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Sam starts the show off by briefly interacting with his live audience, reminding his listeners they can interact with him directly on Facebook Live during shows. As always, Sam moves into discussing today’s excerpt from his book, today addressing the importance of integrity in our lives and society. Without living up to your stated goals and values, those around you will eventually come to recognize this disparity between your words and actions. Money can delay this but the exposure is inevitable, particularly in business. Takes very conscious effort to set an example, and this effort will reflect on those under you, incentivizing the same behavior from them. Using a recent movie as an example, Sam believes that society is going through an awakening of consciousness where we as society are becoming more aware of this lack of integrity. He urges his listeners to ask themselves Ask themselves who in their lives have integrity, who does not, and how do their actions reflect this? How can we use this information to change our own behavior for the better?
Coming back from the break Sam tells his listeners about a Caribbean island he went to on vacation named Montserrat. During his stay he learned quite a bit about the history of the island, and the hardships it’s people have endured. The volcano started to erupt in ‘95, and continued to erupt in ‘96 and ,97, destroying the island’s capital city. The eruptions would continue until almost 2010, forcing many to periodically leave the island, until the total population was only around 3000. To compound the tragedy of this story he discovered this disaster came just after reconstruction efforts from a hurricane in ‘89 had just finished. Sam urges his listeners to reflect on these tragedies and the hardships it imposed on the citizens and consider how they could act as an example of how to be more resilient in our lives, and how to process our own tragedies.
Sam continues talking about the island Montserrat and its people. He talks about the community and how they all share similar characteristics that exude joy and gratitude, despite what they all have gone through. He notices a subtle but insightful trait that the natives share which was knowing the names of small business owners rather than the name of the business. It shows how they focus on community as opposed to commercial advertising. Sam talks about the hardships the land has faced over the years and how it affected the community financially and emotionally. He comments on the natives' resilience to stay on their land and continue to be grateful for what they have rather than abandoning it after natural disasters.
In the last segment, Sam talks about his experience on Montserrat and the obstacles he and his wife faced during their holiday. After quartining for five days, Sam and his wife struggled to find businesses that were open due to the four day holiday. They decided not to rent a car due to the cultural differences in the laws of their road, which actually turned out to be the more reasonable option. Walking around town, Sam and his wife were able to explore and find hiking trails where they found a beautiful view but ultimately got lost. Sam talks about other hiccups he encountered on his vacation and how he had to stay present and grateful in order to appreciate the rest of the trip. Sam wants to hear what makes you resilient.
00:00:23.910 --> 00:00:24.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Good.
00:00:25.590 --> 00:00:36.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: afternoon my conscious co creators, welcome to another edition of the conscious consultant our awakening humanity Happy New Year, welcome to.
00:00:38.490 --> 00:00:55.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Our first live show of the year, we did take a little break, I hope you had your enjoyed your holidays hope you took a little bit of time off to enjoy and celebrate I know a lot of people who are very happy that is no longer 2021.
00:00:56.850 --> 00:01:07.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I know i'm also very happy that it is 2022 and i'm looking forward to today's show with all of you.
00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:20.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I see loyal listeners patty and William already checking in on the Facebook live glad you guys can join us it's one of those shows it's just me and you today, so please.
00:01:21.690 --> 00:01:42.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: feel free to comment in the comment if you're watching the video on our Facebook page on either the inspired thoughts would say i'm Facebook page on the talk radio and yc Facebook page or if you're just listening, you can always email me at Sam at the conscious consultant.com.
00:01:45.270 --> 00:01:53.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: ooh and they see and checking in on the Facebook live and patty also saying yes hopeful for a better year yes yeah I know it's.
00:01:53.400 --> 00:02:06.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Not starting off so good for a number of people, a number of my friends, I was away for a couple of weeks i'm actually going to be talking about my my trip down to a little known island in the Caribbean by the name of months right.
00:02:07.980 --> 00:02:08.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But.
00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:20.670 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But first, of course, we're going to start with our little section from my book, everyday awakening but we're going to be talking a lot about resilience today.
00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:26.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and I really feel like this is a very timely topic.
00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:38.040 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because look this this pandemics been going on for a while, whether you say it's now an endemic or not, whatever it is it's an additional stress in our lives.
00:02:39.060 --> 00:02:54.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that stress, whether we're aware of it or not, whether we're conscious of it with a week think we're feeling it or not, it's there in the background underlying, and so I thought this was a great topic to start off the New Year.
00:02:55.620 --> 00:03:04.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because these days it does take resilience just for everyday life so we're going to get into resilience.
00:03:05.640 --> 00:03:08.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: In a little bit, but first, of course.
00:03:09.300 --> 00:03:20.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Our section from my book, everyday awakening which, as always, if you have not gotten it, yet you can get it at every day awakening book calm.
00:03:20.700 --> 00:03:39.690 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and please let me know if you did get a copy if you enjoyed it feel free to leave a review up on Amazon, let me know what you think of the book i'm really interested in people's feedback so today's section is called integrity creates influence and influence is golden.
00:03:41.250 --> 00:03:53.580 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: integrity is not just about showing up integrity is much more encompassing it includes our words, our deeds, our actions and our intentions.
00:03:54.210 --> 00:04:03.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: First, we can build trust by showing up consistently, then we can build trust by living up to our words.
00:04:03.750 --> 00:04:10.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: that's when people look at our deeds and actions to see if they are in alignment with the things we say.
00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:21.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Sure, it is easy to find people who say one thing and do something else, many of them get away with it for quite a long time.
00:04:22.020 --> 00:04:40.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Eventually, though the inconsistent nature of their actions is revealed and people stop believing them, they may never say a word or give any feedback, the lack of integrity turns them away and they feel no compunction to let the person know.
00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:52.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Yet a beautiful thing happens when our words and actions are aligned on a consistent basis people start to trust us on a very deep level.
00:04:53.310 --> 00:05:03.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That level of trust gives us real influence and that influence must be treated as the most precious gift, for it is.
00:05:03.990 --> 00:05:18.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It is more precious than gold for that influence allows us to share our work and ourselves to an enthusiastic community that community is what will support us for the rest of our days.
00:05:19.950 --> 00:05:32.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Where has integrity created more influence for you in your work with your family your friends, do you cherish the influence that your integrity has given you.
00:05:33.570 --> 00:05:44.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So this section of the book, I wrote really came from my deeper understanding of influence.
00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:52.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Through my association with a wonderful organization you've heard me mentioned them several times on the show the evolutionary business Council.
00:05:53.700 --> 00:06:00.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Which is a a community of transformational thought leaders and i'm very honored and very proud.
00:06:01.380 --> 00:06:11.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To be a part of this organization and a lot of the organization, a lot of what it was about when I first joined was all about influence about how.
00:06:11.580 --> 00:06:20.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: gifting influence builds our influence how gifting influence to other people who are doing good things raises them up, and then it raises us all up.
00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:29.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I started to learn, over time, like really the value of influence it hadn't really been in my consciousness that much.
00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:33.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But influence i've learned.
00:06:34.890 --> 00:06:36.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: is really precious.
00:06:37.770 --> 00:06:42.090 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, most people think influence is just about power or money.
00:06:43.260 --> 00:06:49.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: If you're a boss at work you have influence if you're the person signing my paycheck you have influence over me.
00:06:50.700 --> 00:06:52.170 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But it's so much more than that.
00:06:53.640 --> 00:07:07.710 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because you may have influenced as a boss of what hours I work over the type of work, I do, but if you're out of integrity if you're not living up to your words if you're.
00:07:09.060 --> 00:07:11.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: not really.
00:07:12.150 --> 00:07:30.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: living up to the energy and the mission is so often we see corporations, who have these wonderful slogans and beautiful sayings, but when you really look at how the company operates it doesn't really follow those beautiful words.
00:07:31.980 --> 00:07:39.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that gets revealed eventually sure if you have a lot of money not only can you have a lot of influence.
00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:43.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But you can cover things over, for a period of time.
00:07:44.730 --> 00:07:46.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But eventually.
00:07:47.460 --> 00:08:00.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The truth of how we are being the truth of how that organization is operating in the world is just naturally going to come through we can't hide who we are.
00:08:01.350 --> 00:08:04.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, in some ways organizations that are very.
00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:15.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: sort of pyramid structure there's there's a CEO or chairman of the board a bunch of the PS middle managers and frontline people.
00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:31.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It comes from the top, and the example that the people at the top set, and this is true of any organization doesn't have to be a for profit organization, it could be a nonprofit organization, it could be a religious organization, it could be a spiritual movement.
00:08:33.780 --> 00:08:41.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The integrity of that person flows, down to the organization and it takes a very conscious person.
00:08:41.910 --> 00:08:57.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To step outside of that and say Oh, I see everybody else's being like this, but i'm not going to be like that, and the reason why I say it takes a very conscious person to make that choice is because, when it starts flowing down and everybody around you is acting the same way.
00:08:59.940 --> 00:09:05.430 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's hard not to fall in line that peer pressure we're naturally social animals.
00:09:07.830 --> 00:09:29.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So that way of being is going to influence us now if we stand in our integrity what everyone else is out of integrity, we can influence them but it's about being truly aligned really being aware being centered and knowing what are our values, what are our standards.
00:09:32.370 --> 00:09:32.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and
00:09:35.370 --> 00:09:42.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know I saw this movie over the weekend on netflix called don't look up.
00:09:43.590 --> 00:09:47.580 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it was a really eye opening it was a wonderful movie.
00:09:49.230 --> 00:10:05.310 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: about it was really a critique of the way society is today, and while the story is about a Comet approaching the earth and and sort of the political in the media reaction to it, you can apply.
00:10:06.150 --> 00:10:13.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The story of the movie to anything to climate change to the pandemic to any social movement anything.
00:10:15.810 --> 00:10:28.380 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it really showed sort of how common, it is in today's world to be out of integrity to say one thing, but to be totally different.
00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:38.790 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, in the end it doesn't serve anybody it doesn't serve ourselves it doesn't serve other people it doesn't serve the world at large.
00:10:42.540 --> 00:10:47.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I believe in my heart of hearts that people are waking up to that more and more.
00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:58.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now, yes, while people are waking up to it, it does seem that there are plenty of people out there plenty of people with influence were totally out of integrity.
00:11:01.170 --> 00:11:14.310 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And i'm not sure that's necessarily anything new, perhaps it's a little more extreme than we've seen in the past, just because technology allows us this leverage that we never had before so things seem more extreme.
00:11:16.140 --> 00:11:26.370 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But I also feel like the more we understand what it means to be in integrity, the more we we know what feels right.
00:11:28.110 --> 00:11:35.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The easier it is to see when someone isn't that way, and the more it doesn't resonate and we just recognize it that much more.
00:11:38.490 --> 00:11:40.320 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I believe that.
00:11:43.050 --> 00:11:51.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's more an awakening of consciousness that we're just more sensitive to people being out of integrity.
00:11:54.660 --> 00:11:58.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so into worth considering and looking at.
00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:04.560 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Who do you believe in the world today, who has influence.
00:12:05.790 --> 00:12:15.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and other those people have influence who do you feel really has integrity and who doesn't and and and how do those people who you think don't have integrity.
00:12:16.710 --> 00:12:30.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How do they act compared to the people you feel do have integrity and how to and what's that difference and what can we learn from that, how can we learn to be more in integrity more in our words.
00:12:31.770 --> 00:12:40.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: there's that old expression, and anyone who's out there who's a parent, I think, will totally get this your children will follow what you do not what you say.
00:12:42.690 --> 00:12:57.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We all like to believe that if we tell our children hey you know, this is the right way to do things, this is the way you should be but we're being totally opposite they're not going to listen to our words they're going to model, our behavior.
00:12:59.250 --> 00:13:08.280 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that's where real integrity comes in our behavior not just our words but our behavior our energy.
00:13:09.330 --> 00:13:17.790 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And sometimes I see people are a little bit too fanatical around oh I gotta live up to my word it's got to be exactly what I say, I have to do exactly that.
00:13:18.870 --> 00:13:22.680 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But life happens that's not realistic that's not being a human being.
00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:39.840 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now, yes, you do want to live up to your words on a normal day to day basis, but sometimes something happens, sometimes we make a commitment we can't live up to it it's not always about living up to our word 100% maybe it's like 80%.
00:13:40.470 --> 00:13:50.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But it's about that 20% that we don't live up to do we clean it up afterwards, do we acknowledge it do we own it do we say hey look I messed up.
00:13:50.880 --> 00:14:05.760 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I own it, this is what I can do about it, I apologize, I am a human being i'm working towards doing better that recognition is also what brings us into integrity by owning when we're out of integrity.
00:14:07.230 --> 00:14:10.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Sometimes that creates more influence than anything else.
00:14:12.180 --> 00:14:21.180 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So look i'm not saying people have to be perfect i'm not saying we have to completely follow our word every moment of every day for the rest of our lives.
00:14:22.560 --> 00:14:29.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But it's about our energy people can feel it do we mean what we say when the moment we say it.
00:14:31.020 --> 00:14:40.410 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And maybe something happens and we can't quite live up to it and and that can be okay, but do we clean it up afterwards that's owning our integrity.
00:14:44.220 --> 00:14:55.380 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I hope this gives you something to think about over the next week, think about integrity in your own life How much are you in integrity yourself.
00:14:56.070 --> 00:15:05.460 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And are you saying that yes, when you really mean no and are you saying no when you really mean yes and and are you making promises.
00:15:05.940 --> 00:15:22.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That maybe you didn't consider enough before you make that promise and maybe if we just take a little bit of extra time and step back and be a little kinder and gentler to ourselves, maybe those promises we wouldn't make if we really gave it a little more thought.
00:15:23.850 --> 00:15:30.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I would love for you my loyal listeners to just just ponder that for the next week or so.
00:15:32.340 --> 00:15:39.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: In what way can you live up to more of what you're really about.
00:15:41.220 --> 00:15:47.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And maybe it's about making less promises, not making more maybe it's about.
00:15:48.750 --> 00:16:00.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Not being so black and white, with what we say and maybe it's about recognizing our own humanity and making room for that in our lives.
00:16:02.670 --> 00:16:03.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Okay.
00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:15.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Well, thank you, thank you for indulging me with this, I see will him on the Facebook live says he felt the same way about the movie thought it applies to our lives today, yes, absolutely.
00:16:16.860 --> 00:16:26.880 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So when we come back i'm going to tell you a story i'm going to tell you a little bit about an interesting little Caribbean island by the name of Montserrat.
00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:33.450 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I spent whoops I spent 11 days they're.
00:16:35.550 --> 00:16:36.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Changing.
00:16:37.800 --> 00:16:39.360 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: extensively for vacation.
00:16:40.500 --> 00:16:42.990 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It wasn't as much of a vacation as.
00:16:44.190 --> 00:16:45.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I would have liked, but.
00:16:46.950 --> 00:16:55.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i'll explain what happened a little bit and I don't want to get too much into my story, I really want to tell the story of Montserrat itself of the people of Montserrat.
00:16:56.430 --> 00:17:05.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And and and how that relates to resilience and I have a whole bunch of practices and things i'm going to intertwine in this.
00:17:05.430 --> 00:17:15.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Wonderful group of people, I had a meeting with yesterday and I asked them what is resilience for them, what do they do to help them to be resilient so i'm going to work that into it as well, so.
00:17:16.350 --> 00:17:25.770 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Everybody please stay tuned you're listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, we do this every Thursday, except for the last two weeks of the year, when they take off.
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00:19:53.400 --> 00:20:00.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, thank you all for tuning in today.
00:20:01.860 --> 00:20:06.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I hope that today will will serve you that today's show will touch something.
00:20:07.740 --> 00:20:08.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To help you a little bit.
00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:24.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So I want to tell you about this little island in the Caribbean, known as Montserrat it's spelled mo nt se R ra te and.
00:20:25.230 --> 00:20:34.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, typically at the end of the year, my wife and I we close down our businesses, the last two weeks of the year we go away on vacation typically to someplace warm not always.
00:20:34.830 --> 00:20:47.760 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And you know given everything with coven we were trying to be careful to see you know, to go someplace where where things were relatively under control and my wife happened to stumble upon the.
00:20:49.890 --> 00:21:01.410 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Department of State, the US Department of State website where they ranked a bunch of countries by like you know what level they are at like level for being like really bad Level one being really good.
00:21:02.100 --> 00:21:08.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And we were originally thinking of going someplace else and Central America and it turned out not such a good place to go this time.
00:21:09.120 --> 00:21:15.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And they were looking around and we saw that there was this one island listed months arrived as level, one that coven rates were really low.
00:21:16.410 --> 00:21:36.870 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so we started to research into it and we found that monster add was kind of known as the the old world style Caribbean island that it wasn't built up it wasn't very commercialized and that kind of appeal to us, you know the pictures all made it look absolutely beautiful.
00:21:38.010 --> 00:21:52.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: um, and so we decided to go there and we, we should have done a little bit more research before we booked our tickets, because we booked our tickets, and then we found out that even though we're fully vaccinated that we still had to be in quarantine for five days.
00:21:54.390 --> 00:22:00.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And also that you know, there are no direct flights to Montserrat from New York, you have to fly down to Antigua.
00:22:00.360 --> 00:22:12.330 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And from Antigua you take a small plane over to montserrat's like a 20 minute flight on this little plane I loved it, it was like six passenger little plane that takes off like 25 miles.
00:22:13.770 --> 00:22:25.260 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: 25 miles east of Antigua um and it was beautiful um but, once we got there and we started talking to people and.
00:22:26.280 --> 00:22:40.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know my wife and I were the kinds of people that when we go and visit a place we don't like doing the touristy stuff we don't stay in resorts we like talking to people we like walking around we like really getting to know a place and so.
00:22:41.580 --> 00:22:56.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I learned a few things about Montserrat it was a small island in the Caribbean and it had been inhabited by indigenous cultures that it knows you know centuries ago, probably.
00:22:57.810 --> 00:23:16.410 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know 1500 years ago but, at the time that the Columbus came and when the European settlers finally came in the early 1600s it was actually deserted, there were there was no one there, although there were indications that there were prior cultures and.
00:23:18.180 --> 00:23:25.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and so it became known as the lot of Irish settlers came it became known as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean.
00:23:26.310 --> 00:23:41.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: kind of after island, it was Columbus actually named it monster after monastery near Barcelona in Spain and actually when you look up Montserrat lots of times you'll see pictures of this big monastery in Spain that's the the Spanish.
00:23:42.570 --> 00:23:45.600 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: monastery not the island of Montserrat.
00:23:46.950 --> 00:23:52.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: um but the significance of months right and of the people that we came to learn is.
00:23:54.060 --> 00:23:58.980 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: First of all, there was there was a volcano there's an active volcano.
00:23:59.730 --> 00:24:14.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And if anyone's a friend of mine, if anyone looks at my personal feed you'll see I posted a bunch of pictures, when I was down there of the volcano it's not I mean it's I want to say it's not active but there's still kind of a lot of steam coming off the mountain.
00:24:15.570 --> 00:24:34.230 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and actually created a whole new mountain, because in 95 it first started to erupt and the scientists thought it was going to be a little further south like that's where the active area was but it actually went little not not a lot it's still in the south, a little further north.
00:24:35.370 --> 00:24:50.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: In between these two mountains and it created a whole new mountain but it didn't just erupt in 95 and the eruption 95 is relatively minor it kept erupting in 96 and 97 a big eruption and that big eruption.
00:24:52.020 --> 00:25:06.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The lava literally destroyed the capital city of Plymouth and and I saw pictures of Plymouth excellent saw them online you could probably still see them, it was a thriving capital was the Center of life in the southern part of the island.
00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:18.570 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and luckily very few people die that the population of monster at the time was probably over 13,000 they said somewhere between 13 and 14,000.
00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:26.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But the lava destroyed the whole, capital and people had to evacuated.
00:25:27.840 --> 00:25:32.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's a British overseas territory, which means Britain actually owns the island.
00:25:33.780 --> 00:25:39.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And they use the eastern Caribbean dollar, which several islands in the eastern part of the Caribbean us.
00:25:40.890 --> 00:25:51.000 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, a lot of people left when that happened, but if they didn't and not necessarily all right away because the volcano actually kept erupting.
00:25:52.050 --> 00:26:06.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, over nano just 9798 99 it actually kept erupting up until about the year 2010 so for close to 15 years this volcano kept erupting so.
00:26:06.630 --> 00:26:12.420 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: For many years, people were living in shelters, they were living in crowded very unwell conditions.
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:30.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then Britain offered a package, they paid people money to leave and many people moved to to Britain to England to Canada to other places, wherever they could and the population actually shrunk down to about 3000 people on the island.
00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:39.630 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And mostly is this people who lived in the north, who lived in areas that were not affected by the volcano and there's this whole.
00:26:40.410 --> 00:26:52.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: exclusion zones are several zones and the island and you can actually take a tour, and you can go into Plymouth, but you have to get a special permit, you have to check with the police, we didn't do that we actually.
00:26:53.820 --> 00:27:03.360 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: did a little tour that took us to Richmond Hill, which is close to Plymouth and we were able to go in and this famous hotel.
00:27:04.050 --> 00:27:10.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The Montserrat springs hotel and and you know it was abandoned covered in ash.
00:27:10.860 --> 00:27:17.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and then the guide also took us to this other building that was close by that had been condominiums.
00:27:17.520 --> 00:27:25.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: very nice apartments and you could see how people left and they probably just took what they could carry with them, and there was still stuff left there and.
00:27:25.650 --> 00:27:36.210 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and how things got destroyed by the love and and and really firsthand got to see the destruction and while i've seen pictures like this i've.
00:27:36.630 --> 00:27:46.740 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: been in areas before that have been destroyed by war and by other things, it was really my first time to actually go inside a building that was affected by the volcano.
00:27:49.590 --> 00:28:02.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so it really kind of hit home to us like how much for people of the country must have gone through at the time and we heard stories about how.
00:28:02.460 --> 00:28:16.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: you'd have to get up on the roof of your building and you would have to shovel and sweep the ash off of the roof of your building and they were wearing masks all the time, because otherwise you'd breathe in the ash and cause all kinds of lung problems.
00:28:19.800 --> 00:28:26.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And we learned all about the volcano i'll talk a little bit more about that, after the break, but then I also learned that I forgot.
00:28:27.840 --> 00:28:45.180 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That in 1989 just five years before there had been this huge hurricane that came through the Caribbean Hugo and Hugo did massive destruction and Montserrat was directly in its path and they said when you go came through.
00:28:46.290 --> 00:28:52.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Actually, something like 94 95% of the buildings lost their rooms.
00:28:54.150 --> 00:29:08.640 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that George Martin, the famous producer of the Beatles he actually had a studio air studios in Montserrat and many famous musicians had come down and would record in his studio not just the Beatles and Paul McCartney.
00:29:11.190 --> 00:29:22.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Eric clapton the Rolling Stones I mean just all kinds almost every famous band of the 70s late 70s early 80s had been down there recording.
00:29:23.370 --> 00:29:38.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And now that was gone and the people of Montserrat survive that and they just been rebuilding like things were just coming back and was just starting to thrive and 95 you know about five six years afterwards, and then the volcano exploded.
00:29:41.070 --> 00:29:55.590 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So when we come back i'm going to talk about sort of what's what happened since 9597 and what I saw what I saw in the people of Montserrat of what they were like today, and what I believe.
00:29:56.340 --> 00:30:07.050 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How resilient they are and what helped to make them so resilient and so I hope, maybe the story, maybe some of these lessons can help us in being more resilient today.
00:30:08.010 --> 00:30:18.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So you're listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, this is our first new live show for 2022 and we will be right back after these messages.
00:32:25.980 --> 00:32:32.370 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, thank you all for tuning in today hope.
00:32:33.030 --> 00:32:45.750 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: would have been talking about the story of Montserrat enough the resilience of the people I hope it inspires you in some way so i've been talking about sort of the tragedies that Montserrat had suffered.
00:32:47.040 --> 00:32:54.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But the interesting thing was when you talk to the people you didn't find any bitterness in their voice.
00:32:55.800 --> 00:33:07.710 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You didn't find any regret the people who stayed and now you know, as I mentioned that the population went from like 13,000 down to 3000 now, the population is maybe.
00:33:08.760 --> 00:33:18.420 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: About 4000 4500 with people come back, but the people are happy they're the people actually relatively joyful.
00:33:20.670 --> 00:33:25.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And when I looked at like what were the characteristics what what are people like a Montserrat.
00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:37.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Number one they're very connected to their community, they are very connected to each other, everybody knows each other 3000 people it's a small 4000 people to small community.
00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:48.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know I think about it, I live in this giant apartment building that's got 400 units in it that's part of this complex it's got three other buildings that have 416 hundred units.
00:33:48.570 --> 00:33:57.540 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: we've probably got close to 3000 people just in our four buildings, but how many of my neighbors do I know I know a few but not very many at all.
00:33:58.740 --> 00:34:04.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But in Montserrat I mean you could not go anywhere without people knowing everyone else.
00:34:06.390 --> 00:34:11.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And the importance they placed on Community and their connection.
00:34:13.140 --> 00:34:20.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It could be seen in in very subtle ways and one of the things that struck me and I didn't quite catch it.
00:34:21.150 --> 00:34:24.510 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Until close to the end of the trip.
00:34:27.450 --> 00:34:47.100 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: was how people thought of places like places, you would stay a bed and breakfast or a hotel or or an event or something they didn't think about it, by the name of the place they thought about it by the name of the person who owns it because everybody know who's owns everything.
00:34:48.180 --> 00:34:52.710 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So, for instance, we asked our cab driver to take us to this restaurant summer breeze.
00:34:53.790 --> 00:34:59.670 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They said okay we're going to banish place and go nap and he's placed summer breeze here oh yeah benny own summer breeze.
00:35:00.210 --> 00:35:12.360 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then I got it, because then I realized like people thought about the first place, we stayed Oh, that was a clover and david's place the second place, we stayed oh that's gary's place.
00:35:13.590 --> 00:35:29.430 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So people think about things by the name of the person who owns it or runs it nap by the name it was given and that to me it's very subtle but it's so so.
00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:34.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: insightful about how the people are.
00:35:35.550 --> 00:35:40.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That when we can really connected with Community and really connected with people.
00:35:42.510 --> 00:35:45.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We don't think of things in terms of.
00:35:46.950 --> 00:36:01.320 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The name, like the equivalent would be you know, like I run talk radio dot nyc and so people would talk about oh that sam's Internet radio station they wouldn't call it talk radio nyc they'd say oh that sam's Internet radio station.
00:36:03.570 --> 00:36:05.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So that really shows.
00:36:06.540 --> 00:36:17.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: How people think of things and that connection to Community I think really gave people the resilience to stay with the island and we would ask.
00:36:18.150 --> 00:36:25.440 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: People like like, why did you stay like things got so bad I just can't imagine, can you imagine.
00:36:26.220 --> 00:36:37.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That there's ash coming out of this volcano every day, even if you're in the north end of the island, the volcanoes all the way in the south, and you have to shovel the ash off the roof of your building, so it doesn't collapse.
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:48.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I just can't imagine living through that, but they did, but the interesting thing was they didn't take it personally.
00:36:49.290 --> 00:37:05.490 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They didn't feel like all the volcano was doing something to me or Oh, you know that the volcano is trying to take something away from me no, it was just a natural part of life, yes, it was challenging yes, it was difficult.
00:37:06.990 --> 00:37:08.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But they didn't really take it.
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:20.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Personally, and what I noticed was also it was interesting because I also met a number of people, not a lot when I say number of people, it was like four or five but who.
00:37:22.350 --> 00:37:26.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: lived in mostly in Europe, mostly in in England or Ireland.
00:37:28.890 --> 00:37:30.990 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Who would come to Montserrat.
00:37:32.070 --> 00:37:43.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Every year, for the last dozen years or more, and they would spend a month or two months or three months or four months during the wintertime down in months right there's there's one couple.
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:48.720 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: couple I met on the beach, and I was talking to them and they had had a house.
00:37:49.500 --> 00:37:58.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: on the far side of Plymouth think get destroyed from the volcano but the access to it was cut off, and now they could get there, but there's no services, no nothing.
00:37:58.980 --> 00:38:11.910 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They still own it but it's like doesn't mean anything, because you can use it, they ended up staying coming back they bought another house and Montserrat and they would come every year from like December until March.
00:38:13.830 --> 00:38:29.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: For the last 1314 years and i'm just thinking like wow like you kept coming back even after you basically lost your House, I mean that that it's destroyed but you've lost the use of yours and you came back and he bought another House and you still keep coming back.
00:38:31.470 --> 00:38:37.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And yes, and they and they wondered like why why, why would you do that, and they just.
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:47.820 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Even though they weren't from the island they felt such a connection to the place they felt a connection to the beauty they felt a connection to the nature of the piece.
00:38:48.150 --> 00:38:53.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And and and many people I talked to and it's kind of the same reason why me my wife went down there.
00:38:54.630 --> 00:39:01.170 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: was to get away from the hustle and bustle of day to day life here I mean we live in the middle of New York City it's.
00:39:01.680 --> 00:39:19.050 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: always something to do we always feel like we have to do something i'm on the computer i'm on my phone all the time, I mean down there no, it was just going to the beach and talking to people eating, you know, making a meal eating out and and just enjoying it.
00:39:20.070 --> 00:39:22.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: there's there's a certain piece to the island.
00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:41.460 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so I found that people down there were actually very grateful, like many of them have traveled to other islands, many of them been to Europe or the United States, so they know what it's like elsewhere, but they love it down there they're grateful for what they have down there.
00:39:42.990 --> 00:39:49.290 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so that gratitude, I feel really keeps them grounded in what they have around them.
00:39:51.900 --> 00:40:03.600 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And of course there's trauma of course people had different you know challenges that they had to deal with you know there were many people we met that their either their brothers or sisters or their other.
00:40:04.830 --> 00:40:14.640 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: extended family had moved out of Montserrat but they stayed and lots of times they just felt they didn't have anywhere to go they felt at that point in life, they didn't want to start over.
00:40:16.140 --> 00:40:24.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And that they wouldn't find what they had there anywhere else, and they could kind of see that you know, given that the island is a relatively.
00:40:27.300 --> 00:40:41.430 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: isolated island it's difficult to get to it doesn't have a deep base so you don't have big cruise ships coming in, so if you going there it's a little bit of an adventure to get there, so you really have to want to go there.
00:40:43.950 --> 00:40:55.710 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I feel all of that that that sense of gratitude for what they did have that sense of community that not taking things personally and being grateful what they have, like all of that help the people to be.
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:02.670 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To be resilient and actually the resilient it doesn't just stop with the volcano whatever one last.
00:41:04.290 --> 00:41:09.360 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Things were just coming back I talked to many people and it's like the the.
00:41:10.620 --> 00:41:11.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Just like.
00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:22.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: People started to come back they started to get a few more visitors workers were coming in rebuilding infrastructure, you know they still actually don't have an official capital.
00:41:24.180 --> 00:41:27.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But people started coming back and they were expecting.
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:30.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To be like the best year ever.
00:41:32.430 --> 00:41:35.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I mean, think about it, Hurricane Hugo.
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:48.360 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: destroys most of the buildings, they build back then the volcano explodes a few years later and destroys their capital and most of the people leave and.
00:41:48.750 --> 00:42:03.030 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And and and destroys just even their way of life, for the most part, for several years, again, the volcano erupts 95 the big 197 keeps erupting for another 10 years 13 1415 years.
00:42:04.590 --> 00:42:13.830 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Finally, it's settled down like, finally, things are calm takes a little while to build it back up and then suddenly covert hit suddenly there's a pandemic.
00:42:14.550 --> 00:42:23.130 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And they close their borders because they don't have a tremendous medical infrastructure, they couldn't afford for people to really get sick with coven.
00:42:24.900 --> 00:42:37.200 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so we were checking out like the stats of like you know how many people got infected out of the island, out of the three to 4000 4500 people over the course of this entire pandemic.
00:42:38.790 --> 00:42:47.160 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: 44 people color coded and, obviously, it had to have come from tourists or people visiting or people coming back from other places.
00:42:48.210 --> 00:42:50.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But out of those 44 people.
00:42:52.050 --> 00:42:53.250 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: 42 recovered.
00:42:55.410 --> 00:42:57.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: One person left the island.
00:42:58.290 --> 00:43:03.090 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: might have been a tourist or might have been just a temporary resident and one person passed.
00:43:04.170 --> 00:43:12.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: and, interestingly, the one person who passed was something like 99 or 100 or 101 I don't know I heard a few different things about how old she was.
00:43:12.630 --> 00:43:20.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And one person said yeah I don't think she really passed from covert it was probably more from other conditions, just because of her age.
00:43:21.450 --> 00:43:30.600 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i'm upend I thought about it and it's like first of all it's a very low percentage because they're very careful and and they actually close the borders in 20.
00:43:31.080 --> 00:43:40.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then they just reopened them, I believe it was in September or October of 2021 they just started to let people in who are non residents.
00:43:42.600 --> 00:43:53.940 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And they've been very, very careful So even if you were vaccinated you still needed to go through a five day quarantine and you got a PCR tests, you know.
00:43:55.020 --> 00:43:59.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: After about four days and then, if the came back negative in the fifth day they would release you.
00:44:00.750 --> 00:44:10.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So they were being very careful and then they don't do the PCR tests, the way we do the PCR tests now in the United States, they do it, like the old way like they go all the way backups little bit uncomfortable.
00:44:13.020 --> 00:44:16.110 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because they just couldn't afford it, so they are very careful.
00:44:17.190 --> 00:44:27.090 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Now they didn't take coven personally they didn't take this pandemic they didn't they weren't mad at the at the Department of Health for doing this.
00:44:28.530 --> 00:44:42.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They still cheerful people they may not have much there you know it's not a wealthy island because there's not a lot of industry there's not a lot of tourism, they used to export sugar from sugar cane and other fruits, but you know pretty much.
00:44:44.190 --> 00:44:53.880 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: They have to bring in stuff and you and I got to talk about the supermarket I got to take a break, but when I come back i'm going to talk about my experience going to a month or a supermarket.
00:44:54.390 --> 00:45:02.580 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Compared to the United States supermarket and someone else's comment about it, but they don't have much, but you know what sometimes they think that having much.
00:45:03.150 --> 00:45:12.630 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: makes us a little more free to actually enjoy life at sometimes when we're so caught up in our material possessions and so caught up in what we own.
00:45:13.740 --> 00:45:21.030 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That we don't really value what we have so i'm going to come back i'll talk, maybe a little bit more about.
00:45:21.510 --> 00:45:35.220 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: This idea of resilience, thank you for all the hearts on the Facebook live, thank you for tuning in and they see and one of my new loyal listeners said this reminds her of the fires that in your area in southern Oregon last year now in boulder.
00:45:37.110 --> 00:45:46.920 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: That are now happening and it's been incredible to see the devastation people here, people are there to help those in need yeah I mean it's interesting how when there's a lot of.
00:45:47.970 --> 00:45:54.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Natural disasters people really come together to help each other so anyway resilience we're talking about resilience.
00:45:54.630 --> 00:46:00.240 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i'm going to talk to you about my own experience with resilience when we come back after these messages so.
00:46:00.510 --> 00:46:13.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: you're listening to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, we do this every Thursday 12 noon to 1pm Eastern time right here on talk radio dot nyc all over Facebook and we will be right back in just a moment.
00:46:16.260 --> 00:46:16.710 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Join us.
00:48:16.980 --> 00:48:30.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Welcome back to the conscious consultant our awakening humanity, our first show of 2022 I hope you've been enjoying it talking about resilience talking about my trip to Montserrat and and what I learned from the people there.
00:48:31.470 --> 00:48:40.890 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I mentioned just before the break how about the supermarkets and it's interesting about the supermarket's because when you're a small island like that and most things get shipped in.
00:48:41.940 --> 00:48:43.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Almost just about everything.
00:48:44.430 --> 00:48:57.060 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You have to wait until the ship arrives until that that freighter ship that brings the cargo container of all the stuff you've ordered and if something happens the ship is late, or it doesn't show up, then you don't have stuff.
00:48:57.780 --> 00:49:05.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so we went into the supermarket when we were warned ahead of time, so we kind of expected it that there's not a lot of choices.
00:49:05.850 --> 00:49:15.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's not like the supermarkets here in the United States, where you've got 15 kinds of apples and and hundreds of cereal boxes and everything else you go into the supermarket there.
00:49:16.650 --> 00:49:24.000 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it's more like in New York, I would say it's more the equivalent of like one of the little bodega is one of the little delis and how much food they have.
00:49:24.780 --> 00:49:35.460 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and one of the the residents had said that when they go to a supermarket, the United States it's like going to Disneyland there's so much stuff and it's so colorful and oh my God.
00:49:36.420 --> 00:49:42.480 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And even my wife, who comes from China when when she first came, you know china's much more developed now.
00:49:45.510 --> 00:49:47.370 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: it's very different.
00:49:49.980 --> 00:50:01.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: supermarket's there it's a real lesson in in you know you don't need a lot of stuff I mean would we have liked to have a few more choices when we went shopping because we had a cook several meals.
00:50:02.580 --> 00:50:12.150 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Because one of the things we didn't realize was first of all, we knew we had to cook some meals, because we were in quarantine for five days, although we were able to order out and people delivered a couple of times.
00:50:12.930 --> 00:50:18.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But what we didn't realize is we were coming out of quarantine the day before Christmas Eve.
00:50:20.460 --> 00:50:26.700 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And Christmas this year was a Saturday, and they also celebrate Boxer Day, which is on Sunday.
00:50:27.300 --> 00:50:36.780 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And because Christmas and Boxer was on a Saturday and Sunday Monday and Tuesday was also a holiday, so a lot of places were closed for four days when we came out of.
00:50:37.170 --> 00:50:50.370 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: quarantine so Christmas Day like nothing was open so Luckily, we were able to find a supermarket that was open on Christmas Eve, and we bought a bunch of stuffing and cooked at home cooked cooked it our b&b where we stayed.
00:50:53.160 --> 00:50:57.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So you know we really have a lot of stuff that we take for granted.
00:50:59.130 --> 00:51:02.880 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And they are they don't have that much but they're grateful for what they do have.
00:51:04.050 --> 00:51:06.810 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it's so interesting just to see how.
00:51:07.830 --> 00:51:13.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, and then some parts of the island, some people have a little more money and other parts of less money.
00:51:13.830 --> 00:51:20.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and we didn't rent a car, like everyone was like Oh, did you rent a car, you know if you want to rent a car, we can arrange it for you.
00:51:21.090 --> 00:51:35.730 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I didn't really want to rent a car number one because they drive on what I consider the wrong side of the street, the left side of the street, not the right side of the street, because it's a British territory it's not American and i'm used to driving on the right side of the road.
00:51:36.750 --> 00:51:44.070 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then, when I got there and I saw with the roads are like I mean this is about cannock island, everything is up and down and curving and up and down and curving.
00:51:44.520 --> 00:51:53.790 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: I mean you cannot walk out of your House without walking uphill or downhill, I mean you were hiking the moment you walked out of your door.
00:51:54.720 --> 00:52:04.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so I just was like I don't know if I wanted for the first time in my life drive on the left side of the road, I in this kind of a situation so.
00:52:04.470 --> 00:52:08.760 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: He said, you know what not going to rent a car will just pay a cab driver and you know what.
00:52:09.450 --> 00:52:16.320 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: For the cost of the cab driver picking those up taking some place and then picking us up the place and taking us back to where we were saying.
00:52:16.890 --> 00:52:25.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: It was roughly the same prices for per day as renting a car and I didn't have to pay for gas or insurance or anything else, so it worked out pretty good.
00:52:25.500 --> 00:52:37.770 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And and, in general we usually just use the cab twice a day to go where we're going to come back and some days only once, because we walk back and We walked a lot because we're new Yorkers we'd love to walk we walk all over the city.
00:52:40.290 --> 00:53:00.660 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But, but it was a little bit not quite what we expected, because it was it because it's not that developed, because it is more old world Caribbean So the first thing that happened that was not very pleasant was when we were at the first b&b we're at.
00:53:02.040 --> 00:53:08.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Again we didn't have to stay in our room were in quarantine but we could walk around the property and they just mowed the grass and we.
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:19.170 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: walked up one places little cemetery tab and We walked in another place and walked in another place and I got all these Bytes and at first, I thought they were from the answer, because the answer all over the place they're vicious.
00:53:20.190 --> 00:53:28.800 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But then it started to spread and with certain parts of my body very uncomfortable very, very itching We talked to them, they got all those are chiggers.
00:53:29.310 --> 00:53:38.790 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You must have caught him from walking around the property and it was very uncomfortable and they spread all over my body that the host was wonderful she gave me some some.
00:53:40.650 --> 00:53:43.770 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Allergy medicine to help with the itching some some cream for it.
00:53:44.850 --> 00:53:49.320 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But it made it very unpleasant for me for me personally just physically.
00:53:50.340 --> 00:53:59.190 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Then we move to the new place, and you know we go around, and then we have challenges around Christmas around finding places that are open being able to.
00:53:59.550 --> 00:54:10.650 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Do stuff now keep in mind my wife and I we haven't been on vacation in two years, like this was the first like trip to just relax we have been traveling because a coven this was supposed to be are really our getaway.
00:54:11.460 --> 00:54:20.280 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: to relax and enjoy ourselves and and there were plenty of times and then on the day after Christmas we went to this.
00:54:21.300 --> 00:54:27.090 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: CAFE at waffles and asked about walking around and they said oh there's a hiking trail and they're here.
00:54:27.630 --> 00:54:35.340 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So we go on the hiking trail and we walk up beautiful views at the top of the trail again it's like straight up it's like you're just constantly climbing.
00:54:36.210 --> 00:54:44.520 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So it was a bit of a was a bit of exercise bit of it, but then we decided instead of going back after we reached the.
00:54:45.300 --> 00:54:52.140 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: lookout point overview and we decided to just continue to see where it's going and so we're going down down down and I kind of realized that.
00:54:52.740 --> 00:54:57.990 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, we had gone to the north to this CAFE and we're heading more towards the south so we're getting closer to where we live.
00:54:58.890 --> 00:55:12.300 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so down down down, we decided to go and i'm an experienced hiker before, and then the trail was pretty clear and relatively mark, but then it started to get not so clear not so mark start to get a little nervous.
00:55:13.980 --> 00:55:22.500 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then we came to a part of the trail, where it was washed out and and then it was kind of a little tough to figure out which way do we go.
00:55:23.370 --> 00:55:37.470 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: started to follow the river bed turned out after a while wasn't the right one, came back up, I tried to climb up the other side because I was pretty sure it was across the way I slipped and fell scraped my leg was bleeding was awful.
00:55:38.700 --> 00:55:50.010 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, then we decided to go down the riverbed came back up again, we found an easier way across and then found the trail and walked home and a time I got home, I like was killing me it's all bloody.
00:55:51.270 --> 00:55:57.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And, and you know we just wanted to relax and then the next night.
00:55:58.680 --> 00:56:05.550 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We go out we go out to get something to eat we walk back very pleasant evening and then.
00:56:06.450 --> 00:56:14.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We had done a laundry and we brought it up and put it up on the roof of the building and then also notice all these bugs all over the place nats.
00:56:14.850 --> 00:56:19.950 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then I go down, and I see where I turned on the outdoor lights of the of the place where we're staying then.
00:56:20.190 --> 00:56:30.930 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Whole was covered in that so then we go inside and then thats everywhere and we're not talking like a dozen that's we're talking like hundreds, thousands of men were like oh my God i'm trying to get in touch with the host and going to get in touch with them.
00:56:31.590 --> 00:56:35.880 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And it was just ridiculous it was just like one thing after another, after another.
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.510 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I was exhausted I just couldn't even deal with it.
00:56:41.130 --> 00:56:44.400 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: The hostess very nicely Let us stay in a different room that night.
00:56:45.030 --> 00:56:57.120 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And he lived torches when he got there and it was only for one night I mean people in the island, it was like no big deal i'd never experienced anything like i've never seen an invasion of gnats that was so extreme.
00:56:57.600 --> 00:57:04.680 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But in the island daily used to it they've had it before yeah that happens now and then they just burst and then they die, they only live a short time and they're overweight.
00:57:06.420 --> 00:57:10.350 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So, by the time we were ready to come back, we were pretty ready to come back.
00:57:11.820 --> 00:57:23.610 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: We fly back to empty grew up we're an empty we're waiting for a flight, we had a big gap between um we get on the plane planes a little bit delayed, not a big deal.
00:57:25.200 --> 00:57:39.180 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And then we and then our plane arrives in New York, but it's a little bit late because it's a little bit late we don't have a gate and so we're stuck in the plane for an hour, just like what an end to.
00:57:39.690 --> 00:57:48.390 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: End adventure look That was the whole thing like that, no, I mean the beaches were beautiful we practically had a beach to ourselves, I mean the island was beautiful.
00:57:49.290 --> 00:57:58.530 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: But you know when you're looking to just get away and relax and then you have all these trials and tribulations it takes a bit of resilience to deal with that.
00:58:00.030 --> 00:58:16.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And so, for me, I really it dealing with the challenges I just had to be very present I just had to focus on what I did enjoy I just had to focus on the fact that I was getting through it, that it was only a limited amount of time that we were coming home.
00:58:18.900 --> 00:58:26.790 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: So yeah this whole trip was about resilience, which is why today's show is all about resilience so.
00:58:27.180 --> 00:58:35.850 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: i've talked a lot i've tried to weave in some resilience practices and PS ic towards resilience I would love to hear from you what what.
00:58:36.420 --> 00:58:53.970 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: helps you to be resilient what kind of things do you find and I think it's very relevant to what's going on in the world today what we're all experiencing with the pandemic, we all need more resilience, we all are going through a challenging time but you know what.
00:58:55.440 --> 00:59:03.270 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: Sometimes, looking at the contrast looking at what other people have gone through which is so much worse, maybe then we're personally going through.
00:59:03.720 --> 00:59:13.020 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: To me, that also helps me to be resilient it also helps me to say you know what might be challenging might be difficult, but it's not as bad as other people anyway.
00:59:13.950 --> 00:59:19.620 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: that's my show for this week i'm over time, thank you all for tuning in I so appreciate you all.
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00:59:49.410 --> 00:59:58.080 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: You know, you can find the conscious consultant our so thank you all for tuning in next week I got an amazing guest lined up for you, I hope you enjoy next week's show.
00:59:58.320 --> 01:00:09.960 Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant: And I hope you'll join us, then, thank you all for tuning in don't forget later today five o'clock it's frank Harrison, with a show frank about health we've got all our Friday block of shows from 10am to 1pm.
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