Hello and welcome to the Cosmic Nomad.
I'm your host, Bailey Rushlow, and this is a space for the
curious and the heartland where we explore the human experience
through travel, nature, spirituality and real life
transformation through beautiful conversations.
As I discover my way of living what I call an inspired life, I
share the practices, stories, and perspectives that have
helped guide me back to myself. Hello everyone and welcome back
to the Cosmic Nomad. Today I am trying something new,
which is I don't have any notes and I'm not going to script this
out normally. I really like to take my time
making sure that all of my words are very intentional and
everything that I'm saying is something that could potentially
change someone's life. And I, I love that.
I love creating episodes with that kind of authenticity.
And today I'm going to be showing up in a whole new way,
which is just flowing. I'm going to tell you what
inspired this episode. OK so I've been having a couple
of dreams lately and I'm very big into my dreamscape.
I'm very big into writing down my dreams.
I've been documenting my dreams since I was, I don't know, 1617
even. I even have some dreams written
down from when I was a kid. I think that our dreams are ways
for our body to process subconsciously what's going on
to as well travel in the astral realm to experience new things
and or things that we've experienced before in the past,
maybe even past life experiences, future experiences.
I don't think time is linear. So I think there's so much to be
said for what we can tap into in the quantum and subconscious
realms. That said, I've been having some
dreams lately about having something that I'm preparing
for, Usually some kind of a performance musical theater
show. I was a theater kid, so
throwback to those days. Something that I'm getting ready
for and then something happens and I'm thrown off script or
something changes or I'm not prepared for something.
And I'm in this like flustered dream state and I wake up and
I'm like, what in the world? Why do I feel that I'm not
prepared? Why do I feel that I have to be
prepared as well that, you know, something it's so important
hinges on my ability to perform. And I realized that I think
there's a part of my subconscious that really just
wants to be so free that the idea of not being prepared is,
is actually really scary. Because freedom for me looks
like or has looked like, or I should say, one element of
freedom of how I've experienced freedom has looked like being
really prepared, showing up, well-being, perceived well and
leaving feeling like I did a good job and I'm proud of
myself. And I actually love that about
myself. I don't, I'm not saying that's a
bad thing. I am saying though, that I think
there's more that I want to experience in just improving.
And so that leads me into today's episode topic, which I
discovered with by sitting with a few of my friends today on my
couch and having a conversation about the podcast actually.
And I was like, guys, I need some new topics.
What is something new that I could record in today's episode?
So my friends were like, what if you talk about trying something
new, trying new things as an adult?
And I thought, wow, that's a great episode title and concept
to riff on. So thank you to my friends for
suggesting this great idea. It's interesting because as an
adult, we often think that we've done everything for the first
time. You know, think back on on the
things that you you've done for the first time, first time you
tried certain foods or smoked weed or had sex or traveled to
another country, right? Those are all big first time
things that maybe you experienced in your teens or or
early 20s or you know, you're still uncovering those things
now into your 30s, forties, 50s, whatever.
And I think that's incredible. And there are always so many new
things to experience, but oftentimes we just kind of do
the same thing in our lives over and over and over.
And I think there's a point where every day starts to look
very similar, if not the same. And I don't think that's bad,
but I do think that there's so much more that we can be
experiencing that could bring us a lot of joy that we might not
even know exists on the other side of being willing to try
something and being willing to be a beginner at something and
being willing to not be good at something that you might try for
the first time and not be perfect.
So I've decided that I am done being good at everything.
Not that I am or think that I am, but I, I want to find things
that I can actually be a beginner at again.
And there's so many reasons for for why, and I'm going to dive
into that. But yeah, so that's, that's
where we're at today. Welcome.
I hope that today finds you well.
I hope this episode finds you in a place where you're able to tap
into this info and receive it with an open heart and an open
mind. Curiously, and maybe we just
take a deep breath together and sync up our intention with just
being present. And I hope that something in
here will inspire you and spark you to do something this week
the for the first time. All right, so let's just take a
deep breath together. Inhale with me, hold it at the
top of the breath and exhale slowly.
Ready, beautiful.
Let's do a quick little body scan with me too.
Just the top of your head. Put your energy and your
intention there and just kind of scan down past your eyes, your
nose, your mouth, your neck, your chest, back, belly, soften
your belly, down through your pelvic bowl, your thighs, knees,
calves, feet. Just so much gratitude for the
body and all that it does for us to keep us alive, to keep us
moving, to keep us active, to keep us able to be here.
Someone was told me that the the body is the soul's opportunity
to be here and I love that and it's made me so grateful for my
body. And on that note, I'm going to
jump into something that really inspired me in the last couple
of weeks. Was going to the physiotherapist
for the first time. When we moved house, which we
moved a few weeks ago, I was doing a lot of bending and
squatting and lifting and carrying upstairs, downstairs,
and I kind of hurt my knee in that process and I dealt with it
for a couple of days. I iced it.
I ate an anti-inflammatory diet. I was doing the best that I
could to take care of it. It still was just really swollen
and hurt when I walked and clicked when I went upstairs.
Like I have this voice note on my phone.
It's literally making like a kind of sound when I walk.
And I was like, OK, we're going to have to do something about
this. And so a friend of mine
recommended a really great physiotherapist here in the
area. And I've never gone to anyone
like that. I've, I've been like, I guess
really lucky in my, in my body. I've never broken a bone.
I've never tore anything. I've, I've just been really
healthy and strong. And I'm so grateful for how well
my body is, has done in life. But, you know, came to a point
where I needed some support. And I'm so grateful that I was
able to book with someone and get in the next day.
And he evaluated my my knee, my leg, my body, my back, my neck.
Like, he wasn't just focused on my knee.
And all of my intention had been on my knee.
There's a problem with my knee. I need to get my knee fixed.
All the stuff. And he was looking at me
holistically through the view of someone who sees, you know, the
whole body. And he was such a great doctor
that he was actually teaching me what he was doing while he was
doing it. And through a series of
modalities from chiropractic to acupuncture to fascia release,
on top of just his knowledge as a physiotherapist overall, he
was able to tell me exactly what needed to happen with my knee,
my legs, my body, my muscle groups.
And it kind of blew my mind. So before I was struggling and
thinking, I can fix this by myself.
And then I was put into kind of a vulnerable situation of like,
I can't fix this by myself. I need support.
And I did something new for the first time, which was take
myself to a doctor's appointment.
Like I've been to dentist appointments alone, but I've
never actually been to the doctor by myself.
I've always gone with somebody. So this was this was this was a
cool and new experience for me as an adult to feel like
supported in this. And I'm actually going back
tomorrow that he can check some other things out in my body and,
and bring even deeper healing and awareness.
So that's an example, small, small example, not as fun and as
some of my other examples, but very interesting and very, very
honest. You know, another first time
thing that I did this week was I made yogurt Crazy, crazy.
I know, I know. But yo, I don't think I'm ever
going to have to buy yogurt again.
I learned how to do it from a tick tock video thought you know
what I'm going to try and if it fails, that's okay.
And if it does great, then I have yogurt and I have yogurt.
I've been eating my own yogurt all week because I may love to
make like yogurt bowls in the morning.
I was surprised how easy it was. So if you're interested in
making yogurt, seriously, check out some some videos on how to
do that because it's very simple.
And I felt like I was a kid again.
I felt so excited. Another thing that I've been
trying is sculpting. I've been going to ceramics
classes and I found this place here through a friend of mine
that is having classes once a week and it's 2 hours of free
sculpting time. Oh no, it's not free.
You do pay for it, but it's a free sculpt.
You sculpt whatever you want and there's teachers there that can
walk you through the process if you feel like you need support
or help on figuring out how to make something.
But I had no idea how it would go because I'm used to working
with clay, but like polymer clay or air dry clay.
I've never done ceramics that like go into a kiln and are
fired and you place them and like all that stuff.
So that was really awesome. And I definitely felt like a
total beginner and I had a great time and I found a few people
that like all wanted to go. So we all went together and
honestly it was amazing. And I felt like I was playing on
a play date and I wasn't amazing at it.
I definitely made some mistakes and one of my pieces actually
cracked in the kiln, so I need to do that different next time.
But it was so much fun that I didn't even mind that it has a
crack in it, you know? And that's, I think that's when
you know you really enjoyed doing something is when it
didn't even matter that that something went wrong.
In fact, it made it even better or like the imperfection
actually made it even more endearing in some way.
So that leads me to 2 days ago, 2 days ago I did something that
I never thought that I would do, which is Kung Fu.
I don't know if that's what you thought I was going to say.
If you watch my Instagram stories then maybe you already
knew, but wow. So a friend of mine in my town
said, hey, there's a Kung Fu master that's coming from Mexico
City. He wants to start teaching
classes here. If you want to take some classes
with me, let me know and I'll set it up.
And I was like Kung Fu, like I don't know why.
Why would I do? Why would I do that?
That was my first thought was like, why would I do that?
And then I thought, well, why wouldn't I?
I was like, it's Kung Fu. Like what?
I don't know, it's just some martial art.
Kung Fu Panda. Everybody loves Kung Fu
fighting. Hoo ha, you know, I don't know,
like it just it didn't spark me, but I didn't really know why it
didn't spark me. It just didn't spark me because
I didn't know much about it didn't spark me because I don't
know. I've just, I've never done a
martial arts and my, my, my instinct is to say no to
something like that because what, what am I going to do with
that in knowledge that information like I'm just going
to be probably be bad at it and then have to learn how to be
good at it. And it's going to be this whole
thing. It's just easier for me to not
do that. It sounds ridiculous.
I know how it sounds. OK, but I'm walking you through
my process because unashamedly, I hope that you can relate in
some capacity and I hope that you feel called out just a tiny
bit because I'm calling myself out right now for my process of
not being willing to try something new.
Like what? What, what, what are we doing
out here if you're not willing to try something new?
So I said, you know what? I'm going to try it for a month,
see what I think. It's two classes a week, 2 hours
per class outside in this palapa area and we'll see how it goes.
So 2 days ago I showed up for my first ever Kung Fu class, me and
four other adult women and our male teacher and we actually had
an amazing time. The one thing that I wish I'd
done differently was not eat like 30 minutes before.
So I ended up feeling pretty nauseous about an hour in, which
was totally on me. Absolutely my fault, but Oh my
gosh, I was doing things that I didn't even know I could do.
I was doing stretches and movements and motions and flow
that I have never done in my adult life.
Probably haven't done that kind of movement since I was a kid.
Not that I did Kung Fu as a kid, but you know, Kung Fu is.
So there's a lot of obviously intensity and intention and
you're very aware of the energy, but as a kid you have that same
kind of flow and movement and patterns and dance.
And I don't know, I, I really felt like I was almost tapped
into my inner child essence in a way, which was really cool to
experience. I did not expect that.
And I, I really enjoyed it. I also woke up the next day
incredibly, incredibly sore. So today, it's been 2 days.
So today I woke up even more sore than I did yesterday.
Like I have parts of my body aching that I, I don't even
think about. Like like certain muscles in my
back that I'm like, I don't even know if I've ever moved that
muscle before intentionally, you know what I mean?
And yeah, I don't know where this is going to lead me.
I don't know that I'm going to become a Kung Fu master, but
that's not the point. The point is that I tried
something new and I wasn't incredible at it, but I had a
fucking good time. I had fun, I enjoyed myself, I
laughed with my friends. I was sweating head to toe and
I've been drinking so many fluids the last two days to make
sure that I'm staying extra hydrated.
So it made me even more aware of my body.
It brought awareness to joints and muscles that I'm usually
unaware of. I mean, that's really cool.
I'm really grateful for that. So these are just a couple of
examples of some things that I've tried in the last couple of
weeks that are totally new for me, like I've never done them
before. And I look forward to seeing
what else I can do for the first time.
And that's a big part of something I'm excited about in
my 30th year. So I haven't talked about this
yet, I think, but in January, I am turning 30.
I'm entering my next decade. I am leaving my 20s behind me
with so much left of and stepping into my 30s and a new
decade, a new, a new era. And I'm really feeling called
toward new experiences and things that I've never done
before and things that I might not be good at and things that
I'm not prepared for. And I'm I'm starting to realize
that that is so cool. It's very liberating.
I want joy to be the pinnacle of these experiences, over mastery
and over perfectionism. And I don't know, I think that
it doesn't need to be impressive, it just needs to be
liberating. And I think that perfectionism,
it really blocks us from learning new things.
A friend of mine has a baby and she's the only baby that's in my
life currently. And I, I love her.
We spend time, time together and whenever she comes over,
whenever I'm around her, she's she is always evolving and
learning something new. Like from one week to the next,
she's not crawling and then she's crawling and she's like
unable to, you know, track people with her eyes.
For example, when she was a little baby, you know, babies
can't really track your eyes. And then weeks later, she's
tracking my eyes with her eyes. And I'm thinking, wow, your
development is so visceral. It's so beautiful.
And it's a mirror of what I went through as a baby, what you went
through as a baby, Right? I was holding her in my house
the other day and my cat came in and I was like, Oh my gosh, have
you ever met a cat? Would you like to meet a cat?
So we introduced the baby to the cat, the cat to the baby.
Then the whole introduction was really cute and I thought, wow,
this might be your first time meeting a cat or even an animal.
And that's might just seem silly to someone else.
But to me, that was really intriguing to consider how often
we are so celebratory of babies and kids and even even young
adults and teenagers and trying new things.
And then when you're an adult, we kind of get like shamed for
it in some way. I don't know, I feel like our
culture kind of shames beginners.
And I think that's really sad. And in order to break that
stigma, we have to be willing to try new things and to not be
good at it. And I don't know, I I met an
adult that was learning to ride a bike for the first time and.
For some people, their first thought might be, Oh my God,
you've never ridden a bike before.
You're 30 years old, you know. But for me, I immediately
thought, I wonder if she ever had anyone in her life that was
able to teach her how to ride a bike.
Because for me, I had two parents.
They taught me how to ride a bike when I was, you know, 7 or
whatever. So I grew up knowing, but that's
assuming that someone has a support system or structure or
friends or community or grandparents or whoever that
would have taught them these things.
And for a lot of people, that's just not the case.
Someone that doesn't know how to cook, are we going to shame them
for not knowing how to cook? Are we going to encourage them
to take a class or to watch some TikTok videos and learn some
basic recipes or even teach them ourselves?
It's so beautiful. We're, we're, we're never too
old to learn how to do new things.
And I, you know, I think that actually being bad at something
is actually like a spiritual practice in a way, because you
have to confront all of your demons in your mind and in your,
in the, in the experiences that you've had in the past that are
screaming at you, saying you are going to be laughed at, you are
going to be made fun of. You are not good at this.
Why are you trying something new?
Go to something that's familiar, go to something that you already
know you're good at and get that, you know, boost and feel
like you're in your comfort zone and your safety lane.
But something cool is that, you know, trying new things actually
helps you break old patterns. And our minds are constantly
wired to seek novelty. And novelty actually boosts
dopamine and neuroplasticity, which keeps you young and your
mind agile. And it also shakes you out of
living your life in autopilot. And I think it's, it's, you
know, it shows the nervous system.
And I have a whole episode about that, about living life on
autopilot and things you can do to create neuroplasticity in
your world, which essentially means you are changing your
brain chemistry to be more expansive to new experiences.
And through new experiences that you're able to build new neural
pathways in your mind. And this creates entire new
realities for you to experience, which is just so beautiful.
And it teaches the body that we are allowed to explore.
We are safe to explore. And I think there's something
also really beautiful about doing something because your
soul wants a new experience. That's what I'm feeling the call
toward in the pull toward as I get closer to my 30th birthday
is new experiences because my soul wants them.
And I've had so many new experiences in the last years,
from traveling the world, traveling to, I don't know, 1718
different countries, being in all kinds of different
circumstances. From being robbed and having my
van broken into, to being put in jail in Asia, van lifing across
Europe to wild camping in Scotland, traveling with my
sister and meeting my best friends all around the world.
I mean, I, I've done some incredible things and, and I'm,
I feel that my soul is definitely one of a visionary,
one of something that I, I do, I crave new experiences, but I
also really do care about how I am perceived.
And it's something that I, I had to really adjust my relationship
to in the last years and something that, yeah, I, I
constantly have to work on, to be honest.
And something that really shifted it for me was leaving
my, the religion of my youth, religion of my life.
I was deep, deeply rooted in evangelical Christianity for 24
years. And I have other episodes about
that. I'm not going to go into that
right now. But one of the biggest changes
that I, that I made in that journey and, and was so
difficult for me with how I was perceived was because I knew
that the people who were still in this religion and this way of
life and this culture that I came from would not understand
me anymore. And that was really scary
because I felt like all of a sudden I was speaking a new
language and they didn't know that language.
And it made me feel very like isolated and, and, and a bit
scared, but also fully liberated for maybe the first time in my
life because I was following my soul's calling instead of what I
had just been conditioned to believe was true or not true
about the world and about myself.
So trusting your own curiosity and letting your desire lead you
to that next version of yourself is something that I, I deeply
encourage anyone to do and to step into, even if it's scary.
And this, this could mean trying something physically new for the
first time. Like maybe this inspires you to
take a ceramics class or try Kung Fu or learn how to swim or
book a flight somewhere, or learn a new instrument.
It doesn't even have to be something that costs something
either. It can be something completely
free, like I'm going to learn how to meditate.
So I'm going to watch some YouTube videos that maybe give
me some instruction or some guidelines on how I can best do
this and support myself in this new practice.
Or I, I literally, literally, I could go on such a a list here,
but I'm going to spare you and just encourage you to go to
YouTube and find something you want to learn how to do.
This is where I have learned how to do so many things, including
most of my music skills. I mean, I did take piano for
many years, but I also learned a bit of guitar, ukulele mixing,
how to record music in my interface that I have, how to
make certain things out of clay, how to crochet, how to sew
different things, how to make kombucha, how to make yogurt,
like you name it and you're going to find it.
So this is this is not mean. Oh my God, I'm going to have to
go, you know, break the bank by learning new things because
Bailey said I have to go expand my sold mission.
I'm not saying that if something calls to you and you want to
figure out how to find a teacher or a class, please do.
Please find a way of doing that. And, you know, there's also a
lot of creative ways that you can do this.
Maybe if you know someone that is really good at, you know,
sewing, for example, and you want to learn how to sew.
If you can't afford classes, that is OK.
If there's an opportunity for a barter and trade, ask for it.
If you don't know if there is, ask for it anyway.
I have literally asked people that I wanted to learn things
from that I didn't know how to do and couldn't afford.
Hey, I'm really interested in what you have to teach.
I am unable to afford it at this time.
I know how to do blank fill what what whatever that thing is that
you are good at and ask if it might be interesting to the
other person if they'd be willing to trade skill knowledge
with you and you teach them how to do something they teach you.
Of course, this isn't going to work with everything and I
definitely do believe in paying people for their time and for
their skills that they are going to be teaching you, but you
never know, like get creative with it.
I would say that interning is also a really great way to learn
things like, hey, you know how to do, I don't know, teach this
language or cook this thing. Can I come and shadow you?
Can I come intern with you? Can I come clean all the dishes
and watch you cook every meal and learn for myself from you
how to do things? The mentorship model, having
elders in our life that we can learn things from, right?
So there are so many opportunities waiting right
around the corner for whatever you are interested in and
intrigued by. So don't let money stop you if
it is a question, You know, I think that joy is really one of
the most important things in our life.
And not just happiness, not just being happy or appearing happy,
but true joy and doing something for the sake of doing it.
And you know, these tiny choices that prioritize our joy, they
really ripple into our whole identity.
And it reminds us that life is not just about work or healing
or self improvement, but play. You know, I don't think adults
play enough. Again, I have a whole episode
about this, about creativity and and tending to your inner child.
And play is how children learn. And I don't know why we think
that we are any different, but we are really just children in
big adult bodies that sometimes need to go to the
physiotherapist because we hurt our knees.
It brings us back to wonder and humility and, and humor and
softness. And I think we need to lose our
ego when it comes to being a beginner, being open to
instruction, being teachable, you know, because it pushes you
to meet the edge of your insecurity, your fear, your
identity. And I think it's, it's beautiful
to trust the process of showing up without knowing the outcome.
My Kung Fu experience, for example, I am just showing up.
I, I have no idea what I'm doing, but I, I don't know the
outcome, you know, but I'm showing up and I'm letting my
body learn a new language, literally a new way of moving, a
new way of working with energy. And I'm, I'm intrigued.
I don't know if I'm going to stick with it for, for a long
time. I have no idea.
It could be a consistent part of my life, the rest of my life.
It also could be for this season.
As I say that I stretch my legs and I'm like, Oh my God, they're
so heavy and aching. Everything in me is aching.
But you know what? I've got a big smile slapped on
my face and I'm still here recording this podcast with my
turmeric tea next to me. So I don't know.
It teaches us to be, to be humble and to laugh, you know,
And even this example of the Kung Fu practice, it's kind of
woken me up to new muscles in my body and deeper awareness when
I'm cooking and I'm I'm fermenting things like I make
sauerkraut and kefir and kombucha.
This connects me to my ancestry and ancestral methods of
connecting to food and our ability to heal ourselves and
our gut by intuitively learning and being being available to
these simple ancestral ways of life.
And, you know, I've definitely messed up a few times where I
let the kombucha sit too long and it turns to vinegar and
you're like, OK, well, now I know not to do that.
Or I left my kombucha over the summer for a few months in a, in
a container, which you're allowed to do.
It's kind of like making a Scooby hotel.
If you're a kombucha maker, that's hilarious.
If you're not, never mind. It's a little bit gross, but it
got infested with these little tiny beetles.
So I came back from the summer and all of my kombucha making
things were ruined. I was like, Oh my gosh, this is
so disappointing. So I had to throw everything
away, but it's OK. I started over and now my
kombucha is better than ever and and it tastes great because I
I've learned through the process, you never know what
these things that we feel called to will connect us to in our
self. And I think that there's an
identity shift that happens when you start thinking, I am someone
who tries things like this just rewires yourself concept.
There is a confidence that grows from experimentation, I think.
And it supports your intuition and your creativity and maybe
even your business. And I don't know, I just think
it keeps life really interesting.
So I extend this query to you of what do you want to try next?
Whatever comes to mind, go for it.
Is it a new movement practice? Is it a martial arts?
Is it a type of dance? Is it singing?
Is it music? Is there an instrument that is
always called to you? I remember growing up in my
town, a lot of music stores do this.
They do music instrument rental periods.
So for example, I really wanted to learn the cello, but I wasn't
going to go spend thousands of dollars and buy a cello.
Plus they're so big and I really wanted to make sure I liked it
first. So rather than just saying, oh,
wish I could play the cello, but I'm never going to buy one, blah
blah blah. My music store had the
opportunity to rent one for a couple of months and it was
really cheap. Like, I don't know, 30-40 bucks
a month or something to, to rent a whole instrument.
So I brought it home and I practiced it and I really liked
it, but I, I felt that it wasn't quite my instrument.
But I never would have known if I hadn't tried it.
And maybe I'll try it again sometime in the future, you
know, But there's so many opportunities.
Maybe you're interested in cooking, becoming a better,
better cook with, with even more recipes under your belt.
Maybe baking, maybe a type of sport.
What kind of sport are you into? Have you, do you know how to
swim? Have you ever wanted to learn?
So my partner Philip, he leads scuba diving trips around the
world. And if you're interested in any
trips, by the way, or scuba diving in general, check them
out. It's at dive instructor Phil on
Instagram. So Philip was leading these
trips and he got some messages from people that were like, Hey,
we would love to come diving, but we are from India or China
and we, we don't know how to swim.
And I remember the first time he told me that and I was thinking,
they don't know how to swim. Like who?
How do you not know how to swim? Because I, I grew up swimming.
I grew up on swim team. I was always, always in the
water. So for me, an adult not knowing
how to swim is a bit odd. And I quickly corrected myself
when I realized that a lot of people in other countries,
especially places in in Asia, India, China, specifically
India, a lot of the rivers are not clean.
So you're unable to just learn how to swim like I would have.
And pool culture isn't really a thing.
And quickly realized, wow, not everyone has had the same
opportunities that I've had. Not everyone grew up in the same
culture or way of life that I had, right?
So do you want to learn how to swim?
It's not too late. Maybe there's another sport that
intrigues you, Volleyball or football, soccer.
I don't know, something that could inspire you.
Pickleball. That's really fun.
You should try pickleball. Maybe it's something more in the
creative field, maybe around videography, photography, art in
some way, painting, sculpting, creating with your hands.
Maybe it's a digital art, maybe it's a graphic designer media of
some sort, I don't know. Whatever it is, these are these
are these are just invitations for you.
Pick something that you've been curious about because if it
sparks you following that joy and that spark, it is a part of
the spiritual journey. It's beautiful.
It's a profound, it's exciting and it probably would have lit
you up as a kid. And I like to think that little
me, little Bailey at like, I don't know, 7-8 years old.
If I told her, hey, guess what? We're going to try Kung Fu this
week, she'd be like, whoa, no way.
You're going to be like Kung Fu Panda.
I'm like, yeah, dude, I totally might be.
And she'd be like, yo, that's so cool.
You should totally do it. If I told her, hey, I think I'm
going to learn how to swim and I didn't already know as a kid,
she'd be like, whoa, swimming is so beautiful.
You're going to be mermaid, right?
Like imagine telling your inner child you're going to go do
something for the first time that is totally weird, totally
cool, totally unique and totally you.
I guarantee you they're not going to be like, that's so
weird. Why would you try that?
Like they're they're going to be stoked for you.
So that's really all that I have to share today.
I hope that something here was inspiring to you.
I hope that you feel turned on by the ideas that I hope that
you feel turned on in your mind by the I.
I hope that you feel turned on by life and by the possibility
that you can still be and go and do whatever it is that's in your
heart. It is never too late to try
something new, and if you're interested in taking this to the
next level, I would love to have you join me on the Cosmic Nomad
Collective, which is my private online space on Patreon.
It's $8 a month. We've got guided monthly
meditations, gratitude practices, voice memos from my
kitchen. It's a behind the scenes way for
you to be more involved in my life and also to support the
podcast and my creative work. So I would love if you have have
learned anything from those podcasts and you would like to
be a part of supporting me in some capacity.
That's an incredible way to do it.
Another way that you can support is also by listening to my
music. If you didn't know, I create
music online, acoustic covers that become the soundtrack to
your memories. And to big moments in your life,
I hope. And yeah, you can find those all
available online under Bailey Rush Low, anywhere you listen to
music. I hope that they inspire you and
they make you feel deeper into yourself and guide you back to
your soul and back to your to your journey every time that you
listen. Thank you for joining me on
today's episode. I'm grateful that you've been
here. If you have any episode requests
or ideas, please send them my way at the Cosmic Nomad Podcast
on Instagram. Shoot me a message and I will
see you guys next Tuesday. As always, open heart, open
mind. Stay curious.