I was recently asked the best question I’ve been asked in a long time…
By a new client of mine…
“Are we meeting in person and actually doing a ‘hot lap’ or is it a zoom meeting?”
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This was in reference to our upcoming HOT LAP –
One of my 1:1 creative mentoring services.
This is my most favourite question because unfortunately no, it’s not getting in an actual car and going for a hot lap and it is in fact on zoom. Hot lap: it’s a play on words.
I guess my heart beamed at the question because you know, my people don’t believe in limitations and the fact that there was the question if it did involve actually getting in a sick car and going for a spin delighted the pants off me because my clients are my kinda people - and my kinda people don’t play in limitations, they play in that space where nothing is off the cards and everything is possible!!!!
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So why a hot lap?
What do I mean by that?
A couple of years ago I was driving my car up Arthurs Seat, the main lookout in my hometown. Matt & I were actually driving our kids to sleep and decided to go check out the sunset whilst we were at it.
When we stopped at the lookout both kids were asleep and that’s when I said to Matt, “you know this is the spot right? Like when you grow up on the ninch, this is the place a boy drives you up to when you’re a teenager and you look at the view and you make out…you know. So at any point you want to make out…I’d be fine with that.”
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So of course he doesn’t because you know, he always resists a pressured moment and only does things on his terms… He’s a Leo Sun after all.
So we sit for ten minutes and when we’re getting ready to head home for some reason we decide that he’s going to drive home. I start to get out of the car to walk around the back to the passenger side. I’ve hardly got out on the driver’s side when I notice he’s walking kind of quick towards me…
Next minute he’s pushed me up against the car and grabs me around the face and starts kissing me… like down my throat and presses his whole body into me…
And into the car…
I am washed with delight and surprise and also that sense of it’s so him…like he will do it on his terms…and like wow that’s so hot in a guy too…when he knows what he wants..and he grabs it…
…in his way.
Anyway he doesn’t let up and several cars driving round the corner toot us and I am just loving every second of it.
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We get back in the car and drive home and I can hardly wipe the smile off my face, constantly reliving the moment, over and over again.
It was one of the most cinematic experiences of my life haha!
So this was one of the initial seeds of idea for The Sovereign Creative film, which in it’s final form can be viewed here.
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Because I feel there is such a magnetism, to a woman who is turned on in her own creativity and I really wanted the film to capture that.
What transpired in the year following that event at the lookout lol was my brain ticking over, when I was driving places…this sense of expansion and creative freedom and connection to the divine that I feel whilst doing the very everyday, normal, mundane task of driving my car.
When I think back I have always felt this expansiveness…
I clearly remember driving home from my drivers licence test, car windows down, music blaring and just feeling ecstatic…just feeling like me, in my own energy, doing my own thing.
Freedom.
And whilst these days I can’t always blast it that loud with two young kids, I can still play it fairly loud hehe and it still offers me a connection to a place beyond limits…
My imagination.
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Rick Rubin spoke about this phenomena in his book…
The notion he had witnessed was artists feeling stuck in the recording studio… and the fact that he had many times suggested something like a drive in the car, to get the juices flowing again. Because with something like driving he described, your logical mind is taken care of in a way, because it is focusing on driving, yet because after you’ve been driving for a while it’s an automatic function, you don’t have to exert too much energy on it but it takes care enough of one side of your brain and so your more intuitive, creative side can flourish and take the lead.
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Some of my best ideas have landed on me whilst driving.
It is the place I often spend time in visions…it is a sacred space for me.
This is the overall energy I wanted to offer my community through The Sovereign Creative.
And when Spirit knocked on my door to offer 1:1 mentoring again, what naturally unfolded was that this would be from that car space too, since not only do I already have imagery for it but it felt again, like an exciting visual and experience to offer my community.
Not to mention, overwhelmingly authentic, because it arises from the deepest parts of me.
I love the idea of us jumping in the car together, to explore the desires of your soul, to play in the limitless space, to walk to a new lookout of your life.
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Some more words on the soul of this offering:
You want to bring your calling front and centre, yet you fear that will compromise your relationship or your family. Life pulses for your deep presence with loved ones; days & weeks float on by and the list of *other* tasks easily pile up.
Yet, your lifeforce beckons, it happens to actually be the axis on which your home spins. You bring it to the forefront and everyone wins, your home watered by the fruits of your courage and aliveness.
This is your legacy.
Mediocre was never going to be it. You always knew you were here for something greater, THE BIG DREAM THE BIG CALLING THE BIG RELATIONSHIP THE BIG CRAFT, THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL LIFE.
You are a witchy, creative, aspiring artist, writer, mumma, auntie, healer.
You are a craftswoman.
We can find ourselves wearing many different hats in our life but this gets to be that special place by the fire that is just for you! The air is crisp, a blanket wraps around your legs, you wear your favourite jumper, cuppa in hand, roasting marshmallows, giggling one moment, diving to the depths of soul wisdom the next.
This is the time & space where your soul has arrived
to feel confident in your craft,
to unapologetically establish boundaries,
to own your main character energy,
to trust your intuition over others,
to ignite your motivation and self discipline &
to have a sounding board for your life, family & business unfoldings.
The path can be lonely as you outgrow your current reality, you may not have anyone in your immediate physical sphere who really gets it. (After all, you are not like ‘everyone else’ ;)
You sense your path is taking you somewhere new, yet it will be closer to “home” than ever before.
Together we will revel as you walk your sovereign path, the one that only you can, unapologetically -
shoulders rolled back and down, heart open and toes tapping to the beat of your own god damn drum!
WALK TO THE LOOKOUT AND GAZE OVER THE VISTA YOU’VE CREATED OF:
UNSHAKABLE CONFIDENCE
ROCK SOLID BOUNDARIES
IGNITED CREATIVE FIRE
UNAPOLOGETIC EXPRESSION
PEACE IN YOUR HOME
& PEACE IN YOUR HEART
The finer details & to book your hot lap, head here.
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