just sharing it, because we, jen and I, are self doing our own publicity. So this is the way to spread the word.
Speaker 2:Hello, please, please, help us send it to anyone you know. Yeah spreading the word that way is so helpful, really is. You know, additionally, if you're not comfortable with Kickstarter, which we found out that a lot of our parents' friends are not comfortable, along with our parents are not comfortable with Kickstarter.
Speaker 2:If you do want to support the book, you can always email us at Claire's magic at gmailcom and say listen, I want to donate $5,000. Did you like that? If you want to donate $5,000,? If you want to donate $5, it's fine as well. Anything to help us. We actually have had a little bit of a stall, which it's scary because we only have about 10 more days or 12 more days with Kickstarter. So we're definitely at a stall right now and we're kind of freaking out. Um, cause, the momentum was real in the beginning and and then it just slowed, and that's natural. It's called the Kickstarter slowdown, and so anyone that has any passion for this, they can email us at Claire's magic at gmailcom and just simply say I'd love to support you. How can I and we can help you. Teal, you cannot keep talking.
Speaker 3:I'm so sorry I'm going to put myself on mute.
Speaker 2:This is called being a parent. This will all be over.
Speaker 1:It's real, we got that for sure. Okay, I love that because I was going to ask how they could you know if they didn't feel comfortable donating through Kickstarter if there was another option that they could use, so they can reach out and email you guys and ask which way to do that, or maybe even offer you like hey, I have Venmo or I have PayPal or I can mail you a check Like where would I do that? You know these kinds of things?
Speaker 3:And looking forward. You know, our next step after Kickstarter is taking it to different bookshops. So if anyone out there owns any you know independent bookstores and wants to see it there, reach out to us. We'll be doing road trips around. Maybe we'll be flying around later this fall. We'll see.
Speaker 1:I have angel bumps all over me, like all over me. Yeah, you'll be doing that. You'll be doing like little mom and pop, like bookstores and do like a reading, exactly.
Speaker 2:So, I actually think, justina, that's really where we're going to start connecting with people. Yes, we would love to be in Barnes and Noble and big properties. Yes, we would love to be in Barnes and Noble and big properties, but it's these really beautiful small shops that they're going to put our book matter what happens?
Speaker 2:I mean even Jennifer Edwards, our astrologist, said she's all don't be anticipating huge growth, huge, crazy expansion in the first six to nine months. She said this is a long process for you because if you really think about how our world has been, we're not going to all of a sudden flip flop the world, but it is time to start slowly indoctrinating people and families to these concepts of everyday language.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. That is wow, you guys. I just uh, wow, I didn't think I could love the book more. This is crazy. I'm probably going to fall over once I actually get it.
Speaker 2:Oh, and, by the way, it feels so good in your hands. Okay, everyone has said that has touched it. They're like what have you done? And I'm like I don't, I don't. We paid, we paid for the top, top dollar. So this book is not I mean, it's a hardcover, but it's also then has a cover on it and it feels like magical and the pages are thick and you're going to be very, very happy when you get get one in your hands.
Speaker 3:We wanted it to be heirloom quality.
Speaker 1:We wanted it to be heirloom quality. Can you let me think how I would word this? Can you say the illustrator's name one more time, and maybe if she has a Instagram or if she has a website or anything like that, because I'm telling you guys the front cover of this book and again, that's all I've seen so far.
Speaker 3:And I'm that enamored, feels so good. Her name's Jessica Lynn Clark and her Instagram is Jessica Lynn Clark art.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you want to go to her website. It's just Jessica Lynn Clark, by the way, if you watch the video. So if you watch the Kickstarter video, you'll see a little bit more of the visuals, so that's another reason for people to go to.
Speaker 1:Kickstartercom. I was so excited to donate. I just bypassed everything.
Speaker 2:You did I know you kept saying that I was like there's a video didn't say that at all oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So if you go to kickstartercom and then you search which, I will also send you the direct link. But if you just search for Claire and her magical friends now Claire does not have an E on it, so it's C-L-A-I-R. Claire and her magical friends. If you search for that, you'll get brought to our page and you can see our video and we talk with you about how there's not a book out there that does this. We could not find a book that talked to children about their intuition and how they can connect with their own self, beauty and their own self knowing and all of these things that are inside of us that no one talks about. We couldn't find a book like that.
Speaker 1:So there you go so amazing, wow, everybody. So listen. Was this not super soul nourishing? I really hope you felt the light, the love and the intention behind every word shared today in this episode. If Claire and her magical friends spark something in you, whether you're a parent, a teacher, a healer, a therapist or a fellow dreamer, I invite you and I ask you to support their Kickstarter campaign. Every single pledge, no matter how small, no matter how big, brings this book into the hands of children and adults alike, who need its message of magic, connection and inner light. You'll find the link to Kickstarter in the show notes, as well as ways to contact with the authors directly. Let's help them birth this vision into the world together, as it is so needed. Until next time, please remember that you are the light and your support ripples way further than you can even dream. Namaste Soul Sisters.
Speaker 3:Hey everyone.
Speaker 1:I wanted to take a quick second and say thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm so grateful for you, thank you for listening to this podcast and I want to take a minute and ask for a quick favor. If, when you're listening to an episode, if you could please just take a second, place your hand on your heart and take a deep breath in through your nose and a long exhale out of your mouth and just set the intention to send love and light to every single person listening right now, yesterday and in the future. I think together we just might be able to raise the vibration of this world. I'm so excited and please follow me on Instagram at AngelReikiJourney. Visit my website to book an appointment with me at AngelReikiJourneycom and please follow this podcast. Sacred Soul Sisters, thank you so much and I can't wait to talk to you again soon. Have a great day.