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Listening to Your Intuition w/Travis Holp
Episode 189: Listening to Your Intuition with Travis Holp
In episode 189 of the Sober Vibes podcast, Courtney Andersen welcomes Travis Holp to the show. They discuss listening to your intuition and how the power of intuition can lead you down a sober path.
Travis shares intimate details of how sobriety reignited his mediumship abilities and heightened his emotional self-awareness. By eliminating alcohol and dedicating himself to meditation, he was able to tackle deeper emotional issues such as loneliness and shame. This newfound clarity also enhanced his dreams and reconnected him with his guides and loved ones, transforming what he once saw as a burden into a precious gift. Travis reflects on how his childhood experiences with spiritual and queer awareness, influenced by his grandmothers’ subtle practices, have shaped his journey.
What you will learn in this episode:
- Power of listening to your intuition.
- Travis's story of addiction and recovery.
- How quitting drinking alcohol opened up his mediumship.
- How spiritual connection can happen in time.
Travis Holp is a celebrity-loved psychic medium and spiritual guide known for his authentic and evidential messages from the spirit realm. He can deliver profound insights filled with hope, healing, and joy, resonating deeply with audiences worldwide. Travis's unique approach brings a fresh perspective to spiritual connection, garnering widespread acclaim for its sincerity and transformative impact.
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Hey, welcome to the Sober Vibes podcast. I am your host, courtney Anderson. You are listening to episode 189. If you're new here, welcome, and if you are a returning, good people of the world, thank you for tuning in. I have a great guest. I really enjoyed this conversation because it's not every day that you have a celebrity psychic medium come onto your show and talk about their own sober journey as well as when he discovered he had the gift. So today's guest is Travis Holt and I, like I said, really enjoyed his unique approach and a fresh perspective to his spiritual connection. I connected with Travis on the gram. He's got a great Instagram and I talk about that too in this podcast episode.
Speaker 2:So, but what we really kind of do focus on more is listening to your intuition. I have said this before on this podcast and it's like your intuition becomes that guiding compass, especially in sobriety, because you cannot ignore it anymore. It's not dulled out by booze or where you just start drinking in a way right. So make sure you listen to this one. I mean, clearly, if you've tuned in, you're listening, but it's just a good reminder to keep listening to your intuition, especially to if you are somebody who as well well, I mean, this could go for anybody, but if you're listening and you're still in the drinking phase, right of the trying to quit drinking because it's a process, but where you keep getting reminded, where your gut is telling you, where your soul is telling you, like, this isn't going to change, I need to live a life without alcohol. For me, that happened at 25. I ignored it, of course, for four years and tried to do everything in my power to still have alcohol in my life, and then it wasn't until I was 29, six weeks shy of being 30, that I was like I cannot do this anymore. Right, like, and finally listening to what my gut was telling me at 25 years old.
Speaker 2:Okay, enjoy this episode. Shoot me a text, let me know what you thought of this, this episode, in this conversation, and make sure that you connect with Travis as well. All of his information will be in the show notes below and if you haven't yet, informations will be in the show notes below and if you haven't yet, please rate and review. Slash, subscribe, slash, follow Some it's, subscribe, some it's follow the show. That way, you never miss an episode and if you enjoy the show, leave a review, because those help as well. Thank you so much and enjoy. Hey Travis, welcome to the Sober Vibes podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here with you.
Speaker 2:I guess, as I just told you, I told my sister, my husband, I'm like. I've been looking forward to this interview. So why don't you share with me and the good people of the world what brought you up to the point of saying no more to alcohol?
Speaker 1:It was a. Very actually it's funny the timing of this podcast. I actually said no to alcohol roughly four years ago. It was, I think the 15th was like the official day of June in 2020.
Speaker 2:And like a lot of people, I was at home.
Speaker 1:My drinking had always been something that came up in my life that I used to soothe or to numb, and I make this joke. It's a terrible joke. People are like, oh, you had a drinking problem. I'm like oh no, I didn't have a problem drinking. It was great. I had a great time.
Speaker 1:But, I was a classic binge drinker, courtney. I left home at 18 and immediately found myself in gay bars. A part of gay culture was being in bars in those safe spaces, right, and so, naturally, I picked up drinking, and so, for me, I was your classic binger. I respect people that can have a glass of wine with dinner.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like once a year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like that is not my journey. Like, yeah, sure, we're going to have the one glass, then we're going to finish the bottle and then we're getting shot and then we're going to move to cocktail, like. And it was like that every time, right, and it was getting to the point where I was drinking and I didn't want to continue living. I remember moments of just wondering in between blackouts if I just kept drinking what would happen.
Speaker 1:And so one morning in June June of 2020, my friends and I had had a quote unquote COVID safe pride party, because it was pride month and you can't stop the gays from having a good party. I woke up on my living room floor and I remember hearing a voice and I'll never forget it. I heard it was a voice of God, the universe, my guides whatever word you want to use there and it was the loudest I'd ever heard this voice in my life. And it said Travis, if you keep drinking, you're going to die. And I remember just like yelling out well then, what do you want me to do? And like I don't know what else to do to better.
Speaker 1:And then I heard meditate Okay, I never meditated before in my life and I just I remember I sat up on my living room floor and I closed my eyes and I remember saying how. And then I heard just breathe and I sat there and I breathed in my living room floor and I cried and I I felt like I was like emotionally purging and then that was the moment I just decided I can't keep putting this in my body anymore. I have to find a way to love myself. So I don't feel the need to keep doing this to myself.
Speaker 2:Right, did you meditate prior to that?
Speaker 1:No, never, like literally never, and it was like so awkward, I was like I don't know what I'm doing here and so and that's actually when I also started, like my practice of meditation exact same day, and I, I've, I haven't looked back.
Speaker 2:Have you done it every day since then, most every day.
Speaker 1:I will say there are days where for for a while, when I started yes, it was every day- and then I do my best to show up and meditate every day, but I would say probably five days a week, solid for sure of meditation.
Speaker 2:Because this audience knows I say to meditate all the time and the sooner that you do it, especially in your sobriety journey, the better you will end up in the long run. When did you really start seeing some type of benefit from meditation? Was it automatically at day one, or did it take you 30, 60, 90 days or maybe even a year to be like okay?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love this question because after a couple of days of meditating I was like this isn't working, what is wrong? Because I can't stop thinking. And then when, I sit down to meditate. Even if I can kind of calm my body, I immediately fall asleep.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm and what I? If you would have asked me then, if I thought it was working, I would have told you no, right? If you ask me now, I'm going to tell you yes it was working. What I know now, and what is true for me at this moment, is that, for the first time in a long time, my body was coming out of fight or flight response and my nervous system was calming and it finally felt safe enough to rest.
Speaker 1:My mind would race when I would initially sit down because there were all of these thoughts that were swirling and I never had time to well, I didn't make the time to unpack them or work through them, or I would cry, and it would be the first time that I had had a moment to sit and just let those emotions be present in my body. So at the time I would tell you no, this is miserable, I never want to do this again. But I'm so glad that I kept going, because I went and listened to like a I think it was like it was something on Oprah's Super Soul Sundays podcast where somebody just happened to be talking about meditating and they mentioned all of the things that I was experiencing and I was like, oh okay, this is how it's supposed to be for a lot of folks who haven't done this before. So for me, that felt very true in that moment and so, yeah, and I'm so glad I stuck with it.
Speaker 2:How did it help you not drink every day?
Speaker 1:For me, courtney, drinking was a symptom of just something deeper. It was a symptom of loneliness, and for me, loneliness is just being disconnected from myself.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And so, for me, it helped me to be present with the reasons why I felt the need to drink.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. Yeah, meditation definitely brings out a self-awareness.
Speaker 1:Totally, and there's stuff that comes up that's like, oh okay, I have this energy of shame that's in my body, I have this energy of grief that's in my body. I've got this that needs to come out. And so meditation just provided a safe space for those things to, in addition to my therapy and other things that I do. But that was a big tool for helping me to release some of those things that were just keeping me from being connected to the bigger part of myself.
Speaker 2:Right, so alcohol-free for four years. How it did that? Because I find this, and I can't wait to hear your answer on this. It did that because I find this, and I can't wait to hear your answer on this. How did that help you in your mediumship journey? Because I would assume that after the clarity came in, it was just like a thousand times more of the gift that you have.
Speaker 1:You're absolutely correct in that. So when I decided to cut out alcohol and I got sober from alcohol and I committed to it and I felt it in my because I before I've tried to quit many times this was like the first time where I actually felt it in my body. I'm like we're done this is it?
Speaker 1:And then I started meditating and then all of a sudden, like my dreams became so vivid, became so vivid and then I would hear voices again and I could feel energy of my guide, what I now know as my guides, and my angels and my own loved ones and other peoples. And so actually I went to a psychic and I didn't. I don't I'm probably a tough person to read for, because I will just give you very general like here's what's happening in my life. But I do that because not to test the person that I'm reading for, because I want to stay as open as possible and not look for a narrow answer, if that makes sense yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I like the universe just to paint in all of the places where maybe I need more information. And so I went to a psychic and I sat down and she was like what's going on? I was like I'm just experiencing some things and I just would like some clarity on it. And she goes oh my God, you're back online, you're tuned back into your gifts. This is amazing and like my jaw dropped and I was like what do you mean, right? And so she just validated things for me that I was trying to suppress by drinking. Like I drank because it disconnected me from my deep emotions and the connection that I had to the spirit world, which I thought was this big burden for a lot of my life. But it actually turns out like, oh, shoot, like that's my gift, right?
Speaker 2:When did you know that you had that gift? What age?
Speaker 1:As honestly, as young as I can remember, but I equated to being a queer person, like I remember growing up, knowing that I just liked boys and I could see and hear spirit, and I didn't know I was different until my family told me I was different.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Until we're in church and the pastor is talking about gay people and how that's an abomination. And then I'm like, oh my God, I'm just like I'm a two for one abomination, right, right, like so. But I, ever since I was young and but growing up until I knew I was different, or I was told I was different, I just thought everybody was like that, I thought everybody was gay and I thought everybody talked to spirits. I didn't realize I was. That's not common folks.
Speaker 2:Anybody in your family. Have the gift as well. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so after I came out of the broom closet because I came out of the gay closet, then we come out of the broom closet, Okay, I'm out twice to my parents. I told both my mom and my dad they're divorced. I told them separately and I told my mom, and my mom goes, your nanan, that was what I called her mom, your nanan loved tarot cards. And then I called my dad and my dad was like your granny would carry crystals in her pocket and I remember with my dad's mom my granny we would play with the Ouija board together, Like we would connect to loved ones who had crossed over with the Ouija board together. So it was one of those things like at the time it didn't connect, but again, like so many things in life, looking back, oh, of course they did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just find that so interesting. I often wonder with that I have a side of my family that I wonder if that's kind of where we got this in tune side from. And my sister and I say it all the time I think we got that from my mom's, father's side. So, but yeah. So that's interesting, though, that both of your grandmas were tapped in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they never expressed it outwardly Like I didn't. I they didn't go around giving readings or anything like that, right, but but just what my parents told me about some of those things that they connected to, I'm like oh, this totally makes sense.
Speaker 2:Well, and how old are you?
Speaker 1:I am 37.
Speaker 2:Okay, so our grandparents, in that time, the greatest generation, I don't think that they would have looked upon as if they were crazy, right, oh my?
Speaker 1:God, yeah, Mental health, spirituality, like anything that we kind of have the amazing privilege of being able to talk about openly now. They didn't have.
Speaker 2:So different time, but I just find that interesting, so thank you for sharing that. So, before though you got, before you quit drinking alcohol, were you at all tapped into that, or you were just trying to suppress it?
Speaker 1:There was a period where, around I would say 2016, when I would drink, I would start to connect to people's loved ones and I couldn't control it, it would just happen, and so it would be kind of like my thing, so like whenever I would get drunk during that time, it would be like you want to know what I can do, kind of thing. So like I started to embrace it, but I could only embrace it when I was drinking.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Much like I could only tell people I really loved them when. I was drinking or I could only access my grief when I was drinking. So not only when I drink did I tap into that aspect of myself. I tapped into all aspects of myself.
Speaker 2:Interesting. Okay. So when the clarity came after quitting drinking alcohol, how were you then able to handle that? Because that probably had to have been a lot like coming at you at once, because quitting drinking alone is a lot, and then you add on this special gift of yours and that's like next level.
Speaker 1:Courtney honey. The second that I decided I was like you know what we're done drinking the? I was like you know what we're done drinking the universe was like amazing, you're ready for what is next for you. So I was in the beauty industry for 17 years and I got sober from alcohol in June and then in September I was eliminated from my role because of budget cuts due to the pandemic. And then two months later I was eliminated from my role because of budget cuts due to the pandemic. And then two months later, I was like floating around. I was like I don't know what to do. And then that voice came back and was like start reading tarot cards on TikTok. And I was like that sounds crazy, but okay, and so I did.
Speaker 1:And then I started taking clients and so it was a lot of, and then that led into just where I am now with doing mediumship for others and psychic work, and so it was a lot of change in a very short amount of time. Right, and I feel so grateful, because doing energy work whether it's Reiki, whether it's mediumship, whether it's psychic work or tarot, whatever it is you're tapping into an energy that's greater than yourself. And if you don't know what you're doing, you can fry your energy, and so I feel very lucky. I was aligned with just the right people to help me understand, help me balance my energy, and I still work. I feel like the learning is never done. I still mentor under people and I still ask a lot of questions, and I still put my place in that role of learning in the student, because we're always growing and evolving. Right, yeah, it was a very quick transition.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was a lot of transition. Really quickly I'm not going to sugarcoat it I hit some bumps in the road and there were moments where I was like, should I just like start drinking again and kind of like go back to sleep and leave all of this self-awareness behind? Yeah, but I didn't. I kept going.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, it totally is.
Speaker 1:I mean and that's not something they tell you when you decide to take those steps forward right, because if they did, a lot of people probably wouldn't do it Correct.
Speaker 1:So I, like a lot of people, started my journey and then hit that place of big time spiritual ego where it was like, oh my gosh, I have access to guides and angels and I'm just amazing. And then, once you kind of get past that part, you get hit with the raw ugly truth of things and that is just another coping mechanism to help you avoid the deeper work. And when you go into that deeper place of sitting with grief and shame and you were just faced with yourself and your decisions and everything that's led you up to the point that you're at, you've got two choices. You can sit and face it and just be with it and be uncomfortable as shit, yeah, or you can go back the other way, and just for me, going back the other way just didn't feel like an option. So it was like, all right, let's just sit with these feelings of not feeling whole and loneliness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know what, sometimes, in those most uncomfortable moments, you just have to get through that day where it's again going back to like, jesus Christ, I can't take anymore. But if you get over that hump because it's a compound effect and if you get over that hump and the next day you wake up and you're like God damn, I am a bad bitch Like I just got over that yesterday, sitting in such an uncomfortable feeling whether it's facing the shame or the grief or guilt, whatever it is but you got over it and you're like I didn't choose to go backwards, like I can keep doing hard things and moving forward and eventually there's going to be a day that it's not hard. It's not that hard anymore and it just becomes a way of life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think, too, our ego plays a big, big role in that. Right, like, our ego will tell us, like, don't deal with this, it's going to be terrifying, because that part of us just wants to keep us safe. That's it. Like, that is the ego's job, right, it's just to keep us safe, but that keeps us from growing. And you're right, there's so many times where I avoided feeling the grief or the shame, but once I let myself just access it, without attaching my thoughts to it, and I just let myself feel it oh my gosh, you're so right. I'd wake up the next day. I felt lighter, things were flowing again. It's like that task that you put off for weeks, that actually takes five minutes, right, yes, right.
Speaker 2:And that's where, sometimes too, it's like the simple things of like, if it's really hard in that moment, because, especially people who use alcohol to cope, it numbs our thinking. So many of us are in our thoughts where it's just like you got to tell yourself to shut the fuck up and go for a walk. You could take a nice therapy walk and just to turn off the thoughts and go through that process of what you were saying, of like, feeling it in your body and like, okay, this is an uncomfortable moment, but it doesn't mean that I have to go down the rabbit hole of thinking, definitely choosing to do something in that time. Just walking is just so therapeutic, I can't recommend it enough. So for you, before we get into intuition, I do want to ask you the difference between mediumship and psychic.
Speaker 1:So there are many forms of mediumship, okay, but mediumship and psychic Psychic is connecting to an individual's energy. So me and you here talking connecting to your energy. Mediumship is connecting to energy that is outside of a physical vessel. So, loved ones in spirit, angels, spirit guides A medium and all mediums are psychic. Not all psychics practice mediumship. A medium the best way I can explain this is a medium is just somebody who is able to tune their frequency, to raise their frequency, and spirit is able to lower, and I use spirit as an umbrella term. Guys, loved ones, angels, spirit is able to then meet you and that medium becomes a bridge between this world and the next.
Speaker 2:Okay, has there ever been a really dark energy that you have met where you're like get the fuck away from me. Has that ever happened, like when you're doing a reading with a person where you're just like, oh, I only connect to energy that walks in God's light.
Speaker 1:I do believe this could be a whole other conversation that I'm sure a lot of people might either agree or disagree, have their own opinion. I respect everybody's own beliefs. I believe that there is beneficial energy. I believe there's non-beneficial energy. I don't necessarily know if I believe in dark energy per se, but I do believe that there is a lack of light or lack of love, and so that energy can be a bit more dense, whatever that looks like to someone. So, to answer your question in a very kind of big way, I only connect with energy of higher vibrational frequencies. Okay, I love it, put it that way.
Speaker 2:Is there anything you could share in a reading that you have? And for anybody who is listening, I'm going to leave Travis's information all in the show notes where you can connect with them If you want to get a reading, all that jazz. Has there been a reading that has stuck out in your mind because it was such a great one, where the person seeking a reading like that it just connected with that person or loved one that came through, where they were just like holy shit or brought to tears, something like that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean there's. So there is a lot of. There are a lot of those moments, but there are those readings. So when I'm done with readings, I ask that spirit take that energy away from me.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's protecting your energy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm such an empath Like I will think about people's readings. It will sit with me if I don't clear that away, cause I care about, I love people. I wouldn't do this if I didn't Right. And there was one reading, I kid you not, where I was connecting with someone and she had lost both of her parents. She was younger than me, so she lost them at a very young age.
Speaker 1:And we're doing the reading and my office is set up that I work out in my home, and across the hall is my bedroom where I have an Alexa. We were having the reading, everything was connecting, everything was making sense for her and she goes. Travis, this is a really beautiful reading. I just wish that I could hear my parents say hello one more time and my Alexa I kid you not goes. Hello, alexa, we both stopped and stare and look at each other and I was like did you hear that? And she goes. Was that your Alexa? And I go? Yeah, that was my Alexa and she goes. Do you know what the strangest thing is? She was like I booked this appointment two weeks ago and ever since I booked my appointment, my Alexa has randomly been saying hello.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I have chills and I could cry.
Speaker 1:And I think and that will happen that it was one of the most beautiful moments and it was so great for her and I was like, well, please consider this as your loved one, saying hello. But it's true, like when people book an appointment with me, it's funny, like I'll, they'll book an appointment. I'll be like, oh, I'm going to talk to dad, I'm going to talk to brother or whoever. So I do have to like going to talk to brother or whoever, yeah, so I do have to like let the spirit know, am I away? Your turn, like you're, you're loved with, got an appointment book Right From the time the appointment is booked.
Speaker 1:I'll have clients tell me like I booked this appointment and then all of a sudden, I started seeing blue Jays out of nowhere, and then blue Jays pop up in the reading or I've started having these synchronicities happen. And so I think that our loved ones, they are willing and ready to communicate with us at any time. And I think when, by the time that somebody is like, okay, I'm going to book an appointment, I think that just kind of tells the universe like I'm ready to hear more from my loved ones. I have to book the appointment to have that happen.
Speaker 2:But yeah, yeah, the universe is always listening and what a great feeling, I'm sure, for that client to have happened, and like that it's her parents are always around her, always.
Speaker 1:And something I've learned is just that it's never goodbye from our loved ones. It's a constant stream of hellos and those hellos show up in just in different ways.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I have a complicated relationship with my parents, but my mom has always been that spiritual side for me. She has always said, like when she passes away, like she's going home, and definitely I'm very grateful that I had a parent who was open to that spiritualness so I could learn from it Right and just know that when she does pass away she's going back to a place that she has always been connected to and that she's going to be okay and she'll send signs.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:So intuition.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:How are people supposed to tap into their intuition and actually listen to it? Because a lot of people don't listen to their intuition or haven't, especially in their active relationship with alcohol. And now, going into sober, living, alcohol-free living, drug-free living, you gain that clarity and then all of a sudden it's like what is this?
Speaker 1:Like it's loud it is. And I think to trust your intuition is to trust yourself. Intuition is not a separate part of us. It is a part of our wholeness and the more that we integrate all of those pieces of ourselves, the louder that intuition gets. At least that's what's been my experience. Yeah, I think with intuition it can be tough, especially because when I was getting sober I had to really work through a lot of anxiety that had built up in my body from past trauma, right, which is why meditation is so. So for me it was so important and so helpful Meditate.
Speaker 1:If I, if it's a day where I wake up and I don't meditate, I just feel this different energy in my physical. I meditate before every session or before every set of sessions, I should say. So meditation it's kind of like this If you're, imagine your intuition as a lake and if the lake is calm, that water is going to be crystal clear. You can see right through it. If we've got our nervous system or anxiety is kind of acting up and we haven't meditated or taken the steps to really help calm our nervous system, imagine that lake just kind of being shaken up and you've got all the sediment everywhere and you really can't see through the water. So things like mental health walks or meditation they're so important because they help to calm our nervous system.
Speaker 1:Listening to your intuition starts with a calm nervous system. So if you're doing things to calm your nervous system, you're going to be able to tap into that intuitive space a lot deeper. For me, my intuition I received through my solar plexus, which is the area right below the center of your chest and above your navel. That's where the term go through gut comes from, because we receive our intuitive knowings is through that plexus, or that energy center, and that's a chakra. Correct, that's a chakra. Yep, okay, yep. And then? So what's important? When you are starting a journey with your intuition, I think a lot of people go I'm going to start listening to my intuition and they're waiting for these like really big things. I recommend start small, because it's kind of like this, like we've just met, we've just kind of formed a relationship. Our trust will develop over time.
Speaker 2:Our trust will develop over time.
Speaker 1:So maybe I'm not going to come in and tell well, it's a little bit different because it's a podcast, right, but I'm still not going to come in and tell you all my deepest, darkest secrets right away.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you the things that I feel comfortable sharing and that I trust you and your listeners with Same thing with our intuition. So I would say start small with your intuition. But here's the thing with intuition you have to listen to it. That's why I say start small, because if you don't listen to it ever, if you keep ignoring it and keep ignoring it, which a lot of us do we hear the truth, we get the knowing and then we don't listen and we start feeling stuck, we start feeling blocked.
Speaker 1:Our energy starts feeling blah and then we don't listen, Then we start feeling stuck, we start feeling blocked.
Speaker 2:Our energy starts feeling blah.
Speaker 1:So if you can start small like for me it sounds so silly it was parking spaces. I'd be like I'm going to go to the store and I'm going to trust that there's going to be a parking space there. And sure enough, and my friends laughed. They're like you always get the best parking spaces. I'm like I know. Or angel numbers and license plates. I love angel numbers with license plates and I'm like I know that when I go somewhere I'm going to see a couple of them and I'll be with my friends. My friends are like we never see these unless we're with you. But then it turned into bigger things, like taking big chances on myself and trusting those things. But it didn't happen overnight. It was little things to help me build my intuition and to connect with myself and trust myself.
Speaker 2:I love it, I love the angel numbers.
Speaker 1:Man, there ain't nothing. I saw one this morning. It was like right when I got out of the car at the gym, I saw one on a license plate. I was like this is amazing, come on. And there actually is something really exciting that's blooming in my life, and so the one-on-one means new beginnings, which was just. It was so beautiful that it links in. But yeah, courtney, it wasn't overnight, and it was a lot of years of not listening to myself and ignoring that intuition.
Speaker 2:Right Until eventually, one day, like what happened to you, where it's just like you're going to die, even though that was your spirit, but that was also to your intuition and it's telling you and I think for many people who are listening to this podcast who have previous you've already quit drinking. Everybody has had that moment where it's finally like it's the last day and it's like I'm done and you have some type of a spiritualness. That has happened on my last day of the morning after my last night of drinking. I had that, I'm sorry, A couple of days later when I found my cat, but like we have all had that, where the universe talks to you and you are connected and it's time more. But yeah, I just the angel number today I saw was 888.
Speaker 1:I love that. Come on abundance yeah.
Speaker 2:And yesterday it was 222. So if you're listening, look for an angel number today and then I always just Google them because I forget which everyone means. But then I'll just Google them to figure out what it means. But yeah, it's out there and it will. If you pay attention and ask for it, it usually comes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2:Well, I love this conversation. Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to share your story, and where can people find you?
Speaker 1:People can find me on Instagram and TikTok, TravisWarriorUnicorn, and at my website, travisholtcom.
Speaker 2:Do you do the same? Is your TikTok the same as your Instagram? Because I love your daily readings, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not like a content creator. I respect people who make the videos and do the things I have such a deep admiration for those folks, I'm impatient.
Speaker 2:I'm like no, we're just yeah but you know what I have to say. This like from a branding standpoint for you like it. I love it because I know every day that's what I'm going to expect from you. So it just it just works and it's speaking to you and you're giving back to your community and I just I love that. Sometimes I think the simplicity and videos like that works way better than having these like a million and one graphics, so much stimulation happening in a minute and a half reel, where you're like, oh, that kind of made me dizzy at the end.
Speaker 1:Yeah totally.
Speaker 2:And then I always think to myself it's like God, how long did that take you to make?
Speaker 1:I know, if it were me, it would take like probably like months and then I would probably be like crying and screaming. So I just I leave that to the folks who love doing it and that's their art.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the other day I was watching, there was this mom does her resets on Sundays and I was looking at this video and all of a sudden, like a vase of flowers popped down and I was like what is going on here? But yeah, to each their own. I like your stuff, so keep doing that. Thank you, friend. You are welcome. Good people of the world. I hope you enjoyed this episode and, as always, I will put Travis's information down in the show notes. Keep kicking ass and taking names.
