Spiritually Speaking with Jessica & Samantha - We're Back! An Almighty Catch-Up After Our 5-Week Break

Episode Date: November 29, 2024

In this week’s episode of Spiritually Speaking, we’re back after a 5-week break and have so much to share! 🌍✨Jess dives into her recent travels, reflecting on life as a spiritual nomad and what it’s been like returning to the UK after months abroad. From connecting with new cultures to rediscovering the familiar, it’s been a journey of growth, exploration, and grounding.Meanwhile, Sam shares what life has been like holding down the fort, focusing on family, and embracing the shifts that come with everyday life. Together, we chat about how time away has given us fresh perspectives and renewed energy for the podcast and beyond.This episode is all about transitions, reflections, and the beauty of stepping back to move forward. Whether you’re craving some travel inspiration, grounding tips, or just a warm chat, this one’s for you!Tune in now on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know what you think. We’re so excited to be back with you all! 💫Love,Jessica & Samantha x

hello welcome back to spiritually speaking with me sam and with me jess hello hi oh my god i'm so happy to be back it's lovely to be back it feels like we've not been gone now we're sitting like this i know yeah yeah exactly we so in case you don't know you probably do if you might have seen it on instagram we met up having not seen each other for six months last week which was so nice it felt like we'd never not seen each other actually which was weird um so we met up last week with the full intention to record the podcast i was having a bit of a shitty day to be honest and i think i just had loads of stuff going on in the morning i can't even remember your mom and dad were leaving oh that was it yeah my mom and dad were leaving I

forgot my microphone everything was just a bit stressful we met at the salon which we'll touch on in a minute we got there we planned to record the podcast and then it was just didn't work it was too echoey in the room that we were going to do it in so we just decided not to I also feel like I tried for about two minutes was like let's just give up yeah you did yeah whereas I would have I literally said to you I was like let's just drive to my house and record the podcast and you were like no it's not gonna happen today I was like I feel like also from a tech perspective we've got so used to it on zoom I forgot how to do it in person with all very technical guys when it's in person on zoom it's

very easy yeah and in case you didn't realize we obviously don't have a producer Jess is our producer so the makeshift podcast we just decided to leave it till um now but now Jess is in the UK and I am still in my box room in Dubai oh well you look nice and like you you look nice I can't get bloody words out you've got like summer clothes on I've got my jumper on I've got the heater on I'm embracing the cold weather it's I am thinking I need to put my AC on in a minute it's freezing here is it really cold well I feel like it is it snowed just before I got back but it's just I haven't left the house in like two days it's quite snowy in Manchester to be fair don't blame me I wouldn't are you drinking loads of hot drinks have you gone back to coffee no

I'm completely off of it and also I didn't drink any alcohol in Dubai um when I was back for like the three days I was there um which I could have done because there was a few perfect opportunities and I actually said to you I think I voice knowed you about it didn't I and I was going to plant the seed and also my friend I was like I'm not going to drink when I'm there and I'm gonna like plant the seed and embrace it and when I got there I was like oh do I and I was like I'm all right so I did brunch sober had a lovely time good for you felt really good like I had really good time and I think for me like I've noticed with alcohol obviously in like southeast asia wine isn't good so i wasn't drinking wine and i was drinking beer and yeah like i actually don't love beer and i felt like i was burping all the time it was gross yeah make sure like gassy and like full yeah and i mean i do love a pint

but yeah i don't have them all the time yeah Yeah, I was sometimes like, like in Vietnam, I was having them every day and I was like, what am I doing? Okay, yeah, that's a bit much. Yeah, I get that. And I was like, I'm not a beer drinker. So I have been off wine for a while and I've just not, I've not missed it in all honesty. I thought I would, but I really don't like the way it makes me feel.

And I think like my anxiety can be really heightened. But also spiritually, I kind of just feel like it's getting even more intense at the moment all my spiritual stuff and when I drink it's just making me feel not very good so it's just it's no longer yeah I just think good for you I feel like it's an amazing um decision that you've made and I think it's something where like obviously takes a lot of willpower even just the coffee to be honest I think the coffee is as hard as the drinking I would say um but yeah I just think good for you and it's kind of one of them things where you've not said oh I'm never drinking again so you can

have a drink if you want to have a drink and the same with a coffee like there's no pressure but um it's nice that you have noticed what doesn't serve you and you're just being like I'm not going to do that yeah and I think like coffee is quite a sociable thing for me um so I'll be like oh yeah let's get coffee or I'd go out like even now at my parents house they live like a 15 minute walk from the town I would have been up already by now walked to Costa got a coffee spent like four pound you know all those things and I just haven't got this like desire to do that now it's really weird because honestly I've drunk coffee since I was 16 um so yeah very weird and then I feel like the alcohol thing just kind of followed but it's quite nice because I lack discipline um when it comes to food and drink and knowing that

that muscle actually works I feel really proud and I feel really good about it and it's like oh what else could I use it for like what else should I change and even coming home um like obviously it's like pasta and bread and my tummy I've had a bad tummy like every night and I don't have that anymore so I was like oh like I think actually I've just got all these intolerances and I'm actually suited to the food in Southeast Asia, I think, more than... Your body's being like, get back. Yeah, it's just wants soup and noodles and... Yeah, so yeah, crazy. Oh, well, obviously we're going to do a bit of a catch-up anyway, aren't we?

We are. In the beginning bit of this pod. And then we have got a little bit of a topic that we're going to go on to. But fill me in on what you or everyone in as what you've been doing over the last five weeks that we've been off okay so you had done your tantra course yes and you you were about to go to Sri Lanka yes okay so I think I was on the the breach breach is that the word of a burnout so that's why I was like brink that's the word thanks babes I knew it was there I knew it was a b

and so I was on the brink of a burnout I would say um and I think while I was traveling I've been working very hard um which actually is quite unlike me I'm not saying I don't work hard but I feel like I was really good at balance in Dubai and I got this buzz and I was working I was traveling it was very it was quite fast but slow at the same time a bit confusing so just as we sort of had a break I I was like, I just need to reset. And it was really good for me. So heading to Sri Lanka was great. Turned the laptop off, pre-scheduled everything on Patreon, which is, you know, I don't love to do that, but I needed to, to reset.

And I was just disconnected and I bloody loved it um I was in this little jungle hut um with this lovely man called Asanka who owns it nothing happened he was just very caring no one thought it did my mum did she was like did you sleep with him I was like no I know I was like he's a lovely man but no I didn't but he really looked after me um and he like his mum cooked food every day it's like a homestay so it's really good it's really cool and it was sort of jungle vibes we had a river at the end of like the where the cabins were and I was like you sure there's not crocodiles in there and he said no but I just was like fuck that it ain't worth it but people don't really but like locals would go down to the river and they'd like wash and I was like and swim I just I'm I know I'm one with nature but that that pushed me a bit too far out my comfort zone

so I didn't do that and then I went and did the elephant safari which was unreal and it looks amazing so good I'd really recommend to go to Sri Lanka like especially if you're a family and the reason I say this is when you do a safari in like Tanzania or Africa which I did like in 2016 it's unreal but you usually do it for a few days but in Sri Lanka you just do you only need a day because it's basically just elephants and like you can see I think leopards but I didn't see a leopard um so like it's a nice step into the safari world I would say but the elephants were unreal so that was really cool um and I actually was in that jungle place for five days. Just there was a big hammock.

I laid on there for hours, meditating. And honestly, I'm made for that life. Honestly, I like, I just, I'm very happy. And that peace when I'm there in that sort of space. And I loved Sri Lanka. It was really cool, really different. Food was good. Then I went to the retreat. And I loved Sri Lanka. It was really cool. Really different. Food was good. Then I went to the retreat.

So I was facilitating a retreat. There was two main facilitators. And I was there doing the readings. So that was really cool. So I was deep in mediumship and clairvoyance for this retreat. Which was intense. Because it felt like... Sorry, for anyone who doesn't know what that means,

how would you describe that? Speaking to the dead. Yeah. And connecting with the dead, which is obviously what I started off with when I started my readings nearly four years ago, which is crazy. It was mediumship and that was my main thing

and I would pull through spirit from so grandparents parents whoever and before the retreat uh they were like oh what do you think the vibe's gonna be I was like it just feels really heavy and a lot of mediumship um and I don't know because of all the tantra that I've been doing and I'm hooked on tantra still. I'm very living that way. And tantra is all about weaving of energy. It's all about how you work with energy. So I just think something shifted because I was open and I could just connect. And yeah, it was beautiful.

So a lot of spirit work. We were sitting in circle and everyone's sitting there and then it just felt like all their relatives were just behind them honestly right with this are you I'm trying to imagine this are you looking at them can you see them yeah but in my mind's eye but I can see where they are like I can feel their energy I can see them just like right so it's like we were sitting in circle and I'm like oh yeah there's their dad there's their mom like yeah yeah god that is such like a powerful thing to be able to do it is crazy like actually do you know what absolutely not I um I always say it's not a gift and I'm always like very like prominent about that um but it was on steroids that week and the

energy it is yeah and it is a gift like I can't do I can't see anyone behind you right now I'm sorry but I don't know if anyone's there there's a few of them they're always there it's all right they're always with me but no it is it's crazy so it was it was transformational because the work it reminded me of what I did when I first started and what's always been there as a kid and actually the shifts it is yeah it was very cool very tired though it took a lot of my energy which is why I don't do it as much because it's so exhausting so so I have literally been like a week of not being a human to be quite honest but I'm back now and I think that's why with the podcast I was like yeah let's just not try you've had a bad day I can just about put a sentence

together um yeah so yeah so just honoring my needs there because the spirits were taking it all and then back to do really quickly for a few days obviously came to the greenhouse which honestly it's unbelievable and it made me laugh um again I was adamant I took photos must be mercury retrograde because they weren't on my phone um so I don't know where they went and then I was doing that my catch-up for the week and I wanted to like post nice pictures the greenhouse I had none the only one that you took that I saw was the one you took a selfie in the mirror could you send me a picture of your hair that's the only one I could find as well so I got my hair cut um yeah but honestly it's unbelievable Sam oh it really is like the vibe the energy like the space, like the, honestly,

like I'm buzzing for you. It's brilliant. Thank you. Thank you. So good. So it's really nice to see that. So, yeah, that was lovely. And to see all the girls and the staff, they're all happy,

all this space. The staff room is unbelievable. I'm like, what a great space, you know? Yeah. Staff room is pretty yeah yes great it's important to have that space for your team so it's so good um and then I just had to sort out some logistics like visa stuff obviously I'm no longer a resident which is yeah end of an era but it's all right um so that was getting me a bit anxious having to sort all

those things out but I've sorted it out now which is very good um so I'm officially a digital nomad whoop whoop whoo well done yeah which is very cool so that's me oh and then I came home and I surprised my family so they didn't know I was coming back yet so you've probably seen on my Instagram stories if you follow me um the surprises which was so cute it was so obviously I've seen the videos but how did it go because your dad just looked shocked yeah dad was shocked he actually got quite tearful um I thought he might and I know that he's both my parents have been really missing me because they've been messaging me a lot not not that they wouldn't but you know when you can hear it in their voice and yeah and it's the longest I've been away for basically a year like I haven't seen one of my sisters and all my nieces

and nephews for a year it's a really long time wow yeah that's a really long time I haven't seen my mum and dad since beginning of March so like it's quite a long time yeah and we're a very close-knit family we're a bit we're a bit obsessed we all love each other quite a lot it's very lovely yeah it's so nice so yeah so it went really well mum was just like oh my god like no um and dad yeah was shocked which they didn't have a clue bless him and I know nice only one of my sisters knew then I went to my nan's house love my nan she's so sweet but every time she says goodbye to me she's definitely thinking it's the last time so oh no so she's she's well into her 80s so she's it's always like a bit of an emotional goodbye but when I come back it's like she's made it to another return like she got really emotional

bless her um and then um my sister who I haven't seen for a year and her kids and her husband we always put Felice Navidad on so we had it on full blast down the road bibbing and then like Jess's home so yeah it was really funny we had a proper giggle and then we all went to the fish and chip shop. Aww. So it's been brilliant. And do you know what? I was reflecting on this year. I'm feeling very proud and very happy.

I haven't had many years where I felt that, in all honesty. I normally get to this time of year and I can feel quite frustrated with myself or I can feel certain things. But do you know what? one yet 2024 and I'm very grateful for that so of course there's ups and downs always but yeah it's just lovely to be back with my family because I love them so much and just to spend quality time with them yeah oh I'm so glad I feel like everything that you're feeling is a reflection though of all the work that you've put in to get there yeah I think like none of this has happened by luck or by chance like you've put things in place that has led you to where you are and you've

taken massive risks to get there and you're still taking risks now but like yeah I just think you should be really proud of yourself like it's incredible what you've achieved over just the last six months while you've been traveling but even before that planting all the seeds to be able to have done that in the first place is yeah it's amazing thank you babes I appreciate that yeah so I'm glad that you're home oh thank you thank you yeah how are you um yeah I've been good um you know what I was um I made notes before because I would I'd completely forgotten about what what's been going on had been going on and I can't find them I've got no idea where I put them um so that's that but never mind um so what has been going on I have had an influx of visitors which has been lovely I had my auntie came over for a few days um I only have one auntie

because my dad's an only child and my mum's got one sister and so we're really close which is lovely um she came over which was just so nice to have some like girly time and then my mum and dad came over I think they got a bit jealous to be honest that my auntie was here yeah because my auntie then had seen like the salon and the house before my mum and dad had. But yeah, that worked really well for me. If that was what happened, I don't know. But they came over, so that was nice.

Had them here for a week. And then my best friend came over for a few days as well, Jack, who's been to Dubai, God knows, like four times already this year. So that was really nice to see him again. So yeah, I had loads of visitors, which has been, you know what it's like when you have visitors, like it's just, it's so different

if you were at home, for example, because they're nine times out of 10 are staying with you. And then like taking time out of like working and like my usual routine to do things with them. And they're always amazing because I've all been to Dubai so many times before um but it is a case of it's I'm to my own detriment that then I don't do as much work and then when they've gone I'm like fuck I need to do this this and this you know I can feel like I take my eye off the ball a little bit um but that's fine um so I had a really

nice time with them which was lovely always sad to see them go um and then I've kind of just been figuring out a new normal to be honest since the salons opened so the salon probably opened at the beginning of October um which was obviously a massive sigh of relief like I'm so glad that that's done um well say done. It's still got a few bits left to do, but it's pretty much done, which has been amazing and I love it. I'm really, really happy with the new space. But I think what I hadn't really taken into consideration

is I've effectively opened a new business. Yeah. And I didn't really think about that because obviously, as I've said a million times, none of this was planned, never ever planned to get next door and expand, never planned to do nails, never planned to expand double the hair sections I've got. So even the original salon is completely different to how it was before. Um, which I think you were quite surprised by, weren't you, when you went went in it felt like a whole

different space you know yeah like in an amazing way but yeah yeah it's it's so I had 10 hair sections before I've now got 20 I had four back washes before I've now got seven um everything has completely changed even if it's just like the flow of it in terms of how you walk around it like everything is completely different. But with that comes a new business structure that needs to be put in place. We have new staff. We have a lot of changes, which is great, but it requires a lot more attention. So that has been just a bit of a learning curve for me because it kind of felt like

it came out of nowhere a bit I think I was focusing on the reno so much that when the reno was done all of a sudden it was like right now you actually have this whole new business that you need to run in a different way to how you're running your old one um so yeah but I'm I'm loving it I'm absolutely loving it I love going in I love spending time in there um and like I say I'm just kind of figuring out a new way of doing everything because when I am in the salon I get so caught up in chatting to people I don't get anything done like and imagine it's like you're more there and networking yeah literally like I'm chatting to the clients and I love that I really really love

that because a lot of the clients don't know who I am now and it's nice to chat to clients and them not actually know that you're even the owner like it's just nice to chat to them and be like how was your experience or what you're doing today or whatever and um see all my old clients as well and chat to the staff as well but then yeah I don't actually then get any work done so I'm having to get used to doing that and setting myself aside time to actually get stuff done um the girls are changing massively like they're they are pretty much yeah they're pretty much crawling um so they're way more demanding in different ways than what they were before they're obviously eating now so the food and everything like that um the routines change like there's there's a lot of change with them as well um so yeah just kind of figuring everything out

to be honest constantly it's definitely like a whole new way of life for you yeah sort of and it's that like adjustment isn't it of like the salon having more staff not having to be there to do hair all the time like the girls are going to be more demanding in different ways and yeah yeah yeah it's it's a lot of change um and I like change I welcome change um but it's just figuring out how to move with that change um and also figuring out how to make myself happy within that as well because I think I obviously get a lot of happiness from a lot of different things but it's making sure that I prioritize that like I've just started I said to Jess this morning like I've just started to go for a walk in the mornings on my own so my nanny is amazing like she honestly is like a gift sent from above I absolutely love her actually a gift sent from you Jess yes because

Jess actually recommended her um so yeah but um yeah she's called Cherry and I absolutely love her to death so she will take my girls out for a walk in the morning. And now I've started going for a walk on my own, which at first I'm a bit like, feel a bit bad for because I feel like I should just be walking with the girls. But going on my own is really, really good. And sometimes I'm putting my AirPods in. I don't actually put anything on.

I just have them in. And this morning I decided to run a bit of it so I just started running and I used to run I actually have ran marathon I've run a half marathon I've done 10k like I used to run but yeah so I just did a little bit of a run then I walked and I did 5k and thoroughly enjoyed it came back feel so energized and ready to then start my day um so yeah just trying to make a few healthy habits like that really love that babes that's really lovely and also Dubai weather right now is just amazing thriving yeah it was quite chilly actually I felt like it's not cold but first thing in the morning yeah and in the evening yeah yeah um yeah and and I feel like there is a lot of

growth going on because so I booked to go to the Maldives right and I remember saying on this podcast I'm going to Maldives at Christmas it's happening whatever right I booked it and I was like I had all intentions to go and then me and Andy were chatting about it and he was like look if you really want to go we can go but I actually think that money would probably be better spent on the house because there's a few things that we want to do in the house and I was like yeah I agree and I've just cancelled it and like that is growth because old me would have been like no I want to go I said that I wanted to go and set myself this goal and but now I'm quite happy to not go yeah you're surrendering babes that's beautiful your torus is letting loose yeah exactly it's molding um so softening should I say

but um yeah so I'm quite happy to just yeah go with the flow a bit more life's much nicer like that yeah obviously very much living the flow of life um but I also don't have as many responsibilities as you so it's much easier for me to do that but yeah I find that like once you're detached from all these outcomes and things and stuff like actually you you get it all anyway and it's much more enjoyable and if you don't it's not the end of the world just like yeah it's it's things like it sounds silly but like at Christmas whenever we stay for Christmas every year we would go on a staycation obviously it was always just me and Andy um 21st of December to the 24th and that was like our thing that like we loved doing and um we this year we're like ready to book it we still haven't booked it obviously after we

cancelled the Maldives and we still hadn't booked it and then I was like do we actually go because you know now we've got the girls yeah we can go I'm sure we'll have a lovely time but do I actually just want to sit in a hotel room at night while they're asleep not really yeah you know what I mean so I think yeah a lot of it is kind of just changing the way that we do things and being okay with that yeah and I think like it's hard when you've got Taurus energy and any Tauruses listening um and Scorpios and Aquarius and Leo you're all very fixed in astrology um I see it with my parents because my dad's a Taurus moon and my mum's an Aquarius moon I'm a Scorpio moon so we all have it

but like when it comes to change it can just take a little bit of time to come to terms with it um and it's an element of surrender which is really uncomfortable and also when other people sort of advise you it's not always you're not always going to take it you're not ready for it you'll only do it when you really want to do it or what you want to do you know you find that sort of Taurus energy in particular um so yeah I think this is huge growth because if we're too stuck we're in our shadow and it's not very it's not it's not actually enjoyable when we're super stubborn and stuck with things and tradition's lovely but sometimes it adds pressure you know like we know which is what we were going to talk about today we was going to talk about like the pressures of December and tradition or whatever it is because it does

it adds you know it's a lot of definitely yeah yeah definitely yeah so we were we wanted to chat I mean it segues lovely it was lovely yeah it's like we planned it I know um but yeah we wanted to chat about how um pressures can be put in place sometimes can you can feel the pressure at this time of year um whether that be as to how you spend your Christmas day or how you spend your time at this time of year or anything like that really oh there's loads of things like so when I was with my ex like his his parents were split up so then it was like we had to split ourselves between three families oh it was it was so stressful I hated it and it used to cause so many arguments because obviously I wanted to be with my family

when I look back I should have just spent time with my family but I wanted to be with him and so it sort of spread ourselves thin but yeah I just feel like this time of year is really lovely but like also can be really stressful and can add energy and pressure and you're rushing around and there's all these different things and you know it can sort of take away the magic of you you know, what Christmas is about. Of what it's supposed to be. Which is all about Jesus, you know, not the presents. Yeah, we have to remember that. It's definitely about the presents. It's definitely about the presents.

I definitely didn't grow up being reminded of the real meaning of Christmas. It was just about Father Christmas. Yeah, same. You know? But yeah we so for us this year we are having it in our home in dubai and and we are having it just us we're not having any family come over and that's not because they're not welcome like it's just because they're not coming over which is fine they've got other things you know it's a very expensive time of year

as well and you know my mom and dad have just been over and everyone has their own other commitments. But we, yeah, are just having it at the house, like just us with the dog, with the babies. And I'm really looking forward to it. And yeah, it might upset people, you know, I'm sure people would have loved for us to have gone home and seen them and celebrated with them but we wanted to do what was best for us and what would make us happiest and the girls happiest and that was to be at home and you know it's even hard because every year that we've stayed in Dubai we would go around to my friend's house for Christmas day and I love going to her house I had so much fun every year doing that but again this year it just wasn't the right thing to do with the girls and you do just have to do what works for you and

yeah you are going to potentially upset people along the way but if they don't understand then yeah so what that's their problem it's not yours who's the chef on Christmas day it'll be Andy okay nice yeah and that's also a reason why we are on christmas day it'll be andy okay nice yeah and that's also a reason why we are doing it at home i'll be honest because he has wanted to for ages cook a christmas dinner and have a christmas dinner at home and i think more so even for us now having the house than even the girls it's it's brought it on that we've wanted to do it and you know we've already put our tree up what two weeks ago if not more like first weekend in November Andy was like should we put the tree up and I was like you are having a laugh like this is insane everyone thinks it's mad that he's the

one that says it not me um but yeah we just love it and I just think why not enjoy it and I think a lot of people can get quite like you know oh well you should be doing this you should be doing that no just do whatever it is you want to do yeah people so bothered about what everyone else is doing pressure isn't it like I've sort of said to myself I haven't got loads of social plans since being self-employed my December's actually very quiet but like when I was working in London it was carnage like I don't know what it's like now for people in those sorts of jobs but um oh I would just be hung over all the time drunk all the time like over indulging in food because you'd be out at lunches and oh just by the time Christmas was there I was like I don't want to see a piece of cheese yeah i'd have i've had about five cheese

balls already you know yeah but it's hard as well because there's so many like there's not that many weekends before christmas and all like your christmas dues are done like in those couple of short weekends beforehand uh we do the staff one actually in january i think next year i'll do it in november but we do do it in January because it's just too chaotic for us. But yeah, it is an intense time of year, definitely. But I am choosing to not make it that way. Even like spending money,

like I obviously with my sister's kids, like what they want for Christmas. I was in Primark a couple of days ago. It's called Napa, isn't it, Primark? The pricing days ago it's gone up isn't it Primark the pricing good I still been for a very long time not my mum right but honestly I was like god like pajamas uh maybe 14 pound or something oh really what were they before do you think like six quid or something yeah well I feel like when I was at school when I used to go to Primark with £10, I could get shoes, outfit. Yeah, you are right, actually.

A long time ago. Yeah. But, yeah, I was thinking I'll get bits and bobs in Primark. But actually, I'd say it's more like new look prices now. But, again, I'm out of touch. Obviously, I don't shop here anymore. So when I do, I'm like, oh. Yeah.

But, yeah, so I was sort of getting bits for the kids. And then it's like, oh, God, have I got enough for getting bits for the kids and then it's like oh god have I got enough for them are they all gonna like it and you know especially when there's quite a few of them yeah yeah because I've obviously always had small people to buy for which I do love but we've stopped doing secret center as the adults which is nice we was just like let's just focus on the kids which is quite good Yeah. We've done the same thing actually. Yeah. Yeah.

Definitely. Now that this kid's involved. But yeah, I find, I find at this time of year, right. So I will hold my hands up and say, I am a bit of a shopaholic.

I always have been. I like nice things. I like to indulge and I like to treat myself. I am. I have always been like that I'm a little bit less now because of having the girls um but I do really love love shopping love it yeah love it online I don't even need to be in to me it's dangerous it is oh it's dangerous yeah it's everywhere and it's all my favorite brands doing all these discounts and i'm just like oh my god maybe i need this because it's on offer and you know you have to go into

black friday i think and i have done this before quite strategically. I'll have like, like last year when I was pregnant, I knew exactly what I wanted to get in Black Friday for then having babies. So I was very good last year with it. Whereas this year, I haven't really thought about it and it's come around and all of a sudden I'm like, oh fuck, I need to get this or get that. And I'm like, no, rein it in. Yeah, that and I'm like no rain it in yeah I don't

get sucked into Black Friday to be honest my mum's like you're not much of a shopaholic I'm not in all honesty like something because as I've got older I actually have less stuff and most also because you're traveling around a lot yeah and I feel like most of the nannies I think in Springs and Jumeirah Islands have my clothes now from my friend. Yeah. All Cherry's Bates, actually. Yeah. They've all got my fake stuff from the dodgy man.

No, I've got rid of loads of stuff, but I don't get too sucked into it because I don't even know if the deals are actually real. I'm not always sure. I think some of them are. I got my fake new balance trainers from Kuala Lumpur which cost me like 15 pound and I got rid of them and I was I'm actually going to get a new pair and there is a good like 20% off on that office or shoe so I will get them for my Christmas presents myself or mum said she'll get it for me but yeah it's yeah I just sort of yeah I don't get too sucked into it girl but I understand you like your brands though you like nice nice brands

then they cost more so that 20% could really make a difference yeah exactly yeah I literally last gone now so what are you getting the girls for christmas are they um i mean i'm looking at something that we've bought them now it's just like shit to be honest no just like little like books bath toys um nothing much like i mean i say that i'll probably get a bit excited but um i want to get them like a big cardboard box yeah wrap it i want to get them like um just sensory things like i'm even going to get them like a water bottle and just fill it with rice yeah love it i'm not going to go like i'm not going to spend loads on them because it's absolutely pointless um but i'm just going to get them a couple of bits like that yeah um because their

birthday is not that long after anyway yeah that was um yeah so um I'll make probably more of a fuss when it comes to their birthday as well because they don't really need like clothes or anything like that um so yeah I've actually just put eight bags worth of clothes ready to donate oh that's good yeah and I found a really nice um lady who is from the Philippines who is six months pregnant with a girl oh I love that love when that happens yeah I was like do you need this and do you need this and do you need this and she was like oh my god yeah thanks so much oh that's nice that's nice that makes me feel good um but yeah so that's probably what I'll get them and then me and andy don't

really ever do considering i'm saying that i love spending money i don't actually like other people really spending it on me so um i won't ask him for anything like substantial um like i've said to him i really want a new notebook because i fucking love a notebook you know i'm like yeah i love a notebook going into the new year fresh one um i needed a new water bottle things like that i've got a new stanley cup actually from primark it's like obviously fake i'll show you on the camera sam but it's a smaller one smaller one it's good because the big one like anyone has got a stanley cup like mine are always always now make the smaller ones oh do they they do they do make a smaller one my wrist holding that all the time so i have actually said to him that i want the real stanley one because of course you do my girl but no there

is a reason behind it i got mine off amazon thinking it was just whatever but it's not good it's not good like it spills it's not yeah it's not proper I need like a proper one and I do actually use that all the time so I do actually drink more when I have a stand of course you do like yeah absolutely when you've got like a proper water bottle with like a straw or keeps it cold you do definitely but yeah I want a new big one and then I'll get a smaller one as well yeah eventually because a big one you can have at home but when you're sort of going about it's just a small one is good I've got my nieces matching one so they'll be happy I just love it it's a really nice baby pink it's like my favorite shade of pink and you know when you see

it and you're like that is mine stunning I say do you know what don't buy much nowadays but i will get that good i buy tarot cards and crystals and books and cups now yeah yeah yeah i actually bought um have we spoken since i went to bali yeah what did you buy oh you bought your tarot no we have bought tarot cards you did buy tarot cards in Bali yeah so have we done this podcast since I was in Bali then no I don't think we have no we've spoken about it but yeah yeah yeah but not on the podcast so um Bali was incredible I'm literally just checking that we definitely haven't I don't think we have have we no because we had a break because you was in Bali and I was in Sri Lanka yeah yeah sorry guys so um Bali was incredible absolutely amazing I flew business class both ways wait you did say about manifesting business class I feel like no it was because

now I've seen it on your stories yeah yeah I just checked the date that we recorded last time we were all good and so I flew business class both ways I worked so hard to get those business class flights guys like I mean I manifested the shit out of that I have for a long time been working hard to get business class flights and um yeah made it happen basically um anyway so flew business class both ways I could have cried when I sat on the way there because I was so happy I was in my business class seat getting my champagne with a nine hour flight ahead of me I could have added an extra three hours onto that flight because I enjoyed it that much i absolutely loved it it was amazing um oh yeah just thoroughly enjoyed it and the actual trip when we were there was incredible like

it was like a bit of a dream to be honest the amount of money that went into that trip was insane it looked unreal there was lauren perrier champagne from an ice sculpture love that yeah and most people that were there were muslim and didn't drink so it was just like yeah literally uh oh it was incredible the whole thing was amazing i would have stopped my no alcohol for that 100 yeah absolutely yeah but i get really sick on champagne i get very drunk well funny you should say that because yeah I then had so I had this massive night out basically where it was just champagne constant constant constant with spicy margaritas to start which probably not a good combination either um and that night I woke up in the night and was violently sick, throwing up, which I can count on, I think, one hand how many times I have been sick as an adult.

By sick, I mean vomiting, not like under the weather. Like I'm never, ever really sick. And yeah, I was violently throwing up and I was like, oh, this is not good. But as much as I was drinking it sounds silly I wasn't drunk like I know what being drunk feels like obviously but I wasn't I was quite I was together I was drinking water in between I don't know anyway then oh sorry I was thinking that ice sculpture could have been well so I woke up and i was like this it's not good like i think i'm really not in a good way here and i text my mate that i've made on the trip called brogan i

text her and i said look i've been throwing up like this is really not good and she was like oh god no way that's not good about 10 minutes later she texted me going i am too that was it we had a group chat with everyone in this l'orereal trip. Everyone was dropping like fucking flies. It was insane. There was 200 people that went on that trip. Everyone got sick. That's just Bali though, isn't it? Bali belly, yeah.

So everyone got it. So my mate, who's probably listening, Sophie, who's a doctor in Dubai, was like, no, I think you just hung over. I was like, Sophie, there is 200 people here as sick as well as me I think I've got barley belly it's not from the champagne at all maybe it was a little bit induced by the champagne but you know anyway oh it's definitely barley belly it made me like giggle though not that you were ill because I used to be an event manager and that was in my corporate job and my boss was such a worrier and whenever I'd organize events

I would be like oh should we get like you know oysters and this and he'd be like Jess low risk of anyone getting ill like it used to he used to drum it into me so it would always be like boring chicken canapes or veggie canapes but I you know the thing is with Bali and even Southeast Asia it doesn't matter how organized anyone is you cannot avoid it unfortunately so honestly the places we were going to were like top five star places like it was insane and everyone got ill and so by that I'm meaning people who didn't drink people who did people who didn't eat the food when we'd gone out people who did like it was everyone got it so there was no real like oh it was the ice because you know I mean like it could have been anything yeah um so yeah so that was a

bit of a shame because then the next day they had so many things planned that all obviously nobody could go to so I was gutted about that but is what it is could have been worse at least it was all of you to give that yeah exactly you know what that helped because then I didn't have massive FOMO um but then when I flew home I managed to get business class again got the last seat which was insane um and that was beautiful getting to have that when obviously I'd not been very well. And I don't know if I said this to you. I think I might have done. This girl stopped me in her hostess. Told you this.

No. Have I not? Oh, my God. So funny, right? So she stopped me and she said, oh, I follow you on Instagram. And I was like, oh, like, no way. Thinking this is weird. This has never happened before. And she was like, yeah, like, no way. Thinking this is weird. This has never happened before.

And she was like, yeah, like I follow you on Instagram. I can't remember what else she'd said. Something else like nice. I don't know if she listens to the podcast. Maybe she does as well. And I know. Then she came back over to me later and she was like, oh, I bet you can't wait to get home to your babies.

And I was like, yeah, like, you know, it'd be nice. But I think my dog's missing me more. And she went, oh, my God, your dog's so cute cute and then chatting to me about that and she went you probably think I'm really weird like I know loads about your life but like you don't know who I am I was like no it's fine like she was so lovely she brought me like loads of extra treats and stuff like that as well which was dead cute um but that was a weird experience never had that before you're hitting that that celebrity level now babes on emirates business class look at you look at you because everyone who works on there lives in dubai so that's why oh my god i love that that was it was it was lovely to be

fair it was really nice it was very sweet it was just very surreal and funny to be honest um my sister was like i always knew you were going to be a celebrity I was like oh my god stop making me die cringe my mum says that she's a celebrity in my town when she goes to the supermarket because I've read for most of my town and mum goes I can't go out to town without someone telling me what you said and you were right that is so funny yes mum can relate to you I don't feel like a celebrity but mum does in the supermarket which it'll happen to you soon I'm sure oh I don't know if I want that babes I think I'm quite happy in my little bubble like when I was laying on the hammock being free I thought you know what this is. To be fair, when she had then stopped me,

I thought I've never looked rougher. Because obviously I was so ill from my bloody barley belly. She's a bit of a minger, this girl. Yeah. Bloody catfish. Filters on Instagram. Don't meet your idols. That's what they say.

Oh, God. But yeah, that was nice. So yeah, more trips like that, please come my way amen sister i think that we should um organize a spiritually speaking retreat next year somewhere oh shall we now honestly i think it will happen i would love to do that i would absolutely love to get a big villa in thailand yeah i mean a lot of our listeners though are between the uk and dubai so i feel like we could do it better yeah yeah let's do that greece is four hours from the uk and four hours from dubai yeah let's do that it also sorry to uh mention as well i forgot we did say that we're gonna try and get up and running a link an anonymous link aren't we yeah so soon we're gonna make a few

changes with the podcast whether it be like our social media we're gonna try and i'm gonna focus on that a little bit more and you know just different things that we're going to do going into the new year because obviously we're coming up to a year of recording believe it or not um and we are going to make a link an anonymous link that you can write on and you can either ask us questions or yeah we don't really know how it's going to go yet but we'll see who uses them what they say and then we'll just go from there because we know that obviously we know a fair few of our listeners whether it be that they're clients of my salon or jess has read for you um so by making it anonymous we think that we'll get more um yeah we're gonna we want it well what i want is like an agony on

sort of sick yes that's what i'm thinking i don't even know if these words I'm saying all right section sector whatever you know I mean yeah and you submit what's going on and like we can either pull the cards we can give some advice or whatever it is because I've seen both Sam and I have such different perspectives which is helpful um so hopefully one of us will make sense to you you know yeah yeah exactly so yeah that is something that we really want to do especially going forward so when that is up and running we will let you know hopefully soon um and we are going to start recording once every two weeks instead of weekly um which is my fault everyone just it's not mine at all yeah Sam is hardcore I just mentally cannot do every week at the moment because I feel like I'm a little bit overwhelmed with capacity so

this is me making a change I'm really sorry because I think some of you will be sad some of you might not care some of you might be sad so I am sorry but I I'll give you a bit of a rationale to justify it not that I need to but I want to that I really want these episodes to be really juicy really good and I don't think I can give it my all right now every week where twice a month I'm here I'm dedicated and I want to have like more of the agony on staff I want to be able to really go deep into like a topic we want to have a really good catch-up so it might be that they're longer episodes um so that's kind of what I'm feeling but Sam I definitely pushed you out your comfort zone when I was like babes I'm really sorry I can

only do this right now I was literally thinking like of every reason every excuse to try and get you to get back to doing it weekly and I think we'll get back to doing it one day I do but yeah I'm I'm fine with that whatever works for you and you've got to do what's right so and it's not a permanent thing it's just for like right now while we're sort of, I just feel like at the moment in my life and in business, I'm having huge shifts and they're very, very positive and very productive. And I'm very grateful. So thank you, Spirit. But I'm overwhelmed and I've got to get it right. Well, I can get it wrong that's okay um but I've got to honor my time and everything right now because I want to do a good job and that's one thing about me is it's really important that I show up in everything I do and that's something that I'm having to work out a bit now because my demand is higher um which is a new thing for me because I've always just had a lovely amount of demand and now it's it's pushing me like while I'm in Dubai I think

I've got about five events already booked in from people and which is amazing and I'm so happy um and I've got clients and I've got all these things and I'm now on a new journey as a business woman of boundaries showing up and doing a good job in a more strategic way which is really exciting but also a little bit new yeah it is it's all new and yeah we're like I said at the beginning we're still figuring everything out so yeah um let's see how we go absolutely yeah like i say if we get that link up and running soon then please use it because we'd love to be able to help people and if anyone knows of a good way to do this anonymous i can never say the word link let me know because my thing was like maybe survey monkey but that feels a bit old school but i'm sure there's something that people can submit

like yeah I'll do a bit of research yeah as well so let us know um because you can get something from it as well like listening if you genuinely have a question or you're going through something but we love to help so like yeah absolutely get free Absolutely. I'd be submitting a question every week if I could. Yeah, same. We might get the same person every week. That's all right. We wouldn't even know anyway. We wouldn't know.

Yeah. So no, so some good guys. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I feel like we've touched on everything there. Yeah, that was lovely. Really nice to be back, Sam. I really enjoyed that.

So nice to be back. I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully I'll see you next week. No, the week after. sam i really enjoyed that be back i'm so glad you enjoyed it hopefully i'll see you next week that's it scrappy every week twice a week all right then guys so we will see you in two weeks yes yeah that's we're gonna do sagittarius that's gonna be our last zodiac because we've done you all after yes yeah we're gonna do Sagittarius that's gonna be our last zodiac because we've done you all after that so we're gonna shift the topics as well um still spiritual still real life um but we're gonna be yeah changing things moving forward expanding evolving shifting moving on

we are all good it's gonna be amazing i'm very excited yeah right we're gonna wrap it up before we start getting delirious yeah we are thank you so much for listening to us waffle on for the last hour or so and we have absolutely loved being back and please please please don't forget to like rate like like rate and subscribe to the podcast it really does help us and follow us on instagram we are at spiritually speaking underscore podcast i am at hair by samantha green and she is at jessica marie underscore holistic amazing babes well done well thank you everyone we love you loads thanks for just you know waiting for us for five weeks we appreciate it and see you in two weeks time love you