Speaker 1: 0:05

In this podcast we talk a lot about the joy of riding a motorcycle, the freedom, the relaxation, the peace of mind that some of us find out there on the bike. Any number of times I've tried to describe how I felt riding a motorcycle when I was a little bitty kid. Actually, it was a mini bike, right, got it when I was 11 years old. Three and a half horsepowers yeah, it was massive to an 11-year-old, unbeknownst to my mom. I rode that little bike for miles away from our house down country roads. As an 11-year-old I can't imagine that now, out there on those lonely dirt roads, just as it is today, I find my happy place. I honestly think that every once in a while we here on earth get a glimpse of heaven, and that was it for me as a kid, and sometimes out on my bike. Today, I feel like I'm getting another glimpse just every once in a while. But these days, 50 years later for me from getting my first bike, the loads of life can get pretty heavy, can't they? The 24-hour news cycle is certainly a cause, I think, for that heavy load. That makes us all feel overwhelmed sometimes. So there's a question Is it possible to get that feeling back again the feeling when we didn't have these heavy loads, when we just rode without a care in the world. Can we find our happy place again? Well, my friends, it may be obvious I don't have all the answers, I really don't, but I know some amazing people who have some pretty good answers, really good answers, good suggestions.

Speaker 1: 1:53

It's my privilege today to have the opportunity to introduce you to Alicia Sky. Alicia is an author and a speaker and the creator of the Brilliance Method. Alicia is an author and a speaker and the creator of the Brilliance Method. She's also the host of her own podcast, where she helps people find clarity and purpose in their lives. And for us she has specific recommendations for helping us to find once again that happy place through the practice of mindfulness and gratitude while we're out on the bike. From beating cancer to building a beautiful marriage, to helping others find their own solutions, their own brilliance. Alicia's story is one of resilience and very much of inspiration.

Speaker 1: 2:44

This is a deep conversation. We'll be talking about mindfulness, spirituality and even how vulnerability is a true superpower. Interesting A lot of good information here to carry in our hearts on our next motorcycle ride. I know that you're going to enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Thanks for tuning in. Stay tuned Well here on the Peace Love Moto podcast. It is just such a privilege to meet people and have the opportunity to meet people. You know I love riding motorcycles, most certainly, but you can ask my wife. I love to meet people. Sometimes I have more fun meeting people I have not met before meeting strangers and becoming friends than I do with my own friends. Maybe that's a problem, but today I'm so excited to have Alicia Skye on the Peace Love Moto podcast, alicia welcome.

Speaker 2: 3:44

Thank you, ron. What a joy. And I mean it is amazing. I emailed you I said I love your show and I'm not even a motorcyclist, but I just love the presence you bring in the conversation. And here we are, the way that you just jump in, you say yes, you have an adventurous spirit, not just on the road but on your show and it is so fun to be a part of already.

Speaker 1: 4:07

Well, I thank you very much for that and, I must admit, so I get it. You know, I'll get emails every once in a while of folks who want to be on the show and I check them out first to make sure they're not some kind of nut. And you're not a nut. I've had some of those like, oh, thank you, but no, thanks but no. I saw your information, read from your website, saw the videos and your podcast and I thought, oh, my goodness, this is someone I most definitely want to talk with. So again, thank you so much for joining us today.

Speaker 2: 4:43

My pleasure.

Speaker 1: 4:46

Well, I got to tell you, alicia, I love your name, alicia Sky. That is a great combination of a name.

Speaker 2: 4:53

I just have to tell you that, yeah, I mean, my mother wanted to name me Alicia, which she told me when she looked it up means joyful, blissful happiness. Yeah, like that's pretty cool. And then she wanted to name me Alicia Heaven, and my dad felt like it was a bit too much, so they compromised on Sky and that's where we landed.

Speaker 1: 5:16

Well, that's wonderful, that's just wonderful. So, beyond that, though, I just feel like that your name fits to what you do, so we're on video together here, and behind you is the Brilliance Method. Tell us about that.

Speaker 2: 5:31

Oh well, the Brilliance Method is my—it was originally started as a methodology when people were asking me how did you create your life? You know I beat cancer when I was 24 years old. I turned 44 on Thursday, so, knock on wood, I'm still clear and will be forever. So when you look at, thank you and when. When you look at, well, how did you beat it and how did you? And I listened to my intuition. That's how I even knew that I had cancer in the first place. My doctors told me I didn't, but I knew I did. So I saved my own life with my intuition.

Speaker 2: 6:03

And we could talk a little bit about intuition on the show today too, and it's something I talk about a lot on my show. But people were asking me. You know, I met I was in my mid thirties at the time and they were saying things like wow, you have this cool career and I've worked in the entertainment industry and I'm married to my soulmate and I have the most amazing, beautiful marriage. It's one of the things I'm most proud of in my whole life and you know, you're happily married and it takes work, but it's also like the biggest blessing when everything else can sometimes seem chaotic, like we've got each other. And it's who I've become in my marriage, not just like as a human being but as a partner, how I've given my husband so much more grace over the years to just be himself and have his moments and not try to fix and control and you know it's a big part of what I do. So long story longer.

Speaker 2: 6:52

I was asked how'd you do it? How do you live in your dream house, married your husband, you're healthy, you've got this great career? How'd you do it? Because I used to be a hot mess and so I had to stop and go. How did I do it? That's a great question.

Speaker 2: 7:05

So I took a step back and I used to work in entertainment and I segued into working in the educational aspect of entertainment, producing courses for major universities and huge brands and you know branded content where they're teaching curriculums and things like that. And I used my own experience and I created a course. I mapped out I actually did post-it notes on my wall of what did I do, order by order. How did I do it? And it started with number one I listened to my intuition. Number two I went all in on my spiritual practice and understood the difference between what my soul is telling me as the truth, which is love, and choosing to listen to that voice versus the ego, which is fear. And the ego has a great purpose. It's here to keep us alive. Our ego is the one that says, hey, don't jump off that cliff right. The ego says, hey, turn left before the cliff, because maybe you won't. It might be a short drop, but it's here to keep us safe, because the ego cannot survive without a body, but the soul is eternal.

Speaker 2: 8:04

So we're going to have a spiritual conversation today by the way, I love it. And then I looked at well then, what did I do? I honed in on what we call our zone of genius, and if you're not familiar with that term, there's a gentleman named Gay Hendricks. He wrote a book called the Big Leap. I highly recommend it.

Speaker 1: 8:25

I watched the interview with him.

Speaker 2: 8:28

Yeah, it's so good. Yes, if you go to the Brilliance Method podcast, you can watch my interview with Gay Hendricks, and this is someone I've looked up to for years and years and years and he was like such a big get for me to be on my show because he's such a hero of mine, and that's another part of it, right, how do I manifest everything that I desire in my life? And so people are asking me all this stuff. So I mapped it out and I thought I need to teach this. So I created an online course called the Brilliance Method and then people wanted to work with me in groups and privately, to work through their own barriers and limiting beliefs and fears and doubts and to really tap into what is the clarity they have on their unique purpose in their life and how can they trust themselves more. I started working with different corporations leading mindfulness and I was actually doing that before that and then the podcast happened.

Speaker 2: 9:20

It just kind of happened, ron, like you said, like I can't find a podcast on this, I should start a podcast on this and for anyone who listens to Ron's show and might choose to listen to mine, you know if you have a message inside of you and you think, oh, someone else is already doing it, or maybe they're doing it better. They're not you. You have your own gifted way that you see the world that is so sacred and so special and you should at least just try, just try. Whether you want to do a podcast or do a speech or go on someone else's show, just try, just ask, because you never know if you're going to help and inspire one person and that could change that one person's life, and that one person whose life you changed or saved, could change or save a hundred other lives. It's a domino effect.

Speaker 1: 10:08

Oh, oh, absolutely. You and I talked just a couple of minutes before we started recording and I shared with you where the idea for this podcast came from. Generally, it's associated. We both are familiar with the Movember Foundation. People know about it as no Shave November Foundation, people know about it as no Shave November, and my wife and I got involved as participants and ride leaders for what's called the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride, which happens once a year on the same day around the world, starts in Australia and goes around, and anyway, it's this turned in today. It's this gigantic fundraiser for the Movember Foundation, focused on two different areas, so prostate cancer research and awareness, and then suicide prevention. And so it was just after Karen, my wife Karen, and I got involved with that. I wanted to find a podcast on that topic and I found a lot of motorcycling-based podcasts about going to Sturgis, lot of motorcycling-based podcasts about going to Sturgis, racing and adventure riding, which I do myself. But I was really looking for like this why does this make us happy and what good can we do in the world? And I couldn't find one. So it was my wife's idea why don't you just? She said you've got this voice, let's start. Just do it, just do it yourself. And I want to tell you too I'm just kind of filling in blanks maybe here too.

Speaker 1: 11:26

So growing up, my dad worked at a machine shop full-time, very, very, very busy. But he also worked as a part-time minister. So when the pastor of a church was leaving and there were between pastors or whatever they would call dad and dad would come and fill in for a while. Then he got into jail ministry and jail education programs, to working, working with prisoners, you know, to help them out from a spiritual standpoint. Then, as it grew, from an educational standpoint and other things. Well, I share with people that I never felt the personal call to ministry myself. I didn't. So I went into the computer industry because it was supposed to be a hot thing, right, and I've been in it ever since.

Speaker 1: 12:13

But what I have found myself, though, with this podcast, with these quite a number of episodes so far and the feedback that I've gotten, I feel like I'm slipping into ministry a little bit. So far, and the feedback that I've gotten, I feel like I'm slipping into ministry a little bit. But at the same time, you know, I, you know, I don't know, maybe I should edit this out, but I don't want to beat people over the head with the Bible either. You know I appreciate and love people of many, many faiths and people who don't have a faith at all. I understand and I really appreciate that.

Speaker 1: 12:42

But the thing that I've come to understand, I think, trying to put all the pieces together the thing that I've come to understand, especially through the efforts of the Movember Foundation and the fundraising efforts for the Distinguished Gentleman's Right, it's a very, very hurting world. There are a lot of, lot of people suffering through all sorts of distresses depression, despair, all that. And here's another piece of it too. I work in technology, right, and our company is very, very involved in AI. So AI and associated automation with that.

Speaker 1: 13:20

Honestly and I tell my team this too I'm very honest I see this just gigantic wave of despair and depression because so many knowledge worker jobs are getting affected, yeah, and it's a big, big, big deal and I'm very, very concerned about that. So, all that being said, I feel like that you and I are very much on the same page, that we feel like that maybe we have a talent for something and a calling to that those of us who can speak up and do something we've got to, so I should take a breath there, sorry, I think I it's so relevant what you're saying for everyone because, look, your audience spends time on the road and what a beautiful thing you know, and maybe you're listening to music, or maybe you're just being present and feeling the wind on your chest, or whatever you might be doing.

Speaker 2: 14:11

But how much time, ron, do you spend thinking about your life and memories and like you're just doing one thing and you're focusing on it so you don't die? You have to be very careful and cautious and it is a mindfulness practice and when we are so present with ourself, we cannot avoid looking at purpose and wanting to be purposeful, wanting to be significant, wanting to make an impact and for things to have meaning. We want to mean something and you're doing it. And for all of us who are listening to the show right now, you have a purpose and a heartbeat within you that motivates you to do better, be better, give back, even if it's not your full-time job, like what you and your wife do with Movember and with your ride, and ministry means something different to everybody.

Speaker 2: 15:06

It doesn't have to look like standing in front of a podium preaching, like what you do on this show, as you said, is your own form of ministry and you do it in your own way and I wouldn't edit out the Bible comment because, truly, the people and you heard me say before we even started recording I love everyone of all spiritual walks of life and anyone who's beating anyone over the head with their specific belief system and not being open to love, which is what all the great masters of any religion were truly teaching they're not the ones who are probably listening to your show because you're an open-minded dude with a big heart who does accept and want other people's perspectives on things.

Speaker 2: 15:50

So no, in fact, I think when we speak to a specific audience, they can hear us. And for people who are in communities that you don't feel like, those are necessarily your people. And you're finding Ron, and you're finding me and you're like, yeah, I want to hang out with more people that are like open-minded and accepting and can preach in their own way. That's loving. Then here we are, we found each other and my ministry really came in officiating weddings and I wouldn't be surprised, ron, if someone at some point asks you to preside over their wedding or maybe even a loved one's funeral. I've officiated over a thousand weddings.

Speaker 1: 16:29

Oh my goodness, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2: 16:31

Yeah, it's one of my fun facts.

Speaker 2: 16:33

On the bottom of my resume and, living in Los Angeles, I've done a lot of celebrity weddings and rock star weddings and entertainment industry weddings and you know, what's so cool is not the names of the people who I've married, but just to see that everybody is human and everybody has a moment of vulnerability and that is their superhero connection.

Speaker 2: 16:57

Like the new Superman movie just came out there came out earlier this summer and what I love about the Superman story is his vulnerability, that he's like just a klutz over Lois Lane and that he can be killed by kryptonite. And that was a big thing in the new movie. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but they put a big emphasis on the kryptonite stuff. And if we are not vulnerable, if we don't scrape our knees on the road and fumble and cry in front of a group once in a while and be willing to do something for a good cause and tell the truth and take care of and protect people in our industries and want to shine a light on those who are fantastic like you've invited me onto your show and I want you to come onto mine then how are we going to be relatable to other people we have to be vulnerable.

Speaker 1: 17:45

Yeah, yeah, I'd mentioned about the whole A and automation thing, and then again, that's the industry that I'm in. But, as you know too, and I've uh, we're very much like-minded, as I've found as I've listened to you um, about the political mess that we're in. Now, I never go down that path on this podcast, but you can say this I mean, it's just as clear as day. There's so much hatred, oh, my goodness, yeah, hatred, uh and uh, pride, and there's just this, the whole list, I guess, getting back to the biblical thing of of sins, they're just yelling at us that out there all the time, just screaming like this shouldn't be done, this shouldn't be done, this shouldn't be done and this shouldn't be done, this shouldn't be done and so forth. And it's this 24-hour news cycle too that people are so easily becoming addicted to, addicted to Instagram. You know, one violent act after another. And scrolling through and scrolling through, I just feel like that people like you and I and others, we just have to be almost as loud in a positive way. We just have to be almost as loud in a positive way.

Speaker 1: 18:49

You know, what I have experienced in my as a tour guide very part-time tour guide in Rocky Mountain National Park is that when we get people, some of our favorite visitors are from the big city, chicago, la, new York or whatever. Those are going to be winners, winning tours. Because we take out about a dozen people at a time, because so many of them have no idea what wilderness is and they the way I put it they've never had a conversation with their mom and I I use that expression mother nature. They haven't had the conversation and I've shared this a few times, but I wanted to share this with you too, and I appreciate your thoughts. So I had, i've've done well over 300 tours in the National Park. It's with Green Jeep Tours. Nikki Schultz is the owner, female owner. She's wonderful. We usually take about a dozen people into the mountains at a time in these Jeeps and things and we narrate.

Speaker 1: 19:42

I took a gentleman and his family into the mountains and we went out to this mountain meadow. That was just. It's just beautiful. It's completely surrounded by mountain peaks and snow on the mountains all year round.

Speaker 1: 19:57

And after a lot of training, I guess, or experience, I learned to stop talking so much. I could talk for the whole three-hour tour and rattle things off, but I stopped talking so much. So here's my point, as we get out to this place called Elk Meadow and I described things off, but I stopped talking so much. So here's where my point is we get out to this place called Elk Meadow and I described the peaks, the name of the peaks, their altitude, and I stopped talking.

Speaker 1: 20:16

And then the father of the group came and stood up, stood shoulder to shoulder with me, to my right, and he said Ron, I feel the presence of God here, and he's from Chicago and they had never seen anything like this before. And that opened the door for me. And I said yes, sir, I do too. And I went on to say I remember what I said somehow. I said maybe all of this was created for me and you right now to realize how small we are and how big God is and how wonderful mother nature is. Maybe it's just created for us right now. And he cried, and he gave me a hug and then I cried you know, but.

Speaker 1: 20:57

But I guess where I'm going with this is. I think that there's so many people buried in their phone and watching the news continuously and upset about what the president saying or others are saying and all this stuff, and rightfully so upset. But we can only take so much, right, Isn't it destructive up here?

Speaker 2: 21:19

It is. And if we spent more time focusing on those magical moments like you had with that dad. Even in our own backyard, even in a big city, there's so many beautiful things that have been created. And hey, if it's noisy outside and the buildings are tall, just look straight up at the sky and just be fascinated. You know, we're not fascinated anymore, ron. We've got everything on demand. Remember when we were younger and we had to, like, wait a whole year to watch your favorite movie on Christmas and all that you know. And people don't get to do that anymore and we can choose to. We can choose to be fascinated and we get to be in awe.

Speaker 2: 21:58

And the opposite of that is mindlessness, not mindfulness. And when we have that low vibrational frequency of terror and pain and look at all of this crime and sadness in the world and hey, look over here, look over here, look over here, then we're not looking inside, we're not looking around our immediate circle. And I read a statistic recently. I don't know if it's quite a statistic, but human beings were never meant to know the news of the world. Human beings were never meant to know the news of the world that we are a tribal people and maybe our communities were supposed to be 100, maybe 150 people big and that's it. You knew what was going on in the tribe next door, maybe a few communities down, you know the river where you might fish or whatnot, like we weren't meant to know about wars and other countries and things.

Speaker 2: 22:52

And now we get to and we can contribute and donate and pray and do good with it, but not to your point, to not be inundated with the pain of it all the time. And I tell people I'm like please don't post horrible stuff or send me things of shootings and animals and things that make me sad. Just tell me who to donate to or tell me what to share. You know, tell me where, like when to venmo you or what to venmo you. But I am too sensitive and I have no qualms about it to see that stuff all the time and it it lowers our frequency yeah, yeah, I, yeah, I have.

Speaker 1: 23:29

I experienced something weird. I don't. Maybe you can tell me what happened to me. So I commute three days a week into downtown Denver and I choose to take the bus, which takes me twice as long. But I like sitting on the bus and I listen to music and I listen to podcasts such as yours now. And anyway, I remember this instant and it freaked me out. So I was on the bus from Denver back to Loveland, where I live, and it's a 55-minute route including two stops. Before I stop here, I started looking at Instagram with my headphones on and scrolling before the bus left Denver Union Station. I didn't look up until I heard Loveland Station 55 minutes later, and I had been scrolling that whole time and I felt dizzy. It freaked me out. I was mindless. I guess that I wrote down that word that you mentioned. I went mindless and did I learn anything? I probably laughed a lot and said, wow, look at this, or whatever, but I went mindless for 55 minutes and I felt terrible about that.

Speaker 2: 24:42

You felt physically terrible, or you just felt like shame, like you wasted your time A little bit of both.

Speaker 1: 24:46

I felt a little dizzy from it. It was weird, but I think it was mainly the realization that I was hooked, at least for that 55 minutes. I was absolutely hooked in the scrolling.

Speaker 2: 24:57

Yeah Well, first of all, you can set a timer on your Instagram, and I have mine set to 30 minutes a day and you can just use it a minute at a time, here and there throughout the day, and it'll tell you when you have five minutes left and I have mine doing that, and you could click ignore limit for today, but it's a mindful reminder to just not be on your phone so much. So that's one tip that I think can help everybody. And what happened? You said maybe I could tell you what happened. So there's a couple things that happened.

Speaker 2: 25:45

Number one when we're done working, our brain has almost run out of message units. Which message units are and how well we ate. We have a certain amount of message units and if you slept like crap, you ate crap, you had a stressful day, you start your next day with a lot less message units. So if you're you know they used to have a commercial about that 2.30 feeling like now I need caffeine or something like that, right, that happens because we've just run out. Right, there's just too much thinking, too much doing, not enough being. We've depleted our message units in our brain. So when we've done that, it's actually hard to accomplish anything else because you're just a little bit sluggish and caffeine only takes you so far.

Speaker 2: 26:21

What you really need to do is rest or do something peaceful that resets your nervous system or helps you just relax. So the bus is a great opportunity to do that, as you said, because you can listen to podcasts and read or whatnot. And it's okay that you just decided to check out. You just checked the F out. I just need this little mental vacancy, okay. So that's okay to do once in a while. So if there's shame there, you get to just release that guilt or shame and just let go, so that I understand. And then now you're present enough and you'll remember this conversation.

Speaker 2: 26:54

So next time you're 10 minutes in and you're like, oh, I feel this pull to just be stuck on Instagram and I'm watching funny videos and I'm watching cute animal videos or laughing a lot, like there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2: 27:05

But check out your posture, make sure you're breathing, make sure you're drinking water, make sure you're paying attention to where you're going, so you don't wind up having to Uber back right. And there's another thing, though in our devices, in our physical devices, first of all, there's the energy of Wi-Fi, there's the electromagnetic frequencies. There's the radiation of Wi-Fi all around us and Bluetooth, if you're listening on Bluetooth, right, so there's all this stuff that's messing with our own biology on a level of frequency, and that is stress to the body. It might, for some, consider it a microstress, some consider it a macrostress, but it's stress on the body to engage with electronics even now, the way that we're doing. And then the other thing is there are literal, audible frequencies in, not just in Instagram and TikTok and anything else, but also in modern day music that are programmed in there to make us feel more addicted to them.

Speaker 1: 27:58

Really.

Speaker 2: 27:59

There are, and it happened close to 100 years ago in the music industry. They started putting it in classical music and playing at a different frequency. It's not really a conspiracy theory, it's just the truth. Like, if you speak my husband's in the music industry, you can speak to anyone who works in audio engineering and they'll tell you oh yeah, we used to do everything at this hertz and now we do everything at this hertz for pop music because it sells better, right?

Speaker 1: 28:22

I had no idea.

Speaker 2: 28:24

So it's not your fault, ok. And like TikTok, I cannot stay on TikTok for more than five minutes because I feel dizzy, because I'm so sensitive to it. So that feeling you got on Instagram after 30, I'm kind of the same way. Or you've had it for an hour. I kind of get out at 30. Tiktok, I cap out at five minutes. It's such a strong wave.

Speaker 2: 28:43

Whatever they're doing in there and you know, look, everything that happens in this country is to sell us something, whether we like it or not, and they're just trying to sell us stuff and they're paying attention to what we're clicking on and what we're scrolling on, and then they're feeding us these, this information, and our brain is tired. So if anyone is like, yeah, that happens to me sometimes, just put it down. Sometimes I'll text myself the link if I really want to come back or read an article or look at somebody's page and just give yourself a break and go outside and stick your feet in the ground. Or if it's snowing, you know, don't, but go like I will physically, and this, you know, sounds very hippy-d dippy, but I will go and put my hands on trees and I will just walk outside, like walking up to my door. You get out of your car.

Speaker 2: 29:34

Long day of work, it takes 30 seconds. People walk up. Just put your hands on the trees and feel the grounding energy and just breathe and imagine roots and leaves coming from your own feet down into the earth. Like Ron was saying, we're like are we disconnected from our mother? Do we miss our mother? Right, you can heal that feeling of anxiety, which is what you described, ron, about being on Instagram for an hour. Right, it's a feeling of anxiety. Just go touch something natural, even just hug your own dog when you walk in the door. Don't just pet her on the head and give her a treat. Sit on the floor and hold her and feel her heartbeat on yours. That is how we ground in, and humans too.

Speaker 1: 30:17

I love that. I so love that Right now I'm in bare feet and my feet are on a grounding pad.

Speaker 2: 30:24

Yay, I have one too.

Speaker 1: 30:27

My wife both on to that and, uh, she sleeps with a grounding pad at her feet.

Speaker 2: 30:33

I don't do that, I'm too restless of a sleeper, but we, we have really gotten into that and I sleep better when I'm using and you know what's crazy is because the grounding sheet plugs into the one. I don't know the science behind it, but when you have an outlet there's the circle on the bottom, it plugs into that, and that only If my phone is plugged in and I'm on my phone in bed and I have the grounding sheet on me. It actually sends me a little electric shocks, which they say don't use electronics, don't be holding electronics when you're grounding.

Speaker 1: 31:07

Oh, interesting Something to it oh interesting Something to it, so yeah, I wanted to ask you one other thing in regard to this podcast that I'm trying to figure out what it's all about. I think I'm getting closer, but the minute I get closer I think, oh wait, I'm not real sure I've used here's where the name came from. We haven't talked about this. But peace is peace of mind, because I've mentioned any number of times, when I go for a motorcycle ride and I don't ride in traffic unfortunately I don't have to where we live I can go and be traffic free right away, which is wonderful, and go up in the mountains, be on dirt roads and stuff like that. But the peace of mind piece for me is that at 63 now, I transport myself back to my 11-year-old self when I put my helmet on and start the bike. It takes a few minutes, but it doesn't take that long, and it's just all of a sudden the same little vibration that I felt on that tiny little mini bike when I was a little bitty kid riding out through the woods and all these old dirt roads. It comes back to me and every once in a while I get feedback from a listener and it's me too. Me too, I remember that. And so again kind of around back to my our sense of urgency around.

Speaker 1: 32:32

There's just a lot of hurting people out there who just need some relief from without or from within, wherever they can come from, and my hope with the podcast is that they will eventually love through the second word, love that you got to learn to love yourself first, I believe, and then you got to love other people. You absolutely have to, whether it's that little over the top tip for a barista, a little conversation, extra smile to a kid who's looking at you through the window of their car car or pulling off the road to say, you know, seeing someone who's on the side of the road and say, are you okay? You know, and sometimes they'll say no, I'm not, and that's happened to me a few times and I just absolutely convinced that, yes, we need to be pouring into ourselves, most certainly, but I think a big part of that's just pouring out to other people, because there's always someone out there who's really having a bad, bad day or their life has just been ruined for some reason, and they need somebody like you who's willing to come out and just say a kind word and give a hug to a stranger or whatever. So that's, I guess that circles back to what I'm trying to figure out with this podcast, cause I don't see, I just don't hear anybody else talking specifically about that.

Speaker 1: 33:52

I think we're doing a really good job as motorcycle riders talking about the whole freedom thing, and you know the party and our brotherhoods and sisterhoods we do a really good job at that.

Speaker 1: 34:02

But I think the minute, too, that we face out and realize that, wow, are we blessed I'll use that word strongly, you know, blessed because we have the finances to own one or more motorcycles For one thing, they are not cheap and we have the physical capability to do it, we've got the mental capability to do it. So that's, you know, three really good things to live for and be thankful for. So we've got that going for us as a motorcycling family. So with that, you just got to turn it around. You just don't know what somebody else may be going through, or there's just, as you mentioned too, there's just some wonderful charities that are already out there that we can be giving to. So, all that being said, I'd like to ask you, maybe, as we begin to wrap up, what can our listeners do to learn more from you, the people that you work with your organizations that you support. What can they do to take the next steps in realizing how blessed they are and how wonderful it is to show love in some way to another person?

Speaker 2: 35:16

Wow, so beautiful, Ron. And as I begin to answer that, I just want to reflect back to you the idea of generosity, because that's the theme in everything that you just said. And if anyone feels in any way awkward or embarrassed to make eye contact with someone or give them a compliment and I know that's, you know, can be risky nowadays in an environment where people are offended or scared, right, but when you come from a place of kindness and you just let that moment happen and it's just true generosity. Like you said, giving a little extra tip, holding a door open, you know, saying a kind thing to someone you just can do it. Just to do it, just to make somebody happy, and that's why you created this show is to bring happiness. That's why I created my show and with the brilliance method, if you liked this conversation and you're interested in hearing more of these types of conversations when it comes to mindfulness and trusting yourself and being a better human and connecting to your purpose, having clarity and reason for being, then come to my show.

Speaker 2: 36:16

It's available on every podcast platform. I do video and audio. I have a YouTube channel. I'm putting YouTube short snippets out now and I've created a Patreon which is patreoncom, forward. Slash the brilliance method and that's community. That is a place to get involved in co-creating episodes with me.

Speaker 2: 36:36

We do a monthly spiritual think tank where we talk about these ideas and sometimes I answer questions for people from an intuitive perspective. Or, you know, we do a little coaching back and forth and it's a good time. Or we do a little coaching back and forth and it's a good time. Other than that, aliciaskycom, my name is spelled E-L-Y-S-I-A and there's an E on the end of sky S-K-Y-Ecom. My website is set up primarily for me as a speaker.

Speaker 2: 37:04

I love to do motivational and mindset speaking with different corporations, events, workshops of all shapes and sizes. I do a lot of panel speaking too, and it's all focused on mindfulness, stress reduction and compassionate communication. How can we just be a healthier, happier human, kinder to others and ourselves, and it's my greatest joy. So if there's a space for me to come and speak at your event and your organization, or if you want to co-create and put something together, like Ron and I might be doing, then hit me up, reach out and yeah, again, I think the word blessed is very appropriate. I am so blessed and so blessed that you said yes, and here we are, and this is just the beginning.

Speaker 1: 37:45

Well, it just really made my day.

Speaker 1: 37:49

This has been the last couple of weeks been kind of tough on the corporate side that I work on, these days Been a little tough, but just talking with someone like you who I feel like is very much a kindred spirit, that we realize how blessed we are and we know there's wonderful people out there to connect with and there's also a lot of people we can help in one way or another, and thank you for your spirit and all that you do. And I think I've already mentioned on this podcast before, but I work for a little company. I shouldn't mention its name, but its initials are IBM. Well, I want to be indiscreet there. I won't mention the name, but initials are IBM. And we have mindfulness at IBM, which I've had the opportunity to speak a couple of times on, and I feel certain that my colleagues who run that podcast and that event would love to have you. So that's something I've just made a note of. If you may be interested in talking with the corporate world there, we would love to have you.

Speaker 2: 38:49

I would love to, and I went to an AI for marketing convention in Cleveland, Ohio, last year and we talked a lot about ethics with AI and people's jobs changing and a lot of times corporations will bring me in. This happened with Banana Republic when they did a mass layoff that's public information now, but they had to do a pretty big layoff and they said, Alicia, can you just make everybody feel better? Can you talk about purpose and maybe what's next for them? And especially with AI, as you mentioned, there might be some jobs in every industry being replaced, some of those knowledge-based jobs and things like that.

Speaker 2: 39:30

And I will say, if anyone is worried, I want to give you some hope that this is an opportunity and this is something I learned at this AI convention this technology boom. Yes, there's going to be a lot of difficult times ahead, but this is a time for us to become masters at our craft and go all in on what we're passionate about, Because those people who love what they do and they do it better than anyone else they're going to rise up above their middlemen jobs that they haven't been in love with, because they know there's something greater for them. So I encourage everyone to really commit to their own brilliance right now and shine and you will thrive.

Speaker 1: 40:15

So encouraging, so encouraging and for the listeners. I will have all the details on your contact information in the show notes. And, alicia, thank you, it was a pleasure to meet you. Thank you so much.

Speaker 2: 40:27

Oh, my pleasure. Thank you, ron, and thank you to everyone listening today.

Speaker 1: 40:34

Just like you, I find myself discouraged sometimes by the weight of the world, the endless news cycle and so forth, but then you hear someone who tells you about hope, and that's what we heard today from Alicia Sky. Alicia, thank you so much for being with us today, for your specific suggestions that speak very much to our motorcycling community. Alicia's information will be in the show notes. Feel free to reach out to her, and thank you so much for joining us on this podcast. I appreciate your support. I appreciate your support If you would like to write a review for this podcast hopefully a positive one and do that, I think, especially through Apple Podcasts. That's quite effective in helping get the news out about the podcast if you like it. So if you wouldn't mind doing that, that would be awesome. Really appreciate any reviews, as always. Thank you so much for listening. I wish you peace and I wish you love. Thank you.