A One Bedroom in Greenpoint & a Big Career Change
Name: Megan Markey
Are you currently a Pathway Member?
Yes
What was on your manifestation list?
A one-bedroom apartment with a yard for my dog (an 80lb pitbull) with a dishwasher under $2500 (nearly impossible to find in Brooklyn.) Oh, and also - my credit sucks because in 2015 I had a major depressive episode/spiritual awakening and let my Real Estate business go without a plan.
I also wanted to attract more clients as an Intuitive Coach - a business that I have been trying to get off the ground since 2016 with minor success. But then, I got fired from my job in August with a $30K payout which was about 6 mos of expenses - getting to stay in my unreal new apartment while launching my biz full time. This is something that I have wanted for 3 years (I'm a horrible employee, I really can only work for myself - another thing Lacy's work helped me figure out!)
What workshops did you use and what blocks did you discover during the DIs & workshops?
I really worked Inner Child and did DRE's every single night before going to bed. I noticed things started to come in right away - but also, chaos started to ensue in the areas of my life that I needed to let go of in order to step into my worth. I literally got kicked out of my apartment with my roommate with one week's notice, my job started to become insanely hard and I made so many mistakes that I feel otherwise wouldn't have happened.
I also did the Authenticity roadmap several times because I feel my biggest thing is people-pleasing and trying to be whatever anyone needed me to be. I lose myself easily in relationships and this one helped me a lot with standing on my own two feet.
I then did Unblocked Money and discovered that I really had to forgive my mom for our troubled past. Even though I've tried doing this several times over the last 4 years in various ways - this time it felt so imperative to do this in order to live my life fully and attract the things I was calling in.
What expanders did you find?
Well, my biggest realization from this workshop was around being a "lower-companion" - I looked around and realized none of my current friends had what I wanted and though we were comfortable, none of us had changed much in the last 3 years. This was the absolute hardest thing to change because I love my friends - but at a certain point I had to realize that I was keeping both of us stuck by holding a dynamic in place where neither of us was benefiting.
I started to call in new friends, one of which was cold DM'ing Jocelyn Kelly Reid from the podcast. When I heard her story I knew we were so similar in background and intention for our business. It was scary to reach out - but I kept getting the ping to do it - and becoming friends with her has opened up a lot of doors for me and shifted my perspective on this energetic rule of surrounding yourself with people that challenge you.
Another thing I did right out of the gate was start a Coaches Club at The Wing which is an all-women's co-working space in New York. Once a month we all meet up and exchange our best practices. This has turned out to be my own little master-mind which I get to access to for free - and it turns out to be a win-win for everyone because everyone benefits from learning from the others!
What tests did you face? Which did you pass? Not pass?
So, the biggest test was that I was shown this apartment in Greenpoint that was $1600, they didn't care about my credit, it was in a great location - but it was TINY. Less than 300 square feet. No yard. I had on my list that I wanted an apartment in Greenpoint for $1600, but when I saw what I could get for it - I realized I needed to expand my budget (and could afford it).
I turned this one down - but the next apartment didn't come for another 6 weeks so it was quite a long magic dark!
After that, I'd say my biggest tests came through numbing. I was SO stressed living in a sublet, my full-time job, having to move multiple times in order to find this new apartment - it was nearly impossible for me to stay grounded and not freak out with food.
Did you experience a magic dark period? If so, tell us about it.
Yes. In the first sublet I was in this year, I literally did not have a place to move to 48 hours before I had to be out of there. I was on my knees on the floor just praying for a miracle, because I knew I could not have lived in any of the places that I had seen during that month. And then out of the blue that night, my friend called me and said she had a (HUGE) one-bedroom in a great neighborhood that was vacant that I could move into with my dog the next day. This wasn't ultimately my final destination (because as I learned after moving, I still had to go through Shadow) - but it WAS a one-bedroom to myself which is what I had wanted in January.
How did your manifestation come through?
I kept getting a ping to contact my friend Shyda and remind her that I was looking for a place. She is a Real Estate agent, and also a friend. She ultimately was the one to find me my current apartment - and it was because she got a ping to reach out to this landlord one day out of the blue and he just found out that his tenants were moving out so he was willing to show the apartment before it hit the market. So I didn't pay a broker fee or a pet-deposit and he didn't ask to run my credit or anything!
With my job, I started getting clear messages in July that something really had to change. I was totally exhausted, growing a mustache, overweight and had a huge rash on my leg. Two weeks prior in June I had gotten a free trip to Hawaii (not on my list, but was in my head!) and while there I felt my body just wrecked by the intensity of the job. So on July 15th, in a circle of TobeMagnetic women, I declared under the moonlight that I was not the Chief Growth Officer of someone else's company, but that I was an Intuitive Healer and a Dancer and everyone clapped and then I did Shadow and then I got fired one month to the day of that circle!
Now I'm an Intuitive Coach and am dancing :)
If you'd like, please include your IG handle: @megmarkey
WORKSHOPS
Inner Child / DREs / Authentic Roadmap / Money / Shadow
