[0:01] Well, here we are, and I would love to extend every single person who decides to listen to this episode a very,
[0:17] very big thank you. For the very reason is because this episode, as I record it, signifies probably the biggest change for me in the last at least five years and is a culmination of a change over the last 10 to 12 years.
[0:43] And what's even more interesting is that as much as I have been excited about this change, leaning into it, loving the change, loving the idea, the identity, the energy. When it came time to record this episode of the first episode of the new iteration of the new brand and the new identity of the Inspirational Soul podcast, my goodness, I was nervous. I was anxious. I was pacing. I was procrastinating. I really was. thankfully, I was here by myself, so I could literally just take the time. And I'll also admit that I was getting to a point of going, you know what, Pete? I'm tired. It's okay. You've got time tomorrow. You pick this up tomorrow when you're fresh, when you're fresh.
[1:51] And that's when I caught myself and going, snap out of it. Seriously, what are you waiting for? This is the chance to do this. This is signifying the last little bit of change. This is signifying the real changeover. And I had specifically planned and not rushed this part of it and yet here I am and total procrastination, total like, no, no, no, we're not doing this. No, yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. So it's been even a fascinating journey just getting to hear behind the microphone to talk to you guys and welcome you to the brand new version of this. So, again, like I said, I wanted to give you a big warm welcome.
[2:48] And thank you to everyone who continues to listen with me, be here. If this is your first time and you've resonated with the new branding,
[2:56] thank you for tuning in and bringing it. But of course, you will be able to find all of the legacy episodes also still uploaded. So, they are not going away. So, do not fear. They are going to be there because there's some amazing content, there's some beautiful things in there. And I know so many people absolutely loved the first few episodes of, you know, the Inner Power podcast. So, this is the changeover and this is where we are. And I just wanted to take this episode to share with you the journey, to share with you and be open about where I'm at, where I have been, where I'm at now, where I see myself in the future, just to like say, hey, welcome and come on this journey with me because that's what this all is. And I like to always think and say that, you know, if we've got company, it's no longer a journey, it becomes the adventure. I absolutely love that saying and it's a huge thing. So, where it has been, it's been interesting because for the last 10 to 12 years, being the professional psychic medium and leaning into making that a career and making that a full-time business.
[4:13] Wow, what a journey. Literally getting to the point of being on stage in theatres and talking to hundreds of people at a time, that absolutely lights me up and it sets my soul on fire. It really, really does. And it was such a wonderful thing to not just be able to experience it and help people, but to have a vision, go after it, and reach it. And it's so amazing to kind of go, wow, that's happened. I've done that. I can look back on it. And, of course, that is still happening. So, it's not like it's stopped. But what's really important here is that over the last three years in particular, not going to lie, for me, it has been massive head fuckery. Pardon the French, but it's like that's the only way to describe it. And it's ironic, too, because it has been absolutely up in the head trying to figure things out. Right.
[5:24] It wasn't trying to figure things out. Now, upon reflection and reaching this point and getting here and talking to you right now is I was really figuring out where I was at and where I am at and where I want to go.
[5:42] It was realizing that I really do look upon this now and I have been noticing, reflecting my life in particular, has a real average around the 10-year, maybe to 11-year cycle, a lot of changes happening in and around that. So, it's not surprising that it has been transpiring. But the last three years in particular have been unusually tumultuous.
[6:14] Very very up and down and really kind of figuring out where it's at good news is i genuinely believe and know that i've come to the other side of this mountain i have come outside into the light out of that tunnel which is amazing and one of the biggest reasons and you know those who are closest to me i've spoken to a few people obviously good friends and obviously some clients long-term clients because they kind of become friends. It's just natural, I think. And you guys will know. But for those who are unaware, what's been really interesting is for a long period of time.
[6:56] I have known in my heart of hearts that I can do so much more, so much more than simply giving someone a reading, helping them with their current moment, or even connecting someone with their loved one. Now, don't get me wrong. It is absolutely beautiful and amazing work.
[7:27] But in that as well, and I think anyone who is doing business for themselves in any shape or form or you're achieving something on a very personal or solo level, you might have an understanding of this. But we all grow. The soul wants to grow. And it's been about leaning into, discovering, understanding, and kind of going, how do I want this to be? Now, there's a few things that lead to that. So, that's a very on the personal level for me going, right, there's something more here. I know I can do this. I was leaning into that for a long time. One of the key factors- That really hit home and one that you cannot ignore is that approximately three years ago, at the time of this recording, so we're now going back into 2022, and it was August, so it's almost exactly three years ago. So, I went up to Cairns and I remember going to Cairns. I love going to Cairns. I love visiting Cairns. Beautiful, great little spot. Nice and warm when it's not raining. Obviously, nowhere is really nice when it's raining.
[8:45] And I was visiting, but I was really trying to push and I was trying to make an impact. And as it turned out, like I was just weighing up everything. Think and what a lot of people don't understand is behind the scenes when you're trying to do this level of work on stage and kind of maintain a level of consistency with this to also show or demonstrate to the public eye that hey i am you know good i'm holding space in this area you know it's worth coming and have a look at. You've got to understand this is not music. This is not comedy. This is something very, very different. And everyone has a certain opinion. It's very, You know, and there's one objective, laugh. You should laugh, feel lighthearted, and relax a little bit. And it's almost like, you know, yes, there's different styles or types of comedy, but the objective is still the same in the fact of you should have a laugh. If you don't laugh, I think it's pretty easy to say, like, oh, you know, it was a bit hit and miss on the comedy front. And this work is not like going to a concert.
[10:13] If you see the headline act of, you know, whoever's holding the concert, you're going to know and have an inkling of what their music is and whether you really want to go and see them. And even if you're giving someone a go, you can go and have a listen to some of their music on Spotify or on Apple or whatever iTunes, whatever, and then get a feel for the music. Oh, that might be worth a look. Or even if, again, if you're trying someone, it's because you're going, oh, they're a similar type of music. So, let's go and try that. And so, it might be a bit hit and miss. But you kind of already have, you know, a very easy inclination to do it.
[10:53] But when it comes to doing the mediumship work, every night is different. Every connection is different.
[11:02] Some are sad. Some are uplifting. Some are beautiful. Some are really like, really put your brain under the pump and trying to understand what's happening here. Others are just plain gut-wrenching, like, you know, can't believe this has happened or how, you know, it's some of the scenarios are intense, you know, you go from like having that experience and acknowledging someone being there at their last moments of their dying breath, which is beautiful and But then to reliving the moment when you've received the phone call or the knock on the door and you've got the, you know, the wonderful boys and girls in blue saying, hey, I'm really sorry, we've got some bad news. So, it's an emotional roller coaster, but it's also this way like it's a very different type of genre to be going out and to performing. So, there's a lot of added pressure to it. It makes it a lot harder to kind of find your way because as much as it's getting more mainstream, which is a great thing, I love the fact that our work is becoming more mainstream.
[12:17] But to maintain it and to keep going, it does require a massive amount of effort. It really, really does. So, it's interesting. So, with Cairns, three years ago, it was the same thing. I was trying to kind of make the mark, trying to build the audience and go, cool. So, it kind of makes me feel like, yes, this is going to make it worthwhile because we've got a whole bunch of expenses, all this kind of stuff to make it happen. But what was interesting is I kind of got to Cairns and I was working it all out and the truth be told, I was like, this is really hard to start justifying coming to Cairns.
[12:59] Because the flights, the accommodation, and it's not so much that. The biggest one is, time away from home, time away from my wife, and time away from my kids. That's the harder one. There's a lot of time that I spend away from home. And so, it was one of those things going, you have to weigh all that up. The other ones, they're easy because there's an actual dollar value and you can kind of measure it one for one. But when it comes to time away from family, it has a different effect on you and it's a little harder to measure so in that space yeah Cairns was sitting with me I'm going I've got a I don't know and in that moment weighing it all up keeping an eye on ticket sales and it wasn't bad but it wasn't great weighing it all up I'm like okay, this is the last time I'm coming to Cairns.
[14:05] It just, I was like, I kind of sat with that and I was like, and on the plane ride up, I was like, yeah, this will be the last time.
[14:14] And there is something like, there's something sad in that because you don't want to let go of it and you don't want to let people down that you've connected with over the years. But there's also something very freeing in that because it's like there's the pressure. It gets released in some way. And because of that, when I went there and I was at the Cairns Performing Arts Theatre and the Beautiful Studio Theatre, which is amazing. I love that little theatre. And I was there and it was a nice turnout. But I tell you what. What an absolute ripper of a night. It was so good that I actually can't remember a lot of it. I know that sounds weird. No, I wasn't drunk. I wasn't blind. It's not that kind of a ripper of a night. But what that means is I was in so much flow with the energy that a lot of my conscious brain was to the side and compartmentalized. And that meant I had so much more flow just the things coming through but I just it was just moving and flowing absolutely beautifully so after this amazing night I was great and I said to everyone cool I'm just gonna thanks for coming tonight if you just want if you want to ask me questions, just give me a few minutes and I'll meet you at the front of the theater and we can have a little bit of a catch up at our Q&A.
[15:40] So, after that, I literally walked out on stage and I walked backstage and I was there by myself because that's the other thing too is all this is by myself. And so, I'm literally just me, myself and I backstage. But in that moment, and I realized and I recognized how wonderful the night was. I really did. I was so thankful. I was so happy. And of course you know it was so funny because at the time I'm like oh what magic and then I was like oh my god how can I say I can't come back to Cairns when it's just produced this amazing evening for everyone and you know so you get into your head a little bit about it but I didn't have much of a choice or a chance because in that moment, the voice, as I call it, and it's my team, my guides, and very, very strong, very clear. There is no misconstruing it. It literally is nothing to do with me. It's actually external of me.
[16:44] And it comes through and the voice literally said, so clear, so loud, so succinct, it said, you're done with this.
[16:59] Now, that was like thunder without sound. It was, I heard it, of course, I understood it, I was trying to comprehend it, and in such a short space of time, and I'm talking like seconds, not even a minute, that the weight of that statement really shocked me, really hit home.
[17:32] And so, then I was like, cool, I acknowledge that message received, not 100% happy about it, not 100% sure what it's all going to mean or where it's going to lead. But in that moment in that time i acknowledged it and i'm just going okay i will have to sit with this later on so because i've got to go meet these people at the front so anyway that was three years ago and that's that's been floating around in my head and it's very hard to ignore that and i know i've learned lessons in the past where if you really ignore what the message is you're only going to put yourself in more resistance. That's never a good thing. Word of the wise people, don't go against the universe when it's trying to give you a big hint. Well, this wasn't even a hint. This was a sledgehammer, a spiritual sledgehammer. So, some of you might be able to empathize or you know, sympathize with me a little bit here because this is the work. This is what I do. This is what, you know, I had built. This is what I'd worked towards and I had envisioned for myself and I was living it. I was achieving it. I was very happy at the time.
[18:53] And to hear that, it just felt like it all got... Stripped and pulled away. Just like that in an instant. Now, of course, it's not like that. However, I can't help but not feel that. That might be a hard one to comprehend, but some of you might be. And if you do, I'd love to hear from you because this is a different one. So, for the last three years, I have been wrestling with that.
[19:27] And obviously now, which is a beautiful thing in retrospect and in hindsight, it was exactly what I needed. At the time, it wasn't great. I did lean into it. I tried to make the change early in 2023.
[19:40] That didn't go according to my plan. I probably went a little bit too quick. But again it's kind of receiving the message but also understanding that timing is something that they control not us and i i kind of probably jumped in a bit too quick so over the last three years been a lot of learning been a lot of self-discovery been a lot of journaling a lot of you know delving into asking of my soul kind of really getting into a lot of deeper stuff which has been wonderful but like I said also really doing some numbers with myself over the time, So, sitting with that and working with all of this, I've been working with and creating different programs, different ways of helping people, discovering, testing, experimenting. And that's been wonderful. But still, it was as if I was playing like five-dimensional chess.
[20:47] You know, probably, you know or even like three-dimensional chess really like it's all all these moving pieces above my head and somehow they do come together that yes they do fit they're going to create something but it doesn't matter how much i try to put these pieces together that just didn't seem to fit and so it was it becomes arduous and it becomes heavy after a while as you start going through that process.
[21:15] So, kind of dealing with that. So, working through all of that, testing, trialing, doing different things. But then there's other big aspects that come into the shift.
[21:27] And like I was saying, one of the big ones was trying to lean into and having the time and space to kind of go, right, if I am doing more than what I'm doing, what is that? What does that look like how do i put that in a package to present that to people to talk about it and it's something i have wrangled with for many years that's over more than three years i've been wrangling this like i said people who know like this has been a very deep personal journey for many a year uh because i'm always leaning into that so you just have to wait it's like bubbles to the surface it's like it will come in its own time and so the beautiful part is is reaching this point obviously inner power was there kind of working with that but then i was like something's shifting something's different and the most beautiful part is like i managed to have that little shift there people would have seen it those who follow me regularly you would have seen the change i made a quick change to instead of just being like peter williams inner power i also i I went back to being the inspirational medium.
[22:36] And that was the start. That was the switching over because I started leaning to what do I do this for? Why do I do this? I do this to help people, but I don't just do this to connect with people in terms of like connect with their energy, to help them with their energy, to connect with other people. That's a process and that's just one part of the process. There is so much more to how I help people. And I was really trying to lean into what that was.
[23:09] And it was staring me in the face the whole time and that's where the inspirational like word jumped in and came from.
[23:18] But then i realized that but i had so much more and what it was is the word that i keep coming back to and if i look at it and go you know if i could talk about something endlessly if you were here and we had 10 hours, the one thing I could probably talk about all night long is the soul. I love the soul. I love everything about the soul. I love understanding the soul. I love exploring my soul. I love understanding and hearing people's journeys of their own souls. I love connecting to the other side and venturing into that as well.
[23:58] It's a massive, massive thing and it honestly really just connects with me because we all have one and we are all here to learn and connect with that part of ourselves and alas it was right there in front of me it's like the inspirational soul it's like i love and i want to and i'm here now connecting with you and appreciative of you taking the time to listen because this is about helping to inspire you as a soul. I want to inspire you and other people and other listeners and other, you know, anybody who comes into my world. I want to inspire them on that deeper level.
[24:45] And even with this, I love this because it's never too late. It is never too late to create yourself or recreate yourself. And it was a beautiful saying that really hammered this home.
[25:07] And the saying is that the biggest cause of despair in the world is knowing what your heart wants, but not having the courage to go after it. Let that sink in for a moment. and when I heard that, it was a beautiful reminder and a wake-up call for me as well.
[25:39] Because going back before COVID, we're looking like the 2017-18 more especially, my life was really absolutely pumping. Everything was in place. I was my life, lifestyle. Like and not in that space of like everything's comfortable but i genuinely was really living my life oh it was it was aligned beautifully and then it was kind of like with covid and having to change and adapt which is completely fine but somewhere along the way just kind of lost that connection or lost that ability to live life in that way but it was through this saying of the biggest cause of despair is knowing what your heart wants but not having the courage to follow it or go after it.
[26:28] I'd come to realise I had also through circumstances I, stopped creating my life, stopped kind of going after what I can see and what I envisioned, I had started to fall into that very constant trap that so many of us fall into of, but this is where it's at. This is what I've got to do. This is what I've got to keep doing because this pays the bills or this does this. And so, again, we always kind of fall into that. That's just a comfort zone. But I will admit I fell into that trap of like, but this is what I've got to do because it's almost like you reach this certain, you know, reach this new level, this new vibration and frequency and now you're here, you've got to kind of maintain that and step into that.
[27:23] And because you're in that and then you start to focus on maintaining this frequency and vibration. You sometimes stop or don't prioritize or give yourself the time and space to keep creating, to keep the growth. And now looking back on it, that's what happened. It wasn't the case of back when it was really good and I was like, where did I lose it? I didn't lose anything. I just stopped. I had limited myself. And I look back and I go, wow. And now I'm here and embracing this because there's a whole bunch of rhetoric going on around me. Do you really want to change? Do you really want to give that up? Oh, you're doing amazingly well doing all of that. I had all of these other people around me and I was just like, yeah I'm grateful I've done amazingly well but I'd lost the courage.
[28:29] To be willing to keep going where my heart was leading me, And so, here we are, and this is where it's different. I am coming right back to that space. I'm coming right back to that space of my heart. I'm coming right back to that space of leaning back into the feeling, and I am getting back to listening, and I have noticed the beautiful subtle changes already in my life, because I've been at this for a little while now, but the big significant change and really adapting and owning this change has only been occurring for the last few weeks. But even in such a short space of time of literally weeks and days, by coming back into that space, things have changed. Things have changed in a very robust way and in a very good way. I'm very grateful for it.
[29:31] And I can see and feel and sense the changes and they're not just, you know, it's not just one area, it's multiple areas. But that is the reward for having the courage to go after what the heart wants, to ignore the rhetoric, to lean into the knowing and the trust that it's going to work itself out. And I love it because I'm coming back to having that beautiful belief and faith in myself that I can make it work because I know I have in the past. So, it is a little bit easier for me, but if you're listening to this and the reason why I share this is because it's never too late.
[30:23] Don't start looking at yourself. And I was reminded of this last night because did the beautiful get out of your head, you know, interactive online workshop, which you can join for free. You can find that on my website. Love taking people through that. But even in that, there was one lady who had a connection to her future self. And she was like, I looked at my future self and I was still working like, what the fuck? Like, I don't want to be that. But it was very interesting. It was like there's the power in connecting with the self, saying that the choices you're making right now are ultimately leading you to that future. So now you can ask yourself, looking at yourself in 12 months' time, five years' time, even 10 years' time, is where you are now, what you are doing, the choices you are making, And if you throw that down, the gauntlet of the future of one year, three years, five years, ten years, and you look at yourself in that, can you honestly say, would you and are you going to be happy with that version of yourself?
[31:40] Get real. Get honest. Because as soon as I did, the changes start to happen. And that's where I made the change. Had to lean into that. And if you're not, then I encourage you to make the change.
[31:51] And so this is where it kind of comes in and this is where it's the inspirational soul i'm gonna be here it's gonna be about the feeling and want to connect it's about connection i want more connection with myself i want more connection with my soul and more connection with the universe i want to help you explore more connection to yourself your soul and universe i want us to have more connection between each other get more interactive and that's a big promise i'm going to make here now kind of like in this new energy a new chapter is really trying to make and bridge this gap of connecting and i really would love to help you and my absolute number one job here is just to help inspire you to really connect with yourself and remember to become the person and the version of yourself that you know is inside of you, that you want and you desire. And- If you resonate with that, you know, that is something that you generally do want, but you're just not sure how to get there or you want some kind of level of accountability or sometimes you just might need that friendly voice that's, you know, like in the corner with you, then welcome.
[33:13] I'm here. I'm here for you. I'm in your corner. I'm going to make sure I'm going to be giving everything I've got to help you to get across that line and to believe more and connect more.
[33:28] And that's what this is all about. It's about connecting into that soul space and really owning who we are, honoring who we are on that deeper level, and also just being honest with ourselves so we can tap into that.
[33:44] And if that is you and that resonates with you, I cannot wait to be on this adventure with you, and I really welcome you into this world, and I cannot wait to hear how I can help you and, of course, inspire you. So welcome and again thank you for tuning in to the inspirational soul cannot wait and so thankful that you are on this journey with me so stick around plenty more to come and of course always feel free to reach out dms spotify you can get on the chat and of course if you like the content you like it please please please please leave a review always helps leave us a like share with your friends really appreciate it but let's let the adventure begin.
