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Ladies and gentlemen, good day wherever you're from, whatever you're doing, and welcome back to another episode of Rise from the Ashes podcast. I'm your host, bass Porter, and it is a privilege and an honor to introduce my next guest, barrick. Now. Barrick has an amazing story. I'm going to let him share it with you. In all I ever do, I'm going to hand it over to him, barrick, welcome to the world. Please share your voice, stand up and be counted.
Speaker 2:Thank you first of all, so much for having me Bass. It's truly an honor. L CEO and spiritual thought leader of FemiGod. I created this company to help women find their inner divinity. After studying in different esoteric orders and esoteric schools, I really realized that there was a big gap for women to have a community where they could uplift each other and to help you support each other while they explore all aspects of spirituality in a safe place. So we created FemiGod to really allow them to come together, uplift each other and explore spirituality and ascend on their journey, and our goal is to help raise the vibration of the planet. We figure if we can help the women get to where they want to go and ascend, the men will follow, and we just want to create a safe environment where women could feel comfortable exploring their spiritual aspects of themselves Awesome.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, Barrick. You mentioned that you provide a platform, but how did you come into doing what you're doing today?
Speaker 2:I studied esoteric sciences since I was little. I was very fortunate to have many good teachers along the way and some incredible minds that had incredible understandings of the cosmos and its working. In esoteric science and I was fortunate enough to just be like a sponge and try and soak it up and get as much information as I could. For my teachers and they really embraced me At such a young age they were really fascinated with my not only understanding but willingness to really be open to this information and willingness to explore these different realms of reality. So they really embraced me and as I grew up and got older, I started seeing that there was a need for more of a bigger community for women. There were so many different orders and organizations for men that they could come together and support each other and uplift each other, and even the co-ed orders were very male dominated and there was just really nothing for women that allowed them to tap into these esoteric sciences and explore all aspects of their reality. It's so important because the mystical energy, the magical energy, is a divine feminine and so women are naturally aligned to that. So when they don't explore that and they don't really get an opportunity to tap into the aspects of themselves, then they can't cognize their inner divinity and a lot of bad things start happening because they don't really have knowledge of self and understand who they are, and they can pass that on to their kids. They'll become generational curses and generational burdens that they have to overcome, and if we can just get the women to realize who they are, then the men will naturally follow.
Speaker 2:The woman is the first teacher and you're taught by your mother when you're in the womb. Most people are braised by their mother, mostly while their father's working or they're out the most. The first early lessons they're getting are from their mothers, and so it's very important that women have this position to where they can really give their children and give the rest of the world the natural, the natural intelligence they need to survive and thrive, to build themselves up and create the life that they desire for themselves and that really get in line with universal cosmic order and being harmony with the cosmos. Because everything ebbs and flows and if you're not moving with this cycle, then you're out of rhythm with nature and everything else will fall. Everything else will crumble if you're not in rhythm with nature.
Speaker 1:I like that. Thank you very much for that explanation. There's a lot of our readers or listeners and readers, because you can read the podcast as well now that are fascinated with overcoming adversity. Can you share a time with the audience that you shared, that you came over adversity and how did that affect and ultimately turn into an opportunity for you on your career or in your personal life?
Speaker 2:For me. I think we constantly start to struggle with adversity. I think adversity is the resistance in life that allows us to grow. So, for me, a big part of my struggle is what's coming to terms with my inner divinity and really knowing who I am and knowing that I'm an aspect of the Creator manifesting the flesh like we all are. And that took a lot of struggle for me, because we have all these things telling us that we're just human beings and we're so finite and we don't have any kind of power or true responsibility. And then we have an aspect of ourself deep down inside that is the Creator, that's infinite, that's connected to infinite awareness and the cosmos, and so we really.
Speaker 2:For me, trying to balance the two was a struggle, and eventually you get to a point, to where you have to choose Do you want to be in a human existence or do you want to be in a Creator existence? Are you going to identify with your human side or your Creator side? And that was a real challenge for me really understanding am I this little thing or am I this infinite thing? And once I really got past the barrier of understanding, I'm a spiritual being having a human experience and not just a human, stuck out somewhere in the middle of the cosmos with all alone isolated, things started coming together. For me, things started making sense because when you start to identify with that Creator aspect of yourself and that divine aspect of yourself, things will naturally fall in line. Whatever you identify with, whatever it's a father, a brother, a husband, mother you're naturally going to carry out that path. You're naturally going to do the actions of that role. And so when you start to identify with the Creator aspect of yourself, you're naturally going to start doing the actions of that role and you're going to hold yourself to a much higher standard or much higher accountability, and your actions are going to start to change. And for me, that's what began to happen.
Speaker 2:Once I really started to identify as a Creator, as a divine being, then I really was able to start to create the things I wanted in my life and achieve the things that I wanted and really get to the places that I was destined to go, whether it was understanding different esoteric knowledge or really being able to bring people together to help them understand their own divinity.
Speaker 2:Because that's what, when you're in that mode of thinking, you naturally get to be able to do those actions that mode of thinking carries out. So for me that was really like my big struggle, and sometimes I still struggle with it anyway, even though I know like I have a true grounding in my Creator consciousness. I think it's something, because it's easy to forget, it's easy to get caught up in this three dimensional world and think that this is all there is, there's nothing more to this, and once you really start to peel back the layers of who you are and see the divinity that's within, then you can begin to operate in a completely different way and manifest a completely new life for yourself.
Speaker 1:So, when you were going through this adversity and you've realized all of this and the aspects of the consciousness, they're all part of you. And I love what you said about becoming, from the recognition of you're not human but your spiritual being, living a human experience. And I've heard that many times before. If you're just listening to this now, it resonates with so many because as soon as you realize that it is, you are the experience. You are that spiritual being, although you're in a human form. When you switch it to the empowerment of that's what changes it. In combination with that, did you find any daily routines that you have that really set that into concrete to start your day off within that framework of you are a spiritual being, living that human experience?
Speaker 2:At first. Really, it's. For me, it was about reminding myself, setting up things in my life that would remind me of my own divinity. Because we forget, we go back to sleep. It's one thing to hear that your spiritual being living a human experience, it's one thing to resonate with that and it's a whole another thing to truly cognize that and understand that. Until you get to that point of cognition, you have to steadily create things in your life that will remind you of that, whether it be your meditation alter, your working alter, whether it be just reminding yourself, having other people remind you being in a high vibrational environment where people understand that. They don't look at you like you're crazy for saying that, and they get it because they're on the same path as well.
Speaker 2:I think surrounding yourself with like minded visuals is one of the key things. You know. That's why we created Femigate and that's why we felt it was so important, because it's like when you start to go through these spiritual experiences, you begin to feel very isolated, and this isolation can lead to depression and it can make you feel hopeless, because you feel like the world doesn't get you, because most of the people in the world are asleep. So when you can just having that other person that you can see in the physical that says yeah, no, you're right, you are, and agree with you and give you that reassurance so you don't feel like you're losing your mind, so you don't. When you're out in the cosmos and tapping into all these energies and entities, you can very quickly think you're going crazy and it becomes a deep rabbit hole you can go down. So it's like you need that reassurance from other individuals and you need that reassurance from yourself.
Speaker 2:A lot of times you're going to have to get that from other individuals until you can get it from yourself, because A lot of times we place our trust in other people. We value what our parents say, we value what our wife say, we value what husbands say, brothers, sisters, all that, and we put their opinion above ours. And so when you have these spiritual people around you that can confirm your experiences and say I've been through the same thing, it just it gives you a bit of relief to be able to say, hey, okay, I'm not going crazy, this is really happening. And then, as you get external validation, you can begin to internally validate and you can connect to whatever you're connecting to and know that this is real. This is true. I'm really connecting to higher sources, I'm really connecting to higher consciousness, and then you can begin to validate yourself and create your whole own paradigm that is unique to you, that will allow you to operate in a way that allows you to achieve the most success as possible in your life.
Speaker 1:I love that Many people identify the excess with other people. They become in a network of entanglement for pursuit of happiness. Now there's a saying on how you've heard it, barak you become the five most people you hang around with or you admire. Is there anyone that showed up in your life whether it be an old mentor, someone has passed or someone is present that you really aspired to be or to be acknowledged by in your life, to elevate what you're doing now and show up, but that you've modeled what they're doing? Is there anything, anybody like that in your life?
Speaker 2:Honestly, there's been so many people, I've had so many great spiritual teachers and I've learned so many great lessons from them.
Speaker 2:When I was about 21, I went to live with my godfather and he taught me many spiritual lessons and opened me up to different things. He really and it was at a time where I really felt like I was going crazy, and he confirmed spiritually a lot of the things I was going to. So it was like having that mentorship for somebody older that could validate the things you're going through was a tremendous help, and so that really allowed. It was like a springboard that allowed me to push forward and explore this more and more, because a lot of people around me were so asleep they couldn't understand what I was going through. They were so caught up in different religious aspects that they had no spiritual experiences and they had no reference for the things I was going for, because I was going through all these kind of very advanced spiritual things and so when I went to live with my godfather, I could study, I could do my rituals, I could meditate and train, and that really helped me. And I've had several mentors. I actually just did I'm doing a mentorship with Bobba Fatticea. He's a great mentor. He's really helped me ground myself and stabilize a lot of different energies that were coming in.
Speaker 2:I think that's an important thing, like getting with somebody that's been through what you've been through, that can validate your experiences Like it's intangible, it's so. You can't put a price on that, because when you're going through all these different kind of spiritual experiences and different realms in reality, like most people, just it's not anything that's shown on mainstream media, it's not anything that's really talked about. So it's like you think it's so far out of the realm of what everybody else is going through and it usually is, because most people are asleep. But when you can meet those individuals and come in contact with those individuals no, I've been through that too and I've experienced that too, and you're not going crazy. You're just opening up your channels to different spiritual energies, that you're tapping into your gifts and abilities. That's it's so reassuring.
Speaker 2:So having those mentors in my life really allowed me to take a step to the next level and really ground myself in those spiritual energies.
Speaker 2:Because once you can know and tell yourself that these things are true, all these experiences, that your experiences are true, once you really start to believe it, then the door starts to open up and you can walk through those and experience even more things and continue to raise your level and the sin.
Speaker 2:And so, as we go through this game of life, there's so many things that we're not tied and there's so many things that are never expressed to us about what's really going on in the universe and in the cosmos. So getting with those people that can validate those experiences, like they did for me, it's so important and I'm very thankful for all my mentors and I think without them I really wouldn't be in the place I was at. Whether some have told me I've gone very far, farter than even they've gone, but without their initial instruction I couldn't really get to those places because I didn't have the confidence necessarily to know that everything I was going through was reality, form of reality, and really being able to work with the different mentors and teachers allowed me it allowed them to infuse their consciousness into mine and allowed me to use that as a springboard to continue to explore different realms and realities so that I could gather every aspect of myself to become whole.
Speaker 1:I love that Many of our listeners are aspiring leaders in several fields, so they would be curious about what is the most important leadership lesson you learned, and also how it helped, how it proved invaluable and how you are using it today in your own work.
Speaker 2:To me. Honestly, one of the biggest lessons I've learned is to follow my heart. I think that is such an underrated thing because we get so stuck in this headspace where we try and think everything out and to really be successful, especially in spirituality and esoteric knowledge and things, I've found that you've had to feel your way through these things. You really have to open up to your heart center and your emotions and see what's going on here. Why are they telling me these things and be able to analyze that? Because the Creator will manifest through your heart chakra. It'll send impulses and signals through your heart chakra telling you what to do, and a lot of times these things are in conflict with what's actually going on in the physical reality. So what you're telling you to do, you could have $100 left and your heart chakra could be getting a signal saying you need to spend this last $100 on a website to start this business. And your brain's like how am I going to buy food? How am I going to pay for my rent? How am I going to do all this? I think I'm going to just save this $100 and budget it accordingly. But that's the battle that we all have to go through being able to follow our head and our heart. And I think as we step into a heart center consciousness, more things begin to line up for us. So really trying to understand that and follow those impulses and signals is one of the best pieces of advice I can give to anybody about leadership, because that's what truly brings everybody together and that's what makes you the type of person that people want to follow.
Speaker 2:I say I have a lot of people very interested in what I do and wanting to follow me and learn more about what I have going on.
Speaker 2:But I feel like that's because I stay heart centered and I follow those impulses in my heart. Everything it's not a direct trying to get people to follow me or trying to be a leader. It's just holding on to that heart center and embracing that and walking forward into the unknown. And as you continue to explore the unknown and areas that people don't have any kind of clue about, then people will be interested in that. And if you do it from a heart centered space and out of love and are willing to teach other people and help other people get to where they want to go, who wouldn't want to follow you? Because it's so rare, there are so few people that want to just genuinely help people, why wouldn't you want to follow somebody like that? Why wouldn't you, especially if they can help you get to where you want to get, to staying heart centered and focusing on your heart chakra, the signals and impulses you get from that, and really having the courage to act on that and initiate those paths that the creator is working through you to initiate.
Speaker 1:Love that. Thank you for sharing that and that's invaluable for a lot of people. Failure is often viewed as a negative thing, but it can also provide valuable lessons to ascendors to different areas. It's only thing you can share with the audience that you originally classes a failure but ended up being the greatest success in your life so far.
Speaker 2:Me personally. Honestly, I'm not a person that believes in failure. I don't really subscribe to that theory. I've had a lot of things that I'm sure people would consider a failure, but I'm a big believer that as long as you do your best and put your best word forward and do everything you could do to make what you're trying to make happen, then you can't really complain about the outcome. You can't really consider the outcome a failure or not, because if you're really putting your best word forward and you're really doing everything you can do to try and achieve this outcome, then you're learning so much, you're gaining so much insight because you're putting so much energy into it and in actuality, the thing you went through that was a supposed failure is most likely just a stepping stone to get you to the place that you really wanted to get to. Instead of going along a long path, you just gained the skills and knowledge and resources you needed to take the next step up the ladder, and I believe that has helped me move forward in life and get through a lot of things and experience a lot of things, because as long as you look at it as a learning experience and not a failure, then you don't feel that pressure and depression. You don't feel like that failure, energy, because you're doing. All you can do is all you can do. There's so many equations that manifest physical reality. You have other people's will, group will, all types of things, energy and tension that are being poured into different paradigms, so it's like all you can do is your best. If you're doing your best, if you do give 110%, at that point all you can do is let go and let things happen and once it happens, whatever comes from that point, you can't for me, you can't be disappointed.
Speaker 2:I think when failure comes in is when people know they didn't give their best. They gave 70%, they gave 80%, they didn't really follow their heart truly. They got more in the headspace and listen to their brain instead of listening to their heart. And then they're like, oh, I messed up, but I try to say so heart centered, that I'm always listening to my heart, that even if something goes bad, I can't feel bad because I knew I did the right thing, I followed my heart and whatever. Just like in a relationship, your 100% is only 50%. So you can give 100%, 110% a relationship, but that's only 50% of the equation. You have a whole, nother other person that has to give 100% for it to equal 100%. It's the same thing in life, whenever you're trying to build a business, whether you're trying to seek a new relationship, gain money, get a different status, like you can only do what you can do. There's other factors involved.
Speaker 2:Now, eventually you can build yourself up to where your 100% becomes so good that it starts to override everybody else's. That takes a long time and you have to realize that, and it takes a lot of skills and a lot of resources. So really being able to understand it's not about. It's funny, because I find like a lot of the cliches, the more I study and the more I get in tune, I find these cliches being more true. And it's really not about whether you win or lose. It's like how you played a game and how much effort you get.
Speaker 2:And while some people think that it may sound sappy or crazy or just not really real life, it really is, because you giving your all will generate a certain kind of energy that, even if what you're doing doesn't work out, another door will open up for you to go to another level in another place in existence, and you never know what the things that you do can open.
Speaker 2:That's why you have to be open-minded and say yes and walk through those doorways of ascension, because that's what allows you to grow and that's what allows you to expand and, at the end of the day, it's all about growth and expansion. There's people that have millions and billions of dollars and 20 or 30 years ago they were working at a fast food restaurant. Is that a failure? No, it's just a part of their journey and a part of their path. So I think when you can start to zoom out and look at things more objectively and see, okay, I'm giving my best, I'm doing it, I'm following my heart, you don't really look at things as failure or success. That's a dualistic view of reality. And when you can move past duality and really start to see, okay, it's just me and my effort and me and my intentions, and if I can match my efforts with my intentions, then that is a success, no matter what happens in the physical reality, like I've done my part, I love that.
Speaker 1:Looking forward you've been a hell of a journey to get where you are in many different aspects. Looking forward from where you are now, with the knowledge you have now, where do you aspire to be in the next three to five years?
Speaker 2:Honestly, it's very interesting.
Speaker 2:I've been going through a lot of spiritual initiations lately and if you would ask me this question probably a month ago, I would say really focus on business and growing my business and creating worldwide centers and moving things internationally.
Speaker 2:But I think right now really I'm trying to just grow and develop and gain a deeper understanding of myself, because I feel like that's the journey. I feel like so many other things become a distraction and can tie us down to this third dimension. I think if we just really focus on growing and developing, then everything else will naturally mold to our reality and we'll have some hiccups, we'll have some bumps, but I think the main thing that we're looking for will eventually find, and maybe in a different form than we ever thought it was. So my goal over the next three to five years is just to continue to develop myself, grow, study and be a light in this world and allow others to help others to cognize their own divinity and come into a higher state of consciousness, while really making the world a better place and raising the vibration of the planet.
Speaker 1:I love that. Is there anything else you'd like to leave the audience with parting words before we wrap up today's interview, and thank you for being here again, barak. You've got a truly inspiring story for many in your testament to what is possible once you really put your mind to honoring who you are.
Speaker 2:No, thank you for having me. I sincerely appreciate it and I would just like to say look within. So many times we go to outside sources, which are good tools to help us. They're like crushes to help us really realize who we are and to help us to stand on different subjects and ideas and paradigms. But the truth is everything is within.
Speaker 2:I know people say that a lot, but people are still looking out externally for everything, and I think the most important thing is to realize that you have all the answers within and you're going to be challenged.
Speaker 2:People are going to try and challenge your reality and shake your foundation and tell you this is not true.
Speaker 2:But if you look within and go deep within, then you can stand firm on your foundation and say, hey, I know who I am, you don't have to accept that reality, but I don't have to accept your reality either, and we can just keep it at that and keep it pushing.
Speaker 2:And I think that the main thing is, once you go within, you develop a sense of calm and resolve that allows you to have a much stronger foundation than just book knowledge or I got this information from somebody else there's a difference between understanding something to be true and knowing something to be true, and I think when you go within, you begin to know what's true, and so that would be my suggestion for anybody listening just to go within. If you want to learn more about what we have going on, you can go to femigodcom and check us out. I think that we offer a unique program and unique things that allow women to really go within and tap into their inner divinity and cognize their inner divinity, and I just think that as more people wake up to this and start doing the work, the world will begin to change and we will see a change in the planet and a raise in the vibration of everything that's going on.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, barrett, for your time today. I really appreciate it. Thank you For myself. If you've just tuned in, please don't know who we are or what we do. This is a story to inspire many from different aspects and different stories, leadership stories in many different ways of life. So please share this message today. It's free and you may inspire somebody to go on their journey. For myself and Barrett. Inspire with legacy, lead with purpose For myself and Barrett Porter. Thank you for listening and have a great day. Thank you so much.
