S4E6 - Gen Edwards
This week’s More Than Work Podcast guest is Gen Edwards, Intuitive Energy Healer. She is a registered practitioner using The Emotion and Body Codes. Gen didn’t start out as a healer. In fact, she came to this work in her 50s. Prior to that, she worked as a corporate trainer, creating training materials and delivering training.
Gen was born in Zimbabwe and lived in South Africa before moving to Leeds, United Kingdom. While meeting with a financial advisor one day, she hit a breaking point and her advisor recommended she go see an energy healer that he was seeing. It was while seeing the healer herself, that she found her calling.
Being a light worker is Gen’s life purpose because it allows her to serve others. She even sees herself working until she is 80!
Note from Rabiah (Host):
Gen is one of those people that you can’t help but be in a better mood after talking to. She really loves what she does and she loves what she used to do. I think it is so fortunate when we can make a living doing something that has meaning and she’s doing it for the second time. She has now found her life’s purpose but also stayed consistent to her values up until now which is pretty cool.
From London to Leeds: Rabiah and Gen speak from their respective parts of the UK.
Transcript
Rabiah (Host): [00:04:13] Welcome to More Than Work, the podcast reminding you that your self worth is defined by more than your job title. I'm Rabiah, an IT Project Manager, comedian, nonprofit volunteer and sometimes activist. Every week, I'll chat with a guest about pursuing passions outside of work or creating meaningful opportunities inside the workplace.
As you listen, I hope you'll be inspired to do the same. Here we go.
Hello everyone. So I have to preface this week and probably next week too, with the fact that I had a cold while recording the episode. I didn't want to let go of the chance to talk to my guests, but I also knew that my voice was suffering. So I'm glad to tell you that I'm a lot better now. And if you get a cold this year, what [00:05:13] I can say is that, it's probably gonna feel worse than it did two years ago when you got a cold because it's just been so long. I wasn't mentally prepared for it to be honest with you. I was kind of thinking, well, I know I'll get sick eventually.
I mean, it'll happen again. But it just was really kind of a weird thing. Cause I was scared at first I had COVID and then I realized I didn't and then I didn't know if it was a flu, but it took about a week to get over. So if anyone's sick right now, I hope you get better soon. And if anyone, uh, is coming out of getting a cold, I wonder if you felt the same way as me. I just was over it. And then it took about a week though, to fully be over it. So I apologize for my voice in this episode.
And as far as this one goes, I'm talking to Gen Edwards.
Her job is interesting to me. She's an energy healer. I know people who do Reiki. I know people who do acupuncture. I know people do all kinds of things. Some people believe it works. Some don't. Regardless, I think it's really cool that people are trying to [00:06:13] help people. And I think what I want people to get out of this episode is really just the spirit with which Gen comes at things.
I mean, she's so enthusiastic. She's so pleased to be doing what she's doing and grateful for it. And, her job now is helping people. And she actually draws the parallel herself, that her previous job was helping people.
I think it's cool that she found this theme in her life of service to others that she's been basically able to share in different ways. It's manifested itself in different ways first in her corporate job and then now as a healer, and I think it just shows that you can be doing the same value or showing the same value, but in a different way.
And she's also another one who's just saying it doesn't matter what age you are, you can find what you love. So that's what I hope people listen for and get out of it. If you get something else out of it, I want to know that too. And thanks a lot for being here this week and listening.
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Rabiah (Host): Hey, welcome back everyone. This week, I'm talking to Gen Edwards, Intuitive Energy Healer. How are you doing Gen?
Gen Edwards: Yeah, I'm great. Thanks. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me.
Rabiah (Host): So where am I talking to you from?
Gen Edwards: I'm based in Leeds in the UK, and I think you're in London. Are you?
Rabiah (Host): I'm in London. Yeah. So. Not too far from each other.
Gen Edwards: No,
Rabiah (Host): Yeah. So did you grow up up in Leeds?
Gen Edwards: no, I am a Zimbabwean. And I was born in Zimbabwe and then we moved to South Africa later in my life. And now we moved to Leeds
about four years ago.
Rabiah (Host): Oh, wow. So was that a big change?
Gen Edwards: Huge change, but I love it here. I think it's amazing. I I'm so happy here.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah, but wow. Growing up, down in South Africa. Okay. And so you're an intuitive energy healer, so I'm sure when people hear that they have all different ideas of what that is, but [00:08:13] what is that like for you to explain what you do basically?
Gen Edwards: Okay. So what I do is I, if you, like, I built an energetic bridge between us. So I work with energy and I channel energy in order to heal you. And I access you, your, yourself, your higher self. I access your subconscious self. Whatever part of you, it is that, that we want to sort of reference. And I do that by building an energetic bridge.
And then I'll ask your, ask your higher self closed questions, which elicit a yes/no answer. Because I'm connected to you. I'm connected to your energy. I get the answers in my head. what's called clairsentient. So that's a thing of knowing. I know, I know, I know, I know in my body. So I ask questions of your body and then I get answers in my body.
And then when I find the answer. And it's usually, it's because I'm looking for things that are holding you back, I release the negative things that I find. They usually very [00:09:13] often they're feelings, they're feelings, that you were unable to process when you experienced them. You know how we push things away and we shut things down and we don't deal with stuff.
And that's exactly what I find and release. I don't know what the event was that caused you to have that feeling. But I released the feeling that you've been holding for the time that you'd been holding it.
Rabiah (Host): And so when you, the person has to be open to you doing that, you can't just connect with them without them?
Gen Edwards: No, a hundred percent. There's, there's a, an ethics, an ethics and morals involved. I can only work with someone who gives me permission, and that means same, basically that you have contracted with God or was also with the universe. And I am merely a facilitator. I'm just the person who has come to you as a doorway, if you like, and to healing.
And then I'm allowed to work with children under the age of 18, as long as their guardian or parent gives permission. That's the [00:10:13] only real instance where I can work with someone without them knowing. I work with lots of children without them knowing, because if children think there's something wrong with them, you know, like when my kids were small, um, we used to go to occupational therapy and stuff. And my kids sort of said, oh, there's something wrong with me. Kids don't have to know that now because I can just access energy and I can release whatever's bothering them. So it's a really nice way of helping children because they don't need to, to, to feel there's something wrong with me.
Rabiah (Host): So what's the outcome that someone has, like typically if they come to you and then you've done this successfully?
Gen Edwards: It depends what they come to me for. So, there's many things that people come to me for. A lot of people come to me for things like anxiety and childhood trauma. People also come to me for things like sore knees and trichotillomania for example, which is I've worked very successfully
with, and that is the composite pulling out of hair from the eyebrows or the eyelashes or the [00:11:13] head typically.
It can be other parts of the body as well, but, but what people do, it's, it's a coping mechanism. It's a stress coping mechanism. It's, it's a type of OCD behavior. And a good result for me is when they've stopped doing that. They don't pull the hair out anymore because we've released from them the things that were causing the behavior. We've released the root causes if you like that was sitting at the bottom and making them behave that way, causing them to behave that way now.
Rabiah (Host): So, is it something where, for example, like if you go to any kind of psychotherapy, you usually go multiple times because it takes a while. A lot of it's. Cause you're having to articulate what's going on, but for your type of healing, is that the case as well? Like people have to go multiple times or can you just knock it all out so to speak?
Gen Edwards: Thank you for that question. I love that question. A lot of people think healing, energy healing, so magic bullet and it's it's the silver bullet that kills a [00:12:13] werewolf. And it's not.
It is a process just like you would go to a coach for. You wouldn't just go to a coach for one session. As you say, you wouldn't go to a therapist for one session. You wouldn't decide to learn to be a Cordon Bleu cook and do it for one session.
So with me the very often people have a a wonderful response after the first session. They, they report back feeling a lot better feeling, a lot happier if any lighter, the pain's gone, whatever it is. But
it is a process. It is absolutely a process.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah. Well, especially if maybe, I don't know, I don't know much about it. So if you haven't really determined the cause because you can't, because you're not speaking to them about what caused that emotion then they could, it could recur, I suppose, like in some other way, maybe something happens that brings back that feeling for them, for example, right?
Gen Edwards: Yes a hundred percent. The way of the [00:13:13] analogy I I do is that it's like cleaning a room or we turn all the dust bunnies out of the room. But if someone walks into your room at big muddy boots and triggers that again, you, you, you can re-experience how you felt, you know, from the first time. But what we find is that it's not triggered to the extent that it was originally.
So let's say Let's say I'm working with someone who's been abused in childhood. And what, what we'll find is that they, after a number of sessions, it might be three sessions, might be more, they report a feeling of detachment. And what happens is that they are able to revisit the memory and almost be sitting on the window sill and looking into the room and not actually experiencing the depth of feelings of they felt or the horror and the overwhelm and the fear.
But then if they meet the person who abused them, it can definitely bring it back up for them. But it doesn't bring it up to [00:14:13] the same level. So what I do is that we test, we do a severity level thing where when you had your first session with me, we talk about it, we say, what is your severity level out of 10?
How bad is this for you? And we set it on a conscious rating. And then we also asked the highest self, what is the rating? And it's a benchmark. It's a way of working down. So if you come to me at a 10 and we work it down to say a two or three, which is what we want to do, we want to bring it right down as far as possible.
And then you meet the perpetrator, you might trigger up to a six. But then you'll have a session and you'll come back down again. Very often. You might come back down to a two or three, again, it's like the room can't get as dirty as it was because we've released a lot of the dirt. So the muddy boots are a quicker fix if that makes sense.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah. Yeah, it does. That's cool. And how did you get into doing this? Like how did you realize you were, you said clairsentient,
right versus like clairvoyant, which is what I'll think [00:15:13] a term a lot of people know
more, at least I do. So.
Gen Edwards: Well I think my story as a healer is that I got healed. So I I think that I had lots of issues in my life and I didn't deal with them. I never felt it was necessary to deal with them until I got to my fifties and I realized it was not necessary, but imperative for me to deal with my stuff.
And I could have gone down several routes. I could have gone to counseling. I could have gone to therapy. There's many different ways. All roads lead to Rome is what I believe. And I think that my road is just one of them. But I just happened to meet healers. I was working with a a financial advisor.
And he said something to me and says, he triggered me something. He said something and it just triggered me. And I thought I got quite emotional, quite teary. And he said, you know what, Gen, I go to the most amazing energy healer. Her name is so-and-so and I think you should try her. And, and that's how I started my healing journey.
And I, I [00:16:13] started working with healers and I worked with a particular healer who astounded me. She just absolutely astonished me with what she did for me. And the results were so remarkable. My brother who lives in Australia came to the UK three years ago and we hadn't seen each other for about five years.
And he said, Gen, I can't believe how much you've changed. And it was internal for me, but it was also external. Obviously people were noticing it and because it was such a gift to me, I wanted to do the same for others and it resonated with me so profoundly that I really wanted to do the same for other people
and that's why
Rabiah (Host): Yeah, that's great. And, but I assume not everybody can do it. Like not everyone maybe has the capacity to intake and interpret other's emotions. I mean, I know like, so I'm considered an empath, right? And that's been difficult in the past, because I didn't sometimes differentiate between my own emotions and others, and I have a therapist to help me with that a [00:17:13] bit.
And that's why I've been understanding of that for, for myself and how it manifests for me, which I don't talk about that stuff on this podcast very much, but I don't mind that people know these kinds of things. But I know not everyone's an empath and so is the same for like an energy healer as far as
you had to have some sort of gift or ability in order to do it?
Gen Edwards: Yes, I think so. So for me, I'm also a bit of an empath. And what, what, what happens with me is that when I connect with you very often, if I, if I haven't worked with you before, I don't know why it's always the first couple of sessions that are kind of the roughest and I might be working with you and something will come up and because I'm connected to you,
it makes me very emotional. And then I need to block myself off. I need to build a shield around my, my, my solar plexus chakra to prevent you coming in so strongly. And as an empath, this is something I could show you if you wanted to be less picking up other people stuff. [00:18:13] I could show you how to maybe build a slide shield around yourself to help protect you.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah. Yeah. I mean, cause it's tricky, but then, do you think anyone could actually be a healer though? Or do you think there's some something that maybe you have an intuition and a gift that maybe someone else doesn't, how does that part work?
Gen Edwards: I think. So I'll, I'll I'll tell you the modality I use. I use something called the emotion code and something called the body code. And these were downloaded by. He's now retired- chiropractor called Dr. Bradley Nelson in America. And I read his book, and anyone can read his book. You can get it on, you can get it on Amazon.
And I believe that anyone can do it. I don't know if anyone can do it. Okay. That's very broad. I think that if your cultured to what resonates with you and if you believe in trapped emotions, living in your tissues and your organs acting as toxins, which then affect your tissues and organs, affect your [00:19:13] anxiety levels, your stress levels and all that,
then, then I do believe that if you read this book, and you started practicing; it's simply a way of using muscle testing, kinesiology, if you like, to identify what the things are that need to be released and then releasing them. So I guess I think many people can do it. I do think many peoples can do it.
I think that if you really get very deeply into it and very very involved and that's when it becomes your purpose of your life, then I think you go further, I think that is a gift. And I think that perhaps by becoming a healer full time, I'm exploiting that gift.
And I'm growing that gift because what happens for me is that other things happen as I grow and become, as my river grows clearer and clearer, as my flood becomes stronger and stronger, there's more and more other things that.
happen. In terms of healing and in terms of the things I can do the things, the ways I can help people.
So, yes. To answer your question briefly. Yes. I think a lot of people [00:20:13] can do it.
Rabiah (Host): Right. And so what were you doing before this?
Gen Edwards: I guess I've always been in service in a way. I've always been a person who helped other people. I was an adult learning facilitator. And I worked for a lot of corporates training adults and writing material for adults, learning material. And I also was a coach. And so for me, it was, it was a sideways step, becoming a healer, because I always adored empowering people.
I loved seeing people grow in, you know, when I was training them and seeing them blossom and find all these new things they could do. And, and so I think it was such a, a logical step for me to move from a sort of training, coaching role into a healing role.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah. And you can see, I mean, people can't see, but I can see that there's joy emanating from you when you're talking about coaching and stuff. And so what has changing paths though done for you? How did, I mean, [00:21:13] you said that opportunities have come, but just in general, I mean, you kind of had meaningful work in the first place that you seem to have enjoyed, and now you're doing this.
What, what has that transition been for you and kind of, how have you looked at other people when they really hated their jobs , and maybe you've always had a job you didn't?
Gen Edwards: Yeah.
Yeah, I w I was really lucky Rabiah. I always loved what I did. I think I was very blessed and very fortunate, and I think that's what changed for me was I am now 63, and I found this in my fifties, this healing path. And because you know, as one does as I did, I started to dabble with it if you'd like and play with it and experiment with it and say, could I do this?
And the more I did it, the more I fell in love with it, and the more I wanted to, to help people. And so I did, I was working my daytime job and I was also working, doing this on the side, and you know. And I think the thing that [00:22:13] changed for me was I think I got to a place in my life where, you know, when you facilitate learning, you stand in front of groups of people and you facilitate a classroom of 30 people. And typically our workshop will last one to four days or it did in my environment. And then it's exhausting. It's really exhausting. It drains you. I find it very draining. And as I got older and older, I find it more and more demanding and challenging. And there was a place in my life where I was looking at this and saying, can I do this until I'm 65?
And so when the healing kind of came for me I think it was just, I think I really have found my life purpose and I believe completely that I was put on Earth to help people. I have absolutely no doubt about it. And I, but this is a deeper heap. It's a deeper helping it's for me at the moment, it feels like it's a deeper, more meaningful helping than the helping I was doing before, because this is so profound in terms of the changes, you can help someone experience that it, [00:23:13] it was sort of more, it was more for me than, than the training. It was deeper and more far reaching and yeah, it was just more.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah, that makes sense. And just especially when you see the impact on people and how, like you said, they're empowered. I mean, they're moving on from pain or moving on from health issues or moving on from emotional issues or whatever it is. You've been doing this for awhile now, and actually one thing that resonated with me that you just said is about your age, right? I know just when we have exchanged some communications, you talked about, you could do this until you're 80.
And I talked to a couple people lately at work who are older just in different capacities. And one of them, a woman, said that she was concerned that at 50 she'll be kind of aged out because we're in tech, right? And I know that feeling as you get older and even I feel I'm 42 and I even [00:24:13] feel in some ways profoundly different older than some of the people at work, because I started working 10, 15 years sooner
and my ethic around that is different because I wasn't taught that it was okay to ask for help and do things you just didn't back then. Now it's different. And I think it's better. So I just wonder do you feel more empowered having found something you could do later and that you won't age out of, I guess?
Gen Edwards: Hmm. I feel completely empowered. I feel empowered on so many levels because essentially I'm running a business from a little room. I'm speaking to you from a little tiny room, which is my office in Leeds. And I work with people all around the world. I work with them on Zoom or I'll work with them on email.
It doesn't matter which, um, completely remotely or, you know, face-to-face like we're doing now. Or some people come and sit in this chair opposite me. And you know, now we're doing the back back to the, the person to person thing. Some people do prefer that. But in terms of empowerment, I'm not [00:25:13] physically exhausted,
you know, because I'm doing it from home. I'm not traveling, I haven't got the commuting and all that stuff. In terms of aging, I mean, I can do this and, and I, I probably will do this until I'm 80, just because. It's it's I honestly think it's my life purpose. I feel like, how do you put the, how do you put it down?
How do you say ok, well, I've had enough of healing people now? I can stop healing people. How, how do you do that?
Rabiah (Host): Yeah.
Gen Edwards: don't think I can do that. I think that while they still people who need help and who need to be healed, I'm going to want to help them. So I honestly see this as something that I will do probably for the rest of my life in some capacity.
I might tune it back a bit, you know, I might not do as much because I might just find that it's too draining. It's too demanding. It's too challenging. But the thing is as well as that I'm learning and growing and developing and becoming stronger and doing more stuff [00:26:13] that blows me away. And the blessed, you know, Is so incredibly empowering and exciting.
Yes. So I think I'll just tell, just do those
probably I'll drop dead. Yeah.
Rabiah (Host): And did you feel any apprehension in shifting into a new career? I mean, did you worry? You had built all this equity up in this one career and reputation and time. And did you, did you worry about switching or how was that process for you?
Because I think a lot of people do get worried, even if they feel like it's our purpose, it's like should I, in a way, throw it all away and start over, you know?
Gen Edwards: Yes, yes and no, because what happened for us was we we decided to relocate to Leeds in 20, we got here in 2017. And I so already it was a big shift for me because I had my own business. I had my own consultancy and which, when I came to Leeds, obviously.
I didn't have the network.
I [00:27:13] got a job when I got to Leeds.
And so, so already that was a big shift in terms of sort of what I'd been doing in a way And I didn't have a reputation here, you know, because I was the new kid on the block. So, what I, what I did then once I recovered from the shock of relocating and getting up and commuting at six o'clock in the morning and all that stuff, I then started looking for clients and sort of working in the evenings or working on weekends.
And then I transitioned into, I worked in retail. I left my corporate job and I got a job in a retail. So that I, and I worked part-time so that I had more time to, you know, I worked at hours or whatever a week or contrary with the elsewhere. And then I had the other hours where. Getting clients and building my business.
So I did it kind of a staged approach, if you like into the full-time thing, it was scary. Yes. I remember when I left my corporate job, I thought, oh, what am I doing? You know, I'm so [00:28:13] secure. I've got money. I've got this, I've got that. What am I doing? Crazy lady. And my husband said to me, "Hey babe." He said, you know, "if this doesn't work, what are we going to do?"
And I said, I promised him. I said, "okay, if I don't make this work in six months, I'll get a proper job." And, and I did make it work. Yeah. And so I was really, really lucky. I was really lucky.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah. And that tracks with what other people have said. I mean, they just, they communicate with their partner or if they're alone, then they don't have to do that part. But, you know, make a plan and kind of have, have a plan like if it doesn't work, but it's going to work, somebody keep going. So that's awesome.
One thing that you do, and I think this is interesting because I don't have pets first of all, but I have a lot of friends with pets and they do get freaked out by a fireworks and it's really awful. And so you actually do healing for pets, right?
So can you talk a little bit about how that works?
Gen Edwards: Yeah. Okay. So what happened to [00:29:13] us was we arrived in this country in August, and then in October we had
Bonfire Night, and, you know about it because you are living in the UK, that England just love fireworks, right? And my dog, my dog had a nervous breakdown. So five, I can't remember what the dates were, but the Guy Fawkes let's say was on the Friday and the fireworks started going off the Monday before.
So we had this entire week leading up to the big event where there were big events happening every night. And my dog got more and more nervous. Put his tail between his legs and wouldn't go outside. And what scurry around the house, like, you know, like a chicken without a head, because he doesn't know where to be, because he felt so unsafe.
And I just looked at him one night and I thought maybe I can help him. So I did a session on him to release him from fear of fireworks and, you know, Rabiah, I got off the bus the next night and walked home through the woods. And it was about, I dunno, five o'clock. It was darkish. [00:30:13] Cause it was ended up in October and my husband came with the dog to meet me and I just had an absolute hissy fit about this.
What are you doing? Why are you bringing the dog up? Because already all the fireworks were doing their thing. And he said, but look at him. And he was so chill. This chill, little doggy, lifting his leg, trotting around tail up happy as Larry. And I thought, gee, that's astonishing. You know, I mean, I know, I know that this work is mindblowing and I know I've seen some incredible results and people give me feedback and I, I was blown. Anyway, so I thought, okay, well maybe I can help other adults.
And that's how this started. I started in 2018 around my first global healing session for any animal who is affected by fireworks. And I get about a 90% hit rate. I get, I get feedback from people. I'll ask people for feedback. So I want to know what's happening.
I get about it seems like about nine out of 10 animals respond really positively and there's one or two [00:31:13] who just don't.
And I guess that, you know, that's okay because I'd rather have out of a group of 10 animals. I'd rather have eight or nine who are really super chilled than have all 10 who are completely wigged out and so yeah,
I do that every year I do for free because I love animals. I adore animals. I'm a Sagittarian and animals are our thing.
And my dog is like, you know, the apple of my eye. So that's why I do it.
Rabiah (Host): So when's, there's going to be one for 2021?
Gen Edwards: On the 20. So I'm doing one on the 24th of October, which is Sunday, the 24th
Rabiah (Host): Okay.
Gen Edwards: and the registrations. I would like the registrations in by the 22nd. And all you need to do is email me, and I will send you what I want from you, which is a photo of your dog or your cat or pet iguana or whatever. Tell me, you know, what's the story and then I'll put them in my healing circle and send you a report
telling you what I did.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah, that's awesome. That's pretty [00:32:13] cool.
And it's free. So
that's good for people. Is there anything you want me to cover that I haven't.
Gen Edwards: No. I do a healing circle also that, that the circle that I do for animals as a healing circle, I'll do a healing circle for humans. And today is my 41st one that I've run in 2021. I must've run about 150 or 200 of them. I run one every Thursday and I started in 2018 and people come to me with anything. I've worked with all sorts of things.
I've worked with asthma, I've worked with hip pain. I've worked with headaches. I've worked with flatulence. I've worked with all sorts of things. Snacking in front of the TV and people have amazing results. And it's, it's so cool. It's so empowering.
Rabiah (Host): And so that people can sign up for that on your website too.
Gen Edwards: Yeah, and it's completely anonymous. You know, it's not that you're in the group and you know that Fred is there and he's got a rectal dysfunction and Fred knows that, you know. [00:33:13] Not like that at all. It's just completely anonymous. I know what everyone wants help with.
And I just, I just do the healing and then I send each person a report.
Rabiah (Host): Cool. Well, do you have any advice or mantra that you like to follow that you'd like to pass along to people?
Gen Edwards: You know, I think people often think that there's something wrong with them or that they, they need fixing. And I just think that as an energy healer I think that we go in with love and with compassion and that we just do the best we can, and we try to encourage people to believe that they're not actually broken.
That there's always hope. Honestly, I believe there's always, always hope. I believe that miracles happen. I truly do.
I didn't use to believe in God and now I believe completely because of my experience.
Rabiah (Host): Oh. Yeah, and I think the whole idea that there's something wrong with someone versus there's just, a thing that maybe that's affecting them, they might need to [00:34:13] get past or, or accept and work with one of the two, but at some point when you realize really that's not true and everything can be handled, then it's a lot better.
But,
Gen Edwards: Yeah, I think so, too.
Rabiah (Host): So I do a series of questions called the Fun Five, and I do this with every guest and it's always interesting to me, cause there's always a little bit more that comes out of it. So the first one, and I don't know if it apply to you. I don't know if you're a t-shirt wear, but what's the oldest t-shirt you haven't and still wear?
Gen Edwards: Ok, so the oldest t-shirt I have, and I have three of them and they all of equal venerable ages. And the reason I have these is I bought these, um, in the, I was, we were living in Johannesburg at the time. I bought them for winter. So they're thermal shirts, but they look like t-shirts. It looks like very thin t-shirt [00:35:13] material. I've got a green one with a crew neck, a roll neck thing.
I've got a gray one with a roll neck and a gray one with a scoop neck. And I'm wearing one right now because, because of the way that it's getting colder here. I've had those for at least six years and you know what? They are still fabulous. They are such, I think they were just such great quality and they're still going strong.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah. And so they're good. Yeah. Especially for the weather here is getting colder here for sure. Awesome. So one thing during the, the earlier part of the pandemic, that's a little bit different now because we can go places here and there, um, is that people would say, it seems like Groundhog's Day, like the movie.
So if it was really Groundhog's Day, what song would you have your alarm clock set the play every morning.
Gen Edwards: Okay, now my answer to that would be, I would have every morning I would have "Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens and he's now called Yusef. [00:36:13] And the reason for that is because I think it's such a, I think it's a song of new hope and new dawn and everyday that everyday dawns and everyday, there's the world, you know, and it's the, the birds are singing and the light is shining.
And even if it's a great. The S the world, the sun has still risen. And I think that, that's why. I think it's a song that fills me with hope regardless of, of what, you know, Groundhog Day or not Groundhog Day, it's just a hopeful song, and I love that.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah, no, that's nice. And I mean, you don't w I get all, all different ones and I've, I don't know if I'd pick the same song now than I did before, but it's nice to think at least you wake up with some kind of positive affirmation going. All right. Important one. And I won't be able to predict this, cause I don't know what they drink in South Africa, actually, but [00:37:13] coffee or tea or neither?
Gen Edwards: Okay. So I grew up in Zimbabwe and I spent many, many years of my life there and it's it's, it would used to be a British colony long time ago. It was part of the Commonwealth...
Rabiah (Host): who wasn't?
Gen Edwards: So it was tea, it was tea. But now, now that I'm living here and and I've discovered the beauty of the coffee shop and the latte and the cappucino,
it's it's coffee. It's like one coffee. If I can get it from a coffee shop, it's one coffee a day. If I can't get it from a coffee shop, it's still like one coffee a day. And I've, I'm really right off tea. And a lot of people look at me and think, I look like a tea drinker because she's like, she's holistic healer and she's an energy healer.
She must drink all these fancy green teas and herbal teas. No.
Rabiah (Host): I don't judge. her the cover.
Gen Edwards: Yeah.
Rabiah (Host): Awesome. All right. And can you think of just something that makes you laugh so hard? You can't stop or like the last time that [00:38:13] happened?
Gen Edwards: Okay, well, the last time that happened it's a silly story. I don't think you'll think it's funny at all, but what happened
was we, we have a little, we have a little dog, you know, we have a little dog and he's about the size of a cat. And he is very energetic. And what we often do at night is we roll balls for him at the house.
And he, we play ball with him at the house, which I know we showed them to you. You know, brought the kids up to say, I never throw up balls on the house. Well, what, what are the parents doing now? Okay. So we, we throw balls for him. And one night we threw it and it landed behind the sofa and he was looking for, and you couldn't find it.
And I lent over the back of the sofa was sitting on the sofa, lent over the back and I saw the ball and I said, Hey, it's there, it's there, it's there. And he jumped up on the sofa and he stood on his back legs with his front legs on the back of the sofa. And he looked over the edge of the sofa and he saw this ball and then he looked at me and then he jumped on and ran around to get the ball.
And it was just hysterical because it was so [00:39:13] like a person, you know, it was like, he knew that that's what I was saying, the balls there. And my husband and I had rolled around on the floor. And I, as I said, probably doesn't sound very funny at all, but it was very.
Rabiah (Host): Well, no animal. I mean, they do funny stuff. Like I'll get videos of my sister's dog and he's doing whatever running around with some other animal in his mouth, you know, like at stuffed toy, but it looks funny, you know, like a dog carrying a turtle or something. So I get it.
Gen Edwards: Yeah. Yeah, they're ready cute. I love, I love that animals.
Rabiah (Host): I know they're are funny.
And who inspires you right now?
Gen Edwards: Okay. So right now
that has to be Denise Duffield-Thomas. She is an Australian woman who is a multimillionaire who has manifested money, like it's coming out of her ears. And I think she's an incredibly gifted entrepreneur. I think she's very, very inspirational. Very aspirational. I love how down to earth
she is. I love, you know, I just, I justreally like her. I think she's very... great role model. [00:40:13] Yeah.
Rabiah (Host): Okay. Cool. Do you know her or are you
Gen Edwards: Oh no, no. I mean, I look at her from afar and I admire her and I think, you know, I'd love to work with you one day. I just think she's a great coach.
Rabiah (Host): awesome. No, that's great.
So we talked a little bit about it, but if people want to find you, where should they go.
Gen Edwards: Oh, okay. Thanks. Well then I have a website and the address is www.Genedwards.com. And that's Gen with a G because my name is Genevieve. And then I have an Instagram account, which is I think it's called genergy heal. And I have a Facebook page. I'm on LinkedIn, Gen Edwards, Intuitive Energy Healer.
Rabiah (Host): And then we'll post also the dates for the healing circle for the pets.
Gen Edwards: That's awesome. Thanks. I'd love That It just means that maybe I'll get more animals and that'll be
so cool.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah. That would be great.
Gen Edwards: Thanks Rabiah.
Rabiah (Host): Yeah, of course. And Gen, it was really nice to meet you and to, or again, I mean, we met once online already, but just to get to [00:41:13] chat with you and learn more about what you do. Thank you.
Gen Edwards: Thanks. It was great chatting to you as well. I'll yeah, I I've been watching some of your interviews and I think, yeah, it was nice. It was nice getting to know you. Thank you.
Rabiah (Host): Thanks again for listening this week, you can find out more about the guests in the show notes and at rabiah said dot com (rabiahsaid.com). Joe Maffia created the music just for this podcast. Find him on Spotify. That's Joe M A F F I A. And Rob Metke is responsible for our visual design. You can find him online by searching for Rob M E T K E. Thanks, Rob.
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